Beer at Altitude

I recently moved to CO from FL, and haven't noticed a difference in anything. It's possible that only stopping in for a short stay may hinder your senses at first due to the drastic change in altitude, but it definitely goes away once you adjust.

 

I used to make routine trips to Co Springs and my oh my. The first few days there, hitting it heavy left me with severe nosebleeds, dehydration and headaches. No amount of water would resolve this.

 

I will be enjoying a 2010 Bells Expedition Stout at 13775ft in two weeks (that is if I don't fall to my death)...will report back with results.

 

Blame it on the Tetons

 

normaly drink at 200 ft above sea level and went up to 7800 ft. didn't notice any changes in GR get up off that brown other than a bit more pressure on opening the can

 

I haven't noticed a muted flavour when drinking beer at home in CO, but the alcohol certainly hits you harder.

I try to always note the rough altitude I'm drinking at in my reviews because it can affect the head.

 

Everyone knows that Heady peaks somewhere between 1300-1450 feet above sea level.

Up in the mountains? Might as well be drinking Bud Select.

 

I hate to be so crass but you guys sound like *******.

 

Perhaps it wasn't the altitude, but the humidity (or lack thereof), which would affect your olfactory sense? Or a combination of the altitude and lack of humidity?

 

I drink my beer in a baro chamber. I dial in to about 200 feet below sea level, it helps me taste tobacco, horse blanket, and all the other shit I read about in peoples reviews...

 

I want to drink a Mélange #3 atop Mt. Kilimanjaro. It will happen.

 

Do you detect the faint aroma of flea farts? It's slight...but it's there. Slightly off topic...I normally can't smell much of anything, but Drie Fonteinen's Intense Red smelled amazing the second I popped a bottle at THE Festival. The flavor was insanely great as well, wish I had asked Armand to take one home...

 

I have to agree. I regularly make the trip to visit my brother from zero in Texas to 10k in breckenridge. we also go up some 14ers and pop bottles... No difference, except for the carbonation from the altitude.

 

I didn't notice a difference when I went to Breck this year... A guy I was with said he did but he's a *****...

 

Its just like running. Sea level is for sissies.

 

Let me get this straight.

If beer tastes and smells different at high altitude, then you're a *****. If you don't notice a difference at high altitude, then you're clearly a badass mountain man beer bro.

Riiiiight.

 

I don't know but I spent 6 weeks in an Italian town called segni which is a little over 2000 feet above sea level, I had not appetite at all and the food in Italy is delcious. Maybe there's something to this?

 

Only ******* apologize for being crass. In fact, only ******* use the word crass.

 

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