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What BEER(s) have you been drinking?
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My favorite beer is called Scotch.
Do you prefer to use a pint glass, or do you drink it straight from the bottle?
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There is a certain joy that I get from swiggin from a bottle though I admit. I'm usually far past any sense of class or decorum at that point.
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I like the hops, but the ridiculous "oh my god can you believe how many hops we use!" IPAs don't really appeal to me.
The more inaccessible they make it, the more the elites flock to it. Where have we seen that before?
You really see this kind of attitude in some of the breweries like Stone that tout the extreme bitterness of their IPAs as a selling point. I mean, their ultra-hopped IPA is called "Arrogant Bastard" for a reason. I mean, you've got to be a true beer conniseur to like it, right? Sorry, I'd drink a Bud light over a Stone IPA. It at least tastes somewhat like a beer.
Usually, I like extreme flavors and purity- I like the 80%+ cacao chocolate, the extremely rancid blue cheeses, black French Press coffee, and so on. But I think IPAs and super-hoppy beers get away from what it's supposed to taste like just as much as a watermelon beer or a can of Hamm's does.
Bull crap. Stick to something you know some about like reviewing free games:) People can talk trash about the games I like but don't mess with my BEER.
IPA's have been around for 300 years so it's hardly an fade like watermelon flavored beer. Over the last 20 years there's a growing market for stronger flavored foods and beverages everywhere including beer that's why microbrewed beers and IPA's have grown in popularity. Smaller brewery have to push the uniqueness of their beers to survive. Come on do you think Sam Adams or Sierra Nevada would have survived it a came out with a beer that tasted just like Budweiser.
I run a taste testing lab so I have incredible respect for peoples unique and personal tastes in food. So I respect that you and the majority of population like Bud Lite but there is no reason to lower yourself to Weeks like level and call people elitest because they like hoppy IPA beers. It's not elitest thing its a taste thing.
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I do think there's an "escalation of cool" there, and it's not one I buy into. Brown Ale for me, but I've consumed plenty of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale as well. It's extremely common around here. The Lagunitas IPA is about the edge of hoppiness enjoyment for me. Other people can do what they want.
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My favorite beer is called Scotch.
Yeah, I second that.
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I don't like IPA's or hoppy beers in most cases, but there's always exceptions. Dogfish Head's Indian Brown is hoppy, but interesting because the hops in that one have a distinct flavor. What it really comes down to is hops make beer more bitter to counteract the sweetness. Some people prefer bitter, some people prefer sweet. If you look at the Belgian lambic's most of them are sour. I think only Lindemann's makes sweet lambic's widely available in the US. Belgian's prefer the sour lambic's, but everyone I know prefers the sweet.
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Fin Du Monde - a beer so strong it's classified as a wine.
It's still only 9% or so, there are stronger beers around. Chimay is also pretty strong, and I think the strongest in the world (anyways the strongest I've ever tasted) is Stanislaus or something at 14%, brewed once a year for Christmas.
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Pat II wrote:
Fin Du Monde - a beer so strong it's classified as a wine.
It's still only 9% or so, there are stronger beers around. Chimay is also pretty strong, and I think the strongest in the world (anyways the strongest I've ever tasted) is Stanislaus or something at 14%, brewed once a year for Christmas.
Samichlaus was the strongest for a long time, but several breweries including Sam Adams have produced stronger in recent years. Samichlaus is still my favorite though.
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Fin Du Monde - a beer so strong it's classified as a wine.
It's still only 9% or so, there are stronger beers around. Chimay is also pretty strong, and I think the strongest in the world (anyways the strongest I've ever tasted) is Stanislaus or something at 14%, brewed once a year for Christmas.
I haven't noticed this Chimay...can I get it at the Dep or only at the SAQ?
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They have three different labels, red, triple and blue (7%, 8% and 9% respectively), I had them in one of the various bars around the area with a wide variety of beers. About the same price too. Don't know about such places in Montréal, but in Ottawa you have Pub Italia on Preston and Vineyards in the Market, and in Aylmer L'autre oeil, which all boast 150-200 different types of beers.
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My favorite beer is called Scotch.
I'd rather have Irish Whiskey myself. A bottle of Red Brest and some bluegrass jams. That's living.
Drank a bunch of Belgian stuff the other night. Gulden Drak (10.5), Piraat (9), something with death (mort) in the title that was corcked and way to sweet, I forgot because I'll never drink it again, and an Oval... not too strong (4.?) but still tasty. Every once in awhile I'll buy a bunch of those types in singles and just enjoy. My brother in law was over to visit and my wife is always much more lenient with the drinking when he's around.
Ya know, I think I like that guy.
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They only had the big blue bottles (9%, 75cl) at one of the local SAQ, for about $10.
They have three different labels, red, triple and blue (7%, 8% and 9% respectively), I had them in one of the various bars around the area with a wide variety of beers. About the same price too. Don't know about such places in Montréal, but in Ottawa you have Pub Italia on Preston and Vineyards in the Market, and in Aylmer L'autre oeil, which all boast 150-200 different types of beers.
I might stop by the SAQ on the way home. Thanks.
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Root... Mug or A&W.
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Barq's has bite.
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