The Beer thread! Or possibly the Beer thread 2.0??

[drjeff]

Couldn't find A Beer thread in the search function... Thought there was one, but maybe it was just a Kzone or Snowjournal thing...


Fall is here, getting into Stout season. Weldworks Coffee Coconut Stout X Imperial Milk Stout out of Greely, CO.

If you like Mounds bars, and I certainly do, this is a liquid Mounds bar with just a touch of medium body dark roast coffee at the end.

Very well done to my taste buds!

 

[Edd]

I suggest mentioning alcohol percentage when recommending a beer.

No specifics here but, on a trip to Denmark last month I had several Danish IPAs that I surprisingly liked (not as much as our better IPAs). They tended to be in the mid 5% range on alcohol but none too malty which, if you make a malty IPA you should go to some kind of beer jail.

Then we bounced to Sweden and back to Denmark and in both countries I started drinking Guinness (used to live on that shit for a long time) and I noticed at every bar it was served in the exact same kind of glass with a vertical ridge top to bottom, and the Guinness tap was always physically separated from all of the other beers, and the tap was decorated like a harp. At my local bar I notice it’s not like that. Maybe it is at the proper Irish bars in the US but I’ve been off Guinness so long I haven’t paid attention.

 

[snoseek]

I miss drinking good craft beer but I'm too fat to drink that stuff so it's coors light these days which is fine because I like the low alcohol buzz after a couple and don't get sleepy or a headache.

Northwoods brewery is my local place and every once in awhile I'll get a couple pints There.

 

[Abominable]

I really like lagers, pilsners, oktoberfest beers... european style lagers, maybe? Not a big IPA person, all those hazy crazy hoppy beers aren't for me.

Two breweries I started drinking on ski trips and am now finding in good beer stores in the NY metro area: Jack's Abby ("We live for lagers!") and Von Trapp (Stowe). Good stuff if you like that style beer.

Jack Abby - the lager is good, the pilsner is good, but I really love the Copper and Oktoberfest
Von Trapp - I like the Vienna and Dunkel lagers. Pils is good too.

Anyone been to the Von Trapp brewery?

And.... isn't it amazing, the brewery EXPLOSION we've had in the past decade? I mean, I feel like 20-30 years ago when the first micro-brewery revolution happened that everyone and their brother was starting a brewery and the market would get saturated and sort of peter-out. But now we're in this second era of just brewery opening up on every corner in every town with more than two thousand residents, and I, for one, welcome it!

 

[crank]

We've been to Von Trapp Brewery a few times. Really like their dunkel.

There is a Wegmans near us and they have a great NY craft beer section. Although for the last 2 weeks they have not had our favorite: Keegan Ale's Mother Milk coffee stout. Keegan is in Kingston, NY. A band I was in played there years ago and I have loved their beer ever since.

I like an IPA but I can't stand the super hoppy stuff like Heady Topper etc. Bought many a case to give away.

I like darker lagers, brown ales, stouts, porters. Will always go for a local draft over a can or bottle when at a bar.

 

[BodeMiller1]

Clown Shoes, nectur of the gods. The new Topper....

When I was a kif Bud was 3.2 now it's up to 5.0. They had to do this to keep up. Best IPA I ever had was ot of California the label. IPA Blah, Blah Blah. (It's all been said before>