Beer thread.

[Anonymous No.8375995]

Post beers.

Here is Greene King IPA, a traditional Indian Pale Ale made in Suffolk, in the rural East Anglia of England.

"Indian Pale Ales" are just pale ales - the "India" comes from the fact that these beers were made with extra hops, to preserve them on the journey to India, where the British Raj would drink them during colonialist times.

It's a very tasty beer.

[Anonymous No.8376004]

Gonna go get a couple bottles of this for the snow storm tonight.

[Anonymous No.8376135]

>>8375995
where are you from, friend

ipa is done to death, i like a nice stout

[Anonymous No.8376167]

>>8376004
Nice. Is that Canadian? Judging from the French, and that map on the bottle looks like Quebec.

>>8376135
South of England but I worked/lived in Ipswich for a year. One time I went to Bury St. Edmunds for a night out, it's a nice place.

Anyway, I disagree with you my friend, IPA is making a big comeback.

Obviously you've got all the trendy "craft beers" like Sierra Nevada, Goose Island, Brew Dog, and more independent stuff than that.

I got into those beers a few years ago because it was the "trendy" and "cool" thing at the time.

Then I thought why the fuck aren't I drinking something like Greene King IPA? It's LITERALLY THE SAME KIND OF BEER as Goose Island IPA, the only difference is that the trendy youth associate English IPAs with fat old men with beer bellies.

But what does that have to do with the taste and quality of a beer? It's just fucking branding. So now I drink proper English IPAs and I don't give a fuck if some smarmy hipster thinks I'm out of touch. In fact I'm a POST-hipster. I'm so alternative, I'm even more alternative than they are.

Also I like that English bitters are served a little less cold than other beers. They're still cold, just don't give me fucking brain freeze. So I like that. Especially in the winter.

[Anonymous No.8376775]

Posting another.

Boddingtons. Real tasty beer. Well it's not very strong flavoured but I like that. I like strongly flavoured beers too - strong hoppy pale ales, dark ales like Hobgoblin too. But sometimes you just want something palette cleansing, y'know? That's where Boddies comes in.

Tastes very pleasant. The smooth creamy foam is a lot like Guinness - like Guinness, it's achieved by adding nitrogen, which creates a micro-foam of very fine bubbles for a smooth texture.

[Anonymous No.8376788]

>>8376775

[Anonymous No.8376790]

>>8376788
Metrosexual lager-drinking faggot detected

[Anonymous No.8376830]

>starting a beer thread with Green King
>Saying it's tasty

End your life mate. Do you actually know anything about good English beer? All Green king is piss.
Find a decent independent brewery with a decent IPA before you start trying to drop knowledge like a smug cunt.

[Anonymous No.8376846]

Probably drinking at the bar tonight to celebrate one more successful finals week. Only one more to go.
PBR or bust

[Anonymous No.8376853]

>>8376830
I'M ENGLISH YOU CUNT

WHY DON'T YOU SHOVE ONE UP YOUR ARSE BEFORE TRYING TO ACT LIKE A SMUG CUNT

There's literally nothing fucking wrong with Greene King and it is, in fact, FUCKING DELICIOUS

Sure it's not as strong tasting as other pale ales, but I don't always WANT something strong tasting. Strong beers can get real fucking tiresome if you drink them all the time (which I did for a while).

Fuck off, you don't know shit. Propose a beer or fuck off.

[Anonymous No.8376893]

Another beer, Hobgoblin.

Dark and tasty. A very nice, traditional English beer.

[Anonymous No.8376900]

>>8376853
Calm the fuck down
Greene King is mass market garbage, it's the Carling of the Ale world. Bland, boring, weak. It has no substance to it.

Not all beer has to be 10000% to be delicious and it doesn't have to be in your face all the time but Greene King is bad even for a low strength session beer.

I know more than you by the sound of it, try some of these breweries, they all have a great selection of all sorts of stuff
>Osset Brewery
>Salopian
>Acorn Brewery
>Thornbridge
>Saltaire Brewery
>Titanic Brewery

Pretty much every beer all those breweries make is much better than Greene King.

[Anonymous No.8377624]

>>8376900
>muh opinion is more right than yours based on my opinions and tastes

sounds about right

[Anonymous No.8377729]

>>8375995
>>8376167
>>8376775
>>8376893
You're very new to beer, aren't you? Everyone has had all of these before.

[Anonymous No.8377734]

>>8375995
Preserve is a funny way of saying mask the taste of spoiled beer

[Anonymous No.8377743]

>>8376893
>not even wearing orange
>no goblin glider
>no pumpkin bombs
Far and away the worst Hobgoblin I've ever encountered.

[Anonymous No.8377787]

>>8377734
I have really bad news about jerky and salami brah.

[Anonymous No.8377885]

>>8377787
But salting actually preserves food

whereas IPA's where invented cause normal ales made in England and shipped to India would taste spoiled

[Anonymous No.8377895]

>>8377885
Hops act as a natural preservative in beer, like salt. The world is at your fingertips

[Anonymous No.8377902]

Got a three pack of this, double chocolate stout and the india ale with the nice glass for like $10.

[Anonymous No.8378388]

green king is shit
btfo southerners

[Anonymous No.8378392]

>>8376775

[Anonymous No.8378393]

>>8376790
its more you have a pleb taste in beers

[Anonymous No.8379259]

>>8377902
I have one of these in fridge (took back from trip to usa with few other stouts). How good is it (or bad)?

[Anonymous No.8379702]

>IPA
>ever

bitter tastes for a bitter soul

[Anonymous No.8379842]

What's the best Czech/Polish/Slovakian/Eastern European beer?

I've always wanted to try them but never had the chance.

[Anonymous No.8379862]

>>8375995
For me, it's Budweiser, an American classic.

[Anonymous No.8380176]

>>8375995
Drinking this. Getting through a lot of St. Louis seasonals this month.

Better than Schlafly's coffee stout but I honestly wish I'd bought another peanut butter stout bomber instead of a four pack of these.

[Anonymous No.8380182]

>>8376775
>>8377902

embarrassing

[Anonymous No.8380193]

>>8375995 (OP)
Drinking this. Getting through a lot of St. Louis seasonals this month.

Better than Schlafly's coffee stout but I honestly wish I'd bought another peanut butter stout bomber instead of a four pack of these.

[Anonymous No.8380209]

>>8380182
What's embarassing about about Samuel Smith? Or are you just insecure about yourself?

[Anonymous No.8380451]

[Anonymous No.8380465]

Just opened this after a bit at the bar. It's quite malty and chocolatey. The bourbon barrel adds just a bit of bitterness. The 11% ABV is very quickly felt but not too strong in the taste. As a good stout should it feels heavy in the mouth.

I really like it.

[Anonymous No.8380767]

>>8379702
English style IPAs and the new wave of overhopped American IPAs are two totally different beasts.

[Anonymous No.8380793]

I buy this 4 pack as long as it is in season. It rivals $20 4-packs for $13.

[Anonymous No.8380878]

>>8380767
Pls explain. I'm American and IPAs have gone off the fucking wall with IBUs and hops. It's unbearable.

[Anonymous No.8381763]

>>8375995
Best IPA is pic related. Ever. In the world. The best.

[Anonymous No.8381800]

Excellent thread, OP. You're really skewering 'em. I imagine half these newfriends have yet to even sup 'pon a freshly-pulled Hobgoblin

[Anonymous No.8381813]

I love this thread because here in the USA it makes it look like the UK is trying to break into the craft beer market when in fact most of these breweries and beers have existed since before the "brewmasters" churning out Racer 5 and other such memes were given a birth cert :^^^^)

[Anonymous No.8381829]

>>8376900
seconding thornbridge, delicious stout

[Anonymous No.8381834]

>>8379842
honestly, ive never had a good one from bottle, but on draft when I was in prague it all made sense. they're designed to be best when really fresh on tap, they don't travel well in my experience.

i liked kozel dark, but it's fairly ubiquitous in CZ.

[Anonymous No.8381876]

Wheat beer is objectively the best tasting beer

[Anonymous No.8381962]

>>8380878
They are still hoppy but not as intensely hopped as American ones. Malt flavours are more pronounced and often have a biscuity or caramelly characters.

At least that's from my experience, I haven't had a massive amount of English IPAs.

[Anonymous No.8382118]

>>8381876
I disagree. I find Irish reds a bit better.

[Anonymous No.8382356]

>>8375995
Innis and gunn IPA was quite nice, too bad it basically disappeared from the supermarket I usually go to.

[Anonymous No.8382362]

>>8381876
I think it's the most accessible, but not the best.

[Anonymous No.8382472]

>>8382362
Really? Most people seem to dislike wheat beers unless they're really into beer.

[Anonymous No.8382479]

>>8382472
I've found the opposite. Everyone I've gotten into beer has started with a good wheat.

[Anonymous No.8382514]

>>8375995
Best Japanese beer that I've had

[Anonymous No.8382548]

>>8375995
Greene King is like the shit-tierest of shit-tier ales. It's exclusively sold in Weatherspoons which is full of societies undesirables anyway...