Most Underrated Styles?

Went through my cellar today and found a 375ml Veille Provision with a 2019 date code.

Green bottle.

 

I was solely commenting upon Saison Dupont; my post: "Saison Dupont is now packaged in brown bottles..."

There are indeed other breweries still using green bottles.

Cheers!

 

I came here just to say this. I've grown to appreciate a good table beer, and a grisette fills that bill nicely.

 

Any type of Lager and true Pale Ales aka not IPAs labeled as PAs.

 

Lately, virtually any styles that aren't hazy juicy New England IPAs...

 

How about rauchbiers. Is it just me? I mean, probably, but damn I love them and there just aren't that many. At least that I can get.

 

Most German lager styles other than Pilsner and Helles (those are plentiful). I get so excited when I find a good Dortmunder, Kellerbier, Dunkel, Schwarzbier, Vienna, Traditional Bock, Maibock, Doppelbock, and Baltic Porter.

And pretty much any proper English style other than Milk Stouts and Oatmeal Stouts, which seem to be about the only surviving ones that are brewed by craft brewers.

 

I want to like this 666 times. I like the style to an extent, but this is getting ridiculous. Miss those days when other beer styles besides IPAs were cool.

 

I couldn't agree more with a rye ipa. Hard to find a good one (maybe that's why there's so few) but when you do its perfection. I took it for granted trying so many great ones in my general location and now find then difficult to find.

 

Remember SN Ruthless Rye? Miss that beer.

 

Get yourself one of those portable smoke infusers, load it with some pecan chips, stick the tube in your beer glass, and Bob's yer uncle. (Disclaimer: I have not tried this, but I intend to just as soon as I can find one of these smokers. I've been dying for a smoked Manhattan lately.)

 

I'm so on this

 

The funny thing, and I love this thread, but when I first really got into drinking most of these styles being listed were readily available at most distributors around me. It really says a lot about the nature (and fickleness) of this industry that a lot of these styles are not only scarce but almost doomed to extinction. Sucks.

Have brown ales been brought up yet, because a good brown ale on a crisp day hits the spot. I miss Durty by Smutty nose so damned much, even if it’s a “hoppy” brown. Bell’s Best Brown is incredible on a 50 degree day after it’s been summer for 3 or 4 months.

 

Pilsners in particular have crossed over and are now being brewed in amazing fashion by top tier microbreweries all over the US and elsewhere. Finally...

I think California has become a mecca for pilsners and lagers, including HPB, SARA, Alvarado, Homage, Cellarmaker, North Park...

HPB's Timbo, B West's Popfuji, Homage's Tristeza are absolutely delicious. And HPB just came out with a 90 Hour Days dry hopped pils brewed with citra that is basically a NE Pils, and ridiculously good.

I think German rauchbier doesn't get nearly enough love. And black IPAs should still be a thing. And I also think pumpkin ales are damn, damn tasty.

 

To the best of my recollection you are the only person who has made mention of pumpkin beers in this thread.

It was not all that long ago that my local beer retailers would be full of an assortment of pumpkin beers during the late summer/early fall season. I noticed last year the number of pumpkin beers (both number of brands and quantities) were notably reduced. Is this a 'predictor' that pumpkin beers are no longer in vogue as a fall seasonal beer?

Cheers!

 

I love rye ipas, and rye whiskey too, not so easy to find since Burial dropped Scythe.

 

We had an online tasting of pumpkin beers in 2018, and I had a hard time finding a good selection to choose from then.

 

2018 was the year of the marzen. It seemed every brewer around me who traditionally brewed pumpkin beers suddenly gave up the style and tried a marzen instead.