My all time favorite are the lambic beer. Then Bohemian Lager. Followed by German Pilsen.
Beer, Revisited
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American Pale Ale. Enough bite to be tasty, but not so heavy that you feel weighed down after drinking a few. See Yuengling's Lord Chesterfield Ale (don't even know if this is any more than a local beer).
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Bud Light????
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Interesting.
I have a cousin who was raised in Cuba, educated at the UofH and earned her doctorate in the USSR. She is a physicist currently at the University of Chicago Fermi. In the mid eighties when en route to Cuba the flight experiences a Russian mishap, declares an emergency and lands in Belgium. She immediately sought and was granted political asylum. She remained in Belgium.
During a visit she introduced me to this beer in a champagne bottle. You don't need to drink much of it. Some people won't drink any of it at all.
I like it. No two bottles are ever the same.
A beginner’s guide to lambic beer, the oldest beer style in the worldArtisanal and unpredictable, lambic beer inspires passions beyond its Belgian home.www.nationalgeographic.com -
I had my first ever IPA today. Do those things really taste like fermented lawn clippings or is it just me and I'm missing something.
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There's a brewery near my home who makes such things. There's ONE that's okkkk... But I don't prefer it as much as DosEquis lager, or the latest thing, Landshark. I liked it, immediately assumed it must be a fucking AB brand, pleasantly found it wasn't, but was associated with Jimmy Buffett
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These things were like lawn clipping hippy tea.
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The ones I've had are from local microbreweries. The number of androgenous skinny leggers is a dead giveaway. Having tried a few I come away with a similar opinion.
I'm keeping the lawn clipping hippy tea thing.
Anyway the kid's GFs like it therefore they like it.
LaBelle Brewing Company - Craft Brewery | LaBelle, FLLaBelle Brewing Co. is a local Southwest Florida family-owned brewery with a passion for the simple things in life, like great beer and great food. We're a…labellebrewingco.comWe get invited to go. I'll drink the hippy tea and enjoy the company and music.
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I had my first ever IPA today. Do those things really taste like fermented lawn clippings or is it just me and I'm missing something.
IPA taste varies wildly with the style of IPA and hops used. A "West Coast IPA" should smell more or less like weed, using Cascade hops. "Yellow Rose" from Texas is one of the top 50 beers in the world and smells like flowers because it's made with Mosaic hops. A Brut IPA uses an enzyme that eats all of the residual sugar and lives you an intentionally dry, unbalanced beer with a champagne like quality to it. Ruth Bader Ginsburg fans did not like me pointing out the off-balance, dry, and generally unpleasant nature of the Brut IPA when a brewery made a RBG tribute beer. Then there's "milkshake" IPA where they dump in a bunch of lactose normally used in a milk stout, sometimes good but often very bad. There's the New England IPA which is a popular style with hipsters but honestly it's just fucking terrible IPAs made with intentionally bad brewing practices to make them opaque.
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IPA = let’s keep adding hops till it’s undrinkable. Hipsters love hops so more is better, right?
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Beer that went bad in shipping.
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You're not a craft brewery if you don't have 9 shitty IPAs on tap and just 2 or 3 decent beers on the menu.
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Trying to drag in the hipsters… you’ll also find a bunch of whizz wheeled 70s ish caffe bikes parked out front.
