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Snow Cone Capone posted:I had to look up what those were. What does that have to do with my post? A lot of us are in our twilight years and poo poo on people putting effort into getting beer. Don’t let them shame you out of waiting in line for hours or blowing your rent money on razzles!
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Didn't John Laffler say in an interview that craft lagers were the next big craze because all the major breweries over expanded and now have excess capacity. He was saying that because brewing a lager takes significantly longer than an ale it is painful for them to brew lagers from a business perspective. He sounded in some ways like he was deriding the coming lager movement. This was a long time ago though so I could be misremembering.
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Jul 26, 2018 01:11
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I mean I've never really had a lager where I was like "this is extraordinarily good, way above other lagers" but I do love em so bring on the lager craze!
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Jul 26, 2018 01:16
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Lyon posted:Didn't John Laffler say in an interview that craft lagers were the next big craze because all the major breweries over expanded and now have excess capacity. He was saying that because brewing a lager takes significantly longer than an ale it is painful for them to brew lagers from a business perspective. He sounded in some ways like he was deriding the coming lager movement. This was a long time ago though so I could be misremembering. You're talking about the guy who made a lager his fifth or so packaged product, well before the current trend? The guy who literally brews Miller High Life for fun?
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Jul 26, 2018 01:20
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Snow Cone Capone posted:I mean I've never really had a lager where I was like "this is extraordinarily good, way above other lagers" but I do love em so bring on the lager craze! New person is right. Good work, new person.
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Jul 26, 2018 01:22
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I've never really had one of these new fangled "good" lagers (Suarez etc), but I have had the several of the hoppy lager trend, and they're fine, but basically just IPA with pilsner malt and a touch of sulfur or whatever. I hope I can find out how these top tier american pilsners actually stack up to something like canned grocery store pilsner urquell, but if I never do I'll just keep coming back to Mahr's Bräu Kellerbier for my "sophisticated" lager fix.
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Jul 26, 2018 01:37
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Lagers that are extraordinarily good: Sierra Nevada Summerfest Victory Prima Pils Schlenkerla Helles in a can Super fresh poo poo from your local brewery that knows what’s up Gennessee Cream Ale
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Jul 26, 2018 01:38
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Sour IPAs are a weird thing and despite loving sours and loving IPAs I'm still not 100% on them. I don't like sour IPAs either, the Hill Farmstead x Siren Brewing collab was gross, and is shelf-turding hard in my country despite the Hill Farmstead cred. I do however love heavily dry-hopped sours like the Prairie Gold series. Its weird. thotsky fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jul 26, 2018 |
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Jul 26, 2018 01:43
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Josh Wow posted:Lagers that are extraordinarily good: I've only had the first 2 but I would generalize to "breweries that are extremely good" when mentioning Victory and Sierra Nevada 
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Biomute posted:I don't like sour IPAs either, the Hill Farmstead x Siren Brewing collab was gross, and is shelf-turding hard in my country despite the Hill Farmstead cred. I do however love heavily dry-hopped sours like the Prairie Gold series. I agree somewhat, though if you can get it both Sour Bikini and Nasty Trunks from Evil Twin are excellent
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Jul 26, 2018 02:17
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Biomute posted:I don't like sour IPAs either, the Hill Farmstead x Siren Brewing collab was gross, and is shelf-turding hard in my country despite the Hill Farmstead cred. I do however love heavily dry-hopped sours like the Prairie Gold series. Thanks!
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Jul 26, 2018 02:20
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Kolshes are my favorite lagers 
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Jul 26, 2018 02:35
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Spanish Manlove posted:Kolshes are my favorite lagers 
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Jul 26, 2018 02:43
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Kosher man posted:Thanks! double oof. if you're in Europe and get fresh German and Czech lagers, well, i doubt that the American stuff is going to compare all that favorably
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Jul 26, 2018 10:40
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Josh Wow posted:Lagers that are extraordinarily good: This is actually a crime to inflict Genny Screamers in people
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Jul 26, 2018 11:39
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lager good, ale bad
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Jul 26, 2018 15:17
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What will be the trend in 2016 for craft beer? A lot more lagers. A lot of breweries overbuilt capacity. The demand isn’t there for the amount they can supply so the obvious answer is make a lager. It doesn’t matter if the beer sits in the tank for four weeks versus two weeks. You’re going to see a lot of breweries say they’ve always like lagers we just didn’t tell anybody. It’s like gently caress you. We make one lager here and it hurts. We should be making two tanks of Apex in that same time period, but we don’t because we do care about this. You see these breweries that have too much capacity jump on the (lager) bandwagon and it drives me loving nuts. Hazy beer is a thing now too. People are into hazy beer all of a sudden. I’ve been doing this for a while and at first beer was hazy because we didn’t have a lot of money and time to do filtration. Then everyone bought centrifuges because they got big enough and could afford them. Then we thought clear beer was cool. All of a sudden clear beer was the sign of quality and know-how. Now all of a sudden people out East people are literally throwing flour into their beers to get cloudy beers because that’s now the sign of quality. It’s a sign of “quality” because it has an imperfection in it. It’s just a bunch of bullshit. We only filter our pilsner. We’re not intentionally trying to create haze. Troublesome is hazy because there’s yeast in it. Apex is hazy because it’s rustic – it is what it is. We’re not intentionally doing it. My memory was a little off but that's the interview I was talking about.
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Kosher man posted:Thanks! Mixing sourness and bitterness is divisive. Adding a bunch of lemon peel did not make that go down any easier for me. It's certainly not an impossible mix, I dig BFM v225, but the limoncello beer just came across as soapy astringent to me. The girlfriend liked it fine.
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Jul 26, 2018 23:13
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Did a side by side with this year's market rate and last year's. Last year's somehow smells more like strawberries but this year's is more acidic. Regardless, both really good. Wildings, however, is probably the one of the best beers they've done since Whiskers.
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Jul 27, 2018 20:02
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I went to Belgian independence day at Roque last week and one of the beers you had to drink for a giveaway was Lindemans Strawberry. That poo poo was strong strawberry, to the point where you could easily mistake it for a cheap malt beverage like Smirnoff Ice with strawberry flavoring.
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chitoryu12 posted:I went to Belgian independence day at Roque last week and one of the beers you had to drink for a giveaway was Lindemans Strawberry. That poo poo was strong strawberry, to the point where you could easily mistake it for a cheap malt beverage like Smirnoff Ice with strawberry flavoring. The "fruited" Lindemans lambic you find are literally young lambic mixed with syrup. So yeah, your description is pretty accurate. They do, however, make very good, cheap, and easy to find unsweetened lambics. Cuvee Rene is a good drat gueuze (mix of old and young lambics) that is a good place to start if you want to get into that thing. They do a cherry version (Cuvee Rene Kriek) that is lambic aged with real cherries. That's also very good, and nothing like the Kriek Lambic that uses the syrup.
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Jul 27, 2018 20:55
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Weekend opener can check!
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danbanana posted:The "fruited" Lindemans lambic you find are literally young lambic mixed with syrup. So yeah, your description is pretty accurate. They have a cuvee Renee oude kriek now as well that's only 7.50€ for a 750. That's going in my next belgiuminabox order for sure.
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Jul 27, 2018 22:27
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Half Acre's Tuna is better than all but a handful of hazy beers I've had.
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Jul 27, 2018 23:03
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Weekend opener can check! gently caress yeah
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Weekend opener can check!  
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Jul 28, 2018 00:15
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Did a couple small local IPA and went to a food truck round up. Nashville hot chicken sandwich with a Sierra Nevada torpedo .... good enough!!!!
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Jul 28, 2018 00:36
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If anybody's in the tri-state area: If you like sours, and maybe also dry ciders, you owe it to yourself to check out Graft Ciders out of Newburgh NY. They do sour/fermented ciders, often dry-hopped as well, and they are absolutely phenomenal. They are my summer go-to by a wide margin now.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:If anybody's in the tri-state area: Their farmhouse one fulfilled my craving for asturian ciders so they're A Ok in my book. IDK why but local ABC's each got a shipment in a while ago and it was a welcome surprise.
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Jul 28, 2018 02:34
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Paul ReiserFS posted:
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Jul 28, 2018 02:43
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Was someone talking poo poo about Bell's 30th? Because five years later, this poo poo is pretty ideal as an imperial stout: chocolate, bitterness, semi-dry finish. loving tight.
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Jul 28, 2018 02:47
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Can checks #2 and 3 because it's Friday night goddamnit don't judge me 
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Jul 28, 2018 03:03
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Jul 28, 2018 03:20
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rochefort update: rochefort is still really good
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Jul 28, 2018 03:26
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Tbh I'd trade this rodenbach for those, this is not an ideal 3 am afterwork beer.
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Jul 28, 2018 03:26
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I really wish more american breweries made belgian gold ale. Its the only strong beer that works in the summer that isnt some IPA crap
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Jul 28, 2018 03:31
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Control Volume posted:I really wish more american breweries made belgian gold ale. Its the only strong beer that works in the summer that isnt some IPA crap IPAs suck. Spread the word.
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There are a few places around here that do top-notch coffee porters and brown ales that are strong but not too heavy, if that makes sense.
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chitoryu12 posted:IPAs suck. Spread the word. Ive been spreading the word for years. Nice to finally find an ally against these hop headed freaks
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