Random Beer Thoughts

[Padraig]

Coked up ad execs in London were on fire when it came to Guinness campaigns back in the 90’s.

 

[Roadmaster21]

1. Coopers Original Stout...foolproof, quick and tweakable
2. Better Brew IPA...very hoppy and grapefruit citrussy
3. Brewferm Tarwebier...with curacao peel and crushed coriander seed
4. Coopers Pilsener...crystal clear hoppy lager
5. Any other Brewferm short kits...give them at least 3 months in the bottle though

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

1. Coopers Original Stout...foolproof, quick and tweakable
2. Better Brew IPA...very hoppy and grapefruit citrussy
3. Brewferm Tarwebier...with curacao peel and crushed coriander seed
4. Coopers Pilsener...crystal clear hoppy lager
5. Any other Brewferm short kits...give them at least 3 months in the bottle though

Wrong thread?

 

[sebscott]

Share your IPA recipes ! im looking for recipes for IPAs to try at home or any decent IPAs i can buy in stores?

 

[jaeselector]

Share your IPA recipes ! im looking for recipes for IPAs to try at home or any decent IPAs i can buy in stores?

80% 2 row
10% Vienna
10% Wheat
Mash for dryness (152)

Amarillo FWH & at knockout
IBU:GU 1:1

CaSO4 heavy H2O

US05

Ferment cool (<70)

Not ******* hazy.

 

[Gaseous Clay]

Share your IPA recipes ! im looking for recipes for IPAs to try at home or any decent IPAs i can buy in stores?

The beer market is literally flushed with IPA's all over the world right now. You'd be hard pressed to not find at least a decent IPA at your local market or beer store - just make sure its not old and skunked from sitting under lights and you'll likely be happy with what you find.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Happy August! Welcome to Oktoberfest!


Few shelves of this, CoinStarChange

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

::dusts off thread::

So White Claw, and other spiked seltzers, are kinda dominating alcohol sales...

https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/08/spiked-seltzer-inventor-origin-story.html

 

[quirk6]

::dusts off thread::

So White Claw, and other spiked seltzers, are kinda dominating alcohol sales...

https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/08/spiked-seltzer-inventor-origin-story.html

Today I saw a guy walking through the store with a case of White Claw, a 6 pack of Truly and a case of Corona Light. I do not want to party with that guy.

 

[Gaseous Clay]

Today I saw a guy walking through the store with a case of White Claw, a 6 pack of Truly and a case of Corona Light. I do not want to party with that guy.

Someone confiscate this mans fake ID before he gets a college freshman pregnant

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

The Light IPA arms race is in full effect.

 

[yeahnatenelson]

The Light IPA arms race is in full effect.

Or is this the further spread of the *-Hearted ecosystem? They also packaged Double Two Hearted (Four-Hearted?) Ale this year.

 

[danbanana]

They've done Four Hearted a bunch on tap, even getting some distro of it. It's not my favorite. I will definitely be trying Light though...

 

[yeahnatenelson]

They've done Four Hearted a bunch on tap, even getting some distro of it. It's not my favorite. I will definitely be trying Light though...

Same. A 3.7% x-Hearted crusher sounds up my alley. Would also like to see this on cask...

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Or is this the further spread of the *-Hearted ecosystem? They also packaged Double Two Hearted (Four-Hearted?) Ale this year.

Probably a little bit of both. But I think moreso they are

1) “Keeping up with the Joneses” by releasing a lo-cal IPA just like Dogfish and Harpoon have done.
2) Spiked Seltzers, in part due to them being low in calories, have dominated the market this summer and have taken a bit away from craft beer.

In terms of *-hearted it makes sense in that it’s their most famous beer so if you know that your already likely on board. (Kind of like multiple versions of “Bud Light”)

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Cool now I don’t have to

A) share a whole bottle with someone
B) drink a whole bottle in one sitting

 

[tikk]

Cool now I don’t have to

A) share a whole bottle with someone
B) drink a whole bottle in one sitting

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

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Possibly. Then again I didn’t cower over to another site when someone asked for money.

 

[NClambicguy]

Possibly. Then again I didn’t cower over to another site when someone asked for money.

Well that site is flourishing while this one is nearly dead. What's that? Neither one has any traffic anymore?






Off to the Trump thread I go.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Well that site is flourishing while this one is nearly dead. What's that? Neither one has any traffic anymore?






Off to the Trump thread I go.

Gotta keep the Pulitzer hopes alive.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Well that site is flourishing while this one is nearly dead. What's that? Neither one has any traffic anymore?






Off to the Trump thread I go.

Who says the other site doesn’t have traffic?

 

[AndresR]

Who says the other site doesn’t have traffic?

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That's easily the most trafficked page on that new site. But what does that really say?

All the folks that can't go a day without drinking made the move?

I find the other site just as dead as this site, when it comes to human interaction, etc.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

That's easily the most trafficked page on that new site. But what does that really say?

All the folks that can't go a day without drinking made the move?

I find the other site just as dead as this site, when it comes to human interaction, etc.

Not just that. Look at any of the other threads or sections and there are threads with multiple posts and multiple threads bumped daily.

So yeah basically what it was here they’ve just talking about the same stuff over there now. (Except Toxic because censorship is the new black)

 

[NClambicguy]

Who says the other site doesn’t have traffic?

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I've never been one to comment on the DDT on either site. Just don't really give a **** to share what I'm drinking each night. However, the RTT here was always far more popping than the new one on the other site. Oh well, just sucks that both are relatively dead.

 

[quirk6]

The problem with Talkbeer is it just started feeling like a bouncehouse with half the air let out. That bounehouse has more air. I didn't leave because they started asking for money, but it was ****** they started asking after the site started performing poorly. The problem is that people left even before DDT and lots of those people probably have no idea the alternative is even there.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

The problem with Talkbeer is it just started feeling like a bouncehouse with half the air let out. That bounehouse has more air. I didn't leave because they started asking for money, but it was ****** they started asking after the site started performing poorly. The problem is that people left even before DDT and lots of those people probably have no idea the alternative is even there.

Yeah this place felt different after the sale. And so many people left that new glassware wasn’t deemed feasible. Now there is no merch at all now. At this point the only merch that might sell is something about a Pulitzer or a Gaspar.

 

[rrryanc]

That bounehouse has more air.

Does it? I mean, it does now of course, but does it have more air than pre-DDT TB?

Seems to me like it's a smaller subset (and yes, most of the active users) of what TB was.

Personally, it made me question how much time I spend on a beer site when I'm not really into beer like I once was. I definitely don't need/want to be active on two sites and trump thread is more interesting than the rest of it.

 

[yeahnatenelson]

Personally, it made me question how much time I spend on a beer site when I'm not really into beer like I once was.

I mean...isn't this the crux of it? How do you make a satisfactory beer discussion forum for a group of people who are now indifferent to new happenings in craft beer, if not aggressively jaded about craft beer? It's not that surprising to see that the most active General Beer thread on DDT is "I Hate Beer".

It's sometimes easy to forget that TB was a forum built for the express purpose of housing BeerAdvocate refugees that found the management of that forum to be untenable. For some people the porridge is never "just right", and if you don't even give a **** about the name on the door the problem is compounded.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

I mean...isn't this the crux of it? How do you make a satisfactory beer discussion forum for a group of people who are now indifferent to new happenings in craft beer, if not aggressively jaded about craft beer? It's not that surprising to see that the most active General Beer thread on DDT is "I Hate Beer".

It's sometimes easy to forget that TB was a forum built for the express purpose of housing BeerAdvocate refugees that found the management of that forum to be untenable. For some people the porridge is never "just right", and if you don't even give a **** about the name on the door the problem is compounded.

Plus with places like Facebook or Reddit you can get a free space going to talk/trade. Paying for and creating a niche forum (and then getting people to sign up!) seems outdated at this point.

 

[yeahnatenelson]

Plus with places like Facebook or Reddit you can get a free space going to talk/trade.

Don't forget: Reddit killed r/beertrade a few years ago, and facebook has recently threatened to weed out all alcohol sale/trade/transfer groups.