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Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 10:38 am
by mohan
Gulden draak
So good!
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 10:46 am
by 64hz
bass_culture wrote:64hz wrote:budweisers proper good
I hope you mean Budvar... because last time I checked rice wasn't an ingredient in beer!
yeah i was joking. whats the definition of beer then? are ales beer? only ales ive ever properly drunk where the ones from my local brewery. Ramblers Ruin mm mm
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 6:54 pm
by bass_culture
64hz wrote:bass_culture wrote:64hz wrote:budweisers proper good
I hope you mean Budvar... because last time I checked rice wasn't an ingredient in beer!
yeah i was joking. whats the definition of beer then? are ales beer? only ales ive ever properly drunk where the ones from my local brewery. Ramblers Ruin mm mm
Beer is a drink brewed with water, hops, and malted barely (sometimes wheat). Lager is a word that means "storage" and refers to the longer cold storage brewing process. I was just pointing out that Budweiser use rice in their brew, which although commonly used as a cheaper substitute for malted barley in the far east is hardly an ingredient which should be found in a brew claiming to be "The King Of Beers".
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 7:39 pm
by horsefeather
best beer in the world is triple karmeliet
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 1:11 am
by makemerich
sierra nevada mothership.
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 5:22 pm
by lloydnoise
the 2 comments above are spot on. Karm Trip is incredible, Kasteel and Westmalle Trips are also brilliant strong Belgians. Orval is a trappist I would suggest as well, light at 6% but really rich and warming. Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA is like normal IPA they do but much stronger and richer, haven't tried Mothership but I imagine it will be pengle.
lovely lovely beer
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 9:52 pm
by horsefeather
lloydnoise wrote:the 2 comments above are spot on. Karm Trip is incredible, Kasteel and Westmalle Trips are also brilliant strong Belgians. Orval is a trappist I would suggest as well, light at 6% but really rich and warming. Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA is like normal IPA they do but much stronger and richer, haven't tried Mothership but I imagine it will be pengle.
lovely lovely beer
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 1:58 am
by mcpable
rolling rock. it's from the states somewhere cant remember exactly but my dad always buys it and its delicious. they brew it with water from a waterfall that comes over a rock next to the brewery and thats what it tAstes like. Delicious as fuck.
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 9:19 am
by autobot
So far I've tired Hobgoblin - was alright, don't think I could drink more than one in a sitting though. However the bottle was freaking awesome, and therefore I like it purely based on that.
Also tried sierra nevada, that shit is delicious! Think I have a new favourite, even the erdinger I had afterwards paled in comparison
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 9:24 am
by mVI
Hobgoblin, Sierra Nevada and Duvel are the nicest I've tried thus far! The brewdog IPA has a strange edge to it that I wasn't a fan of. I had a bottle from the Badger brewery too which wasn't as nice as the others I've mentioned.
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 8:18 pm
by bass_culture
mVI wrote: The brewdog IPA has a strange edge to it that I wasn't a fan of.
Those would be the hops!
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 9:20 pm
by mVI
It was bad! But it
paled in comparrison to Sierra Nevada or Duvel. Get it?
Paled?
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 9:30 pm
by bass_culture
mVI wrote:It was bad! But it paled in comparrison to Sierra Nevada or Duvel. Get it? Paled?
I wasn't agreeing with you, I think it's a fantastic beer. I was just pointing out that the edge which you found unpleasant was probably the hops used to brew the beer.
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 9:42 pm
by mVI
I actually meant to say 'It wasn't bad'. Excuse my error.
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 9:45 pm
by mks
I don't know if you get this across the pond, but this Sierra Nevada Barleywine will knock you out!
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 10:04 pm
by firky
bass_culture wrote:
"Post Modern classic pale ale." Oh. Fucking. Dear.
I presume you get it in a glass bottle so people can smash it open in your spotty student face? Not you personally but the people who actually buy this piss.
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 10:57 pm
by AxeD
Get to know this:
http://www.brouwerijdemolen.nl/index.ph ... ction.html
Best collection ever, also a multi award winning brewery. Weird thing is they don't list their own beers in the collection,
good thing is they sell Haandbryggeriet.
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 11:50 pm
by firky
Anyone had Fruli? It's Belgian fruit beer, doesn't taste of fruit or such (or beer really) but is really nice. Can only be described as um... fruit beer?! Anyway, only ever seen it on draught in Oxford though (Oxford is the bomb for good beer!), and never seen it in the supermarkets, even Waitrose or Selfridges.
(God! I love Selfridges food and wine hall... pity the prices are astronomical.)
Früli won the gold medal at the International Beer Competition 2004. In 2009, Früli was announced as the "Worlds Best Fruit Beer" by the judges of the World Beer Awards.
The high intensity of the strawberry taste in the strawberry Früli tends to polarise the general public's response. Those who prefer an intensely fruity taste to their fruit beers claim that Früli is the most natural-tasting fruit beer (in fact, devotees of the slightly sweeter fruit beers tend, perhaps unsurprisingly, to rate the distinctly sweet strawberry Früli more highly than any other beer).
By contrast, those who like their fruit beers to be more 'beery' (and those with only limited affinity for fruit beers) tend to find the fruit intensity of Früli excessive and overwhelming, and find the taste of Früli to be unnatural, often raising questions as to whether Früli qualifies as a beer in anything but name and manufacturing process. Detractors often also complain of a perceived artificiality or inappropriateness in the sweetness, which they find reminiscent of sherbet or cream soda which most likely derives from Fruli's strong and distinctly vanilla-like after-taste which is only partially balanced by the characteristic sourness (very familiar to those acquainted with Hoegaarden Beer) of white beer.
I heartedly recommend it, pip pip!
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 11:58 pm
by firky
Dragon Stout, a Jamaican porter / stout. I much prefer my porters, dark beers and strong flavours to the IPAs and blonde beers. Dragon Stout tastes like someone kicked you in the mouth with barley;, it doesn't taste unlike Guinness Export and has a similar ABV of around 8% IIRC. Despite that, it's much cleaner than Guinness Export and doesn't linger in the mouth. It's pretty sweet after a few bottles which is probably a good idea as you'd end up getting drunk off four bottles!
One my mates' dad's told me he used to drink it as a boy on the Island but his mum used to put in condensed milk - yet to try that
Re: Beer recommendations
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 12:09 am
by mks
firky wrote:Dragon Stout, a Jamaican porter / stout. I much prefer my porters, dark beers and strong flavours to the IPAs and blonde beers.
I'm with you on that. If you ever get a chance, try this one, it's one of my favs. Not sure how available this would be in England as it's a West Coast US microbrewery.
Old Rasputin Imperial Stout
Produced in the tradition of 18th Century English brewers who supplied the court of Russia's Catherine the Great, Old Rasputin seems to develop a cult following wherever it goes. It's a rich, intense brew with big complex flavors and a warming finish.
Vital Statistics
Style: Russian Imperial Stout
Color: Black
ABV: 9%
Bitterness: 75 IBU's