What's your favorite Beer?
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Have to say that looks beautiful in the glass. While I’ve heard the term Farmhouse beer/ale I’m not really sure what it means. How would you rate the bitterness level of this one? After posting,I googled it and found out about it’s origins,and that it’s not readily definable,which was part of the definition I read. Seems like it was originally brewed to serve to the seasonal farm workers using left over grains and not always the best ingredients.
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Saison is the Belgian version of Gårdsøl (farmhouse ale), have a look at that. In Norway every farm would produce a different beer so the definition is round by nature. Local differences in yeast and water would make different beers.
As you say it was produced for the workers, so simpler in taste and execution than the holiday beer that would be produced for the solstices and so forth. I’ve read that farmhouse ale was produced in two strengths, a weak beer for breakfast and lunch and a stronger one for the end of the day. It was basically your everyday, everyman’s beer. I’m sure @emceeQ could shed more light on the subject.
This one was not too bitter at all despite being slightly hoppy. Rounded, with a big sweet mouth feel and just a pleasant hint of funk.
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It’s basically the effect caused by different bacteria that either show up naturally under the brewing process or are added for taste. I think the term in beer description comes from another American colloquial use of the word. If you bought a pair of used jeans on the forum and when you got them they smelt funky, then you’d wash them, right? Beer funk is similar but appreciated in the same way as the funk of a good, ripe camembert is appreciated by cheese lovers. Here’s a little overview…
https://www.beeradvocate.com/articles/1885/making-sense-of-the-funk-in-beer/ -
First Romanian beer…
Still waiting for someone to come out with a beer that references Aliens. "Game over, man, game over!" That would be so badass. It could be a Xeno acid milkshake ipa or a Nuke it from orbit ale. Or better yet, someone could make a spoof beer of the Weyland-Yutani Aspen Beer that they drank in the original Alien film.
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Damn, neph- that one is totally up my alley.
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New glassware
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I don't even wanna know how much that Eclipse set ya back, nephy… ???
It wasn’t cheap but it’s not as much as I understand they’re going for outside of Norway. The guy at the monopoly said that bottles in the US and in private shops in Europe are going for a lot more than the 28€ I paid for 650ml. For once, state controlled beer buying paid off.
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Only just noticed the etching on the bottom of the glass. Cool detail [emoji108]
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And I should add that it’s 10:30am and I’m drinking a beer. The marshmallow double ipa couldn’t wait
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Probably not my favourite, but bloody lovely all the same!
