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Beer thread? Beer thread! Beer Thread.
2010-08-25, 1:52 PM #81
He was on SportsNation... yesterday, I think? Unfortunately, his contract doesn't allow him to use the voice except in Dos Equis commercials (or so I've heard, anyway). He's not nearly as impressive without it.
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2010-08-25, 1:54 PM #82
Dos Equis is actually pretty great. Don't drink the XX Especial, it's the XX Amber Lager you want. The Especial just tastes like corona.
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2010-08-25, 2:11 PM #83
Originally posted by Flirbnic:
Oh, and there's american style wheat beer, which is basically just water.


Bull****. Sure, your Belgian white Blue Moon and Shock Top are pretty bland, but there are plenty of American microbrew wheat beers that are excellent.
2010-08-25, 2:54 PM #84
Originally posted by Trigger Happy Chewie:
Bull****. Sure, your Belgian white Blue Moon and Shock Top are pretty bland, but there are plenty of American microbrew wheat beers that are excellent.


I'm sure there are. And I'm sure the reason they're excellent is because they aren't "american style wheat beer". I'm not using the term to refer to all American-made wheat beers--it's a specific style.
I'm just a little boy.
2010-08-25, 2:55 PM #85
What's an American-style wheat beer, then? Anything specific?
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2010-08-25, 3:03 PM #86
I've never looked up the specifics, but every time I've tasted a wheat beer labelled as "american style", even from craft breweries and my favourite local brewpub, it has been fairly watery and flavourless, and served with a slice of orange.
I'm just a little boy.
2010-08-25, 4:40 PM #87
Just made a trip to the beer store after work, yay.

[http://imgur.com/UkizH.jpg]
2010-08-25, 8:48 PM #88
Oooooh Stone's Self-Righteous. Good choice.
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2010-08-25, 11:35 PM #89
I got this ****ing Shiner Mesquite BS what is this. lol. It's hilarious. I feel like I'm eating meat when I drink it.
2010-08-26, 8:34 AM #90
Originally posted by dalf:
Oooooh Stone's Self-Righteous. Good choice.


Oskar Blues Ten FIDY, too. I love that stuff, but I almost never buy it because the price is so high. Southern Star Buried Hatchet is a much more reasonable option for me.
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2010-08-26, 8:39 AM #91
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2010-08-26, 6:47 PM #92
I've been digging Ninkasi's Tricerahops.
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2010-08-26, 9:49 PM #93
People of Massassi.

Do I open a 3rd Stone IPA tonight?
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2010-08-26, 10:13 PM #94
Yes.

I ask the same question... Do I pour a 6th shot of Wild Turkey?
>>untie shoes
2010-08-26, 11:00 PM #95
3rd IPA it is!
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2010-08-26, 11:08 PM #96
Man I had Bud Light for the first time tonight, a schooner o' that **** after a schooner of Shiner, and the point of the story is this: At the bar I met a deaf guy, and we conversed via a notepad and pen he had on him, and it was really an incredible/fascinating, not to mention unexpected, turn of events for the night.
2010-08-27, 8:14 AM #97
[http://beeradvocate.com/im/beers/24699.jpg] x24

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2010-09-01, 6:29 PM #98
Just drank that Alaskan Summer Ale during my fantasy football draft. Damn fine kolsch.

As for the American-style wheat beer thing, it's tricky because that's kind of a catch-all category that can include anything from Three Floyds Gumballhead (awesome) to Breckenridge FS15 (totally different but awesome) to Widmer Hefeweizen (kind of weak, and definitely not an actual hefeweizen). Not every wheat beer has to be in a classic German or Belgian style to be good, but I can see where Flirbnic is coming from. A lot beers end up in that category precisely because they don't have any of the characteristics that make German and Belgian wheat beers interesting.
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2010-09-01, 7:01 PM #99
Originally posted by Michael MacFarlane:
Just drank that Alaskan Summer Ale during my fantasy football draft. Damn fine kolsch.

As for the American-style wheat beer thing, it's tricky because that's kind of a catch-all category that can include anything from Three Floyds Gumballhead (awesome) to Breckenridge FS15 (totally different but awesome) to Widmer Hefeweizen (kind of weak, and definitely not an actual hefeweizen). Not every wheat beer has to be in a classic German or Belgian style to be good, but I can see where Flirbnic is coming from. A lot beers end up in that category precisely because they don't have any of the characteristics that make German and Belgian wheat beers interesting.


I suspect that "american style wheat beer", as a self-labelled style of beer, isn't a catch-all category but a label used by breweries outside of the States to indicate a very light and watery style. Most of the "american style wheat beers" I've had were made in Canada, after all.
I'm just a little boy.
2010-09-01, 7:52 PM #100
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2010-09-01, 8:28 PM #101
Originally posted by Flirbnic:
I suspect that "american style wheat beer", as a self-labelled style of beer, isn't a catch-all category but a label used by breweries outside of the States to indicate a very light and watery style. Most of the "american style wheat beers" I've had were made in Canada, after all.


That may be true. I don't think I've ever had anything that claimed, on the label, to be an American-style wheat.
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2010-09-03, 5:41 PM #102
For starting off the Labor Day Weekend it is a sixer of this
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2010-09-03, 5:44 PM #103
And for Saturday and sunday it will be a case of this and that


Oh dear God!
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2010-09-03, 6:31 PM #104
http://www.newglarusbrewing.com/Beers.cfm?BeerID=2

Some delicious brown ale from New Glarus, WI.
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2010-09-03, 7:47 PM #105
Originally posted by Darth Dan:
For starting off the Labor Day Weekend it is a sixer of this

SNPA, not a bad choice. I probably would have gone with their Torpedo IPA. I have a thing for IPAs and it's not a whole lot more.
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2010-09-04, 2:48 AM #106
Dammit, llibja. I would kill everyone I like to get the full range of New Glarus beers in Texas. I'd kill at least one person to get New Glarus here at all.

As for SN Pale vs. SN Torpedo: On the one hand, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale might very well be the single best American pale ale, while Torpedo is just one of many excellent American IPAs.

On the other hand, Torpedo just has much bigger, bolder flavors, and I personally would rather drink a Torpedo than an SNPA.
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2010-09-04, 3:26 AM #107
[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Duvel_beer.jpg/287px-Duvel_beer.jpg]
I had one of these at a restaurant for dinner last night. It was pretty decent but I was surprised to see that it was $10/bottle & I had 2. :(
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2010-09-09, 6:16 PM #108
Splurged a bit to celebrate the return of football:
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2010-09-10, 11:35 PM #109
Had a pint of DT tonight, then a pint of Optimator, and then two pints of Alpha Dog. It was a decent night.
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2010-09-11, 12:39 AM #110
One of my friends just decided to start drinking beer, so I'm guiding him through the classic styles. So far he's liked the pale ales (specificalliy SNPA and Southern Star Pine Belt) best. He also, inexplicably, liked Shiner Hefeweizen, so next I'm going to try to introduce him to a couple of hefeweizens that aren't ****ing awful.
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2010-09-14, 8:16 PM #111
Tonight I made a trip to BevMo to acquire a bottle of wine. I walked out of there with one (1) bottle of wine, one (1) Alesmith IPA, and one (1) Alesmith XPA (Extra IPA). I will partake in these perhaps tomorrow or Friday night.
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2010-09-14, 8:32 PM #112
A coworker brought an assortment of Great Lakes Brewing Co. bottles back from Cleveland with him. I have had the porter and pale ale so far and have fallen in love with both of them. Excited to try the amber and gold lager probably tomorrow night.

edit: impatient, cracked open the amber, boner.
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2010-09-14, 8:40 PM #113
You have just been introduced to one of the finest microbreweries in the united states.
>>untie shoes
2010-09-14, 9:01 PM #114
PBR 40 right now.
2010-09-14, 9:23 PM #115
Out of morbid curiosity, tonight at trivia I drank a beer universally regarded to be one of the absolute worst beers in the entire world: Crazy Ed's Cave Creek Chili Beer. An already terrible light lager, made even worse by the addition of a ****load of serrano peppers. It would be the worst beer I've ever drunk, by a wide margin, if I'd not had the utter abortion that is Winter's Bourbon Cask Ale.

Drinking SNPA now to recover.
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2010-09-14, 10:04 PM #116
Oh, I also finally got my Alaskan Smoked Porter. The picture in the OP was supposed to have one of those instead of an Alaskan Summer Ale.
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2010-09-14, 10:25 PM #117
Originally posted by Michael MacFarlane:
Out of morbid curiosity, tonight at trivia I drank a beer universally regarded to be one of the absolute worst beers in the entire world: Crazy Ed's Cave Creek Chili Beer. An already terrible light lager, made even worse by the addition of a ****load of serrano peppers. It would be the worst beer I've ever drunk, by a wide margin, if I'd not had the utter abortion that is Winter's Bourbon Cask Ale.

Drinking SNPA now to recover.

Good God. Why do people do stupid **** like that??
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2010-09-14, 10:56 PM #118
Originally posted by dalf:
Good God. Why do people do stupid **** like that??


If you're asking why someone would drink Crazy Ed's Cave Creek Chili Beer, I did it because after reading so many hilariously cutting reviews of the beer, I had to see what kind of beverage could possibly deserve such scorn.

If you're asking why someone would brew Crazy Ed's Cave Creek Chili Beer, then I still have no goddamn idea.
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2010-09-15, 6:32 PM #119
Did they really stick a chili pepper in there?
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2010-09-15, 6:58 PM #120
[http://legalbeer.com/images/full%20sail%20session%20black.jpg]
also
[http://beerandmicrobrews.com/alaska-winter-ale.jpg]
having eaten spruce tips, i don't taste them at all in the winter ale. still good though
i did not take these pictures

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