OK, most of ya like beer, but check this out.
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There are 2 kinds of beer the one you like, and free beer.
steveno
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I don't know what Heineken has downtown now in Amsterdam but in the 1970's the brewery was downtown and it was the place to go. the tour lasted about 30 minutes or so. then you got to drink bier in this big tap room for an hour. the servers kept bringing out trays of bier and plates with different types of cheese.
chaparrito
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I remember that from 71. They had a dark that was quite tasty. I don't care for Heiny at all anymore unless it's free. To me it's just another Bud-Stella-Miller fizzy yeller.
steveno
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I think that dark Heineken goes better with food. just to sit down and drink a bier I like the regular Heineken
I think the increase in craft beers, the craft beer boom, in recent decades in the US is a wonderful thing.
I like a beer with a strong taste. Actually, since I can't remember all the names these days, and have no fierce desire to be loyal to any particular brand, if I am in a place with a lot of varieties, I ask for the hoppiest, strongest tasting, or bitterest, beer they have, and see what shows up.
This is a great approach for me, and similar to my approach to wine, where I decide red or white, but then tell the sommelier or waiter what my budget is, and simply ask what is good.
(I do know, from reading, that hops, or a perceived excess thereof, is considered to be behind the times for those on the cutting edge of the latest fashion in beer drinking, but cutting edge fashion, in beer or anything else, is not my gig.)
Don't like wheat beers. So far anyway. Do like IPAs, big time, per above.
I find the idea of beer snobs, like snobs about anything, just silly. The idea that one's taste in beer establishes one's superiority somehow is ridiculous. (I did know a cheerfully admitted peanut butter snob which I thought funny, but.... ya know what? He had some great peanut butter.)
Went to a beer festival once in Portland, OR, and among the many, many tasty beers available, I tried a chocolate flavored beer. Oddly, it was pretty good.
My problem nowadays is that while I love beer, and can afford any kind I want, for health and weight reasons, I drink it very rarely.
But, hey! To each his own. Anyone is welcome to drink any kind of beer he or she likes insofar as I am concerned.
Have at it!
I like a beer with a strong taste. Actually, since I can't remember all the names these days, and have no fierce desire to be loyal to any particular brand, if I am in a place with a lot of varieties, I ask for the hoppiest, strongest tasting, or bitterest, beer they have, and see what shows up.
This is a great approach for me, and similar to my approach to wine, where I decide red or white, but then tell the sommelier or waiter what my budget is, and simply ask what is good.
(I do know, from reading, that hops, or a perceived excess thereof, is considered to be behind the times for those on the cutting edge of the latest fashion in beer drinking, but cutting edge fashion, in beer or anything else, is not my gig.)
Don't like wheat beers. So far anyway. Do like IPAs, big time, per above.
I find the idea of beer snobs, like snobs about anything, just silly. The idea that one's taste in beer establishes one's superiority somehow is ridiculous. (I did know a cheerfully admitted peanut butter snob which I thought funny, but.... ya know what? He had some great peanut butter.)
Went to a beer festival once in Portland, OR, and among the many, many tasty beers available, I tried a chocolate flavored beer. Oddly, it was pretty good.
My problem nowadays is that while I love beer, and can afford any kind I want, for health and weight reasons, I drink it very rarely.
But, hey! To each his own. Anyone is welcome to drink any kind of beer he or she likes insofar as I am concerned.
Have at it!
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pittpa
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I would not have tasted this Rogue beer just from reading the label, but my friend offered it to me. It was actually very good. The added flavors were subtle.
As for lime in a beer? That is a refreshing summertime thing. I like that. Meanwhile, I'll be picking up a case of Troeg's Hopback Amber when it arrives at the store.
As for lime in a beer? That is a refreshing summertime thing. I like that. Meanwhile, I'll be picking up a case of Troeg's Hopback Amber when it arrives at the store.
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venomballistics
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Rogue is one of the upstarts I have a great deal of respect for.
Their workhorse brew is dead guy ale.
It is one of the most drinkable beers I've encountered. but being a helles bock, it will destroy you faster than any mainstream offering. It has my vote for the ultimate block party beer.
Unlike most of the craft micros, beer has been the workhorse that sustained them to what might be their true passion, Distilled Spirits.
Anybody talk about Chelada's yet? Kind of like a beer-based Bloody Mary, make-your-own is the way to go but Bud makes a finished product of same name. Friend from Texas turned me onto it. Won't find it on a shelf anywhere in the northeast. Was VERY skeptical before my first taste. Now, they are a mainstay at any of our fishing/hunting gatherings. In the restaurant biz I can simply order cases of it from the distributer as desired. I even built a sautéed mussel dish off of it as the steaming liquid. With grilled corn, cilantro, jalapeños, scallion, chorizo, garlic & tomato. To die for if you like those flavors and Mussels.
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