Beer styles that elude you.

I'm at 99 and the 100th is in the garage waiting to be reviewed. The 4 I lack...and wasn't able to find...are English Mild Ale (dark and pale), Sahti and one I don't remember.

 

I have 83 styles ticked and eight more on hand. The ones I haven't seen around here include Braggot, English Dark Mild, Euro Strong Lager, Flanders Red Ale, Irish Red Ale, Kvass, Roggenbier, Sahti, Wheatwine, Happoshu, and Bière de Champagne / Bière Brut. I'm hoping Baltika #9 (Euro Strong Lager) shows up at the bottle shop, since they carry a couple of other Baltikas. I also need an Unblended Lambic, which I can get locally - for about $22-24. I'd get this for a bottle share, but I'm not sure anyone else would drink it.

As far as Bière de Champagne / Bière Brut: Maybe I misread it, but I thought SA Sparkling Ale was classified as this. I was looking forward to the SA Winter Classics variety pack just to get it. After someone posted this to WBAYDN last week, I looked it up again. It's now an American Blonde Ale. What gives? (I'm still getting the Winter Classics pack regardless.)

Any recommendations on the above-listed would be much appreciated.

 

Tallgrass Pub Ale is an English Pale Mild. According to SeekABrew, Tallgrass distros to parts of the South. It's the only one of this style that I've been able to find.

 

I hate Braggots...

 

Roggenbier. Still haven't had one and I don't know why more US brewers don't make em. US consumers like rye and we're really coming around to well-crafted German ales, seems like a no-brainer.

 

Gose and Saison's. Can't find them here, yet. Don't even know what a Braggot is. I'll worry about that once I find the other two.

 

None. If a certain style it isn't available easily, I'm not all that interested in chasing it. Same goes for certain beers, unless I'm traveling, but always up to a constantly shifting limit.

 

Captain Lawrence just released Hopsomniac again, if you're still looking for a coffee IPA.

 

I've had two different kvass's and loved them both. They aren't really like beer though, more like a rye bread soda.

 

Like many, I have not been able to find Happoshu and Kvass.

 

I had a non alcoholic kvass in Latvia last year. I didn't enjoy it.

You really never had a light mild? Localish alone, Hyde's, Joseph holts and robinsons have been doing them for years. Much prefer dark milds myself though.

 

I still don't know where to begin with saisons. Every one seems to have a million extra ingredients or be special in some way. Unlike most other styles, I don't know a single example of a typical, basic, template saison.

 

Dude just grab a Miller High Life, its the champagne of beers...

 

That would probably be Saison Dupont.

 

I will try. Thank you.