/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Not drinking tonight; had one of these last night with a friend. It was pretty good but not worth the price.

>>7994602
that's how I feel about most of Goose Island's stuff, especially the ones in 750ml bottles

Going to drink this tonight. I usually stick with whiskey but I'll have a beer every now and then.

had this tonight

I'm planning a trip to Sweden soon. If that fucker is sold out in Umeå I'm going to get pissed, as in the non-alcoholic manner.

>>7996017
meant to quote OP

Not a huge fan of the beer, but I absolutely adore this fucking glass.

bunch of bitches in here

>>7997803
>says the pleb

Not drinking this now though, still has to age for 3 months before it's had a year, which is what the monks recommended when I bought the crate.

>>7994730
Great beer.
Drinking a mn classic tonight

>>7998115
so am I, cheers mate

Just here to show off my new glass, desu.

Out on the West Coast visiting family and pic related has been a new favorite over the past week.

Winner.

>>7998115
>>7998126
my MN bros
What are some good local brews I should try?
Tried furious, i was too much of a bitch for it. I like hell though.

So redpill me on glassware.

I have a pint glass, a pilsner glass, and some wine glasses.

Do I REALLY need to have the 100% 1:1 glassware for each style of beer to get the full experience? Or is that just a meme?

>>7998420
Schell's Firebrick

>>7998431
The glasses make a difference. Any glass is better than the bottle/can. A pint, pilsner, snifter, and witbier glass will get you far. Start there (you can use a big wine glass in place of a snifter/goblet if you like) and branch out to some specialty glasses from your favorite breweries.

>>7998530
For Specialty glasses see >>7998398


(Triple hopped ipa brought from ferment to my store in less than 24 hours)

This shit is like candy. Lots of vanilla and cinnamon on the smell and taste. Highly recommend it to anyone working in the sun.

>>7998862
I always want to try stuff from them but I hate shelling out that kind of money for beer

>>8001366
Stick to their sours and stouts. They do rape you on price.

>>7997864
dont ever try to come at me

Hopje Koffie (Hop of coffee) by Eem from Amersfoort. Quite pleasant.
(I did not make this photo)

>>7998431
Certain glasses make more of a difference than others. Much like >>7998530 # said, those three will do the trick for most beers. If you're trying to have minimal glassware fore the maximum effect, I'd recommend a tulip glass. Just about any beer can go in a tulip. This is coming from someone who has more beer glasses than regular ones too.

Cheers!

>>8002023
As for my beers I have so many on hand but am most looking forward to drinking this bad boy. Not my picture but have been aging mine for about 8 months now. Should be great come fall.

>>8001955
Now drinking: Zuster Agatha Quadrupel by Muifel. Nice caramel-like mildly roasted taste. The taste of alcohol is however a little bit too prominent for my taste (it's 10%), but nice still.

>>7996017
if you're going to systembolaget to buy it, ask a swedish friend (if you have any) to order it.

I haven't had a beer in a year. What's the best go to refreshing summer beer? Like, if I'm drinking while sweating my balls off in my yard mowing the grass, what's going to quench my thirst?

>>8002087
corona is the classic (kinda pleb) beer. put a lime wedge in there for that extra frat boy feel

Imperial Stout that's been in secondary for about a month now.

>>8002087
Helles lager

>>8002097
Damn, I like that colour. How long until you'll drink it?

>>8002093
noted. i've had them poolside in years past and they were all right. Looking for something with more flavor, but thanks

>>8002098
How would you compare it to other lagers?

>>8002087
Perhaps Saison Dupont if you can get one wherever you are. Saisons were traditionally brewed especially for seasonal field laborers in Wallonia. They usually are refreshing and mildly bitter.

>all this gaf hipster shit

>>8002117
A little hoppier than normal. Extremely refreshing and easy to drink.

>>8002136
>>>/reddit/

I need a beer rec.

I've always been a fast drinker, with everything especially coffee and beer. I chug cups of water instead of sipping on them.

So I need strong beers that pretty much need to be drunk slowly, but preferably no stouts or IPAs.

>>8002165
Barleywine

>>8002165

souts are great but IPA's are for smelly portland flannel-wearing nu-male hipsters or hippies who bath once a month

>>8002054
Now drinking: Harlem Shake by Jopen and Oedipus. An export stout with raspberry and black pepper. One of my favorites.

>>8002214
Why is the frog/alien fucking the goat person?

>>8002227
That's what frog-aliens do.
Oedipus labels usually look unusual: http://oedipus.com/beers/

Delirium for tonight

>>8002214
Now drinking: Kleiburg Quadrupel Poorter. I taste more porter than quadrupel. Roasty, coffee and dark chocolate-like taste, and some licorice in the aftertaste. It has cardamom and licorice in it.

The brewery has an unusual background. It's affiliated with a protestant 'monastery', which is basically a small community of like minded people living together in a part of a flat in De Bijlmer, a concrete jungle that is part of Amsterdam. It was founded last year. They apparently decided that a monestary needs a brewery, so they hired a young lad who had been experimenting with homebrews for a while.

>>8002165
Belgian Quads, tripels or strong blonde/dark ales. Doppelbock is also a good choice, although it often only comes in pints.

Really like the Rochefort 8, can easily last over 30 minutes, and the taste just keeps getting better after pouring.

QUESTION: what's everyone's favorite cheap mexican beer?

>>8002087
Hefeweizen or Pale Ale.

I found this in my old rasputin, it looks like coagulated blood. Is that normal?

>>8002690
It's protein, you see it in high ABV stouts occasionally.

>>8002690
Yeah it's normal. Sometimes yeast/protein/whatever form together in a beer over time.

With any old bottle of beer that I expect to have this (lots of Belgian styles do) I leave the last bit of beer in the bottle and don't risk pouring all the sediment in there.

Some of these Tired Hands Milkshake beers end up looking like snowglobes with all the floating yeast stuff in them. In this case the beer tastes better with all that poured into the glass though. I tried decanting them before and it avoided the sediment but didn't taste as good.

>>8002980

>>8002165
Dark ales are good. I know Becks makes one, and even Budweiser has the black label that's decent. I know you said no stout, but the Guinness Extra Stout is one of my favorites.

Another week till the beers I'm brewing are carbonated and ready to drink.

Drinking pic related tonight, amongst other things. Really been into porters lately and this one is exceptional. Ballast Point has yet to let me down

>>8003860
I got this as a gift and really didn't think much of it. Not sure if the stuff doesn't travel well or what, but I found it pretty unremarkable.

Bout to try this bitch

I'm about to go to my local brewery to fill 3 growlers. Which beers should I pick? Pic related

Fuck it, it's payday

>>8006533
God I wish that shit was cheaper

>>8006353
Ahaha good luck.
Probably the worst beer brewer on the planet.
I would rather take a disgusting fucking undrinkable ipa than that shit.

>>8006540
Are you the guy who always posts the thumbnail of that douche in the sam Adam's commercial?

>>8006376
Mosaic and the last 2.

>>8006574
Absolutely not. Don't even know what you're talking about.

this was a delicious local beer. It's a pale ale conditioned on blueberries and the blueberry flavor is nice and light.

The brewery has started selling these crowlers at a farmer's market which is a cool new step forward for Pennsylvania beer.

>>8002136
kys

>>7994228
If you're ever in Australia try angry man ale. Shit's cash.

>>8002109
Another month or so in there and then into bottles, and they'll sit in them for at least a month.

Okay imperial stout, nothing amazing though.

I can't drink till next Saturday, but when I do, I'll be hitting up Red Hare's 5th year anniversary tasting, so I'm pretty stoked.

In the meantime, I'll just continue to be irritable and unable to stop thinking about beer.

Drink one for me.

It's cool and rainy for the first time in forever here so I picked up a 4 pack of this stuff. One of my favorites

Loved this one when i could get it reasonably fresh, now all i can get is aged to resemble barleywine. Does not work as one though, just bad old ipa.

Probably one of the best barrel notes i ever had from a beer and it is from a brown ale?

These guys knows how to use the adjuncts and post fermentation procedures to the max.

Best brown ale i ever had.

Trying a local dubbel, it's alright.

>>8008636
One of the best quads out there, right up there with Rochefort 10 and Westy 12!

On this beer now, perhaps as good as it gets pilsner wise from germany in my opinion!

>>8008748
weihenstephaner
>pils

pls go

>>8008751
They make more beers than hefeweizens!

i brewed my own beer and bottled it last weekend. i know i'm supposed to wait two weeks after bottling for it to properly carbonate, but i'm gonna open one tomorrow night. i'm really nervous

>>8008760
yes, doesn't mean they should though.

>>8008748
probably the best I've had desu
finishing off with a nice westmalle

>>8008767
Sometimes they carb up in an week no problems, sometimes not. you will know once you pop the cap!

>>8008773
I like it, i imagine alot of other people do also. It´s okay to want a brewery to only brew what you like i guess, but market rules.

>>8008787
Never had their tripel! Probably should have as the only trappists i really like are the stronger ones!

>>8002988
I've had some 500ml bottles of TH stuff and it's great. Jean and Chris visited the brewery I work at during SXSW and I got to try one of the canned IPAs. Not usually my style, but it was very good.

>>8008748
I agree.

What do imperial stouts taste like?

>>8008860
flat coffee

ALL HAIL NITRO

>>8008860
Don´t listen to >>8008884

Go out and get one most ones in the style tastes mostly in style. get used to it though, finish the bottle and you will probably know if you will search the style out again or not!

organizing my dank. at least one of these boxes should probably be destroyed. the rest is good stuff

Been drinking a ton of Grimm, Other Half, Singlecut, and Finback lately. NY is just absolutely destroying it lately. I have had Trillium/Treehouse and it is worth the hype but these breweries are honestly about as good.

Right now I have a Other Half/Holy Mountain colab, a brett IPA, very good.

>>8009849
Also not from NY but I have been loving Paradox lately. I bought a couple of their beers after trying Pineapple Upside-Down Sour at a bar.

>>7994641
Goose island has been garbage since inbev bought it.

I've got a 1 pint .9 oz bottle Zyweic Porter I'm gonna try after a fish and potato dinner. What am I in store for?

>>7998398
Psychedelic beer ?

Tell me more about it, anon.

Drinking beer from my hometown they also make a blonde version of it.

>>8004537
You're not alone in thinking that. Ballast Point is decent beer, but nothing special. It's just a widely available, decent brewery.

>>8008622
Prairie is great! I had a pic related tonight, and enjoyed it a lot. They know their brewing, man.

>>8008860
Generally coffee, caramel, chocolate, oats, and other roasted stuff. Some lean towards bitter, others towards sweet. It really depends what's used in the brewing. Some good base/widely available ones to try are North Coast's Old Rasputin, Victory's Storm King, Great Divide's Yeti, AleSmith's Speedway Stout, and Bell's Expedition Stout.

>>8002086
I don't know anyone in Umeå, so I guess there's nothing I can do but to focus on the other available beers. Fortunately the selection seems quite alright overall.

>>8008405
Did you buy it from the Systembolaget shelf recently or did you have an old bottle stored at home? I'm trying to decide if I'm gonna delete that one from my buying list or not.

>>8008860
>>8008934
I suggest more than one attempt. Imperial stouts are a bit of an acquired taste there's no denying that so there's no need to panic if you don't love it the first time. Even I needed quite a few Guinness cans before I started to ACTUALLY liking stout. But after that I remember liking my first imperial straight away.

I just tasted a Westvleteren 12, and I gotta say it is just as good as people say.

It's a literal flavor explosion.

It's quite potent at 10.2% or so, but it's not at all too alcohol-y. At first you get a bit of yeast and alcohol, as is the norm for Belgian trappist beer, but then afterwards you get a huge kick of flavor all over your mouth. It fills your entire mouth and also warms you up.

Very, very good beer.

>>8002097
is that a plastic jug? i've been contemplating brewing my own beer forever now. would plastic fuck with the taste or quality?

>>8012077
There are food grade plastic containers that wouldn't leech any flavors to your beer

Just got me an ice cold sixer of Lone Star. Sometimes I just don't feel like drinking beer that tastes like chocolate grapefruit yeast berries. Sometimes a man just wants a damn can of cold beer.

Got a 3 pack of this stuff for free since my friend didn't like it. They only drink mich golden and spotted cow so I was confused as to why they got a lambic. Oh well, it's great! Really tart from the cranberries but easy drinking. Most fruit beers from NG are great and this one is no different.

>>8011385

>you get a huge kick of flavor all over your mouth. It fills your entire mouth and also warms you up

>>8010425
Fucking love Prairie. Not for Bomb/their stouts though, but for their farmhouse ales and brett ales/sours. Prairie does funk like nobody else.

I have their Weiss, Prairie Vous Francais and Funky Mosaic in my fridge right now. Waiting on their Prairie Ace next.

>>7994228
logan?

>>7994228
>one time only
>taste like nothing remarkable and shitty
>hoppiness ruins what flavor the beer had
> doesnt even get me drunk anymore
2/10

>>8013115
Why do you have a trip on /ck/?
Also
>trusting the west coast with anything oktoberfest

>>8013151
east coat cunt retard
too drunk to be anon.
obviously arguing with redditor isnt going to make me drink less.
>> forget le meme arrows

Just finished a can of the latest batch of Finback's Oscillation (IPA). Fucking amazing, just as good as Treehouse/Trillium

Goddamn. Sometimes a beer is so good you enjoy just smelling it and this was one of them.

Mango, Papaya, Guava, Pineapple, Orange Juice, - Grapefruit, Pine/Resin on the finish - world class IPA right here.

Not to mention the can is aesthetic as fuck.

Tonight's a go to standard

>>8013159
Midwest, actually. You know, the place where all the Germans migrated to? Stick to the cervezas senor

Just bought this from the backroom at work. Can't wait to drink some tomorrow on my day off.

Barrel aging seems to be the new "thing" with beer as is reviving old beer styles like Gose.

>>8013159

>filtered

Drinking this tonight, it's too alcoholic, too hoppy, and too sweet. One hell of a combination. Good thing I have some Sprecher to fall back on tomorrow.

apricot ale for you !

that's a great one for st ambroise

Any of you guys try sorghum beer? Specifically Bard's.

I don't really care about my gluten levels but it sounds worth trying.

One of the best goddamn sours I've ever had.

>>8011385

How does one get a hold of Westvleteren?

>>8013822
Are you drinking their double/doppelbock? That shit is sickly sweet. I like their stout and their wiezen tbqh

IPAs and their cousins are still hot in the beer community but I think Stouts are what American brewers do better.

Everyone is going nuts with Oktoberfest beers and it isn't even Fall yet. Dafuq

Here I go, friends. A fitting beer for this warm late summer day.

>>8015978
Wow. Now this is very different from most beers I've tried recently.

Not exceptionally hoppy whatsoever. It is very creamy in mouthfeel and I got a good bit of molasses or caramel taste along with a bourbon oaky flavor. Overall it is malty, almost sweet. I don't know the ABV but I'd guess around 10%.

anyone here tried lambic beer?

I made my own thread because I didn't see a thread about beer after briefly skimming because I'm an idiot. I don't come to this board very often

I bought a pack of this Gordon Biersch fall variety pack with blonde bock, Czech-style Pilsner, Marzen, and fest bier

Is Gordon Biersch any good? Or is it mass produced garbage

>>8016116
Have you never had a scotch ale? They're one of my favorite styles
>>8016308
Do you think it's good? That's all that really matters

>>8016373
I don't know, I haven't drank it yet. It's only 1:20 where I live. I'll probably only drink one later tonight and then try the other three tomorrow

>>8016415
Do the pils first. If a brewery can make a decent pils it usually means the other beer they make is good.

>>8016373
>Have you never had a scotch ale?
Never. But I think I'm in love. This is the exact opposite of all the craft beers crammed with hoppes I've been trying lately. I could drink this all day.

>>8016457
Founders dirty Bastard should be your next stop. Old Chub from Oskar blues is also good

>>8016580
Thanks man, I know for a fact both of those are at my workplace too so I'll pick them up. I really like how different this is. Most beer geeks are all bout "muh hoppes muh bitter" but this is a delicious refreshing change.

>>8016601
This is also a great one, but can be hard to find

>>8016610
Yea I know we don't have that one. I'll certainly get the other two you mentioned though.

>hurr Yuengling is a southern beer

Whoever keeps saying this shit, please fucking kill yourself.

First time having Bass. For a dollar a bottle it's actually not that bad. I was expecting it to be a lot worse.

>>8008814
Cool. Tired Hands is selling a ton of very expensive beers and the brewers seem like they've been on a world tour this past year and making new collaboration brews all the time.

Working at a brewery sounds cool.

Finally got a hold of this this weekend, and it's absolutely worth the reputation.

I don't mean this to be hyperbole, but it's simply working on a level beyond almost every other beer I've ever had in my life. The flavor profile is complex, bizarre, and yet incredibly well balanced, exciting, and delicious. It was like a religious experience for beer.

>>8014770
I was. It tasted like bad wine.

I've got a Sprecher variety pack with a DB, a Dunkel, a Belgian ale, and an amazing brew called "Black Bavarian". I bought it for the Black Bavarian and the DB, but I've only had one of the Black Bavarians so far. I remember drinking some of their Amber Lager a while back, and it was refreshing. I look forward to trying more of their offerings.

>>8017684
They make pretty good soda too. Whenever I get soda, which is maybe once a year, it's Sprecher.

>>7998431
No, you don't. I do, but it's mostly for looks and for fun.

That said, you should have at least one tulip glass. It will be better -- for almost everything -- than that pint glass.

If you drink IPAs, though, that spiegelau IPA glass is legit. Same for the stout glass if you drink stouts. Skip the hefeweizen glass.

>>8002087
Get a gose. Anderson Valley's Briney Melon is my go-to after yard work.

>>8008860
Usually several of any number of things.

Dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, plums, figs, cherries, raisins, licorice, toffee, burnt toast, chilies, molasses, clove, smoke, roasted unmalted barley. . .

>>8013115
I had this at a bar the other day, and while I liked it way more than 2/10, it was too sweet.

>>8015903
Well, Cigar City tapped their on-site exclusive literally the second day of my Tampa vacation that had me a block from their brewery. You damn well better believe I had it.

Along with a delicious pan pizza from a food truck outside.

>>8017180
Other things I had on this trip:

Finally had Marshal Zhukov's imperial stout, and it was good enough I'd have thought it was one of those crazy limited releases that you store in your cellar.

Also had my first cask beer, and it was a delicious orange IPA. I don't even like IPAs, but it was great.

Tried Cubano Espresso and Caffe Americano. Both great, but I'd had both before.

Also had a pint of Good Gourd, which remains the best pumpkin beer in the business.

>2016
>not exclusively drinking rare sours

I'm a poor fag in boston that had a bad episode with keystone light and now I can't touch the stuff anymore. What cheap ass bear should I get?

>>8018543
BLATZ
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>>8018468
Is it supposed to look like carbonated wine?

>>8017180
Very cool, I guess you were at Cigar City's brewery? I've never been there but traded a guy for a bottle of Hunahpu that I have not opened yet. I'm excited to try it but feel like I need to wait for a special occasion!

>>8018543
>Boston
Trillium is where you should go. I'm sorry that you're a poorfag but at least go and buy a 4 pack of Fort Point or Congress Street and try it. I don't live in Boston so I can't access them but I've traded for Trillium twice now and everything I've had was incredible. It's not cheap but it is worth trying.

>>8017684
>sprecher makes beer
Why did i not know this before

>>8011385
Is it really much better than the other Trappist quads?

I left a bottle of this in the fridge about a year ago. Is it still good to drink? Can I leave it in there longer?

>>8020312
Yes it is still fine. High abv beers generally are not going to become bad anytime soon.

With beers like imperial stouts (Woot Stout is one), some people intentionally age the beers for many years. Stone's Russian Imperial Stout is a common one for this and there's a thing people do called a "vertical", which means opening bottles from consecutive years and comparing how their flavor has developed.

After 5+ years it is unpredictable and there is a chance that any beer might change for the worse but it also might keep developing. Your Woot Stout isn't any worse than it was a year ago, it's potentially better.

>>8020428
also, if it is in the fridge then the aging is slower so your bottle is even more definitely fine.

>>8018468
Ive discovered that I really love sours. Have any recommendations?

>>8020452
What area do you live in?

>>8019946
That's where Sprecher started, man. They're more known for their soda nowadays though so I can't blame you.

Take a tour of their brewery if you can. Neat place.

>>8020428
>>8020433
cheers, maybe I'll try stow it away a little longer then

>>8020312
I'd look it up and see what others say. Straight imperial stouts age fine, but some specialty stouts can lose a lot of the extra flavor that went into it. I'd just drink it this winter desu.

>>8010425
>>8012845
Great brewery indeed. Damn if i did not like the Coffee Okie more than the Bomb, and the bomb is right up there on the stout list as well!

>>8010873
Bought the Neb from SB recently and it came from their central hub as my local one did not carry it any more. Remember i could get it fresher when they did strangely.

>>8013115
I will try it out just to know if you are right or not!

>>8016610
Is that some old Traquair i see, From what i heard the brewery was defunct for some time and just recently came back! Had their house ale and loved it!

Some really sweet stout is on the menu tonight. Leave it to the scands to make the best fat stouts out there!
Very sweet and quite thick, for me it could have done with even more coffee tones!

>>8008622
i have one of those sitting in my beer crates. Great beer.

>>8020312
its just fine. Ive had one in my beer crates for about a year now. Great beer.

>>8023109
Don´t sit on it to long or you will lose most of the coffee!

>>8023130
good to know

>>8023079
Yeah an older liquor store had some! I had the one that had coriander? Or something brewed in it. It was great. Didn't realize it was all that rare for a bit. Wouldve snatched up the rest if I had!

>>8023226
Be happy for what you got i guess! Most people will never get to taste the stuff. Hell not alot of people will even try the current stuff!
Great ale it was.

>>8023079
I agree about Imperial Biscotti Break because I've never tasted much coffee in it. This year in the USA it suddenly became an almost budget-tier beer though which was amazing. It used to be in 20$ bombers but I got cans for $14 a 4-pack this summer and it's fantastic beer for that price. They all sold out though and I haven't found more.

>>8018468

Blend 3? How did you like it? I still have some Blend 1 and a shitload of 2. Just got some Blend 3 thanks to my sister but haven't had a chance to try it out.

>>8018942

Yes.

>>8016308
So I tried them all

Pretty shit as I expected desu, but oh well, it was on sale and now I know.

Just had that bland diabetic piss taste

Had my obligatory "slumming it" session with some of this "craft" beer I got at the store

Had a few sips, expanded my palate, dumped the rest, washed out my mouth with hydrogen peroxide, and opened an occhipinti sp68. Much better!

I wonder when rustics will stop pretending to like beer just to avoid getting beaten up by the local anti-culture patrol

>>8024241

As if you weren't already a shitty tripfag, are you really trying to pawn that off as OC?

>>8024262
>doesn't know what OC stands for

>>8024241
>Mikkeller
overpriced

>>8020452
Everything from Alvinne is good. Most Gueuze and Oude Gueuze will also work well.

easy does it

>>8024274
Clearly he is very aware of what OC means.
What do YOU think it means, tripfaggot?

>>8024274
Forgot to turn your trip off again, Meatprick.
Are you an alcoholic or crackhead?

>>8020581
Pittsburgh

>>8001697
THE CRUNK MONK

Tried this tonight, pretty good gose, would recommend. Also picked up >>8023079 but as a 4-pack of pint cans. I like ET a lot.

>>8027180
Try to get something from Jolly Pumpkin like Bam Biere. Or Free Will's sour beers if they sell them there (I know I can get them in Philadelphia)

>>8028226
Does it actually taste like seaweed or is it similar to a normal gose?

I'm drinking this gose tonight and it's really good and actually available in 6 packs so I'm going to get more. I wish Gose Gone Wild were in cans.

>>8027040
I find your false dichotomies problematic
>>8027037
OC means Objections to Carnism

just pulled out a prairie pirate bomb to have tonight.

>>8028554
There's definitely more saltiness to it than say, SN's Otra Vez. Very citrusy, mostly lemon and some herby stuff and then salt. It's good.

Very few complaints about pic related. Very sweet, but I knew that and could of picked a more bitter stout if I wanted.

Anyone here ever had this? It was just released a couple weeks ago and I picked up a six pack earlier today at the local liquor store.

It tastes great. Has a nice fruity flavor and decent amount of hops. Would buy again

>>7997803
westmalle isnt bad

>>7997864
very good but a tad overrated. I would go as far to say the 8 is better. 6 is also superb though.

>>7998223
I hate this beer.

>>8001697
It's good. but way overrated. On the same level as the westy 12

>>8002436
christmas one was decent though the regular brews are better imo

>>8008636
YOU ARE USING THE WRONG GLASS. kidding.

>>8008748
super good for a weiss, prefer erdinger though

>>8020150
no way. West 12 is very good but I would prefer a rochefort 10 over it in all honesty. The 12 is good but can border on too sour/bitter of an aftertaste making it a bit less pleasant than that of a rochefort 10 for example. It depends though, how you serve the beer/your own taste. Personally my absolute favorite trappist beer, though not a quad is the Tre fontane. Spectacular beer, and it's made by the italians!

>>8028991
>very good but a tad overrated. I would go as far to say the 8 is better. 6 is also superb though.

Jup. Would buy it more often if it was €3 as in the brewery, but it costs over €10 in stores, for that I'd rather get the Rochefort 10 or Abt 12.

>>8028990
I'll give it a try! Fall ipas are the best ipas. A brewery near me has an event where they let anyone come through and help harvest hops for their fall ipa. It's kind of cool.

Great coffee taste in this one!

>>8030934
Looks a little thin bodied

>>8031021
Only 7,5% ABV so that is expected.

A bit worn out. Didn't survive the journey to Finland too well despite having a decent date stamp. Some decent grassy hops towards the bottom of the glass though and salt minerals.

Off to my last beer, a tiny shitty malt liquor. I don't have many beers tonight, I never planned to actually drink in the first place and didn't plan accordingly. Sorry for causing depression.

Left hand really knows how to make stouts. Very nice export stout.

Had this tonight, was very tasty. The rye was a nice touch.

Vacation keg dead! On the downside i ripped the hopping bag when pulling it out the empty keg.Plus side, wonderful beer that made my summer beerwise!

>>8030934
All of the Modern Times beers I've tried were very good. They seem to be expanding and I hope they come to the east coast eventually.

>>8028822
Evil Twin's imperial stouts are dangerous man. They're all pretty high ABV and hide it freakishly well. Some can be a bit too sweet/rich for me though.

>>7994228

CTRL + F
>no sierra nevada torpedo

come on now fellas

>>8032352

>come on now fellas

Beer generals are a little more refined than hot sauce generals, where people just list their favorite hot sauces they can find at Walmart, ad infinitum.

I had Indian food for dinner tonight and drank a 24oz Taj Mahal, but even that is barely worth mentioning.

>>8032352
I got burned the last time I bought it and it was old but when fresh it's a good beer. Sierra Nevada is the best value.

I tried this Gose beer in the Sam Adams Summer variety pack. It was an interesting beer, anyone have any recommendations?

Really loving Old Speckled Hen and a couple other british ales, It's hard to find a ton of them in LA though. Only a couple bars carry them.

>>8032438

I spent the last few years in New England and it seemed like every other bar had OSH on tap.

>>8032401
Miller high life

>>8032382
Seriously, Sierra Nevada is based, especially for the price

>>8032401
Sierra nevada otra vez.

Drinking a few of these. Favorite year round beer from NG easily. I got a whole bunch of NG shit from my aunt and uncle a week ago so it's all I've been drinking really. Next time I'm in wisconsin though I want to try anything from Karben4.
Not my picture btw

I recently discovered traditional witbier and it's pretty good. 6.0%+ abv don't hurt either. Pic related is what I get when I don't have 20 bucks to spend on a six pack.

>>8006353
Don't know that one, but a lot of unfounded hate for Sam Adams. Sure it's not great but for a basic "Can find just about anywhere" lager, it's fantastic. Cold Snap and Oktoberfest are also great.

Does beer expire? I got a couple of almost decade old cans of Budweiser

>>8035307

Budweiser tastes like shit when it's fresh, so it shouldn't make too much of a difference.

>>8034326
K4's Fantasy Factory and Idiot Farm are both excellent

Oh my God. AVOID "HARD ROOT BEER". So called "root beer" that is just vanilla flavored malt liquor.

I have never had diarreah like this before. I keep almost shitting my pants and running to the toilet. This is right after drinking it, not even getting a nights sleep first. This is terrible. Specific brand is Canadian "madjack hard root beer" by molson-coors.