What's your favorite Beer?
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Any other hop-heads? Not sure that these styles are common outside of the US, though I've had some good variants down under, such as Little Creatures Pale Ale in Perth, seemingly modeled on the northwestern American Pale Ale style. The Belgians have made some hop-forward brews, but none that I've sampled quite have the punch I'm looking for. I think the esters introduced via bottle conditioning and the smaller bubbles take some of the bite away.
Taking this style of hop-forward, malt-backward style to an extreme:
Russian River Pliny the Elder
Three Floyds Dreadnaught
Bell's Hopslam!
Stone Ruination
Surly Abrasive AleAll American Imperial IPAs in the West Coast tradition, which is to say, super bitter, lots of citrus/pine resin hop flavor, high proof, heavy mouthfeel, and a weak malt backbone, typically pale / crystal malts. Unbalanced, brash, obnoxious, uncouth, and either beloved or hated… American ;).
I've tried all of those except the Surly. They're all great, especially Pliny and Hopslam. Founders Devil Dancer is awesome as well, but it is a bit maltier.
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Speaking of great IPA's, my buddy brought me one of these from Florida:
Killer IPA, and the best beer I've ever had out of a can.
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@Spring:
Very hard to find good beer in the UK.
True dat.
!!!! We make the best beers in the world in the UK, we need to get you some beer education Winchy.
The US craft brewing industry is killing you guys! We has it all and more.
Side note: Duvel Single Barrel. This is the shit!
Once again for the hard of reading, Brew Dog is all you need to know about UK beers. Everything they produce in consistently excellent.
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They just got them in Oklahoma, I'll have to pick some up next time I'm at the Liquor Store. Which one should I start with? -
Punk IPA is the classic, 5am Saint and Dead Pony Club are great too. If you can get it, their Tokyo beer is an absolute killer.
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Pam just bought me a bottle of this, along with my regular Brew Dog restock. Seul, is it crap?
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And that's like the most inane advice ever but y'know… Read up on it here... It's sweetened but it looks like a decent product if you ask me... So enjoy!..
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Drinking it now, tastes like alcopop !
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Yeah sweetened fruit beer usually kinda sucks… It's a hit or a miss really with fruit beers... I just bought a case of Boon Kriek as that is unsweetened... Bought some Ter Dolen Kriek that is sweetened and some Liefmans Cuvee Brut that's not... All in all I'm spending my summer in search of the perfect cherry beer
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There are worse ways to spend summer
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Yeah sweetened fruit beer usually kinda sucks… It's a hit or a miss really with fruit beers...
HATE sweet fruit beers, but somehow enjoy Lindemann's Framboise…. go figure.
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Sounds like a winner to me. Have to see if I can track some down.
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Boon Framboos (raspberry) is so sour I can't drink it… Go figure
This sounds interesting. Love sour Flemish lambics.
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Nothing wrong with a good fruit beer. There's room in my fridge for everything.
