I hated spiced beer!

[max384]

Man do I hate adding spices to beer! I've literally never drank a beer with any spices added that I liked. It seems that I'm finding more and more microbrews with spices added, especially the seasonal beers (from all four seasons). I guess people must like this crap since they're selling it...

Is it just me, or does anyone else think spices ruin a beer... And for the record, coriander is the worst. Blech

And in case anyone's panties get in a bunch, I'm not judging anyone who likes spices in their beers, I'm just bitching out loud, after having accidentally bought yet another spiced beer.

Maybe I need to start reading the labels more closely...

 

[Riot]

A light touch of spice can be OK in some beers but I find them to be rare. The Christmas ales and things like that where spice is one of the dominant flavours I absolutely can't stand. Most pumpkin beers fall into that as well, I just don't like them

 

[Billy-Klubb]

oh great. now my panties are all bunched.

 

[Hello]

Man, someone needs a ****ing hug.

 

[Rivenin]

since we're on the "not a fan of" thing - i can't stand any dry irish stouts....
only one i actually enjoyed was a friends brewery that did a potato dry irish stout.... other then that, blech...

 

[Freddyj123]

Maybe switch to drinking wine? Lol

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Maybe switch to drinking wine? Lol

"Beer can be just as complex as wine. It has more ingredients."

 

[Freddyj123]

"Beer can be just as complex as wine. It has more ingredients."

Exactly my point

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Exactly my point

are you the guy from the video?ipe:

 

[harleybug88]

I like pumpkin pie, but pumpkin beer makes me gag.:beard:

 

[Zuljin]

At least they're not triple double IIPAs.

 

[Owly055]

Hops are for practical purposes a "spice"...........

 

[1977Brewer]

at least they're not triple double iipas.

iso

 

[Hammy71]

I'll say this. I don't mind a little grains of paradise or coriander in a wheat beer. But, I too can't stand the spice trend. I hate the fall season and all the pumpkin/spice crap. I don't like the cayenne pepper stouts, the oyster stouts, or the old bay pale ales. I understand many people do. I understand that being creative and crafty is what made the craft beer movement what it is. But quite frankly, being different for difference sake is annoying. I guess I'm just old, because I don't see a reason for people to dye their hair orange either.... Me thinks many breweries are just trying to hard. I love Sam over at Dogfish Head, but some of the stuff they are coming up with....it just plain stupid and unappetizing. And......don't you dare put a damn orange or lemon slice on my glass..... OOO that burns me up....

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I'll say this. I don't mind a little grains of paradise or coriander in a wheat beer. But, I too can't stand the spice trend. I hate the fall season and all the pumpkin/spice crap. I don't like the cayenne pepper stouts, the oyster stouts, or the old bay pale ales. I understand many people do. I understand that being creative and crafty is what made the craft beer movement what it is. But quite frankly, being different for difference sake is annoying. I guess I'm just old, because I don't see a reason for people to dye their hair orange either.... Me thinks many breweries are just trying to hard. I love Sam over at Dogfish Head, but some of the stuff they are coming up with....it just plain stupid and unappetizing. And......don't you dare put a damn orange or lemon slice on my glass..... OOO that burns me up....

you, sir, are bunching my panties.

 

[harleybug88]

you, sir, are bunching my panties.

Are you selling your used panties?

I'm not interested, just wondering.

 

[max384]

Hops are for practical purposes a "spice"...........

 

[max384]

I'll say this. I don't mind a little grains of paradise or coriander in a wheat beer. But, I too can't stand the spice trend. I hate the fall season and all the pumpkin/spice crap. I don't like the cayenne pepper stouts, the oyster stouts, or the old bay pale ales. I understand many people do. I understand that being creative and crafty is what made the craft beer movement what it is. But quite frankly, being different for difference sake is annoying. I guess I'm just old, because I don't see a reason for people to dye their hair orange either.... Me thinks many breweries are just trying to hard. I love Sam over at Dogfish Head, but some of the stuff they are coming up with....it just plain stupid and unappetizing. And......don't you dare put a damn orange or lemon slice on my glass..... OOO that burns me up....

I've been down to Dogfish Head in DE. I've never met Sam, but from shows I've seen, he seems really cool. Their brewpub is nice, their food is great, and they've got neat ideas... But I really don't like the vast majority of the beers they offer.

Trying new things is how new beers evolve, but there sure are a lot of dead ends in the search for new beers.

 

[1977Brewer]

Great. I just got unbunched after the IPA hate, now I'm rebunched.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Great. I just got unbunched after the IPA hate, now I'm rebunched.

don't throw them out. there's a market for them. I got 2 lawn & leaf bags full of my old bunched panties that smell like moldy a$$. cha-CHING!

Are you selling your used panties?

I'm not interested, just wondering.

 

[day_trippr]

Seriously, with all the "Waaah! I don't like this beer" it's almost enough to have to go commando

Cheers! ("Waaah! I don't want to go commando!" )

 

[Zuljin]

iso

14001?

 

[Hammy71]

Hops are for practical purposes a "spice"...........

True, but there is a big difference from salt on your french fries and nutmeg.

 

[Saboral]

you, sir, are bunching my panties.

Here, Here! My panties are firmly bunched. How could you not like old bay in your beer it's good on everything. Growing up in Southern Maryland I'll eat that **** on anything. ANYTHING!

Crabs,
Pork,
Beef,
Chicken,
Potatoes in any form,
Beer,
Cocktails,
Ice Cream,
Eggs,
A PB&J,
Cheese,
Tacos,
Fish,
Popcorn (not kettle corn, kettle corn sucks),
All manner of Soups,
shrimp,
Bacon,
Sausage,
Venison,
Mac and Cheese,
Etc.....

 

[Rhumbline]

Where does Gary Oak stand on this?

That's the only opinion I care about.

 

[Owly055]

True, but there is a big difference from salt on your french fries and nutmeg.

Salt is NOT a spice............. Unfortunately the range of potential applications for hops as a spice remains largely unexplored. Hops have potential applications ranging from "sweet spice" applications such as cookies and candies to salad and various others.... vegetables, fish. The potential is limited only by the imagination. The array of "essential oils" are a largely untapped resource for medicinal and therapeutic applications. It's far more than a mere spice.

H.W.

Cooking with hops is young as far as culinary trends go…

Hops on the vineCooking with hops is young as far as culinary trends go, but if recent trends are any indication, this baby’s got legs. Driven in large part by the burgeoning craft beer movement, hop-centric cuisine is giving hopheads something else to cheer about. With their inherent herbal and floral characteristics, hops are a natural fit in recipes that call for the likes of bay leaves, oregano and tarragon.

Hops have found their way into cornbread fritters, braised short ribs and I’ve even heard of one forward-thinking culinarian sprinkling a fine powder of ground hop pellets into his vanilla ice cream before topping it with a hop-infused chocolate porter caramel sauce. Whole hop flowers can even be battered and tempura fried much like squash blossoms and served alongside a burger with some garlic ale aioli. The possibilities are endless and today’s most innovative chefs aren’t afraid to push the boundaries.

---Medicinal Action and Uses---Hops have tonic, nervine, diuretic and anodyne properties. Their volatile oil produces sedative and soporific effects, and the Lupamaric acid or bitter principle is stomachic and tonic. For this reason Hops improve the appetite and promote sleep.

The official preparations are an infusion and a tincture. The infusion is employed as a vehicle, especially for bitters and tonics: the tincture is stomachic and is used to improve the appetite and digestion. Both preparations have been considered to be sedative, were formerly much given in nervousness and hysteria and at bedtime to induce sleep; in cases of nervousness, delirium and inflammation being considered to produce a most soothing effect, frequently procuring for the patient sleep after long periods of sleeplessness in overwrought conditions of the brain.

The bitter principle in the Hop proves one of the most efficacious vegetable bitters obtainable. An infusion of 1/2 oz. Hops to 1 pint of water will be found the proper quantity for ordinary use. It has proved of great service also in heart disease, fits, neuralgia and nervous disorders, besides being a useful tonic in indigestion, jaundice, and stomach and liver affections generally. It gives prompt ease to an irritable bladder, and is said to be an excellent drink in cases of delirium tremens. Sherry in which some Hops have been steeped makes a capital stomachic cordial.

A pillow of warm Hops will often relieve toothache and earache and allay nervous irritation.

An infusion of the leaves, strobiles and stalks, as Hop Tea, taken by the wineglassful two or three times daily in the early spring, is good for sluggish livers. Hop Tea in the leaf, as frequently sold by grocers, consists of Kentish Hop leaves, dried, crushed under rollers and then mixed with ordinary Ceylon or Indian Tea. The infusion combines the refreshment of the one herb with the sleepinducing virtues of the other.

Hop juice cleanses the blood, and for calculus trouble nothing better can be found than the bitter principle of the Hop. A decoction of the root has been esteemed as of equal benefit with Sarsaparilla.

As an external remedy, an infusion of Hops is much in demand in combination with chamomile flowers or poppy heads as a fomentation for swelling of a painful nature, inflammation, neuralgic and rheumatic pains, bruises, boils and gatherings. It removes pain and allays inflammation in a very short time. The Hops may also be applied as a poultice.

The drug Lupulin is an aromatic bitter and is reputed to be midly sedative, inducing sleep without causing headache.

It is occasionally administered as a hypnotic, either in pills with alcohol, or enclosed in a cachet.

Preparations of Lupulin are not much used in this country, although official, but in the United States they are considered preferable for internal use.

 

[Kwitty]

Well........ Saboral! Was there ever any research on weather or not hops can help with bunches panties?

 

[Inkleg]

Well........ Saboral! Was there ever any research on weather or not hops can help with bunches panties?

Don't know whether hops can help with bunched panties. But I do know that leaf hops are more comfortable in your panties than pellet.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Don't know whether hops can help with bunched panties. But I do know that leaf hops are more comfortable in your panties than pellet.

sometimes I wet hop my butt crack with Cascade.

 

[sompls]

sometimes I wet hop my butt crack with Cascade.

Ha! I don't know why but that actually made me laugh out loud

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Ha! I don't know why but that actually made me laugh out loud

sometimes I let a Nugget of funny slip out.

 

[sompls]

sometimes I let a Nugget of funny slip out.

[emoji13] dude you're killing me today!

 

[Saboral]

Well........ Saboral! Was there ever any research on weather or not hops can help with bunches panties?

Who's bunch and why does he wear panties? I mean sometimes my SWMBO has requested but......

 

[Billy-Klubb]

any idiot can wear boxers or briefs. it takes a real man to nut up and seductively slip on a tight lace red and black French cut number.

edit: and hops! don't forget the hops in your butt crack!

 

[max384]

any idiot can wear boxers or briefs. it takes a real man to nut up and seductively slip on a tight lace red and black French cut number.

edit: and hops! don't forget the hops in your butt crack!

Like an Olympic gold medalist, perhaps?


What? Too soon?

 

[harleybug88]

any idiot can wear boxers or briefs. it takes a real man to nut up and seductively slip on a tight lace red and black French cut number.

edit: and hops! don't forget the hops in your butt crack!

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[Cyclman]

Getting back to the OP's point (yeah, I know, good luck with that) I think it depends on the deftness of the brewer. I really like Sam Adam's Summer Ale, with the grains of paradise. I am a Pumpkin Ale lover, but again, only those with subtle spicing. And I adore Christmas ales.

I think in general, people are trying to do something "new" more than something "good." And they're overdoing it. Left hand Fade to Black is a great example, what makes it amazing is the balance of malt, hops, peppers, you can detect each note. I've had other pepper beers that just blew away my palate, not enjoyable.

Of course, you can make the same argument about IPAs, with more time and exposure, I am finding I enjoy those with malt / hop balance rather than drinking hop juice.

Funny, I was drinking my Maibock last night, thinking, damn, simple beer, simple hops, yet balanced, delicious, and drinkable. Maybe too many beers are "unique" but not drinkable.

Anyhow, there's room for everyone in our tent.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Getting back to the OP's point (yeah, I know, good luck with that) I think it depends on the deftness of the brewer. I really like Sam Adam's Summer Ale, with the grains of paradise. I am a Pumpkin Ale lover, but again, only those with subtle spicing. And I adore Christmas ales.

I think in general, people are trying to do something "new" more than something "good." And they're overdoing it. Left hand Fade to Black is a great example, what makes it amazing is the balance of malt, hops, peppers, you can detect each note. I've had other pepper beers that just blew away my palate, not enjoyable.

Of course, you can make the same argument about IPAs, with more time and exposure, I am finding I enjoy those with malt / hop balance rather than drinking hop juice.

Funny, I was drinking my Maibock last night, thinking, damn, simple beer, simple hops, yet balanced, delicious, and drinkable. Maybe too many beers are "unique" but not drinkable.

Anyhow, there's room for everyone in our tent.

I'll bring my panties!

 

[Saboral]

i'll bring my panties!

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[Natdavis777]

Im not much into spiced beers, but I do enjoy some pumpkin beer in the fall... By some, its narrowed to Shipyard followed by Buffalo Bills.