On November 18 2013 03:13 heliusx wrote: First time seeing rouge dead guy ale or w/e its called. Got excited until I saw it was $15.99 a six pack. Wtf?
for some reason that beer is always horribly overpriced. you could get it in portland fine but when I moved to seattle it got way more expensive. they have some shitty distribution or something, idk
i mean it's a fine beer and all but it's not THAT good
Agreed. I used to see it for around $13, right in line with the other Rogue beers. I'm not sure why their prices are so high. It honestly makes it a hard sell when I can get a 6 pack of Stone IPA for $10, which in my opinion is a much better beer than Dead Guy.
On November 07 2013 06:29 white_horse wrote: Do you all know if there is a kind of beer that is not bitter? I don't like how beer often tastes bitter/sour.
You can always try one of the fruitbeers. It is a very different taste compared to regular beer, they are most of the times very sweet of taste.
yesterday I had a Doppelbock from the Monastery in Andechs, Germany. Really good beer, strong and full of flavours. Not a beer for every evening, though
Gaming history has gone down the road of more hoppy bitter beers. I started out hating it. I had heard before from the old fuddy duddies trying to keep kids away from alcohol that it tasted like piss. My first beer, I was inclined to agree with them (well, color and bad taste ... haven't actually tried piss). It was a Coors or Coors Light so go figure. Then detours into Vodka & Jaegermeister ... big rejections there (for chill settings not clubs). Second go to blue moon from a friend (man wheat beer is GOOD!). Now all kinds of stouts and I absolutely adore Stone Ruination, Sierra Nevada Torpedo, all kinds of IPAs.
Just tried Rogue Chocolate Stout recently ... maybe just a little too weird, for lack of a better term. Excited to go for more from this thread!
Going to an annual Thanksgiving Party by my friends and wondering whats a good case of pumpkin beer to bring along. I want to change it up a bit instead of the same cases of Golden Monkey/Allagesh I always bring/favor.
Also, I tried Duvel for the first time last week. Thought it was pretty good, but I'm still quite novice in terms of beer I suppose.
Never knew this thread even existed here. Thanks and cheers!
On November 26 2013 03:42 sung_moon wrote: Going to an annual Thanksgiving Party by my friends and wondering whats a good case of pumpkin beer to bring along. I want to change it up a bit instead of the same cases of Golden Monkey/Allagesh I always bring/favor.
Also, I tried Duvel for the first time last week. Thought it was pretty good, but I'm still quite novice in terms of beer I suppose.
Never knew this thread even existed here. Thanks and cheers!
The only pumpkin beer I can get locally is Shipyard Pumpkinhead, which isn't that great. You might take a look at Beer Advocate's list of pumpkin beers and see what is available to you.
On November 26 2013 04:03 Holgerius wrote: I've fallen in love with Guinness recently. Been drinking it almost exlusively.
Yeah try a black n tan with some harp or longbow. Its too bad Guinness costs $10 for a six pack of 11 ounce here
Guinness and Smithwicks... ridiculously good.
Also apparently Irish people don't like the term "black and tan" as it refers to the "Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force," so they call it a half and half. I don't know how much weight of an offense that holds, but wikipedia deemed it enough to include it in its page for black and tans.
On November 26 2013 04:03 Holgerius wrote: I've fallen in love with Guinness recently. Been drinking it almost exlusively.
Yeah try a black n tan with some harp or longbow. Its too bad Guinness costs $10 for a six pack of 11 ounce here
Guinness and Smithwicks... ridiculously good.
Also apparently Irish people don't like the term "black and tan" as it refers to the "Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force," so they call it a half and half. I don't know how much weight of an offense that holds, but wikipedia deemed it enough to include it in its page for black and tans.
I'm not Irish so I have no idea. That's just what they called it when I was on the west coast for my job.
On November 26 2013 03:42 sung_moon wrote: Going to an annual Thanksgiving Party by my friends and wondering whats a good case of pumpkin beer to bring along. I want to change it up a bit instead of the same cases of Golden Monkey/Allagesh I always bring/favor.
Also, I tried Duvel for the first time last week. Thought it was pretty good, but I'm still quite novice in terms of beer I suppose.
Never knew this thread even existed here. Thanks and cheers!
The only pumpkin beer I can get locally is Shipyard Pumpkinhead, which isn't that great. You might take a look at Beer Advocate's list of pumpkin beers and see what is available to you.
If you can find Southern Tier Pumking, give that a whirl...tastes like pumpkin pie. Its pretty good if you're looking for something a bit sweeter. Uinta Punk'n one of my fall backs if nothing better is out tho I'm having a hard time finding it now. Not sweet but has a nice pumpkin taste, not like squash. Its not spectacular but is solid.
Today I learned that Polish brewing companies aren't forced by law to put the full list of ingredients on their products; they are only obliged to list possible allergy-inducing ingerdents, providing they use any. I'm curious how it is in other countries? Because here, it feels so wrong to not have full info about what you're putting in your body, even though thousands of other food and drink products have that information. I would love to know how much hop really is inside the infamous stuff I have in shops.
On December 08 2013 03:32 wingpawn wrote: Today I learned that Polish brewing companies aren't forced by law to put the full list of ingredients on their products; they are only obliged to list possible allergy-inducing ingerdents, providing they use any. I'm curious how it is in other countries? Because here, it feels so wrong to not have full info about what you're putting in your body, even though thousands of other food and drink products have that information. I would love to know how much hop really is inside the infamous stuff I have in shops.
same in the us, you don't have to list ingredients on alcohol
Normally I find most beers by Sam Adams to be bland, overpriced, and mediocre, but the bar I work at got their new spring beer on draft recently, called Cold Snap. It's really good. A good wheat flavor with a bright taste overall. It would be my new favorite beer if we hadn't gotten the Saranac Prism White Ale on draft around the same time. Now that is a beer I could drink all day. Hoppy, but not overly bitter, with a smooth taste. It's somewhere between a Pale Ale and a Whitbier. Normally when I grab a drink after my shift, I would have a different beer each time, but lately it's been all prism, all day.
On January 29 2014 17:36 LeeDawg wrote: Normally I find most beers by Sam Adams to be bland, overpriced, and mediocre, but the bar I work at got their new spring beer on draft recently, called Cold Snap. It's really good. A good wheat flavor with a bright taste overall. It would be my new favorite beer if we hadn't gotten the Saranac Prism White Ale on draft around the same time. Now that is a beer I could drink all day. Hoppy, but not overly bitter, with a smooth taste. It's somewhere between a Pale Ale and a Whitbier. Normally when I grab a drink after my shift, I would have a different beer each time, but lately it's been all prism, all day.
You liked Cold Snap? I thought it was pretty good for a Sam Adams beer, but still not something I'd pick up over other brews unless it was my only option. I guess compared to their Winter Lager it's a step in the right direction.
Speaking of Sam Adams, I never understood how they became so popular. They somehow are the biggest craft brewery in the US. It must be their rampantly annoying advertising. They're like the Bose or Monster Cable of beer -- overpriced and mostly driven by advertising to uninformed consumers.
Despite all that I will say that their Wee Heavy is pretty good. I might just have a thing for Scotch Ales, though.
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