Beer for wine drinker

Sours for a wine drinker? In grape terms, sour wines might be considered too oxidized or "putrid". The guy that recommended Sofie has the right idea.

 

Yeah, another vote against sours or anything fermented with lactobacillus or brett. Those come across as spoilage to wine connoisseurs.

The fermentation esters of Belgian ales appeals to wine drinkers.

 

A good Belgian Gueuze, or DFH Noble Rot.

 

I have given the following to people who were exclusively into wine, they seemed to like it:


Oerbier Reserva

Scaldis Prestige de Nuits

RR sours


I understand the above comments about sours but these are beers very heavy on oak & red wine tannins.

They are more tannins than brett or anything else esp. Prestige de Nuits.

The wine-like packaging for that one helps as well. Didn’t hear complains from wine drinkers about them.
Plus a wine type that they are familiar with is mentioned clearly on the bottle making contextual placement easier.


Anchorage Bitter Monk & Midas Touch also seem like nice suggestions.

 

Temptation

 

Rochefort 10

 

If you can find a bottle of Achel Extra you'll hit the mark.

 

Bummer, was good while it lasted though!

In that case I suggest a nice Dubbel or Quad. Maybe Dissident if OP can get his hands on any.

 

Gueuze.

 

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How about one of the Goose Island Sisters? Wine-barrel aged, fruited sours might do the trick.

 

I would buy them a bottle of wine back. its was hint anyway.

 

Anything from
Brouwerij Lindemans
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Red wine: belgian strong dark, flanders red, oud brun, imperial stout, schwartzbier, Baltic porter, English barleywine or old ale

White wine: belgian strong pale, berlinerwiess, Gose, lambic (blended or not), saison

 

Drinking Intense red By Drei Fontaine I thought it drank very much like a complex red wine but without the tanins so I agree go with a sour/gueuze. Perhaps from Lost Abbey?

 

Wine is wine. Beer is beer.

I like wine a lot, but that doesn't equate to me exclusively drinking saisons/sours/quads.

If you know (which it seems like from your post), that he's not in love with IPAs, then maybe avoid those. But otherwise I reckon you pick a beer you really like and when you give it to him, explain what it is about it that makes it so good.

I imagine when he chose the bottle of wine to give to you, he did so based off the fact that he believed it to be a good wine, rather than it being a suitable wine for a beer drinker.

 

If I was in your shoes and thinking along your lines... a Dubbel for sure, but I also agree with rollom above.

 

My lady is an avid wine drinker and goes absolutely nuts over Firestone Walker's barrel aged stuff. She ended up spending more than I did on DDBA and Sucaba. Maybe look for something along those lines?

 

but beer has morphed into a many styled drink. Red wine is red wine is red wine. If you don't like red wine you will not like any red.
However with IPAs, Lagers, Sours, Hefes, Belgian's, Poters , Stouts you can dislike one style but still be a beer drinker. The complexity and depth of differing beers have expanded in a mind blowing way. I used to take or leave beer especially coming from the UK where 'Beer' was typically bitter or IPAs dipping my toe in currently I marvel at how different the styles of beer can be.
to suggest someone who has dismissed IPAs but loves wines try sours, gueuzes and lambics could open someone's eyes to a whole new world of experience. I wish someone had done that for me earlier....

 

I don't know distribution in your area, but there are some beers that are aged in wine or port barrels. I wouldn't expect them to taste like wine persay, but it might be interesting to a wine-drinker nonetheless.