O.T. Anyone drank any really good new beers lately?

Yvsa

Yvsa

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When we were in Phoenix I got introduced to a beer new to me that is excellent IMO!!!! :cool: :D
It's a tradition that when we're in Phoenix that our daughter Penny takes us to a most excellent bar and grill called Stackers every Wednesday evening, Buffalo Wings are 0.10 a piece.:D
Stackers has a good variety of beers on draught usually. For some odd reason they had taken Foster's on tap off their offering so I was in a quandry what to have with my wings for a moment or two.
I asked Lisa, who was our server, to run down the list again as I didn't hear her clearly the first time because of the noise.
When Lisa got to Alaskan Amber again I told her I would try it.
Alaskan Amber is a nice dark amber color and is more a food than a beer and a most excellent beer indeed!!!!!!! :D :cool: :D
When I first tasted it I remarked to Barbie and Penny that, "This is more than a beer, it is a food!!!!" Then they both wanted a taste and much to my surprise even Penny liked it; Barbie is like me and enjoys a good dark beer anyway.:D
When we got back to the house I Googled Alaskan Amber and found out that the Amber is just one of their offerings and I would dearly love to try them all but don't know if that will be possible with my location; Alaskan Amber and its mate's isn't sold everywhere as yet.
I managed to find a liquor store that sold it, $7.50 a six pak and bought a couple while the getting was good.
I brought home a few and am going to enjoy them at the rate of about one a week until they're gone.
I recommend it highly! Try it if you can get it in your locale!!!! :D :cool: ;)
 
Yup, they make some good beer :)

They make a summer ale that's very tasty, but only made during the summer, go figure :)
 
I'll look for that Alaskan Amber. For right now my favored beers are Warsteiner Dunkel (Dark) and Bitburger. Both are German beers.

Ice
 
Ysva,

Fosters :barf: ;) ? , Glad to hear you finnaly got some good stuff,
I have been brewing my own beer for about 11 years now. I got started
when i was sent on a business trip to Boulder Co. ( the residence of the american home brewers association). The Brew pubs there changed the way I saw the world. At the time here in Ga. , you couldn't buy a decent beer. It was either too expensive, stale or not one the shelf. So I started making my own. No you can buy the good stuff here so I only brew for special occations.

All beer is supposed to taste that good...... If you going to drink a beer make sure its a darned good one. Why add to the gut with anything less?

heck I had rather have one good beer that a six pack of bad ones.

let me work you up a try list, you will soon wonder why you every drank a
miller , bud, old milwalkee or a fosters..... Nothin wrong with being a beer snob

Warstiener has an add compagan a few years ago" life is too short to
drink cheap beer". Ya know they were right.

Right now I hooked on on terrapin rye pale ale, this is great stuff and it won an award too.

http://www.terrapinbeer.com/home.html :D


Spike works at our favorite Brew pub the 5 seasons. These guys are world class brewers, I love their beer. Right now they is the time for the "spring bocks" they come out in may every year. The five season has one called
me-262 and it is fantastic! Last year they sold the whole months supply in
just under two weeks. I will be going by this weekend.

http://www.5seasonsbrewing.com/ :D
 
Ysva,

Fosters :barf: ;) ? , Glad to hear you finnaly got some good stuff,
I have been brewing my own beer for about 11 years now. I got started
when i was sent on a business trip to Boulder Co. ( the residence of the american home brewers association). The Brew pubs there changed the way I saw the world. At the time here in Ga. , you couldn't buy a decent beer. It was either too expensive, stale or not one the shelf. So I started making my own. Now you can buy the good stuff here so I only brew for special occations.

All beer is supposed to taste that good...... If you going to drink a beer make sure its a darned good one. Why add to the belly :rolleyes: with anything less?

heck I had rather have one good beer than a six pack of bad ones :eek: .

let me work you up a try list, you will soon wonder why you every drank a
miller , bud, old milwalkee or a fosters..... Nothin wrong with being a beer snob

Warstiener has an add compagan a few years ago" life is too short to
drink cheap beer". Ya know they were right.

Right now I hooked on on terrapin rye pale ale, this is great stuff and it won an award too.

http://www.terrapinbeer.com/home.html :D


Spike works at our favorite Brew pub the 5 seasons. These guys are world class brewers, I love their beer. Right now is the time for the "spring bocks" they come out in may every year. The five season has one called
me-262 and it is fantastic! Last year they sold the whole months supply in
just under two weeks. I will be going by this weekend for a sample for sure.

http://www.5seasonsbrewing.com/ :D
 
Hard to find good mead, and it's sweet enough that the hangover factor is not to be ignored. I like it as a desert wine more than anything. Our local Whole Foods carries a couple of different brands.

Yvsa, it's not new, but see if you can get your hands on some Rouge Shakespeare Stout. It's also in the 'beer as food' category. Really good stuff. On the other end of the spectrum, I like Scrimshaw Pilsner quite a bit, very light, crisp beer, great summer brew. The list goes ever onward, I'll definitley keep an eye out for the Alaskan.

Brantoken, I'd love to be cc'd on your favorite beers list if you don't post it here, always fun to compare notes and get new recommendations. We have a couple of solid brew pubs here in CH, definitely enhances the quailty of life.
 
Hey...

My favorite beer of all time? That was the kind of beer we used to drink after running behind the hay wagon all day loading bales...getting grass down my shirt. Nothing like a good bottle of beer when you're 16 and strong...what kind of beer was it? It was COLD! Danged if I can remeber anything exept how good it tasted...

Now that I am old...once in a great while I buy some Chimay Ale. A whole nuther kinda beer. Try it...them monks know their stuff.

SHane
 
I have a hard time stepping out of my beer comfort zone. I agree, there are some really good beers out there to try. We have a couple of micro brews around here that are really good. Not dark enough for my tastes, but really good. To be honest, I haven't found a beer that I like better than a cold Guinness straight off the tap. Well, an iced bottle of extra stout Guinness comes mighty close;) Brantoken is right. Life is too short to drink cheap beer. There is nothing wrong with Bud, or Miller, or any of the other pee water...um, er, um American Classic beers. ;) Seriously, I have been known to really enjoy a few ice cold Silver bullets on a hot summers night.
I had a buddy in college that turned me on to the whole full bodied beer thing. He always said that American beer was like sex in a canoe...just too $#&%(*& close to water for his enjoyment:D
BTW, isn't the whole "Foster's, Australian for beer" thing just a marketing ploy?? :confused: I thought I heard somewhere that most Australians have never heard of it. isn't it made in Canada?

Jake
 
I love beer...and have a "kegerator" at home to prove it. :D I have heard that the Fosters we get in North America is different from the Fosters in Australia. Think an Aussie told me that. Regardless, bottled beer isn't near as good as fresh draft. Even the completely insipid Miller Lite is a different creature in the keg as compared to cans or bottles.

I don't really have a most memorable beer to mention, but fondly remember a bar in Myrtle Beach SC. It had abeen a rainy beach wash-out kind of day and we went looking for beer and appetizers. Found a bar that had two full walls lined with beer taps...all beers of the British Isles. Yuummm!

Jeff
 
you guys ever heard of Felinfoel?
some kind of welsh beer with a dragon on the bottle
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http://www.allaboutbeer.com/features/wales.html
 
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Yes, virginia, there is a dragon

or did y'all want a dragon IN the bottle?
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now that's a beer that bites back!
 
I'll second the Chimay Ale, purple label Grand Reserve. I like DIJ suggestion, MEAD! If you want good mead make it yourself, it's the only way. That way you control the "sweet" and therefore hangover factor. Or just don't drink as much. Damn, did I say that? Must be getting old.
 
I make mead as well, my last batch was done with
in 5 gallons of H2o with 10 lbs of buckwheat honey, I used wiskey yeast , it's
like drinking and appertife about 16 TO 20 % ALoCHOL. it did turn out a bit sweet , so I'm trying to figuare out how to get the fermentation started again. I have found mead is kinda of like tequelia, you start drinking it and
then you find yourself in strange situations and with different arrangements of clothing than when you started. Weird Huh?

I started brewing a mixture of mead and beer, call it honey beer, it has another offical name , but it eludes me. We called it "lost weekend" beer.

Ya get off work on friday, have a couple of mugs and before you know it , it
is somehow monday morning and it's all gone. I had to stop making that.....
 
kronckew said:
Yes, virginia, there is a dragon

or did y'all want a dragon IN the bottle?


now that's a beer that bites back!
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Talking about names :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Right now I have some Tecate in the fridge.....probably still be here for the next khonvention. :D

I still prefer the Capt to any beer :D :eek: :rolleyes:
 
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