Beer ...I Drank Some.

While this was an interesting experiment, I don't think I'll be buying it again. The mix of cactus & grapefruit is a little too cloying...too sweet.

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No, I just think bottle shops are a cut above liquor stores. In this day and age of craft breweries and vintage wines a bottle shop carries good, rare, and exclusive selection. While the Inbev products are stacked up dusty in the corner.
 
interesting timing on the SN Otra Vez. I'd also picked up a sixer last weekend. I had some toward the end
of the night, taste buds prob all numbed already, so I didn't notice much more than it was a light sour beer. Will
have to try again while taste buds are still awake...
 
MrGreedom said:
No, I just think bottle shops are a cut above liquor stores. In this day and age of craft breweries and vintage wines a bottle shop carries good, rare, and exclusive selection. While the Inbev products are stacked up dusty in the corner.
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So, how can I discern between a bottle shop and a liquor store without looking for a stack of dusty InBev products? Howzbout the booze department at CVS?
 
just to followup on the SN Otra Vez... had it last night fresh out of the gate and didn't particularly thought it was too sweet to me,
still seems like a light sour. I don't particularly like sweet beers normally but recently had the Belching Beaver Peanut Butter Milk
Stout on tap. It was pretty awesome and def way sweet. I see why they make an ice cream float with it...
 
I can't stand hoppy ales. To me it always tastes like they are using the bitterness of over hopping the ale to hide off flavors or bad water or whatever.

There are some amazing ales out there, but given how much cheaper it is to brew ales than lagers, it seems like everyone and their brother has an ale brewery... many with questionable quality. Bad flavor? Just over hop it.

Give me a 100% malt lager any day.
 
Runs with Scissors said:
I'm addicted to hops. I like sweater-licking, to steal Herz's term :):thumbsup:
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Well there's certainly no shortage of IPA's in the world...

I am not trying to knock anyone's personal tastes. To me, hops are absolutely part of beer. But when hops become so strong that they mask other flavors, when they become so strong that they mask other aromas, I think you are no longer drinking beer; you might as well be drinking over-hopped hard cider or over-hopped alcoholic root beer because you can't tell the difference. It's like taking a well-marbled, prime New York strip steak, and coating it in 1/4" of salt. I like salt... but everything in proportion.

Interestingly, the demand for every-increasing amounts of hops is only present in the US craft beer scene, not in Europe, and not in regional and national beers that have tried hoppier recipes and been rebuffed. The commodities market for hops has soared since 2012, and last year's drought didn't help. With the ingredient price of hops in some craft beers now exceeding all other ingredients combined, I wonder if some craft brewers are wondering if they have caught a tiger by the tail. It has gotten so bad that some hops growers are creating "proprietary" hops lines that they will only sell to a select number of brewers (who agree to pay above-market prices). I am not kidding when I say that I wonder if there is a hops bubble going on in the market - similar to so many other taste bubbles that have occurred in the domestic beer scene. The more and more hops race will have to end somewhere. Is it a race to the bottom?
 
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