Best beers for brahs?
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MVP
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If you ever visit Lithuania try lithuanian mead. ...Not even close to beer.. a little sip of this would make your insides burn
https://www.madeinlithuania.lt/Expo...ldest_Drink_in_the_World_is_Made_in_Lithuania
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UGLI baby
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UGLI baby
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At what point do you folks consider a beer "dark?"
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Maybe different in real life doe.
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The first batch (completed about 9 days after my ban) was fantastic. I mentioned it in another thread but it was by far the best IPA I've ever made. I taste tested it against Squatters Hop Rising and Uinta Detour Double IPA and it was remarkably close to Hop Rising. I didn't set out to make a clone but if I had I couldn't have done much better. Of course, with the second batch I expect it to be even better.
Safetydan
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Some Asian Beer That's good:
Chinese:
Japanese:
and Korean:
OB, Max, Hite and Cass, Cass is the best of the koreans for my money. Xingtao is my favorite followed by Sapporo. All taste srsly good with fried mother ****ing chicken
I wonder if anybody has tried any of these... I doubt it.
Chinese:
Japanese:
and Korean:
OB, Max, Hite and Cass, Cass is the best of the koreans for my money. Xingtao is my favorite followed by Sapporo. All taste srsly good with fried mother ****ing chicken
I wonder if anybody has tried any of these... I doubt it.
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Some Asian Beer That's good:
Chinese:
My favorite
Japanese:
I think Sapporo is better.
and Korean:
OB, Max, Hite and Cass, Cass is the best for my money. They're all pretty terrible overall
I wonder if anybody has tried any of these... I doubt it.
Of your first 3 I've had all of them. I deployed out of San Diego... Those were not hard beers to find. I haven't had any of the others you mentioned. Tiger beer seemed to be everywhere.
All in all these are all light American lagers.
Some Asian Beer That's good:
Chinese:
Japanese:
and Korean:
OB, Max, Hite and Cass, Cass is the best of the koreans for my money. Xingtao is my favorite followed by Sapporo. All taste srsly good with fried mother ****ing chicken
I wonder if anybody has tried any of these... I doubt it.
I have tried all of them. There are a lot of korean markets that sell asian beers in southern cali. Hite is my favorite. They are terrible quality tho. they are cheap and light
Safetydan
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that they're actually all really bad. Tsingtao is just the best among those posted, and beer, in general, tastes good with fried chicken.
MVP
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At what point do you folks consider a beer "dark?"
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♪alt13
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Beer is made from sugary wort that the yeast convert to alcohol and CO2. But some of the sugar is unfermentable and remains in the beer after fermentation is complete. Hops are used to add bitterness to balance the residual sugar so that beer is not cloyingly sweet. But Hops also have antiseptic properties. Before hops were used breweries had proprietary mixtures of herbs, called gruit, for the same purpose.
But hops can also provide a distinctive flavor and aroma. In general, hops added with more than 30 minutes left in the boil are considered bittering hops (it takes time to extract the alpha acids), but due to the volatile nature of hop flavor and aroma you lose all of those qualities the longer the hops are boiled so late hop additions are used as well.
Just bought these three beers from the Utah beer Co-op! That store is great high percentage beer not from a liquor store and they do on tap growlers.
The black'o'latern is better than the regular pumpkin beers. Its a dark beer with a hint of pumpkin, not the overwhelming artificial pumpkin taste.
the Ghost rider is my favorite IPA now. I dont really like IPA's that much but this one is really good. It does not have the bitter hoppy after taste.
The Wee Peet is a hoppy bitter taste to start and a sweet after taste, goes great with something sweet.
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The black'o'latern is better than the regular pumpkin beers. Its a dark beer with a hint of pumpkin, not the overwhelming artificial pumpkin taste.
the Ghost rider is my favorite IPA now. I dont really like IPA's that much but this one is really good. It does not have the bitter hoppy after taste.
The Wee Peet is a hoppy bitter taste to start and a sweet after taste, goes great with something sweet.
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Hops are pretty amazing and there are new varietals being produced every season nowadays. Unfortunately many of the new varietals are patented which keeps the supply severely limited and the prices high. Amarillo (or should I say VGXP01 c.v.) is one of my favorite hops, but can be hard to get and is twice as expensive as many other types. Unfortunately, UGLI Baby IPA can't be made without it.
Once hops started being used they were quickly used to the exclusion of previously used gruit. They are just THAT GOOD when it comes to what they do for beer. Gruit beer is still available, although I'd say it's more for novelty and history than anything else.
But the new hops being produced are bringing more and more flavors to the table. Traditional hops are typically described as earthy or floral. New hops are citrus, melon, fruit, berries, pine, grass. There are some new hops said (I haven't experimented with them) to produce a strawberry flavor, some that produce watermelon. Some of the most coveted hops are real love 'em or hate 'em types, like Simcoe, which some describe lovingly as having a piney, resiny aroma and other describe as straight cat piss.
Hops are only one of many reasons I think beer is a far more sophisticated beverage than wine. Hard for many to get the beer guzzling frat boy or trailer park dwelling alcoholic stereotypes disassociated from what beer is becoming, but the fact is that good wine is the product of good grapes and good beer is the product of a good brewer. There are many beer/wine makers and former wine makers at homebrewtalk.com, and the story is always the same. Making good beer requires much more skill and creativity than making good wine.