Putting together a beer sampler for a non-craft beer drinker

[Apendecto]

Three floydes mild ale,or gumballhead.

You'd think I could get Three Floyds since I boarder the state...

*Off to search for Zombie Dust*

 

[jstephens]

This is an excellent plan. Here is a site you might find helpful if you need tips on how to store your Michigan Beer. Finding The Right Temperature For Your Michigan Beer It might help keep the beer tasting as fresh as possible before sampling it all to your friend.

I'd like to put together a 12'er of beer with 2 of each beer of the following styles for my buddy at work. And I need one more style. The idea is to give him a wide range of beer that I like, not necessarily the next step after BMC. That's why wheats, ambers, blonds, Belgiums, etc. are out.

Pale (Sierra Nevada)
IPA (Bell's Two Hearted)
Brown (Big Sky Moose Drool)
Porter (Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald)
Stout (Guinness Foreign Extra ???)
???

Here are the rules:
-Should be "craft" beer but something I have around here.
-I'd like to have each style made by a different brewery.
-Each beer should be a good example of the style and not have something like blueberries or ginger in it.
-I have to like it.
-It has to come in a 12 oz bottle or can.

I'm having a tough time with the last category. For the last category, I was thinking Red but all I could come up with is Founders Red's Rye (which is awesome but half the brews would be pretty hoppy). Any ideas for a maltier red beer or a different category all together?

As for the stout, it seems like a cop-out to use Guinness (but the FES is really good). I love Sierra Nevada Stout and Great Lakes Black Out Stout, but I've used both of those breweries. Hmmm...

What would your list look like?

Thanks!

 

[GodsStepBrother]

Sorry,you're def wrong. Read the label,it says "ale". Seems to me I read about that on the germenbeerinstitute.com as well. I've drunk a lot of it. Most doppel bocks are lagers now,except for the original,the Salvator.
**PS-well,this weird. I know I've seen the word "ale" on the label. But the story at germanbeerinstitute.com refers to it being "lagered" in their cellars after a commercial guy bought it outright after Napolean shut the monks down. Darn it,now I have to go out & buy some. I never saved any of the labels from all those bottles of Salvator we drank. Idk,maybe they just made it ahead of time & put it in cold storage so it wouldn't degrade as fast till Lent???

From the Paulaner website.

"Salvator This is the original Paulaner, the founding beer of Paulaner. The Salvator double bock is a bottom-fermented beer and has been brewed in almost exactly the same way since the end of the 18th century. It combines the most delicate of hops and dark barley malt to give a strong, characteristically malty taste and an inviting, gleaming copper colour."
Paulaner International

 

[unionrdr]

Dang,I was sure I always saw ale on the label somewhere. I'll have to wait till I can get aride to the store & look again. Or maybe I'm just a littlr dislectic?...

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Dang,I was sure I always saw ale on the label somewhere. I'll have to wait till I can get aride to the store & look again. Or maybe I'm just a littlr dislectic?...

I can't see your location since I'm on the HBT app but are you in Texas? Because they're kinda 'tards when it comes to alcohol law. "Ale" and "beer" have to do with ABV% there

 

[unionrdr]

No,I'm in Ohio. I haven't had a salvator in a while,& was positive I remembered that right. Wanna get some more if I can get a ride. Damn body shop keeps makin excuse,so no car yet. It's got nothing to do with stupidity,I just haven't had it in a while,didn't save any of the labels,& can't get around much. I need my car back...

 

[Revvy]

There was an interesting thread started yesterday that some guy for a school project did a paper on the history and convoluted nature of Texas alcohol laws. I'd love to read the paper.

 

[GrumpySquirrel]

If you're going for a good stout, Founders Breakfast stout is phenomenal, but I also like Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout.

You really shouldn't count out a wheat beer, unless you already know they don't like them. There's a lot of good choices out there (Oberon is one of my favorites, but they're out of season).

I've actually found that non-craft drinkers do tend to like Tripels, because they are a bit sweeter... I'm actually surprised you want to go with Two Hearted... I tend to find that IPAs are less appealing to the BMC drinkers due to the hops.

 

[Weizenwerks]

Besides Steam, Anchor's Porter is an excellent beer with restrained flavor that is present but not too up front like Guiness.

Bell's Pale Ale, more of a blond ale, is a great beer.

 

[ClaudiusB]

No,I'm in Ohio. I haven't had a salvator in a while,& was positive I remembered that right. It's got nothing to do with stupidity,I just haven't had it in a while,didn't save any of the labels,& can't get around much. I need my car back...
Dang,I was sure I always saw ale on the label somewhere.

Go to post # 55

 

[IffyG]

Dang,I was sure I always saw ale on the label somewhere. I'll have to wait till I can get aride to the store & look again. Or maybe I'm just a littlr dislectic?...

I picked up a couple Grolsch flip top bottles at the liquor store the other day and it had ALE in Texas written on it. Probably just a way to label them for the entire market to comply with some states ridiculous labeling laws.