What makes a good beer?

Post by **Bfowler** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:18 am

haha, brett...he is German...giving him a pretty distinct advantage.

bretti_kivi · Post by **bretti_kivi** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:39 am

Ich habe doch lange in Odenwald gewohnt und arbeitete in Frankfurt. War Ok, aber das ist inzwischen ziemlich lange her.

Nunja: kannst du Bananeweizen erklären? und warum hat Kristall normaleweise ein Stück Zitrone drinne?

Bret

El-Akeem · Post by **El-Akeem** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:09 am

What do you mean with "explaining" Bananenweizen?

Is it so uncommon in the rest of the world?

Warum Kristallweizen mitunter mit ner Zitrone serviert wird? Eigentlich weiß ich es gar nicht, aber ich vermute, weil es damit erfrischender ist.

Post by **stipud** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:14 am

I have never seen or heard of Bananenweizen, but by god, I need to try it.

paul port · Post by **paul port** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:04 pm

I think there is a Beer for every situation; the most important thing is to have the choice available...

I remember going to the Strassenfest in Jasper IN one year, and all they served was Bud & Miller!

We get quite a good range of Import Beers over here, Actually I bought some Estonian VIRU from the supermarket yesterday - very nice it was too..

Personally, if it's a really hot day, and I'm sat outside in the Sun - Something refreshing like a 'Coors Light' or a 'Heineken cold filtered' works very well. If it's a cold day and I'm indoors, I'd go with a more local Bitter - 'Fullers London Pride' or my Kentish local 'S&N Spitfire / Bishops Finger'

I'll always try an drink the local stuff if I'm travelling...Even if the locals don't think much of it. In both Mexico and Hong Kong I've been offered 'special promotion' on Heineken, they just don't get it when I say "I didn't travel half way round the world to drink That!"
Just because it's easy to get, don't turn your nose up at you local brew - it may be someone else's Gold!...

Paul

Post by **Bfowler** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:14 am

^if you ever find yourself in Oregon...prepare to loose count of the beers you'll try

TiEcs · Post by **TiEcs** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:56 am

stipud wrote:I have never seen or heard of Bananenweizen, but by god, I need to try it.

If you want to try beers you never heard about, I can gif this LINK with all Belgian beers. I'm pretty convinced there will be some beers you won't know.

bretti_kivi · Post by **bretti_kivi** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:16 am

was in the Pub last week and did the Double Chocolate stout - not bad at all

looking forward to next weekend in Holland!

Bret

Post by **stipud** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:32 am

TiEcs wrote:If you want to try beers you never heard about, I can gif this LINK with all Belgian beers. I'm pretty convinced there will be some beers you won't know.

Very nice.

Boon Kriek! Gotta be one of my favorite fruit beers. And it comes in a mini champagne bottle

TiEcs · Post by **TiEcs** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:15 pm

stipud wrote:Boon Kriek! Gotta be one of my favorite fruit beers. And it comes in a mini champagne bottle

Nice choice, is not the sweet tasting kriek, but more the sour version, but you taste the cherries very well. The nice part is that I have been to this brewery, and it is a small familly brewery. some pictures:

rlockwood · Post by **rlockwood** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:00 pm

just chillin, enjoying some tims jalapeno chips and some obsidian stout.. God I love the PNW.

Post by **stipud** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 8:48 am

TiEcs wrote:
stipud wrote:Boon Kriek! Gotta be one of my favorite fruit beers. And it comes in a mini champagne bottle
Nice choice, is not the sweet tasting kriek, but more the sour version, but you taste the cherries very well. The nice part is that I have been to this brewery, and it is a small familly brewery. some pictures:

Wow, you are lucky!! Thanks for posting those pictures!

5.9Limited · Post by **5.9Limited** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:37 am

i agree that germany has some goodies...my dad lived there for five years and orders his favs now and then...however I live in Vermont and we've got a lot of great brews up here...Im a sam adams fan myself but you should all look into a few of Long trail's brews like blackberry wheat, their octoberfest is good as well, as well as the original brew, magic hat is up here they make a lot of really different brews, some strong and some fairly weird ones in my opinion but hey you might dig 'em , and a fairly new Micro brew called Switchback..As far as I know that ones available on draft only,,,.one of my favs for sure...

rlockwood · Post by **rlockwood** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:52 pm

I dont know how common Widmer brewing co. (the makers of "Drop Top Ale, Broken Halo, and some other so called "micro brew") is around the rest of the country, but atleast in the PNW its pretty common. I just wanted to rant a bit about them, as I believe they make the most overrated beer on the planet. They must have the best damned marketing team on the planet, because about everyone my age seems to be in love with their empty tasting beers. I think they fall under the corona category. Most of them simply have no flavor and are severely under hopped. Others (specifically their hefeweizen) actually make my lips hurt for some unknown reason. The thing that set this rant off was the reccomendation of their "Brrr" seasonal ale by a waitress at a restaurant, which tasted like it was seasoned with potpourri (the beer, not the waitress)

Theres nothing like buying one budweiser for the price of 3..

arg.

rlockwood · Post by **rlockwood** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:11 pm

^ dont even recall posting that.. ugh.

anyways, picked up (3) of these 64oz dead guy ales. Ones going to my dad for christmas

The bottle is very nice.. I'm not the type to hang onto things like this, but they're painted and glow in the dark..

bretti_kivi · Post by **bretti_kivi** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:36 am

Glow in the dark bottles? OOOOOkkkaaay.....

The dommelsch I had in Amersfoort wasn't bad. Looking forward to the Christmas ales here - but they'll all be 8%+

Bret

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:30 am

I've had that Dead Guy Ale quite a few times. Enjoyable, it is.

I also found a really nice local brew in San Fran when I was down there but I don't recall what it was... something about steam though... but not a simple steam ale.

rlockwood · Post by **rlockwood** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:36 am

fuzzysnuggleduck wrote:I've had that Dead Guy Ale quite a few times. Enjoyable, it is.

I also found a really nice local brew in San Fran when I was down there but I don't recall what it was... something about steam though... but not a simple steam ale.

I would put $5 on it being...............
Steam Pumper IPA, perhaps?

by random chance, I got a 6 pack of it last night as well. VERY good IMO.

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:42 am

rlockwood wrote:
fuzzysnuggleduck wrote:I've had that Dead Guy Ale quite a few times. Enjoyable, it is.

I also found a really nice local brew in San Fran when I was down there but I don't recall what it was... something about steam though... but not a simple steam ale.
I would put $5 on it being...............
Steam Pumper IPA, perhaps?

by random chance, I got a 6 pack of it last night as well. VERY good IMO.

It was Anchor Steam, I just looked it up

rlockwood · Post by **rlockwood** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:06 am

well, steam pumper is from cali.. and has the word steam in it.. and its good. In fact, I think you're mistaken. It was definitely steam pumper you had.

TiEcs · Post by **TiEcs** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 12:10 am

I want to share the following beer with the Pg fans.
It's called "Westvleteren". It is still brewed in the monastery, and is sold by 1 crate a person/car/phone number,
after reservation by phone.
In 2005 it was highlighted as "Best Beer in the World"

Lets say it's like a MS1000 in the beers

Very rare, and hard to get.

Cheers !!!

Wikipedia has a nice page HERE

And it looks like this: