Random Beer Thoughts

[Beerontwowheels]

I dunno. Maybe I'll get super into Germans and become boring as **** talking about purity law... and also the reinheitsgebot.

herrburgess is that you?

 

[lazerviking]

So I don't know **** about the classic German styles and for the most part I don't like them. The last few days I've been doing a copywriting job that has had me writing about German beers. As a result I decided to grab a weihenstephan dunkel and a weizenbock.

So far, the dunkel is... good I guess? Going by my research it seems to be spot on for the style. Certainly a lot of depth which is nice. Bread, watery coffee, hazelnuts.

I dunno. Maybe I'll get super into Germans and become boring as **** talking about purity law... and also the reinheitsgebot.

To me, that beer is perfection. herrburgess agrees.

Edit: damn it! Beerontwowheels beat me to it.

 

[sacrelicio]

So I don't know **** about the classic German styles and for the most part I don't like them. The last few days I've been doing a copywriting job that has had me writing about German beers. As a result I decided to grab a weihenstephan dunkel and a weizenbock.

So far, the dunkel is... good I guess? Going by my research it seems to be spot on for the style. Certainly a lot of depth which is nice. Bread, watery coffee, hazelnuts.

I dunno. Maybe I'll get super into Germans and become boring as **** talking about purity law... and also the reinheitsgebot.

I can get down with a doppelbock or weizenbock once in awhile. Surly recently rebrewed their first anniversary beer, which they call a "quadrupel bock" (it's just a strong doppelbock, no Belgian quad involved) and it was really good. Strong and malty but completely different from a barleywine and a welcome change of pace. But yeah, not something I reach for all that often.

Also it's kinda funny how two of their most obscure styles (Berliner and gose) are hot as **** right now in the US.

 

[Der Fuchs]

So I don't know **** about the classic German styles and for the most part I don't like them. The last few days I've been doing a copywriting job that has had me writing about German beers. As a result I decided to grab a weihenstephan dunkel and a weizenbock.

So far, the dunkel is... good I guess? Going by my research it seems to be spot on for the style. Certainly a lot of depth which is nice. Bread, watery coffee, hazelnuts.

I dunno. Maybe I'll get super into Germans and become boring as **** talking about purity law... and also the reinheitsgebot.

Pretty much everything weihenstephanen puts out is the standard for the style. Highly recommend them if you aren't super familiar with the classic German styles.

 

[LukeAleTime]

Pretty much everything weihenstephanen puts out is the standard for the style. Highly recommend them if you aren't super familiar with the classic German styles.

Yeah my girlfriend really likes them so I've always just tried a sip of hers but not paid too much attention. I enjoyed Vitus too. I think I'll head to a German beer bar and try some more. There's one nearby that seems to have a few more interesting ones.

 

[Juice1]

These past 6 months have been pretty rough on glassware in my house. Aside from shattering my last New Glarus glass and having the stem crack off one HF big wine glass, this just happened to my last pint glass;

Poured a fridge temp beer and didn't get to take a sip before I heard a small "tink" which I recognized as glass cracking but had only been holding the glass in my hand for less than 2 minutes, so I didn't connect the two at first. Upon inspecting it there is no crack on the inside or outside of the glass, just the middle??? So the beer is drinkable but idk about the glass. Fun stuff.

 

[sb67]

These past 6 months have been pretty rough on glassware in my house. Aside from shattering my last New Glarus glass and having the stem crack off one HF big wine glass, this just happened to my last pint glass;

Poured a fridge temp beer and didn't get to take a sip before I heard a small "tink" which I recognized as glass cracking but had only been holding the glass in my hand for less than 2 minutes, so I didn't connect the two at first. Upon inspecting it there is no crack on the inside or outside of the glass, just the middle??? So the beer is drinkable but idk about the glass. Fun stuff.

Drink that quickly before the bottom of the glass falls out!

 

[Podunkparte]

Jester King makes a lot of weird beer, but all of their 500mls are great.

2015 Rare is ******* delicious. "Too oaky..." lolnope

arren good god that Great was... well, great. Really impressed

 

[BravoDawg]

This Creature Comforts Curious even today got me like..

 

[tosh1]

14 years ago the 1st 6 pack I bought in America was Drakes Amber. It was ******* terrible. I chocked them down, but ****...

14 years has done Drakes good. This was the first beer I bought a case of.

I ruined most of that case by not drinking it fast enough back in whenever. Currently Drakes is closest brewery to my house. We have both come a long way since 2002.

 

[tosh1]

So time of year?

Triple/quad IPA's turding up my fridge. I can't ******* keep up. 12%+ IPA's all week long. Fantastic.

 

[Josh2]

14 years ago the 1st 6 pack I bought in America was Drakes Amber. It was ******* terrible. I chocked them down, but ****...

14 years has done Drakes good. This was the first beer I bought a case of.

I ruined most of that case by not drinking it fast enough back in whenever. Currently Drakes is closest brewery to my house. We have both come a long way since 2002.

Are you going to copy pasta the same **** all over the forums or what?

 

[tosh1]

Are you going to copy pasta the same **** all over the forums or what?

Any other threads you would like to see it in? Let me know. Thanks.

 

[jmgrub]

Are you going to copy pasta the same **** all over the forums or what?

*fora

 

[tosh1]

*fora

*Your


*You're

 

[Josh2]

Any other threads you would like to see it in? Let me know. Thanks.

Fantome please.

 

[regularjohn]

Any other threads you would like to see it in? Let me know. Thanks.

 

[tosh1]

On it. For record, you are too blame.

 

[regularjohn]

On it. For record, you are too blame.

 

[jupiter6xx]

Randomly have become kind of obsessed w/ brandy & cognac barrel aged beers. Maybe it's a cold weather thing, I dunno.... but any recommendations of stuff I should chase that isn't gonna be a nightmare to obtain?

 

[drgarage1]

Randomly have become kind of obsessed w/ brandy & cognac barrel aged beers. Maybe it's a cold weather thing, I dunno.... but any recommendations of stuff I should chase that isn't gonna be a nightmare to obtain?

Cognac and Brandy Eclipse usually aren't super-tough to track down.

 

[mateoloco]

Randomly have become kind of obsessed w/ brandy & cognac barrel aged beers. Maybe it's a cold weather thing, I dunno.... but any recommendations of stuff I should chase that isn't gonna be a nightmare to obtain?

I've got a Cognac Jesus turding up my closet. Yours if you want it.

 

[RayP]

I thought the Cognac Cake was one of my favorite variants out of them all at the bottle release.

 

[abawol01]

Clown Shoes Billionaire was solid.

 

[mateoloco]

any recommendations of stuff I should chase that isn't gonna be a nightmare to obtain?

Cognac Cake

RayP, please.

 

[cultclassic89]

Randomly have become kind of obsessed w/ brandy & cognac barrel aged beers. Maybe it's a cold weather thing, I dunno.... but any recommendations of stuff I should chase that isn't gonna be a nightmare to obtain?

I thought Apple Brandy Noir was definitely one of Prairie's better beers recently. I don't think it should be difficult to find someone with a bottle.

 

[jupiter6xx]

I thought Apple Brandy Noir was definitely one of Prairie's better beers recently. I don't think it should be difficult to find someone with a bottle.

Agreed. I drank my last one a few weeks ago and am forever ISO more. New batch in the next few months supposedly.

 

[jupiter6xx]

I've got a Cognac Jesus turding up my closet. Yours if you want it.

Two people brought this to recent shares, both times it was awful (infected, I assume but it's ET so...?). Are there actual good bottles out there?

 

[mateoloco]

Two people brought this to recent shares, both times it was awful (infected, I assume but it's ET so...?). Are there actual good bottles out there?

No idea. Other people who bought bottles from the same store checked them in on untappd and didn't mention infection but didn't love them either. I'm realizing BA stouts are hit or miss for me, so if you don't want it I'll put it in one of the several sports BIFs I'll be shipping out in the next month.

 

[harrymel1]

Cognac Abyss is outstanding.