Beer

[Secret Chief]

There are many stouts out there that are similar in IBUs to some lower range IPAs...
Still pretty bitter w/out the hops bite.

Common misconception.

But at any rate... more hops for me.

I'm a hop monster. I love ones such as citra - fruity and fresh....

Mmmm.... Come on ouro...more brewing!

 

[SageTree]

When I was drinking a lot of beers in the Northwest in the winter of '11/'12 I seriously got a little burnt out finally.

I tried hops is more ways, combinations and in different styles than I could imagine.

I still like 'em, don't get me wrong..... but I'm more willing to try other style once in a while now too, which is kind of why the Dark IPA works nicely.

 

[Adramelek]

I can appreciate ice cold beer, I prefer 100 proof vodka and redbull. I remember my Second Degree Adept Recognition ceremony in the Temple of Set, a dumb-a** (not me!) Setian put 100 proof vodka in everyones grail-chalice. A good lesson in sip before you gulp, needless to say it didn't go over very well, one Setian got sick. However, the ritual itself went pretty well.

Xeper.
/Adramelek\

 

[Sunstone]

Beer? Never heard of the stuff. Is it nutritious?

 

[SageTree]

 

[Secret Chief]

Beer? Never heard of the stuff. Is it nutritious?

All natural ingredients! (of course I'm not referring to the pasteurised, filtered, chemical effluent churned out industrially by the global corporations).

 

[DreadFish]

I love beer.

I have my personal sub category system for beer:

Soda beer: (bud, miller, coors, every regular beer); this is a beer that is bubbly, cold and refreshing, much like a soda, but with alcohol. Also, much like a soda, of low quality but, nothing wrong with that every now and then.

Real Beer: this is real beer; its pretty good. Really.

Food beer: my favorite, this is a porter or a stout, this is a beer that is heavy, full of nutrition and alcohol!

Soda beer is refreshment, real beer is the elixir of life!

 

[Secret Chief]

Plug: RateBeer is a totally fab website and app for all things beery.

The app is particularly useful for checking out beers that are new to you.

Cheers!

 

[StarryNightshade]

Beer is disgusting.

However, I love a good Bloody Mary. The spicier the better. :yes:

 

[Brickjectivity]

I'll drink a Yuengling every now and then, and occasionally a Guinness. I like to try craft beers when I find them as singles, but I rarely drink.

 

[Thrice Great]

The art of brewing is as old as civilization. Between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago, some humans discontinued their nomadic hunting and gathering and settled down to farm. Grain was the first domesticated crop that started that farming process.

Through hieroglyphics, cuneiform characters and written accounts, historians have traced the roots of brewing back to ancient African, Egyptian and Sumerian tribes. The oldest proven records of brewing are about 6,000 years old and refer to the Sumerians

A seal around 4,000 years old is a Sumerian "Hymn to Ninkasi", the goddess of brewing. This "hymn" is also a recipe for making beer. These early accounts, with pictograms of what is recognizably barley, show bread being baked then crumbled into water to make a mash, which is then made into a drink that is recorded as having made people feel "exhilarated, wonderful and blissful!" It could be that baked bread was a convenient method of storing and transporting a resource for making beer.The Sumerians were able to repeat this process and are assumed to be he first civilized culture to brew beer. They had discovered a "divine drink" which certainly was a gift from the gods.

- History of Beer

 

[George-ananda]

I rarely drink beer but I quite enjoy it when I do

So why drink it only rarely?

 

[Secret Chief]

God, I love those Sumerians.

Thanks Thrice!

 

[Johnny Appleseed]

Franziskaner (the Dunkel is amazing) luckily for me the distributors delivering in the little podunk town in I live in in Kansas carry it and the stores stock it for me at my request which I buy by the case. Reminds me of the Fatherland when I am not there, sure it's expensive but why drink cheap booze if it tastes like crap and means nothing?

 

[DreadFish]

but why drink cheap booze if it tastes like crap and means nothing?

My thoughts as well. I know plenty of people who drink the cheap stuff because it gets them drunk and they dont care about the taste. I, for one, enjoy the whole experience. The buzz is great too, but I would rather have like two really good beers than a 6 pack of, say, icehouse.

 

[Sunstone]

A seal around 4,000 years old is a Sumerian "Hymn to Ninkasi", the goddess of brewing. This "hymn" is also a recipe for making beer.

The art of writing a good hymn has gone downhill ever since, if you ask me.

 

[Sunstone]

(of course I'm not referring to the pasteurised, filtered, chemical effluent churned out industrially by the global corporations).

I've been informed the technical term for that effluent is "horse pee".

 

[MysticSang'ha]

Unfiltered wheat beer + Chicago-style pizza pie = food of the gods.

Gluten intolerance keeps me from enjoying the combination given that I'm sick and in pain for a couple days afterward, but I remember what having the two together was like, and O.......M........G! :drool:

 

[Sunstone]

Unfiltered wheat beer + Chicago-style pizza pie = food of the gods.

You can't get Chicago style pizza here. They even have a restaurant called "Old Chicago's" but the pizza is a pale, corporate spin off of the real thing. Three tenths of the reason I'm politically radical is because you cannot get Chicago style pizza in Colorado Springs.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

You can't get Chicago style pizza here. They even have a restaurant called "Old Chicago's" but the pizza is a pale, corporate spin off of the real thing. Three tenths of the reason I'm politically radical is because you cannot get Chicago style pizza in Colorado Springs.

I'm so sorry. :flower:

It's considered blasphemous as a local supporter of St. Louis culture to advocate the thick Chicago-style pizza over the razor thin crust in St. Louis. I love the Italian Hill pizzas and Imo's St. Louis style thin pizza, but for some reason, the thick THICK pizza pie....like a real delicious succulent pizza PIE.....coupled with an unfiltered wheat beer from a microbrewery in Kansas City had me in an hours-long food-orgasm where I thought I never will find another pairing so wonderful and divine and beautiful and delicious and tasty ever again.

I SOOOOO wish i wasn't gluten-intolerant right now. I could really go for that combination again after talking about it.