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Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:13 am

cdennisg wrote: Little Sumpin' Sumpin has long been a favorite, along with Old Rasputin. I also like SOME of the overhopped strong IPA's, and an occasional ice cold Ranier. It all depends on the temperature, the day I have had, and what is in the beer fridge or root cellar.

I have never once checked a beer's rating on any website. I just try them to decide for myself. One thing is for sure, if it has fruit in the mix, I will refuse.

Once you know what styles of beers you like, you can check their ratings, so that you don't risk wasting money beer that is not great.

There are so many beers on the market, you could get very old and very broke just trying them all at random, and since the vast majority of beer is crap, you'd be drinking a lot of crap beer while doing it. I have found that in every case, beers that rate 95%, taste better than beers that rate 85%- the ratings are that accurate.

Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:22 pm

Here are a few I like lately...

Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:20 pm

I’m gonna go home tonight and crack open some shitty beer I got at Costco. It’s from some micro brewery and probably didn’t rate very high. A couple of pages back I showed some and you know what I liked some of it. The one with fruit in it I didn’t like. We could spend the rest of our lives trying different beers and I don’t see that as a bad thing, hell it sounds fun. Monday the law went into effect here dropping prohibition era rules covering alcoholic content. The crooks running this state had a monopoly on any beer over 3.2 percent. We had to visit liquor stores to buy real beer, can you imagine that.

Gentlemen enjoy a beer or two and be happy. 😀

Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:38 pm

Ok, back on topic, sort of...

I drink all kinds of beers, depending on what I'm doing, my preferences are pretty simple.

If I am working in the yard and want something watery, Bud does just fine! It's light, nothing offensive, watery... works to cool me off and (at least temporarily) hydrate me.

At meal time, I like something heavier, with not too much taste to conflict with the meal, but something to be sipped, along with water, to cleans my palate and add a little body.

If I'm just socializing, even the somewhat fruity flavored ones work, though mostly the more bitter types (think lemon, not cherry).

I used to only like those made per the German purity standards (and still love them), but I have a little more variety now.

Anyone got recommendations along these lines? We have a couple of large chain liquor stores where I could probably find it.

Right at the moment, this is my fave, typical of this time of year:

Wed Oct 03, 2018 5:46 pm

Bummer this thread got all jacked up by BS. Mods, a cleanup please?

I'm having an after work Rainier. It is watery, crappy, tasty crap.

Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:10 pm

Edited for content, to save Everett the trouble. :)

Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:10 pm

Moderator note:
I did some clean up.

Let's get back to beer talk please.

Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:14 pm

cdennisg wrote:
I'm having an after work Rainier. It is watery, crappy, tasty crap.

LOL I will join you with my crappy, tastes like crap watered down ABV minus 3% summer shandy crap!

Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:26 pm

EverettB wrote: Moderator note:
I did some clean up.

Let's get back to beer talk please.

Thank you. Beer is important!

Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:31 pm

cdennisg wrote: EverettB wrote: Moderator note:
I did some clean up.

Let's get back to beer talk please.

Thank you. Beer is important!

Yeah, thanks Everett. :)

Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:54 pm

KTPhil wrote: I drink all kinds of beers, depending on what I'm doing, my preferences are pretty simple.

I like different styles of beers too. :)

Quote: If I am working in the yard and want something watery, Bud does just fine! It's light, nothing offensive, watery... works to cool me off and (at least temporarily) hydrate me.

Alcoholic beverages do not hydrate you- they dehydrate you. Alcohol is hygroscopic- it pulls moisture out of you. That's one of the reasons you pee when drinking. If you need to hydrate, water works great.

Quote: At meal time, I like something heavier, with not too much taste to conflict with the meal, but something to be sipped, along with water, to cleans my palate and add a little body.

If I'm just socializing, even the somewhat fruity flavored ones work, though mostly the more bitter types (think lemon, not cherry).

Anyone got recommendations along these lines? We have a couple of large chain liquor stores where I could probably find it.

I hear and understand. The research tools I listed (Beer Advocate and Rate Beer) include all styles of beers, so they should be useful to you.

Quote: I used to only like those made per the German purity standards (and still love them), but I have a little more variety now.

Right at the moment, this is my fave, typical of this time of year:

I do enjoy Oktoberfest beers too. :)

We were fortunate enough to do Oktoberfest in Munich the night before the European Delivery for my wife's new BMW Track Pack car, and we visited Hofbräuhaus. It was great. We just got off the U-Bahn at the Theresienwiese stop, and walked right in. My wife went in costume- one of the short stripper costume looking ones (although we'd like to have a nice traditional dirndl made for her). The band in the beer tent we were in, played a great mix of traditional German Oompah music and Classic American rock & roll. You have to be seated at a table to get served beer, the tables are reserved a year or more in advance, but some nice folks let us sit at their table, and ten minutes after getting off the train, we were getting served a Maß of Oktoberfest beer.

Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:51 am

Local NE style IPA. Not bad for a kind of NE style hazy IPA.

Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:56 am

IPAs are usually not my thing, but that one rates a "very good" on Beer Advocate... :)

I don't necessarily dislike IPAs as a whole, it's just that in recent years, it seems like there is some kind of penis-measuring contest involving how much hops you can cram into an IPA, and a lot of the really ridiculous ones are like drinking a pine tree.

Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:59 am

vwracerdave wrote: None.

I can live life great without drinking any.

x3

Thu Oct 04, 2018 6:20 pm

ZENVWDRIVER wrote: vwracerdave wrote: None.

I can live life great without drinking any.

x3

I try not to limit my enjoyment possibilities. :wink:

Fri Oct 05, 2018 2:19 am

Lagunitas 7.5% "Little Sumpin' Sumpin' Ale" again tonight. It was affordable, field-expedient, and rates an "Exceptional" on Beer Advocate.

Like Ernest Hemingway said, "I drink, to make other people more interesting", and "Write drunk, edit sober.".

I guess I'll edit tomorrow...

Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:44 pm

MVF38C

Sun Oct 07, 2018 5:13 pm

Here’s a match made in Heaven, Budweiser aged in Jim Beam oak barrels. Yes it cost a little more and shouldn’t a marriage of two blue collar items. What could be American than this?

I had to go all the way to St. Louis for this and we went by the brewery too. It’s like Lourdes for older beer guys that drink commercial beer. :D

Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:15 pm

Zundfolge1432 wrote: Here’s a match made in Heaven, Budweiser aged in Jim Beam oak barrels. Yes it cost a little more and shouldn’t a marriage of two blue collar items. What could be American than this?

I don't know, man. It rates an "okay" on Beer Advocate, and only a 40 out of 100 on Rate Beer.

Quote: I had to go all the way to St. Louis for this and we went by the brewery too. It’s like Lourdes for older beer guys that drink commercial beer. :D

The best beer tour we've done so far was the St. James Gate Guinness Storehouse in Dublin Ireland. It's seven stories of interactive beer stuff, with a 360-degree glass pub on the top floor. It's like Disneyland for beer drinkers.

Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:17 pm

Last night was Deschutes Brewery's Black Butte Porter, which rates an "Exceptional" on Beer Advocate, and a 95 on Rate Beer.