/ck/ - Food & Cooking

do we really need another beer thread on the front page?

really?

pls

>>5014838
Yes.

>>5014838
Yes, because all the beer threads are always about 12% ABV imperial stouts or 8% ABV hobo 40's.

Personally, I like Guinness as a session beer.

Moon Man would be a better choice than spotted cow

>>5014838
No, lets make another fast food thread instead

>>5014823
The people that make blue moon also make a beer called "Rounder" that I've often found myself polishing off a sixer on the same damn day I bought it

>>5014823
English milds or bitters are good session beers.

>>5014823
Fuck you, Wisconsin

Fuck you for not sharing New Glarus

Fortunately, I have to go to Milwaukee in March

>>5015181
Wisconsin has to have the best selection of readily available beer

>>5014823
Wine.

21st Amendment's Bitter American is pretty solid

>>5015501
They make good stuff.
For me I'd go with Bell's Two Hearted. I'd be pretty drunk after a six pack of it, but I could drink that shit every day and not get sick of it. So damn good.

What's a session beer?

>>5016751
read

>>5016770
I did. It doesn't make sense. A beer that you enjoy drinking a lot of? That can be any beer.

>Guys, let's have a beer-drinking session
What's that, friend?
>We sit around a table and drink beer
Do we eat anything?
>No.
Do we drink anything else, like water?
>No.
Do we play cards or do anything besides drink beer?
>You can talk about the beer, if you like, as long as it doesn't distract you or others from the actual drinking.
It sounds like we would need a very specialized beer for such a session.
>We would, that's why there's this thread on /ck/

Anything from ale asylum.

>>5016780
A session beer is served with cookies

>>5016780
>One that you can drink a six pack or more of and still want more of the same.
There ya go. A beer that you can sit down and enjoy a good couple of. That was hard.

>>5016862
OK, what would an example of a beer that would make a bad session beer?

>>5016896
Just read this.
http://beeradvocate.com/articles/653

>>5016896
One you don't like, or one that has a higher ABV.
I feel like this shouldn't be difficult to understand.

>>5016934
I don't fucking understand it either. Must be somesortof Anglican thing

>>5016917
Oh, that makes much more sense.

So it's basically a way for beer snobs to get uppity about beers that non-beer-snobs might actually like.

>>5017234

Search your feelings...

>>5017333

Looks like shit just like everything else the company makes. People buy it because it looks cool, just like Macfags.

American Adjunct Lagers are the worst beers invented by man. That doesn't mean I don't pound them back at all the sweet parties I go to every weekend because I am cool and desired.

>>5017333
>>5017333
i've heard its gross. like an amber bud platinum.

goddamn bud platinum was bad too.

>>5017381

>>5015184

California would like to have a word with you.

dorothy goodbody is a really nice beer

>>5017408
Not even close, friend. For as much else as Wisconsin gets wrong, it's a dead heat between Oregon and Wisconsin as far as beer goes.

P.S. I'm not from Wisconsin.

Smithwicks Irish red goes down easy and is tasty. I can drink a whole six if I want.

>>5017234
Coors Light is just as much a session beer as any other easy drinking craft beer. I'm not sure how much more basic to put it.

>>5017234
It's a beer you can drink a lot of and want more. How hard is that?

I like nice dark porters and heavily hopped IPAs, but I wouldn't want to drink a lot of them. A session beer is a quality beer with balance, so that you can drink copious amounts without getting sick of it.

>>5017420
>Oregon
easily the most overrated beer state in the union

>>5015184
>>5017408
You're seriously implying that Michigan isn't the best beer state? Bell's Two Hearted knocks Stone's IPA out of the water, Founders and Shorts can match any of New Glarus's eccentric ales.

Also, a really awesome session beer.

It's gotta be Dogfish Head 60 minute for me. It's the perfect beer for any occasion.

Dogfishhead Piercing Pils, but I have a high tolerance.

all day
every day

Threads like these remind me that, while Americans may be creative and well-intentioned brewers, they don't know fuck-all about beer and any decent beer they've ever come up with is either faithfully copying an existing recipe or pure, dumb luck.

>>5021498
isn't that cooking though
coming up with something good accidentally and then trying to recreate it
that's the fucking soul of cooking

>>5020545

fuck yeah mi beer

PBR

Califriend here,

Pic related is my go-to for price and availability. There's also 21st Amendment's Bitter American ale, which is not as good, but usually cheap.

Drake's makes an alpha session and an omega session, but they're usually sold in 22 oz bottles and not very cheap, so that ruins the session qualities. I did drink an alpha during a stop on a bicycling ride and it was nice.

>>5021691
Heh, file, -hicup-

>>5017408
No. I dont care if that is a 101 on beer advocate, I'm not drinking anything with Comic Sans on the label.