/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I like to drink non alcoholic beer, because I'm fucking awesome

>>16513658
I like the feeling beer gives me. I get bored, I drink. Maybe I need another hobby or something more fulfilling in my life.

>>16513651
Stout
Founders Breakfast
Saugatuck neapolitan milk
Haven't had a ton of florigen stouts outside of the obvious.

>>16513666
Me too, as long as youre dont downing beer before going to work you'll be fine.

Another hobby or two will space things out so your not always drinking in your free time :)

>>16513651
>Favourite style beer?
Belgian tripels and blonds
>Favourite brand/type?
Duvel

>>16513651
Style
>Kölsch
Brand
>4 Pines
Local
>Guinness
Foreign
>Heineken / Amstel

>>>16513678
I play football (Soccer) most week nights which keeps me busy. I've got fiance and good friendship group... But some nights I just feel like sinking pints by myself. I love it. Seems weird but sometimes sI'd rather drink 8 beers and talk with people on 4chan or watch doco's on Youtube then interact with anyone face to face.

>>16513651
Favourite style beer?
Plinser/hells
Favourite brand/type?
Łomża
Best local beer?
Kirkstall Three Swords
Best foreign beer?
Kasteel Tripel

>>16513708
I used to like drinking on my own but started to cut down because it felt like slippery slope.
I still do it I just drink a lot less.

>>16513728
Yeah I know what you mean about a slippery slope.

I feel that sometimes but then I never feel like I NEED a drink, it's just because I'm bored.

I used to smoke when drinking at the pub (pre-lockdown) and one day I decided I'd stop and went cold turkey. I haven't had a smoke in 12 months - never had an urge either... So that gives me solace.

Do you guys like asahi? That was the last beer I enjoyed, then I took a couple month break and nothing tastes that good anymore

>>16513767
Don't like it, too yeasty for me. I prefer Kirin because it's crisp or Sapporo.

>>16513651
Favourite style beer?
Lager
Favourite brand/type?
Full Sail Session
Best local beer?
Kolch Amber
Best foreign beer?
Probably Sapporo or something Czech.

>>16513651
New England style IPA
Favorite nationwide brand is Cigar City
My favorite local breweries are Wren House and Tombstone.
Don't drink many foreign brews but I do enjoy Guinness extra stout sometimes.

>>16513651
Heineken

>>16513658
Your wife's boyfriend and their trans daughter think your awesome too!

These are my favorites.
>Keystone Ice
>Keylightful
>Icehouse Edge
>Mickeys Ice
>Milwaukee's Best Premium
>Miller High Life Light
>Hamm's Special Light
>Steel Reserve 211
>Olde English HG 800
>Magnum
>Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve
I fucking love beer. I would honestly kill myself without them.

>>16514067
anon... i

>>16513651
>Favourite style beer?
Wheat- IPA,PA,etc. & Pilsner
>Favourite brand/type?
Steam Brew Wheat Pale Ale (0.5l/0.79€!!!)
>Best local beer?
Circus Beer (pilsner style) by the TheCircus Hostel Brewing Co.
>Best foreign beer?
Grolsch / LaChouffe

>>16513719
Bro, I just bought a can of Lomza. Saw it on sale in my local supermarket. Glad that somebody recommends it and I didn't waste my money on shitty eastern european beer.
>>16514067
>What you know about that

>>16513651
>Favourite style beer?
English barleywine
>Favourite brand/type?
Pic related is pretty fucking sweet
>Best local beer?
I live in Asheville and can't choose
>Best foreign beer?
Rochefort 10, son.

>>16513651
This is still my favorite IPA. Bent paddle golden hop comes dangerously close, but god damn two hearted is good.

liquor store had a sale on shiner bock original and oktoberfest
got a case of each

>>16514145
Shiner cheer is my favorite holiday beer. I get uncomfortably drunk on it every year and don't regret a second of it

>>16514151
will try when it comes in store

>>16513651
>Favorite style
Varies based on mood, Hefeweizen lately
>favorite brand/foreign
Ayinger
>local
Red Oak or Old Mecklenburg

>>16513651
Hop House 13 is fucking tasty as fuck.

>>16514067
Based vagrant menu anon. They're all poison, but Hamm's is truly drinkable for me for some reason.

>>16514079
man, I stayed at that hostel a couple years ago and had a "young lager" (unfiltered) and it changed how I think about light beer. now I brew those all the time. great times at that place.

>>16514052
I've only been to Wren house once and they had a really small selection for some reason? ended up getting a fruited sour that was essentially a glass of carbonated puree. have always heard good things though. I liked AZ wilderness the most on my trip - not all the funky stuff was good but most of it was at least interesting.

>>16514101
BIL my dude


>style
depends on the season... probably barrel aged strong ales. in the summer maybe saison, light lager, hazy IPA
>brand/type
I hate to follow the hype but fieldwork or alvarado st. are consistantly delicious. I don't buy their 4packs because they're overpriced
>local
big on drakes + alpha acid barrel aged strong stuff.
>foreign beer
saison dupont 100%

>>16516295
Yeah bro, drinking it right now.

I don't know how they call it a larger.

It tastes like an IPA but is crisp like a larger and is 4.1%. Love it.

>pic related
>my wife bought me this for my birthday a few weeks ago. Wish me luck lads - 1L at 7.5%

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>>16516471
>tastes like an IPA but is crisp like a larger
That's a good way of putting it; I find it maltier than typical IPAs (or even most lagers), but it is crisp and the hops don't dominate the profile like on (crappier/specialised) IPAs on the lower ABV scale.
But at the same time, I wouldn't drink it by itself for those reasons, it's a good choice with a meal, but still not my usual though.

Are you Irish, or what markets does this compete successfully against?

>>16516902
I'm from Australia originally but been in Ireland for 3 years.

What blew me away about the IPA's over here in Ireland is that in Australia they all weigh massively on the hops, and I mean they are all weighing HEAVILY on the hops.

Over here the hops characteristic is much more subdued. Hop House 13 really interested me because of what I said above, there was still the hoppy flavour to it but I wasn't drinking a 5%+ beer like Sierra Nevada.

Like I said here: >>16513708 hoppy beers aren't my go to but Hop House has really grown on me.

>My all time favourite beer is pic related.

>>16516902
they sell it in the UK too

>>16513651
>Favourite style beer?
Mostly yeasty Belgian ales (blond, tripel) and amber beers. Rye-based ales are underrated too... Jopen had a really nice Rye Pale Ale but my local booze shack stopped selling it.

>Favourite brand/type?
Leffe blond. It's not really a conaisseur's choice perhaps, but this is the perfect midway between quality beer and mass-produced pisswater that serves to get you drunk. I mean, let's face it...that's why most of us drink. This beer is easily available, affordable, very easy to drink, not so stupidly strong that you get alcohol poisoning from having more than a few, and it's still way more tasty than regular lagers.

>Best local beer?
Zoentje bij Breugem, a light blond style beer. Very refreshing.

>Best foreign beer?
IDK man. Trappistes Rochefort is really good but it's a bit much for most drinking sessions. Karmeliet also has a great tripel.

>>16516330
Didn't expect anybody to know that brewery since it's really small and an adjunct to the hostel. The brewery doesn't even have a above average rating on untappd, lol. Glad I'm not the only one who likes their beer. :)
>>16516471
About two months ago Lidl sold Abbaye de Vauclair. I bought the non-imperial version. It was extremly sweet, sticky like syrup, which made it hard to drink. We finished half of the bottle and threw away the rest. I'd be interested if the imperial version is any better.

>>16517017
I've seen many people in /ck recommend the 4 Pines Kölsch. Have you tried real Kölsch before and how would you compare them to each other?

>>16517363
>Netherlands
Have you visited Koningshoeven or Zundert for their Trappist ales? Even in most parts of the eastern US, finding Spencer (our country's trappist brewer) beers is quite difficult.

>>16513651
>favorite style
No preference
>favorite brand
Yuengling
>best local
Yuengling
>best foreign
Of all the ones I tried, which is not a large number, Guinness.

>>16513651
Drinking this lost treasure rn. Taking a break from the sauna, will go back soon. Have some 10 or so crates of shitcheap pilsner in the garage just for getting drunk.

But these glass bottle Karelias are almost extinct. Have only a few left and now that summer vacation is almost over, it's time to savor it.

Not an amazing beer by any means, but when it's going extinct, it tastes like an angel's ass at the pearly gates.

>>16513651
Who here has dedicated /beer fridge/?

>>16518244
Not me, but only because I'm not an alcoholic

My kiuas is pretty shit and my sauna needs remodelling but god damn if this doesn't feel good.

>>16518361
You don't have to be an alcoholic to have a /beer fridge/

>>16518380
Name one person who has a fridge dedicated to beer who doesn't have a drinking problem

>>16518384
Me

Legit not even joking, I have no drinking problem whatsoever. I also have a lot of beer and liquour too.

>>16518414
Okay bud

>>16518364
How's sauna in summer? I thought it was just a colder weather thing, even in binland

>>16518422
It's not really the amount you own, it's the amount you consume, you do understand this, right?

>>16518423
It's top in the summer too. It's a lot better if you can go to a lake directly after, but at night it can drop to 10c if it hasn't been too hot during the day, so chilling out at the yard is pretty comfy. Tonight it was 14c outside so pretty tolerable, spent easily half an hour outside just sipping beer and listening to music buck naked.

Some people have a bath barrel that they heat up to something like 40c that they go to after the sauna, but I haven't built a deck to the backyard yet so I don't have one. During the winter (also in the summer for whatever reason), it's an absolutely numbing combo, so you have to be careful with alcohol, because sitting in the barrel after a sauna will fuck you up hard; the drunkedness doesn't hit up until you get out, when your body gets a thermal shock. Alcohol that would not get you fucked otherwise, will one hundred percent fuck you up to throwing up if you spend too much time in the barrel, but you'll still be standing, so it's actually a pretty good drunk.

I love Orion but its so hard to find in the states

>>16518430
You tell yourself whatever you want

i drink BUSCH LITE

>>16513754
I when the other way lol and got into pipe smoking during lockdown

>>16514092
all long as you by polish beers you really cant go wrong

>>16519786
Tyskie is garbage tier imo. Maybe not as bad as US beer but still pretty below standard

>>16514055
>Heineken
Same. Started working in and having regular access to liquor little over a month ago and a lot of brands I used to like don't do it for me anymore, but I find I like the taste of Heineken. Plus it's a good prepper for stronger stuff. For the really cheap kind I like St Ides.

>>16519786
Wrong, but zubr is okay.

Idk what the different types of beers are I just know I drink PBR or whatever they have for buy one get one free at Publix. Used to drink Lone Star when I lived in Texas. Shit is pretty good. Don’t think they sell it in Florida.

Just picked up a 4 pack of this for far too much.

If you are a man You shouldn’t ever drink beer which includes hops, and 99% of beers do. It’s like shooting yourself in the foot! For women hops beer is not that big of a problem, because women want anyway to be more feminine and grow bigger breasts. But still hops beer has a sedative effect and it also grows belly tissue. So I would avoid it at all costs.Hops is best known for its use in beer. The majority of physicians and men overlook its potent chemicals and do not realize that beer itself can significantly alter the male androgen levels. German beer makers noticed long ago that the young women who picked hops in the fields commonly experienced early menstrual periods.Eventually, researchers discovered the reason – hops is perhaps one of the most powerfully estrogenic plants on Earth. Just 100 grams of hops (about 3.5 ounces) contains anywhere from thirty thousand to three hundred thousand IUs of estrogen, depending on the type of hops. Most of it is the very potent estrogen estradiol. Estradiol, as it is taken into the male body, causes a direct lowering of testosterone levels in the testes and an increase in SHBG levels, which then binds up even more free testosterone in the bloodstream. The estradiol in hops has also been found to directly interfere with the ability of the testes Leydig cells to produce testosterone. The presence of this highly estrogenic substance in beer is not an accident.Prior to the German Beer Purity Act of 1516, beer almost never contained hops. In fact, more than one hundred different plants were used in brewing beer for at least ten thousand years prior to the introduction of hops in the middle ages.For the last thousand years of that period, the most dominant form of “beer” was called gruit, which contained a mixture of yarrow, bog myrtle, and marsh rosemary.>>16513651
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These herbs, especially in beer, are sexually and mentally stimulating. (It is rare to become sleepy when drinking un-hopped beers. The Catholic Church had a monopoly on the production of gruit, but competing merchants and the Protestants worked together to break their monopoly and force the removal of all sexually stimulating herbs from beer. The legislative arguments of the day all hinged on the issue of the stimulating effects of other herbs that were used in beer. A pilsner, for example, was originally a henbane beer (pilsen means “henbane”), which is an incredibly strong, psychoactive beer, used earlier in history by German berserkers before battle. The German Beer Purity Act was, in effect, the first drug control law ever enacted.There is a well known condition in England – Brewer’s Droop – that occurs from middle-aged brewers’ extensive handling of hops plants. The plant chemistries readily transmit through the men’s skin just as they did in the young women in the fields. Very few physicians have looked at any correlation between beer drinking and androgen levels or erectile dysfunction problems in their patients. (How many men on Viagra are heavy beer drinkers?) However, the physician Eugene Shippen in The Testosterone Syndrome comments that one of his patients undergoing pharmaceutical testosterone replacement therapy, showed no response to the testosterone until he reduced his beer intake to one or two beers a night from six to seven.>>16514133
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>>16516032
>Ayinger
Good taste, I love their urweisse

>>16513651
>Favorite style
Definitely love a baltic porter or russian imperial stout.
>Favorite brand
A mix up between Stone Russian Imperial Stout or St. Bernardus 12
>Best local beer
Tough one, we have so many local breweries and all of them are great, but I'm gonna say my favorite local is Farnam House's Nitro Stout.
>Best Foreign Beer
St. Bernardus 12
Currently drinking a Zywiec baltic porter and working on backend php bullshit.

>>16518870
Idiot

>>16513651
/ck/ bros i just took the smelliest beer fart

>>16517017
I haven't had a 4 pines Kolsch in a long time. I used to love their ESB.

Hype breweries in Aus have gone full retard. I think Quiet Deeds & Mr Banks are hopping some of their stuff at something ridiculous like 45g/L It's insane. I recently had a ddh lactose oat iipa that was canned in sept last year, usually those kinds of beers are ok for 2-3 months before they're completely dead. This thing had 7 months on it and still had a huge hop presence. I can't imagine trying to choke one down fresh.