What's your favorite Beer?
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Any of you try anything by Decadent Ales? They’re a NY brewery that makes a lot of dessert beers, kinda like Omnipollo. Curious if their beer is any good
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Not sure if there's any wheat in it. Hazy beers are getting pretty trendy around here lately, and I'm not sure if it's a wheat thing, or what? I guess I need to do a little research.
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New beer from Firestone Walker. Their take on a NEIPA.
Tastes great and hard to beat at 10$ a six pack.
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This is very good.
This is even better.
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This was good
after a 15 months cellared I didn’t taste any blueberry. Very nutty though
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…or anyone else here that drinks dessert beers, what are your thoughts on their popularity? Are dessert beers a fad or is it here to stay? I downloaded the untapped app for my iphone and added a couple dozen dessert beers to my wishlist. My question is, how often do these beers taste as advertised? I have to admit that stuff like maple pancakes, pecan pie, pina colada milkshake or whatever other indulgence sounds really good on the surface, but I wonder how closely a lot of them match their advertised flavor? I know beer making is a science so maybe @emceeQ can shed some light on this? I look at the beer ratings on untapped and most of them seem to have 4 star ratings out of 5, albeit with a few negative comments sprinkled throughout.
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Obviously there is a lot of personal taste involved here but a stout should still be a stout imho. That is to say it needs to taste like beer above all else. The dessert stouts I've had that have actually tasted like the desserts they're named after have managed that by using artificial flavouring and have been uniformly awful as a result. Amunden's are a good example.
Stouts have often been inclined to be sweet, have chocolate or caramel notes, or use lactose. Adding berries, coffee, vanilla, nibs, chilli or other natural flavourings is a natural progression. Mix in the high alcohol content and barrel ageing and you have enormous opportunities for complexity and variety.
The creative naming of dessert stouts seems to me to be a result of the things they are inspired by as opposed to an effort to make them actually taste like that dessert. That may be changing now as dessert stouts have become a more popular sub genre. As with most other beer genre's some brewers do great work and others come up with shite. There's a lot of mediocrity in-between.
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As with most other beer genre's some brewers do great work and others come up with shite. There's a lot of mediocrity in-between.
That's been my experience since jumping into this craft beer thing for the past month or so. I think i've tried a half dozen or more porters and stouts, most of which have had chocolate or peanut butter flavoring. Only a couple truly had that peanut butter taste, whereas, the rest were fairly mediocre at best. But I have to admit, the gimmicky dessert marketing is working because I still want to try some of these beers. The downside, i'm starting to develop a Homer Simpson gut :o
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