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What's your favorite beer style?

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What's your favorite beer style?

  • Pilsner

  • Stout

  • IPA

  • Ale

  • Amber/Red

  • Porter

  • Lambic

  • Belgian

  • Hefeweisen/Wheat

  • Dunkel/Dark

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ElFenix said:
if you want to be pedantic a stout is any high alcohol content beer.

lagers are more difficult to brew than ales. i suppose that's why there's so many ales on the market.
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yeah that explains why guiness extra stout is a low alcohol content beer and so are all other drinkable stouts.

There are probably more lagers than ales on the market.
 
I've taken a liking to bourbon barrel aged beers lately. Founder's KBS Wyerbacher Crumudgeon, stuff like that. Smooth flavor, amazing taste. I also really like chipotle porter's. They're very rare but they burn so good. I've had the MeKeller Chipotle porter in bottle and the Stone chipotle porter on cask. excellent beers.

If I can't find either of those styles, a good scotch ale or an imperial IPA is more my style.
 
JohnOfSheffield said:
Wow, no one knows anything about beer in the US? Stick to bud light then at least you can understand what you are drinking you poor sods.
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Considering the fact that you only drink guiness, yet live in a country with some of the best ales on the planet on tap at most pubs, you come off as a poseur who fell in love with a brand instead of developing actual taste.

I drank a ton of beer during my six months in London, and Guinness was meh compared to most of the English beer I had over there. Jesus hume christ, dude, you live in a country with premium cask ales at almost every pub, and YOU ONLY DRINK GUINESS?

Show some fucking English pride and drink some Bitters and shut up about that over rated Irish stout.
 
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ElFenix said:
if you want to be pedantic a stout is any high alcohol content beer.

lagers are more difficult to brew than ales. i suppose that's why there's so many ales on the market.
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If you want to get into brewing terms a stout always has roasted malts while a porter almost never does. And those malts are only there for color, aroma and flavor. They have no impact on the alcohol content. At least thats how most craft and homebrewers role.
 
preslove said:
Considering the fact that you only drink guiness, yet live in a country with some of the best ales on the planet on tap at most pubs, you come off as a poseur who fell in love with a brand instead of developing actual taste.

I drank a ton of beer during my six months in London, and Guinness was meh compared to most of the English beer I had over there. . Jesus, dude, you live in a country with premium cask ales at almost every pub, and YOU ONLY DRINK GUINESS?

Show some fucking English pride and drink some Bitters and shut up about that over rated Irish stout.
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That shit tastes like someone spilled a real beer in some peat moss, then squeezed all the liquid out into a bottle, fucking horrible shit

/Guiness that is
 
Quasmo said:
I've taken a liking to bourbon barrel aged beers lately. Founder's KBS Wyerbacher Crumudgeon, stuff like that. Smooth flavor, amazing taste. I also really like chipotle porter's. They're very rare but they burn so good. I've had the MeKeller Chipotle porter in bottle and the Stone chipotle porter on cask. excellent beers.

If I can't find either of those styles, a good scotch ale or an imperial IPA is more my style.
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Try North Coast Old Stock Cellar Reserve 2009. It's expensive, but it's about the best bourbon barrel beer I've tried.
 
vi edit said:
If you want to get into brewing terms a stout always has roasted malts while a porter almost never does. And those malts are only there for color, aroma and flavor. They have no impact on the alcohol content. At least thats how most craft and homebrewers role.
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This is pretty much the case. Porters tend to come from mostly pale malts nowadays. Stouts will use chocolate malts and black malts more often.

Also John, yes, the term stout used to stand for a higher alcohol beer, usually a higher alcohol porter. You need to relax.
 
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JohnOfSheffield said:
You do realise that a wheat is a proper Pilsner and that a Pilsner was available 700 years before anyone knew what the fuck a lager was?
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Uh, Pilsners were first brewed in Plzen, CZ in 1842. It's one of the "youngest" beer styles out there. They are a lager style beer that use pale malts. They are nothing like a wheat ale. I have no idea what you babbling about.
 
preslove said:
Considering the fact that you only drink guiness, yet live in a country with some of the best ales on the planet on tap at most pubs, you come off as a poseur who fell in love with a brand instead of developing actual taste.

I drank a ton of beer during my six months in London, and Guinness was meh compared to most of the English beer I had over there. Jesus hume christ, dude, you live in a country with premium cask ales at almost every pub, and YOU ONLY DRINK GUINESS?

Show some fucking English pride and drink some Bitters and shut up about that over rated Irish stout.
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JohnOfSheffield status:

[ ] not told
[ ] told
[X] NO COUNTRY FOR TOLD MEN
 
preslove said:
I drank a ton of beer during my six months in London, and Guinness was meh compared to most of the English beer I had over there. Jesus hume christ, dude, you live in a country with premium cask ales at almost every pub, and YOU ONLY DRINK GUINESS?
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Our drinking palates have been screwed up by modern beer styles with artificial carbonation and nitrogen being added to the drinks. Cask ales almost taste flat/stale by comparison because we are expecting some fiz or bubble to them.

Personally I love the style. My local brewpub has a cask IPA regularly on hand that is one of the most smooth, mellow IPA's I've ever drank. But it's not for everyone because it requires you to recalibrate what you've come to expect from beer.
 
vi edit said:
Our drinking palates have been screwed up by modern beer styles with artificial carbonation and nitrogen being added to the drinks. Cask ales almost taste flat/stale by comparison because we are expecting some fiz or bubble to them.

Personally I love the style. My local brewpub has a cask IPA regularly on hand that is one of the most smooth, mellow IPA's I've ever drank. But it's not for everyone because it requires you to recalibrate what you've come to expect from beer.
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Sure, it takes some getting used to, but it's what England does well. Basically, over there if a pub isn't In-Bev dominated (unfortunately a lot of pubs/bars only sell In-Bev), then the best beers on tap will be cask ales. Hell it's part of English culture. If you are English and you don't like cask ales, then you don't know shit about beer.
 
preslove said:
Sure, it takes some getting used to, but it's what England does well. Basically, over there if a pub isn't In-Bev dominated (unfortunately a lot of pubs/bars only sell In-Bev), then the best beers on tap will be cask ales. Hell it's part of English culture. If you are English and you don't like cask ales, then you don't know shit about beer.
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It's actually law. In-Bev needs to quit buying local breweries and fucking them up over there.
 
dougp said:
It's actually law. In-Bev needs to quit buying local breweries and fucking them up over there.
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A/B did the same thing here. They bought out Rolling Rock/Latrobe and shut them down only keeping the name. Other brands they just outright bullied out of the market through undermining distributors and sellers. It's quite shocking just how many labels are under the A/B umbrella and now under the InBev global dominance.
 
vi edit said:
A/B did the same thing here. They bought out Rolling Rock/Latrobe and shut them down only keeping the name. Other brands they just outright bullied out of the market through undermining distributors and sellers. It's quite shocking just how many labels are under the A/B umbrella and now under the InBev global dominance.
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Yah but over here, we're not required by law to sell local beer over nationally distributed beers 😉

It'd be akin to AB/InBev buying out Shiner, Saint Arnolds, 512, Live Oak, Rahr & Sons, Southern Star, etc. all in TX

Wow, that'd blow ass. 🙁
 
dougp said:
Yah but over here, we're not required by law to sell local beer over nationally distributed beers
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No, but the way that the distribution model is configured here in the US all but monopolizes who can distribute beer. A/B controls something like 80% of all beer distributed in the US. And they only distribute their own brands. So 80% of all beer distributed in the US is(was) under the A/B corporate branding.

The beer industry is the second highest in political donations in which A/B accounted for like 75% of the donations. They make their own rules.
 
dougp said:
Yah but over here, we're not required by law to sell local beer over nationally distributed beers 😉

It'd be akin to AB/InBev buying out Shiner, Saint Arnolds, 512, Live Oak, Rahr & Sons, Southern Star, etc. all in TX

Wow, that'd blow ass. 🙁
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You would mourn over Shiner? That stuff tastes like Baltimore harbor water.
 
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