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It's not bad, I guess. Kind of reminds me of Coors in a way. I live in the New Orleans area, and we have no shortage of alcohol here. This stuff is called Covington Kolsch, from a local brewery called Covington Brewhouse. Here's what the label says: We founded our brewery on Covington...

I just went to one of the nicer grocery stores in my area, where they have a somewhat decent selection of beers. I didn't see a cream ale, but I did see a kolsch, so I decided to grab that. I'll try it out in a bit, and post some comments and more info on it shortly.

That would be it. A cream ale isn't anything like that, is it?

But if you make something awful, it's an expensive and extremely time consuming mistake. LOL I'd like to have an idea of what I'm doing before I even attempt something like that.

One time I tried a Japanese beer, from what I understand it was a Japanese version of a Belgian white. I want to say it had an owl on the label. It was really strange tasting, kind of like a blue moon. Somebody mentioned Hefeweisen, and I believe it's kind of a similar style of beer. Really...

I haven't really had any microbrews.

By ale would that be like a Sam Adams type of beer? I've had that before and it wasn't too bad. Obviously Sam Adams isn't microbrew, but I'm just trying to help describe my tastes. It is probably the darkest beer I've had that I liked.

I've thought about home brewing for years, and am tempted to try it. I have a few reservations, though. Some people like all kinds of beers, such as ales, stouts, Belgian whites, etc and love tasting all kinds of varieties. I'm what you would call a "super taster" and don't really like...