Let's Predict Future Beer Styles

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  1. oldbean

    oldbean Initiate (0) Jun 30, 2005 Massachusetts

    I for one welcome our new dry-hopped sour overlords.
     
    #81 oldbean, Mar 2, 2016
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  2. Ranbot

    Ranbot Pooh-Bah (2,463) Nov 27, 2006 Pennsylvania
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    There is an unofficial style called Triple IPA that is basically this. Even brewers have started adopting the name. Here are search results for "Triple IPA" - http://www.beeradvocate.com/search/?q=triple+IPA&qt=beer
     
    #82 Ranbot, Mar 2, 2016
  3. breadwinner

    breadwinner Initiate (0) Mar 6, 2014 California

    New Belgium did one -- Oscar Worthy Coffee -- http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/192/145881/

    Honestly, not that bad. Weird. Not really something you want to slug down and ask for more of. But not at all terrible. 'Course, NB knows their way around sour beer, so not surprising they made a decent go of it.
     
    #83 breadwinner, Mar 2, 2016
  4. MNAle

    MNAle Initiate (0) Sep 6, 2011 Minnesota

    Moonshine comes in mason jars, not barrels! :wink:
     
    #84 MNAle, Mar 3, 2016
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  5. ebin6

    ebin6 Initiate (0) Jun 11, 2009 California

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    ebin6 Initiate (0) Jun 11, 2009 California

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  7. TongoRad

    TongoRad Grand Pooh-Bah (3,884) Jun 3, 2004 New Jersey
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    Once upon a time, and it wasn't too long ago, 'session stouts' were just called 'stouts' :wink:.
     
    #87 TongoRad, Mar 3, 2016
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  8. MisterB330

    MisterB330 Initiate (0) Feb 8, 2015 New York

    Sour Gruit anyone??
     
    #88 MisterB330, Mar 3, 2016
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  9. Invinciblejets

    Invinciblejets Pooh-Bah (1,710) Sep 29, 2014 South Carolina
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    Id like to see beers flavored with cannabis in place of hops. Not for the THC but purely for flavor and aromatics.
    Just as much if not more variation between strains..sooooo many flavors and smells.
     
    #89 Invinciblejets, Mar 3, 2016
  10. Groenebeor

    Groenebeor Initiate (0) Feb 14, 2009 California


    Pretty much just now called a Porter...

    Speaking of which, does anyone still make a Porter the old way, where several varying ages of beer were mixed together?
     
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  11. TongoRad

    TongoRad Grand Pooh-Bah (3,884) Jun 3, 2004 New Jersey
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    That was called Entire. Porter replaced Entire because it required no blending.
     
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  12. Groenebeor

    Groenebeor Initiate (0) Feb 14, 2009 California

    If we trust Feltham that's true. I guess most records actually indicate that Porter was always aged, but later on ( and before modern times) they started using a newly brewed porter and mixing one part of an aged porter to replicate the older styles.
     
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  13. zid

    zid Grand Pooh-Bah (3,132) Feb 15, 2010 New York
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    Heck, forget once upon a time, today's poster child stout is 4.2... so depending on how loose our definitions are, we're there. On the other hand, if the desire is for more bottled 3.something stouts from "craft brewers," then I can get behind that (but I have little faith that they could pull it off nicely).
     
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  14. TongoRad

    TongoRad Grand Pooh-Bah (3,884) Jun 3, 2004 New Jersey
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    Cool- I'll look into that. From what I've read, though, it was an aged beer (3-6 months, iirc) even at the height of its popularity; just not a blended one. The brown malt had some rough edges that needed rounding out; plus I'm sure it also took on a bit of pleasing twang as a result.
     
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  15. TongoRad

    TongoRad Grand Pooh-Bah (3,884) Jun 3, 2004 New Jersey
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    I was just referring to the current lexicon, wherein it's either an impy or it's 'watery'.

    If the culture changes, so will the beers, though, so you never know.
     
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  16. Groenebeor

    Groenebeor Initiate (0) Feb 14, 2009 California

    It depends on the source, porter is one beer that just seemingly was not made the same way by any two breweries.

    I've read all of the following about porter:

    * Used to be made from a really old hopped beer, a young hopped beer, and a non-hopped "ale," and eventually came to be just made from an aged brown malt beer

    * Was always just an aged brown malt beer, and later on was made from 2 parts new, 1 part aged, and even later on used pale malt mixed with black patent malt

    * American breweries used a deeply caramelized corn syrup to darken the beer

    I wouldn't be surprised if there were at least a dozen different ways Porter was made in the 17th - 19th centuries.
     
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  17. Zac85

    Zac85 Initiate (0) Nov 23, 2014 California

    Non alcoholic craft
     
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  18. TongoRad

    TongoRad Grand Pooh-Bah (3,884) Jun 3, 2004 New Jersey
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    Right, and that last technique seems to be the dividing line for when 'stout porters' started to appear, and the inefficiently made brown malt porters started to fade away.

    I don't doubt there were quite a few, depending on what window in time you were looking at.
     
    #98 TongoRad, Mar 3, 2016
  19. MacMalt

    MacMalt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,322) Jan 28, 2015 New Jersey
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    Belgian Quintuple Ales.
     
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  20. AlcahueteJ

    AlcahueteJ Grand Pooh-Bah (3,242) Dec 4, 2004 Massachusetts
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    I was going to mention Guinness when I read @TongoRad's post too.

    I've always found it interesting how pale ales and single IPAs do so well incredibly well, along with imperial stouts.

    But for some reason lower ABV stouts aren't nearly as popular/highly rated. Although, these days even regular imperial stouts don't seem to do as well, and need to have some adjunct added to them/be tossed in a barrel.
     
    #100 AlcahueteJ, Mar 3, 2016
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