Controversial Beer Opinions Thread

You were so much older then? You're younger than that now?

 

Dude, in my 19 years of living in Cascadia. I am yet to see a bottle of Cheerwine. Which is a lovely beverage I have at least a passing familiarity with, dating back a few decades.
We are not presumptuous enough (well yeah, our Microsofties and Amazonians are some presumptuous meatwads, sorry), but we won't claim what is not ours.

We got Jones Soda (brand name), but, they make Thanksgiving flavored pop. Can't blame us civilians for the actions of the Capitalists!

 

You say it so much more elegantly. Are you a poet, or a Minnesotan? Or both?

 

When/where did you allow those two PNW'rs to incessantly tell you that? I can't find any info about Cheerwine having origins anywhere west of St Louis, nor any info about Cascadian Cheerwine.

 

You didn't research hard enough! Not really it was a joke, and like all jokes would suffer from explanation of its humor.

 

Understood.
There was an attempt at humor in my reply as well. We'll both be relegated to discovering on our own, and laugh.....or not so much.

 

I concur. Same with Barleywines; It's getting harder and harder to find non-barrel aged ones anymore.

 

Marshmellow and Peanut butter are automatic passes for me, I'm not drinking that crap.

 

I actually love a good peanut butter beer...but, sadly, I've only ever had one that really blew me away. It was so peanut buttery it was like drinking a liquid Reese's, except without the cloying sweetness you'd expect from actual candy. It still tasted robust and roasty like the base porter.
Sadly, peanut butter beers are basically unicorns for me. They are literally none in my area currently.
Marshmallows, though? Mehhh...they don't contribute anything new, flavor-wise, that lactose and vanilla don't already cover. They're essentially only a gimmick.

 

LOL!

 

Yes! We do not want to return to all burgers are Quarterpounders!

 

Controversial opinion: There are WAY too many coffee stouts.

 

...And that’s a very good thing!

 

I've always thought coffee stouts were one of those "traditional" styles. Don't pay as much attention to stouts, but are they what's "in" right now?

 

Marshmallows are made from meat. I love meat. Gimme moar meat beers!

 

Back when, it was more the fact that you got "coffee notes" from the roast, and not the full-on quickee-mart burnt-ass shit that is so popular these days.

My lawn, and such.

 

That's why coffee is such a stupid ingredient to add- it's so unnecessary and never blends as well with the base beer as you'd otherwise get without it.

Fwiw, the first coffee beer was probably that Starbucks/Red Hook thing in the mid-90s.

 

I tried that once on a lark. It was...………. not good.

 

Also, aren't most (all?) of them made by simply adding some coffee post fermentation? Things like chocolate, or peanut butter or what have you would be complicated to add yourself, but why pay a premium for a mixed drink you could so easily make at home?

 

I have had some good ones, like HotBox, but there are too many that just taste like they poured a pot of burnt coffee into the tank as an afterthought.