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derspiess

#1230
September 19, 2014, 09:09:42 AM
One of the local breweries decided to go with this label for their Oktoberfest beer this year.




I guess he's hairy enough for garbon :mellow:
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garbon

#1231
September 19, 2014, 09:28:40 AM
:unsure:
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derspiess

#1232
September 19, 2014, 09:31:46 AM
Not hairy enough?
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

derspiess

#1233
September 19, 2014, 11:31:19 AM
Anyway, at 6:00pm today I will be drinking Paulaner Oktoberfest.  Hopefully they have the original maerzen and not the lighter Wiesn stuff they put on the shelves last year.  And I'll have to work in a Franziskaner Dunkel (my official Oktoberfest beer since 1996). 

Foodwise, it will be the usual pork schnitzel, spaetzle, pretzel w/ beer cheese, brat/mett/weisswurst, & sauerkraut.  Skipping lunch to make up for it :)
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

derspiess

#1234
October 02, 2014, 02:25:21 PM
Last night I had a surprisingly good Imperial Stout from Japan, of all places.  It was a bit hoppy for the style but I wasn't offended.  Only flaw was that it was a little undercarbonated.  I gave it 4/5 on Untappd.  Dark Sky Imperial Stout from Baird Brewing Company.

Trying to get as far as I can on Untappd for the Been Connoisseur badge.  I'm level 6 (meaning at least one beer from 30 different countries) and I think I can get to level 8.  Level 10 (50 countries) will probably take a while as I hit the easy ones long ago.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

derspiess

#1235
October 02, 2014, 02:42:56 PM
Oh, I also had a pale ale flavored with paw paw.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Sophie Scholl

#1236
October 02, 2014, 08:09:47 PM
Quote from: derspiess on October 02, 2014, 02:25:21 PM
Last night I had a surprisingly good Imperial Stout from Japan, of all places.  It was a bit hoppy for the style but I wasn't offended.  Only flaw was that it was a little undercarbonated.  I gave it 4/5 on Untappd.  Dark Sky Imperial Stout from Baird Brewing Company.

Trying to get as far as I can on Untappd for the Been Connoisseur badge.  I'm level 6 (meaning at least one beer from 30 different countries) and I think I can get to level 8.  Level 10 (50 countries) will probably take a while as I hit the easy ones long ago.
Was the Japanese beer from Hitachino Nest?  They've got some solid beers.
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derspiess

#1237
October 02, 2014, 08:19:52 PM
No, it was from a very American-sounding brewery: Baird Brewing Company.

I haven't ever had any of that Hitachino but it's on my list.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Siege

#1238
October 03, 2014, 02:32:38 AM
Miller Lite with tomato juice to lower the alcohol content.


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Liep

#1239
October 03, 2014, 04:04:00 AM
Quote from: Siege on October 03, 2014, 02:32:38 AM
Miller Lite with tomato juice to lower the alcohol content.


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Capetan Mihali

#1240
October 03, 2014, 05:13:07 PM Last Edit: October 03, 2014, 05:15:14 PM by Capetan Mihali
Anchor's California Lager. :licklips:

Long live lager! :swiss:  I predict the microbrew lager to be the next big craze.  It's already happening a bit, but I'll go to a well-stocked beer section looking for a good American-made pilsener and come up fruitless.  So it results in me purchasing a so-so import, scrapping the beer buy altogether, or radically shifting gears (towards the Genessee/Naragansett cheapie side or the quality ale side) so I don't come back empty-handed.  I think non-Americans would be surprised at the piles of decent-to-great ale that are stacked up alongside the Bud Lite in a big but mid-range supermarket or liquor store beer aisle, but without a lager among them, even while the imports* have shrunk to basically Guinness, Bass, Newcastle, Beck's, Stella, Heineken, plus maybe Urquell, Leffe, and Warsteiner if you're lucky.

They're harder to produce for small or home operators and they have less cachet, associated as they are with bingers (at least in the UK) and sharing company with your Stellas and Carlsbergs and generic "national" beers like Peroni and Efes, let alone Bud and Miller.  And I think one has to concede that for the true beer 'obsessionados' (just coined that term :)), there is ultimately less going on flavorwise with lagers and, other than stupidly flavoring them, their horizon holds fewer possibilities.
 
But an excellent lager is a beautiful thing, a hallmark of simplicity and refinement, that imparts flavor and refreshment in equal measures.  The archetype for me is a German pilsener, a North German one (I think), not the Czech though that's fine too.  I'm not huge on the amber colored American lagers a la Sam Adams Boston Lager, though they are fine in their own right.



*Canadian and Mexican beers excepted from "import" status for the purposes of this post, per the Internet-rhetoric provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement, effective 1/1/94.
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derspiess

#1241
October 06, 2014, 09:07:04 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on October 03, 2014, 05:13:07 PM
Anchor's California Lager. :licklips:

Long live lager! :swiss:  I predict the microbrew lager to be the next big craze.  It's already happening a bit, but I'll go to a well-stocked beer section looking for a good American-made pilsener and come up fruitless.  So it results in me purchasing a so-so import, scrapping the beer buy altogether, or radically shifting gears (towards the Genessee/Naragansett cheapie side or the quality ale side) so I don't come back empty-handed.  I think non-Americans would be surprised at the piles of decent-to-great ale that are stacked up alongside the Bud Lite in a big but mid-range supermarket or liquor store beer aisle, but without a lager among them, even while the imports* have shrunk to basically Guinness, Bass, Newcastle, Beck's, Stella, Heineken, plus maybe Urquell, Leffe, and Warsteiner if you're lucky.

They're harder to produce for small or home operators and they have less cachet, associated as they are with bingers (at least in the UK) and sharing company with your Stellas and Carlsbergs and generic "national" beers like Peroni and Efes, let alone Bud and Miller.  And I think one has to concede that for the true beer 'obsessionados' (just coined that term :)), there is ultimately less going on flavorwise with lagers and, other than stupidly flavoring them, their horizon holds fewer possibilities.
 
But an excellent lager is a beautiful thing, a hallmark of simplicity and refinement, that imparts flavor and refreshment in equal measures.  The archetype for me is a German pilsener, a North German one (I think), not the Czech though that's fine too.  I'm not huge on the amber colored American lagers a la Sam Adams Boston Lager, though they are fine in their own right.



*Canadian and Mexican beers excepted from "import" status for the purposes of this post, per the Internet-rhetoric provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement, effective 1/1/94.

Hmm, within the craft beer movement (or whatever you want to call it) I think lagers will maybe gain a little more popularity but will hit a glass ceiling.  I love a good pilsner as well.  Dark lagers are fine, and Schwarzbier is the perfect cigar beer.  Then you have the bock styles which are awesome.  But ale styles tend to be more complex and lend more creativity than most lager styles (bocks are a notable exception).

And it's not that they haven't tried to do more with lager styles.  A few months ago I had an "Imperial Pilsner" which was frankly an abomination.  The taste profile of a pilsner is much better when subtle.

Anyway, speaking of Euro lagers, I found a Croatian beer a couple days ago-- Karlovačko Pivo.  Once you get past the skunkiness (stupid green bottle!) it's a superb pilsner.  I was expecting it to be like some dreadful Ukrainian beers I had over the summer and I was pleasantly surprised.  I also bought a Romanian beer-- not expecting much of that one.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Caliga

#1242
October 06, 2014, 10:31:09 PM
I had two Mai Tais with dinner. :cool:
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derspiess

#1243
October 18, 2014, 02:48:32 PM
Found a beer for Marty.

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Sophie Scholl

#1244
October 18, 2014, 05:22:26 PM
Ooo.... I want to try that style so bad.  I love Rauchbiers. :licklips:
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."
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