/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Tasty beer. I'll show ya Tasty Bear.

is tastiest bear

I know its not DFH, Stone, or other brews this shit is smooth and full and drinkable as fuck. I prefer it to regular guinness.

>>4364359
fuck

it was guinness black lager

im high as fuck

>>4364316
That was the first IPA I ever enjoyed, and it since set me on an IPA binge.

>>4364328
Sam Adams is pretty lackluster. Even their special releases are extremely lacking in taste.

I craft my own. Pic related

>>4364415
must be Murrican

>>4364415
10/10 would drink

>>4364316
Living in Florida has its upsides: Publix oftentimes sells SN 12 packs for $13. I will pay ~$1.08/beer for SN all day long.

Right now I'm enjoying a DFH 90-minute IIPA. The first time I had one I wasn't sold on it, but this second 4 pack helped me to get a new, better impression of the beer. I like it a lot, but it's not on my top 5, probably not even top 10.

I also secured myself an Oak Aged Yeti (never tried it--super fucking excited--but I only hear great things) and a Stone collaboration, a "Texas brown ale", something I've never seen before, but it's Stone (and pals) so I have high expectations.

This is one of my new favorites.

It's really happy and finishes with an almost melon/peach like flavor. It's not sweet at all, and I don't think it is brewed with any fruit, but it has a 'nector' like finish.

>>4364278
If you can find Barbar you can find Berenbier too, give it a try.

>>4364589
$13 12 pack of Torpedo is an excellent deal considering its alcohol content as well.

Does anyone know where I can order Kozel online in Europe ?

Angry orchard

Best bottled hard cider hands down.

>>4364407

I have a bottle of each of those. Probably won't drink them for a couple years, though.

>>4364880
Eh. It's good, and better than, say Woodchuck. But it's nowhere near as good as, say, Dupont.

Beamish Irish Stout

Belgian 'scotch' beer Gordon finest Scotch in a thistle glass

Claymore Scotch Ale from Great Divide Brewing Co., Denver.
Interesting, but certainly not for a mass market.

German Paulaner Hefe-Weizen natural wheat.
I like unfiltered wheat beer.

But I usually buy Shock Top Belgian-style wheat ale, brewed close by in Fort Collins, CO.
Cheaper and more accessible.

Murphy's Irish Stout is also a favorite.
Serve with steak or barbecue.

Or serve with this stuff.

Murphy's Irish Stout & Ahernes Bar Food.

>>4364415
Johnny Walker, second harvest, oh yeah.

Budějovický dark, one of my favourites ones. Also, Praga dark. Czech beer ftw.

>>4365900
Shock Top is made by Anheuser Busch, unless you live in Belgium, you shouldn't consider it a local beer

>>4366045
Forgot pic

>>4365904
That shit is barely better than Guiness.

Just had some of this from Three Floyds

>>4366046
>Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. /ˈænhaJzər ˈbʊʃ/ is an American brewing company

pic oh so related
west coast IPAs are the best, especially this one

>>4366053
Anheuser Busch used to be american, but we sold it to europe a few years ago

Its now owned by Belgian company Inbev

>>4366054
>west coast IPAs are the best
I'll stick with my uppermidwestern IPAs

>>4366055
that doesn't make it belgian though.
it's still brewed in america by americans.

Anheuser-Busch InBev is an international conglomerate btw, only a handful of their beers are belgian.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch_InBev#Brands
i count 4 belgian beers.

>>4366060
>it's still brewed in america by americans
Its brewed all over the world by all sorts of people

My Hyundai was made in a factory in Georgia by americans, that doesn't make it an america car

>>4366060
Very first sentence on that page
>Anheuser-Busch InBev (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑnɦɔjzər ˈbuʃ ˈJmbɛf ˈɛn ˈveː], abbreviated as AB InBev) is a Belgian-Brazilian multinational beverage and brewing company headquartered in Leuven, Belgium

>>4366063
>Its brewed all over the world by all sorts of people
no it isn't.
nobody outside of the us has ever heard of "shock top".

>>4366068
yes, yet only 4 of their beers are belgian.
or perhaps they're brazilian now according to your logic?

>>4366063
Also before Inbev, AB already had more breweries outside the US than inside the US

>>4366069
>yes, yet only 4 of their beers are belgian.
I really don't feel like the number of brands originating in a certain country is the best way to qualify the nationality of a company.

The company describes themselves as Belgian, and is headquartered there.

They operate a hell of a lot of breweries across the world, they don't really need the majority of the brand names they own the rights to to be from their parent country

>>4366063
>Shock Top is a 5.2% abv Belgian-style wheat ale introduced under the name Spring Heat Spiced Wheat brewed in Fort Collins, Colorado
>"Belgian-style", not Belgian
>brewed in Fort Collins, Colorado

>>4366074
>The company describes themselves as Belgian

http://www.ab-inbev.com/go/about_abinbev/our_company/ab_inbev_company_profile.cfm

>With operations and license agreements around the globe, Anheuser-Busch InBev is a truly global brewer.

let's give it a rest now eh?

>>4366075
So a Belgian company operating a brewery in Colorado means the beer isn't Belgian?


The Guinness sold in most of the western hemisphere is brewed in Canada, that doesn't stop it from being Irish

>>4366060
>it's still brewed in america by americans.
>Anheuser-Busch InBev is an international conglomerate

Beingthisstupid.exif

>>4366080
>The Guinness sold in most of the western hemisphere is brewed in Canada, that doesn't stop it from being Brazilian

FIFY

>>4366080
guinness is owned by Diageo, which is British.

there's absolutely nothing irish about if you'd be consistent in your reasoning.

>>4366075
Shock Top is just a manufactured brand image made by Inbev, they try to market it as a small american brewery because most small american breweries are so good, but its not.

Its just Inbev's response to losing marketshare to both craft beer and blue moon

>>4366093
>Shock Top is just a manufactured brand image made by Inbev

shock top existed years before Anheuser-Busch was bought out by Inbev.

in other words: it was made by Anheuser-Busch when Anheuser-Busch was still 100% american.

i'll put it even simpler to avoid any silly misunderstandings: top shock is an american beer.

>>4366098
Yeah, it existed 2 years before Inbev bought AB.

I know you are really focused on "buying American" and being a little loyal sheep, but you are retarded if you think buying something owned by a foreign company = buying American.

If a Chinese company buys an American oil company and sells it back to us, does that mean the oil is still American?

>>4366098
Shock Top may have once been an american beer, but it certainly no longer is, no more than Bud Light is

>>4366101
>I know you are really focused on "buying American" and being a little loyal sheep
nice try, but i'm belgian.

if the chinese buy out mcdonald's, that doesn't mean big macs become a traditional chinese delicacy overnight.

>>4366103
no one said anything about traditional. We are simply talking about the current state

>>4366105
unless they replace the patty with peking duck and the big mac sauce with hoisin sauce, it'll still be regarded as american.

see Guinness for example: everybody views it as an Irish beer, despite it being owned by a British company.

>>4366106
I am not talking about what Inbev marketing department wants us to view it as, I am talking about what it really is.

Inbev tries really hard to trick people into thinking Shock Top is small, independent, and american

>>4366107
>I am not talking about what Inbev marketing department wants us to view it as
>Inbev tries really hard to trick people into thinking Shock Top is small, independent, and american
i have this aching suspicion that you ARE talking about what Inbev marketing department wants us to view it as

>>4366107
>I am not talking about what Inbev marketing department wants us to view it as, I am talking about what it really is.
This.

>>4366108
No, he is saying the opposite. The conglomerates want you to think Bud is still a proud American beer, Guinness is the heart of the Irish, etc.

They want to maintain fierce nationalist brand loyalty associated with their products for the sake of profits.

Enjoy something if you like it, but don't delude yourself into thinking "Oh it may be Belgian-owned but it is still All American to us all!". That is just retarded and an example of brand marketing success.

>>4366108
How could you possibly get that from his post? He is being critical of Inbev marketing and their attempt at making people think Shock Top is an American microbrew.

How could you think this is what Inbev wants you to think? They are transparently marketing their product as an astroturf fake-indie beer for the masses? What?

>>4366116
>reading comprehension

>>4366116
yeh yeh, my leffe is partly brazilian now but i still regard it as a belgian beer.
because of its origin, its taste & its history, not because of the current shareholders who had absolutely zero involvement in its inception.
same goes for your top shock beer.
seriously, what can be more american than a beer called "top shock" or whatever?

You're all completely missing the point. That point being that Shock Top is a fucking shitty beer.

>>4365900
I can't stand Shock Top. Not in the LOL NOT CRAFT kind of way, but in the all their beers taste like shit kind of way.

>>4366054
Naa. The upper midwest has IPA's on lock.

>being this butthurt over the location of the PO box of your beer company's corporate overlords

I'd expect nothing less of /ck/

>>4366140
>any beer in a can ever

>>4366255
That canned beer got 100 on ratebeer and 97 on beeradvocate. Deal with it queerboy.

>>4366261
>using a hoi polloi website and listening to the unwashed hordes
>not discussing beer on an invite only beer site where members are vetted by peer review

Those websites are garbage perpetuating garbage. Deal with it neckbeard. Has Mikkel Borg Bjergso ever posted on your website? Lol sorry I should have explained. He's a brewer. You're probably never heard of him.

Magic Hat #9 or Dogfish Head
Interested to see if anyone has tried Kitzmann beers

>>4366270
YOU CAUGHT ME

>>4365894
they all taste the same to me

light bana flavor and little to no aftertaste

>>4366058
based

Best Chocolate Imperial Stout in the world.

Fact.

Anyone know any good hoppy Austrian/Czech style pilseners you can get in Northern California?

Another Danish god-tier beer.

>>4366442

>>4366046
Well, Shock Top is brewed nearby in Fort Collins, Colorado (I live in Castle Rock, CO), so it's local even if the holding company or parent corporation is elsewhere.
Hell, even Coors is a local brewery. Coors operates the Golden, Colorado brewery, the largest single brewery facility in the world. Coors is owned currently by the Canadian Molson Coors Brewing Company, but that does not change the location of its main brewery.
Coors is terrible beer, by the way. It engendered the joke of American beer is like making love in a canoe; it's fucking close to water.
- Shock Top Wheat IPA

>>4366048
Yeah? And I like Guinness, too.
So sue me.

- Guinness Draught - St. James' Gate, Dublin, Ireland.

>>4366600

Best thing to come out of a can.

Look, it does not matter who OWNS or controls the brewery, it's the location of the brewery that is determinative of its location. The confusing thing is large brewers with multiple breweries, but I would not let it worry you. Drink what you like and support brewers you respect.

- Guinness St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin, Ireland.
Anyone have pictures of other foreign Guinness breweries?

Talking of foreign Guinness breweries, has anyone tried Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, their 7.5 ABV version?

Here's blasphemy for you purists: Coors Light in a Guinness glass.

A favorite for many years has been Samuel Smith's oatmeal stout, Tadcaster Brewery, North Yorkshire, England.
But this stuff is a bit expensive.

Samuel Smith's is mostly renowned for their nut brown ale.

ITT

It's good, too.

But when buying cheap happy hour beer on tap, I usually go for Blue Moon, Belgian-style wheat ale.
Certainly not brewed in Belgium. It was originally brewed in Golden, Colorado, but now also brewed in Canada, as part of the Chicago-based MillerCoors Company.
I just like how it tastes. An unfiltered wheat beer that is inexpensive.

What inexpensive beers (around $7 a 6-pack) are worth a try?

My first introduction to wheat beer were those wonderful German weissbiers. Came in big bottles and cost a lot at German restaurants.

- Paulaner Weissbier wheat beer from Munich.

German Paulaner Hefe-Weizen natural wheat.

German Hacker-Pschorr Bräu - Hefe Weisse Natürtrub

Schneider Weisse, original hefe-weizenbier.

What Weißbier do you folks recommend?

Hoegaarden Witbier.

Damn fine Wheatbeer. On a summer day with a wedge of lemon in it. Can't be beat.

>>4366684
This is the only one remotely drinkable. If you're in Germany, there's by Jove better options.

Which one should I open this evening?

Not including the Westlveteren 12.

>>Witbier, white beer, bière blanche, or simply witte is a barley/wheat, top-fermented beer brewed mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands. It gets its name due to suspended yeast and wheat proteins which cause the beer to look hazy, or white, when cold. It is a descendant from those medieval beers which were not brewed with hops, but instead flavoured and preserved with a blend of spices and other plants referred to as "gruit". It therefore still uses gruit, although nowadays the gruit consists mainly of coriander, orange, bitter orange, and hops. The taste is therefore only slightly hoppy. The beers have a somewhat sour taste due to the presence of lactic acid.[12][13] The suspended yeast in the beer causes some continuing fermentation in the bottle.
Witbier differs from other varieties of wheat beer in the use of gruit. French regulation (the territory was French in the 14th century) excluded the use of hops in gruit. Witbier can be made with raw wheat, in addition to wheat malt.[12][14]
In recent times, some Belgian brewers have been making fruit flavoured wheat beers.[citation needed]

If you can get your hands on this on a hot summer day. Or when you're in The Netherlands or Belgium. Give it a try!

>>4366698

De Molen - Hel en Verdoemenis

Had some St. Feuillien draught a bit earlier. Sweet with a strange twist. Not sure what to think of it, but it was delicious.

>>4366703
Just opened it. Very strong aroma of coffee and roasted malt.

Extremely thick beer. Motor oil tier.
Very bitter finish with a great burnt aftertaste.

Not my favorite, as I prefer less coffee, but still an exceptional beer.

>>4366675
> see this pic at random
> must upload what i drank last night

If you like Blue Moon and consider it inexpensive then try ShockTops
http://www.shocktopbeerDOTcom
you have to do a little work before you drink them but its very very tasty beer

>>4366714
Nice.

I'm taking a Pauwel Kwak tonight with appropriate glass.

>>4366738
How do you drink that without pouring it all over yourself?

>>4366743

By not being a hasty fuck trying to empty the thing in one go.

>>4366743
Don't be a fucking retard

>>4366743
that's the joke.

kwak is an onomatopoeia for what happens when you're not familiar with the glass.

very nice beer btw.

>>4366755
>>4366759

www.youtu.be/p-tl4Km1l7E?t=1m52s

>>4366633
>coors light
>light anything
why

>>4366681
Hacker-Pschorr is awesome.

>>4366720
I mentioned Shock Top above.
One of my favorite inexpensive beers.
And I don't do anything special with them, apart from popping the top and pouring them in glasses. What do you suggest?

>>4366792

>Mamma Mia Pizza Beer

>>4364410

They're hit or miss for the most part. Though Boston Lager will always have a special place in my heart.

Also their pilsner isn't too bad. Rarely ever see those done right.

>>4366940
GBP204 (204 Pounds) lager??
GBP0.23 Asda lager picked over it.

204 pounds force = 907.43721 newtons
204 pounds is 92.7 kilograms
204 British Pounds is 310.02 US Dollars

Way WAY too much for a goddamn beer.
Carlsberg Vintage No. 2 is sold for the price of DKK 2009 (more than 250 Euro) a bottle, and only 600 bottles of this exclusive beer are brewed. I guess they don't think that there are that many suckers out there.

250 Euros equals 321.33 US Dollars

I bought a Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk.I, a No.5 Mk.I Jungle Carbine, and 784 rounds of .303 British for less than a bottle of that beer.

Ghetto Blaster
313 represent

Carlsberg's Baltika is the best selling beer in Europe.
Baltika №6 is a premium porter beer

Baltika №3 is the classic beer of Baltika and the best selling beer in Russia

>>4366653

Old is bland. New is better and more exciting.

Carlsberg Baltika No 9 a strong Russian beer

I had one of these recently, Batemans Victory Ale.

One of the nicest beers I've had in a long while.

Pabst

>>4367122

Hahaha. this is my go to cheap beer.

>>4364879
Brofist. Kozel (translated: "The Goat") is the best.
I like the 11° the most; pic related. And draught is so damn much better that bottled, not even to mention canned, but it depends a lot on the barkeeper who draws it.
Luckily, I live in its motherland, the Czech Republic so I have no problem getting it, but I often saw it in stores when I traveled Europe.

Ruthless Rye

>>4367122
Fucking hipster ruining the image of my favorite cheap beer.

>>4367179

Jesus Christ, get over yourself.

>>4364422
>2013
>thinks America has shit beer

>>4366270
>he's a brewer
>he can do no wrong
I'm sorry, but there are times when your heads get too far up your asses.

Showed up way too late to this thread. Managed to score six of these badboys. The most complex beer I've ever tasted.

>>4366140
I loved Surly when I was in the Twin Cities. Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan are the leaders of the craft beer scene IMO

>>4367226
Do you have to go to the brewery to get this or something? I get everything Founders here in Northern Indiana and haven't seen shit yet.

>>4367232
I will agree with that. So many have sprung up in the last decade. It's fantastic.

>>4367294
So many breweries that is.

>>4367182
No.

>>4367290
I was on a waiting list for two bottles at my local store, called a week in advance and showed up at 9am at a different store for the four pack

>>4364316
>IPA
>Good
Pick one.
If you have the same opinion as me.

>>4367232
Yup. Life is good in the Twin Cities right now. Harriet, Lift Bridge, Town Hall, Surly, New Glarus right across the river, and a couple tiny one-man operations doing really unusual stuff (a couple liquor stores around here are selling locally brewed Sahti for fuck's sake).

>>4367226

I tried that stuff last month for the first time. while it was good, I think it's time to move on from this whole "pour everything and the kitchen sink into the pot, and then triple it" school of brewing. trouble is, that's all America knows how to do well.

and guys, spare me the rants about pbr swill and thirdreichsgebot. I get it, you were born yesterday and you think everyone else was too. I like a sweet dark rich beer sometimes, I just think maybe 50 of them was enough already.

>>4367341
I'm sure the employees get first dibs on whatever the fuck they want too.

>>4364328
pleb

>>4367693
yeah good luck finding that

Can't wait for this stuff to come out any week now

>>4367455
KBS is easily the best beer I have ever tried

and its a specialty beer they only release once a year, Your complaint doesn't apply to the vast majority of beers in america, america leads in just about every style these days,, not just the strongest ones

>>4367719
Just had my first bottle...I couldn't help but think of Kahlua. It was good, but it was almost too much

>>4367719
>america leads in just about every style these days

Put your butthurt away. Everyone knows American brewers are completely obsessed with being as outrageous as possible at all times. When it's good, it's great, but sometimes a pilsner is nice. I think America makes one or two of those properly.

>>4364278
This sounds amazing, does it ship?
My family and I enjoy honey vodka's and bourbons, haven't tried a honey beer before but I s'pose its not unlike mead

>>4368075
>>4368075

not true at all

a brewery will MAYBE do a couple of "outrageous" beers at the most

putt your butthurt away

USA #1, deal with it

>>4368075
Most of the "outrageous" stuff comes out of a few breweries in the Cascades and Colorado. Given the sheer number of breweries in the rest of the country putting out fantastic, traditional beers, your argument makes little sense. Drink a New Glarus Spotted Cow, Founders Breakfast Stout, New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red, Great Lakes Brewing Pompous Ass (EPA), or Victory Harvest Pils and you'll see that there are indeed American brewers making some of the very best representations of just about every traditional style of beer on the planet. We've got a craft beer culture, wealth, and a widely dispersed population giving us a leg up on, say, Britain or Germany. Right now only Belgium is comparable, and that's only in a very small number of traditionally Belgian styles.

>>4369061
Dis nigga gets it. Unfortunately, no European wants to admit that the U.S. is better than them at anything for some reason.

>>4369061
>wealth
Isn't 50% of your population on some form of welfare?

>>4369092
I question the use of yuropoor by any American, they are in debt up to their eyeballs and somehow ignore it. They do make some good beers though.

>>4368075
Brewdog (a scottish brewery) makes the most outrageous beers possible that are hardly drinkable just for the sake of being outrageous (sink the bismarck / nuclear penguin)

Guinness Extra Stout. Boiling hot. Mmm, it's like coffee, corned beef, eggs, and pork chops all in one.

>>4369156
I just puked a little bit.

>>4369158
I don't need breakfast when I have Guinness.

>>4369086

except I'm not European. try to contain your incredulity.

>>4369197
I never said you were. I was just stating my opinion.

The only IPA that actually tastes like hops and not their shitty overloaded alpha acids

>>4369061

Motherfucker, do you even drink italian beers?

>>4369242
oh my god, id forgotten about jaipur
apparently brewdogs horrible punk ipa was them trying to replicate jaipur

>>4369244
No. I don't hate myself that much.

>>4369244

>MUH PERONI XD

Feels good having a friend who is a beer distributor.

>>4366050
Nice choice. I have one in my fridge.

>>4366698
THAT is a nice looking selection of beer. Zombie Dust is great, and I'm just starting to be able to buy Mikkeller, but they've got it going on too. What's the bottom row?

>>4367226
Yeee. Just popped one open myself. I got a 4 pack and a single. Saving the rest

>>4370831

>drinking KBS out of a pint glass

Might as well just pour it down the drain

This is probably my favorite beer. I love this stuff so much.

>>4370831
Westvleteren 12 worlds best beer.

>>4371092
wisconsin! :)

>>4371971

Westy is great and all but I'd hardly call it the worlds best beer.

>>4370937
I have enough money to buy good beer, or beer glasses. Can't drink empty glasses.

One of the the local bars has had pic related on tap for about a month now. It's pretty damn refreshing on a warm day.

What are some other good honey beers?

>>4370937
#powerful

>>4372830

I have no idea and would like to know myself.