Very OT- Happy Oberon day
Title says it all, I for one will be picking up my case after work, hope everyone who can get it today enjoys it.
http://bellsbeer.com/events-2/
March 26th, 2012 at 11:26 AM ^
Why dost thou blaspheme?
Sam summer in an Oberon thread?
Please
March 26th, 2012 at 11:43 AM ^
I'm from Boston. Sam Summer's release here is greeted with a similar reaction as you guys have for Oberon. I just want to reach the day where you can have your Oberon and I can have my Sam's Summer and we can talk about our love of Michigan together.
March 26th, 2012 at 11:05 AM ^
but am in NY and so cannot enjoy . . . .
I'm thinking Grey Dog or Professor Thom's just because of their U of M affiliation... but I'm preparing myself for another summer without it =(
March 26th, 2012 at 11:11 AM ^
I feel so girly when I order oberon at a bar, because they bring it with the slice of orange, and I had a chick make fun of me for drinking it once. It could have also been because I squeezed the juice in, dropped in the orange, and then when the beer was done I had to fish it out to get whatever oberon the orange may have absorbed. Or maybe it could've been because of the apple-tinis before the oberon.
Either way, oberon is delicious.
March 26th, 2012 at 11:44 AM ^
Yeah I really hate that they do that. Do the majority of people really like it that way?
March 26th, 2012 at 12:13 PM ^
I always say "no fruit" if I see others with a slice in theirs. Hate it too.
If a chick laughed at me for ordering an Oberon I'd laugh right back in her face. Nothing girly about a Summer Wheat Ale.
Now that Leinenkugels stuff...that's girly beer. I'll give it to Summer Shandy...that's not too bad. But every one other than that is literally made for women.
I love Summer Shandy (I drink it a good deal more than Oberon) and dislike most of their other brews, but their Big Eddie Imperial Stout is very good, and their Oktoberfest is decent for that style, although I don't drink a lot of Oktoberfest brews.
March 26th, 2012 at 11:14 AM ^
This is one of the very few disadvantages of living in California. Hope y'all enjoy and I hope that it's better than the last couple years so I can enjoy when I do make it back to Michigan this summer.
March 26th, 2012 at 11:26 AM ^
But you have Stone....
Yeah he does...and Russian River...and Sierra Nevada...
No offense, California and Michigan are probably the top two states as far as breweries go but IMHO it's Michigan hands down. Jolly Pumpkin, Founders, New Holland, Arcadia, Odd Sides, OG, Bell's, Dark Horse, Short's, Dragonmead, Kuhnhenn, etc. The list just goes on and on.
Our Honorable mention All-American point guard.
For all the great brews you can get here in Tejas like Shiner and Firemans 4, I really miss my lovely Oberon (Solsun to us oldsters). No distribution to the Lone Star state as far as I am aware.
<<sad panda>>
but it tastes great right now
I picked up some Oberon on the way home from work. I rarely shirk an opportunity to honor good beer, for as my wife will attest, the 24th of September is also a household holiday as it is the birthday of one Arthur Guinness (and his beers are better when poured from the can, incidentally, in my estimation)
Cheers, MGoCommunity!
Blacked out at the midnight release of Oberon last year at the Jug. Went for one pitcher with a friend, ended up with 5+. It was worth the hangover and missed class.
March 27th, 2012 at 12:30 AM ^
Ran into Larry Bell (owner of Bell's Brewery) at a grocery store in Kalamazoo this evening. He thanked me for purchasing Bell's! I couldn't help but think that something was flawed, in that I should have been thanking him for making such an awesome product.
Moved to LA for the semester and summer for an internship, any way that you guys know to get Oberon out here? I've found some possibilities for 6-packs, but not mini-kegs
As somebody who moved here from California in 2000 (with beautiful bride & kids), and visit Cali every summer (both South & North), I have to say that I have a new-found appreciation for great beer. Michigan rocks!
Seriously, I would love to send examples of my favorite beers to friends in California (who really have no idea what I'm babbling about, assuming that I forgot what Cali beers are like). It's a shame, really... especially since my experience, so far, with 2012 Oberon (both bottles and minikeg) has been back up to the pre-2010 snuff. It's especially galling when I visit stores in SoCal purporting to deal in quality beverages that have no idea, even, of Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza's success in the New York Times' survey of Belgian style ales, much less the incredible collection of beers all over this state.
Oh, and I have to say that my wife & I used to jokingly suspect that Anchor Brewing sent it's "seconds" to Southern California, since Steam never seemed to taste as good in L.A. as it did in S.F. (HA!)
Anyway, living in the Ann Arbor-Dexter corridor, otherwise known as the Huron River Valley, I'm living large on great beer and I'm thankful for it.