What are your contrarian/"unpopular" beer opinions?

[brewcat]

All of the positive health effects are just from alcohol (reservatrol effect in wine turned out to be fraud) - but low ABV drinks and slow drinking with food is crucial, so in that sense beer is much better than whiskey, vodka, tequila and other hard drinks.

I'd wouldn't say all positive effects are just from alcohol in relation to beer, especially homebrew (e.g. you're drinking some brewers yeast).

 

[Limbrizik]

Green beer is a myth. If your process is sound a normal gravity beer will be drinkable in 10 days.

 

[ericbw]

"SWMBO" is a stupid abbreviation for several reasons. One of them: this "abbreviation" is longer than gf or wife!

You win the thread!

I sometimes like frosted glasses. Particularly with lagers, esp Negra Modelo. Which I like with lime.

I also love an orange slice in my Blue Moon, even if it's a marketing ploy.

 

[jtfarabee]

Green beer is a myth. If your process is sound a normal gravity beer will be drinkable in 10 days.

I agree. All the beers I've made that benefitted from aging did so because I produced some rough flavors through my process. My favorite beers have always tasted great coming out of primary.

 

[FatDragon]

Bottling beer by doing an open air transfer, mixing in sugar, going through a spigot and bottling wand into un-purged bottles, then letting it sit warm for two week absolutely oxidizes and destroys beer.

Suggestions for those of us brewing without kegs or closed-system fermentation and bottling equipment?

Jester King is overrated and only makes 1 good beer.

Even though I've been to the brewery, I've only had two of their beers (grumble grumble hipsters long lines grumble grumble). I strongly disliked one, but the other - a one-off two-cherry sour they were launching (and probably selling out even at $20/bottle) that day - was excellent. I was fascinated by the tour and really appreciated what they were trying to do with their beer, but in the end I think their success mostly comes down to the unquestioning hipster audience that flocks to the brewery every weekend, buying out most of their beer and creating a scarcity that allows them to imbue the remainder with the mystique that comes from scarcity and limited distribution.

 

[motosapiens]

Pilsner Urquell is the best beer in the world.

i have never much cared for pilsners in the west, but when I traveled to prague in the 80's a few times, i was pretty amazed by the drinkability of their beers. Pilsner in a bottle tastes absolutely NOTHING like plsen in the czech republic.

 

[Bosh]

That it's not hard at all to save plenty of money homebrewing.

 

[Braufessor]

I would almost always rather drink before noon than after midnight...... That might not be that unpopular of a philosophy though.

 

[max384]

Further proof that when we say or use the word 'but', it really means that everything we said that preceded the 'but' is a lie.

What lie? I know there's no arguing.

 

[TheMadKing]

This thread is for the anti-vaxxers of beer... My unpopular opinion

 

[PickleSuit]

I think that food pairs better with beer than does whiskeys.

And the best food to pair with beer is football.

 

[Brownalemikie]

I think that food pairs better with beer than does whiskeys.

And the best food to pair with beer is football.

I just gave you your first "like" for the beer/football analogy

 

[schematix]

Suggestions for those of us brewing without kegs or closed-system fermentation and bottling equipment?.

Yes. Get yourself some kegs.

 

[soccerdad]

"SWMBO" is a stupid abbreviation for several reasons. One of them: this "abbreviation" is longer than gf or wife!

SWMBO need not be obeyed

 

[Yeastieboy]

Jester King is overrated and only makes 1 good beer.

Which one?

 

[FatDragon]

Yes. Get yourself some kegs.

Ah, I see you've never lived in an apartment...

 

[schematix]

Ah, I see you've never lived in an apartment...

That's why I bought a house.

 

[FatDragon]

That's why I bought a house.

Outside my means living here in China (not to mention there aren't many single family houses to begin with). When I move back to the States in six or seven years, though...

 

[Bigfly]

there is nothing wrong with flat beer!

 

[brewstergalVT]

Am I allowed to post more than once to this thread? Good! I like warm beer, not heated mind you, just not cold. My favorite is warm flat beer, going into the keg. That's when I really know if the beer is a great beer or just a good beer. Cold and carbonation hide plenty.

 

[Anyhowe]

This thread is for the anti-vaxxers of beer... My unpopular opinion

Speak for yourself. I shave but damn! No waxing

 

[55x11]

I'd wouldn't say all positive effects are just from alcohol in relation to beer, especially homebrew (e.g. you're drinking some brewers yeast).

What I meant is across other drinks (wine, etc.) the positive effects are not due to some special ingredient like resveratrol in wine or hops in beer etc.

It's due to alcohol being a natural blood thinner that lowers risks of heart disease and stroke to some degree. If you drink diluted whiskey or vodka or ethanol and do it slow enough and with some food to slow down adsorption some more, you get the identical health benefit.

 

[55x11]

Green beer is a myth. If your process is sound a normal gravity beer will be drinkable in 10 days.

agree, except lagers and high-ABV beers and sours etc.

I can turn my IPAs in 8 days but they are best at 2 weeks or so.

 

[ChelisHubby]

I tell the ladies they are prettier after my 3rd beer and I am quite unpopular!

 

[20grit]

I'll add to my previous post:

Over use of hops in brewing is much like overuse of spices in cooking. People do it to cover up bad beer, much like even the most mundane of dishes can be fixed with a simple application of some Cholula. Spices (refer to foods like TexMex) and hops are things people grow to like and eventually become, in a way, addicted to.
Hops are the hot sauce of brewing, and small, less-than-stellar, breweries have been pouring it on.

 

[Vellum]

Hops are the hot sauce of brewing, and small, less-than-stellar, breweries have been pouring it on.

a lot of insight here, thank you for putting my thoughts into words

 

[Murphys_Law]

I don't like high ABV beers. ~5% is my sweet spot.

 

[ajr628]

Canned beer is awful and is only popular because it's cheaper than glass.

 

[Dan_K]

Which one?

Atrial Rubicite.

 

[motosapiens]

I'll add to my previous post:

Over use of hops in brewing is much like overuse of spices in cooking. People do it to cover up bad beer, much like even the most mundane of dishes can be fixed with a simple application of some Cholula. Spices (refer to foods like TexMex) and hops are things people grow to like and eventually become, in a way, addicted to.
Hops are the hot sauce of brewing, and small, less-than-stellar, breweries have been pouring it on.

some people just like more hot sauce.