Beer Appreciation Thread - Page 21

On December 06 2012 18:11 Chairman Ray wrote:
Question to all the beer experts here. I've recently started drinking a lot of beer, and I'm really starting to enjoy it. I'm wondering what the difference is between pouring beer out and leaving it in the bottle. When you pour it out, you get the head part, but in regards to the taste of the beer itself, is there much difference?

On December 06 2012 18:46 FrozenSolid wrote:



Many of the flavors we taste are actually influenced more by smell rather than taste. I'm sure you've noticed that many meals taste different when you have a stuffed nose. You might also experience a loss of apetite when you can't smell, because the sent of delicious things helps your brain increase tendency towards parasympathetic functions, making you more prone to doing things such as eating and drinking. Any open-styled "aroma glass" such as a standard beer glass tends to open up towards the top for this same reason. You have a large open area to smell the beer while drinking it from a glass as opposed to the narrow bottle, which lets out relatively little aroma.

On December 06 2012 18:30 Troxle wrote:
I enjoy a good beer, but to me that's a really dark one. Yeungling Black & Tan and Guinness are my favorites. Any recommendations that are similar/better?

On December 07 2012 06:05 KosQ wrote:


Where I come from we basically only make it dependent on the type of beer we drink: if it is a "Weizen" (Not sure if that is a common phrase for it in english), you always pour it into a glass made for it since you want the yeast which is at the bottom of the bottle to contribute to the taste. Any other beer you would drink out of the bottle or a glass, which ever you prefer (taking the quoted statement into account )

For everyone who wants to try something completely different :


Strong beer with 12% alcohol, basically tastes like sweet bread mixed with beer, very different and interesting I think. Not really sure if its available elsewhere than Germany...

On December 07 2012 06:53 Myrkskog wrote:


Plus you cut down on how much carbonation you are ingesting significantly by drinking out of a glass.

I also picked up a couple bottles of the Aventinus a few weeks ago. It's a great beer. I was surprised how good it was considering that Schneider makes one of my least favourite Weissbiers. My girlfriend and I always get together with her Uncle and Aunt and have a winter fire with Gluehwein, this year I am skipping that swill and bringing some Aventinus instead.

On December 07 2012 07:00 Doomwish wrote:
Am I the only one who feels there are so many beer options I could literally have a different beer every day and not run out of new beers to try by the end of my natural life span.

Even at my local liquor store they seem to carry new micro brews every week, seasonal brews etc etc. It makes my head spin sometimes just trying to chose one.

On December 07 2012 07:00 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:
awesome idea! ~

for the glass vs bottle thing in general id say the clearer the beer is the better it tastes out of the bottle (glass/oda an kruag is still matter of taste and situation) , others like nonfiltered lagers and weissbier really need a glass to taste good. weissbier out of a bottle is like the biggest no go. against the attempts of some huge companys to make people trink it that way..