:beers: The Beer Topic
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@julmu said in The Beer Topic:
@MrL said in The Beer Topic:
@admiral_p said in The Beer Topic:
@mrl see you in five years.
Heh, sure.
It has been 5 years. How do you feel about IPAs now @MrL ?
I still drink a lot of them (too many yesterday, in fact). They still sell well and new brands appear regularly.
Some companies even managed to go mainstream, with their IPAs offered in small grocery stores and supermarkets - where they are often sold out.
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@MrL said in The Beer Topic:
Some companies even managed to go mainstream
What I see around here is that each and every brewery, from tiny craft ones to huge international brands, are making something that they call IPA. The supermarket shelves are full of those. As could easily be guessed, most are just slightly less bland versions of whatever beer they were making before, and about as interesting than those previous versions.
While I love a good IPA, I'm getting annoyed at their omnipresence as they have displaced most other light-ish beers. For example, most supermarkets used to store either Budweiser Budvar or Pilsner Urquell, now both are almost impossible to find.
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@remi said in The Beer Topic:
@MrL said in The Beer Topic:
Some companies even managed to go mainstream
What I see around here is that each and every brewery, from tiny craft ones to huge international brands, are making something that they call IPA. The supermarket shelves are full of those. As could easily be guessed, most are just slightly less bland versions of whatever beer they were making before, and about as interesting than those previous versions.
Yeah, that happened here too. Those 'IPAs' from huge manufacturers are terrible and I'd rather drink their shitty lager if given the choice.
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@MrL said in The Beer Topic:
Those 'IPAs' from huge manufacturers are terrible
Someone even thought they'd be "smart" by making a French style IPA.
(1664 is the main product line of the Kronenbourg brewery, which is part of Carlsberg, so about as big (and shitty) as it gets)
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@remi said in The Beer Topic:
@MrL said in The Beer Topic:
Those 'IPAs' from huge manufacturers are terrible
Someone even thought they'd be "smart" by making a French style IPA.
(1664 is the main product line of the Kronenbourg brewery, which is part of Carlsberg, so about as big (and shitty) as it gets)
Well, those white flags around the logo are a nice touch at least.
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@MrL I hadn't even noticed because they're actually what's normally a red X which is the brand logo:
I'm so used to seeing this shape that I didn't see the "white flags" but yeah, well spotted.
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Black Albert because that one was on tap in "Brugs Beertje" a famous beer café in Brugge.
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@Luhmann said in The Beer Topic:
beer café
café
was some when meant to be a place for coffee consumption.
you are in , so it's ok.
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@boomzilla Ahahahahaha I've seen this IRL a few years ago
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Beer Topic:
@Luhmann said in The Beer Topic:
beer café
café
was some when meant to be a place for coffee consumption.
you are in , so it's ok.As opposed to a coffee shop, which is a place to buy coffee (but actually weed)?
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@PleegWat said in The Beer Topic:
As opposed to a coffee shop, which is a place to buy coffee (but actually weed)?
Not ...
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IPA. Figures.
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AI horror crossover!
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@izzion
no stressing of the origin of this nice feature?
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@Luhmann said in The Beer Topic:
@izzion
no stressing of the origin of this nice feature?Quite. I thought B*****m was a source of good beer but I may have to re-evaluate that.
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@Luhmann said in The Beer Topic:
@izzion
no stressing of the origin of this nice feature?I can’t appropriately respond to this question outside of a national origin trolley thread.
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@PleegWat
Beer Science is a serious thing at KULeuven. Known for being one of the oldest universities and sharing it's home town with AB Inbev.
Reading the article/heard it on a local podcast what they did was actually clever use of AI. They threw beer ratings and essentially chemical beer analysis through machine learning and then 'adapted' a standard, commercial pilsner based on the AI results. The adapted beers scored statistically better with the tasting panel then the originals.
So they used AI to help them guess what chemicals should be present in food to improve it's perceived taste quality.Did we already talk about their use of Spot to inspect the brewing facilities? Mainly impressed by his ability to butt check heat signatures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pZQ29RSz4I
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@Luhmann Huh. Interesting.
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@Luhmann said in The Beer Topic:
what chemicals should be present in food to improve it's perceived taste quality.
Did we already talk about their use of Spot
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