The Great Beer Thread.

Steinar · **Reply #60 on:** July 05, 2012, 09:00:11 PM

Going to Franconia for a fortnight of beer sampling next week. I expect my preferences to be slightly updated after that. Looking forward to sampling old favourites like Klosterbräu's Schwärzla (Bamberg) and Barfüsser's Dunkel (Nürnberg) and trying new breweries in the different towns we are going to. I'm going with my wife and she thinks a beer holiday is an even better idea than I do. I love that woman!

I agree with Medic82 that Aass is one of the better Norwegian industrial brewers. Their bokk/bock is excellent. (Goes well with both cream cake and pork with crackling. Yes, really.) Haandbryggeriet is more of an artisanal brewery with more of a hit and miss approach, but when they succeed, they IMHO make the best stuff in Norway. Odin's Tipple will never be made again, but it was incredible. Two other excellent Norwegian breweries are Nøgne Ø (usually considered the top end in Norway) and Kinn (which generally makes excellent beers, very true to their genres, without being too extreme in any direction).

Steinar · **Reply #61 on:** July 05, 2012, 09:07:15 PM

Quote from: Beerplumber on August 01, 2011, 10:38:28 PM

Does anybody here know of " erdinger" ?

I do know of Erdinger, but if you're a fan, I must admit I don't share your taste. I love wheat beers in the Bavarian style, but prefer e.g. Weihenstephaner, Schneider, Tucher or Paulaner. My current favourite is the one brewed by these guys: http://www.brauhaus-freising.de/ It's a small brewery in the same town as Weihenstephaner, but they use a little more malt, producing a beer I personally prefer.

MeadMaker · **Reply #62 on:** January 26, 2013, 09:57:13 PM

New Holland has introduced a new version of their delicious Dragons Milk. The new version is called Dragon's Mild Bourbon Stout. Very complex and tasty.

Now I want to find some of their companion product, Beer Barrel Bourbon.

Lynn LeFey · **Reply #63 on:** January 27, 2013, 11:09:41 PM

I'd somehow missed this thread. Huh...

I like a good beer, and tend to prefer sweeter ales. I am NOT a fan of very hoppy beers, and IPAs are about atrocious, IMO. We have a very strong brewing tradition here in the St. Louis area. Even asside from the big AB-Inbev, there's a ton of small brewers in the area. Probably best known would be Schlafly, who make a fanatastic hefeweizen.

I've made three 5-gallon batches of red or brown ales. All turned out very good. I'm still playing with recipes.

A pic from my last batch... a blackberry ale.

MeadMaker · **Reply #64 on:** January 27, 2013, 11:46:54 PM

That blackberry ale sounds very tasty. I kegged a batch of amber ale yesterday. Next batch will be a Kolsch made with friends that want to learn how to brew.

Lynn LeFey · **Reply #65 on:** January 27, 2013, 11:51:40 PM

I added almost 2 cups of freshly squeezed blackberry juice (took about 4-5 pints of berries), after the boil, to make sure there weren't issues with the pectin. All it did was add a very subtle blackberry scent in the end. Next time, I may need to add a good deal more. But then, next time, maybe I'll just try something completely different. In any case, it was still very tasty.

My first adventure into brewing was assisting a friend years ago. Good way to get the 'bug' for brewing. He started from scratch, even roasting his own grain. I cop out and get syrup.

derekmac · **Reply #66 on:** January 28, 2013, 12:04:21 AM

I have to say I'm still loving my Mister Beer!!! My favorites are the Red and Blonde, and the others are not too bad either. They had a shortage of both those though, so I've been drinking the Cerveza and Pilsner.

http://www.bottlebrew.com/

Outback in Idaho · **Reply #67 on:** January 28, 2013, 12:07:01 AM

Have drank a lot of different flavors of beer over the years. The best was when staying at Wilford Hall MC in San Antonia, TX. The doc gave us airmen a prescription for beer. Seriously. Fellow airmen told me about this and I asked the doc, sure enough it was the real deal.

Went to the base store, bought an assortment of German beer. Some tasted like crude oil, other like pilsner was light and sweet, and ran into some Oktoberfest beer (which was the theme going on when we were prescribed beer). Fun days.

Did not care for any of the domesticated beer. Is more like Kool-Aid than beer. Then I ran across Foster's Lager, and the Iranians that ran the liquor store insisted I buy a 5th of Chevas. So that was my drink for many years, up until I really didn't like Chevas.
Continued drinking the Australian imported lager. Occasionally would get one that tasted green and horrible. had to eat garlic bread to kill the after taste some. A really good batch was something to cherish. Foster's is my staple of beer.

Have tried a few dark here and there when finding a good liquor store when living in California. No one knows beer in Idaho, unless it is micro-brewed. Micro-brewed is really good.

Know when Foster's went to a Canadian brewery is was most times horrible tasting. They must have some rather bad tasting water in Canada. Least where ever the brewery was at.
Some brewery in Texas has taken over the US market, and the falvor has been about 90% good. Had a bad can other other day. Am getting more partial to the Ale, green label, as it tastes a heck of a lot better - more like the white wine of beers

Still want to try some Queensland XXXX beer. Cannot find any place here that can ship some in.