Beer

big_g wrote:

has anyone ever tried and liked heineken ? now that’s some skunk urine

For a macro brew, I like it. That and the similar Grolsch. Any lager/pilsner that is not watered down american style.

Brian Klawitter wrote:

Careful Sharon, people will start talken. rotflol

I’m sure they do already.

I can’t believe I didn’t mention this one! The Coors Light Summer Brew is a great summer/fall time beer. Not to sound like a TV ad but it really is crisp and refreshing!

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Your Yeti 110 iced down with some Summer Bullets?

mplspug wrote:

Too sweet?

I think the sweetness gets to me.

You can’t get it around the Midwest, but DuClaw Brewing out of Maryland makes Sweet Baby Jesus, which they call a chocolate peanut butter porter. Oh, it is good.

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

I think the sweetness gets to me.

Most novelty beers get to me. I can enjoy one, but then I reach for something else.

Spotted Cow is my go to beer but I feel like a minority here with my second choice being a Miller Lite.

I prefer Old Style when I’m spending all day in a boat.

My beer fridge is currently full of Surly’s Todd The Axe Man, Lagunita’s Maximus, Bauhaus Wagon Party and growlers of Insight Troll Way and Hell Chicken. For $7, growler Monday’s at Insight is a super deal. Their Lambton Dragon is very drinkable.

Pug I see what you did there. That’s a hell of a country song.

Reef W wrote:

Summit EPA is my standard beer and I’ll drink a Surly Furious if that’s all somewhere has. I’m not a fan, at all, of the hop arms race that a lot of breweries are in. I’ll try any oatmeal stout I find and really like those but the best are usually draught only it seems.

The interest in Pale Ales has definitely skyrocketed. I find I’m okay with the hops race if there’s enough malt/body to provide balance. I tend to reject them if they get too dry (like Summit Saga).

The style I’ve yet to acquire a taste for are the BIG Belgian Ales (8-10% ABV).

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My beer fridge is currently full of Surly’s Todd The Axe Man, Lagunita’s Maximus, Bauhaus Wagon Party and growlers of Insight Troll Way and Hell Chicken. For $7, growler Monday’s at Insight is a super deal. Their Lambton Dragon is very drinkable.

Now this is what a beer fridge should look like! I’ll have to remember that Monday growler deal at Insight, that’s a screaming deal for a really good brewery. I don’t get on that side of DT Mpls that often but I need to go to Eversharp soon, will have to make an evening out of it…

zooks wrote:

I don’t get on that side of DT Mpls that often but I need to go to Eversharp soon, will have to make an evening out of it…

Might as well hit Norseman distillery while you are at Eversharp!

mr-special wrote:

as most folks here know imma not very picky on beers. Heck i think a Miller Highlife in a bottle is one of the best beers out there. lately its been coorslight but recent i think im shifting back to Hamm’s

sidenote,
whenever possible Eastern states i fill up on a yuengling lager

Yuengling is far and away my favorite every day type of beer. I also really like leinenkugel’s red and summer Shandy on a hot day. Overall really like most amber beers. Not really that picky.

tegg wrote:

The style I’ve yet to acquire a taste for are the BIG Belgian Ales (8-10% ABV).

Leffe Blonde is one of my favorites too. Another beer I tend to drink in the winter. But for summer, I prefer the Belgian IPAs over the IPAs normally out there. I guess because its hoppyness and citrus flavor is a little more subdued.

Flying Dog is another favorite brewer, although since I don’t see it much down here, I have sort of forgotten it. Raging B*&$h was my favorite beer for some time.

St Bernardus ABT 12 is another Belgian beer, but its no ale.

Yuengling! Now if you want a good american style lager, there it is. I got nothing snobby to say about them.

Also those Leinies shandies are pretty good on a hot day out in the boat.

If anyone want a thirst quencher on a hot day, get some Crabbies Ginger beer and pour it over ice. Again, it’s not a beer you are going to want a bunch in one sitting, but it is refreshing. If you don’t want you buddies to make fun of you, throw some hard liquor in it and call it a [insert word] mule.

zooks wrote:

I’ll have to remember that Monday growler deal at Insight, that’s a screaming deal for a really good brewery. I don’t get on that side of DT Mpls that often but I need to go to Eversharp soon, will have to make an evening out of it…

FYI, you need an Insight growler in-hand for the Monday $7 fill. They don’t offer a deal using other breweries bottles, or same-day bottle purchases.

I agree on the Parkbrau Pirminator… I was stationed in Pirmasens, Germany in the 80’s and that was the beer of choice…. very good beer, wish I also had a couple of cases of that stuff

mplspug wrote:

Grouse and anyone who likes darker stouts/porters/bocks, give Samual Smith’s organic chocolate stout a try.

I’ve tried it. My review:

Obviously a designer beer designed for the to compete with American newbie novelty beers. Initial nose is overpowering, almost suggesting artificial additives for the sole purpose of producing aromas.

When poured, the head is so limp that even if were poured over 2 tablets of Viagra, it would not produce a head stiff enough to be called firm.

Body and taste are light and fruity, with sweet notes of sugar, sugar, and more sugar, suggesting a target market primarily consisting of young women on bachelorette parties. I would describe this stout as a mile wide and an inch deep as far as flavor.

Finish is weak and limp-wristed, almost bordering on effeminate. Certainly, there is no danger in leaving this stout in the fridge unsupervised with other young, fruity beers. This stout has obviously been neutered and therefore, there is no chance that it could breed.

Grouse

Franziskaner Weissbier is my overall favorite, Grain Belt for numbers and easy to get, and I like most any stouts and porters. Really dislike pilsners, especially Miller Lite.

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

…suggesting a target market primarily consisting of young women on bachelorette parties.

So I’ll be in good company then?

Chocolate beer – just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

mr-special wrote:

lately its been coorslight

I was just in golden Colorado… I’m not so sure about that river they’re making beer from bro… Especially after I relieved myself.

tegg wrote:

The interest in Pale Ales has definitely skyrocketed. I find I’m okay with the hops race if there’s enough malt/body to provide balance. I tend to reject them if they get too dry (like Summit Saga).

The style I’ve yet to acquire a taste for are the BIG Belgian Ales (8-10% ABV).

See, there’s no accounting for taste. I like dry and find Saga a fruity wet imitation of Steel Toe’s Size 7. I prefer dry IPAs that don’t linger on the pallet. Given your preference I’d expect you not to like it.

Along those lines, I can’t stand sloppy wet ribs either. Much prefer a dry heat on my ribs. Not really Memphis style sweet smoke but more like Georgia style heat while being Memphis dry.

Another thing I can’t do with beer is sour. I’m not a fan of sour anything and I look at every sour beer as a marketing ploy to try to sell a batch that went bad instead of pouring it down the drain where it should have gone.

Dave Lozier wrote:

Chocolate beer – just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

BA

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Tiny bubbles…

Kyhl wrote:

See, there’s no accounting for taste. I like dry and find Saga a fruity wet imitation of Steel Toe’s Size 7. I prefer dry IPAs that don’t linger on the pallet. Given your preference I’d expect you not to like it.

Along those lines, I can’t stand sloppy wet ribs either. Much prefer a dry heat on my ribs. Not really Memphis style sweet smoke but more like Georgia style heat while being Memphis dry.

Another thing I can’t do with beer is sour. I’m not a fan of sour anything and I look at every sour beer as a marketing ploy to try to sell a batch that went bad instead of pouring it down the drain where it should have gone.

The great thing about micro/craft beer is there’s plenty out there for everyone. I’ve generally found if you don’t like something from a particular brewer they probably brew something you like.

As far as throwing something out… I tried a wheat beer (might have been New Glarus) that was so heavy, syrupy sweet I couldn’t finish a bottle. I tried using it cooking and ended up throwing that in the garbage too. I was able to find a taker for the remaining bottles and they questioned my “taste” as well.

big_g wrote:

Always my vote MILLER HIGH LIFE

When did they quit calling it “The Champagne of BOTTLE Beers?”
Don’t even see it on the labels. Now it’s just The Champagne of Beers:???: jerr

jerry b wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>big_g wrote:</div>
Always my vote MILLER HIGH LIFE

When did they quit calling it “The Champagne of BOTTLE Beers?”
Don’t even see it on the labels. Now it’s just The Champagne of Beers:???: jerr

Dare I ask how old you are?

FishBlood&RiverMud wrote:

I was just in golden Colorado… I’m not so sure about that river they’re making beer from bro… Especially after I relieved myself.

How is this different than hamms then?

I like Surly Hell, Can’t get it in Fla. though. When I’m in the sunshine state I usually drink Yuengling’s because it’s not available here.

Yuegling will probably be my boat/fishing beer…if they don’t stop manufacturing it by then.

I thought it was always “the champagne of beer”?