The BEER thread

[glenfiddich]

My pet peeve is micro breweries who over hop IPAs to cover up poor brewing. I like IPA beer that has flavor other than hops. St.

Seriously! For a while Heady Topper was all the rage in Vermont. One sip was all I needed. The rest went down the drain.

Pete

 

[MCMXCIVRS]

Right! It's fairly easy to BREW some kind of beer. But it's hard to find the right malt an yeast (very important).

And if you can't afford a container for the fermentation process that can't be cooled close to the freezing point (expensive!) then you are limited to some form of ale.

I go with whatever tastes good to me...NO ALE, though. Except Hefeweizen!

I'll take a nice ale any day over a bland lager. There are some decent lagers around, but not too many that really impress me as being interesting or unique.

At least the trend of going for the highest IBU's possible is over and done with. I'm more an ale guy than lager guy but there are good lagers out there. I agree for some reason Kolsch is getting trendy these days and it's a tough style to do well. The local results have been a bit mixed as far as quality goes.

My pet peeve is micro breweries who over hop IPAs to cover up poor brewing. I like IPA beer that has flavor other than hops. St.

I agree, the "let's see how much hops we can cram into a brew" trend was getting ridiculous. I like a decent hoppy IPA, but too many were just over the top for the sake of a high IBU number.

We have a multitude of microbrews around here, many of them producing some pretty decent brews. Hard to pick a favourite.

 

[powwow]

I don't really have a favorite, but I've really started to enjoy some of the microbrew ambers around here.

 

[skibum69]

I love Heady Topper! Back in the day getting it fresh was amazing!

 

[kbasa]

I’m seeing a Dortmunder style in the local grocery store. Been a while since I’ve had one. Been drinking Kolsch and a local Octoberfest style lately, before it’s winter.

Any good Octoberfest your way? The Almanac one is decent.

 

[skibum69]

Off to judge in the Canada Beer Cup next week. This is the competition run by the brewers association.

 

[stevenrankin]

I will drink what you are buying

LOL, I love it! For years my cousin had a fridge in his garage full of beer free for the taking with the understanding each person at some time would replenish. One day he opened the door to find a bunch of cheap mouthwash instead of beer filling the fridge. Turns out one of his "friends" was drinking the good stuff and replacing it with mouthwash. That stopped when he got caught.

The other story is about a cousin who owned a dairy, milk, beer store who really didn't spend much time keeping track of the day to day operations. "I am the owner, I hire people to do that". One day, he was gone on vacation and left the store in the hands of his manager. The beer distributor showed up with his truck and promptly emptied it of all the mouthwash he could not sell at another store. In all honesty, the manager of my cousin's store only had the oder to let him stock and give him the check. When cousin got back to the store and found it full of mouthwash he had paid for and would unlikely sell, he went nuts. My other cousin and I laughed and told him, if it was that important maybe you should have been here to take care of it. Sadly the store didn't last.

Not drinking beer is bad but why drink bad beer if you don't have to? St.

 

[riderr1150gsadv]

Does Bud Light count???...




I like Guinness when it is fresh and we have an Irish pub that gets is straight from the source. No clue how, but they do. You do pay for it however...
Hefeweisen is also good specially in the German joint we have here with weiswurst and sauerkraut...

 

[kbasa]

Does Bud Light count???...




I like Guinness when it is fresh and we have an Irish pub that gets is straight from the source. No clue how, but they do. You do pay for it however...
Hefeweisen is also good specially in the German joint we have here with weiswurst and sauerkraut...

Cheap beer has its place. Hot days? Not Guinness weather, that’s for sure. I’ll take a nice cold, crisp American lager for that. Fall weather and a nice stew? That’s Guinness time.

The nitrogen charged Guinness cans are pretty terrific.

 

[riderr1150gsadv]

Cheap beer has its place. Hot days? Not Guinness weather, that’s for sure. I’ll take a nice cold, crisp American lager for that. Fall weather and a nice stew? That’s Guinness time.

The nitrogen charged Guinness cans are pretty terrific.

The canned Guinness is actually pretty good too. I guess living down here in S Fl gives me little opportunity to enjoy colder weather so I have a cold one from time to time..
American lager can be very good as well and I am happy to see that the microbrew craze has brought higher quality beers in this country as 40 years ago, when we first moved here, that wasn’t the case at all..

 

[skibum69]

I have no issue drinking Guiness any time of day any time of the year. It's pretty light and bitter after all.

 

[oldcamper]

Fresh from the tap White Noise at the Billings rally and Alaskan White at the F Street Station in Anchorage spoiled me forever away from lagers. Bottled Weihenstephaner or Paulaner Hefeweizen are my favorite brews these days. IMHO beer should always be consumed from a glass, and coffee should always be from a ceramic mug. No cans or paper/styrofoam cups, it’s just better that way.

 

[kbasa]

I have no issue drinking Guiness any time of day any time of the year. It's pretty light and bitter after all.

For me, it’s like the beer equivalent of stew. It needs cold weather.

 

[skibum69]

For that matter I have no issue drinking any beer any time of day, any time of year. Even monster imperial stouts are fine for me on a hot sunny summer day.

On my way to the Beer Cup I am currently sitting in the Toronto airport waiting for a few other folks coming in and I am disgusted to find there is nowhere to get a beer outside of security! This place sucks!

 

[barryg]

I drink 2 kinds of beer, my brand and free.

 

[PGlaves]

I drink 2 kinds of beer, my brand and free.

Where can I buy Barry Beer??

 

[lee]

Where can I buy Barry Beer??

Poland

 

[barryg]

Wow! My own brand. Can’t wait to drink Barry beer.

 

[pauls1150]

Darn, I was thinkin' "Marion, Arkansas"... maybe Valdi can get some for me...

 

[88bmwjeff]

I'm drinking less alcohol these days, but my latest favorite are wines and beers aged in whisky barrels.

The beer that started this trend is an ale aged whiskey barrels from Lost Abbey brewery. The beer is called Angels Share. The downside to this is that the alcohol content is much higher than for standard beers, so you can't drink as much. But, it's worth it in my opinion.

https://lostabbey.com/beer/the-angels-share/