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Nice day to take a pollen bath. Treehouse House Lager
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Old Raspy. Good beer but I would like it better if it was a little less bitter. I have a bottle that's a few years old that I'll eventually try to see if aging makes it more to my taste.
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I agree with you. I bought some in the fall and had a bottle. Seemed off-putting. I stashed the rest for a later date, maybe it'll taste better with some age.
 
Yes you guessed it - yet another 24-ouncer full of delicious Golden Mexican Lager! Modelo Oro is Modelo’s entry into the light beer market, 90 calories per 12 ounce = 180 for this can, 4% ABV. That means you can eat more chips and Guacamole!

Perfect clarity as I’m finding standard on these beers this week - and at a meager 4% ABV, drink all you want! Modelo Oro tastes a lot like the rest of the pack, just a bit lighter as you would find on a Miller, Coors or Bud Light type beer. Some of the quickest dissipating head I’ve ever seen, completely gone before I could take a snapshot! Not surprising I suppose, something’s gotta give when making a light beer, maybe it is some of those head-retaining proteins.

The parade of Golden Lagers is about at the end, thankfully I have something else on tap for tomorrow, stay tuned!


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Old Raspy. Good beer but I would like it better if it was a little less bitter. I have a bottle that's a few years old that I'll eventually try to see if aging makes it more to my taste.
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I do like Raspy, but yeah, the bitterness is a bit much. I'll bet the older bottle will have mellowed some.

I've always liked Yeti (Great Divide), and it was my go-to RIS. But it hasn't been distributed in my state in a while. Next road trip out west and I'll have to bring some back. If you can get your hands on some give it a try
 
See what you made me do?

Orval and Rasputin are my gotos when I can't find anything interesting at the packy. I figure for the price always good to throw in the cellar. I swear I have a barrel aged one sitting around here somewhere. I'm sure that has less bitterness

A nice 59° on the cellar and good thing I looked. I only have a couple of four packs left. I've been slipping and just been buying Orval lately. To the packy!


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Yeah. Mellowed. It's still got bitterness but I find that refreshing from the old school RIS. Gotta make room for the load of Mott the Lessor from the last release. Who knows? Maybe someone will see a Mott the Lessor in FoTD 🤷‍♂️ Now the Great Mott is all about barreling his old RIS recipe. This year was great. I'm a little biased tho. Always in love with Tod

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^^I do like this beer and they just seem tasty out of the ponies. Back when they came out they were 8 packs, 48 bottles to a case. Don't remember the price. My redneck (like me) friends called them ".22 hollow points". They're not very big but enough of them can do a lot of damage.
Holy crap! I haven't seen a Miller pony in... probably 4 decades. I didn't know they were even a thing anymore. Those probably fueled more delinquent activity in the 70s and 80s than anything else I can think of. I remember speeding along in shotgun with some other knucklehead on a Friday night, stereo blaring "NOW YORE MESSIN' WITHA", looking for girls and trouble, slamming those things and then whanging road signs with the bottles. Hollow points is a good name for them cause the next day after some bonfire party they were scattered like shell casings.

That picture popped an old Springsteen lyric into my head immediately.

"Barefoot girl sittin' on the hood of a Dodge,
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain"
 
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Tasty little (tiny🤔) platate cleanser. The Champagne of Beers!
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Once in a while I'll find myself in a pub or restaurant that doesn't have craft beer. I'll order Miller in the bottle. Plus, they use some kind of de-skunked hop extract, so those clear bottles aren't an issue.
 
I’m telling ya, it doesn’t get any easier! So for years I’ve read everywhere Modelo Negra is a fine, and one of the few remaining Vienna Lagers still surviving, this one from the heart of Mexico! I guess you could call Sam Adams Boston Lager a Vienna style, but that one too is up for debate by many, and fistfights from a few…. Then I decide to log on to the Modelo website, and see they’re calling this a Munich-style Dunkel! So what the heck is this?

Well, having spent a lot of time rounding up all the usual suspects, the European examples I’ve drank seem to fall somewhere between a Helles and a Märzenbier. The Dunkels exist in that space between a Helles and a Schwarzbier. So which is it? My vote is for the Dunkel!

Modelo Negra has a high ABV if we go by the Mexican beer standards of the last couple weeks. This delicious beer has a 5.4% ABV, has a nice malty and roasty flavor that has just the slightest touch of residual sweetness, but not a bunch, just right for your sausage dinner. By sausage, I mean Bratwurst, not Chorizo….!!!

Hey where else are you going to find a nice Munich Dunkel at every gas station in the Southland! Super drinkable, I say hats, er, Sombreros off to Modelo for keeping the flame burning with this tasty Munich Dunkel. The price can’t be beat, keep the cans and the pouring of your Maßkrugs away from your beer snob guests, they aren’t going to believe this isn’t coming from a European brewer…. Prost Sénior !!!

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I’m telling ya, it doesn’t get any easier! So for years I’ve read everywhere Modelo Negra is a fine, and one of the few remaining Vienna Lagers still surviving, this one from the heart of Mexico! I guess you could call Sam Adams Boston Lager a Vienna style, but that one too is up for debate by many, and fistfights from a few…. Then I decide to log on to the Modelo website, and see they’re calling this a Munich-style Dunkel! So what the heck is this?

Well, having spent a lot of time rounding up all the usual suspects, the European examples I’ve drank seem to fall somewhere between a Helles and a Märzenbier. The Dunkels exist in that space between a Helles and a Schwarzbier. So which is it? My vote is for the Dunkel!

Modelo Negra has a high ABV if we go by the Mexican beer standards of the last couple weeks. This delicious beer has a 5.4% ABV, has a nice malty and roasty flavor that has just the slightest touch of residual sweetness, but not a bunch, just right for your sausage dinner. By sausage, I mean Bratwurst, not Chorizo….!!!

Hey where else are you going to find a nice Munich Dunkel at every gas station in the Southland! Super drinkable, I say hats, er, Sombreros off to Modelo for keeping the flame burning with this tasty Munich Dunkel. The price can’t be beat, keep the cans and the pouring of your Maßkrugs away from your beer snob guests, they aren’t going to believe this isn’t coming from a European brewer…. Prost Sénior !!!

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It's pretty much the only readily available Mexican beer I enjoy.
 
Holy crap! I haven't seen a Miller pony in... probably 4 decades. I didn't know they were even a thing anymore. Those probably fueled more delinquent activity in the 70s and 80s than anything else I can think of. I remember speeding along in shotgun with some other knucklehead on a Friday night, stereo blaring "NOW YORE MESSIN' WITHA", looking for girls and trouble, slamming those things and then whanging road signs with the bottles. Hollow points is a good name for them cause the next day after some bonfire party they were scattered like shell casings.

That picture popped an old Springsteen lyric into my head immediately.

"Barefoot girl sittin' on the hood of a Dodge,
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain"
I stopped at the local beer store yesterday and searched and did indeed find Miller ponies. How they snuck up on me like that, I'm not sure. I guess I just assumed they went the way of 8-track tapes and bell bottoms. They are no longer in 8-packs, but they exist. Cool.
So I bought a 6 of Trimtab IPA and left.
 
Huntsville, AL brewed Belgian style dubbel. Very tasty, malty, a little caramel, prune, clove and banana.
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"...just like my mama seh-hed." Sorry. I have that roll thru my head every time I have one of these. Or a Monkeynaut. Or a Stout at the Devil. Huntsville has some great breweries. These guys. Yellowhammer. Rocket Republic. Need to find me some Astronut Brown.
 
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I’m telling ya, it doesn’t get any easier! So for years I’ve read everywhere Modelo Negra is a fine, and one of the few remaining Vienna Lagers still surviving, this one from the heart of Mexico! I guess you could call Sam Adams Boston Lager a Vienna style, but that one too is up for debate by many, and fistfights from a few…. Then I decide to log on to the Modelo website, and see they’re calling this a Munich-style Dunkel! So what the heck is this?

Well, having spent a lot of time rounding up all the usual suspects, the European examples I’ve drank seem to fall somewhere between a Helles and a Märzenbier. The Dunkels exist in that space between a Helles and a Schwarzbier. So which is it? My vote is for the Dunkel!

Modelo Negra has a high ABV if we go by the Mexican beer standards of the last couple weeks. This delicious beer has a 5.4% ABV, has a nice malty and roasty flavor that has just the slightest touch of residual sweetness, but not a bunch, just right for your sausage dinner. By sausage, I mean Bratwurst, not Chorizo….!!!

Hey where else are you going to find a nice Munich Dunkel at every gas station in the Southland! Super drinkable, I say hats, er, Sombreros off to Modelo for keeping the flame burning with this tasty Munich Dunkel. The price can’t be beat, keep the cans and the pouring of your Maßkrugs away from your beer snob guests, they aren’t going to believe this isn’t coming from a European brewer…. Prost Sénior !!!

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Negra Modelo is tied with Bohemia Pils for my favorite Mexi Beer. Bohemia is harder to find here, so NM is usually my go-to for washing down fish tacos. I need to find Bohemia Oscura which is their Vienna Lager. If I'm going to drink flat beer that requires lime, I'd probably choose a Sol over Corona.
 
Negra Modelo is tied with Bohemia Pils for my favorite Mexi Beer. Bohemia is harder to find here, so NM is usually my go-to for washing down fish tacos. I need to find Bohemia Oscura which is their Vienna Lager. If I'm going to drink flat beer that requires lime, I'd probably choose a Sol over Corona.
I usually choose the iced tea.
 

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