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The Big Fat Beer Thread
94ssd:
So a store that's near my apartment carries a mixed six-pack featuring beers from six different NC breweries. I have bought one with the intention of expanding my horizons. Although I am sure drinking one tonight wouldn't hurt anything, I'm going to be a good boy and wait until tomorrow's GI appointment. My two weeks of mandatory sobriety (and also mandatory eating starches for every meal until I want to die, but that's unrelated to this thread) is near an end.
First up will be Weeping Willow Wit from Mother Earth Brewing, Kinston, NC.
chaospersonified:
I flipping love variety packs of beer, especially of the 'build-your-own variety.' I wish I could find more places that did that. While the one I've located has a fairly fantastic selection of beer brewed in this bassackward Southern state, all that means is that I have to go back a third time before I've sampled their entire catalogue.
Also, dude, good on you for doing what the doctor says. I worked in a clinic doing data entry to aid the transition to online medical records, and I am aware of things now that can happen from ignoring doctors' advice. This bassackward southern state has terrible health issues because people don't effing listen to the people who went to school for this/know more than grandma, who smoked a pack a day and lived to 97.
Sorry, that was supposed to be congratulations and happy drinking, because you posted that yesterday
94ssd:
Thoughts on Weeping Willow Wit: The bottle set very high expectations, promising 'summertime in a glass.' But what I got was something that didn't taste especially different from other pale ales. I was especially underwhelmed by the bitter orange flavor that I was promised not coming through. Overall, it was good, but in my (admittedly very young and uncultured) opinion, not special.
Next up in the local six-pack is the milk stout from Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery (whose logo, incidentally, actually looks like both a duck and a rabbit) in Farmville, NC. Milk Stouts are my favorite, and this one is no exception, perfect level of sweetness.
--- Quote from: chaospersonified on 17 Sep 2015, 19:26 ---Also, dude, good on you for doing what the doctor says. I worked in a clinic doing data entry to aid the transition to online medical records, and I am aware of things now that can happen from ignoring doctors' advice.
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I mean it seems like one day shouldn't make a difference, but I was given a medicine with a very specific 14-day course of treatment. That amount of time could have been made up or it could have been created by pharmaceutical scientists for a specific reason, and I didn't really feel like taking that bet.
Carl-E:
There are too many pumpkin beers. Some are quite good, some are awful, several are sweet, and some are overly spiced. Du Claw 31 (I tried it last year, didn't even see it this year) reminded me of nothing more than cough syrup, way too sweet with an aftertaste that was just nasty. Blockhouse pumpkin (out of Pittsburgh) is a bit too cinnamonny, you don't smell anything else, and it takes over the finish, but otherwise it's an enjoyable brew. Penn Brewery Pumpkin Roll (also out of Pittsburgh) tastes like somebody cut up last year's jack-o-lanterns and tossed them into the vat :-P.
The pumpkin shandies are really quite good, though. I've tried Jack-O-Traveler and Leinenkugel's Harvest Patch (good luck finding the latter, it went fast). Like any good shandy they were light and refreshing, not heavy, but a nice hint of pumpkin and spices. PumpKick from New Belgium is also well spiced, but a little heavier than the shandies and a bit on the sweet side.
But my favorite so far is Lancaster's Baked Pumpkin ale. It's damn near perfectly balanced, not too sweet, lightly spiced mainly with nutmeg, with a vanilla finish that gives the effect of pumpkin pie a-la-mode.
I want to try Dogfishhead's Punkin, but it wasn't available at the tastings I've been visiting. And I don't have the scratch for it or PumpKing (we sell that one at $85 a case).
On a different note, I finally tried not-your-father's root beer (the 5.9 ABV version). Initially, yes, it tasted exactly like root beer. But it was from a can (the brewery ran out of bottles and started canning instead) and the aftertaste was pretty awful - I think there's anise in it, which I despise, and there's some other foul, bitter taste that lingers a bit too long.
Maybe it's the aluminum...
chaospersonified:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 29 Sep 2015, 21:58 ---Maybe it's the aluminum...
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Very possibly.
I dunno about aluminum being especially foul and bitter, but I've recently realized it's got SOME effect on the taste. I'd have argued until a few weeks ago that was people making shit up, but I've come around. Did some testing, got a couple of Coors Light, which I consider the best of the gas station beers, glass bottle and aluminum can, drank them back to back, and I'm convinced now. Not the greatest of beer, but hella better than most the rest cheap beer around here, at least when it's in a glass bottle. Aluminum can seemed to wreck that, brought it down to just another, different of course, but no better than a Budweiser.
Before anyone brings up accusations of sloppy science, I did this twice, first time starting with the glass bottle, the second time starting with the aluminum can. Multiple trials. I couldn't bring in other people to corroborate my results, but I know what I found was true for me personally, and given this is subjective, I think that's unimportant.
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