Controversial Beer Opinions (Round Two)

You beat me to it. I completely agree with your position! In no way have a I found barrel aged Narwhal or Old Rasputin to have improved on the base beer.

 

I appreciate the education you can provide here.

Can you please inform me of which European breweries are brewing 'NEIPA' beers? How successful are they at selling these types of beers? Can you let me know what are your top 10 brands? Are you always successful in finding them fresh (e.g., less than 1 month for packaging)?

I am indeed an American, no doubt there.

Cheers!

 

By 2025, there will be 125 styles on Beer Advocate.

Heading for the panic room .......

 

The 1987 Chevrolet Sprint I still drive (it is all I need) engine has only three cylinders, but that's sufficient too.
But, here is what I used to use as a signature on E-Mail:

No, no. It's not all IPAs. It also is serving an American Pale Ale, an Imperial IPA, and a Pale Ale with cannibis.

 

Habanero Sculpin is awesome. So is Watermelon Dorado. Edit: And Schlafly Pumpkin Ale, too.

 

Smoke works in all styles of beer.

The Dortmunder is at the apex of German beer

 

Schlafly Pumpkin is widely considered the best pumpkin beer if I’m not mistaken? Habanero Sculpin is very divisive and needs to be paired with food IMO. I will give you Watermelon Dorado though, that beer is hot garbage if you ask me.

 

Amen! I was in my local shop where they are limiting shoppers and none of us can find what we want. Half the cans are facing the wrong way and the other half can only be identified if you have memorized the artwork for the 500 “new” monthly releases.

Almost makes me miss having only 12 options...almost.

 

Ya at the source they are about the best deal in beer for my money. And I suppose its just a semantic difference. $20 for a 750 ml is definitely expensive, but for a beer that I enjoy its something i can spring for 4 or 5 times a year without hesitation. Super expensive to me is stuff up at the $2/oz range that circumstances might conspire to trick me into buying once every year or two. Under a dollar an ounce is reasonable for beers as involved as geuze in my opinion

 

Una más, por favor.

Dr, I feel like crap. Can you prescribe some Rochefort 6?

 

Flavourings are not adjuncts, they are just taste modifiers. Adjuncts are fermentable substances, originally to use enzymes from the malt to release the sugar. And often, as in the US, to mop up excess enzymes which caused haze.

 

As for flavored beers, I don't mind it as long it is a complement and not the primary ingredient. Subtley like a Belgian Wit (Hoegaarden), Sam Adam's late Honey Porter and I do enjoy a good milk stout.

 

well said, I feel like untappd has hurt beer and made this even harder to get across. rating bias is real and if people see a rating good or bad it’s definitely sways them.

 

I was thinking about it the other day, and I wish Untappd(and BA for that matter) offered a mode for rating beers that hid the scores and other reviews until after you submitted your own. I think that would help to cut down on some of that bias, but obviously wouldn't fix it entirely.

 

I'll join you in that lonely corner, if you don't mind. If a beer has a 'featured' ingredient listed on the label then I'm pretty much not going to be interested.