Your Favorite Beer Thread!
BEER!!!!!
Two years ago I discovered the Belgian Beers and since than Im in Love! I tried many, but never enough!
My favorite beer is the Delirium Tremens, but yesterday I happen to lay my hands on La Guillotine ( of the same brewery ) and I must say im now conflicted! So good!
Also Chimay Blue, Westmalle, Maredsous, st Bernardus and Duvel are awesome IMO
So..what are your favorite beers? Any recommendations for more types of beer?? ( preferably 8%-10% of alcohol )
Two years ago I discovered the Belgian Beers and since than Im in Love! I tried many, but never enough!
My favorite beer is the Delirium Tremens, but yesterday I happen to lay my hands on La Guillotine ( of the same brewery ) and I must say im now conflicted! So good!
Also Chimay Blue, Westmalle, Maredsous, st Bernardus and Duvel are awesome IMO
So..what are your favorite beers? Any recommendations for more types of beer?? ( preferably 8%-10% of alcohol )
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Sorry I don't like alcohol. XD
For the record, I've been hitting the Hoegaarden quite often these days.
@Mattysek I love the czech beers Kozel and Gambrinus , Im not fond of Pilsner Urquell though..
As for Orval, Never tried it but Its definitely on my 'to-drink' list! :-)
We also have a good brewery in Italy that makes a beer that I sincerely, deeply love, the Cajun Altura.
St Peter's brewery do a lovely porter, you can get some of their beers in supermarkets (in the UK)
Porters crop up every now and again and I'd suggest giving them a go when you see them, especially if you are in to rich, dark beers. (there is meantime London Porter which is easy to get, but I'm not a fan)
Beer I can actually get hold of: St Peter's Cream Stout.
Am not a fan of central European beers (Austrian, Czech, etc.) - which is all I can find at present. They all taste like American beer... aka pilsner a la Budweiser etc. Will happily take suggestions though.
I'm not sure I really have a favorite (I like variety) but good porters and stouts are my generally first choice and fruit beers are about my last choice at this time in life (I still give them a try periodically but they almost always disappoint).
International: franzacanier (may have spelled that wrong) hefe-wizen
A beer is made from "high cookin yeast" where pilsner is made from "lower cookin yeast" (hence the name lager).
So within the "lagers" i like my brew light in color, fresh in taste and a tad bitter. In Holland that would come down to either "Grolsch" or "Brand".
In the higher segment of brew, the actual beer, there are so many different sorts, but some of the best ive tasted:
- Ysbock, its a belgian brewn beer with a high percentage of alcohol (8,2%) especially brewn for the darker periods of the year, some might call it a winter beer or a christmas brew. i call it tasty!
- Gulden Draak (Dragon d'or), again a belgian beer, its a blonde beer, meaning light in color low yeast remains in the beer itself and thick white foam.
- La Chouffe, This one i drink most of the time, its a wide spread beer in belgium and holland, and last time i was at the brewery they said they are getting firm footing on US soil aswel on many beer festival there its been succeful! fun note: their logo is a lepricon who legend says whispered the formula in the brewers ears at night :P
- Korenwolf, A nice white-beer (gains the name white from the flakes of yeast in the beer, making it turbid with a thick white foam
If you can find them, enjoy them!!
AFAIK there is no usage of wheats or barley used in the proces of making mead. More info at www.gotmead.com
The flavours thing is an interesting subject after all, every whisky is barrel flavoured!
Love Grolsch...when I can find it. Probably my first choice of beers.
I usually have a bottle of Bushmill's in my freezer...not beer, I know, but possibly my favourite adult beverage.
And right behind it come these two finnish beers..
First of all, the best beer you can bring to Sauna: Karhu Ruis (Rye beer)
And then: Karjala Terva (With a taste of Tar.)
And what @Miloch said.
Mead is the sacred drink, not beer. Absolutely love the local mead what they brew in a restaurant right next to my place.
There are of course wonderful dark beers and what not, especially the Dragonhead Stout from Orkney.
Feel so safe typing here!
First things first... BEER.
From an Anglo-Saxon perspective...
Europeans drink LAGER. For some reason they call this BEER.
Americans drink LAGER. Again for some reason they call this BEER.
In Britian, which is in europe but is also somehow not, we drink BEER and call what everyone else calls BEER... LAGER. We are also absolutely right on this as we need to be specific on the type of alchol consumed as in Britian we have so many such as REAL ALE, PALE ALE, INDIAN PALE ALE, MILD, BITTER, RUBY RED ALE, DARK ALE, BEST ALE, STOUT, PORTER, CREAM, CASK ALE, BOTTLED ALE, CONDITIONED ALE and many more I just don't have the time to drink and type them all up now.
There are also other drinks such as WINE. Which is drank by the ladies of blighty, but not by the men for reasons unfathomable. CIDER and PERRY is made in the exact same way to WINE apart from type of fruit placed in... But these are okay to drink if you are a MAN or a lady with hair on your top lip, or in fact 14. Although perhaps they drink ALCOPOPS, I ain't cool with the kidz these dayz.
Anyway my favourite BEER to consume is a Ruby Red called Hobgoblin. It's advertising slogan is 'Whats wrong lager boy? Afraid you might taste something'
My other favourites are Spitfire 'Downed all over Kent'.
Fursty Ferret 'Reaches the places other Beers can't reach'
And of course Armada 'A Beer worth sinking'
I am also a big fan of Bishops Finger and Dorothy Goodbody (love the picture too on the pump!)
Saying something is "beer" is just a broad categorisation. Where I live, Central Canada, an ale is called an ale (whatever type of ale it may be, IPA, Dark Ale, etc) , but it is still beer. Likewise a lager in Canada (generally what you would call a pale lager) is still a type of beer. Whether or not a type of beer uses yeast which ferments better at higher temperatures or lower temperatures is irrelevant, its still a type of beer if it is is brewed using the four main ingredients of water, malted grains, hops, and yeast.