Have we done a beer thread?
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Have we done a beer thread?
I like this one of yours pretty good...
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Had to move to my computer because typing with my phone would take too long ;) I am a big fan of lighter german or belgian beers. "Hefeweizen" is never a bad choice for me if I am looking to enjoy a light beer with good taste/alcohol volume. I have been dabbling in a local St. Louis beer Schlafly and their hefeweizen. I also really enjoy a dark/tasty/strong stout. I really dig the ones that have chocolate and coffee after tastes. It is kind of a hobby of mine to try out local breweries and their types of beer so I can continue the list.
@RoyGBiv - looks like they raise 'em tough and smart down in Texas ! ;)
BT, post up that chocolate coffee beer you had the other night.
ETA: This is one of my local favorites... http://orangeblossombrewing.com
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Cycled this in with some oatmeal stouts. Really tasty.
I'm a huge belgian and german beer fan. My favorite summer beer is a saison, which is unfortunately of limited supply/selection.
I got burned out on the high IBU hop bombs. My favorites now are German style beers. Dopplebocks are a favorite - maybe a little heavy in the summer months, though. I do like hefeweizens. And Kostritzer Schwarzbier is a nice lighter bodied dark beer that I've found excellent. Its a nice beer in the warmer months too.
Lots of good options for craft beer around where I live.
In warmer weather I prefer something more hoppy like a good IPA. Pale ales I like pretty much all year round, along with a good amber. I occasionally like a stout. My wife prefers lighter Belgian style ales.
Breweries I like include Sweetwater, Jekyl, Wild Heaven, Monday Night, Stone, Sierra Nevada, and actually several others.
I had a good dark beer in Germany a few years back that was brewed at the hotel I was staying in. You had to ask for it specifically. "Ein weizen dunkel bitte", and they knew which one you wanted.
A good friend also brews at home and has become very good at it.
One thing for sure is that once you start acquiring the taste for good beer it's impossible to go back to the cheap stuff.
If you haven't downloaded the Untapped app get it. It's a beer tracking ranking app that will make suggestions based on what you've liked. You can add friends and see what they are drinking and you earn badges for different things.
I've used it several times to look up a beer I drank in the past that I couldn't remember if I had liked it or not.
I've been on a huge Sour/Gose kick lately.
Dogfish Head 90-minute IPA (Imperial IPA).
Damn good.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/64/2093/
Favorite German beer...
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Its really terrific that there are so many local small breweries. I went to a cigar bar a few weeks ago and they had a local stout on tap that was made to pair with a cigar. Delicious ! They don't bottle it or distribute it outside of the area. Next time I'm in town, I'll visit the brewery & have them fill a growler for me.
I'll drink about any beer made, but if I'm buying, it's local Texas beer.
Karbach, Saint Arnold, 8th Wonder, Southern Star, just to name a few.
And of course, Shiner and Lone Star.
Usually I just grab a Dead Guy Ale, Fat Tire, Heineken or any IPA but regional beers rock. JDub makes a few awesome beers like Blueberry IPA (must try) and Bell Cow Milk Chocolate Porter. Kentucky Ale's Bourbon Barrel and Bourbon Barrel Stout are pretty cool too.
ETA: WV has a few good locals incl. the Raj, Almost Heaven, Cold Trail, and Miner's Daughter Oatmeal Stout.
Me too!
I'm a fan of the light to middle weight ales.
- American Pale Ales - Moat Mtn. Iron Mike
- English Pale Ale - Bass This is a "daily" drinker, but I lament that is no longer a product of Brittian.
- American IPA - From the "daily" Harpoon IPA to the aggressively hopped west coast like Laganitas or Sierra Nevada
- American Amber Ale - Fat Tire Amber We can't get this in NH. If you are driving to NH, bring Fat Tire. I'll pay you back.:)
- Anything from Sam Smith's
Outside of my normal spectrum, Deshutes Black Butte Porter.
I don't know if this is a New Hampshire only thing, but our Whole Foods Markets have bars in them. The one local to me has 32 beers on tap with one nitro tap. While I don't normally go for German style lagers, a brewer was at Whole Foods representing their beer. He took a french press filled it with fresh hops and his lager, pressed and served. It was phenomenal.
BT91, I'm going to guess that you have already had this, but Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout is a great sweet stout.
Give me all the hefewiezens!
Currently on the hunt for the summer basil saison. Will have to look for it next time I travel
Dang it these didn't exist before I went Beverly Hillbilly.
I'm personally partial to Belgian tripels and pale ales, English pale ales, and Vienna Lagers. I'm sure every time I ask for a super-cold bottle of Dos Equis Amber my dad roles over in his grave. Yes I know super-cold kills the taste, I like it that way anyway at least with Dos Equis.
Rediscovered Carlsberg recently which I dig. With meals I usually try to somewhat compliment the menu. Last night it was a vanilla porter from Brackenridge Brewery. Great Lakes brewing co. had a few good ones in a sampler I got last week. I like Hefewiezens as well as a bunch of you it seems, so I'll have to try some of the ones mentioned. Also just wondering if anyone else has noticed this, but why are IPAs suddenly all the rage? Never been a fan, unless there like 12%abv and its that kind of night, and it seems like there's 3 if them for every other type of beer
My batting average with the various cutesy name small brews is poor.
About the only such thing I really like is the local Singing River Porter.
A friend brought back an assortment of Uncle Billy's Whizz Bang beers to share out, but I am not optimistic.
I am always gratified to find a bartender who can pour a nicely stratified Black and Tan.
I like the balance of the Oktoberfest brews. Sam Adams is OK, but I recently learned that Spaten makes it year round. Now I just have to find some.
Fat Tire or Dos Equis will do for most occasions.
I should have waited that year and become a German linguist instead of going for the money and joining "right now" to go Korean.
s*i*g*h
They tell me the Germans used to line up at the Field Station Berlin beer tent during Oktoberfest to get American beer. Sure, it's weaker, but you can drink it all day long!
These days I usually drink beer brewed in WA or OR. Deschutes is my go-to, Inversion IPA in summer, Black Butte Porter or Obsidian Stout in the winter. Iron Horse brewery's Mocha Death is a favorite seasonal: a chocolate/coffee stout. Wingman's P-51 Porter is also pretty good. They don't have a brew pub, exactly, but they will serve you a beer and let you bring in your lunch, or order it in.
Yea, that's been my problem too. Sure I have my preferred styles, but I'm not too picky, just not IPAs. And what do you know, that's all there is...
Are others seeing the beer store business model of stocking hundreds of different craft brews and selling aggressively priced individual bottles?
It is a great way to try new beers, but it does get expensive quick!
I don't drink (one of the many ways in which I am a lousy Catholic) but I entertain. In KC it was easy -- boulevard wheat and Pilsner would keep most people reasonably happy. What should I put in my fridge in Texas? The trope is Shiner bock, I guess.
Didn't used to like IPAs at all. Of late I do. Not sure if the style changed, or my tastes did.
Here in my own little slice of suburbia: 99 Bottles. Same shopping center as Sportsman's Warehouse, Fatburger, and Jimmy Mac's Texas-style Roadhouse. (I'm notsure what a Texas-style Roadhouse is, but they have great burgers and ribs!)
As I mentioned earlier, I burned out on hoppy IPAs. I drink them only occasionally, as a change of pace. A nice one is a Belgian style IPA called 'Infidel' (great name) from Selkirk Abbey brewery in Post Falls, Idaho. There's the hoppiness, but its balanced with Belgian citrus notes. To me, that makes all the difference in the world. Excellent brew.
Oh, and for those of you who have beer toured in Germany a little, my ex, who was simultaneously a beer snob, a lush, and a germanophile, said that what she found in the CZ outclassed the best of the Fatherland.
Milk Stout Nitro remains my personal favorite if I'm drinking real beer. I usually stick to the low calorie American stuff, which is what I imagine chilled cow urine tasting like.
Someone asked me what the Czechs would do for foreign commerce when they ditched the commies, I said "Beer, beads*, and boomsticks."
*And I think my wife kept them going on beads alone...
I LOVE Beer. I'm really not a heavy drinker at all 1-2 beers a day and stop there. Don't touch anything harder than wine (except for company mandated Wild Turkey shots) and have to be careful with wines due to headaches the next day. But Beer is something that I truly enjoy. Funny thing is that I didn't drink much at all, even less so beer in my college days - then I deployed to Germany in 2002 and that changed me. It allowed me to try a bunch of different beer cheaply. Then when I returned home I took my new found appreciation and let it sprout. Though I work with a lot of guys who home brew, I have yet to go down that road. One good thing about my job is that it allows me to travel around the country and try all the local beers.
I am partial to Ambers and Browns. For Ambers my go to standards are Full Sail, Fat Tire (back in College it was the local microbrew of choice), and Alaska Amber, for browns I love Moose Drool. Shiner Bock is somewhere in the middle and a taste I developed while living in Houston (I even visited Shiner). I also LOVE a good fruity IPA, but I'm a little bit of an IPA snob. Now with IPAs being all the rage every brewery has one, and most suck. It takes more to make a good IPA than throwing a bunch of hops in and making it bitter, but an IPA done right is amazing. I am very partial to the Lagunitas family of PAs. Stone is good but IMHO a little over-hyped. A nice wheat beer is good, especially on a hot day and I will appreciate a good dopple-bock or pilsner every now and then but they are more seasonal things for me. I don't really see much point in light beers or the American macrobrews although I will enjoy a Coors Banquet every now and then for old times sake.
I go back to Europe with the family every year or so and it's funny, I used to consider the European beers to be vastly superior to American beers UNTIL I discovered the craft beer movement in the US. Now I consider the US to be the leading producers of liquid bread. In the Balkans (where I spend most of my Euro-time) everything is either German or Czech inspired pilsners (if I have to live though another Heineken add campaign I'll pull my hair out) so finding a nice Amber or Brown can be hard. Last year I went to the Craft Brew festival in Belgrade where every craft beer in the Balkans, Southern and Eastern Europe showed up and I have to say they are turning out some really good stuff. America is once again imparting its influence on the rest of the world in a good way!
Shiner is a good beer with a loyal following. Their Bock is a standard and I've been impressed with their specialty brews as well (including their IPA offering). You will also find Ziggenbock in Texas which is a Busch offering in a similar style to Shiner and only brewed for the Texas market. If you have the chance to visit the Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner by all means take the opportunity. It isn't just a brewery tour but a chance to learn about the early Texas European immigrants.