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For me it's pic related

I wish these would be photoshops

>>11003000
What do you mean?

>>11002995
>>11003124
>>11002940
Where do I find beer like this? They look so tasty.

>>11002940
do amerifats really have this shit of taste in beer?

>>11003448
i know, it's fuckin mental isn't it.

try something nice like chimay blue you plebs

At room temperature.

Love this shit

>>11003448
>>11003457
>brewed in ireland
>brewed in norway

>>11003448
>>11003457
>amerifats
Circled it for you.

>>11003155
Do you not have a liquor store near you that has specialty/craft beer available?
I could probably get one or two of those at Wegman's near me, and if they didn't have it, I bet I could order it through them.

>>11003493
Fucking vile

>>11003493
>green bottle
enjoy your skunk flavor

>>11003606
Don't store your beer out on the porch moron

It's literally the King of Beers®

This Bud's for you.

>>11003641
It gets skunked when the pallets get left outside of the van or ship they are coming over on, sometimes they can be left outside for half a day by these delivery companies/ freighters and it only takes a couple of hours for it to get skunked

>>11002940
>>11002995
>>11003124
What does /ck/ have against stouts?

>>11002940

>>11003835
Gimmicky beer of any style is ill-received on /ck/.

>>11003642
eeew, they make beer with rice? That's so cheap

>>11003835
Resident alkie scum are adverse to any beer that isn't "sessionable" i.e. has too much flavor to neck 20 bottles in one sitting.

>>11003848
Effeminate Euro-based brewing habits can't handle the higher protein content and raw enzymatic power of American 6-row barley, anon. Cheaper beer is just one of the many benefits we see from this.

>>11002940

I feel these threads are the /ck/ equivalent to sneedposters. I'll humour and post a beer I really like.

>>11003842
It isn't a gimmick, dark beers and stouts often have natural hints of chocolate, coffee, caramel, fruit cake etc due to the roasting of the malt or barley, without adding these flavors in. Brewers have decided to accompany these natural hints with subtle sweet flavors, as the natural bitter savoury body of the stout or porter goes well with a contrasting bitterness.

The flavors in many of these stouts are subtle, you get the full bodied bitterness plus the background flavors of their chosen sweet ingredient. If you haven't tried one, I recommend Samuel Smith's organic chocolate stout, you can get it in many upmarket bottle shops in the US and on Amazon online.

>>11003852
This, stouts and porters are high in flavor and imperial stouts can go up to 15% abv, these beers are not for sessioning, and because many people prefer low abv pisswater or overhopped lagers, they are frightened and confused by the heavyweights of beer. Sweet stouts go great when paired with dessert and you only need one or two to get a real good buzz on.

>>11003835
Because they have either never tried one, or tried guiness that wasn't brewed in Ireland (shitty mass produced macro version of it) and didn't like it.

>>11004177
*contrasting sweetness. Ffs

>>11004177
If the marketing of a beer is based on the extras used to flavor it, it's a gimmick beer.

>>11004184
Great taste anon.

>>11004211
Its not a marketing ploy, nor a gimmick to have sweet flavors in a stout or porter, and to describe it amd advertise it in the name or label on the beer. It is used to give the beer a specific set of sweet notes that pair well with a thick savoury bitter taste of the beer.

If a baker was selling banana or coffee flavored bread, and had baked the fresh ingredients into the batch to pair it with the savoury taste of the bread, it is not a gimmick or marketing ploy to describe the product as banana or coffee bread. Labelling it as plain bread would simply be a falsehood and people would buy it and be disappointed if they didn't want a sweet loaf of bread. The same principle applies to these sweet stouts and porters.

To be honest your ignorance is showing quite a lot here, thinking that the descriptions of the sweet flavors in these beers are a 'gimmick. It's obvious you have never tried one, you really should pick one up and give it a taste, they are very drinkable and delicious beers.

>>11004177
This is the one chocolat/dessert beer out there that I fucking love. Meantime did an a nice chocolate porter but it has nothing on this.

>>11004211
>Advertising the flavor of a product is a gimmick
>being slightly different is a gimmick
Anon, you're too smart to make dumb statements like this.

>>11004271
It's not ignorance, anon. I've tried everything you've mentioned, plus made my own attempts over the years. Rather than combining a beer with something sweet that complements it in the brewing process, I'm far better served by combining them in my mouth, instead. Both the beer and the sweet remain more versatile that way.

>>11004308
>>Advertising the flavor of a product is a gimmick
It is when the flavor is outside the norm for that product.

>>>being slightly different is a gimmick
"Slightly"? Lol.

>>11004308
Where-in-the-hell Brewing Co.'s Blueberry Ale might be gimmicky; Over-there Brewing's Blueberry Muffin Stout will be gimmicky.

>>11004380
Yes slightly. Most flavored (or at least the good ones) stouts have predominantly normal full bodied stout flavor with rather subtle notes of whatever it was flavored with.
>>11004390
I'll agree with that I guess. I think I was more thinking of a stout that just advertises as chocolate or vanilla flavored rather than the chocolate chip cookie sort of shit you're talking about.

>>11004429
Don't knock a pint of dry stout and a plate of home made chocolate-chip cookies until you've tried it, anon.

>>11004429
>predominantly normal full bodied stout flavor with rather subtle notes of whatever
That's all well and good, but look at the context we're talking about here: chocolate orange? vanilla cheesecake? dessert in a can? Those don't sound like "subtle" takes on a traditional stout anon, they sound gimmicky as fuck.

>>11004330
Well then if it's not to your taste, that means you just don't like a sweet dark beer and that doesn't make it a gimmick, just because you don't like it now does it?


>>11004380
It is now the norm for brewers to brew batches of their aignature dark beer with a sweet ingredient that compliments the style of the taste of the original brew. It's hardly a gimmick. If you're referring to the style of labelling and marketing with wacky graphics and names, many breweries do this with IPAs and other beers , even big breweries such as brew dog do this, it's hardly a gimmick and more of a trend of how the market for craft beer has gone over the years.

Just because you personally dislike something, or havent noticed the trend because you only buy macro brewed below average beer at the local supermarket, doesn't mean you have to relegate it to being a 'gimmick or a 'meme' to make yourself feel better about either your own taste, or your own ignorance.

>>11003835
They can be sweet compared to other styles, and you're not allowed to like anything sweet on /ck/

>>11004468
Many of the beers posted have the fresh sweet ingredients added to the batch of beer during the brewing process, they aren't just dumping in artificial flavors to make it taste like a cheap soda.

The result of this is that the sweet flavor does not overpower the bitter body of the stout, in the same way many successful IPAs have a fruit pairing such as grapefruit, or lemon and retain both the flavor of the hops and the sweetness of the fruit for a well rounded and delicious beer.

The dessert in a can chocolate fudge cake stout for example, has notes of brown sugar, nuts, vanilla, with a slight caramel, and the chocolate that is added is bitter chocolate, so it teams up with the bitterness of the stout to add more to the savoury flavors against the sweet notes that were added.

If it was quite simply a sugary stout which tasted of nothing but sweetness, people wouldn't buy it because they primarily want a well brewed stout.

Instead of making judgements about it being a gimmick, when it is actually quite the opposite and follows the trend of many other popular beers such as IPAs, why don't you try a decent one from your local bottle shop, or order one online?

Founders' Dirty Bastard hasn't let me down yet, and it only takes one or two to get a good buzz going since it's 8.5%

>>11004477
A sweet dark beer would be great after spending hours working out in the cold this winter. I'll have several about, even. None of them, however, will feature molasses cookies, chocolate oranges, or other desserts on the label nor in the mash bill.

>>11004531
That's fine, you shop to your taste (or rather shop to your perceived notion of what should and shouldn't be in a sweet dark beer).

I have picked up many flavors of sweet dark beer over the years that others may be turned off buy the sweet ingredient, or the wacky labelling and names, but more often than not many of these beers were absolutely gorgeous, and the brewer had gotten the mix absolutely perfect according to the natural roasted notes of the stout or porter on its own.

Pic related is an example, it's quite possibly the most delicious and drinkable beer I've ever had, yet many would scorn it for its sweet ingredient.

I have a lot of beer purist friends who would shout something like that down, I bought many of them a bottle and they couldn't believe how incredible it tasted.

Be adventurous and try some of these beers, you will be pleasantly surprised.

All you need

>>11002940
I really wish I could still get this. Oliver made this version aged in bourbon barrels and it was exceptional. The normal one is good but it's not the same.

>>11004568
How much are you getting paid to shill these beers with every post, anon?
Surely you don't write add copy for free.

>>11004531
Can I ask what kinds you like? I'm always down to try a good traditional stout.

>>11004594
Why do you people think everyone who posts about something they like is a shill? This board is far too slow for shilling to be worth it.

>>11004606
Your every post reads like a press release, anon.

>>11004637
Believe it or not I actually do work in public relations so I have experience writing press releases. Please show me anything I said that seems like an advertisement.

>>11004594
I just enjoy this style of beer and enjoy discussing it and sharing my experiences. Calling me a shill is just another way to diss something you don't like.

Its okay not to like sweet dark beer, or like stouts paired with sweet ingredient flavor layouts that mimic the flavor of a popular dessert, but being upset because others like it and wish to share their experiences and saying things like 'gimmick' and 'shill just goes miles to show how ignorant you really are about it.

>>11004637
The person your directing that to isn't me, anon.

>>11004646
>Please show me anything I said that seems like an advertisement.
Help you improve your shilling. eh? I think not. Like I said, your every post. Especially since you've only just now managed to write a reply without including a professionally lit image of a beer.
Frankly, I'd be unsurprised to learn that you work in the beer distribution industry. Hopefully, I'm not alone in being turned off every beer that you've posted.

>drinking sub 9% beer

lol yea ok kid

>>11004721
That person you were replying to wasn't me. Why is it that in order to have a detailed opinion on my preference for sweet stouts, I have to be secretly working in the brewing industry?

Your ignorance is showing, and these beers scare you because there is an entire trend of brewing that is popular that you are too biased to even try.

>>11004662
>The person your directing that to isn't me, anon.
Perhaps not, since they didn't post an ad with their comment.

>>11004721
These are my posts
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>>11004218
I don't see how they seem like advertisements. I can only assume you're going to call me a shill regardless though.

>>11004742
Another advertisement pretending to be comment. Continue posting all the ads you want, anon, but I'll no longer help you with the campaign.

>>11004742
>Your ignorance is showing, and these beers scare you because there is an entire trend of brewing that is popular that you are too biased to even try.
You don't work for Lucasfilm's public relations department by any chance, do you anon?

>>11004757
>everything I dislike is an advert/shill

Sorry if my posting upset your schizophrenia, your either very paranoid or very ignorant and frightened by other people's taste in beer. If its the latter, then that is just pathetic.

>>11004774
You DO work for Lucasfilm.

>>11003457
>>Not drinking Chimay grand reserve.

>>11004779
Kekking hard at you lad. You one of these boomers I've been hearing so much about?

been working my way through a 12 pack of these this week

>>11004726
sometimes heavy beer sucks, especially when it's hot out

>>11004825
Good taste

What is a good beer to get into?

>>11005043
Depends entirely on where you are and what season it is there, anon.

>>11005097
Australia

>>11005043
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>>11003641
There is not one green bottled beer that does not taste like skunk ass. Even Yeungling is better out of a can.

>>11004177
>the same stout shill every thread writing paragraphs about why stouts aren't gay
Sop drinking stouts and hit the treadmill, I can sense your man-tits and faggy beard through my screen you absolute ponce. Get some fucking taste you doughy urban gub gub sugar boy.

>>11005043
I would recommend trying a local pilsner, amber, or hefeweizen.

>>11005103
Wrong continent for me to be of any real use, sorry anon. In generalities, hit local brewers' taps or pubs that have a lot of craft beers, tell them what your trying to find, and get a few flights to taste. Don't forget to write things down, because memory is the second thing to go during a night out.

>>11005043
Guinny

>>11005116
but in all seriousness fuck Rouge and everything they do

>>11002940
27 and still haven't found a beer I like. Change my mind. I heard that there's some genetic thing with hops like how some people think cilantro tastes like soap, but I think that's just bullshit and I still just have a baby palate.

>>11005358
What styles have you tried? What other beverages do you like?

>>11005365
My brother and sister are both super into beer, so I've tried all sorts though I'd have to think hard to give specific names and kinds. I'm up in MA too, so there's tons of small breweries around here. Yardhouse is their favorite I believe. If we're talking alcohol, my favorite is limoncello, and I like most mixed drinks. For non alcoholic, I'm big into coffee

>>11005375
Have you paid attention to this thread, if you're big into coffee try a stout they can have the same bitter flavor.

>>11005375
>limoncello
Tried any shandies?
>coffee
If you like it hot, black, and bitter try traditional porters and dry stouts. If you're more of a frappuccino-fag, try the dessert stouts that have been shilled in this thread.

>>1100315 don't do your food shopping at Walmart anymore and you should be set

>>11005385
>>11005406
Thanks, I'll try a stout, and no, I don't think I have tried any shandies, so I'll look into those too.

>>11004053
First time i've seen this beer posted here. I tried it recently and it's some good shit.

Sierra Nevada torpedo or pale ale

>>11005744
neither if you can help it

>>11005116
one of the few Rogue beers that I haven't been disappointed with

>>11005406
>>limoncello
>Tried any shandies?
Are you a faggot from a 1970s British comedy?

>>11003558

Anderson Valley BMG is the way, the truth, and the light.

>>11005801
I like them, they occupy a middle ground between megabrewed Budweiser type swill and 14 dollar pints of triple imperial micro nonsense. Very decent and quite reasonably priced. You're either a autist pleb or hipster faggot for disagreeing, respectively. gtfo

>>11005867
you can get far better IPAs that aren't triples or doubles dumbass

>>11005124
There is nothing wrong with stouts or sweet stouts, you have to be 18 to post here kiddo

>>11005406
You realise a shandy is like a quarter pint of beer and the rest lemonade right?

I like stouts but these dessert beers are basically the numale version of what mike's hard and wine coolers are to women.

>>11007073
Who cares? They are tasty

>>11006288
Say that to my face bitch

>2018
>not exclusively drinking small batch sours

I really like sour beers and this is one of the best I’ve found so far. It tastes like the ocean.

>>11007198
I love sours sand i tried this recently but i wasn't really a fan. I think if they toned down the salt and upped the lime I'd like it more

>>11006288
At 9 dollars a sixer? Name one

>>11002940

>>11007198
What's this like, anyway? It's pretty much one of those great ideas I thought I had only to find out it had already been done by somebody else.

>>11007125
Tasty

>>11003155

In the land of the free.

>>11007073
Just because you don't like something doesn't make it numale. Sweet stouts are not comparable to shit like wine coolers you uneducated redneck flyover fuck.

>>11008113
This is better

>>11009232
Never had it, but I'll see if I can find it at Total Wine. I'm not drinking as much beer as I used to, but on occasion I'll have a few when out to dinner.

>>11007945
Lagunitas and Golden Road

>>11009815
>>11010035

I love sours and imagine I would drink those all summer too. The gose I have locally isn't fruited, it's just salted but I wish a local place would do a fruited one

>>11010043
>I wish a local place would do a fruited one
Wouldn't it be quite traditional to buy a bunch of it, add your own mix of various fruits and let it sit somewhere cool for a few months?

>>11004825

I usually drink old pro from union, not far from monument, but I'll look for some of those cans and try it

>>11010070

It would be traditional to make a fruited syrup and add it to the glass when pouring it. That's how berliners are served (sometimes)

>>11004580
this and creator/destroyer are 10/10

>>11010043
Why do the sweet stouts get shat on and called numale, but these fruity lemonade gose get a fucking pass?

>>11010080
Isn't fruiting and re-fermenting both gueuze and gose as old school as it gets?

>>11010097
Sweets are associated with child-like palates in lots of places.

>>11010134
So why are the sweet fruit flavors getting a pass? It's cringe to call people who like desserts a child

>>11010134
candy is usually associated with women and children, but all things with any sweetness? Thats just silly

>>11010321
Those fruity beers aren't as sweet as you think. In fact, they work well as summer thirst-quenchers because they lean toward tart flavors.

>>11010332
>Thats just silly
Welcome to Earth. Enjoy your stay. Don't expect the natives to be paragons of rational thought, to avoid constant disappointment.

>>11010088
Platinum taste anon. Good to know there's another anon with some damn sense on this board.

>>11002995
>>11003593
I'd never even heard of this beer until it was memed on /ck/, so good job shills. I've never seen it on tap, and I go out to different restaurants/bars that are big on beers 1-2 a week. I've never seen it in a grocery store either. I'm sure it's at Total Wine, but it easily gets lost in the pile of other faggy hipster beers.

>>11005152
My poor man's go to as well

VB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns15eHLDv1I&index=146&list=WL

>>11004721
you're actually fucking autistic

>>11005152
respectable

>>11009232
This is really good

>>11011468
>dessert berliner weisse
I-is this good?

>>11003448
>>11003457
>brewed in Ireland
Euros really are too fucking stupid to read

>>11010377
>it easily gets lost in the pile of other faggy hipster beers
You should also get lost in the pile of other faggy hipster beers
t. lost in the pile of other faggy hipster beers

>>11010333
So? Sweet stouts are bitter and ever so slightly sweet and they still get shit,or do you folks not realise this?

>>11011478
Yeah they're just easy-drinking sour beers, refreshing but still packing a lot of flavor. Everything from the pop series is worth trying.

>>11011521
I love BWs, I'll keep an eye out for it.

Good drinking

Lend a fellow a hand here, /ck/. I mainly drink lager, but I'm trying to move to ales. Can somebody recommend some good, common pale ales to start with. I'm in bongistan, if it matters

>>11012017
Where in bongland? Google what a regional to you and best rated in terms of micro breweries and order some.

>>11011507
>or do you folks not realise this?
We do, we just find the beers unappealing and their marketing pitches hard to swallow. The marketing pitches are especially problematic, since they have me humming "A Spoonful of Sugar" whenever I encounter them.
Even as a dessert, if I want beery, sweet, and bitter drinkable treat, I'll pour a stout or porter into a tulip glass, then add a scoop of ice-cream, ginger ice-cream being my choice these days.

>>11012505
How is that any better than drinking a sweet stout or porter? Are you too frightened to try something new so you berate it yet put processed sugar in your dark beer instead? Why are you faggots so sensitive to marketing trends? Are you that beta you get influenced by that shit rather than seeking out what is actually good?

>>11012547
>thinks he's immune to marketing's influence
And that's precisely what marketers want you to think! Good goy!

>>11012547
>How is that any better
It's made by me. Plus, I can do something different every time I put one together.
>frightened
>beta
You can only shame children into chasing the latest thing, anon. No, I been around long enough to always suspect that the harder the sell, the lower the product's quality. So I play the odds.
If I see a can with a gingerbread-house brewery done in bold colors on the label with "Witches Treat Stout" in cursive atop it, I'll just keep browsing the shelves. I may miss a good beer or two that way, but I will avoid many servings of garbage beer.

>>11012410
Not far from Donny. Just want to find something that I can reliably find in a pub

>>11012891
Go for a wheat beer like erdinger they do them in spoons now

Rate

>>11013531
That high chair looks really comfortable. Those silk flowers look good too.

>>11013580
Kek

>>11013531
6.0/10.0
Six out of ten are from one brewery, but at least it's one that does good work.

Thoughts?

>>11013964
Usually tasty. If you try making your own, have lots of head space in the fermenter and a wide bore blow-off tube, because it's a bitch to mop a few gallons up off the floor.

>>11002940
>stout
>only 5%
What's the point?

>>11014133
What if you want a sweet stout to session on and not feel drunk af after a few?

>>11013964
Patrician tier

>>11014321
>don't want to feel drunk af after a few

>>11002940
I'm developing a bit of a problem with these 3, especially the porter.

>>11002940
I'll admit that more goes down in the summer than in the winter, but it's always about the house.

>>11014321
>not feel drunk af after a few
Why drink?

I'm going to a friends in a bit, gonna grab a 6 pack on the way. What's a good ale to pick up? Just something cheap doesn't matter. I don't mean a pale ale, or an IPA or that other bullshit. I just want a nice, simple, but good ale.

>>11014497
For god's sake, anon. at least mention what continent you're on.

for me if it is not at least 100ibu why even drink

>>11014497
Black Ice if its sold in your area

>>11005152
that beer doesn't even try to hide that it's 10%. it's for degenerate alcoholics

>>11014981
>degenerate alcoholics
They don't waste calories on non-alcohol carbohydrates, anon. High proof vodka or grain alcohol would be their choice.

>>11013531
weihenstephaner is the best wheat beer

>>11012017
Marston's Old Empire is really nice IMO

>>11014422
This

>>11015771
the best European one maybe

>>11005249
Their hazelnut ale was really good when I tried it. What do they do that's bad? Aside from sriracha beer which sounds fucking disgusting.

>>11018111
The siracha beer is actually quite vile.

>>11014981
Imperial stouts are high abv and full of flavor that beer virgins cannot handle

Fuck everyone who thinks the only good beers are expensive craft beers. Sometimes it’s great to come home and chug two-three cans of ice-cold beer-water.

>>11018477
t.american

America Is the only country that went from piss water to alcoholic soda pops without beer In between

>>11019755
Thisss

>>11019755
So the rest of you had good beer, then abandoned it for alcoholic soda pops anyway, right?

>>11020863
What do you even mean

This is a really solid brew. An excellent Baltic porter with a clear connection to Britain.

>>11022579
Where can I get this?

>>11023091
Classic. Going to visit my buddy in Madison next month, looking forward to getting this every where. And all the other great beers. And curds, lots of curds.

>>11015771
Agreed

>>11022478
CAMRA is a relatively new thing, which started in response to the death of many of the classic styles so bongs can Fuck off. The germans drink alot of the same styles as the western audience all while forgetting the adjuncts that push their precious lagers into the beer water realm thanks to the peasant supression law of 1516. The eastern Europeans are currently eradicating their unique styles and history because they are 60 years behind and the Belgians kept doing the things because the Dutch and Walloons. You can pretend that the US is doing things differently than the rest of the world, but it is just pretend.

Are there any decent beers I could try without going to a special store?

For me, it's Hertog Jan, the best regular beer brand.

>>11018477
No one disagrees with this and keeps a straight face. It's the American way.

Really like Cornish ales in general, they also make an extra strong one. I drink lots of beer (including ale/stout/lager/weißbier/etc.) but have often got some Proper Job or Big Job (haha) at home in the fridge.

>>11024738
I enjoyed it desu

>>11024975
What's your fave stout?

>>11024738
>regular beer
>Tripel
Good god, man, what do you grab when you want something big in a bottle?

>>11002995
I'm having dreams about drinking this now please stop posting it you faggots have literally gotten into my head I want you out.

>>11026743
What's wrong with it? It's a delicious stout

>>11024692
Go online, Amazon have a lot of craft beers. Get Samuel Smith beers, any of them.

>>11006668
where tf do you find that??

>>11028989
On alibaba