32% Beer anyone?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...st/8380412.stm

I'm enjoying a Mirror Pond Pale Ale from Deschutes at the moment.

Delirium, Sam Smith Oatmeal, and Paulaner Heffe are my 3 fav beers but I can't wait to try some of these when I get a chance

try their Mirror Mirror seasonal...spendy at $11 for 22oz. But quite tasty.

I drank my only remaining Burton Baton last night that was left over from a 4 pack that I bought 2 years ago. This is one of my favorites of their seasonal beers and the first time that I had aged a bottle for any length of time. The vanilla and oak was more prominent than in a fresher bottle. The texture was extremely soft.

As for other seasonals I also suggest trying their Immort Ale, Olde School Barleywine and Squall IPA if you have the opportunity.

I have a new favorite beer: St-Ambroise oatmeal stout. It is brewed somewhere in Quebec and is very highly rated at ratebeer.com.

I love Stout. Its too bad I can only find 4-5 different stouts at the local liquor store.

IPA Lovers,

http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/04/t...ale-beers.html

lately ive been switching off these

blue moon
red stripe
modelo
heineken

This is me to a tee and I also have bad heartburn. I wonder if the hops in the IPA have something to do with it.

Anybody drinking Dogfish Head ITT? I love the Raisin D'etra and also the Brown Ale.

For IPA drinkers they also have some of the best IPAs from what I hear.

My tastes have been changing. I really like blonde ales, but pales are really growing on me. IPAs are often still a little much but I suspect that once I'm accustomed to some 'softer' pales I'll really enjoy some of even the hoppier IPAs.

You might wanna try "Schlenkerla" Rauchbier, brewed according to the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516. It won a lot of prizes and has this typical taste of smoked ham. i often have one in their historic 600 year old tavern, tapped directly from an 500 litre oak-wood keg. You can order it online (EU countries only):
http://www.schlenkerla.de/verkauf/ve...nationale.html

Will check it out. Apparently there is an importer in town (=> there will be stores in town that sell it). Thanks for the rec.

Avery's Maharaja Imperial IPA



It's 10.7% beer and about as hoppy as a standard IPA. Just a killer beer, with a great flavor and finish.

I just finished a 6 of Butte Creek (California) Organic Pale Ale.

Thumbs up, not too hoppy, real easy to drink.

This is definitely true. Their 60 and 90 minute IPA's are both fantastic. I haven't yet had the chance to try the 120 minute, and it's expensive as hell, but someday.

i'm a big fan of DFH, but they dont exactly rate high on the bang-for-buck scale.

Really enjoyed the Marzen:

The Urbock was a little much for me, just a bit too bitter. Both had tremendous flavor, though.


ty for the rec

Went to a Brewdog tasting session yesterday.

1. 5am Saint, 5% amber ale. Incredible aroma, a great start to the tasting.

2. Punk IPA, 6% pale ale. Ended up being my least impressive of the night, but still very drinkable and a good one for the masses to get ale out there.

3. Hardcore IPA, a double IPA, 9.2%. My favourite of the night. Very malty, almost a fizz on the tounge.

4. Paradox, originally an 8% stout thats left in a whisky cask and comes out around 10%. Ours was a cask from the Isle of Arran. Had an aroma nigh on identical to that of black treacle, and essentially tasted like drinking a nice single malt- we joked you could brand it as black whiskey and people wouldn't be able to tell.

5. Sink the Bismark! - the worlds strongest beer at 41% abv. Drank like a single measure of whiskey. Obviously a highlight, and was a completely different tasting experience. Was a pleasure to drink, something I would quite happily have as an alternative to whiskey when in the mood. The bottles come with stoppers and are storable for 10 years once open.

We also got to see the last bottle of the 55% run they did in taxidermy bottles: http://www.brewdog.com/blog-article.php?id=341, ours was the stoat in the picture. They made 13 bottles which took 1700 litres of beer to produce, and involved medical equipment in the fermentation process!

Really nice guys and can't reccommend their beers enough, if you have the chance you should try and find an importer (Im in the UK, is easy for me!)

-SL

sounds sick

I love this stuff, it kinda tastes like bacon (which can never be a bad thing obv)

Awesome, would loooove to try the sink the bismark.....haven't had the 5am saint, but will do so after reading this. I have had the other 3 and they are all great IMO.

tried all of these recently and all were excellent, reading through this thread reminded me that its been a year or so since I picked up some St. Bernardus Abt12 and that is way too long

outside of dogfish head(not available where I'm at) what are some good IPAs to try out, in the past I haven't been a big fan of the style but I haven't really tried the best ones, sticking mostly to belgian styles, stouts and imperials but would like to give IPAs another shot

Bells 2-Hearted Ale is my fave IPA.

Where are you located?