The Beer Thread

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My personal favorite beer is Spotted Cow, by the New Glarus brewery in Wisconsin. It's sort of a mild farmhouse ale. It's always perfect in any situation.
 
One of my favorites for the past few months has been Vanillaphant Porter, which is from a local (for me) brewery, Avondale Brewing Co. I would do horrible, horrible things for a keg. Alabama's local breweries have gotten really, really good over the past few years.
 
Alabama's local breweries have gotten really, really good over the past few years.

TELL me about it, what with the powers-that-be legalizing 'shine & homebrew, and with those monk fellows moving in to start a brewery, it's been really great. Down in T-town, our local guys are the "Druid City Brewers". They've set up shop right behind the Flowers bakery on 15th. street.

Really. Good. Beer.
 
TELL me about it, what with the powers-that-be legalizing 'shine & homebrew, and with those monk fellows moving in to start a brewery, it's been really great. Down in T-town, our local guys are the "Druid City Brewers". They've set up shop right behind the Flowers bakery on 15th. street.

Really. Good. Beer.
Yeah, I was actually there a few nights ago (I'm a grad student at UA). I'll go to Mellow Mushroom way more than I ought to from a financial standpoint just because of the local beer selection.
 
PBR sucks. The way to go cheap is to pour a couple Natty Ices in a big beer bong and have it go right down into the tummy. mmm yeah :heart-full:

I like all the Spatens and Warsteiners. But among common beers I'm a serious Tecate partisan.
 
Because it's always cheap.

I have a question: a lot of people ask me what my favorite style is, but I can't really answer because there isn't one. Instead, I try to answer what styles I don't really care for, because that list is a lot smaller. Personally, I'm not a fan of golden ales or white ales. You guys?

I'm not really a fan of pale ales, but I will drink them.
 
I brew my own here and there and thought about minoring in brewing after I finished my major for a while. Still volunteer at a brewery every once in a while on Saturdays. Overall I like Kolsch the best but I also drink IPAs, Porters, Pale Ales, and Brown Ales often enough. If I'm drinking American non-craft I tend to settle for Coors or Shiner Bock.
 
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Alabama's local breweries have gotten really, really good over the past few years.
I've always noticed sort of a lack of breweries out of the American south, which I figured was due to the fact that the whiskey and bourbon industries are so dominant down there. I would love to try more of what's coming out of that region, since my experience is so limited.

I'm not really a fan of pale ales, but I will drink them.
I love pale ales. I love super hoppy stuff. Not all the time - there are a lot of people who love hops for the sake of hops, but I'm not one of them. I appreciate a lot of different styles. But one of those is hoppy beers.
 
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I love pale ales. I love super hoppy stuff. Not all the time - there are a lot of people who love hops for the sake of hops, but I'm not one of them. I appreciate a lot of different styles. But one of those is hoppy beers.

I do get what you mean, but sometimes I feel a lot of the brewers (at least over here) do go a bit overboard with the hops. Although I did have an absolutely fantastic pale ale a while ago called 'Forever Manchester' from one of those microbreweries that are popping up all over the place now.

As I said, I'm more a fan of the darker beers, browns, rubies, reds. The darker, the better.
 
I do get what you mean, but sometimes I feel a lot of the brewers (at least over here) do go a bit overboard with the hops.
It's a problem with the whole microbrew industry these days. Really, since the genesis of the microbrew explosion. Typically beer in the US goes in trends - 6 years ago belgians were all the rage, 4 years ago black beers were super huge. 2 years ago the trend was IPAs. As if IPAs weren't already all over the place. There's a brewery in Minnesota called Summit, basically our oldest and most signature brewery, you can find it in any bar here. They do a limited release series where they make lots of cool concept beers. Well 2 years ago, they made a beer for that series that was just another IPA. Its actual name was "Another IPA". It really sucked that the microbrew scene focused on a niche that wasn't a niche at all, it felt like nobody was trying anything new for a long time. I'm still waiting for the next big trend to actually kick off something new.
 
It's a problem with the whole microbrew industry these days. Really, since the genesis of the microbrew explosion. Typically beer in the US goes in trends - 6 years ago belgians were all the rage, 4 years ago black beers were super huge. 2 years ago the trend was IPAs. As if IPAs weren't already all over the place. There's a brewery in Minnesota called Summit, basically our oldest and most signature brewery, you can find it in any bar here. They do a limited release series where they make lots of cool concept beers. Well 2 years ago, they made a beer for that series that was just another IPA. Its actual name was "Another IPA". It really sucked that the microbrew scene focused on a niche that wasn't a niche at all, it felt like nobody was trying anything new for a long time. I'm still waiting for the next big trend to actually kick off something new.

At the minute the big thing over here that's not shitty lagers seems to be Porters and American 'boilermakers' but a lot of companies have taken to putting non whiskey spirits in the beer, like I've seen rum and tequila varients. The Bourbon one is really good, as is the boilermaker made with alcoholic ginger beer.
 
Put me firmly on the side of the Stouts. Guinness is my first choice, because it's easiest to find. My favorite is Weyerbacher Heresy Imperial Stout. Such chocolate wow

In my fridge right now are... Smith's Imperial Stout, Brooklyn Brewery Oktoberfest, and Woodchuck "Fall" Cider (if Cider is permitted in this thread).

Has anyone here done a vertical tasting? I can't keep the beer long enough. ;)
 
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Put me firmly on the side of the Stouts. Guinness is my first choice, because it's easiest to find. My favorite is Weyerbacher Heresy Imperial Stout. Such chocolate wow

In my fridge right now are... Smith's Imperial Stout, Brooklyn Brewery Oktoberfest, and Woodchuck "Fall" Cider (if Cider is permitted in this thread).

Has anyone here done a vertical tasting? I can't keep the beer long enough. ;)

I've been to a couple of beer festivals in the region, the best one being a winter ales one a couple of years back when it was snowy as fuck, so many lovely beers! The roast dinner they sold was really good too!
 
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I've always noticed sort of a lack of breweries out of the American south, which I figured was due to the fact that the whiskey and bourbon industries are so dominant down there. I would love to try more of what's coming out of that region, since my experience is so limited.
I think that's a factor, for sure. In a lot of places, though, it wasn't legal until fairly recently.

A bit OT, but this is one of my favorite moments from one of the many debates on various beer-related bills in the Legislature over the past few years:

 
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