What's your favorite Beer?
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Cool–never heard of em but your state has some great ones, including obviously Bell's. Minnesota also has some great ones, but the state is behind in terms of quantity. Puritanical laws haven't helped matters, though that's changing. Surly and its cult following and a grass roots campaign helped change some of those laws. And now they're building a $20MM destination brewery. It will probably be selling nationally soon, which is good news for everyone. Their beers are outstanding.
Glad to hear laws are changing to make craft beer more doable in MN. In MI we're currently working on introducing legislation to make it smaller breweries don't need to go through a distributor to sell bottles in stores, which would make even more of our beer more widely available.
Short's is easily my favorite brewery in MI. Great beer, it's run by some of the nicest people in the world, and they are never afraid to get weird and experiment with their beer. If you ever come upon anything by them I highly recommend it.
Larry Bell, the founder/head of Bell's, is a royal asshole though so I try and avoid supporting his business even though some of his beer is fantastic. Founder's, Arcadia, New Holland, and Right Brain are some other excellent MI breweries that are starting to become more widely distributed.
The first hoppy nitrogen push I ever had was last year. I can't remember what it was but having that creamy head with a hoppy ale was relevatory. Surprised this isn't a bit more common.
I've mostly had stouts on nitro, but I recently had Founder's pale ale on both CO2 and nitro and it really opened my eye's to how much the gas can effect the beer. There was the entirely different mouth feel of course, but the nitro muted the hops a bit and allowed for some of the more subtle flavors to come out. Twas fantastic…
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A shame about Bell being a dick. Fortunately, I have plenty of other ways I can go. I used to drink Two Hearted a lot but there are so many other beers out there that it's no longer a staple on those increasingly rare occasions where I drink beer (trying to eliminate a beer belly I came by honestly
)We get Founder's and New Holland here, and I love them. I'd have to check on those others. I'll have to try Short's as well.
Ever since a visit to Russian River in Cali I've added super sour beers to my repertoire. I guess I'm a man of extremes, super bitter, or super sour if I'm going to burn calories on beer
In for a penny, in for a pound on those I suppose… -
Temperatures have plummeted (thank fuck)… Now debating what I should have tonight:
- Rochefort 10 (11.3%) http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/rochefort-trappistes-10/2360/
- Malheur 12 (12%) http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/malheur-12/11337/
- Black Albert (13%) http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/struise-black-albert/77305/
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Not my favorite. But reminds me of home and used to ride past the brewery every day for work.
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New seasonal for me
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Fat Jack was great, lots of ginger and pumpkin, but not that overthetop clove and spice that a lot of other pumpkin brews have. I will be buying at least another for Halloween. Is that kind of head normal for Rochefort or was the glass dirty/fast pour etc? Either way it looks awesome, definitely on my must drink list along with more Chimay…
i really miss drinking them if i'm honest! :-\
