Idea Submissions for Online Tastings (2023)

Spruce beers.

 

Amber/Red Ales haven't had a turn. Cheers.

 

Thank you Frank for kicking off this thread and coordinating these event! I enjoy and learn so much from these tastings, and try to participate whenever I can.

I believe you should add these four 2022 tastings to your OG Post to complete the list:

• Saint Bernardus Day (August 20) 89 Posts @FBarber
• Orval Day (May 22) 43 Posts @BeerVikingSailor
• A Toast to Armand & Weekend Grand Feast (March 17-21) 28 Posts @FBarber
• Cellaruary: Beer is meant to be consumed, not collected. (February 1-28) 1,025 Posts @Todd
• Also noting the 74 Planning Thread posts for the Non-Alcoholic Beer Tasting Thread

I’ll add a separate post for the styles and sub-styles we have yet to attempt and a few additional possibilities to consider in 2023. I do like all four suggestions so far.

 

I like this as a focused event, realizing it might or will likely be lower trafficked, as is much of BA for the same concern, but could bring out how differently we perceive a classic beer.

 

The list below includes the six new sub-styles added in July 2022. Should consider finalizing style notes for these before conducting a tasting for one or more of these.

Styles not covered in previous tasting events to date:

• Dark Ales: Rye Beer - Roggenbier.
• Dark Lagers: American Amber / Red; Czech Amber Lager; Czech Dark Lager.
• Hybrid Beers: Biere de Champagne / Biere Brut; Braggot; California Common / Steam Beer; Cream Ale.
• India Pale Ales: American, Belgian, Black / Cascadian Dark Ale, Brut, English, Imperial, Milkshake; New England.
• Pale Ales: English Bitter, English Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB); Blond Ales (American & Belgian); Farmhouse Ale - Biere de Garde; Grisette; Mild Ale - English Pale, Pale Ale (American, Belgian, English); Red Ale (American Amber / Red & Irish).
• Pale Lagers: American, European / Dortmunder Export; Czech Pale Lager; European Pale; Helles; India Pale Lager; Kellerbier / Zwickelbier; Light.
• Porters: Baltic.
• Specialty Beers: Chile Beer, Farmhouse Ale - Sahti; Fruit and Field Beer; Gruit / Ancient Herbed Ale; Happoshu, Herb and Spice Beer; Kvass; Lager - Japanese Rice; Rye Beer; Smoked Beer.
• Stouts: American, American Imperial, English, Foreign / Export, Oatmeal, Russian Imperial, Sweet / Milk.
• Strong Ales: Old Ale, Quadrupel, Imperial Red Ale, Strong Ales (American, Belgian Dark, Belgian Pale, English).
• Wheat Beers: Grodziskie.

Non-Style Related Possibilities:

• Top 250
• Top Beers 10/50/100 from your State and/or Country
• Hall of Fame Beers
• Top 100 Most Popular Beers
• Your Favorite Beer
• Others as proposed

 

I didn’t get it together this year but here’s a reminder to my future self to propose a month-long NA tasting (for dry January) sometime down the road… once there’s more NA options, perhaps.

 

• Helles
• Black Lagers
• Vienna Lagers

 

Absolutely agree. @ChicagoJ is spot on here! It would be great to focus a weekend for each of the recently added styles.

• Czech Amber….. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/styles/238/
• Czech Dark…….. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/styles/240/
• Czech Pail……… https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/styles/239/
• Grisette…………. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/styles/241/
• Grodziskie……… https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/styles/236/
• Milkshake IPA….. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/styles/237/

Even if the style notes are incomplete; as the event may actually help generate consensus on how to define/describe these styles. It can generate conversation about why x-beer is not representative and z-beer is representative.

Significant advance notice would be advisable because these styles are less well represented on the shelves

 

A big YES to stouts. I’d love to say grisette, but I have yet to find any locally, and I’ve been looking.

 

I feel like 2023 is the year that the #SplitUpSaison movement really takes off! Join or live in a world of catch-all saison! Give farmhouse ales the individual attention they deserve!

 

Love these and hope to participate more again this year.

Reading the posts above, what about trying a Czech lager tasting at some point. Any Plato, any color, as long as the brewer claims to be attempting Czech styles.

We saw two new Czech styles fleshed out in the style list and it seems like there's a real boost in interest nationally. Could be cool to explore the thread(s) that tie the varieties together.

Also, hell yes to a smoked beer tasting

 

I humbly submit a "Top 3 of the 'Most Popular Beers' List" tasting event. I really liked the SNPA event in 2021 and originally was thinking a Two Hearted event would be fun - but then I looked at the "Most Popular Beers" list, and thought a Top 3 tasting event would open up opportunities for a lot of BA's to participate easily because of the availability of those beers nationally, year-round.

The list includes FBS, DFH 90 Minute, and Two Hearted. As with the SNPA event, participants could share their experiences with the beers, share review thoughts, and celebrate these iconic beers in our beer nerd world.

 

Belgium quad / BSDA seem to be one of the more obvious styles that hasn’t been done yet.

I also like the already proposed ideas of toasting Armand (with a 3F only or a lambic/gueze revisit) and a Beers of Fame.

 

Upon further review, I would like to throw my hat into the New Styles of 2022 ring.
Maybe we could do a deep dive into the new Czech Styles during one tasting session.

I have tried and intend to try more Czech Styles from Schilling Beer Co., and would like very much to tell the whole world about them. Cheers.

 

Many good points here. Accessibility is an interesting point. I enjoyed the holiday tasting very much, but was a bit frustrated by not being able to find a Samichlaus.

It has crossed my mind a few times, so I’ll suggest a Bell's tasting while Larry's fingerprints are still on the bar at Eccentric Cafe. He was so important to craft beer and made so many loved beers.