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I've found that I'm better at bocce after a few beers.
I had one of those earlier this year. Chocolate syrupy molasses goodness. There's more going on in the beer but those dominated the flavour for me. The LCBO got 14.5% in their lab tests here so it was apparently short of the advertised 16% but still had plenty of kick to be sure. Pretty sure I just had a bomber of that then called it a night lol.
Thanks. It pretty much makes or breaks IPAs for me.
Does Citra have a pine taste too? I notice that they use it in a lot of IPAs. Only way I can tell is because they like to put it in the name though
Decided to buy locally for a change.
Really good, five varieties of hops!
Beeradvocate
edit: also a friend shared her heady topper with me the other day. really good, i had never heard of it but it's amazing. been debating a road trip through northern new england and canada and might have to grab some of these coming back through vermont
Really good, five varieties of hops!
Beeradvocate
edit: also a friend shared her heady topper with me the other day. really good, i had never heard of it but it's amazing. been debating a road trip through northern new england and canada and might have to grab some of these coming back through vermont
I love Belgian IPA style beers. I'd try the crap out of that.
Charlevoix Lupulus, Dieu du Ciel Derniere Volonte, Chouffe Dobbelen IPA Tripel, and Piraat are probably my fav of the style that I've had so far.
Drinking Magic Hat HICu...Hibiscus Cucumber Ale. It tastes STRONGLY of cucumber. I don't think I could have imagined that before drinking it but here I am drinking a strongly cucumber flavored beer. It has no hops, no body, just cucumber. And you know, I don't mind it. Definitely unusual, like nothing I've ever tasted before. Don't think I could drink more than one or two at a time though.
distantmantra
Member
Fuck yeah. Fremont Summer is tangerine perfection.
codswallop
Member
Not much good beer in Portugal (best I found was at the beer museum in Lisbon, there's a few 'artisanal' brewers there, and they were slightly above average) or in Spain (so far) really. Been to two of the three brewpubs in Madrid I could track down (third closed down a month ago) and they were only just decent too. No really amazing beer yet.
Going to be in the south of Spain for the next week and a half so not expecting a great deal except for the yellow fizzy stuff (it's been 30-35c/85-95f for the past few days so that's not so terrible right now) until Barcelona, which seems to be Spain's craft beer hub.
Anyone got some hot tips on good beer places in Andalusia (specifically Seville, Granada, Cordoba)?
Going to be in the south of Spain for the next week and a half so not expecting a great deal except for the yellow fizzy stuff (it's been 30-35c/85-95f for the past few days so that's not so terrible right now) until Barcelona, which seems to be Spain's craft beer hub.
Anyone got some hot tips on good beer places in Andalusia (specifically Seville, Granada, Cordoba)?
It's really watery, like too watery, and overly sugary.
Well cucumber is about 90% water...
It's not something I could drink a ton of but props to them for trying something new.
Hell or High Watermelon suffers a similar downfall.
You gotta drink them fast. The closer to room temp it gets the more the hibiscus comes through and becomes real bitter. I wasn't a fan.
On The Edge of Insanity
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Yeah, the south of Spain doesn't have much variety; Cruzcampo is an institution down here.
There are a couple of good places in Sevilla where you can get ales from Spanish craft brewers and worldwide breweries:
- To Drink: Cerveceria Internacional
- To Buy: XXXII the Great Power of Beer & Wine
I haven't had much luck with Spanish brewers so far, although most of the better brewers are in the north and their beers are difficult to get hold of down here.
Dougall's (sold in XXXII) have a couple of good IPAs, although that style is far from my favourite. Nomada are very well rated, but I've yet to find any of their beers in the south.
Avoid Santa Magarida; had a terrible infected wheat beer from that brewery. Mateo & Bernabe is nothing special despite the nice packaging. Had a few others that have been okay, but nothing particularly memorable.
Hi, I live in Madrid, to what bars did you go? There's one specifically that is really good.
paperboywriter
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Unfortunately I had to go to the store before I saw your reply, but I got him a bit of everything I could find. In total I bought ten beers, an ale, two IPAs, a cream stout, an imperial porter, a lambic, a wheat beer, a smoked beer, a trappist beer and a dark lager. I also bought a smoked beer for myself, which I'm drinking now. It's my first time having one of these and the smoke flavor is a lot stronger than I expected, and I like it.
hey guys, I live 10min from this brewery (and there a lot more breweries here in bamberg). If someone want some bamberger beer, just let me know. or german beer in general. some of it is pretty good.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
I hate this beer. I bought their sampler pack and simply cannot drink it. I drank one to say I did it...I gave one away. The next one is getting either given away or thrown out.
hi-five
Congrats on living in one of the prettiest cities.
CortexVortex
Banned
It's time for me to get a Weihenstephan now.
God, I love this beer.
God, I love this beer.
codswallop
Member
That's great, thanks for that. I had XXXII in my list as well as Cervezas Taifa. I'll add
Cerveceria Internacional to the list too. Hopefully they're not far from where we're staying!
Edit: Haven't quite figured out if Taifa are a brewpub or just a local brewery...
I went to Naturbier (tried the hellas and the darker one... toasted special?), Magister seemed to have shut down, and also Fabrica Maravellas (tried the quad, weizen and IPA, didn't like the weizen at all, others were passable). Was going to go to Irreale but ran out of time.
distantmantra
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On The Edge of Insanity
Member
No worries. Had a quick look into Taifa and the address on their label is inside the Triana Market. Can't say I've noticed them the few times I've been in there, but there are some bars in that market, so they may well have their beer on tap as well as for sale in bottles.
Sevilla is a pretty small city, so unless you're staying miles out of centre these places will all be within a 25-30 minute walk at the most.
Cantillion will be on next time I visit Brussels. I wish that I would be still up there, we have heat wave going on and coming from 18 to 34 degrees Celsius is quite extreme.
For me, it is. I found Tremens almost 'too heavy' with aftertaste. And I like darker beers.
codswallop
Member
Dude, you rock! I'm there right now and it's a pretty great place. Not much Spanish stuff to speak of (had a Domus), but the selection is otherwise great. Thanks!
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Coming this fall.
Damn, you missed the Bar Animal , they don't make their own beer but have a lot of great beer from different countries.
Link
The Autumn Wind
I hope it's better than Iron Throne, which I found fairly underwhelming.
Coming this fall.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Iron Throne wasn't bad. I rather liked it. But it was not worth the price they charged for it.
codswallop
Member
In Madrid? Ahh... it happens. I'm mostly interested in trying beer from that country that's unavailable elsewhere anyway. What other Spanish beers can you guys recommend?
I'm open to any style, as long as it's well made. I have beers from places like Iberian, Reptilian, Priorat, Llúpols, Birra on my list but haven't seen them yet. Most of my time left in Spain is in Andalusia (and two days in Barcelona)...
Well, i don't think that you will find much in Andalucia but in Barcelona you will find A LOT of great beer. For bars in downtown Barcelona there's La Resistencia, Ale&Hop & La Cerveteca.
For bottle shops a great one that I have visited is Rosses i Torrades . They have great import beers but also have a very big section of Catalonian beers, and the staff is very friendly so if you ask they will let you know what's good, also you will be able to drink the beers in the shop.
The best thing you can do is ask the people from Rosses i Torrades, they are very experienced on spanish (specially catalonian) beers and they will let you know what's good there.
Good stuff, had some in Nantuckey on my honeymoon a couple years ago.
I doubt it, neither are even distributed nationwide. Hell, Russian River is a hot commodity even in California and has even dropped distribution in certain places in the west coast.
Nah, it's really really hard to find any of those brands in Europe, the best you can do is someone that travels to the US and buys them there. But I encourage you to try more European beers, there are some amazing beers here.
I don't know how available any of these brands are in Germany, but they are amazing, I will list them for you:
- Haanbryggeriet
- Mikkeller (they have A LOT of beers so look on the internet to see what are their best)
- To Ol
- Moor
- BFM
- De Molen
- The Kernel
- Alvinne
- 3 Fonteinen
- Cantillon
If you go to your nearby bottle shop and see any of these brands and don't know what to buy just list them here and I might be able to recommend you some of them.
PS: I just drank like 5 liters of sour beers so i'm a little tipsy haha.
De Molen has some great beers, they have any style you want, I think I might remember reading that you liked dark beers, so you might like Hel & Verdoemenis.
Their IPAs are great too, specially the ones with RYE.
Oh and about the sourness in beers, I think that's an acquired taste, so I think that if you keep trying them you will start to like them , but it's definitely the hardest style of beer to get into.
$7.99 a bottle? Is that expensive? Worth it, I'd say.
As for Magic Hat, I like Elder Betty (probably my favorite summer fruit beer), Heart of Darkness, and some of their IPA's are good. I'm getting sick of #9 though.
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