Controversial Beer Opinions Thread

Well, the green bean casserole beer actually makes more sense as it might actually taste like the dish. That beer has no hope, as all of those ingredients won't lend much, if any, character to the final beer.

 

QUOTE="JoePasko, post: 6141213, member: 1230900"]True. Very often there will be cases of LeinenKoolaid stacked up by the front door, selling for dirt cheap, as well.[/QUOTE]

The wine cooler of the early 21st century.

 

There are at least dozens of sweet potato beers, most of them fall seasonals. The list I posted probably is only a small fraction of the total. Indeed Sweet Yamma Jamma, which it will not be brewing this year, hit its mark and worked.

That label could be affixed to half of the beers on the market released in the last couple of years (with only minor exaggeration).

 

AGREED. They also make me gassy and bloaty. -Mugatu

 

Unlike pumpkins, sweet potatoes have an actual flavor. So they've got that going for them.

 

I had over 30 cases of this shit picked up last year. literally nobody wanted it.

 

The wine cooler of the early 21st century.[/QUOTE]

Fruited Sour IPAs (I might be willing to broaden this to include NEIPA as well) are just hyped wine coolers.

 

That's not related to the recent deal in which Heineken (owner of Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma) made a deal with MillerCoors which gives them the US import and distribution rights to Sol?
Molson Coors and Heineken Sign Import Agreement for Sol Beer
In such cases, where legal, the brand will often move distributors (Heineken/Dos Equis-Tecate distributor to MC house - altho' apparently lots of MC houses already carry the Heineken Mexican immports).
And, of course, new labels will replace the old ones to reflect the new importer.

 

I always make sure to pop my collar on the way to the bar before I order my beer, and then exclaim very loudly that I'll take the IPA with the most alcohol.

It's my millennial alpha power move. Let's others know how good I am at beer.

 

Coors and Heineken are already in the same house in my area. (Miller and Molson are with another distro, the owner refuses to give them up at any price until their contract expires). The most recent large scale switch we had was Ballast Point after the Constellation purchase. However, Heineken and Lagunitas are still separate here, which I have always wondered about. I'd prefer Lagunitas to switch personally.

 

Yeah I wonder who's idea it was to release a hoppy wheat with palm trees on the label in the last week of December. Running out of Winter Lager before Christmas was not a very good look either

 

Yeah, but I imagine there would still be a desire for their suppliers Heineken & MillerCoors to get rid of the old stock? If that's what it is, of course - could just as easily be MC "Ft. Worth" importing address, I suppose.

Yeah, that was part of the original Heineken buy-in:

I guess because, as they said after buying the entire brewing company:

Probably easier to maintain friendly relations with the wholesalers that helped Lagunitas rise to the top 10 "craft" brewers than start messing with success. Might have contributed to Constellation's problem with Ballast Point.

 

Ballast Point for a wholesaler was more expensive to buy than Lagunitas. Some Ballast Point beers did not sell so well, so supporting the entire portfolio was always tough. Lagunitas always seemed to make very market friendly and tasty beers at a reasonable retail truth...The guys at Ballast Point were very good business people (RJR, Connecticut lawyer, etc.) and made an even better deal that Wicked Weed did.....which was a very good deal for Wicked Weed. Timing.

 

More controversy.
1. “Session “ beer is a stupid term.
2. “Session “ IPAs are watery and a waste of money. Just go buy a thirty pack of Budweiser.

 

My very late night controversial opinion

Self aggrandizement is the only benefit to the beer SNOB of being a SNOB, and SNOBS in the community don't benefit the community in any way. In fact, they hurt the community, since they tar the community as a whole. SNOBS likely think of themselves as serving some need of the community, deluding themselves into thinking they are more than angry children who don't like new kids joining the game they seek to dominate with their pretend superior opinions and entitlement to judge others.

Thank you.

 

"Session Beer" is a valid and useful term, it is just that most people have no idea what it should be.
It came from the time when British pubs were shut in the afternoon and that split the drinking day into two "sessions" of about 3 or 4 hours each. A session beer is simply one which could be drunk throughout a session.
This required two characteristics ; low strength (basically comfortably below 4% ABV)so that you could still walk home after a gallon or twr in many cases 3 or 4.
And drinkability , the quality of each pint tasting better than the one before.A beer you never tired of drinking and kept coming back for more. Tasty but not overwhelming.
Even after the craft revolution and all the weird brews made these days, I still choose a good session beer in preference to any of them.

 

Would the proper use of the term “session beer” beer more appropriately applied to a porter then? Rather than “Session IPAs,which in my opinion fall short of the mark.

 

The term was almost exclusively used for Mild and Bitter (what pubgoers called Pale Ale)
Also these beers were also called Session Ales and of course Porter was not classed as an Ale.
IPA was for most of the 20th century just another name for low ABV Bitter.It is often ignored that IPAs were traditionally the weakest beers in a brewers range.

 

I’m currently reading this. Great book on the topic.

 

I am overstating.

I also have loved a fair share of Triple IPAs. The original RuinTen and Pliny the Younger have a place in my heart, and they are a lot of fun indeed. It's a silly style, over the top, though decadently awesome when done right. Disgusting when done wrong.