What's your beer drinking pattern?

I was surprised about the number of beers I reviewed in my top four styles and opposed to the rest of the 104 styles listed by BA. I have tried 102 out of the 104 styles. Yet out of the 1247 beers I have reviewed, IPAs, DIPAs, APAs and Red/Amber Ales make up 354 of them.

 

I tick away daily and when a special occasion pops up (anniversary, parties, BBQs, vacation, fishing trips an so on) I buy something tried and true to enjoy with family & friends. So I guess you would say I drink a lot of beer...new and old...emphases on "a lot"!

 

Is "a lot" a pattern?

 

Deschutes is a great brewery. Abyss and Fresh squeezed are both great but youre forgetting several. Hop Henge is one of the best imperial IPA's. Chasin freshies is a bomb fresh hop IPA. Obsidian is a great 6 pack value that drinks like an imperial stout. Today I stumbled across some Black Butte 26 porter. Its going to be hard to cellar it for the recommended year. To call Deschutes sub par or compare it to New Belguim is fuckin crazy.

 

What surprises me is the repetitive nature of my drinking habit. I habitually drink good beer every time I drink.

 

Order, receive, grab, hoist to beer receptacle, set beer holding utensil down, repeat till empty.

 

Open, Drink. Repeat as necessary.

 

One bourbon
One scotch
And one beer

 

I make an effort to drink as local as possible. I'm not one of these, "I want that shit outside my distro or I'm going to have a hissy-fit" people.

 

Lately mostly hefeweizens and imperial stouts.

 

i generally stock up once every two weeks, usually one of such hauls will be comprised mostly of my go to's, beers from Sixpoint, bell's,SN, Victory and/or Lagunitas, with at least one new beer, and my other bi monthly stock up will be small batches of the pricer breweries such as Stone, Cigar city, Balast point, DFH. Like many others here during the cold seasons i will go heavy on seasonals.

 

Hahaha. Listen. I know there's ten's of world-class breweries in San Diego. There are probably 15 breweries that I'm more excited for than Deschutes and New Belgium in a 5-mile radius alone... these are just widely distributed examples of beer's I'll be happy to finally have access to. Beer stores are going to look VERY different in SD and that's exciting. I probably should have used less controversial examples, however, unlike a decent amount of SD breweries, those 2 don't get distro'd where I currently live at all. That said, I am fully expecting to be blown away by the west coast breweries I haven't tried or don't even know about.

 

My pattern changes with my mood, I guess. IPA's are always the classic fallback, but I started with Belgians, worked my way through wheats and generic pale ales before I got to porter/stouts, and got into dark strong Belgian, now back into my "go to" Hennepin and st. Bernardus. Dipped into sours for 2or 3 months but it didn't take besides the GI halia.

 

My drinking pattern is to tell you to mind your own business.

 

Spoken like a true butt hurt-er.

 

Being from Utah, I mainly drink beers from the West/Mountain West region: Oregon, California, Idaho, Colorado, Washington, and...Utah of course; and then when I am in China I mainly drink Chinese piss lagers, Japanese lagers, and German imports.

 

Most recent ratings are a mix of special USA releases (tastings) & largely crappy Belgian tick’s (at 1500+ Belgian beers, the good stuff is getting slimmer). I am bit surprised that I have had 460 USA beers so far.

As far as repeat drinking goes, I drink the pretty much just Orval, lambiek, Taras Boulba & Abbaye des Rocs Brune. A lot & lot of Orval. Zero change or surprises there.

 

When I'm at home, I'm still going through the stuff I brought back from the Midwest and missing out on some pretty incredible local beers no one outside of Seattle has hear of. When I'm at a restaurant I catch up locally.