Good beer makes me happy. The standard watered down crap that most Americans drink can hardly even be called beer.

This is why I start drinking early in the day.



/Beer Snob Thread!

Beer makes you fat and stupid, that's why it's legal.

/molson ice
//mgd
///blue moon

"Heavy drinkers got more of a reward, more of a high," says Mitchell. "Their brains are changed in a way that makes drinking extremely pleasurable."

All that practice did pay off.

Note to self, dryhop the IPA tonight instead of just drinking it out of the fermentor.

Science, YOU DON'T KNOW ME!

I find it tastes better when I drink it out of a...

RED SOLO CUP!

you all now have that song in your head!

BigBooper: Good beer makes me happy. The standard watered down crap that most Americans drink can hardly even be called beer.

This stuff will make you impervious to bullets.

urban.derelict: Beer makes you fat and stupid, that's why it's legal.

/molson ice
//mgd
///blue moon

If that's what your drinking, you've proven at least half of your statement.

/was slumming last night
//had to settle for Samuel Adams Boston Lager

BigBooper: urban.derelict: Beer makes you fat and stupid, that's why it's legal.

/molson ice
//mgd
///blue moon

If that's what your drinking, you've proven at least half of your statement.

/was slumming last night
//had to settle for Samuel Adams Boston Lager

I'd bet they called it an import.

Where's that repeat tag when you need one?

Enfenestrate: BigBooper: Good beer makes me happy. The standard watered down crap that most Americans drink can hardly even be called beer.

I appreciate that you say "most." I'd rather not be lumped in with all of the Bud drinking unwashed masses.


/I'd tell you what I drink, but it's from a little brewery you've probably never heard of.

As their representative I say drink your fancy beer with a slice of orange while wearing that girly scarf. We'll be having sex with all the women!

/or something like that. Really it sounded cooler in my head.

Enfenestrate: /I'd tell you what I drink, but it's from a little brewery you've probably never heard of.

My favorite brewery doesn't even bother to get licensed to sell in other states.

/New Glarus, Represent!

Beer snobs are homosex.

BigBooper: Enfenestrate: /I'd tell you what I drink, but it's from a little brewery you've probably never heard of.

My favorite brewery doesn't even bother to get licensed to sell in other states.

/New Glarus, Represent!

They actually used to distribute to surrounding states, but they let their licenses expire.

Double-oh Steven: This is why I start drinking early in the day.



/Beer Snob Thread!

Bought a couple 4 packs of their imperial stout just yesterday. Amazing brewery. Michigan is lucky.

Twice Banned: ..

/was slumming last night
//had to settle for Samuel Adams Boston Lager

I'd bet they called it an import.

No, but they had no idea what I was talking about when I asked for a Boston Lager. Turns out that they only knew it by "Sam Adams"; like they don't brew anything else.

BigBooper: Good beer makes me happy. The standard watered down crap that most Americans drink can hardly even be called beer.

I'll take the sweet sweet taste of freedom over that Nazi crap you drink

My favorite brewery is only available within the city block in which I live. So you've probably never heard of it it. Too bad because they've unlocked the ancient, Trappist secret to quadruple hopping combined with quintuple fermentation. And it's all organic.

/I remember when beer was actually fun
//Something you STFU and drank
///Not sat around talked about drinking

verbaltoxin: My favorite brewery is only available within the city block in which I live. So you've probably never heard of it it. Too bad because they've unlocked the ancient, Trappist secret to quadruple hopping combined with quintuple fermentation. And it's all organic.

/I remember when beer was actually fun
//Something you STFU and drank
///Not sat around talked about drinking

My beer is so exclusive it is brewed with the distilled urine from a Buddhist monk who is sealed in a glass case and fed the finest oats and grasses from Mongolia. Only 2 bottles are brewed each year. I drink one and the other is inserted into my rectum to realize the potential of all the flavors.

Representative of the unwashed masses: verbaltoxin: My favorite brewery is only available within the city block in which I live. So you've probably never heard of it it. Too bad because they've unlocked the ancient, Trappist secret to quadruple hopping combined with quintuple fermentation. And it's all organic.

/I remember when beer was actually fun
//Something you STFU and drank
///Not sat around talked about drinking

My beer is so exclusive it is brewed with the distilled urine from a Buddhist monk who is sealed in a glass case and fed the finest oats and grasses from Mongolia. Only 2 bottles are brewed each year. I drink one and the other is inserted into my rectum to realize the potential of all the flavors.

No dude, Buddha Piss is so overrated. Didn't read the reviews on Beer Advocate? It's like a B+ at best.

verbaltoxin: My favorite brewery is only available within the city block in which I live. So you've probably never heard of it it. Too bad because they've unlocked the ancient, Trappist secret to quadruple hopping combined with quintuple fermentation. And it's all organic.

/I remember when beer was actually fun
//Something you STFU and drank
///Not sat around talked about drinking

Hmmm the beer I am brewing has 4 hoppings but I only plan on doing a 2nd fermentation process. I did one time have to do a 3rd fermentation with a barley wine a few years back. I just cannot imagine a 4th fementation doing anything for the process.

And why stop at 4 hoppings. Ever try an infused double IPA? Never made one for myself but I think that would be 6 hoppings.

Oh wait you were kidding around about beer snobbery.

Saiga410: verbaltoxin: My favorite brewery is only available within the city block in which I live. So you've probably never heard of it it. Too bad because they've unlocked the ancient, Trappist secret to quadruple hopping combined with quintuple fermentation. And it's all organic.

/I remember when beer was actually fun
//Something you STFU and drank
///Not sat around talked about drinking

Hmmm the beer I am brewing has 4 hoppings but I only plan on doing a 2nd fermentation process. I did one time have to do a 3rd fermentation with a barley wine a few years back. I just cannot imagine a 4th fementation doing anything for the process.

And why stop at 4 hoppings. Ever try an infused double IPA? Never made one for myself but I think that would be 6 hoppings.

Oh wait you were kidding around about beer snobbery.

I make hard cider actually. And yes I was kidding around about beer snobbery. It kills all the fun of drinking beer and makes it about what you've drank, not about enjoying a drink with friends.

verbaltoxin: My favorite brewery is only available within the city block in which I live. So you've probably never heard of it it.

Pfft...amateur. My favorite brewery is available only inside my house.

/this time of year I'm brewing exclusively porters and stouts

Enfenestrate: verbaltoxin: Saiga410: verbaltoxin: My favorite brewery is only available within the city block in which I live. So you've probably never heard of it it. Too bad because they've unlocked the ancient, Trappist secret to quadruple hopping combined with quintuple fermentation. And it's all organic.

/I remember when beer was actually fun
//Something you STFU and drank
///Not sat around talked about drinking

Hmmm the beer I am brewing has 4 hoppings but I only plan on doing a 2nd fermentation process. I did one time have to do a 3rd fermentation with a barley wine a few years back. I just cannot imagine a 4th fementation doing anything for the process.

And why stop at 4 hoppings. Ever try an infused double IPA? Never made one for myself but I think that would be 6 hoppings.

Oh wait you were kidding around about beer snobbery.

I make hard cider actually. And yes I was kidding around about beer snobbery. It kills all the fun of drinking beer and makes it about what you've drank, not about enjoying a drink with friends.

I don't have friends, I have fellow beer connoisseurs.

Exactly.

I have to agree that beer snobbery is at an all-time high. My friend's company did a beer tasting back in the fall as a sort-of "Oktoberfest" thing, and the employee who was running it didn't even have any German beers. Everything was imperial IPAs, Russian Imperial Stouts, etc. He said, "You don't want that watered down hop-less German crap. Try something with flavor."

I've been lucky enough to have people send me bottles of Pliny, KBS, Kate the Great, Westy 12, and Heady Topper (can) within the last few months. Having tried all these celebrity beers, I can say that people are swept up by buzz in most cases. They're good beers, but overall all NOT deserving of the acclaim they get. People who joke about beer snobs only liking what no one else can get are dead on. And as soon as other people have tried those, they're on to something else. It reminds me of that "It's so over!" Portlandia sketch.

I'm brewing two batches this weekend. While brewing, I'll probably drink a Corona with a lime wedge crammed down the neck because I think it tastes good and is easy-drinkin'.

StoneColdAtheist: time of year I'm brewing exclusively porters and stouts

I'm churning out as many lagers as possible. My basement is a terrific range of 48-52 degrees right now. I'm fermenting and then racking and letting them just sit there 'til April.

WinoRhino: I have to agree that beer snobbery is at an all-time high. My friend's company did a beer tasting back in the fall as a sort-of "Oktoberfest" thing, and the employee who was running it didn't even have any German beers. Everything was imperial IPAs, Russian Imperial Stouts, etc. He said, "You don't want that watered down hop-less German crap. Try something with flavor."

I've been lucky enough to have people send me bottles of Pliny, KBS, Kate the Great, Westy 12, and Heady Topper (can) within the last few months. Having tried all these celebrity beers, I can say that people are swept up by buzz in most cases. They're good beers, but overall all NOT deserving of the acclaim they get. People who joke about beer snobs only liking what no one else can get are dead on. And as soon as other people have tried those, they're on to something else. It reminds me of that "It's so over!" Portlandia sketch.

I'm brewing two batches this weekend. While brewing, I'll probably drink a Corona with a lime wedge crammed down the neck because I think it tastes good and is easy-drinkin'.

I would've smacked that guy for bringing a bunch of Gimicky imperial hop bombs to a Oktoberfest event. Beer events like that are supposed to be sociable, and the beer is supposed to malty-rich and drinkable. Imperials, in my opinion, are more desert beers, you don't have them with dinner, you don't sit around loafing and watching the game and pounding them down. You'll be wrecked after a couple, you won't enjoy them, and probably wake up... excuse me, come to with a raging hangover.
Not to say we don't make them at the brewery I work for, we do, and do them well. But we don't base our buisness around them.

The latest special to come out the door is our anniversery ale . Yes, 18 years in the buisness of making beer.. or, as we to call it.. 18 years in buisness, in spite of ourselves

I'm smiling because this Moose Drool told me to.

/happy
//happy to be
///happy to be a beer snob

WinoRhino: StoneColdAtheist: time of year I'm brewing exclusively porters and stouts

I'm churning out as many lagers as possible. My basement is a terrific range of 48-52 degrees right now. I'm fermenting and then racking and letting them just sit there 'til April.

Can't do lagers here without refrigeration, so I do porters and stouts from Sep -Feb, then IPAs all summer. It may not be ideal, but it works for me.

Beer is proof that Dog loves me and wants me to be happy. ~SCA

/he's a fat black lab... :)

beer doesn't make me happy. unless it's being drunk by females around me.

now hard liquor on the other hand...

Having 5 different kinds of homebrew on tap makes me satisfied. Drinking the homebrew makes me happy.

WinoRhino: I've been lucky enough to have people send me bottles of Pliny, KBS, Kate the Great, Westy 12, and Heady Topper (can) within the last few months. Having tried all these celebrity beers, I can say that people are swept up by buzz in most cases.

Blasphemy! KTG is the best RIS I've ever had hands down. I make it a point to go to KTG day every year with Miss WDS. That beer is more than worth the two hour trip.

Also, PTE is a great DIPA, but I've had better. Three Floyds Dreadnaught comes to mind. KBS is damn good as well, but being lucky enough to have had their CBS on tap, I can say it casts a shadow on all their other stouts.

verbaltoxin: My favorite brewery is only available within the city block in which I live. So you've probably never heard of it it. Too bad because they've unlocked the ancient, Trappist secret to quadruple hopping combined with quintuple fermentation. And it's all organic.

/I remember when beer was actually fun
//Something you STFU and drank
///Not sat around talked about drinking

The whole BLOCK? Too mainstream.

\beer makes me happy
\\makes the wife MEAN

Before imbibing a special cocktail of alcohol used for research purposes

Ahh, yes, research purposes. I'll have to remember that one.

J. Frank Parnell: Before imbibing a special cocktail of alcohol used for research purposes

Ahh, yes, research purposes. I'll have to remember that one.

I like to call it "quality assurance testing" when its time to crawl out of the beer mines and get the two-fers

Honestly, beer snobs are idiots.

BigBooper: Enfenestrate: /I'd tell you what I drink, but it's from a little brewery you've probably never heard of.

My favorite brewery doesn't even bother to get licensed to sell in other states.

/New Glarus, Represent!

I was in Madison for first time last week and fell in love with New Glarus. Wish I could get it in Austin...

"I just love you so much, man,"

This right here is why beer makes us gay guys happy.

the_sidewinder: Representative of the unwashed masses: As their representative I say drink your fancy beer with a slice of orange while wearing that girly scarf. We'll be having sex with all the women!

/or something like that. Really it sounded cooler in my head.

I bring the unwashed masses to Wild Rose, you should go to

Ripley?

Quantumbunny: Where's that repeat tag when you need one?

At the bar.

Cerebral Knievel: The latest special to come out the door is our anniversery ale . Yes, 18 years in the buisness of making beer.. or, as we to call it.. 18 years in buisness, in spite of ourselves

Nice, you're living the dream. I'm still stuck in my kitchen doing this with converted 10 gallon coolers as mash tuns. But I'm really into the chemistry of it, tailoring my water chemistry to style and hitting my pH levels on the nose. I'm churning out some great stuff these days. At least my neighbors think so. Maybe it was one of them posting earlier in the thread that the best beer they know is brewed only on their block. ;)

wholedamnshow: Blasphemy! KTG is the best RIS I've ever had hands down. I make it a point to go to KTG day every year with Miss WDS. That beer is more than worth the two hour trip.

Now now... I go to KTG day as well, and I think it is a wonderful stout. So much so I managed to get the recipe from them. I brewed a version of it myself that turned out pretty good (the aging in oak was tough to accomplish but I found ways around it.) My overall point was this: for every small, local brew house that has the "best beer" of a particular style, there are dozens of other little brewhouses that haven't been "discovered yet." And since it is a matter of taste anyway, terms like "best" don't really have a place in the discussion. Just my opinion. Earlier this year I had a bottle of PTE because it was "the best." By December I was sampling Heady Topper from Alchemy because it was "the best." Meanwhile, I had a Troegs Hopback Amber and thought it ranked in my all-time favorites, regardless of style. That particular beer is damn near perfect in its balance. Anyhow, beer geekery is one thing, beer snobbery another; if someone points me in the direction of good stuff, that's great. If they do it with a tone of "you poor child, how could you be so misguided" I'm not going to listen to a damn thing they say. :)

This makes me happy in very dark ways: