Controversial Beer Opinions Thread

Abita, Highland and Terrapin are awful!

 

I'm suspicious of anyone living inside Chicago and claiming to have a "cellar". You have a small closet that stays within proper cellar temps 4 months out of the year just like me. No I don't want to trade for your 4 year old BA stout.

 

I prefer the company of ill-mannered dogs (or cats) in a brewery to ill-mannered children. 7 days a week.

 

I really don't think anyone's triggered by that word, brah.

 

Most craft beer people I see out with kids are terrible parents at least for the time that I witness them.

I don't tip at breweries. Period. I never will. If a brewery specifically tells me they pay thier employees server wages I will stop going there.

Calling beer "hops", "big stouts" or "rarities" and using the terms "drinking well" or "(insert flavor) bomb" makes you sound like an ass.

95% of the beer geek community only recognize they like or dislike a beer and parrot back flavor descriptors they read elsewhere when probed further.

"Hazebro" is the new "Hipster" and people are just angry that a person likes the same thing they do in a manner they don't agree with.

 

Not as controversial as it seems. If Armand was as front and center as the Van Roy family, you'd probably get this opinion more. Cantillon is what it is because of a fantastic product and because of the VR's willingness to put themselves out there. I love and respect the hell out of both, but I'd take the equivalent 3F over most Cantillons.

 

It is a good thing that German beer drinkers have a law protecting them from pastry stouts.

 

Most people love IPAs because someone else told them to

 

I have never had a "sour" that I've enjoyed. I have had many of them including famous hard to get ones.

 

I think kettle soured beers are the furthest thing from sophistication and are perfectly aligned for the palette of a 5 year old sugar junkie.

stout time in the barrel, for me, is inversely correlated to how much I like a stout

i am not fooled by tall silver cans with paper labels. i see through the disguise and am wise enough to know it does not alone justify an obscene markup

This is my first post. Sorry that it was a cynical one

 

The word "Crushable" is like fingernails on a chalkboard

This thread is very cathartic.

 

People that respond to every post in a beer forum or overtly troll......

 

Someone has a crush. Will you be my Valentine?

 

90% of IPA’s are crap and they take up far too much shelf space.

 

Brewers basically perfected the RIS style by about 2008, and the best ones available to this day are the ones that have been around at least that long (FIS, Expo, Old Raspy, OB 1050, Brooklyn Black Chocolate, Stone IRS, Dark Apparition).

 

Wouldn't agree with the crap part, but there certainly are WAY too many versions of IPA on the shelves. I feel like asking brewers, "You know that you can make hoppy versions of other styles, right?"

 

In other words, barrel aging doesn't necessarily make imperial stouts better.

 

When I hear someone go up to a bar and, instead of asking “what beer do you have?” Ask “what IPAs do you have?” My first though is “This person just got into beer”

IPAs have jumped the shark and did it a long time ago. High alcohol and high bitterness do not make quality beer but they do cover up bad brewing practices.
IPLs, Double this or Imperial that are mostly made up BS. All marketing.
Sorry to say but the beer scene in the 1990’s was better and more diverse style wise than now. Back then it was about how many style could you make well. Now it’s a bitterness and high gravity arms race.
The beer scene for the last 10+ years is “Hopstupid”