Random Beer Thoughts

[cry me]

I really wish there were a "Hide posts about M-43" option on Facebook. I follow the major local beer store pages so I know when new stuff comes into town. M-43, Michigan's very mediocre answer to Heady Topper, has gone from being a notably rare find to something that is regularly delivered in huge quantities multiple times a week throughout town. For whatever reason, seemingly every dropping of it warrants a Facebook posting. These endless notifications about some mediocre can of hazy nonsense are making it really tempting to stop subscribing to all of the offending pages, but FOMO is keeping me from doing so.

Facebook Purity chrome extension. You can block posts w/ certain phrases/words

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

I find it interesting/funny/whatever when a brewery that puts out weird/extreme/trend beers makes a simple Pale or a Lager made-to-style and they say "this is what I like to drink/this is what we drink in the back room" etc. Like, ******* make more of that **** if you like it. Don't horde it for you and your pals. Be confident in your ability to sell something you like to the masses.

/endrant

 

[tehzachatak]

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...es-playful-jab-baltimore-ravens-qb-joe-flacco

Treehouse apparently put out some cans that ask "Is Joe Flacco Elite" on the bottom by the date stamping.

I laughed.

 

[lazerviking]

I find it interesting/funny/whatever when a brewery that puts out weird/extreme/trend beers makes a simple Pale or a Lager made-to-style and they say "this is what I like to drink/this is what we drink in the back room" etc. Like, ******* make more of that **** if you like it. Don't horde it for you and your pals. Be confident in your ability to sell something you like to the masses.

/endrant

Sounds like a case of hating the player when you should be hating the game. Once basement dwelling manchildren stop preferring fruit juice and brownie beers you'll see a rise of subtle pale ales and crisp lagers.

 

[FoudreGuy]

Aaron Hernandez says what?

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Sounds like a case of hating the player when you should be hating the game. Once basement dwelling manchildren stop preferring fruit juice and brownie beers you'll see a rise of subtle pale ales and crisp lagers.

we can only hope

 

[Barroomhero]

Once basement dwelling manchildren stop preferring fruit juice and brownie beers you'll see a rise of subtle pale ales and crisp lagers.

Nothing to add to this line.

 

[Lutter]

 

[jdd419]

Best response ever

 

[user 312341]

old recycled memes

I thought that's what this site was for?

Oh, no wait. This is for gifs.

Treehouse apparently put out some cans that ask "Is Joe Flacco Elite" on the bottom by the date stamping.

hating the player when you should be hating the game

In my mind, these two comments back to back were amusing.

Once basement dwelling manchildren stop preferring fruit juice and brownie beers you'll see a rise of subtle pale ales and crisp lagers.

Let's hope. This is why I am a superfangirl of Suarez. (Their other styles are also wonderful.) He's making delicious, light-ABV beers that I'd bang any day over some 8% juice bomb. Now, I admittedly like those too. But if anyone wants to know what styles I gravitate toward most, it's certainly the entire lineup at dsuarez's place.

 

[arren]

when it's only been a week since you sold out and the chinese are already making cheap knockoffs of you smdh

 

[hornydevil]

Once basement dwelling manchildren stop preferring fruit juice and brownie beers you'll see a rise of subtle pale ales and crisp lagers.

If by "basement dwelling manchildren" you mean "hipster ******** that don't really like beer", then, yeah, once they stop liking beer that doesn't taste like beer, beer that actually tastes like beer will become more popular again.

 

[drgarage1]

when it's only been a week since you sold out and the chinese are already making cheap knockoffs of you smdh

Werkerd Werd

 

[arren]

Sounds like a case of hating the player when you should be hating the game. Once basement dwelling manchildren stop preferring fruit juice and brownie beers you'll see a rise of subtle pale ales and crisp lagers.

That's already happening here. One of the newer breweries that's gaining steam here is Eppig Brewing, and they actually have a lager program that's legit.

I grabbed a crowler of solid zwickelbier from a craft brewery this past weekend. It's a pretty awesome feeling.

 

[hornydevil]

That's already happening here. One of the newer breweries that's gaining steam here is Eppig Brewing, and they actually have a lager program that's legit.

I grabbed a crowler of solid zwickelbier from a craft brewery this past weekend. It's a pretty awesome feeling.

I'm gonna sound like an old **** here, but the problem with all these twats that are new to the game is they never had to learn about beer before they got into craft, so all they know is "cloudy IPA" that and "chocolate, coffee, marshmallow stout" this.

There are very few new students of the game.

 

[arren]

I'm gonna sound like an old **** here, but the problem with all these twats that are new to the game is they never had to learn about beer before they got into craft, so all they know is "cloudy IPA" that and "chocolate, coffee, marshmallow stout" this.

There are very few new students of the game.

When I got into beer was peak "IBU war" era - every beer I drank and loved was because it was packed full of bitterness. My favorite IPA was Ruination, and anything with less hoppiness than Stone IPA I balked at. Lagers were ****, browns were ****, and ambers were **** too - except for Arrogant Bastard, because that thing was hoppy as ****. Eventually I grew out of it and learned to appreciate balance, actual hop profiles, etc etc.

Everyone starts somewhere. 100+ IBU IPAs back then, and hazy IPAs and pastry stouts now?

Same ****, different toilet.

 

[jbeezification1]

I'm gonna sound like an old **** here, but the problem with all these twats that are new to the game is they never had to learn about beer before they got into craft, so all they know is "cloudy IPA" that and "chocolate, coffee, marshmallow stout" this.

There are very few new students of the game.

I read a forum post on everyone's favorite other beer site where a dude was complaining Yellow Rose wasn't hazy enough and wished it was hazy like Live Oak Hefeweizen and how he prefers Hefe cause of the haziness.

Two beers that should never ever be compared.

 

[jmgrub]

Flossmoor is a great name because it sounds like either a stern suggestion from your dental hygienist or something that a rapper tells you that you should do.

 

[brentsdodgers]

When I got into beer was peak "IBU war" era - every beer I drank and loved was because it was packed full of bitterness. My favorite IPA was Ruination, and anything with less hoppiness than Stone IPA I balked at. Lagers were ****, browns were ****, and ambers were **** too - except for Arrogant Bastard, because that thing was hoppy as ****. Eventually I grew out of it and learned to appreciate balance, actual hop profiles, etc etc.

Everyone starts somewhere. 100+ IBU IPAs back then, and hazy IPAs and pastry stouts now?

Same ****, different toilet.

For someone who turned 22 in 2012, this was me. Every brown and Amber was boring as hell and everything sales rep would try and push on us started out with how hoppy the beer was. After we took a work trip down to Rip Current and Hess brewing to establish our own self distro in 2013?? out of SD I came back saying **** this and finally began to appreciate and explore other styles.

 

[Barroomhero]

basement dwelling hipster ******* manchildren that don't really like beer"

yup.

I'm gonna sound like an old **** here

You forgot the grumpy part.

Grumpy old ****.

 

[jivex5k1]

Chilling at 7venth Sun before we head back home. Love the atmosphere here more than anything, look at these ****** beautiful barrels I'm sitting next to.

 

[jbeezification1]

Chilling at 7venth Sun before we head back home. Love the atmosphere here more than anything, look at these ****** beautiful barrels I'm sitting next to.

Nice barrels.

 

[Stubs]

Sounds like a case of hating the player when you should be hating the game. Once basement dwelling manchildren stop preferring fruit juice and brownie beers you'll see a rise of subtle pale ales and crisp lagers.

Words hurt michael, words hurt.

 

[girlscantell]

I'm gonna sound like an old **** here, but the problem with all these twats that are new to the game is they never had to learn about beer before they got into craft

 

[Ziggy]

 

[furley]

damn i should know this movie. what is this from?

 

[tikk]

damn i should know this movie. what is this from?

Die Hard

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

I read a forum post on everyone's favorite other beer site where a dude was complaining Yellow Rose wasn't hazy enough and wished it was hazy like Live Oak Hefeweizen and how he prefers Hefe cause of the haziness.

Two beers that should never ever be compared.

people prefer beer to look hazy? is that some sort of "anti-BMC" thing? Like since you can see through a Budweiser or a Miller Lite any beer that you can see through must be ****?

 

[JulianB1]

people prefer beer to look hazy? is that some sort of "anti-BMC" thing? Like since you can see through a Budweiser or a Miller Lite any beer that you can see through must be ****?

A lot of them definitely do. And it has nothing to do with BMC stuff, it's an attitude of "it can only be a hoppy jooooose bomb if it's hazy/cloudy!". Most of these drinkers have really no clue about the brewing process and hence they don't understand what are the desirable properties of such beers, and how are the correlated to the appearance. They are "drinking with their eyes", so to speak.

I've seen morons online bashing some of the best examples of west coast IPAs for being "clear".

 

[Hookemhops13]

people prefer beer to look hazy? is that some sort of "anti-BMC" thing? Like since you can see through a Budweiser or a Miller Lite any beer that you can see through must be ****?

Ya.... there's a lot of idiots in Houston that care way too much about the appearance of some breweries attempts at NE style IPA's instead of taste.

"Pretty good attempt, good citrus grapefruit flavor, low bitterness, pretty enjoyable but it's clear and not hazy enough. - 2.5/5"