What are your contrarian/"unpopular" beer opinions?

[Mismost]

"Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible." Euell Gibbons

ever lick a river? ever eat a tree? Saturday Night Live skit on Euell Gibbons!
I used to go out eat cattail roots and nettles...tough way to get by!

 

[Cavpilot2000]

"Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible." Euell Gibbons

"Do you like gladiator movies?"

 

[Cavpilot2000]

ever lick a river? ever eat a tree? Saturday Night Live skit on Euell Gibbons!
I used to go out eat cattail roots and nettles...tough way to get by!

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

 

[ba-brewer]

ever lick a river? ever eat a tree? Saturday Night Live skit on Euell Gibbons!
I used to go out eat cattail roots and nettles...tough way to get by!

Not sure if I seen those SNL skits. The only good think I can see about eating cattail root and nettles is that they can be found in abundance so at least your not searching for it. Think I would pick those over grape nuts.

"Do you like gladiator movies?"

Not really, unless jason and the argonauts counts.

It was just the two previous post before mine were about the merits of pine in their beer made me think of the old TV commercial.

 

[MagicRat]

The sanitation thing is funny, people bug out about it. I am of the opinion that anything preboil is not an issue, only post boil, and even then, most things cant survive the alcohol the yeast puts out...that's partially why beer was drunk not water. Some guys freak out.. you need to boil your hands, the dog, cat, sterile room, class five biohazard suit. RDWHAHB

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[TANSTAAFB]

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[cloudybrewer]

7. And if I am visiting someone and they offer me a BMC Light, because thats their house beer, I will graciously accept their hospitality and drink it without complaint. And you know what? I'll enjoy it too, because there is a time and place for every beer under the sun.

BAZINGA!! I have a couple very good old friends who I get to drink with every now and again, and we only drink Busch Lights and whiskey. Never gonna change, either.

 

[bajaedition]

BAZINGA!! I have a couple very good old friends who I get to drink with every now and again, and we only drink Busch Lights and whiskey. Never gonna change, either.

LOL

about 15 years ago a friend came over, fellow homebrewer, and asked If I would drink a beer with him, I said I would always drink a beer with him, he pulled out 2 30 oz country club malt liquors.
OK, that started it, it was on like donkey kong, as we both had admitting to always drinking a beer with each other. we now go find the cheapest beer of malt liquor we can and buy two when going to each others house. And we have found some really bad ones, such as Cobra Ice.
Anyway to this very day we have dealt each others taste buds every insult we can, If one of us admits they do not want to drink a beer, he loses a lot of face with everyone as we both have vowed to drink with each other.
It aint going change
It has to go on

However, somewhere I believe some brewer has heard of this contest and has brewed some crap that would only be bought by us. If not how do you justify some of it?

Tonight he dropped by with Steel Reserve, I think he buys it because I find it particularly awful, I quaffed it down so fast I did not even taste it.

We both walked over to my keezer and had a few ESBs, but we drank the ML.

that is what I drank tonight

 

[honeycon]

Ok read most of posts on this thread and have to ask is this really just a place to say how much a bunch of you all dislike IPAs?
I hate every IPA that I have ever tasted. And that includes Grant's Brewery in Yakima from the early 1980s. Yep, I am pretty old.

 

[Nomofett]

Haha, yeah. With as many people as I hear hate on IPAs I don't feel like it's all that contrarian among honebrewers

 

[oylerck]

BAZINGA!! I have a couple very good old friends who I get to drink with every now and again, and we only drink Busch Lights and whiskey. Never gonna change, either.

I wouldn't mix. Sounds awful.

 

[RustyHorn]

Yes and yes in the session point. If it's 5% it ain't a session. If you say it is you are taking all meaning away from that word, it's literally the most ironic thing I've ever seen.

Is it really true that Americans don't understand irony?!

 

[Nomofett]

Yeah, we don't understand irony or sarcasm. It's too complicated for us.

 

[JKaranka]

I prefer very bitter beers over very hoppy beers. I'm not very keen on hop flavours, but I love the puckering bitterness of lots of hops early in the boil.

 

[bajaedition]

Damn, looks like I need to go out for more popcorn

 

[oylerck]

Is it really true that Americans don't understand irony?!

Isnt it ironic?

 

[Steveruch]

I wouldn't mix. Sounds awful.

Now imagine how it tastes coming back up.

 

[Devon]

I wouldn't mix. Sounds awful.

True story: I once mixed lemon gin and Moosehead after a pub crawl. I was crashing in my buddy's dorm room and that's all he had. And one glass. Seemed like the thing to do at the time.

 

[Newsman]

<SARCASM>Flat beer is just as good as carbonated </SARCASM> Just to be contrarian.

 

[MizzouFermentationScience]

I was looking for a place to post my manifesto-
1. My city tap water tastes good, it's my terroir. In the old days breweries started around tasty springs. Adapt recipes as necessary.
2. Cleaning is largely unnecessary, sanitation is stupid
3. Yeast rehydration conquers many mistakes, but isn't required
4. Bottling is stupid
5. Homebrewing engineers annoy me, we need the voices of more people who do not care about PIDs and fluid mechanics.
6. I don't clone beers
7. I give literally zero ducks about trub
8. No such thing as a fault, just more tools in the recipe bag
9. Chuggability is the height of virtue
10. Mead is the height of folly
11. Bitter is better but IPA's all taste the same. Brew with some finesse.
Malty beers are for women and children. I want balance, complexity is good but beer shouldn't leave the same cloying aftertaste as candy nor give you hop heartburn.
12. brewing should take no more than 3 hours.
13. brewing should take 8 hours and give me an excuse not to do yard work for an entire day.
14. Wort chilling isn't necessary. Leave the darn thing outside for a night and deal with it tomorrow.
15. Sure, a little oxygen is good once the wort cools down but I've never needed more than splashing. If I lived with my gramdma I would definitely use the oxygen tank though.
16. I only vaguely pay attention to volumes, use a lot of water for mash and lauter, boil aggressively if you overshoot.
17. I embrace the funk.
18. Hops should start with a "C" but "s" kind of sounds like "c" sometimes so it counts too.
19. Clarity is for piss water
20. Piss water is great sometimes.
21. I love making light black beers and being a nerd to guests explaining that it only takes a few ounces blah blah blah
22. Espresso stout may be the perfect beer if done correctly. Malty balanced with bitter coffee.
23. Saison and IPA cannot be used to evaluate the quality of a brewing establishment.
24. It takes about 10 batches to really get a beer right. Anything less is playing- you don't "brew a 8% imperial stout" if you've only done it once or twice. Really, it takes one disaster then one disaster overcome resulting in identical finished product
25. Please don't talk to me about brewing extract, or even clones for that matter. I brew to make cheap delicious beer that I want to drink more than commercial offerings. Why would I clone it if I have the power to change what I don't like in the beer?

 

[TasunkaWitko]

I was looking for a place to post my manifesto-

I like your #1 - same idea for me, except I use a local spring water...with really nice results.

 

[Rhaop]

I was looking for a place to post my manifesto-

1. My city tap water tastes good, it's my terroir. In the old days breweries started around tasty springs. Adapt recipes as necessary.

2. Cleaning is largely unnecessary, sanitation is stupid

3. Yeast rehydration conquers many mistakes, but isn't required

4. Bottling is stupid

5. Homebrewing engineers annoy me, we need the voices of more people who do not care about PIDs and fluid mechanics.

6. I don't clone beers

7. I give literally zero ducks about trub

8. No such thing as a fault, just more tools in the recipe bag

9. Chuggability is the height of virtue

10. Mead is the height of folly

11. Bitter is better but IPA's all taste the same. Brew with some finesse.

Malty beers are for women and children. I want balance, complexity is good but beer shouldn't leave the same cloying aftertaste as candy nor give you hop heartburn.

12. brewing should take no more than 3 hours.

13. brewing should take 8 hours and give me an excuse not to do yard work for an entire day.

14. Wort chilling isn't necessary. Leave the darn thing outside for a night and deal with it tomorrow.

15. Sure, a little oxygen is good once the wort cools down but I've never needed more than splashing. If I lived with my gramdma I would definitely use the oxygen tank though.

16. I only vaguely pay attention to volumes, use a lot of water for mash and lauter, boil aggressively if you overshoot.

17. I embrace the funk.

18. Hops should start with a "C" but "s" kind of sounds like "c" sometimes so it counts too.

19. Clarity is for piss water

20. Piss water is great sometimes.

21. I love making light black beers and being a nerd to guests explaining that it only takes a few ounces blah blah blah

22. Espresso stout may be the perfect beer if done correctly. Malty balanced with bitter coffee.

23. Saison and IPA cannot be used to evaluate the quality of a brewing establishment.

24. It takes about 10 batches to really get a beer right. Anything less is playing- you don't "brew a 8% imperial stout" if you've only done it once or twice. Really, it takes one disaster then one disaster overcome resulting in identical finished product

25. Please don't talk to me about brewing extract, or even clones for that matter. I brew to make cheap delicious beer that I want to drink more than commercial offerings. Why would I clone it if I have the power to change what I don't like in the beer?

I both chuckled as a joke then nodded in agreement several times, 5,7,12,13,15,19,20 lol pretty good manifesto [emoji482]cheers!

 

[Lefou]

"Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible." Euell Gibbons

He's the same guy who was pushing Grape Nuts cereal when I was a kid.

After one bite I knew he was telling a lie. That cereal tasted like dog food and threatened to shred my colon on the way out. I went back to my Wheaties and never touched another box of that stuff again.
Same thing with beer.
If I get a lousy first impression it's off the list forever.

 

[bajaedition]

post # 650 is a great post, just about nails the thread

thank you

 

[MagicRat]

I was looking for a place to post my manifesto-

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[emoji23][emoji482]Love this post! Very entertaining and I agree with much of it!

 

[Mainer]

I was looking for a place to post my manifesto-
1. My city tap water tastes good, it's my terroir. In the old days breweries started around tasty springs. Adapt recipes as necessary.
2. Cleaning is largely unnecessary, sanitation is stupid
3. Yeast rehydration conquers many mistakes, but isn't required
4. Bottling is stupid
5. Homebrewing engineers annoy me, we need the voices of more people who do not care about PIDs and fluid mechanics.
6. I don't clone beers
7. I give literally zero ducks about trub
8. No such thing as a fault, just more tools in the recipe bag
9. Chuggability is the height of virtue
10. Mead is the height of folly
11. Bitter is better but IPA's all taste the same. Brew with some finesse.
Malty beers are for women and children. I want balance, complexity is good but beer shouldn't leave the same cloying aftertaste as candy nor give you hop heartburn.
12. brewing should take no more than 3 hours.
13. brewing should take 8 hours and give me an excuse not to do yard work for an entire day.
14. Wort chilling isn't necessary. Leave the darn thing outside for a night and deal with it tomorrow.
15. Sure, a little oxygen is good once the wort cools down but I've never needed more than splashing. If I lived with my gramdma I would definitely use the oxygen tank though.
16. I only vaguely pay attention to volumes, use a lot of water for mash and lauter, boil aggressively if you overshoot.
17. I embrace the funk.
18. Hops should start with a "C" but "s" kind of sounds like "c" sometimes so it counts too.
19. Clarity is for piss water
20. Piss water is great sometimes.
21. I love making light black beers and being a nerd to guests explaining that it only takes a few ounces blah blah blah
22. Espresso stout may be the perfect beer if done correctly. Malty balanced with bitter coffee.
23. Saison and IPA cannot be used to evaluate the quality of a brewing establishment.
24. It takes about 10 batches to really get a beer right. Anything less is playing- you don't "brew a 8% imperial stout" if you've only done it once or twice. Really, it takes one disaster then one disaster overcome resulting in identical finished product
25. Please don't talk to me about brewing extract, or even clones for that matter. I brew to make cheap delicious beer that I want to drink more than commercial offerings. Why would I clone it if I have the power to change what I don't like in the beer?

Very much with you on almost all of this, but I will literally fight you on #4.

 

[MizzouFermentationScience]

Very much with you on almost all of this, but I will literally fight you on #4.

Fair enough, but I bottle in the neighborhood of 100k-120k bottles a year at work using state of the art equipment and it is still a PITA. I've rebuilt my brew rig many times and regretted plenty of past investments, but I would buy new kegs and keezer annually without batting an eye.

 

[schematix]

Calories from beer aren't real calories.

 

[John Eberly]

IPA is from the devil.

 

[Newsman]

ipa is from the devil.

this ^^^^^^