/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.4727540]

Beer thread? This is currently my favourite.

[Anonymous No.4728244]

Rodenbach 2007 special vintage.

I currently have a full case of these babies sitting in my basement. How long should I keep aging them?

[Anonymous No.4728247]

Bought a 12-pack of this yesterday, no regrets.

[Anonymous No.4728258]

>>4727540
not too heavy, great taste. My current go-to

[Anonymous No.4728268]

>>4728244
It's not going to age just sitting in the bottle.

[Anonymous No.4728271]

>>4728244
>Aging bottled beer

u wot

[Anonymous No.4728274]

>>4728244
usually it doesn't seem like people recommend aging beyond 5 year. Not that its bad, just that after 5 years the change is minimal

[Anonymous No.4728275]

I have been drinking the shit out of this recently

[Anonymous No.4728278]

>>4728244
isnt about 5 years good enough?

[Anonymous No.4728299]

Drink Lucky, get lucky.

[Anonymous No.4728311]

>>4728271
It's sour ale, keeps getting better as time passes. It was already 4 years old when I bought it.

[Anonymous No.4728318]

a victim of poor selection in my area, it's the best i can do

[Anonymous No.4728339]

>>4728244
just drink them on special occasions. Maybe just open one per year from here on. Could also try trading them for some other rare beers online.

[Anonymous No.4728344]

Nowhere near my favorite, but what I've been drinking this weekend. Works great as a session beer. Delicious, yet goes down light and easy. Will buy again.

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[Anonymous No.4728488]

Anyone here live in Portland? I wanna try some local brews, because there's TONS of them out here, but I have no idea which ones are pretty good.

[Anonymous No.4729589]

I picked up a pack of this stuff since it was on sale at my local liquor store. Was surprised at how decent it actually is since it's leinenkugel's. Wouldn't buy it at regular price, but for 5$ for the 4 of them? I feel like I got my money's worth.

[Anonymous No.4729595]

>>4729589
Oh I also got a pack of these. Pretty good and only 8$

[Anonymous No.4729597]

>>4729595
Aw shit

[Anonymous No.4729640]

Down to just one bottle left of this magical serum. Then I have to wait a year for my bottles of XXV to mature

[Anonymous No.4729657]

>>4727540
My favorite so far

[Anonymous No.4729666]

I heard that they discontinued this. Is that true? I'd be really bummed if they did

[Anonymous No.4729680]

I am starting to not have room for any more beer.....

[Anonymous No.4729684]

drik dem nu bare

[Anonymous No.4729685]

>>4729657
Bell's has yet to disappoint me
>>4729666
Really? I've seen it at the liquor store down the street, but then again no one really buys any of the craft beer there so it could be pretty old.

[Anonymous No.4729683]

>>4729680
Do I spy a Westy XII in there?

[Anonymous No.4729688]

>>4729685
Are you in Weymouth MA by chance

There's a store there that still has a bunch of them

[Anonymous No.4729689]

>>4729683
I have 8 bottles of Westvleteren XII, but they are wrapped up, so I did not include them in the photo. The one in the photo is the only one I have that is not wrapped.

[Anonymous No.4729691]

No pictures available, but I had a Great Lakes, Truth Justice and the American Ale recently and I'm a big fan.

[Anonymous No.4729694]

>>4729689
How'd you get them?

[Anonymous No.4729696]

>>4729694
I purchased them in Copenhagen.

I bought 10 bottles.

[Anonymous No.4729695]

>>4729680
mmm Old Pulteney

[Anonymous No.4729698]

Hey does Heady Topper live up to the hype?

[Anonymous No.4729699]

>>4729698
Only if it is fresh. Very fresh.

[Anonymous No.4729701]

>>4729695
Old Pulteney is the only distillery I know where every single bottling is fucking spot on perfect.

[Anonymous No.4729709]

>>4729699
Out the can, like they say?

[Anonymous No.4729715]

>>4729709
Sure.

[Anonymous No.4729730]

Had this a few days ago. My first Lambic.

I liked it, but my friend said it tasted like fox piss.

[Anonymous No.4729755]

This is my favourite from these guys but all of their stuff is pretty good

[MiB - Negredo/Aguero/Jovetić !MCTIDqcvB6 No.4729759]

lucky to live near birmingham so i can visit brewdog every few weeks and stock up
pic related is my favourite atm
can't get enough

[Anonymous No.4729760]

>>4729688
Nope. Minnesota dude here.

[Anonymous No.4729763]

>>4729691
Great Lakes rules. Elliot Ness is my overall favorite.

[Anonymous No.4729768]

>>4728467
goddamnit i've been in england for a while now and hobgoblin is definitely becoming my favourite. However i'd like to try other similar ones as well, anyone know anything worth buying?

[Anonymous No.4729794]

>>4729768
All the brew dogs beers mentioned in this thread are great. Defs worth investing it

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[Anonymous No.4729903]

>>4729768
British beers similar to hobgoblin (darkish full flavoured bitters with a sweetish undertone):

Broadside (Adnam's)
Old Hooky (Hook Norton Brewery)
Old Peculier (Theakston's) -note this is strong in both flavour and abv!
Centurion's Ghost (York Brewery)
Poacher's Choice (Badger) -this has more of a spiced flavour
Old Thumper (Ringwood)

Also give Old Speckled Hen (Morland) and Black Sheep's eponymous a go. Both have a similar camrely undertone but aren't as complex as Hobgoblin. Nice easy-drinking beers.

[Anonymous No.4729905]

>>4728247
How much would a 12 pack cost in NJ?

[Anonymous No.4729929]

Anyone else here like IPA's?
Never had one around friends without them bitching about its taste.

[MiB - Negredo/Aguero/Jovetić !MCTIDqcvB6 No.4729945]

>>4729929
Brewdog Punk IPA is my favourite beer of all time
and I had an amazing Rye IPA the other week but i can't remember the brewery

[Anonymous No.4729962]

>>4729929
I like some IPAs but for the most part, they are too bitter.

[Anonymous No.4730099]

>>4729730
This is one of my favourite lambics, though I can sort of see where your friend is coming from, sour beers are a very different and acquired taste.

[Anonymous No.4730106]

Had this yesterday (Sky Mountain Sour) - fucking amazing. Collaboration between Buxton from England and To Ol from (Norway?)

At the same festival, also enjoyed Mikkeler's Cassis lambic.

[Anonymous No.4730110]

>>4730106
Derp forgot pic

[Anonymous No.4730122]

>>4729905
Cost me $10 at Sams Club.

[Anonymous No.4730149]

Anyone know where I could possibly get Three Floyds (Zombie Dust), or Heady Topper, or Southern Tier beers in San Diego County area?

[Anonymous No.4730316]

>>4730099
I wish I could find more Lambics. They are a very hard to find beer type.

[Anonymous No.4730336]

Currently these two. Got a crate of Franziskaner to go through, yay me.

[Anonymous No.4730347]

>>4730149
Why do craft brews have the most retarded names? Are all craft brewers just trying to be zany or something? Most labels too, they look like what happens when people who have no idea how to make something look aesthetically pleasing and eye catching, try to make something aesthetically pleasing and eye catching.

[Anonymous No.4730352]

>>4728469
The tokyo is ok not a huge fan. I tried the sink the bismark in one of the brewdog bars, not to my liking to say the least. Every time that my local shop has a new type in I pick it up. Currently have 3 waiting to be opened (a black tokyo horizon, ab:12 and something else)

The IPA is dead 4 pack was the best four bottles I have had in ages, one of them tasted like a half finished beer from the night before with a dusting of fag ash around it, but in a good way. Was truely strange but very satisfying none the less.

[Anonymous No.4730359]

>>4729945
most def I do still pine for when it was 6% not the current 5.6%. When it was down to 99pa bottle in Sainsburys a few years back I bought it all before it was put on the shelves. One of the few perks of working in a supermarket

[Anonymous No.4730395]

>>4728460
yea buddy, brewpub near me is tapping Punkin this weekend

[Anonymous No.4730406]

Reading this article is making me not like craft brewers at all.

>http://mobile.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/02/08/hopslam-how-big-beer-is-trying-to-stop-a-craft-beer-revolution

Why is Koch trying to pretend like he's a "craft" brewer and not the owner of one the largest distributors of a beverage in the US? What is "craft" beer anyway?

Complaining that corporations with money are able to distribute their products better is them trying to kill your precious little craft brewery is asinine. Not many people want to spend more money than they have to when out at a sporting event or sports bar. Seems like these idiots are complaining about not having a market when simply, that market doesn't exist. It's not that people can't buy your products. They don't want to, at least not in great numbers. A good product will sell itself and if yours isn't selling, then either you're in a saturated market or your product is shit.

>but muh beer should be successful based on quality alone
>quality ingredients/=quality good tasting product

[Anonymous No.4730419]

>>4730336
Do you agree that Franziskaner tastes kind of like bananas?

Curruntly I go with Rothaus Tannenzäpfle a lot.

[Anonymous No.4730425]

>>4730406
>"They're calling it 'Black Crown' golden amber lager. To me, that just smacks of putting a bunch of buzzwords in a bin and pouring it out. They're thinking: 'What will people just discovering beer respond to? Let's just call it that,'" he says.

How is this any different than what "craft" brewers do? A business should pick a name and description that would be best marketable and appealing. Unless you want a failing business. So basically, they have no right to call their product what they want to call it. Retarded.

>Blue Moon brewmaster Keith Villa, for example, often talks about his early days selling the Belgian white-style beer, when he traversed the U.S. to explain why a cloudy beer was worth drinking, and that like wine, beer can also be paired with food.
>But Calagione says that creation story doesn't jive with reality. "It was never this thing funded by a guy in a bike shop—like [craft beer] Sierra Nevada, or in a restaurant— like I did at 25. It was always started and grown by Coors Brewery. This is not how the people at MillerCoors are choosing to tell their story."

How is Coors investing in and believing in an up and coming entrepreneur suddenly a bad thing? Both sources he mentioned are simply investors with money. Seems like someone is jealous about someone else's success.

[Anonymous No.4730452]

>>4730425
>"The big guys usually win," he says, and then pauses. "But not always."
>he says, and then pauses.
>fug dis is pretentious

Said the guy who owns Samuel Adams and all it's subsideries. Give me a good light beer and make it cheap. I don't want to spend a shit ton of money just because you sprinkle your beer with hugs and kisses.

[Anonymous No.4730513]

Suddenly no one wants to talk about beer.

What does strawberry beer taste like? The pictures on google make it look like the most amazing nectar of the gods ever.

[Anonymous No.4730532]

>>4730425

Because macrobreweries have a long standing tradition of, over time, lowering the quality of their product to cut costs. When you're a large company focused on quarterly profits, this pressure can be intense. InBev in particular is horrible at this, and they routinely buy up popular breweries and slowly dismantle them this way to swallow potential competition.

Would you believe Budweiser was once a great beer? Same for all the current macrobrews. But that's many, many decades past.

[Anonymous No.4730536]

>>4730513

I've only had one brand so far, but it was awful. Medicine flavor. And looking at the label closely, it was a malt beverage like Budweiser, not legally beer, due to the rice content. Abitas, the name was. Terrible.

[Anonymous No.4730537]

Pic related is my favourite at the moment, which was initially a surprise since I tend to prefer darker beers. Aftertaste is really different to the other Belgians I've had.
I need to explore more outside of Belgian and English ales, though.

[Anonymous No.4730560]

>>4730532
Your post doesn't address anything in that post. What occurs to macro breweries over time is irrelevant to the fact that the man quoted, is bitter to the fact that an entrepreneur who made a product, got invested by Coors, instead of a bike shop owner or restaurant. It's juvenile and asinine.

[Anonymous No.4730581]

>>4730560
I was specifically responding to the question:

>How is Coors investing in and believing in an up and coming entrepreneur suddenly a bad thing?

[Anonymous No.4730609]

>>4730581
It was a rhetorical question to support the point made afterwards.

[Anonymous No.4730627]

Anyone had it? Is bretty good, is what I'm drinking tonight.

[Anonymous No.4730842]

>>4730419
Yeah, that's the yeast they use.

[Anonymous No.4730901]

What beer would y'all recommend for someone who doesn't like bitter tastes?

For reference, the pic is the only beer I've ever found particularly decent.

[Anonymous No.4730908]

>>4730901
alco-pop

[Anonymous No.4730919]

>>4730908
So... bitch beer? I'm okay with that.

[Anonymous No.4730934]

>>4730901

Just try out beers that aren't hoppy. Amber ales, some brown ales come to mind. Stay away from IPAs, mostly.

[Anonymous No.4730940]

>>4730919
yep. and theres nothing wrong with that. you just have a sweet tooth

[Anonymous No.4730948]

>>4730901

A cock, you faggot.

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[Anonymous No.4731380]

Drank a Consecration earlier, now just marinating with a Dales Pale. I'll kick it up to a Gubna in a bit.

[Anonymous No.4731418]

Bud Heavy

[Anonymous No.4731596]

Yuengling Oktoberfest. Saw this in the grocery store the other day, and picked up a six pack. Yuengling is definitely my favorite beer on the cheaper, easier to find side.

[Anonymous No.4731612]

Anyone ever drink Quilmes? had one with dinner in Argentina, delicious

[Anonymous No.4732516]

>>4729680
>3 pappy bottles
where u live m8 lets bee friends

[Anonymous No.4732519]

>>4730513
I've tried Sam Smith's strawberry beer. It didn't taste very beer-y at all to me but it was nice on a warm day.

[Anonymous No.4732545]

>>4731612
its not bad


i still need to try pumpkin beer, do you guys have recommendations?

[Anonymous No.4732624]

>>4730513
Fruit flavoured wheat beers and lambics are awesome but cherry raspberry and blackcurrant generally work better than strawberry, which is a bit too sweet. That said leifmans strawberry is very drinkable summer beer.

[Anonymous No.4732634]

can't stop drinking this stuff

[Anonymous No.4734199]

>>4729680
How do you keep yourself from drinking all of that?

[Anonymous No.4734229]

>>4732545

Southern Tier Pumpking
Cigar City Good Gourd

I have a 6 pack of New Belgium Pumpkick that I still need to try out.

[Anonymous No.4734237]

>>4732634
This now sold on the east coast. I can finally taste Texas again.

[Anonymous No.4734325]

>>4729680
If you store them upright you'll have more room

[Anonymous No.4735486]

>>4732516
Denmark. You get 'em for a little over 300 euros a piece.

>>4734199
I usually only drink 1 beer a week. I like having the beer almost as much as drinking it.

>>4734325
They are usually stored upright. They are just put out like that for the photo.

[Anonymous No.4735493]

>>4732519
What did it taste like? Strawberry champagne?

[Anonymous No.4735510]

>>4728318
>Drinking Guinness outside of Ireland
I hope you've never had Irish Guinness before because drinking foreign Guinness is really depressing

[Anonymous No.4735728]

>>4735510
If you get the can, and it's under a month old, it's pretty comparable.

I had the official perfect pint in the tower at the brewery. When poured perfectly, it's better than a hole shitload of fancy craft beers. Sadly, it's the only place to get it.

[Anonymous No.4735729]

>>4728488

Portland/Vancouverite here. Did you go to the brewer's festival a few weeks ago? Might try and scrounge up a pamphlet, had a decent amount of the LARGER breweries on it.

Also, try going to Belmont Station and ask them what's good.

Vancouver's doing a decent job with the emerging microbrew scene, so don't discount them just because they're hicks or whatever.

>inb4 forgot/gave up hope on this thread

[Anonymous No.4735758]

>>4735510

Guinness in Ireland is shite too nowadays. Try Galway Hooker, O'Hara's stout, or Porterhouse Oyster Stout/triple stout

[Anonymous No.4735800]

>>4730336
oh lordie lord, i was hoping someone would be on board with the delirium tremens. anything similar you might recommend?

[Anonymous No.4735899]

>>4735800
Hmm, There isn't really anything else quite like delirium tremens. Delirium's other offerings, duvel, westmalle trappist tripel. Generally most belgian pales are in a broadly similar area taste - wise.

[Anonymous No.4735971]

Yvengling
Really good for cheap beer

[Anonymous No.4736684]

I have two cases of Chimay resting in my basement.

[Anonymous No.4736703]

>ctrl-f
>No PBR
>ShiggityDoo

[Anonymous No.4736952]

>>4735971
amen . actually pretty good. I used to drink miller and rolling rock. it was ok. and plank road. or genesies. for some reason it gives me gives me gout. and I am prone to it. I like sherry, chicken livers, and sourkraut. but if I eat it, I can hardly walk the next day and it bad if you like ruben sandwiches, another big no no. corned beef. .and the same with raw onions, sardines or oysters which really sucks, because I like them . but I have learned to avoid them. and not deadly, like anaphalactic shock deadly but I pay a price. and its weird, because I can eat almost any thing, but a few things I should not. ramps, raw garlic, um thats about it.. it is strange though. and for the record I'm a middle aged white guy of mostly UK decent (english, irish and welsh and some scotts and german and o pos blood) really just common as rocks. I guess every one is a little different

[Anonymous No.4736974]

Yeah I know

>Samuel Adams

but it really suprised me. I dont like a lot of Tripels but this shit was awesome.

[Anonymous No.4736988]

>>4735971
Mein negger

[Anonymous No.4737005]

>>4735800
Chimay Blue and Rochefort 8 are the same sort of beer and just as good or better

[Anonymous No.4737499]

I'm not far from Three Floyds but I hear they are all assholes. Maybe I'll buy their beer from a nearby store instead.

[Anonymous No.4737539]

>>4729657
Mah nigga