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speaking of having a cold one

speaking of having a cold one
well well well
first let me say I drank Miller High Life as a teen and in college, can drink that stuff all day long. It is my go to beer if I am in a mood to work in the yard and drink beer.
I will not say it is the best beer in the world but it is my comfort beer

now I have been homebrewing for over a decade, have been through the beer snob bit, past the ales are best bit and now think I have a true appreciation for all beers.
I prefer a Vienna style lager the best. A good Vienna is a great full body beer with the clean hop finish only a lager can give, with a refreshing deep taste.
I really do drink a lot of brands of that
after that, I think Trappist beers are great, give me one of those sweet and sour Trappist ales and I am in heaven
and the ales, A good pale ale is great, as is a good ESP, cleanly done Reds and Blondes set well with me also.
Stouts, what can be said, strait, or in either a Half and Half or a Black and Tan, stouts have a good taste.

Now about American styles, I always used to think they were bad brewed beers. But through home brewing I learned the are some of the best in teh world.
Let me explain, Anyone can brew a heavy beer, it will be heavy and cloyingly sweet so it has to have a lot of hops to make it balanced, and anyone can do that, infact the heavier the beer the more they can screw completely up and get away with it becuase he is hiding his brewing mistakes so much.
but a super light lager, that takes knowledge and skill to make. Nothing is there to hide anything, any off flavor, too much of this or that, any little mistake will be so evident the beer will taste different every time unless....

You are very very good, you must keep records of everything, you must duplicate every step, your sanitation must be complete without leaving residues of cleaning and sanitizing agents. your measurements must be exact, your balance perfect, you need to with alpha percentages not oz of hops to get the same exact taste and bitter. All has to be done to formula.

Learned that from trial and error, learned by reading a lot of books on brewing, learned that by talking to brewers at Miller and Bud.

And Learned how to appreciate something at one time I thought was :dung:e.
 
And today's beer is ...
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Shipyard Barleywine.
This was a good beer after coming in out of the storm. I often have a strong, flavorful beer in the winter in front of the fireplace. Today was another day for such a beer.

A barleywine is not a wine. It's a beer as strong as a wine. More so than the alcohol, I love this beer for it's intense flavors: intensely malty and it's balanced with intense hops. This is a beer you have to chew.
 
I once drank enough Jack Daniels that I saw god, He told me to never drink bourbon again!!:D

Single malt scotch with water and no ice for business/social gatherings.

For beer it is something like a Shiner bock, first choice draft. Small brewery in Houston called St Arnold brewery , Santo, lawnmower and Weedwacker by name. Don't care for beer I have to chew, I tried an "Arrogant Bastard" once and they were right, I was not worthy.:laugh:
 
Arrogant, yeah I wasn't worthy either! Tried my first one warm as my high life was always warm. Even ice cold I couldn't muster it.

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Don't care for beer I have to chew, I tried an "Arrogant Bastard" once and they were right, I was not worthy.:laugh:

I am drinking an Oaked Arrogant Bastard and let me tell you.This is not nearly as good as the good old Arrogant Bastard I'm used too.

Normally when I beer or wine is said to be oaked. It means it was just aged in oak barrels. It's expected to be a subtle taste accent. This Oaked Arrogant Bastard is not good. It tastes like they added vanilla or some other flavor extract to it, trying to convince people it's Oak.

I really like the regular Arrogant Bastard. It's a good Strong ale. Similar to a Barley Wine but not as extreme on the hops.


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^^^ that stuff bad
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This stuff good :D
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EDIT: oh yes, you still have to chew it so if that's what you don't like then you might not like either.
 
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I love Boulevard Pale Ale from KC, and most IPA's including double IPA's such as Hoptimum. I also brew a little too. My friend and I just took 1st place for Light Beer Category at the 2013 Hops for Hope with our hopped wheat beer, Hoptimus Prime.
 
This evening I am enjoying a Conductor Imperial India Pale Ale. It's brewed by Durango Steamworks Brewery. Don't bother looking for it. It's brewed here in Durango and this beer is only available in large single bottles in Durango.

I love the more flavorful beers. If you wanted to get me to stop drinking just give me the Budweiser and Miller products. That would get me to stop drinking. These big American brewers use corn or rice to brew their beers. Why? Because corn and rice can add alcohol without adding flavor. In Germany it's illegal to use these or any other ingredients other than these four: malted barley, hops, water and yeast. So without the malt flavor in American beer they don't want to add much hop flavor to the beer either. If low flavor is what I'm looking for I'll go for a glass of water.
The American Light beers go even further. This American horse piss starts off very light before fermenting. So light that they have to take fermentation much further. Fermenting that far is not easy, I'll admit but the result is even lighter than water. It's these non-fermentables that give beer it's flavor and character.
Beer MUST be beer flavored (hops and malt) if I am to drink it.

I truly hope I didn't offend anyone's American horse piss, oh I mean American beer but that's how I feel.
 
I quite enjoy the Chimay Blue.
 
I've been drinking a lot of Schlafelys lately. Stouts and IPAs mostly. Love their coffee stout and their Tasmanian IPA is one of my favorites.

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ill put in a vote for three.

sam adams, nearly all of their stuff is excellent for the price.

warsteiner dunkel.

the fiance likes blue moon so it gets tossed in sometimes.


 
As a Kentucky Gentleman, I have to defer to boubon as my drink of choice. Woodford Reserve being the staple and Colonel EH Taylor small batch on special occasions.

As for beer, my tried and true is Smithwicks, but I am a hophead and like to try local IPAs wherever I go. So far the two that stand out the most were Hoptical Illusion that I got down in Ft. Pierce, FL, and Hoppyum that I had in Asheville, NC. Both of these were over the top on hoppy flavor without blowing out the taste buds.

Hmmm...I think there's a Smithwicks hiding in my fridge right now.:chug:
 
As for beer, my tried and true is Smithwicks, but I am a hophead and like to try local IPAs wherever I go. So far the two that stand out the most were Hoptical Illusion that I got down in Ft. Pierce, FL, and Hoppyum that I had in Asheville, NC. Both of these were over the top on hoppy flavor without blowing out the taste buds.

Bels brewery out of Michigan I think has an IPA called Hopslosion I think that was delicious. It is seasonal and terribly hard to get but was really good.


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Bels brewery out of Michigan I think has an IPA called Hopslosion I think that was delicious. It is seasonal and terribly hard to get but was really good.

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It's called Hopslam. Just saw something about it.
 
Trying everything new that I can. Really digging the Seasonal brews. Blue Moon's Summer Seasonal is tasty. Really like Yeungling & Terrapin. Have always loved Killians Red though. Corona now tastes bitter to me after trying some of the sweeter brews...
 
I tried a new beer and I love it. It's DOA IPA from Cerveza de los Muertos (Means Beer of the dead)
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They have several beers but I only tried the IPA. This is the best beer to come out of Mexico. Actually I don't care for many Mecican beers. A friend of mine that likes Mexican food thinks I really like Negra Modelo. The reason I always drink it at Mexican restaurants is because it's a little better than the other :dung: that comes from south of the border. That is until now. I really like this DOA IPA. Now I need to try their other Beers.
 
Love that slogan, "Hop on or Die"... too funny.
 
St Arnold s brewery out of Houston. My Favorite is Santo and it would be a bit lite for most of you, I guess kind of a light stout, if that makes sense. They had a Limited seasonal "spring Bock" that was fantastic. all the taste with out the hoppy after taste, very smooth finish. Managed to score a case and a half before it dried up.

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