Does your beer palate change with the seasons?

i always expect mine to but usually i hope for weather that matches the beer i am craving instead of the weather determining what i am in the mood for...

 

Yes. I love the change of seasons and the change of beer.

 

yes totally... although March is a tough one as KBS and Parabola seem to roll in...

 

Yes like to switch to a few different styles at the change of seasons and get a huge desire to do some day drinking in the afternoon sun once it warms up outside too!

 

Yes, definitely. I am a very "experiential" person, especially when it comes to beer. Drinking a beer is about more than the taste and other qualities of a beer. It's also about the overall experience, the ritual, of drinking a beer. Drinking a thick and heavy stout just feels right in the winter, while drinking a crisp and refreshing lager feels right in the summer.

 

Nope. Good beer all year. Style doesn't matter. The only seasonal influence I have stems from the availability of the beers.

 

I drink most any style of beer any time of year, but there are some that I get in the mood for as the seasons change. Stouts in the winter, wheat beers, kolsch, and pils in the summer, brown ales, oktoberfest/marzens, saisons in the fall, and spring is mostly ipa/pale ales.

 

You said it all right there...enough said.

 

Exactly this. I just wish many of the fall and winter seasonal releases were available all year.

 

I stock up on stouts and porters to get me through the summer. I drink much lighter stuff when I'm down the shore on weekends.

 

December is one of the only months where I strictly stick to seasonal Christmas or Holiday-style ales. Other than that I'm pretty open to any style unless I'm literally sitting outside on my deck in the summer where I drink lighter, lower ABV beers.

 

There's absolutely nothing wrong with this, but it's just not for everyone.

Just like a hot pasta dish doesn't sound good to me when it's 90 degrees and humid and ice cream rarely appeals in the winter, a thick and boozy imperial stout just doesn't sound good when I'm hot and sweaty and a crisp pilsner doesn't call to me when I'm warming up by the fireplace.

Simply a matter of taste and what sounds good. Just like what others have said - good beer when you want it. And there's so much good beer in every style that I can always stick to the particular type that fits my mood. And there's nothing wrong with that, just like there's nothing wrong with drinking Bud Light in a blizzard or KBS in July.

 

I'm also the guy that will eat anything for breakfast - Chinese food reheats, hot dogs, sandwiches, fried chicken - whatever I want whenever I want it - that guy

 

Totally. Last Summer was IPAs. Fall was sours. Spring was and still is stouts.

I thought I would be over this stout kick by now. More IPAs are sneaking into my shopping cart by the week.

 

My drinking used to be affected by the seasons, but now I've found enough beers that suit my tastes that there are summer stouts and winter Pils beers. This has also become more my pattern since I moved away from Big beers to middle and lower ABV. e.g., I don't think I've had a more than one or two beers with higher than 9% in a couple of years.

As someone else pointed out most of my seasonality is dictated by releases. I tend to favor buying seasonal releases as its easier to find fresh. My major exception is the same as another person noted, in December I tend to focus a lot of attention on Christmas beers, but that also is in a sense dictated by the season of release, except of the fact that I can cellar Mad Elf, Corsendonck Christmas Ale and St. Bernardus Christma Ale, but when I do those usually are saved for the following Christmas season.

 

Hmmm, I think my daddy would have approved of you. He raised me to be a practical drinker--drink practially anything. :-)

 

I only like the change of season for warmer weather

 

Looking forward to hefeweizens, saisons and goses with the warmer weather

 

Well IPAs are a year round love for me but I am impacted by seasons. This past winter I really enjoyed stouts and porters. But with spring and warmer weather I've been enjoying SABL, various wheat beers, GI Honkers, and, of course IPAs.