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Flyer75
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Message 1 of 52 (563167)
06-03-2010 4:20 PM


Sorry if this has been discussed in the past here...I haven't seen a thread on it since I've been around, but anyway, thought maybe we could discuss some of our favorite beers together and maybe list what we're drinking:
So, for me, I love the stouts and porters best. Currently drinking as I type a New Holland brewing Dragon's Milk. Sensational.
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Ben Franklin
Proof of God folks? For me, compounding evidence included in the totality of the circumstances.....lol!

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Apothecus
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Message 2 of 52 (563169)
06-03-2010 4:36 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Flyer75
06-03-2010 4:20 PM


Always a good topic, Flyer.
I try to stay away from pilsners as they can turn somewhat skunky. But a good, chewy pale ale really gets my cockles up. A local brewery, Summit, makes a good one, and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is also up top. The hoppier, the better, I say...
Guiness is a good bet but I'm usually limited at one, since it seems to fill up my belly rather quickly. A more common dark choice that currently (albeit temporarily) resides in the 'ol beer fridge is Michelob Amber Bock. I've loved the stuff since it came out (around the early-nineties, I'm thinking) and still enjoy it.
Call me a snob, but I spit on main stream brews like millerbudpabstbuschcoorskeystone. Squirrel piss, all.
Have a good one.

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Flyer75
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Message 3 of 52 (563171)
06-03-2010 4:58 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by Apothecus
06-03-2010 4:36 PM


Totally agree Apothecus. I won't even touch an American Lager anymore.
Sierra Nevada makes some good beers no doubt.
Heading into the summer months it's harder to swallow the stouts and porters with the heat so I tend to go for the ales, especially the IPAs and imperial IPAs...like you said, the more hops, the better.
Cheers!

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Message 4 of 52 (563177)
06-03-2010 5:33 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Flyer75
06-03-2010 4:20 PM


So, for me, I love the stouts and porters best. Currently drinking as I type a New Holland brewing Dragon's Milk. Sensational.
I have a deep passion for good beers. Stouts and porters are nice. But a good Light Ale on a summer's night tickles me no end.
Proof of God folks? For me, compounding evidence included in the totality of the circumstances.....lol!
Except I may have some kind of sensitivity to alcohol which, should I imbibe it, may result in the inside of my body digesting itself (mmm amylase gone mad). So clearly this is proof that God - should it exist - has a sick sense of humour.

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Message 5 of 52 (563178)
06-03-2010 5:41 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Flyer75
06-03-2010 4:20 PM


Glad you asked....
I am just settling down to a glass or two of Fullers Honey Dew
First had this on a visit to the Fullers brewery in Chiswick London many years ago and it has ben a favourite summer tipple of mine for some time now.
The craze sweeping central london pubs at the moment seems to be for bottled alcoholic ginger beer e.g. Crabbies Ginger Beer
Neither exactly purist choices but they have their place in the beer drinkers agenda IMHO.

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Coragyps
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Message 6 of 52 (563194)
06-03-2010 7:50 PM


IPA's and sometimes stout in cooler weather, though stout is, as Apothecus says, pretty filling. On days like today, though, with 100F = 38C in the shade, there is nothing like a Singha, from Thailand. It has the faintest touch of ginger......too bad the nearest bottle of it is probably 260 miles from here.
Abita Brewery down near New Orleans makes some nice beers, too.

  
hotjer
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Message 7 of 52 (563198)
06-03-2010 8:04 PM
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06-03-2010 4:20 PM


Here in Denmark we loooove beers. Maybe a little to much !
As it is now I prefer a Leffe or a Guinness. However, however, I mostly drink Carlsberg and Tuborg since we are floating in them when we go party and have holidays. If you might wonder; yes, when a Dane has holidays it is quite reasonable to think he is going to drink a lot of beers whether he is visiting a girlfriend, his parents, go to other countries, wedding, funeral, birthday party etc.
However, here in week 29 (17-24 July) I am going to shift the beers out with mead. I am going with some friends to honour our nation's greatest cultural era in history - we dress us self as Vikings and will life solely of mead and meat. Way better than beers xD

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Message 8 of 52 (563202)
06-03-2010 8:38 PM
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06-03-2010 4:20 PM


To Whomever it is Ode:
summer's finally here
I mowed the lawn
and had a beer
Enjoy.

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Flyer75
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Message 9 of 52 (563210)
06-03-2010 9:58 PM


RAZD...that was short, succinct, and summed up summer perfectly.
Hotjer...I'm starting to try more European style beers. Right now, with the warmer weather, the Hefeweizen style is pretty good as are the abbey style beers, particularly the ones from Belgium.

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Minnemooseus
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Message 10 of 52 (563215)
06-03-2010 10:33 PM


Huber Bock beer
Joseph Huber Brewing Company - Wikipedia\\
quote:
It is the oldest continually operating brewery in the Midwest and second oldest in the United States.
I haven't encountered Huber Bock in a long time - I'm not even sure it still exists. The brewery seems to have been absorbed by another company.
Anyhow, a Bock is a dark lager. As best I know, the Huber brewery was a fairly small operation with a fairly small distribution. As the brewery is/was in southern-most Wisconsin, it was probably fortunate that the beer made it to northern Wisconsin and adjacent Minnesota. It may also have been only brewed in certain parts of the year.
Anyhow, back in the day, Huber Bock was pretty much much all the beer I really needed. You could go to the store and it would be both one of the better beers and one of the least expensive stocked. What more could you ask for?
I think that most areas of the U.S. now have micro-breweries producing quality alternatives to the more common window washing solutions. But Huber was the old school alternative of its time.
Moose
Edited by Minnemooseus, : Bock link.

  
Coragyps
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Message 11 of 52 (563220)
06-03-2010 10:56 PM
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06-03-2010 8:04 PM


Mead. I've wanted to try mead for about 45 years now, ever since reading Beowulf, and the only specimens I've seen for sale looked like the bottles had been in the store since Grendel's dam died.
I'll look in New York, since I probably won't get to Copenhagen soon.

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hotjer
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Message 12 of 52 (563223)
06-03-2010 11:34 PM
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06-03-2010 10:56 PM


You should try to make it yourself then. Normally it takes a year or two.
I have never searched for English instructions on brewing mead but I guess it should be easy enough to find. Basically, mead is 2 parts water and 1 part honey (e.g. 25 L water and 12.5 kilogram honey), some species and let it ferment for 1-2 years (with the correct instruments which are quite cheap). Of course honey is the most important part when talking quality and personal prefer heather honey.
Of course the Vikings had other methods when they wanted to get drunk within a few days (the nearest supermarket was to plunder England) which was to use "super yeast" and BAM -> mead within a few days!

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Message 13 of 52 (563225)
06-03-2010 11:40 PM
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06-03-2010 4:20 PM


I've busted balls here before about beer snobbery (mostly joking) but if it's hanging in the summer at the beach or bbq'ing, cold beer is an absolute must.
I favor beer's from either the Caribbean or Central American during summer. For the most part I like, Cerveza la Tropical or Dos XX's.
If I'm drinking with my dad, which we do often. It usually goes from beer to rum at almost 3 beers in. By the time the bbq is done, so is pop. I can never convince him to smoke out with me though, wish he would.
- Oni

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hotjer
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Message 14 of 52 (563243)
06-04-2010 4:56 AM
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06-03-2010 9:58 PM


They got a lot of good beers in Belgium, in general, I really like the Trappist beers; Trappist beer - Wikipedia and so do a lot of other people. Furthermore, I like the idea of monks brewing some damn good beer, despite I do not believe in God, which I can enjoy anytime at the year.

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Jumped Up Chimpanzee
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Message 15 of 52 (563245)
06-04-2010 5:04 AM
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06-03-2010 4:20 PM


If beer is proof that God loves us, then Becks must be the proof that the Devil hates us.
How can anyone drink that stuff?
Unfortunately, most my my drinking is of the binge variety, and I couldn't waste good beer on that.
When I get the chance to enjoy good beer, I usually go for something from Woodfordes, a local real ale brewery in Norfolk.
Their beers taste great, but it's worth ordering them just to say the names, including:
Nelson's Revenge (bitter)
Headcracker (barley wine)
Norfolk Nip (barley wine) - remember to book a taxi

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