I meant to reply to this and never did. I'm not a beer expert either, just an amateur drinker!froze said:Nope, never heard of the brand. I live in NE Fort Wayne and it's difficult to find a lot of the dark stuff here; there is some local stuff but not dark and not very good, but of course I only like dark so anything less than dark that I've ever tried taste nasty; note, I said that I have tried, obviously I haven't tried all the beers in the world there may be something pale that might taste good, I just haven't found it yet.jmdirt said:Bud and Bush are the same company. I don't think that you listed any made by B or C.froze said:I'm sorry, were all or any of the beers I mentioned made by Budweiser or Coors, or even Busch which you left out?jmdirt said:Every time I hear or read that, I wonder if they really know!froze said:I only drink dark, called stout beer, I don't like ale, or lager, or pilsner, or pale ale (the last three are the absolute worse, it's like drinking urine!).
My favorite beer brands (from what I can recall) is Russian Imperial Stout (my favorite), Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, Murphy's Irish Stout, Modelo Negra, New Castle Dark, Watneys dark, black IPA, Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, Goose Island BCBS Coffee Stout, that's about all I can remember, I have a list of others I've never had but would like to try but where I live or been too it's highly unlikely I'll find them since so far I haven't found them. I've tried milk stouts but didn't care for those.:lol:
Just FYI: Stout (porter) are Ale (top fermenting). Lager (Pilsner) (bottom fermenting). So if you only drink stout beers, you drink ales. In the USA lager is too commonly associated with Butweiser and Coors which likely fit the description you gave!![]()
I should have been more specific and just said color, my bad, but I can stand any beer that is lighter than dark brown.
Have you tried:
http://www.crookedfencebrewing.com/brew-art/sins-of-our-fathers/
Look, before you hack me apart I am not a beer connoisseur, I don't sniff it, I don't analyze how it sets on my palate, I don't care about it's texture, or worry about how the head is. I simply go into a restaurant either in this country, or if i happen to be in some other country, and ask what their darkest beer is, and they may bring a sample, I've tried samples that were less than dark and had to pass, but I don't care about the brand as much as I care about the beer being dark, I'll try any brand in that regard, but most of my time I spend in Fort Wayne Indiana which isn't very diverse when it comes to different beers unless you like those flowery beers. I'm not big on having beer at home because I don't drink that much, I have maybe one beer once a month sometimes twice if I'm in a restaurant that I know has a beer that I like, and I never drink more than one glass. I actually prefer my beer a bit on the warmer side vs cold, because cold will mask true flavors in a beer, in fact cold will mask flavors of any drink including just plain water. I also don't drink any other type of alcoholic beverages, just dark beer. So I don't know what company owns who, and frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn, all I give a damn about is whether the beer is dark! LOL!
But if I should ever run into Crooked Fence Brewing beer I will, as I do whenever a new (to me) dark beer is available, I'll try it. Here in Fort Wayne the dark beer selection is rather limited, even at a large liquor store you can't find much, some of those ones I mentioned earlier were either in a different country or was in California where I use to live, I was shocked to find Russian Imperial Stout here, and in a pizza restaurant of all places, not even pubs here carry that, yeah I've been to pubs and walked out because they didn't have anything dark, a pub!...that's small town midwest America for you.
Sounds a bit too foofy for me, but whatever gets you through this holiday season, right?aphronesis said:Prairie, “Bourbon Paradise”
Imperial Stout aged in bourbon barrels with coconut and vanilla. Dates, prunes, whiskey, cocoa. 15.9%
Why so rude?aphronesis said:Drinking Chardonay and calling an imperial stout foofy. In all kindness you might expand your horizons of judgment.
No worries. We’re on to the whiskey, red wine and aged roast.
“Foofy” is a value statement. I’m not sure how to help you see that. Alcohol level isn’t in play here. (Although most west coast wines are at the same level as imperial stouts).Tricycle Rider said:Why so rude?aphronesis said:Drinking Chardonay and calling an imperial stout foofy. In all kindness you might expand your horizons of judgment.
No worries. We’re on to the whiskey, red wine and aged roast.
We all have different palettes, not to mention tolerances toward different alcohol levels.
That's just your opinion. I don't happen to like wine, and craft beer is over taken wine in a lot of US cities that were big wine cities, so apparently the masses don't agree with you either.Kokoso said:Wine. After lots of years drinking mostly beer I've switched to wine somehow and it's much, much better beverage, at least regarding taste. Yes, one gets used to beer, but it is not really tasty thing. One gets used to everything after all. Give good beer to someone who doesn't and he'll say - what the heck, it's hideous. Give them good wine and they'll say: now that is good thing.
Not very clever comment and superfluous one. Of course that's just my opinion, Captain Obviousfroze said:That's just your opinion.Kokoso said:Wine. After lots of years drinking mostly beer I've switched to wine somehow and it's much, much better beverage, at least regarding taste. Yes, one gets used to beer, but it is not really tasty thing. One gets used to everything after all. Give good beer to someone who doesn't and he'll say - what the heck, it's hideous. Give them good wine and they'll say: now that is good thing.
I don't know, maybe. Even if it was true, US in not only country out there, you knowcraft beer is over taken wine in a lot of US cities that were big wine cities
You are in the wrong thread.Kokoso said:Wine. After lots of years drinking mostly beer I've switched to wine somehow and it's much, much better beverage, at least regarding taste. Yes, one gets used to beer, but it is not really tasty thing. One gets used to everything after all. Give good beer to someone who doesn't and he'll say - what the heck, it's hideous. Give them good wine and they'll say: now that is good thing.
Hmmm, well actually it apparently isn't just my opinion, here are numbers: 24 billion liters of wine are drank a year compared to just 187 billions liters of beer...looks like wine lost that one. Beer has been around for about 3,500 years before wine. Of course I'm not the only person drinking all those 187 billions liters of beer in one year...more of that captain obvious stuff. Besides I really don't drink much at all, I may have one 16 ounce of beer about every other month!froze said:That's just your opinion. I don't happen to like wine, and craft beer is over taken wine in a lot of US cities that were big wine cities, so apparently the masses don't agree with you either.Kokoso said:Wine. After lots of years drinking mostly beer I've switched to wine somehow and it's much, much better beverage, at least regarding taste. Yes, one gets used to beer, but it is not really tasty thing. One gets used to everything after all. Give good beer to someone who doesn't and he'll say - what the heck, it's hideous. Give them good wine and they'll say: now that is good thing.