Year round beer or seasonal beer changes???

[deadheadskier]

Originally Posted by Greg

I don't drink much wine anymore (sneaks up on me too quick, and then it's too late)

interesting, this is precisely the reason why I started drinking less beer and more wine

[severine]

Wine puts me to sleep. Though sometimes, that's a wonderful side effect. Certain wines also sneak up on me FAST. But I don't have much tolerance anyway since I don't drink often in general.

You may stone me, but I really like Magic Hat #9. Though I did enjoy that Sam Adams White while it was out and do miss it right now.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by drjeff

Okay, what's everyone preference?? Does your beer change with the seasons, or are you the same one year round???

Me personally, I tend to change with the seasons. I like a "lighter" yellow pilsner/lager in the warm weather months, tend to goto a amber ale/lager in the fall, and a dark ale/stout in the winter.


Warm weather I also tend to enjoy a beer with some fruit undertones and winter I tend to prefer a beer with more of a smokey/earthy/woody undertone.

The only "constant" in my year round beer drinking is that I enjoy them REAL COLD no matter what the season.

Doc... dark ale = stout

Also, most ales are best enjoyed slightly warmer than lagers (ales 50 - 55 deg F, lagers 38 - 43 deg F). If you don't enjoy an ale slightly warmer, you've either
1) been turned off of the idea by the ignorant beer cutlure prelevant throughout much of this country or
2) it's your preference but would tend indicate you don't enjoy the taste complexity of heavy hop or roasted grains that make a good ale taste so, thus need the cold temperature to hide the taste

Most beers that need to be consumed cold, particularly if they advertise it, generally means, there are bad flavors inside that need to be covered, as generally speaking. Cold mouth = less sensitive to taste.

[Greg]

Originally Posted by Marc

Doc... dark ale = stout

Also, most ales are best enjoyed slightly warmer than lagers (ales 50 - 55 deg F, lagers 38 - 43 deg F). If you don't enjoy an ale slightly warmer, you've either
1) been turned off of the idea by the ignorant beer cutlure prelevant throughout much of this country or
2) it's your preference but would tend indicate you don't enjoy the taste complexity of heavy hop or roasted grains that make a good ale taste so, thus need the cold temperature to hide the taste

Most beers that need to be consumed cold, particularly if they advertise it, generally means, there are bad flavors inside that need to be covered, as generally speaking. Cold mouth = less sensitive to taste.

Translation: "I am a beer snob."

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Greg

Translation: "I am a beer snob."

Translation: I have an inferiority complex.

[Greg]

Originally Posted by Marc

Translation: I have an inferiority complex.

Meh. Most of us were drinking beer long before you old enough to be able to spell it. I was in college when the microbrew revolution started to become really popular and I sampled a lot of different ones. Drank a lot of Natty Light too. I think you were playing with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle dolls around that time...

Seriously, IMO, when you start talking about aroma, mouth feel, drinkability, lacing and all that bullshit, you're starting to miss the point of beer, and that's to get your buzz on.

[severine]

Originally Posted by Greg

Seriously, IMO, when you start talking about aroma, mouth feel, drinkability, lacing and all that bullshit, you're starting to miss the point of beer, and that's to get your buzz on.

Hear, hear!!!!

[tjf67]

coor light. Winter, spring, summer, and fall. I dont frequent food establishments that dont have coors light. I get hassled all the time by friends about my beer taste or lack their off. My response is that is one of the best seeling beers in the world somebody must like it. YUMMY its getting closer to beer oclcock

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I don't drink much wine because it's so acidic in my stomach like Orange Juice and Bananas..

[drjeff]

Originally Posted by Greg

Seriously, IMO, when you start talking about aroma, mouth feel, drinkability, lacing and all that bullshit, you're starting to miss the point of beer, and that's to get your buzz on.

+1

If I really wanted to experience some aroma and or multiple levels of taste complexity, I'd probably use a bunch of those big 'ol wine glasses I keep around the house for friends/family and open up a bunch of the bottles of wine I keep receiving as gifts when people come over!

For me the "sensory" experience of beer is as follows: Is it in a container that says "beer" atleast some place on the label?? Is that container in a cold place?? When I take that first sip(or often BIG GULP) is it 1st cold when it hits my tongue?? Then does the "bitter" taste buds at the back of my tongue (that's where the "bitter" ones are located) start sending some messages to my brain 1st. After that sip/gulp is down the hatch, is there any secondary finishing flavor (sweet from the front of the tongue - those "lighter fruity beers" or maybe some more bitter, or heaven forbid the side of the tongue giving some feedback as a sign of a sour, skunky beer).

After that, it's just simply a question for me of do I want to have another of that type of beer, switch beers, or is it time to stop due to buzz issues??

Also, I have definately noticed that the type of beer that I drink and enjoy nowadays in my mid/late 30's has changed over what I like in the early 30's and that changed over what I liked in my late 20's and that changed ALOT from what my early 20's beer plalate enjoyed. I'm guessing that 20 or so years or rather constant "beer bathing" of my tongue has changed just a bit of how the taste buds are working