A guy at work showed me this.
Oh, I've seen it in my personal experience plenty. It's like they're offended that I like beer that is dark. They get this disgusted look and an eyebrow raise. I call racism.
I've met a few that are so stuck in whatever beer they like they'll never try anything else. I had one couple that came over reject the bmc I had available for them because they only liked their brand of bmc. It's like swearing one gas station has better gas when you are buying the cheapest you can find anyway. These bmc folks have the most sensitive palette when it comes to beer.
Not to be rude, but Wurttemberg is a region (former kingdom, now part of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg). I believe you mentioned northern Bavaria earlier, so you might be thinking of Wurzburg. Unless you meant Upper Bavaria (Oberbayern), which is actually the southern part including Munich (and there aren't any big towns that start with a W, but tons of little ones).Wurttemberg is the city I couldn't remember that family oral history says my ancestors grandpa came from.
I see all these posts about BMC drinkers looking like they're going to vomit or going "THIS IS TERRIBLE!" whenever they taste a craft beer or a homebrew, but I've never actually experienced this before.
One of the aspects of those people who won't try/like anything other than the one brand they "like": for many of them, their beer is just an alcohol delivery system. They want/need the alcohol for whatever reason, and have no interest in the taste/experience, they just want the alcohol, and usually the less expensive the better. My uncle kept a kegerator with 15.5 gallon sankes, full of Bud for years, drank 3-4 every single night. He moved to AZ and was proud to have moved on to Tecate. No kegerator now, my aunt won't have it, but still easily accessible in mass quantities. Is he an alcoholic? Not for me to say...
One of the aspects of those people who won't try/like anything other than the one brand they "like": for many of them, their beer is just an alcohol delivery system. They want/need the alcohol for whatever reason, and have no interest in the taste/experience, they just want the alcohol, and usually the less expensive the better. My uncle kept a kegerator with 15.5 gallon sankes, full of Bud for years, drank 3-4 every single night. He moved to AZ and was proud to have moved on to Tecate. No kegerator now, my aunt won't have it, but still easily accessible in mass quantities. Is he an alcoholic? Not for me to say...
He'll try different beers, and actually the vet he gets when he's feeling fancy is Bohemia, a good Mexican lager.
I think your statement is an over generalization. Some people like trying new things, others just find what they like and like that. I mean Taco Bell still exists in Texas despite being disgusting and anyone being able to find better Tex-Mex at a lower or similar price within 2-3 miles.
Craft beer is not inherently better, better flavor is subjective. Heady Topper would land at the bottom of entered as an American light lager in competition. Most beer geeks don't like American light lagers (including myself), but that doesn't make them bad.
Not to be rude, but Wurttemberg is a region (former kingdom, now part of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg). I believe you mentioned northern Bavaria earlier, so you might be thinking of Wurzburg. Unless you meant Upper Bavaria (Oberbayern), which is actually the southern part including Munich (and there aren't any big towns that start with a W, but tons of little ones).
Read the comments of this newspaper article. For context, Blue Monk is a craft beer bar with 30+ taps and a decidedly Belgian take (it is called Blue MONK) and constantly wins awards. Sterling Place was a beloved craft bar open whenever the owner felt like it, only took cash, and had a hot plate for cooking, so food could actually take an hour to get. It mysteriously closed last year.
Enjoy!
http://buffalo.com/2015/01/28/featured/ex-sterling-tavern-reopening-may/
Everyone at the table wanted me to go for the Tom Green Beer. however there was no description and the waitress had no clue.
That's too bad, for the record it's a great Milk Stout, one of my wife's favourites. I'm surprised, I didn't realize Beau's was exporting to NY, I thought they were Ontario/Quebec only.
I think it was within the past year. Flying Monkeys also broke into MI/OH/NY at about the same time.
Me? I'm already in Ontario, and well acquainted with the Smashbomb. They actually put out the recipe in the 2014 calendar I got from Canadian Homebrew Supplies in Brampton.You're lucky, Flying Monkeys makes one of my go-to IPAs. Their Smashbomb Atomic IPA is fantastic, in my opinion. They actually got into a tiff with the provincial liquor board over the name (because it contained the words "Smash" and "Bomb," both of which are no-no's in liquor labeling in Canada), but somehow managed to win out and got to keep the name.
Now when are you going to start exporting some of your better beers up here to the Great White North? Why are you hoarding all the Bell's Two Hearted and Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA? Share!
Me? I'm already in Ontario, and well acquainted with the Smashbomb.
They actually put out the recipe in the 2014 calendar I got from Canadian Homebrew Supplies in Brampton.
On a side note, the LCBO will be stocking Stone brews in the not-too-distant future.
Oh man that is stumbling distance for me! Awesome.
I'll post it when I get home.And ... ? Are you going to share? I'm guessing it's a ton of Citra/Simcoe/Centennial?
Read the comments of this newspaper article. For context, Blue Monk is a craft beer bar with 30+ taps and a decidedly Belgian take (it is called Blue MONK) and constantly wins awards. Sterling Place was a beloved craft bar open whenever the owner felt like it, only took cash, and had a hot plate for cooking, so food could actually take an hour to get. It mysteriously closed last year.
Enjoy!
http://buffalo.com/2015/01/28/featured/ex-sterling-tavern-reopening-may/
Read the article and had to chuckle. The Brinkworth family owned Brunner's tavern on Main Street near Eggert Road back when I was in high school and college. I think the head guy was Richie Brinkworth who is prob the dad or an uncle of Kevin who is quoted in the article.
I had to laugh when I read the comment about going to Charleston, South Carolina
and having the Palmetto pale ale. My family went out to dinner one night while visiting down there and my brother ordered some of that. My brother took a swig and got a mouthful of nastiness. It was a clump of trub? Brother took a napkin and filtered out the crap and ended up getting a bunch of beers on the house for that. Ewwww.
I had to laugh when I read the comment about going to Charleston, South Carolina and having the Palmetto pale ale. My family went out to dinner one night while visiting down there and my brother ordered some of that. My brother took a swig and got a mouthful of nastiness. It was a clump of trub? Brother took a napkin and filtered out the crap and ended up getting a bunch of beers on the house for that.
"I moved to TN about 6 months ago (from NJ) to immediately find out that it was technically illegal to brew beer that is over 5% ABV. By law, the definition of beer in TN is a beverage less than 5% ABV. Anything over that range would be considered "making liquor"."
This was from a thread on HBT! It also went on to say that they just moved the limit to 8%... wtf! Does nobody make wine there? I must say TN sucks.... mommy and daddy government needs to get a life.
Why that state chose to name things after roaches never ceases to amaze me.
(For the record I am aware that it's also a tree.)
Who's checkin'? Make whatever you want. Yes that is stupid though. Along those lines, I was wondering why all the lime-a-rita line of stuff was 6% in Nashville instead of the usual 8%. Don't judge. The lime and apple are both delicious.
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