time to play the "can you name this style by the pictures" game.

[Reno_eNVy]

Could it be a Dark Tripel or would Belgian Specialty be more fitting for one of those?

Dark Tripel is oxymoronic.... and if it's dark and on the weaker end of the tripel OG scale, you've got a dubbel. If it's dark and on the higher end of the tripel scale, you have either a quad or belgian dark strong.


Mmm, yes... quite. Bully my good man

 

[barrooze]

Dark Tripel is oxymoronic.... and if it's dark and on the weaker end of the tripel OG scale, you've got a dubbel. If it's dark and on the higher end of the tripel scale, you have either a quad or belgian dark strong.

I'm well aware of what color the BJCP dictates Tripel should be, but how many of the beers we post pictures of are actually to style? 60%? 75%? I was just thinking outside the bock, if you will... (ok, I will)

If a Tripel grain bill had some carafa special thrown in, making it darker than usual, would we call it a Dark Tripel or do we just shoot it over to Specialty? I hadn't thought about it before, but I think I'd call it the former.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

I'm well aware of what color the BJCP dictates Tripel should be, but how many of the beers we post pictures of are actually to style? 60%? 75%? I was just thinking outside the bock, if you will... (ok, I will)

If a Tripel grain bill had some carafa special thrown in, making it darker than usual, would we call it a Dark Tripel or do we just shoot it over to Specialty? I hadn't thought about it before, but I think I'd call it the former.

Oh well I just being a bit of an a$$ on the last post

 

[barrooze]

Oh well I just being a bit of an a$$ on the last post

and it didn't go unnoticed! :fro:

 

[D_Ranged_Eskimo]

At work and didn't have time to post something during lunch. Pass to the next available photo, and yes, one of these days I'll win when there's a time a photo can be posted!

 

[NineMilBill]

I'm well aware of what color the BJCP dictates Tripel should be, but how many of the beers we post pictures of are actually to style? 60%? 75%?

My thoughts exactly. I wasn't aware that everyone on HBT produced beers that fit perfectly into style without any color fluctuations. Since the glass said Belgium, and dubbel had been guessed - tripel would keep me in the game.

Reno, I think it's great that every time I post on here/try to be involved, you must comment on it/be a ******. It was funny the first time - maybe the second...now you're just flexing your 10 million posts and superior knowledge to someone who is trying to get into this homebrewing thing.

Way. To. Go.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Reno, I think it's great that every time I post on here/try to be involved, you must comment on it/be a ******. It was funny the first time - maybe the second...now you're just flexing your 10 million posts and superior knowledge to someone who is trying to get into this homebrewing thing.

Way. To. Go.

Didn't realize posting a harmless meme was being a ******

I think you may be a bit too sensitive for the intarwebz


EDIT: I mean no harm to you and I am most certainly not targeting you. I just sometimes like to post silly responses to silly posts.... and you happen to have a few of them.

 

[bottlebomber]

EDIT: I mean no harm to you and I am most certainly not targeting you. I just sometimes like to post silly responses to silly posts.... and you happen to have a few of them.

I'll back you up on that, I haven't seen anything said that couldn't easily be taken with a grain of salt.
Honestly, I've learned a ton about beer styles from this thread. There are established guidelines for styles. That's what makes them styles. If your beer deviates from those guidelines, that should be stated upfront. For example - "This is a darker example of a common style." Then we can guess brown tripel! blonde stout!

 

[emjay]

There are established guidelines for styles. That's what makes them styles. If your beer deviates from those guidelines, that should be stated upfront. For example - "This is a darker example of a common style." Then we can guess brown tripel! blonde stout!

Agreed. It kind of defeats the purpose if all sorts of liberties have been taken with the style and none of them are stated - at that point, we're just tossing around random guesses and getting it "right" becomes meaningless.

This is meant to test one's knowledge, so the focus should be on that rather than trying to mislead people. If something is unconventional about the beer in the picture, state it. Heck, even if the beer is the right color but your picture merely makes it look "off", you should be pointing people in the right direction - trying to make things more challenging is fine (and doing a bit of research to come up with a more difficult "puzzle" every now and then should even be encouraged), but there's a difference between challenging and "random". IMO, such statements shouldn't even be used as "hints" either, since they really only serve to correct errors that ideally wouldn't be there in the first place.

 

[nocsimian]

Perception drift corrected. Now, who has the next pic?

 

[nocsimian]

Looks like the D_ranged_eskimo has passed the torch and I'll jump on it.

Commercially sold beer that has now become my all time fav.

Complex aroma and taste are two of it's primary characteristics. It's partner is actually a model for the style. If this makes it to day two, I'll add another hint un-obscure the label a tad bit more.

 

[DisturbdChemist]

Dubbel

 

[D_Ranged_Eskimo]

Belgian Strong Ale

 

[bottlebomber]

Brown Sugga Lagunitas?

 

[nocsimian]

No, no, and no.

 

[nocsimian]

The color in the pic is accurate and it turns out the head is true to style. No picture of the lace as it turns out I have a hard time using my camera after a few of these.

 

[D_Ranged_Eskimo]

Quad

 

[Lazarous]

Lagunitas Gnarleywine

 

[mcbethenstein]

I'll jump on this train....
Lagunitas sucks

 

[bottlebomber]

It looks like a Lagunitas bottle...

 

[nocsimian]

Not brewed in California.

 

[nocsimian]

Updated Pic.

There's 5 hints out there, some more subtle than others. The label that's visible should point folks in the right direction for hint #6.

I'm sure it goes without saying by now (I think every variant has been guessed) that it's not Belgium in style or history.

 

[two_hearted]

That there is a backwoods bastard scotch ale.

 

[nocsimian]

No, but I need to try that.

 

[two_hearted]

Well, then I just don't get your clues...

 

[DisturbdChemist]

Old ale - (Founders- Curmudgeon)

 

[nocsimian]

Old Ale - yes
Curmudgeon - no

It's actually Curmudgeon's better Half. An 11.9% ABV Old Ale brewed with molasses and aged in maple syrup bourbon barrels.

And holy smokes, I just found folks selling it on Ebay for $70 a bottle. It's good, but not $70 good.

 

[two_hearted]

huh, never heard of that one. I thought for sure you were talking about dirty bastard and backwoods.

 

[nocsimian]

I haven't been able to find anything on Founder's website about it but it's an unbelievably tasty beer.

 

[bottlebomber]

This feels kind of dirty with that little censorship box being lowered

I have nothing to contribute to this one, Founders isn't distributed here