Havn't read the entire thread but




is an amazing blend of barrel aged beers $20/bottle

smokey dark flavor

had this pilsner last night--Pinkus from Germany I believe. I really liked it a lot. I suck at remembering tastes and things for a review but it seemed v 'wheaty' for a pilsner if that's a possible description.
http://www.merchantduvin.com/pages/5...kus_beers.html

just bought a case of this:


ABV varies by production but i think bottoms ~ 11% i believe. Its an amazing Imperial Stout.

Another amazing stout (and brewery) is this:


Another Imperial. Its a bit on the sweeter side, so if you like sweeter stouts, this is for you. Its got a great coffee and coaco flavor.

This is Oscar Blue's Ten Fidy btw. I also highly recommend their scottish style ale called Old Chub.

Before anyone goes nuts and whines about it being in a can, know we have progressed to a day and age where beer in a can does not alter the flavor anymore thanks to technology. Although most canned beers are ****ty, this company's canned beers are absolutely incredible.

On my trip home to Chicago I had a chance to have some Goose Island Reserve Pere Jacques. It's very malty and very complex. For someone who isn't a fan of IPAs and other overly bitter beers, this was a real treat.

From the website:

At 9% alcohol by volume, it not something you'll be drinking on a weekend night. With it's flavor and complexity, it's not something you'd want to slam through, anyway. According to the Goose Island website it's only going to be availible through January, so if you live in the midwest you'll have to pick up a 4pack soon. It's currently one of my all time favorites.

I just had dinner at the Monks Kettle in SF (http://www.monkskettle.com)

This is probably my favorite place to get beer in the city, although i do also like 21st and thirsty bear. This time i tried:

El Toro - Poppy Jasper
Lagunitas - Brown Shugga
Br. des Géants - Urchon Brown

All pretty good. But i was sad to see they no longer had Shmaltz - Jewbelation which i had the last time i was there. Might have be my favorite beer of all time

The 3 best beers ever.

blue chimay>red chimay imo

mmmmmm....

buddy hipped me to this, and i've never looked back. i have one in the fridge now, which may not make it through the afternoon..

Went to dinner last night and they had a special on Duvel 'Green' so I ordered one. I've previously only had the 'Red' Duvel and was informed that the Green was essentially the light version (lighter in color, 6.5% vs 10% alc etc) but figured I'd try it nonetheless.

It was ok but I think the reduction of alcohol and 'heaviness' of the beer had a pretty negative effect. It drank more or less like a standard bud light/coors light it just had a high-pitched and overly sweet aftertaste that I just didn't really like too much. The combination of the lightness of the beer with the intensity of the taste/aftertaste just felt really awkward as I was drinking it and in my stomach. Much prefer the balance of the Red one I think.

Agreed.

Where I'm at in Asheville, NC has a bunch of really good microbrews. Highland, French Broad, Wedge, Catawba to name a few. Highland has a seasonal Cold Mountain Winter Ale that's amazing.

I think the Toronado beats the pants off these places.

Move to the north of England, Sam Smiths pubs everywhere, cheap as hell. £1.30 for most of their bitters, a little more for stout. Average prices for half decent beer is well over £2 usually anywhere else

I just got back from an absolutely awesome Beer Tasting. Will TR tomororw.

The dogfish head brewery is SO small, I understand why it's priced the way it is. This is one of the few instances where the high price is warranted. (Still pisses me off though.) Best deal is to go to their restaurant/pub in Delaware and get "extinct" beers (their leftover bottles from single runs) fairly cheap by the bottle (still $2-3 per bottle at the restaurant though).

Their pumpkin ale is close to the best beer I've ever had. Definite top 5.

Magic Hat, various incarnations. I'm a fan of the #9 and Heart of Darkness. Should be easy to get, since you're close to the brewery.

Alright so on Thursday I went to a beer tasting(sorta a class) at a deli in new orleans.

The owner of the deli, and some guy who worked for a brewery talked us throguh mostof it. I'm a college student and definitely no beer connoisseur, but it was $15 for so many beers, meat and cheese so I was down(they also had all kinds of barley and hops on teh table).

Anyways, here are the beers and a few things about them.

I started by sharing a bottle of delerium tremens with my friends there when we were waiting for everyone else to show up. Awesoome beer but already been covered in this thread.

To start the official tasting, we stared with:

1. Weihen Stephaner Kristal Weissbier. It was good, had light barley, and was kind of unmemorable, just started off the taste buds I guess.

2. Celebrator Dopplebock. Was dark, but medium bodied and fruity, had a nice white head and a spicy smell and taste. Definitely a very good beer.

3. Sierra Nevada Celebration ale. Was kind of bitter/citrusy hops,but a nice beer. I'd always drank SN right out of the fridge but I learned not to drink it really cold but rather at around 50degrees, and the hops came out noticably more.

4. Meantime IPA- In a larger, champagne type bottle that costs around $10.Really rich aroma and citrusy, light, maybe my favorite beer out of all.

5. Hop Rod Rye- American IPA, kinda meh I thought.

6. Weihen Stephaner Hefe Weissbier, was pretty good, yeasty, and cloudy.

7. Foret belgain saison. Really nice organic beer, verylight, fruity and peppery.

8. Pere Noel- Belgain winter ale, Corked, wrapped in green paper, in a champagne style bottle. Very hoppy and I liked it.

9. Raven's eye ImperialStout- Very malty, lots of chocolate rather than coffee thoguh. Very alcoholic IIRC.

10. Old Stock Ale- Hard to drink for me, very alcoholic,12.5% i think.

Overall, it was an awesome time, a good deal, and I got kinda drunk while learning alot about beer. Definitely trying to do it again next time.

Can someone recommend some good ales brewed in Australia? Thanks.

Only stuff I know is victoria and its kinda meh, sorry

Bump because beer is too great to forget about, and the wine-os have a topic on page 1 so dammit so should beer!

I rejected my first beer ever a few weeks ago. I was at a local sake-brewery (moto-i for any MPLSers) and ordered a Lift Bridge Farm Girl Saison, because the name was pretty out there, and I wasn't feeling in the mood for Surly Furious.

It's a belgian style ale with the following attributes:

Belgian Pils Malt, Candi Sugar, Wheat Malt, Spicy Hops, Farm House Funk

The mixture of them tasted like a piece of terrible gum in my mouth, and that's not what i'm going for with beer. I love belgians, but just could not do this beer.

I asked my server to bring me a furious to wash the taste out of my mouth. Anyone tried this brew before, did i just get a bad try?

For anybody who makes the trip to Vancouver, please stay away from the big brands (molson, labatts,) as well as the big "micro-brews" like Granville Island, Whistler, and Russell (who are much bigger than "micro-brewery's" and are all about mass-producing, crappy beer). Instead, stick with the following:

- R&B Brewery (Vancouver)
- Crannog (Sorrento Island)
- Phillips (Victoria)
- Tree (Kelowna)

corona with lime FTW

I'm not too sure if it will be frowned upon in this thread, but I have recently been (am) on a big Cider kick. My friend introduced me to Magner's Irish Cider. My goodness, it's delicious. I enjoy many types of beer in general, but have been very pleased drink Magner's on my last few poker nights. Magners is many times better than Strongbow. It is traditionally served over ice.

Another option do drink it, is to mix it half and half with Guiness. This is called a Black and Tan, and it is also very good. I do very much enjoy Guiness, and am looking to try more stouts, but have not experienced mixing Black and Tans with other Stouts.

If you have never tried cider, or have only tried Strongbow, I suggest you try a pint of Magners and see what you think.

black and tan is guinness and harp or bass(or lots of other pale ales I guess)

mixed with cider I always called it a black velvet when I worked in a irish bar, but I looked it up and that is guinness and champagne. The internet said it is callled a "Poor Man's Black Velvet"

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