Controversial Beer Opinions Thread

Edward Fortyhands!!!!!

 

Dude, ask about some of Utah's laws.

 

And this 2015 article in the Allentown paper states they no longer do that:

But:

 

Dark lagers are the best lagers. I think if I had to choose I would take dark beers over light beers

 

A well made black lager is a beer I could happily drink all night long; and have done so .

 

I feel like its the least disgusted appreciated class of beers. I'd have a hard time giving up IPAs but I'd probably just grow hops and do my own off the record dry hopping if the dark light divide were a real thing

 

Let's not go off the rails here, now . I'm thinking something more along the lines Moonlight's Death and Taxes, which you may have access to- it shows its hops, but isn't in your face about it.

 

A nice dark lager is amazing but I believe all lagers were created equal.

 

Rich people supplying charlatans doing dumb shit, damming up rivers in unsafe manners. Then we proles pay for it. WTF...

I smell a rat. Drive deeper into the state TO BUY IN CASH

 

I think most of the Sculpin variants belong down the sink. Get the base beer fresh though and it holds the test of time as drinkable and delicious!

 

What!!??, Agreed, and What??!!

 

It’s been a hell of a long time, but when I was stationed at Camp Lejeune they had signs posted all over about buying cigarettes or liquor in volume and crossing state lines. I used to bring thing home from N.C. to Pa, but it was always a risk, you got hit for bootlegging if caught and maybe lose a car, fine and jail. Pa liquor agents were and probably still are all over this stuff, I’d guess they hang out in the bigger MD or DE stores are check plates.

 

Ya, no. You could forfeit your car, big fine, probably not jail, but it’s probably on the books. My dad was a cop, and the Liquor Control boards are all over Md and De.

 

Reviewers who’s composite beer scores are never below 3.0, (or even 4.0 for some).

The BA scores switch to poor below 3.0, and you can’t possibly claim that every beer you’ve ever had was okay to world class!

 

Actually if you use this site for what it's intended to be used for, i.e. a consumer guide, it's not only possible to drink only the best, it is silly not to drink only the best. YMMV.

 

Point taken, but certainly you’ve tried a brew without review, misleading review, or one you flat out disagreed with.

Also I’m sure I’m not the only one who started out reviewing for my own personal documentation before joining BA and doing my best to transfer those ratings here. After all my ratings are equally to more useful to my own future brew selection.

 

You know that's probably the one that turned me. Supposedly it's in cans regularly now but I've only seen it once in Sonoma county. We see it pretty regularly on tap. But tonight I was drinking Laguna Baja from north coast. They call it a dark Mexican lager. Lovely beer for any weather

 

Not exactly, the tax wasn't enacted until after the flood of 1936. In March that area of PA was hit with a double punch of warmer weather increasing snowmelt runoff and virtually continuous heavy rain for at least 3 days. So no rich people involved, just the weather and the folks who continued to live there after the earlier floods.

@IPAExpert69

 

FYI, A high average score, say 4.0, doesn't mean there are no beers with scores lower than 3.0 in the pile. It's quite possible for someone to have an average of 4.0 across, say, a thousand reviews and have dozens of beers rated below 3.0.

 

When I was a young lad in the VA exurbs we used to drive the 60 miles into DC to buy beer, which was legal for 18 year olds quite a few years before it was legal for 18 year olds in VA. There was a persistent story that VA State Troopers monitored the closest stores (Dixie Liquors in particular, which IIRC was basically the first commercial establishment on the DC side of Key Bridge) and then radioed their partners to pull over the teenagers for underaged possession when they crossed back over....

...so we went further into town, usually Calvert (which we were aware of because they advertised in the Sports sections of the Washington Post and the Washington Star...)