Tell me about those CLOYING beers you have tried.

[unviewtiful]

Anderson Valley Winter Solstice. Buddy of mine convinced me to try a pint of it back in December. He loves it. Me...not so much. Far too malty/sweet for me.

I made a clone of that for a Christmas party last year under advisement from my brew partners. I've never had the real thing, but someone who had told me my clone was close. I tend to agree with you though, it was very unbalanced with the malty sweetness that it tasted like cream soda. I used less than half the recommended amount of vanilla and that was almost too much (to be fair, I was using the legit Mexican vanilla, not some immitation flavor). Getting through the end of that keg after the party was pretty tough.

 

[Arrheinous]

There was a Saranac 12-pack with four styles (stout, ipa, pale, pils) and they all had this consistent mucky sweetness to them.

 

[Weezy]

Duck Rabbit's Baltic Porter is syrup. Sad because it seems like a good malt bill back there somewhere.

 

[grrickar]

Dogfish 90 and Blue Moon. Never liked the former, used to like the latter but now can't stand it.

Coriander....blech..

Aside from that I simply don't like malt forward beers. I like balance, or more hop forward.

 

[aStoutObserver]

A local brewery's 15% barley wine. I'm not sure if their yeast crapped out or what. Cloying syrup that was too sweet for me.

Oh and a different local Old World's Irish red. They're out of business now, so I'll mention them.

 

[slcalex]

Had a Payette Outlaw IPA last night. Tasted like burnt sugar.

Kinda sad because their Rodeo Rye is pretty damn tasty.

 

[ktblunden]

Izzat 20 euros or $20 en los Estados Unidos?

I don't recall. In some previous thread someone was lamenting how much they had paid for a terrible beer. I paid considerably less than that in SoCal, but apparently there's some sort of high ABV tax in the UK.

 

[afro_lou]

Duly noted, ktblunden and Billy-Klubb! For my berries' sake, floccin' it is!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Duly noted, ktblunden and Billy-Klubb! For my berries' sake, floccin' it is!

hey, it fits in with our home brewing ways!

 

[afro_lou]

It sure does! I think I just forgot what forum I was on...