What craft beer do you secretly despise?

[Pyg]

So. Are you trying to say... by any chance...

That you wore flannel and torn jeans, before it was cool to wear flannel and torn jeans?

The jeans did not start out torn, I was just to poor to replace them as I wore through them.
But being a teenager in 80's in a flannel and jeans was not being a hipster.

To be a hipster in the 80's you had to look like Miami Vice and drink Zima (what ever that stuff was)

 

[TomWaggle]

IPAs and Pumpkin beers. There are just too many IPAs now and pumpkin beers just aren't my thing. They also took over the attention from my favorite fall beer, Marzens.

 

[NCarolinaN8]

I just had me new beer that i hate. COLETTE Farmhouse Ale from Great Devide. It taste like a bad brew.

 

[Hoosierbrewer]

Wow. Almost 300 posts. Pretty good thread.mostly bashing IPA's though.

 

[Teromous]

I just made an Imperial IPA. I felt like the witch from the Disney cartoon stirring a cauldron as the cries of angry homebrewers scream like angry souls from the pot as I drip pure hop extract into the wort, imagining that they are teardrops of frustrated homebrewers.

 

[Hoosierbrewer]

I still like them, but I enjoy other beers. I think as home brewers we look at the complexity of the taste and how it comes together. When we taste a beer, we notice things others don't. For example we went out to dinner last night and I had a choice of BMC or a Sam Adams IPA. I took the IPA. It was drinkable, but I noticed it was salty tasting and dry under the hop flavor. No one else could tell. It was also very heavily carbonated. Too much so. I notice this because I now drink beer differently. I control most of the variables. To improve that beer I would increase mash temp and lower carbonation level.

 

[TheCADJockey]

...therefore based on our opinion as a collective whole, we hate all beer.

 

[rmyurick]

I kinda hate (again, not secretly, sorry) stouts with no hops. Like Great Lakes Blackout--too sweet & cloying.

 

[soccerdad]

and what the hell is cloying anyway? I've heard this word 100's of times and I don't have a clue of what it describes. Are there dictionaries here on the interwebs?

 

[GrogNerd]

and what the hell is cloying anyway? I've heard this word 100's of times and I don't have a clue of what it describes. Are there dictionaries here on the interwebs?

cloy
[ kloi ]
VERB
disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment:
"a romantic, rather cloying story"
synonyms: sickly · syrupy · saccharine · oversweet · sickening

 

[Teromous]

and what the hell is cloying anyway? I've heard this word 100's of times and I don't have a clue of what it describes. Are there dictionaries here on the interwebs?

From Merriam Webster: Cloy - to surfeit with an excess usually of something originally pleasing

From Merriam Webster: Surfeit - an amount that is too much or more than you need

Basically it means that people think it tastes sweet to the point that is not pleasant.

Whatever you do...DO NOT GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH THE WORD CLOY FOR FUN!

 

[geoffey]

From Merriam Webster: Cloy - to surfeit with an excess usually of something originally pleasing



From Merriam Webster: Surfeit - an amount that is too much or more than you need



Basically it means that people think it tastes sweet to the point that is not pleasant.



Whatever you do...DO NOT GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH THE WORD CLOY FOR FUN!

Damn it! Should have listened to you...

Don't make my mistake! Don't google image search that word!

 

[hunter_le five]

Damn it! Should have listened to you...

Don't make my mistake! Don't google image search that word!

Meh...

 

[geoffey]

Brewers should stop using the word cloying when what they mean is too sweet. It perpetuates the image of home brewers being beer snobs.

I secretly despise craft beers that are cloying.

 

[soccerdad]

Especially the over sentimental ones .. downright cloying.

 

[NCarolinaN8]

Where are you from soccerdad? Not trying to be funny, but what rock have you been under. Interweb? Does it have dictionarys?

 

[itsme_timd]

Dark Lord. But it's not a secret hate, I'm pretty verbal about it.

I've tried 2012, 2013, and 2014 and unless the versions prior to that were phenomenally better then I don't get what people like about that beer. I'm convinced the high ratings are simply a case of the Emperor's new clothes syndrome.

Damn it! Should have listened to you...

Don't make my mistake! Don't google image search that word!

If that bothered you then there's a wholllllle lot of the internet you probably want to avoid.

 

[dfhar]

I'm convinced the high ratings are simply a case of the Emperor's new clothes syndrome.

I think this is an accurate characterization of beer advocate, ratebeer, etc. as a whole.

 

[itsme_timd]

I think this is an accurate characterization of beer advocate, ratebeer, etc. as a whole.

Yeah for a lot of them people tend to follow the pack, this one just really stuck out to me where some of the others I think are still decent beers - just maybe overrated in general.

 

[NCarolinaN8]

There have been a few beers on here that i think is great. There are a lot of beer posers that secretly drink Natural Light in private. But in front of others tough out craft.

 

[Pyg]

There have been a few beers on here that i think is great. There are a lot of beer posers that secretly drink Natural Light in private. But in front of others tough out craft.

I proudly drink PBR & Genny Cream ale.
The funny part is my friends look down at me for drinking weird & smelly craft beers, but also look down at me for drinking Genny!

I cant win

 

[beerenstein]

to all the men in this thread that aren't me: grow yer balls back. to all ladies in this thread: harden the flocc up.





pffft. pterodactyls. I take a barrel of gasoline, add a gallon of cyanide, and use three industrial battery's acid, condense it down to a pint, carbonate and drink it. all you sissies with you "personal taste" crap.

I'll have a quart of that.

 

[Brickman]

Ok, just got a new one at a party Saturday night. Someone brought a 6 pack of Shipyard Brewing GingerBreadHead. It was disgusting. We went around having people try it just to see the looks on their faces. That is a never again beer.

 

[mdbrewer1]

Fat Tire if that counts as craft beer. Upfront it tastes good. The finish is terrible to me. The best I can describe it as is a "metallic twang".

 

[kev211]

Ill probably take some crap for this, though Im sure its been said before... I dont get the hype around Pliny the Elder. IMO its good, not great. When I have the opportunity I do buy a bottle or two, but I dont make as big of a push to find/buy it anymore as I did before I tried it for the first time. I just think theres other DIPA's out there that are way better and dont get as much hype. I am still looking for the Younger, so we'll see how that one is someday.

/.02$

 

[SevenOaks]

Just to note
Inbev plans on total in cost cuts of $1,000,000,000 by the end of 2016 or the equivalent of about 40,000 $15 to $20 an hour jobs. Or about 32,000 $25 an hour jobs.

That would be due to the proliferation of all these mom and pop craft breweries that are springing up all over and taking a bite out of their market share.

 

[seigex]

Never been a fan of Lagunitas.

 

[Sailingeric]

Hamm's. It has negative taste.. it sucks the taste out of your mouth.

 

[ubnserved]

That would be due to the proliferation of all these mom and pop craft breweries that are springing up all over and taking a bite out of their market share.

Just wish I could enjoy more of them.

And thus leads to inbev's new policy of "if you can't beat them join them" and the purchase of 10 barrel with more to come I'm sure.

 

[Hammy71]

No secret. DFH 120. Most over rated/priced beer on the market. I can't stand the taste of it. Aged or new. It's amazing what hype can do.