Random Beer Thoughts

[FoudreGuy]

I'd rather pay $6 than $10.

I'm much less of a ticker these days, but I also rarely drink the same beer two times in a row. I also don't usually drink on school nights. A six pack means 4 beers languish in my fridge for a couple of weeks.

I like bottle shops that sell singles. Not so much for ticking but because I really don't need 4 or 6 of anything since I try to only drink on the weekends and it's normally 1 or 2 a day.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

I own a kegorator and I also mainly drink Fri-Sat-Sun. So I will rip off a few pours everyday of the weekend from whatever is on tap. (Celebration right now) Am I beering wrong?

 

[litheum94]

I like bottle shops that sell singles. Not so much for ticking but because I really don't need 4 or 6 of anything since I try to only drink on the weekends and it's normally 1 or 2 a day.

Yeah....me too...

 

[MikeJones]

I own a kegorator and I also mainly drink Fri-Sat-Sun. So I will rip off a few pours everyday of the weekend from whatever is on tap. (Celebration right now) Am I beering wrong?

I'm not a ticker but I like to drink different things. If I find something I really like I have no problem revisiting it but 50 pints of the same beer is just not enough variety for me. It's why I never went the kegerator route.

 

[flyingbison]

I try to only drink on the weekends ...

Me too, but I'm really bad at it.

 

[capnmike]

Yeah....me too...

Day I’m least likely to drink a beer: Saturday

Pretty much drink while cooking dinner, and Saturdays most often were running around until late or getting carry out.

But, like last night, if I drink a BCBS for my one “beer,” isn’t that really like 4 12oz 5% macros?

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

I'm not a ticker but I like to drink different things. If I find something I really like I have no problem revisiting it but 50 pints of the same beer is just not enough variety for me. It's why I never went the kegerator route.

They are great for parties not that I throw too many of them. At the time in 2011 when my wife asked me what wedding present I would like (iPad or kegorator) well we know what choice I went with.

 

[Gaseous Clay]

LAX Customs and USPS are really playing with my emotions this holiday season.

 

[BadJustin]

I'm not a ticker but I like to drink different things. If I find something I really like I have no problem revisiting it but 50 pints of the same beer is just not enough variety for me. It's why I never went the kegerator route.

I know none of you will be surprised but when the sixtel I have kicks I am getting a half of Old Milwaukee. Fite me.

 

[FoudreGuy]

Me too, but I'm really bad at it.

I'm not perfect, especially if we get a date night or if the Seahawks are playing on Monday or Thursday but I do my best.

 

[Stubs]

It's also incredibly tone-deaf when you consider that craft beer in its recent iteration has always been somewhat predicated on ticker culture. Now that craft beer is bigger than ever, we're seeing ticker culture at a greater magnitude.

It's not "ticker culture" that's changed; it's the fanbase that's increased exponentially.

Beyond that, I'm not sure I even understand the point of this article beyond reiterating what we've all known for years - craft beer, like most hobbies, has its trends, with its fair share of trendsetters and trendfollowers. There's always going to be an ebb and flow of new, young, naive consumers with every new trend - and that includes breweries.

**** man, both Toolbox and Council became incredibly popular when sour and wild ales were the hot thing - and look at them now, as that trend's come and gone.

I will never understand when someone complains about a consumer buying a product. In 10 yeard, he is going to be wishing he could put out a hundred beers a year ot whatever.

 

[rrryanc]

I own a kegorator and I also mainly drink Fri-Sat-Sun. So I will rip off a few pours everyday of the weekend from whatever is on tap. (Celebration right now) Am I beering wrong?

I have a kegerator as well, and it's gotten plenty of use in the past. Just me, my wife and the occasional other pour means a keg lasts for-*******-ever though, even a sixtel. Also why I stopped homebrewing (was that issue + shittier beer).

Last beer I had in my kegerator was a bcbs sixtel, which actually was pretty awesome - takes forever to go bad, great to have just a few ounces of, and spectacular with ice cream. Kinda want another one...

 

[sacrelicio]

Regarding the Jeppe ticker thing, I drink the same beers all the time, at least when I'm buying at a store. And if I spent 100 bucks on an IPA festival, I'd probably hit HF and Alchemist first because I rarely get to drink their beers, and then I'd hit up all the other booths to try new stuff since it's a damn festival. Not gonna spend that money to just sit and drink Heady Topper all day long.

 

[litheum94]

Regarding the Jeppe ticker thing, I drink the same beers all the time, at least when I'm buying at a store. And if I spent 100 bucks on an IPA festival, I'd probably hit HF and Alchemist first because I rarely get to drink their beers, and then I'd hit up all the other booths to try new stuff since it's a damn festival. Not gonna spend that money to just sit and drink Heady Topper all day long.

Pliny is better anyway.

 

[sacrelicio]

Pliny is better anyway.

Not that these damn tickers would know anyways.

 

[wuntrikpony]

Row 2 Hill 56 is better anyway.

ftfm

 

[arren]

We're definitely on the backside of sour beer as a trend. Maybe it's because Denver has a more rooted sour beer customer base but I still see a lot of breweries putting out at least one fruited kettle sour on their board--especially these awful rose sours.

I'm firmly convinced that it was kettle sours that killed the trend good. I've been burned too many times on bad kettle sours (~99% of them tbh) that I don't bother ordering those anymore.

Day I’m least likely to drink a beer: Saturday

Pretty much drink while cooking dinner, and Saturdays most often were running around until late or getting carry out.

Yep, this is me. I drink by far more on weekdays nights than on weekends - running too many damn errands or doing **** for the kids to really indulge.

Regarding the Jeppe ticker thing, I drink the same beers all the time, at least when I'm buying at a store. And if I spent 100 bucks on an IPA festival, I'd probably hit HF and Alchemist first because I rarely get to drink their beers, and then I'd hit up all the other booths to try new stuff since it's a damn festival. Not gonna spend that money to just sit and drink Heady Topper all day long.

Because you've already gone through the ticker stage, and moved into the "don't really give a **** about new stuff, gimme Two-Hearted all day" phase that nearly every craft beer drinker goes through.

 

[arren]

Blind Pig is better anyway.

ftfm

 

[JCastle1]

I'm firmly convinced that it was kettle sours that killed the trend good. I've been burned too many times on bad kettle sours (~99% of them tbh) that I don't bother ordering those anymore.

Other way around for me. I already know a kettle-sour will be less complex but easy drinking (I've had some bad ones but that's the minority). On the other hand I've had some really **** mixed-fermentation stuff. Overly acidic, acetic, one-dimensional, oxidized, etc, etc.

 

[SkunkDrool1]

Fremont keeping their hazy tallboy 4-packs at $12 is really nice.

Thats what I love about Modern Times and Pizza Port. Firestone 4 packs of Gen-1 are $10.99 right now.

 

[sacrelicio]

Because you've already gone through the ticker stage, and moved into the "don't really give a **** about new stuff, gimme Two-Hearted all day" phase that nearly every craft beer drinker goes through.

Oh I spend way too much money on silos of haze. I just buy the same ones often. I should buy Two Hearted instead but oh well.

 

[sacrelicio]

ftfm

Dat simcoe.

Also Pliny is actually a brut IPA, change my mind.

 

[wuntrikpony]

Also Pliny is actually a brut IPA, change my mind.

Brut IPAs don't have crystal malt. That was easy.

silos of haze

imma cop this

 

[drgarage1]

Brut IPAs don't have crystal malt. That was easy.



imma cop this

But is carafoam actually a caramel malt?

 

[wuntrikpony]

But is carafoam actually a caramel malt?

I don't know if he changed it recently, but the recipe has C40/C45.

And yes, carafoam is a caramel malt.

 

[drgarage1]

I don't know if he changed it recently, but the recipe has C40/C45.

And yes, carafoam is a caramel malt.

I thought it was technically dextrin malt?

The recipe he gave to BYO years ago is almost certainly not accurate to present-day Pliny.

 

[wuntrikpony]

I thought it was technically dextrin malt?

The recipe he gave to BYO years ago is almost certainly not accurate to present-day Pliny.

Every recipe I've seen has had a mid lov crystal. Regardless....here is a quote from a random website I just found regarding carashit:

in the United States and Canada, Carapils refers to Briess’s product, while the very same term signifies the Weyermann product elsewhere. If you’re looking for the Weyermann product in North America, you have to seek out Carafoam. You’ll also hear these products generically called dextrin malts, although that’s more true for Briess Carapils than it is for Weyermann Carapils/Carafoam. Here’s why.

The Carapils that Briess malts is a true caramel malt. Briess notes on its Carapils spec sheet that “Carapils® Malt is devoid of enzymes and can be steeped in hot water or mashed.” Added to an extract or all-grain grist, Briess’s Carapils delivers unfermentable sugars (dextrins) that increase body and improve head retention. It’s really just the lightest malt in a whole spectrum of caramel malts that starts with Carapils and goes all the way up to Caramel 120 and higher. The name Carapils just lets you know that it’s as light in color as a typical Pilsner malt, about 1.5° Lovibond. Briess recommends that brewers use Carapils sparingly, up to about 5 percent of the grist by weight.

Weyermann’s Carapils/Carafoam, on the other hand, is a bit different. First, it’s a touch darker, in the 1.5–3.0° Lovibond range. And while Briess admits that its Carapils has no enzymatic potential, Weyermann’s product actually has a fair amount of diastatic power, to the tune of as much as 100 to 150 on the Windisch–Kolbach index, which is in the neighborhood of 35–45° Lintner. That’s right at the practical limit at which a malt can fully convert itself, which means that the Weyermann product can be used in relatively large proportions, more like a base malt than a caramel malt. Indeed, Weyermann notes that its Carapils /Carafoam can represent as much as 40 percent of a grist by weight, a percentage that would be far too high for a normal caramel malt. Like the Briess product, Weyermann Carapils/Carafoam contributes long-chain sugars that enhance head and improve body, but it can make up a much larger proportion of the malt bill.

So, here’s the bottom line. Briess Carapils is a caramel malt that can be steeped or mashed, while Weyermann’s Carapils/Carafoam is more of an undermodified Pilsner that should probably be mashed to avoid haze issues. In practice, if you stick to percentages under 5 percent, you can get away with steeping the Weyermann product just as you would Briess’s.

 

[drgarage1]

Every recipe I've seen has had a mid lov crystal. Regardless....here is a quote from a random website I just found regarding carashit:

Good to know! I always assumed it didn't count and just had a coincidental name.

 

[litheum94]

Thats what I love about Modern Times and Pizza Port. Firestone 4 packs of Gen-1 are $10.99 right now.

Modern Times 4 packs are incredibly expensive, at least their hazy IPAs.

 

[agrippin]

I have a feeling a lot of the regional breweries are going to regret releasing brut IPAs if the smaller guys can't even sell through their limited packaging...