:beers: The Beer Topic
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I'm currently drinking Hoepfner Kräusen:
http://www.hoepfner.de/fileadmin/bildmaterial/Sortenseiten/Hoepfner_Kraeusen05-inh.jpg
It's unfiltered beer with a dash of "young beer" that's still fermenting. You're supposed to turn the bottle upside town and gently shake it before opening to make sure the remaining yeast mixes with the rest of the beer.
Nice, refreshing and not bitter at all. Tastes a bit like a mixture between Helles/Export and Hefeweizen. Perfect for a summer night on the balcony.
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@Lorne-Kates last time I had Waterloo Dark I felt like it was more bitter than Guiness. :/
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I tried Mac's Great White Cloudy Wheat Beer yesterday. The aroma is somewhat weaker than what I'd like, but the overall taste is not bad.
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Just out of curiosity, have any of you tried any of the Spencer ales? I have always loved pretty much every Trappist and Abbey beer I have tried, but I haven't gotten around to these yet.
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This is Freewill's Pomegranate Sour.
It is sexy.
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I've still got to open these two recent acquisitions. Litterally a gamble, could be anywhere between totally undrinkable and... totally out of this world! We'll see...
('76 has clearly not been kept in good storage conditions, so I have little hope, but the '73... who knows?)
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@MathNerdCNU said in The Beer Topic:
I know it isn't good but I like it.
I've only had Foster's twice and both times because someone bought a carton as a joke ("LOL Fosters" I believe was the literal exclamation upon seeing it in the bottle shop) and then didn't like it and gave it away! And I've been drinking beer in Australia for 18 years. I actually prefer XXXX out of the cheap mainstream beers. Fosters is not mainstream.
But this is the beer I've had a bit of lately:
If you want a really "non-mainstream beer", there's a DIY brewery near me that lets you come in, make a batch of beer yourself, tweaking the recipe to your own tastes - and then they brew and bottle/can your unique creation. Come back a few weeks later and it's all done for you. At least one restaurant I know does this as "their" beer.
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@Zemm said in The Beer Topic:
Fosters is not mainstream.
That's really quite amusing, given the "'Fosters' is Australian for Beer" ad campaign here in the US. Most of My Fellow Merkins assume that Foster's is the most popular beer there, and some seem to think it's the only one to be found Down Under at all.
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@ScholRLEA on the British adverts there's a small piece of text in the corner of ths screen
brewed in the EU
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Great Lake Brewery (local Ontario faux-micro brewery) Pumpkin Ale.
Good taste. Nice body without being heavy. Tastes more like beer than pumpkin, but still tastes like pumpkin.
Would drink again.
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Soooo.... there's a porn beer apparently
Complex and full, the scent of honey blends with the malt, coriander used moderately, the yeasts used in two different moments of fermentation give the fullness and the spicy notes that go with lightness to contribute to taste. The aroma of hops remains on the palate.
https://xhamster.com/media/beer-is-here (page is SFW but you probably don't want to click if they monitor what domains you visit)
Sadly we don't seem to have a "pointless ideas thread".
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@anonymous234
Country of origin: BelgiumI'll be damned
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@anonymous234 said in The Beer Topic:
Soooo.... there's a porn beer apparently
Because both beer and porn are awesome, so why not? Best invention since the hamdog!
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@remi said in The Beer Topic:
I've still got to open these two recent acquisitions. Litterally a gamble, could be anywhere between totally undrinkable and... totally out of this world! We'll see...
('76 has clearly not been kept in good storage conditions, so I have little hope, but the '73... who knows?)
Update!
Over Christmas I managed to gather a couple of like-minded family and friend able to appreciate those. We also dug in our cellar for a few more recent backups in case things turn bad, which I was expecting. And I was wrong!Both were perfectly drinkable, if not really what I would call "good". Entirely flat, but for anything >10-15 years, that's absolutely normal (I can hear the engine churning here...). There was a very nice if somewhat muted mix of old wood scents, malt, toffee and such, overall quite dry. More or less what I hoped for. Too muted to really stand out, they were definitely way past their best (I'd guess 20 years or so? -- OK, unleash the ...).
But the kicker was that both had a very, very strong smoked bacon taste that I had never seen before (I mean, a Rauchbier would seem tame in comparison) and that obviously never was in the original beer. Very weird. It was almost drowning everything else, and the combination with the rest was... strange.
Definitely worth the couple of quids they cost me!
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Today, I tried the canned version of Erdinger Dunkel beer. Still taste good and have rich scent of crops.
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@cheong said in The Beer Topic:
canned
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@RaceProUK Still 100x better than beer in a plastic bottle.
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@asdf said in The Beer Topic:
beer in a plastic bottle
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@cheong NO
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I am the only person on the forum that is an authority on this subject.
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Drinking Omer
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@cheong I'm guessing both
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Today, when I seek for new brand of beer to try, I found this on the shelf:
http://www.originallongdrink.com/images/original-strong.png
I was curious because it's on beer's shelf but nowhere on the can say it's beer, and therefore buy one. While on their website you can see it's gin with grapefruit soda, it's ingredient is printed with so many languages other than English so I didn't bother to read after the first try.
And by the way, I found it taste like Schweppes Grapefruit + Japanese Sake
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Yesterday, I went to convenient store and see Guinness Bright, so I get one and try it.
I have to say, I'm not the type who want lemongrass or anything with hint of sour taste in beer. I can't even finish the can of beer.
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@der-piep said in The Beer Topic:
Why does nobody post the good ones from Germany?
Schumacher Alt:
... snip ...Schlösser Alt:
@boomzilla alts detected
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I prefer Belgian beers, any double, triple or quadruple malts. I'm not a big fan of anything too hoppy, although it depends.
My favourite non Belgian beer is Innis and Gunn. It's a lager that has been aged in Oak casks. It's 6.7% IIRC.
They also do a nice rum cask lager too.
My favourite Belgian beers are
I could really go for a beer right now.
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On the holy crap there is nothing else to drink then this: Chang classic from Thailand.
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@luhmann said in The Beer Topic:
On the holy crap there is nothing else to drink then this:
I'm not sure what this means.
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@boomzilla
That my inner lucas was coming out
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@luhmann said in The Beer Topic:
On the holy crap there is nothing else to drink then this: Chang classic from Thailand.
Are you saying that because all other beers pale in comparison. Or are you literally in a place where it's all they serve and you're expressing your dismay at having no choice but to drink this shitty beer.
You need to be more clear if you're praising or insulting it because I have no idea. It's like when people type "OMG that movie!" and I'm like "OMG good? Or OMG bad? I need more details man."
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@blakeyrat
There was nothing else ... I left a place with cheap, state subsidised Brugse Zot and Chimay red for a place with terrible, expensive Thai import beer. At least the Thai food was plenty ... the first place was running low on free waffels.
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@pie_flavor
Someone finally gets the joke, 17 days later.
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@pie_flavor said in The Beer Topic:
Someone finally gets the joke, 17 days later.
I got something but it wasn't a joke.
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@boomzilla was it a beer?
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@pie_flavor
Or Herpes?
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When I was younger I used to shun all the cheap lagers. I'd go mad for Leffe, Paulaner, trappist stuff (Dominus comes to mind).
Now all I drink is either Nastro Azzurro, Peroni, Ichnusa (cheap industrial "Sardinian" beer, Heineken-owned) or whenever I go to England, Carling and Stella. When I want something different, a stout.
I'll still have a good fancy beer now and again, but the really good stuff, with actual tradition and pedigree. The IPAs and their hipster makers can (and I think should) be buried by the weight of their pretentiousness. It's a game of "let's make the most unpleasant beer we can make" and utterly succeed. (The sour beers are close too). When I want to have a beer, I want to taste beer, nor fucking bergamot, jasmine or crocodile. And I don't get why you should measure bitterness on a scale, I like bitter food and drinks but when you need to actually advertise your beer's extreme bitterness that certainly means that your beer wants to prove something nobody ever asked you to prove.
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@admiral_p said in The Beer Topic:
when you need to actually advertise your beer's extreme bitterness that certainly means that your beer wants to prove something nobody ever asked you to prove.
Yup. It's that simple. Not sure why nobody understands it.
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@admiral_p said in The Beer Topic:
when you need to actually advertise your beer's extreme bitterness that certainly means that your beer wants to prove something nobody ever asked you to prove.
And yet, those beers sell well, which means you are wrong.
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@mrl see you in five years.
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@admiral_p said in The Beer Topic:
It's a game of "let's make the most unpleasant beer we can make" and utterly succeed. (The sour beers are close too).
Beer with a balanced sour tinge can be quite refreshing in the summer if it has an otherwise OK flavor.
Or have you managed to find an actual lime or vinegar beer? Because that would be name-and-shame-worthy.
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@admiral_p said in The Beer Topic:
And I don't get why you should measure bitterness on a scale
The thing is, it does make a lot of sense for brewers and other industry professionals to have a bitterness scale, like they have a color scale for malts (SRM/EBC) and all other processes/ingredients. And as the process of brewing becomes more popular (as in, more people know about it than 10 or 20 years ago, not necessarily "are interested in doing it"), technical jargon from the production process become more commonplace.
Still, I agree with you, advertising beer on that is about as stupid as advertising beer on alcohol level. Given that the latter has been going on for decades, I would guess that the former is likely to go on for about as long.
@jbert said in The Beer Topic:
Or have you managed to find an actual lime or vinegar beer? Because that would be name-and-shame-worthy.
Have you ever tried a lambic? 'cause that's about as close as you can get to a "vinegar beer" (due to the yeast used during fermentation). Whether it's name-and-shame-worthy, an acquired taste, a delicacy or not-a-beer depends on people, but it's definitely a thing that exists.
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Still, I agree with you, advertising beer on that is about as stupid as advertising beer on alcohol level. Given that the latter has been going on for decades, I would guess that the former is likely to go on for about as long.
Why is it stupid? I don't get it.
There are people who like very bitter beer, you advertise to them, so they know your beer is something they may like. It's also beneficial for those who don't like high bitterness - they know to stay away.
And it's completely different from advertising high alcohol level ("you'll get drunk quickly!"), here it's about taste.