Beer "Whats your Taste"

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by traumaqueen

Pretty good list, but I dunno how I feel about legitimate startups competing with the likes of Dogfish Head, New Belgium and O'Dells.

http://www.thedailymeal.com/50-best-...weries-america

Finals for the day are done, time for a Colorado Kölsch

The two brands I have grown to love this year after trying many of their beers is 21st Amendment and 3rd Wave Brewery Company. Usually I only like 1 or 2 beers from a brewer, but I really like many of them from both of these companies.

[Talon]

Del's Narragansett lemon shandy.

[joyfulfemme]

Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan.....yummm ~s

[-Red-Flag-]

I want to try a shandy .. Any suggestions?

[traumaqueen]

Originally Posted by -Red-Flag-

I want to try a shandy .. Any suggestions?

Leinenkugel's makes a Summer Shandy that's okay. It's a definite lager/lemonade mix. Way back when before they bottled it, I only ever had shandies in bars overseas... so, now days, if I'm gonna ruin my beer... I prefer a shandy or Radler that's mixed with something along the lines of 7up or Sprite.

[imperfect_cupcake]

Originally Posted by -Red-Flag-

I want to try a shandy .. Any suggestions?

Make your own. Take a crisp lager, a stronger one and add anywhere from two ounces (shandy top) to 1/3 of the pint of sparking lemon pop. That's how it's done in the pubs.

Or you can squeeze half a lemon in your beer.

That's it, you order the beer you want and say "shandy top" or "shandy"

I always had a Stella shandy top in the summer.

http://www.drinksupermarket.com/medi...500ml_temp.jpg

It's suppose to be a refreshing, light, easy to drink, less alcohol option. So don't mix with microbrew ales or anything. Pick a halfway decent middle of the road lager. I personally love shandy when it's hot out.

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by Talon

Del's Narragansett lemon shandy.

I had an Del's Narragansett Lemon Shandy beer, years ago, when.i visited friends who lived out on the east coast. It was an very hot afternoon.... and I liked this beer.

[girl_dee]

[imperfect_cupcake]

Because of my IBS I can't drink ales or bitters anymore and I never could stand hoppy. I loved the local craft beer in the 90s but when I came back 5 years ago, the craft beer had gone all hoppy. Every single one of them that wasn't a stout.
I had been drinking very lovely beer in the UK and in the Netherlands - bitter and ale from the UK and lager from Germany and Belgium - all very good and a *variety* of kinds of flavours not just kick you in the face with shoes made hops.



Granville Island Lager is a local lager that I like.
Crisp malty, with a hint of grassy herbal hop aromas. A *hint*- just enough to make it refreshing but not enough to make it even slightly bitter or jumpy. It's incredibly smooth. It goes incredibly well with delicate food like halibut because nothing is punching the shit out of your pallet - but it still has a full, firm body to be able to cleanse the pallet between bites of fish and seafood, so you can taste your salad or sesame roast potatoes with miso gravy.

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by imperfect_cupcake

Because of my IBS I can't drink ales or bitters anymore and I never could stand hoppy. I loved the local craft beer in the 90s but when I came back 5 years ago, the craft beer had gone all hoppy. Every single one of them that wasn't a stout.
I had been drinking very lovely beer in the UK and in the Netherlands - bitter and ale from the UK and lager from Germany and Belgium - all very good and a *variety* of kinds of flavours not just kick you in the face with shoes made hops.



Granville Island Lager is a local lager that I like.
Crisp malty, with a hint of grassy herbal hop aromas. A *hint*- just enough to make it refreshing but not enough to make it even slightly bitter or jumpy. It's incredibly smooth. It goes incredibly well with delicate food like halibut because nothing is punching the shit out of your pallet - but it still has a full, firm body to be able to cleanse the pallet between bites of fish and seafood, so you can taste your salad or sesame roast potatoes with miso gravy.

HB, what do you mean when you say "bitters"? I see that you don't like "hoppy" beers (which translates that you wouldn't like IPAs), but hoppier the beer, the more bitter it is. So, I am confused.

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No doubt I have written in this thread before....but... my favorites are Stout, Imperial Russian Stouts to be exact. I like ones that have a chocolate, roasty overlay to it. I also love imperial IPAs. It is the high alcohol content beers I tend to like...not because they are high alcohol content, but because it is the high alcohol content beers that are the most robust. I am seeing more Black IPAs/Black Ales too. I am liking the taste of those, I am finding. They have the roasty tasted of the stouts I like, with some hoppiness on top. So, somewhat of a stout/IPA, which works for me. What I like about them is they have the robust taste that I appreciate in a higher alcohol content stout (8.0%+), but hang out in the 6.0% family, which suits my head a bit better. I'm ok with some Red ales, which I will reach for if I am finding that the IPAs avaiable have too much of a grapefruit taste to them.

I don't like milk stouts, and I really dislike low alcohol content stouts as they taste exactly what I would picture a higher alcohol content stout halfed with water would taste like (Guinness, for example..I have no idea why people like these except for maybe the frothy head, which I can appreciate). I don't like Tripels. I don't like wheat beers, and I don't like Belgium/whites at all. None of those flavored beers either. HATE them. They remind me of people who get "coffee" which is nothing more than flavored syrup, whipped cream, and whatever else they put in those drinks. Not real coffee.

I love draft beer much, much more than I like a bottle, which means going out to pubs, so my pocket book get hits quite a bit. I have thought about getting one of those kegerators, but they are expensive. I am also concerned I will drink more since I will have draft beer easily avaialable to me. Beer from cans definitely taste better than bottles, but the craft brewers who put their beer in cans, which although is increasing, is still much lower than bottles.

[Martina]

You asked HB, but bitter ale is British ale that is slightly hoppier than pale ale, but nothing like the double and triple IPAs now popular in America.

How do you all like sour beers? I tried them first at Russian River some years ago. I like them.

Re Guinness, I agree that it lacks complexity and has no finish at all. But you can drink more of it than those chocolatey stouts.

[traumaqueen]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

The two brands I have grown to love this year after trying many of their beers is 21st Amendment and 3rd Wave Brewery Company. Usually I only like 1 or 2 beers from a brewer, but I really like many of them from both of these companies.

I keep hoping 3rd Wave Brewing will turn out to be a group of radical ecofeminists... not so much!

[lilapache]

i'm not a beer drinker.... or not normally... but have aquired a tasted for Apples' Ale... and fireball whiskey... lol

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by traumaqueen

I keep hoping 3rd Wave Brewing will turn out to be a group of radical ecofeminists... not so much!

Until I looked up their name to see if it was Third Wave or 3rd Wave SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS THREAD, I completely believed it was a feminism thing.

Maybe because the first time I had it I was in a lesbian pub at a homo beach which is near the brewery? The beer I was ordering was called "1st Wave" and they told me the name of the brewer was "3rd wave". What was I supposed to think?

Disappointing, for sure.

[DapperButch]

Sooo, back to beer. My current favorite of 3rd Wave is 1st Wave (an IPA), on tap.

My favorite 21st Amendment is "Back in Black", which is a Black IPA. Their beers come in cans...the best way to bottle a beer! Cans are for sure making a come back for that reason.

[traumaqueen]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

Sooo, back to beer. My current favorite of 3rd Wave is 1st Wave (an IPA), on tap.

My favorite 21st Amendment is "Back in Black", which is a Black IPA. Their beers come in cans...the best way to bottle a beer! Cans are for sure making a come back for that reason.

They really are. Personally, I'm a huge fan of the can. One of my top craft brews, Oskar Blues has always been doing cans... and doing them well! But they always positioned it as "packable" in a time when the bottle was king for the craft beer.

Works for me... I can't have a super tasty beer after backpacking all day if it weren't for cans, no one wants to pack out beer bottles!

http://brew.oskarblues.com/ob-beers/seasonals/ten-fidy/ <<---- No calories.