BEER: a thread
I drink Boddington's regularly, it's a great pub ale.
I bought some of this over the weekend. A wonderful American-style old-ale with an ABV of 12.5%. American old ales tend to be closer in style to a barley wine, so if you like that sort of stuff this is a good one to try. It goes for about $12 for a 4 pack, and they highly suggest you cellar it for a year but it is good right away.
Old Stock Ale
Like a fine port, Old Stock Ale is intended to be laid down. With an original gravity of over 1.100 and a generous hopping rate, Old Stock Ale is well-designed to round-out and mellow with age. It's brewed with classic Maris Otter malt and Fuggles and East Kent Goldings hops, all imported from England.
OOOoooooo I LOOOOVVVVVEEEEEE Old Stock Ale, that is a fantastic beer. Great flavor , great for aging and it gets you hammered. North Coast Brewing makes great beer. Their Scrimshaw is a great session lager, Red Seal Ale is good, Old Rasputin is another homerun of a beer, great stout , and I really love their Brother Thelonius abbey ale, its a damn fine beer and part of the proceeds go to the Thelonius Monk Music foundation.
Who here knows of country club malt liquor? a dollar a 40 back in 1994.
Chasing tail is a local beer I like, red stripe(what I am drinking at this very moment)and guinness.I like beer.I like stout,stank and hefeweizen.
I am fueled by filth and fury.
Chasing tail is a local beer I like, red stripe(what I am drinking at this very moment)and guinness.I like beer.I like stout,stank and hefeweizen.
Country Club is straight ghetto son!
So in a bit of oh shit news, my wine/beer fridge took a dump on me this week. I had a lot of good beers aging and a couple nice bottle of wine. Came home and found the temp oin the fridge was the same as room temp which was 78 degrees. Good thing my pops lives near by, I took all the beer and wine and threw them in his spare fridge.
Sent an email to Vinotemp (the people who made the fridge) and they are going to send me a new circuit board.
Damn that was close, alot of alcohol almost was ruined.
Tonight, my 4th (or maybe 5th) different stout, a Sierra Nevada:
Pretty tasty. Tomorrow, I'm going to give this a go:
Franziskaner hefe-weisse. Sounds awesome.
Ahh the thread lives!
Do yourselves a favor, go, wait no, RUN, to your local craft beer store and pick up as many bottles as you can of the Sierra Nevada/ Dogfish Head collaboration called 'Life and Limb'. Its a limitied edition beer and it seriously is one of the greatest beers I have had. Its a strong ale at 10.2% abv. Go buy it NOW!
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Standard yellow brown color with a light golden tint.
Atop sits a moderate white head with decent retention.
Aroma is malty with a noticeable alcohol presence and a little hop smell.
Flavor is a touch of pale malt along with enough hops to give it a slightly sweet, almost fruity flavor with a little bit of bite to it.
Well-carbonated for the style, which along with a touch of bitterness results in a nice crisp finish. Not only very drinkable, but probably the best the Pearl has to offer.
Nile Special is a truly rewarding beer with a full body and rich flavour, brewed at the source of the River Nile. Nile Special is as good a beer as you can find – in any country in the world]
"True Reward from the Source
Recommended.
well this is ma favourite beer, am usually higher than kite after six or so...highly recommended if u ever decide to travel to this side of the world...
As a beer lover, homebrewer and writer, I just wanted to poke my head in hear and say I'm enjoying the first beer from my new 60 gallon kettles I bought at auction from a prison in upstate NY (the stories those kettles could tell...). I tried to emulate Redhook ESB, and I can proudly say that I did a pretty good job.
Cheers!
Josh
Cheers!
60 gallon!!!!!!! NICE!
How are you getting that to boil?
Also what was your recipe for your Redhook clone? All grain ?
60 gallon!!!!!!! NICE!
How are you getting that to boil?
Also what was your recipe for your Redhook clone? All grain ?
The kettles actually have steam boilers built into them (groen ah/1-60 I believe is the model). They were set up for natural gas, I converted one to propane and used it as the kettle, so getting it to boil was easy. The other I used as the mash tun. I got another 38 gallon pot for the sparge water and used a cajun cooker under it. Setting the whole thing up was quite an ordeal (they weigh about 600 pounds each), but fun. So,yeah, all grain as any serious brewer does it (not that I look down on anyone doing extract brewing, it's all great).
The recipe was basically 90% pale malt, 10% crystal and a lot of hops, mostly Kent Golding. If you're interested in more particulars about the recipe, I'd be happy to oblige, I'd just have to get them from my brew log (which aren't always as legible as I thought they were when I wrote them)
Josh
Stone IPA is great...really anything by Stone. I got pretty into all the different flavors of Sam Adams when I lived in Boston. Widmere Bros always has a decent Hef to fall back on. Call me crazy, but I love Red Stripe, got hooked on it in the Bahamas. Modelo Especial is great with mexican food.
Two mixed beer drinks everyone should try:
Red Beer - Tomato Juice mixed with a lighter beer
Blue Moon Rising - Pint of Blue Moon with a hefty shot of Stolichnaya (preferably plain, but some people prefer orange flavored Stoli). This doesn't really work with any other kinda vodka, though, so careful!
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
The only beer I've ever had that I truly cannot drink is Amstel Light, and I've had a lot of different beers. Give me a lambic, mixed beer drink as above (beer and tomato sounds nasty!), or diarrhea beer, but please no Amstel Light!
Josh
The beer and tomato is a must-try. It sounds disgusting, but its actually quite good and one HELL of a hangover cure.
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
budweiser makes a tomato beer and it is actually pretty good.
Where are you from? I have to make mine...=(
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
I haven't read through the 8 pages of this thread, but I'm assuming it's where we all claim our favourite beer is the best beer and way, way better than everyone else's inferior choices. So, allow me to say that the best draught lager, by a wiiiiiiiide margin, is either the Indian lager Kingfisher or the Thai lager Singha. There are also some truly excellent Australian draughts, such as Tooeys New. I have also tried a few nice American beers. Steamboat, is it? That's nay too bad. Budvar (Czech Republic) is also a fucking lush piece of work, as is Staropramen. The Italians should be proud of Peroni. The Spanish, San Miguel. The Portuguese, Super Bock. The Brits, their fine selection of bitters and ales. The Chinese ship out some quality brew, too; ever tried Tsing-Tao? You get it in most restaurants here, and it's fooking good looking.
The shittiest beer is Budweiser. A lot of people say it tastes like urine, but I think that's unfair to urine. Maybe if you pissed in a teacup and left it outside your back door for a year, it might taste like Budweiser. But straight-up piss is totally more drinkable than a "fresh" Bud.
Don't rub my rhubarb.
Pretty tasty. Tomorrow, I'm going to give this a go:
Franziskaner hefe-weisse. Sounds awesome.
Fransiskaner tastes almost exactly like cold baked bean juice.
Don't rub my rhubarb.
Where are you from? I have to make mine...=(
i'm in houston. there are lots of mexicans here, they love that stuff. and um...it doesn't taste like old people fucking. but that made me lol.
I can't drink shit like corona. It tastes like throw-ups. Fucking pee-water. It tastes like the last bear in the can, even when it's just opened (The corona). We call that lukewarm bottom-pee "slatt" over here (the a should be pronounced as in androgynous) What do you call it?
thanks for the bump big s, i really enjoy reading this thread, i have quit drinking for awhile, probably til new years, but i went out with one of my very favs, rolling rock. i should have had some mirror pond as well though.
nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
Uh, no. It's 8 pages of people going, "Yeah that's a pretty good beer, but you should check out this one."
I see, thanks for the lesson.
Don't rub my rhubarb.
I agree, Bloody beer is excellent, but only if you add a good healthy fuck ton shot of tabasco. yeah.
Are you always an asshole, or is it just an internet forum thingy?
It's just an internet forum thingy.
Anyway, I wanted to mention this American beverage I had a few weeks ago. Alcoholic iced tea, lemon flavour. Can't remember its name, but it tasted all right. Any of you guys have an inkling of what I'm talking about?
Where we work we have some decent ciders. In the UK you can buy this cider called Brothers. They began selling it at the Glastonbury music festival, which is one of the biggest music festivals we have. It's pear-based, but comes in strawberry, lemon, and tofee-apple flavour. Lush! Not sure of its availability outside of the UK, but if you guys should seek it out if you want to try something different.
Don't rub my rhubarb.
I swung by the liquor store today and grabbed a cheapy bottle of wine and a couple of beers, one light and one dark Sam Adams Imperial Stout. I'm debating on which to drink first...
I'd go for the dark beer first, then the light, then the cheap wine. Best to least best, that way you really appreciate the nummy yummy brew and just keep the buzz up with the cheaper stuff. (assuming you were going to drink it all, or most of all of it)
Good suggestion, and great timing. I just popped opened the dark beer to start the night off.
60 gallon!!!!!!! NICE!
How are you getting that to boil?
Also what was your recipe for your Redhook clone? All grain ?
The kettles actually have steam boilers built into them (groen ah/1-60 I believe is the model). They were set up for natural gas, I converted one to propane and used it as the kettle, so getting it to boil was easy. The other I used as the mash tun. I got another 38 gallon pot for the sparge water and used a cajun cooker under it. Setting the whole thing up was quite an ordeal (they weigh about 600 pounds each), but fun. So,yeah, all grain as any serious brewer does it (not that I look down on anyone doing extract brewing, it's all great).
The recipe was basically 90% pale malt, 10% crystal and a lot of hops, mostly Kent Golding. If you're interested in more particulars about the recipe, I'd be happy to oblige, I'd just have to get them from my brew log (which aren't always as legible as I thought they were when I wrote them)
Sweet setup!
I'd love the recipe, but I'd have to make it a 5 gl recipe because thats all Im set up for. Redhook would be a nice session beer to have on tap in the garage.
Im still doing partial extract beers but Im going to make the switch to all grain in 2010. Im also getting a whole bunch of old soda kegs for next to nothing and going to build a multi tap kegerator.
Anyway.
No your not. I know a lot of people who don't like Blue Moon. There are better examples of the style , but if you dont like it I'll bet you are not fond of the Belgian Wit style in general.
I bought four random beers from the liquor store today. First up: Lowenbrau, which apparently is brewed under the German purity laws as stated earlier in the thread. It's pretty tasty, better than many similar-tasting beers I've had.
Lowenbrau is straight up old school! It will have a 'more quality' taste because of their not being any rice in the grain bill, which is against the Reinheitsgebot.
I just picked up a four pack of 'Monks Blood', a belgian dark ale from 21st Amendment Brewing in SF. The name alone is cool enough for me!
This is currently one shelf in my fridge. Can you guess which of these isn't mine?
Then there are my bombers, that I have to fit in other places.
Then there is this bad boy, that I will be having with my Xmas dinner.
I have been making beer for the past couple years. Its one of my few hobbies. I have actually gotten to the point where I am getting pretty good that ive been bottling it and making my own labels and giving them to people. When i do buy stuff from the store my personal favorite is Guinness but I have really been into IPA's lately. Stuff that is pretty "hoppy" there is a store here that has an extensive collection of beer and I bought a Milk Stout which was actually really good.
i'm coming over kirk. also, i tried this stuff, which was inexpensive and flavorful:
Thats a solid lineup of beers. Some light, some heavy.
Lowenbrau --> Hazed & Infused
Steinlager --> Sam Adams
All of them were tasty. Probably the Hazed & Infused was my least favorite, but it was still good.
i meant to post this over a week ago. just for ross, cassun bought us the russian imperial that you love so much (25 dollars for a 750 ml, damn!) it was a little to much in the taste dept. for me, to overwhelming i would say but not horribly bad.
random, pallix, me, 13th step.
nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
Nice fridge, Kirk. I like the Rogue Imperial IPA that comes in that same blue bottle a lot. Its kinda pricey, but special occasions call for special brew, and I can re-use the bottle for my home brewing. I have a 30 gallon system and a classy keggerator so I always have some cold beer on tap.
Lately my faves have been Stone Arrogant Bastard, Deschutes the Abyss, and Old Rasputin Imperial Stout. Dogfish head makes some pretty killer IPA's. Sierra Nevada's Celebration Ale is pretty killer, and you can find it as most stores.
I don't know if they export it to the lower 48, but my favorite local brewing company Midnight Sun makes some killer brews that you all should check out if you get a chance.
On a side note, me and some buddies hiked my brew rig out to Matanuska Glacier about a year ago and brewed an IPA on the glacier using Glacial Water. It came out amazing.
- The Beer Whisperer
Drank loads of beer tonight. Yey for drinking and driving!
I do my best drinking while driving.
I had Sunshine nectar last night. I liked it.
The Catmother of all Worldwide Cats
random, pallix, me, 13th step.
RIS is an aquired taste but once you like it, you cant get enough!
Its a big in your face style but oh so tasty. Keep trying them every now and then, you may find one you like. Also they go well with chocolate.
Great pic BTW.
Lately my faves have been Stone Arrogant Bastard, Deschutes the Abyss, and Old Rasputin Imperial Stout. Dogfish head makes some pretty killer IPA's. Sierra Nevada's Celebration Ale is pretty killer, and you can find it as most stores.
I don't know if they export it to the lower 48, but my favorite local brewing company Midnight Sun makes some killer brews that you all should check out if you get a chance.
On a side note, me and some buddies hiked my brew rig out to Matanuska Glacier about a year ago and brewed an IPA on the glacier using Glacial Water. It came out amazing.
Damn, you have a 30 gl setup, j_angell has a 60 gl steam boiler set up, I need to go bigger, the 5 gl just aint cuttn it anymore!
The whole glacier brewing thing. Genius.
thefuckcares - i'm strqaight uyp drunk right now.
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Damn, you have a 30 gl setup, j_angell has a 60 gl steam boiler set up, I need to go bigger, the 5 gl just aint cuttn it anymore!
The whole glacier brewing thing. Genius.
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That was a lot of work. We got some killer video of it too.
- The Beer Whisperer
Damn, you have a 30 gl setup, j_angell has a 60 gl steam boiler set up, I need to go bigger, the 5 gl just aint cuttn it anymore!
The whole glacier brewing thing. Genius.
That was a lot of work. We got some killer video of it too.
Ha I'd love to see that video!
Did you design your own setup or did you buy something like a Sabco?
I drink Boddington's regularly, it's a great pub ale.
I bought some of this over the weekend. A wonderful American-style old-ale with an ABV of 12.5%. American old ales tend to be closer in style to a barley wine, so if you like that sort of stuff this is a good one to try. It goes for about $12 for a 4 pack, and they highly suggest you cellar it for a year but it is good right away.