hm.. beer sampling revisited

[IconBasser]

some may recall a thread I made a few months ago when I tried my first beer (A Miller Genuine Draft), and I said I hated the stuff.

well, since then, I've tried a plethora of different beers (really just whatever my dad randomly decides to bring home).

some I've sorta liked, most Ive hated (I'm trying out a Sierra Nevada pale ale as I type this... blegh ), but the only one I've so far truly enjoyed is Corona. Dunno why, but thats the only one that tastes really good to me.



so now that I have a standard to compare to, are there any others that you think I would like?

[iamlowsound]

Beer sampling=drunk posting?

lowsound

[Stanley Design]

I've been thinking of starting a talkbass beer club, where you choose a bottle of a favourite beer that is only available locally, and trade it with someone else's bottle of local beer from another area. That way you can try many local beers and have other talkbassers try yours! It wouldn't really work all that great for me though because I'm in Canada and shipping couldn't go across the border for alcohol.

[nickbear]

im a big fan of beers.. i live a few miles away from a brilliant small brewery that does some amazing ales.

if you like corona which i actually consider not to have much flavour then you might like brahma and budweiser. they are all lagers ( well thats what we call them in the uk!) and they are quite easy to drink and quite refreshing.

[Jared Lash]

Originally Posted by Todd Stanley

I've been thinking of starting a talkbass beer club, where you choose a bottle of a favourite beer that is only available locally, and trade it with someone else's bottle of local beer from another area.

I like this idea a lot. Mostly because I suggested it a while back.

The problem with it is that you are talking about having to carefully wrap something very fragile and pay four or five times what the beer costs in shipping for something that the recipient has never tried and therefore might not like.

I've traded beers this way with friends, but moneywise it only made sense to do it with a whole case.

[Jared Lash]

Originally Posted by IconBasser

some I've sorta liked, most Ive hated (I'm trying out a Sierra Nevada pale ale as I type this... blegh ), but the only one I've so far truly enjoyed is Corona. Dunno why, but thats the only one that tastes really good to me.

so now that I have a standard to compare to, are there any others that you think I would like?

You don't like Sierra Nevade but you like Corona? Hmm. Well, in that case I have some empty bottles and a bench capper. I could pee into a few of them and ship them your way. What do you think?

It wouldn't be the same high quality, heat pasteurized donkey urine that Corona uses, but it might be close. I can even eat some spicy foods to give it a kick if you want. Let me know.

[peaveyuser]

I like Corona too . Budweiser is piss, wildcat makes my mouth dry, export is bad, but Corona is pretty good for mass produced stuff. Best i've tried so far is either this local-ish Quebecois beer or Alexander Keiths

[IconBasser]

Originally Posted by TheBigO

You don't like Sierra Nevade but you like Corona? Hmm. Well, in that case I have some empty bottles and a bench capper. I could pee into a few of them and ship them your way. What do you think?

It wouldn't be the same high quality, heat pasteurized donkey urine that Corona uses, but it might be close. I can even eat some spicy foods to give it a kick if you want. Let me know.

thanks for crapping on my opinion, O. I love you too.

[spade2you]

Aren't you only 16? If so, I wouldn't think anyone 16 can handle the full taste of a real beer.

[Jared Lash]

Originally Posted by IconBasser

thanks for crapping on my opinion, O. I love you too.

Oh, Icon, just a little ribbing. I gave you some in your first thread if you don't remember.

My best guess is that right now it's the prominent taste of hops that you don't care for. Cascade hops (and the citrusy flavor from them) are the primary feature of Sierra Nevada.

You might develop a taste for hoppier and/or darker beers later, but right now you might want to try pilsners and wheat beers. Hefeweisens come to mind. Maybe a belgian white like Hoegaarden or an English brown like Newcastle.

Edit: Are you really only 16? Ok, I don't really want to be encouraging high school age kids to drink. But if your Dad is really letting you sample a bit of beer at home, then what I listed would fit the bill.

[IconBasser]

kewl.


and... yes, I am 16

[FL Knifemaker]

I have to think that it will take a new beer drinker a while to develop a taste for the really flavor packed beers as well as the bitter, more hoppy ones. When I started drinking beer there wasn't a great choice, mostly watered down, American brews. I started on Coors, the real GOOD, OLD Coors, not the CRAP they brew now If I had a Guiness or another strong beer back then, I probably would have hated it.

[Jared Lash]

Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker

I have to think that it will take a new beer drinker a while to develop a taste for the really flavor packed beers as well as the bitter, more hoppy ones. When I started drinking beer there wasn't a great choice, mostly watered down, American brews. I started on Coors, the real GOOD, OLD Coors, not the CRAP they brew now If I had a Guiness or another strong beer back then, I probably would have hated it.

I loved my first Guinness. So creamy. But I know what you're saying. I didn't like my first barleywine at all. I gravitated towards good beer from the beginning, but there were a lot of styles that didn't appeal to me then that I love now. Porter is probably my favorite style now, but I didn't care for my first one.

[Stanley Design]

There's only one beer that pulls above the rest when it comes to dark, full and creamy, and it's Schooner by Olands in Nova Scotia. Every other beer I've ever tasted on the recommendation that it is simular in description, has tasted terrible. I hate how bitter every other cream ale tastes, it's like earwax. I hate how most dark beers taste sort of meaty and unpure like they cut corners to make it dark somehow. I miss my beer....

[coreyfyfe]

+1 Todd on the dark beer struggles.

im a big fan of porters/stouts so i try just about everyone i can. theres a great bar here in boston call the sunset grill and tap which has 112 taps and an average of about 300 bottled beers to choose from.

not sure if you can get them in your area, but if you happen to come across them, brooklyn brewery (brooklyn, ny) has a black chocolate stout out for the winter months, has a nice dark chocolate finish. also, the left hand (burlington, vt) milk stout is pretty nice. good and creamy sort of like a guinness but better.

[spade2you]

Color doesn't necessarily equate to everything and not every specific type of beer is the same from one brewer to another. I've tasted some imperial pilsners that are MUCH stronger than some stouts. Some bocks might be dark, but are very smooth, often more so than some light beers.