The_Bishop
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How much metabisulfite are you adding? You only need a pinch; too much is not 'better' and will give you sulfur bombs.
Sorry, don't want to derail your thread, but this caught me off guard. Are we calling New Belgium Abbey a bad beer these days? I mean you're talking about the most award winning beer from one of the most respected craft breweries in the US. I think it's won like 4 World Beer Cup medals and 8 Great American Beer Fest medals or something like that?
That being said, they did change the recipe in 2015 and I think they ruined it. Not surprising, I really don't like much of anything New Belgium has done different or new in the last 5 years or so. I don't like how they've changed. But the original Abbey is a fine beer, IMO.
Anyway, carry on. Just surprised to see that beer referred to in such a negative light.
Dan
How much metabisulfite are you adding? You only need a pinch; too much is not 'better' and will give you sulfur bombs.
You only need a tenth a gram in the worst case scenario for chloramine removal. Use the scientific 'small pinch' and you're good.
Ive never tried the earlier version of the beer. First time it got imported to sweden was last year i think. And as i usually consume belgian beer exclusively(sometimes I like an american lager for ex. bbq dishes or burgers) I was surprised that the N B Abbey tasted nothing like a belgian beer to me. In its defense I had at the time just gotten home from a brewery trip to belgium and had 6 cases of different fresh belgian beers, so I probably had my standard very high.
When it comes to the World Cup awards Ive never really understood how that works. Some of the really horrible, cheapest beer we have here(that pretty much only drunks buy) has won medals there and when it comes to specific styles its strange to me that not the same beer wins every time.
Im checking the winners from 2014 and to me its very confusing. I havent tried the beers that has won but from my experience the best belgian beers are belgian. Maybe the jury doesnt like belgian beer to begin with? I have no idea...
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If you would for ex look at http://www.beeradvocate.com/lists/style/142/ its strange that not Hertog Jan Grand Prestige, Hertog Jan Brouwerij, Arcen, Netherlands isnt even there if its the best quad in the world?
Or for ex that the beer that defines a saison and is the best saison in the world is not Saison Dupont but "Saison, Aspen Brewing Co., Aspen, CO"
Im reading about how the whole competition works and looking at the different winners and im utterly confused about the whole thing...
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