Beer styles that elude you.

Radlers, sugary sweet diabetes in a bottle... pukeworthy

 

I've had all 104. It wasn't the last beer style I tried, but the hardest one for me to find was Happoshu at that time. Now, I see it everywhere at better beer stores and Japanese markets. Coedo Beniaka.

 

Sours in general, but i am about to start making myself like them.

 

http://sixpoint.com/blog/mad-scientists-series/mad-scientists-16-lichtenhainer/

Are you not counting it due to the "authentic" part?
(The Freigeist beer is available in NYC and it's delicious.)

 

This thread can be split between those that read the OP and those that didn't.

 

Has it ever been otherwise?? :-)

 

This post from @patto1ro (from another thread about styles you want to see brewed more often) could serve as inspiration to the hunters that want to go beyond the BeerAdvocate list. @Sixpoint , get your mad scientists on this.

 

No, so I made one. The results? Very Americanized in the appropriate spots and damned drinkable. It's definitely something I want to tweak and brew again with the full blast of summer as its drinking environment.

 

We did a Mumme before...did you try this? http://sixpoint.com/blog/mad-scientists-series/mad-scientists-series-18-brunswick-mumme/

We also did a Lichtenhaimer.... that is one crazy style of beer! Sour and smoke is an interesting combination for sure....too challenging for most! http://sixpoint.com/blog/mad-scientists-series/mad-scientists-16-lichtenhainer/

 

Gose eluded me 12-24 months ago, but now they are everywhere. Had my first wheatwine on Friday. Adroit Theory brewing out of Purseyville in Northern VA. Got it on site from a brewery visit. Was decent. Would sample the style again.

 

I didn't know y'all did a Mumme. My wife is from Braunschweig and I have half-heartedly looked for some when I've been at the in-laws'. Any chance you'll do it again?

 

Ive always thought bottled faro is something pretty strange all together. It should be a drink you make to order like woodruff syrup in a Berliner weisse.

 

Most likely not...even the folks in NYC thought some of these styles were a bit challenging! The Lichtenhainer had some of the most interesting feedback we've ever seen.... not too many people are used to having a beer that smells like blue cheese! Some of these old esoteric styles are way, way out of people's comfort zone...

 

I don't actively seek out new styles, so yeah, there's many that have eluded me. Beer drinking is more of a casual/social thing for me rather than a hobby so probably I'll never try all the styles listed here on BA.

 

Send it here if NYC doesn't know what's good for them

 

Interestingly enough, most of the folks I talked to in Braunschweig feel the same way....

 

I've had 90 of the styles listed, and I'm pretty sure I'll pick up a couple of more when I finish getting my database loaded here. This one is kinda interesting - it's VERY close to the last name of a buddy I've known since we were 5 years old, growing up on the west side of South Bend, IN. He had a cousin that homebrewed this. It was pretty good and certainly brewed to style (S-M-O-K-Y).

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/23495/75608/

 

Lichtenhaimer sounds awesome. I love Schlenkerla Urbock and I love Timmermans Gueuze, mix the two together, what could possibly go wrong I say?

 

Purseyville? Love it. When I was a young smart-mouth jock a-hole from a neighboring county, we could start a fight with the locals, calling it that. Or something very similar...

It's actually Purcellville, home of Loudoun Valley High, to whom we never ever lost any game or contest, in any sport, in my day. But the southern mouth has a hard time with that set of sounds, so: Purseyville.

Our county was Fauquier, so you can guess what their likely response was, to us badmouthing "Pussyville."

Back on topic: Adroit Theory rocks. Loudoun is kicking Fauquier's ass now, in breweries at least. Gose eludes me, though not, as zid points out, in the way the OP asks, but in the way the bear dance plumb eluded Jimmy Buffett in "God's Own Drunk."

 

Seems like you need to make a trip to Europe - you'd be able to tick off most of these. Absent that, perhaps a nice Web shipping co.?