The Beer Thread

[tstepp920]

Lol..... they certainly can be an acquired taste depending on what kind of beer you have always had as a go to.

Which have you tried and didnt like maybe we could suggest a few that you would. Ones I've suggested to people in the past that dont like them is something like an all day IPA from founders and soon after a grapefruit sculpin.

since I actually started tracking. I like lagers and some "malty" beers. Yuengling with food. I like Kirin, I drank Miller for decades, then Miller lite . I can't stand Budweiser. I haven't found a beer from Sierra Nevada that I could finish. For about 4 weeks I went into a local Beer & Wine Shop and just had the guy at the counter pick 6 different beers. What a waste of money. Nasteee...

 

[jfz80]

guys I know it is blasphemous or maybe I am missing a gene but the IPAs I have tried are bitter nasty revolting gawd awful horse piss.

The second one is better than the first

 

[lt1fire]

that would be why you don't really have a taste for IPAs..... a traditional american style lager is about as far as you can get on the beer spectrum from an IPA.

Beers are generally split into two categories a lager or an ale. This is a simplification but mostly true that people that drink mostly lagers, don't like most ales and can't stand IPA's.
People that drink mostly Ales don't count lagers as their favorite beers but do like a good one every now and again.

Start with a mild but hearty English style ale with lots of malt and work your way up from there if you are looking to expand.

If not there is nothing wrong with that either. There are plenty of good Lager style beers out there... but is the one beer area that the US craft brews hasn't really broken in to or caught up to European or Japanese breweries since Macros like bud and miller dominate that style and market.

 

[tstepp920]

I have tried the following....60 Minute IPA, Stella, Coronas, Becks, Heineken, Vienna Lager, several different Rebels, FAt Tire.....I didn't care for any of them.

I like DOS Equis, some Samuel Adams beers, some Shock Tops,

 

[tstepp920]

that would be why you don't really have a taste for IPAs..... a traditional american style lager is about as far as you can get on the beer spectrum from an IPA.

Beers are generally split into two categories a lager or an ale. This is a simplification but mostly true that people that drink mostly lagers, don't like most ales and can't stand IPA's.
People that drink mostly Ales don't count lagers as their favorite beers but do like a good one every now and again.

Start with a mild but hearty English style ale with lots of malt and work your way up from there if you are looking to expand.

If not there is nothing wrong with that either. There are plenty of good Lager style beers out there... but is the one beer area that the US craft brews hasn't really broken in to or caught up to European or Japanese breweries since Macros like bud and miller dominate that style and market.

When you say "English style" what does that mean?

 

[tstepp920]

I have had about every IPA they serve between where my friends tailgate and the route to the stadium under the overpass.

 

[weejub]

Yea - Your IPA selection is the rough stuff. Its like learning to drink beer on Coors Light. Seriously you need to try the list I gave you - super sweet with a bitter back end.

All said, given your current tastes - focus on trying some bigger Belgiums that are malty. A good Dubbel or a Trippel would be a fun way to go. Alternate those big beers with your Wit and easy drinking German/Belgium. Try go find some Weeping Radish or some lighter stuff from Haw River or Burial.

 

[weejub]

A really smooth grocery store beer is the Yuengling Lager - it would be an intermediate step. You may have had that. I still love drinking Blue Moon with an orange - I never buy it, but I wouldn't hesitate to drink it

 

[weejub]

DRINK WHAT YOU LIKE - don't let any beer snob look down his/her nose - the key is finding new stuff you like while pushing your limits and having fun

I don't enjoy Sours or Gose - - I try one ever couple weeks hoping that I will "get it" someday, but why should I drink that when I can drink what I like?

 

[tstepp920]

I'm open to try anything, don't want to miss out on all the fun

 

[lt1fire]

When you say "English style" what does that mean?

Sorry I should have been more specific.

Basically an English style ale from an american craft brew will be done in the "traditional" older english style ales from the UK. Basically they are more malty than bitter.

 

[jfz80]

Southern Pines NE ipa

 

[tstepp920]

Southern Pines NE ipa
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Good? I haven't had a beer from a can in decades. Any metallic taste?

 

[weejub]

LOL you are pulling our collective legs now!

Doncha know all us young (45 yr olds) people are drinking from cans again after doing only bottles for years?

Glass degrades beer too fast for these high-powered IPAs - maybe that is why all the IPAs you are drinking taste like horse pee? LOL

I still use charcoal, btw - never did gas, never going to it . .hopefully.

 

[tstepp920]

see....learned something new. I never knew glass, or light, degrades beer. Charcoal...man after my own heart.

 

[weejub]

@tstepp920

Tonight's tasting will be the following. If you don't like the left 4, we can drink the stouts. By the end of these 6, we can probably drink Busch Light and like it.

 

[tstepp920]

i'm going shopping tomorrow

 

[lt1fire]

There are pro's and cons to each cans and bottles.

Can's can hide a bad brewers beer with less head space in them.

Light really isn't and issue. Amber bottles block 99 percent of the wavelengths that harm beer. For beer that was bottled under a year that isn't a problem. (i'm not saying beer should be sitting in direct sunlight for a beer either..... but it shouldn't in a can either as the can will heat more than the glass)

Also second bottling fermentation is basically impossible in a can.

Can or bottle it doesn't matter in the end though. If the brew is good, the brew is good.

 

[tstepp920]

I like this. I don't want to say ...I like it a lot. But I would definitely but it again

 

[lt1fire]

A Dunkel is a dark lager.

That's a good one also.