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Ur Favorite Beer?

Gastro

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I had a nice chat with the head brewer of a small breworks in NZ about Belgian beers...this guy is Swiss but trained in Belgium. Nice guy...nice beer...but he was saying how they tend to really over sugar their beers to get the potency up. And that in a nutshell is my main gripe with the Belgian beers I've tried: too sweet, too carbonated, too strong. Nice to have a small glass...but I enjoy 3or4 pints at the pub and that's hard going and way too sickly.

;)

Thats what I dislike about most ales, porters and stouts, too sweet, too malty not enough hops. I actually find that the Belgians find a pretty good balance, between hoppiness and sweetness.
But then again I don't understand the majority of the beerdrinkers, atleast at Ratebeer.com. The top 20 of beer are all stouts, or porters that taste like coffee... (aren't allowed to taste like hops). If you want a drink that tastes like coffee and has alcohol in it, you get a coffee and a shot of liquor.

My preferences at the moment, Good Pilsners and Good Belgian Golds, (Duvel, Grimbergen etc..) and a nice Blonde ;)
 
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Mountain

Good Pilsners and Good Belgian Golds, (Duvel, Grimbergen etc..) and a nice Blonde ;)
After IPA's I love a good pilsner not not too many good ones in the US. Most microbreweries make ales except the big guys and I HATE corn beer...lol. Duvel, and similar ones, are goooood. Belgians are another one I like.

Not a dark beer fan either.
 

chappie

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Mountain - be sure you try Trumer Pils of Berkeley. Very great American Pilsner. My fave, though, is Pinkus from Germany.
 
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Mountain

Mountain - be sure you try Trumer Pils of Berkeley. Very great American Pilsner. My fave, though, is Pinkus from Germany.
Right on man...will try and remember Trumer next time I go through Bezerkely.
 

s13sr20det

admit nothing, deny everything, and demand proof.
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happy Tx independence day!

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Love that my beer shop allows purchases of singles now. Nice.

Tonight:

Bells two hearted ale
Bells Kalamazoo Stout
Founders Red Rye
Founders IPA
 
I may only drink Heineken these day's...a treat for sure....but i remember the ol' day's....:friends:..lol...drinking that Mickey's malt liq... big mouth to be exact....don't think they even make those barrell's anymore....



tr2
 
For those of you in Michigan who have access to Great Lakes Breweries seasonal "Doppelrock"...


...holy shit....


Amazing. Check out the reviews on beer advocate.

4 packs run 12 bucks here. 7.8 ABV. Breaching my new top 10, and certainly the best beer Great Lakes puts out.

Only available for another month, so hurry up and get this seasonal treasure...
 
OK, I'm gonna go all beer snob, just once. On Heineken.

Next time you drink it, remove yourself from any advertising slogans, any preconceived notions about it being a "premium" beer because it's expensive. Just taste.

It is literally intentionally skunked piss water with a mild "bite" of rotten grain. Yes, American macro corn beers are tasteless; and that is superior to Heineken.

The fact that Corona and Heineken have successfully marketed themselves as premium beers reiterates how marketing runs the world.
 
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Hazyfontazy

OK, I'm gonna go all beer snob, just once. On Heineken.

Next time you drink it, remove yourself from any advertising slogans, any preconceived notions about it being a "premium" beer because it's expensive. Just taste.

It is literally intentionally skunked piss water with a mild "bite" of rotten grain. Yes, American macro corn beers are tasteless; and that is superior to Heineken.

The fact that Corona and Heineken have successfully marketed themselves as premium beers reiterates how marketing runs the world.

i'm a major pisshead as many know and to be honest heineken is 1 of my favourites ,it brings back memories of Amsterdam with every sip :dance013:
 

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