What's your favorite Beer?
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I have the same attitude about American beer. The hops that I love so much are grown here. Never have had a foreign beer with the fresh hop bomb wallop I'm looking for.
The Aussies come close, really enjoyed an ale from Little Creatures of Perth.
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Well you need to try some NZ IPAs, I would say we are even more hop obsessed then the US. The Citra i posted earlier would be an easy bet though Citra being a US hop (the best showcase of it i have had) you are probably familiar with it.
some to look for
A version of an APA made with nz hops during the great us hop shortage of 2010.
99 on rate beer enough said
Admittedly an Australian hop but our brewers are way ahead in terms a skill (they are catching up over there). Pineapple flavor coming from the hop is uncanny.
Finally another beer from another mate of mine a little bit more sensibly hopped than the last 3.
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This is the finest beer I've ever had:
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/three-floyds-dreadnaught-imperial-ipa/8933/Runner-up:
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/russian-river-pliny-the-elder/8936/Another fine one, though I find the honey unnecessary and in some vintages cloying. This one has a huge cult following:
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/bells-hopslam/35488/Another reliable go-to:
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/stone-ruination-ipa/14709/This is a hometown beer that, unlike these others, has a strong malt backbone. Combined with the hoppiness, makes it a very big beer:
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/surly-furious/55798/And, more my style, their seasonal IPA:
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A friend had a bottle of this
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/three-floyds-dark-lord-russian-imperial-stout/15917/
I was out of town when it was opened (I should really stop being friends with them)
Pliny is a legendary beer that I have had the pleasure of sampling.
The surly looks well worth a try. West coast US beers a fairly easy to come by here at not exorbitant cost. East coast are harder but can still be found. Non coastal beers like hens teeth
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And confirmed once more: this is the best beer under 8°… Only 6° but has more depth in both smell and taste... Pure fucking champagne... Even my brother likes it (he had a sip)... It's very smooth and almost sweet; the sourness is there but in the background...
I've never been so convinced of a beer's quality re-visiting it, but this is the one... Holy fucking cow isn't it just...
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It's a fairly new thigh for craft American beers to come in cans. It works fine, especially if its a pint and you have a glass.
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First step on a downward path, first cans, then widgets (draught control systems), then you find that you're drinking John Smiths bitter.
Just say no.
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I beg to differ. I don't like drinking good beer out of a can but I don't mind pouring beer out of a can.
The can is a vastly inferior weapon than is the bottle though…
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Slippery slope, you make a little concession here and there and before you know it you're justifying your Pabst cooler, and McDonalds wrappers on the back seat.
Just say no.
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Slippery slope, you make a little concession here and there and before you know it you're justifying your Pabst cooler, and McDonalds wrappers on the back seat.
Just say no.
I'm all about the contents of a container. Just think of it as a micro keg :). Try a Surly and the prejudice against cans evaporates…
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Justification begins
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OK, I'll join in. A keg is deeply disturbing to an English ale puritan. In English English, a keg means the beer has gas added to get it to the tap. A cask typically contains "live beer" and uses no secondary gas to get the beer to the tap. Having said that, at our brewery, we are currently experimenting with "cleaning' the beer, and then putting it in a keg with a known amount of yeast (in exactly the same way we do with bottle conditioned ales). That allows us to serve a "real ale" from a keg, experiment is tasting good thus far.
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Nearly all modern beer features compromises and concessions to industrial production. The can just sticks in some people's craw a bit more. To each his own.
Carbonization is an industrial process. As is bottling, canning, etc. Most of us draw the line somewhere after a wooden cask of beer we produced ourselves.
Calling a can a slippery slope is to me the same fallacy as calling marijuana a "gateway drug.". Why isn't the cigarette, or beer, or coffee, or medication the gateway? Because someone said so…
I can assure you after 5 years of drinking kickass craft beer out of the occasional can I hate Coors more than I ever have...
