Thank you for the response. Old Speckled Hen keeps coming up. I’ll try that next. I have been hesitant b/c of the cost. I tend to be a high volume drinker.
Funny, Sam Adams taste is agreeable. However, it falls in the same category as Fat Tire. Makes me sick. Those don’t absolutely kill me like some of the hazy, amber microbrews but are not good either. .
With Bass, I loved the taste (fruity/caramel). It was sufficiently crisp. Also, never once gave me a hangover, no matter how many I drank, and surely never made me throw up while drinking. When I say throw up too, it has nothing to do with getting drunk. Literally, two glasses of the wrong stuff will do it.
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This is sad! Bass was my go-to in college. I guess I'll never get to relive those days though that beer. Probably a good thing...
Did they? Or did they stop exporting Bass Ale to the US and then stop brewing Bass Ale at some AB breweries in the US? Last I recall the Bass Ale in the UK was two different versions, brewed at different breweries (Marston's), a cask version and a bottled/canned version - not sure if the latter survives? Can't recall if the UK's packaged Bass was the same recipe as exported (doubtful) and then the ale brewed in the US but it was acknowledged by a US AB employee here on BA that the beer was lacking and they were considering a new recipe. Wasn't too long ago that ABInBev let it be known that the Bass brand was on the market (except for the UK) and there were no takers. And, of course, Bass Ale, domestic and exported, has changed constantly since the late 18th century (see some of the stats from a century ago at Ron Pattinson's website https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2021/07/bass-and-allsopp-ipa-1851-1901.html ). Can't speak for that version of Bass Ale but I recall be shocked at the pre-InBev version, bottled and draught, exported to the US in the 1990s compared to the bottled version I first drank in 19790s. Quite insipid - when a friend gave me a bottle I thought he was playing a trick on the beer geek - adding brown food coloring to Budweiser and pouring it into a Bass bottle. Ultimately, there's little doubt, given the fact that the company is run by accountants that IF Bass Ale sold well in the US or worldwide, it would not have disappeared from the US market. (Doesn't look like Canada has Bass, either - not sure if they ever brewed it a In-Bev-owned Labatt breweries for their domestic market).
If beer is making you physically sick.....you may want to switch to something different. If its hoppy beers doing this to you, you may be allergic to hops.
Robinson's Trooper was a beer I wanted to love for reasons that should be somewhat obvious. But it legit scratches my english bitter itch. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/23394/96511/
If you're right, he may want to try the new Fat Tire as the ivy's have dropped to 15. Or he might want to try some of the brown ales as a more malt forward option.
I don't mean this disrespectfully, but if Boston Lager makes you physically ill and throw up for reasons other than alcohol intake, you are wasting your time and playing with your health by getting beer recommendations on this site. You are better off seeing a doctor instead.
I don’t remember seeing a locally made Bass here. To be honest, I can’t remember the last time I saw Bass on shelves in Ontario. Our selection from the British Isles is generally lacking though. That said the recent availability of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord and Allsopp’s IPA has been great. Still, it seems that 9 out of every ten beers we get from the UK and Ireland are some Innes and Gunn product. I have t had anything from them I’d bother buying again.
Yeah, wasn't sure but since so many other large "imported" brands have been brewed in Canada (Guinness, Carlsberg, Lowenbrau, Red Stripe, Toby Ale, Henninger, Amstel, Sapporo, etc.) over the years, some for your domestic market, some exported to the US, I figured it could be possible given what ABInBev has moved to the US (Beck's, St. Pauli Girl, Bass). Oh, yeah? Who's brewing that? In the US (NJ anyway) I've seen Timothy Taylor Landlord very infrequently and when I do I usually question its freshness.
In recent years, fewer and fewer of these brands you note are made domestically. Carlsberg and Lowenbrau are imports now. I believe Sapporo is brewed in Guelph at the Sleemans brewery. I’ll need to check a can of Beck’s next time i deign to visit an LCBO. The Landlord we have now is a little long in the tooth. I think the last shipment came in about 6-9 months ago. It was pretty fresh when it first hit shelves here. I think the Allsopp family have revived the brewery. The bottles we have on shelves now are from the UK. I read something about it when it was new to our shelves but can’t find it now.
I have never seen packaged Landlord at any of my local beer retailers. I have only had the pleasure to drink this beer on tap (cask) at local beer events. You are fortunate that McClelland Premium Imports brings this beer into Ontario (and makes it available to other provinces?). Cheers!
If hoppy stuff is making you sick I'd stay away from Nugget Nectar. Very very hoppy American red ale.
. I’d never seen it in Ontario before last year. I know they had it in BC before that though as a friend out there I trade with sent me a couple bottles a few years back. It might be a different importer though. Not sure. Definitely lucky. It is a great beer. I’d last had it back in the late 90s in the UK.
Samuel Smith’s Pale Ale is also worth a shot, but pricey as well. Personally I tend to mix in expensive stuff that scratches a particular itch with cheaper stuff that I also enjoy.
