What beer ya drinkin'?

[jmdirt]

Sockeye Angel's Perch, and Dagger Falls. Two thumbs up for both!

http://www.sockeyebrew.com/our-beer/natives/sockeye-angels-perch-amber/

http://www.sockeyebrew.com/our-beer/natives/sockeye-dagger-falls-ipa/

 

[ILovecycling]

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I drank Guinness many times but I would still put it behind Beamish(my own drink) in the list of Irish stouts. It kind of has a more malt, coffee and chocalate taste to it. I was never a big fan of the other stout Murphys.

Alas, it's too bad I've never been to Ireland to taste any of those! Over here on the continent we have to make do with just Guinness I'm afraid. (I've been to England a few times, but I was still young and not really in a beer drinking company, so I had no chance to taste it there.)

But hey, I live in Belgium nowadays I haven't got anything to complain about regarding beer.....

There are actually some stouts over here as well, but it's a bit of a different style from the Irish ones. I quite like Guinness compared to Belgian and Dutch stouts (although there are some great ones over here as well), so if I ever have the opportunity I would definitely like to taste some more Irish style stouts.

All those nederlands and belgique beers are pretty good also but today (and almost all days )...

I've been to Slovakia on a holiday a few weeks ago and I tasted some Czech and Slovak beers there and they were pretty good. I didn't really see any type other than Pilsner, but what I've tasted there is certainly better than most Belgian and Dutch pilsners and it's not certainly not worse than some of the better pilsners from over here.

Hi
as we really drink lot of beer here (mostly only pilsner type, people drink fruit *** beer over the summer recent years ) we really recognize even a slightest differences between pislner type of beer.
e.g. slovakian beer is a lot different than the czech one - taste wise, but looks and is prepared quite similair.
As you said about your Ned beers, I tasted a lot of them (there are two great belgian restaurants in Prague and they have some local nederlands and belgian beers) and I like them esp in late spring or summer,they are more 'light' than czech beers.OTOH I doubt any czech would say that he likes other beers better, cuz we are used to it, its very high quality (really ) and even those cheaper ones about 1 - 1,50 euro are comparable or better than other central european top beers (except germany), so its quite usual to drink 5 or more czech beers when sitting with friends.
Personally apart from our beers I like some german beer,nederlands and belgian (havent tried much irish or danish), and as for summer I like 3-4 labels of mexican 'light-with-lemon' beers but they are incomparable with europeans and esp german and czech ones but really good for hot weather unlike czech beers (really risky to drink them in this weather )

If you ever go to czech rep. again I can recommend you local small beer labels,because these are the best.So feel free to write me

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Deschutes River Ale

Initially it tastes a bit foofy and flowery, but it has a nice clear kick to it.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Ninkasi Brewing Company's "Wunderbier".

http://www.ninkasibrewing.com/delicious/beers/seasonal-release-series/w%C3%BCnderbier.html

I actually sorta like it, it's quite light and crisp with no funky aftertaste.

 

[jmdirt]

I had a Deschutes Pinedrops with dinner tonight. Very interesting, refreshing IPA.

http://www.deschutesbrewery.com/

 

[sniper]

Chech beer. Smadny Mnich 'Thirsty Munk'
They pack it in plastic 1.5 liter bottles.

@Ilovecycling: afaict there isn't much local Dutch beer. We have two huge globalized brands (Heineken, Grolsch) and a handful of other beers, but not comparable at all to the hundreds of Belgian and German beer flavors. That said, I'm not much of a connoisseur tbh.

@tricycle rider: sounds good! tasteful descriptions.

 

[Kokoso]

Re: Re:

I drank Guinness many times but I would still put it behind Beamish(my own drink) in the list of Irish stouts. It kind of has a more malt, coffee and chocalate taste to it. I was never a big fan of the other stout Murphys.

Alas, it's too bad I've never been to Ireland to taste any of those! Over here on the continent we have to make do with just Guinness I'm afraid. (I've been to England a few times, but I was still young and not really in a beer drinking company, so I had no chance to taste it there.)

But hey, I live in Belgium nowadays I haven't got anything to complain about regarding beer.....

There are actually some stouts over here as well, but it's a bit of a different style from the Irish ones. I quite like Guinness compared to Belgian and Dutch stouts (although there are some great ones over here as well), so if I ever have the opportunity I would definitely like to taste some more Irish style stouts.

All those nederlands and belgique beers are pretty good also but today (and almost all days )...

I've been to Slovakia on a holiday a few weeks ago and I tasted some Czech and Slovak beers there and they were pretty good. I didn't really see any type other than Pilsner, but what I've tasted there is certainly better than most Belgian and Dutch pilsners and it's not certainly not worse than some of the better pilsners from over here.

If you ever go to czech rep. again I can recommend you local small beer labels,because these are the best.

Some of them are probably the best ones, as we are told by these days so uncomprehensibly popular food and drink shows, but other aren't really better than big brands. I think most people say the small, local beer labels are the best because the've heard it in tv and what's said in tv...well, that must be true. But stil they go on and drink the cheapes, or cheapest, because here even the cheapest lagers are good

 

[Tricycle Rider]

http://www.ninkasibrewing.com/oktoberfest?ageVerified=defaultValue

Not quite there with the Pilsner Urquell in terms of a dark (yet pleasant) kick, bit it'll do.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

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@Ilovecycling: afaict there isn't much local Dutch beer. We have two huge globalized brands (Heineken, Grolsch) and a handful of other beers, but not comparable at all to the hundreds of Belgian and German beer flavors. That said, I'm not much of a connoisseur tbh.

Dutch beers tend to be in the same style as Belgian beers, just overall not as good. There are a couple of good breweries in the Netherlands though. Dutch breweries tend to be a bit eclectic though making beers from many different styles. IPA's are trending nowadays in the Netherlands (and to a lesser extent in Belgium). That's a good thing by the way because I like IPA's.

There is a brewery called 'Jopen' which has some very nice beers. They have a pretty decent stout and very good quadrupel (albeit with a very atypical taste) called 'ongelovige thomas' IIRC.

Furthermore, there is an amazing brewery on Texel. I can recommend any beer from them. Their brewery seems to be growing a bit, because when I first learned about them some years ago their beer was quite difficult to find outside of Texel, but in recent times I've seen it a couple of times in café's with a large beer selection and in some 'slijters' (is there an English equivalent for a slijter?!). Anyway, that's a good thing because their beer is amazing.

I think their most famous beer is a wheat beer, called 'Skuumkoppe'. It's more a German style wheat beer than a Belgian/Dutch one, but it's very nice. Dutch/Belgian wheat beers tend to use a lot of herbs for the flavour, whereas German wheat beers just use wheat instead of of barley without all sorts of extra ingredients.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

So, I'm now drinking a St. Georgen Bräu Doppelbock

I'm not so used to German style beers. In fact I think this is the first time I'm drinking a doppelbock, so I don't have a whole lot of intelligent stuff to say about this. Quite malty and sweet. So far I like it though, not necessarily a very complex taste, but quite nice nevertheless (which conforms to my general impression of German beers btw).

 

[Falze]

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Deschutes River Ale

Initially it tastes a bit foofy and flowery, but it has a nice clear kick to it.

Nice beverage.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Am now drinking an Aldaris Porteris. A kind of stout from Latvia. It's a present from my sister who spent new year in Riga and Talinn. Apparently there is a separate style of stouts called "Baltic Porters", of which I now have the privilege to try a specimen.

I didn't knew what to expect first. Heck, I didn't even know what a Porter was before I got this. I heard the word before, but apparently a Porter is basically the same as a stout. Obviously the colour is very dark, it being a stout. The smell is rather faint, so I didn't really know what to expect. The taste is quite malty and a bit sweet compared to the stouts I'm used too. It still tastes like a stout, but it's a bit sweeter than Irish, Dutch and Belgian stouts that I drank before. Not as dry as a Guinness or something.

I'm quite pleased with this though and I'd definitely try some more of this style of beer, or even this particular beer, if ever I had the chance. I'm not planning to visit the Baltic states anytime soon, so I don't think I'll be getting my hands on a Baltic porter in the near future. So I'm just gonna enjoy this one as long as it lasts now.

Anybody else ever tried a Baltic Porter before?

 

[Red Rick]

So yesterday I drank a little special called Cuvée de Chateau, on an empty stomach after a tough, long day. Great beer, but it hit me hard

 

[jmdirt]

Sockeye Brewing Angel's Perch Amber (smooth, tastey, refreshing amber)
http://www.sockeyebrew.com/our-beer/natives/sockeye-angels-perch-amber/

Woodland Empire Old Boise Lager (very light and refreshing)
http://woodlandempire.com/project/old-boise-lager/

Odell 90 Shilling Ale (tastey amber)
http://www.odellbrewing.com/beer/90-shilling-ale/

I'm over the 100 IBU challenge. I like hops, but the popularity of IPA/IIPA has pushed too many beers to over-hop, and dragged a few good ambers with it.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

This is one of those you just drink and get it over with.

https://www.deschutesbrewery.com/beer/black-butte-porter/

Should be followed by a nice spicy cheese, btw., just to clean your palate.

 

[May0maniac]

My fist Wieselburger Schwarzbier.

I have to say that it's pretty good, but South Tyrolean beer is pretty bad, almost every single Austrian beer is better than the stuff that we produce.

 

[aphronesis]

Mikkeler, Barrel-Aged Beer Geek Brunch Weasel: Islay Edition.

 

[Laplaz]

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My fist Wieselburger Schwarzbier.

I have to say that it's pretty good, but South Tyrolean beer is pretty bad, almost every single Austrian beer is better than the stuff that we produce.

C'mooon you don't like Forst?

 

[Scott SoCal]

I'm off the deep end with this one.

 

[Red Rick]

So I've been thinking about a drinking game you could do while watching cycling. But I think its kinda hard to do practically and its kinda ridiculous. Basically, if riders on tv are doing a climb, you have to drink. If they do 5km at a certain gradient, you have to drink 200ml of a beer of that %. So basically, if the riders have to do the Col de Manse, you have to drink about 400ml of regular beer in the time they climb it. Could be extened to whole stages.

 

[May0maniac]

Re:

So I've been thinking about a drinking game you could do while watching cycling. But I think its kinda hard to do practically and its kinda ridiculous. Basically, if riders on tv are doing a climb, you have to drink. If they do 5km at a certain gradient, you have to drink 200ml of a beer of that %. So basically, if the riders have to do the Col de Manse, you have to drink about 400ml of regular beer in the time they climb it. Could be extened to whole stages.

So only Doppelbock and Eisbock for the Vuelta?

 

[Red Rick]

Plenty of beers over 10%. Over 12% maybe hard though. Original idea was 1 liter for 10km of climbing, but then the evening will be a one-climb effort surely

 

[ferryman]

Wee village, wee shop. Roasting hot Sunday and beers needed to salute Vincenzo....Fosters

 

[Singer01]

i bet you are all really drinking fosters and bud!

 

[CheckMyPecs]

Your favourite beers

Enjoying a nice bottle of Fuller's ESB here... Which just happens to be my favourite beer.

Stout, strong and an awesome finish. This beer has it all.

What beers do you particularly enjoy?