The Languish Great Beer Thread

[Syt]

[Lucidor]

@Lucidor:

http://www.stonebrew.com/og/

I have a bottle of that, sitting to mature half a year or so. BWs need aging...

[Valmy]

Beers I like:

[Lucidor]

Since this is my thread to necromancificate whenever I want, I had half a bottle of Thomas Hardy 2007 Barley Wine and half a bottle of Brewdog Tokyo*, a 18% extreme Imperial Stout today.

Both beers are excellent, but something about the Brewdog just sucks you in after having a few "lesser beers" before.

It tastes more beerey, or however one should say... Great stuff!

[MadImmortalMan]

This is a good thread.


I heard Stone Brewing is going to be setting up shop in Europe soon. America's new brewing golden age will finally reach beyond our borders and rescue the bad foreign reputation of US beer.


Check this one out from North Coast:




Yes, I admit I bought it just because of the bottle art, but wtf it's awesome.

[Savonarola]

Spring is here, on Monday Bell's Brewery of Kalamazoo, Michigan released their Summer Ale:



It's like sunshine in a glass.   

[Caliga]

The only beer I sometimes drink that probably isn't well known is Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale (oddly enough, it's brewed by a biotech company, not a traditional brewery).



The thing is... I don't actually like this stuff very much, but people keep giving it to me as gifts, etc.

I think what I don't like about it is the fact that it mostly tastes like bourbon (which I love), but only has the alcohol content of beer.  So to me it tastes like 'wrong' bourbon, or maybe bourbon without any punch.

[jamesww]

[worzel] I am a cider drinker.     [/worzel]

[Scipio]

We're brewing a collaborative Imperial Stout.  One of the brewers has a bourbon barrel, holding 9.5 gallons.  We're each brewing 2 gallon batches, which will be blended together and aged in the barrel.

[Caliga]

Well then I hope you like bourbon, because if it's anything like this commercial brew it's going to absorb a shitload of the bourbon flavor and smell from that barrel.

[Scipio]

We do, but we're aiming for about a 10% beer.  So I think it'll stand up pretty well.

[Sheilbh]

I heard Stone Brewing is going to be setting up shop in Europe soon. America's new brewing golden age will finally reach beyond our borders and rescue the bad foreign reputation of US beer.

There's a couple of bars that serve lots of different American beers.

A similar thing's happened over here.  Beer's become like I think wine probably was a few years ago.

[katmai]

This is a good thread.


I heard Stone Brewing is going to be setting up shop in Europe soon. America's new brewing golden age will finally reach beyond our borders and rescue the bad foreign reputation of US beer.

I've had that beer as well MiM.

And in regards to American beer Reputation, it has already been saved  by actual fans of beer, now it's just ignorant yokels who don't know about what is coming from US.

[Sophie Scholl]

I've become disillusioned with American micro breweries obsession with overhopping everything and adding hops to anything.  It's annoying as hell and ruins a lot of potentially good beers in my opinion.  Like any spice, in a recipe, hops are best used in moderation.

[citizen k]

IPAs need a lot of hoppiness.