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What beer are you drinking (or rating) II: second bottle

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#786
Why would going metric change the actual quantity? Rounding errors!?!?!?!?!? That doggone "new math"????? :spit: Previous purchases have been 12 oz bottles. I want the whole 354.882355 ml!!!!! It's like that half-gallon of ice cream that hasn't been a real half-gallon since 1987!!! :mad:

And, it's tasting like a damn Bud Light. :mad:

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Coincidence? Or just my imagination? Supposed to happen in early 2012. :spit:

I'm going to have to make the SUPREME sacrifice and head back to Jamaica to get some real Red Stripe.

Who's down for a [DEL]road[/DEL] plane trip? Fluffy, I'll buy if you fly!
 
#787
Many companies are being gobbled up by conglomerate breweries. Who exactly made your beer and where????? Charles Bamforth's book really drives at this.

At the moment, most of my favorite brews aren't selling enough for the likes of InBev to buy them out, close the brewery, raise the price, and sell inferior beer. In the end, they put a lot of folks out of work and try to brew craft beers on perhaps too large of a scale to be true to its' roots.
 
#788
A.Diva said:
Since when did THIS happen? I feel ripped off. I want my 0.8 ounces, dammit!!! :mad:

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They've always been that way - or at least that way since I started drinking 4-5 years ago.

Oh! And what am I drinking now? Nothing! I've given up beer for a few weeks. I'm trying to get back into shape, so something has to go from my diet :(
 
#791
Hopslam is here !! but $19 USD per six pack hurts, anyway I bought a case and that is all the beer I am going to drink for the next four weeks. The best thing is when I told my wife the price I paid she said, is ok, you love beer and you deserve it ...cheers :)
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pedroims said:
Hopslam is here !! but $19 USD per six pack hurts, anyway I bought a case and that is all the beer I am going to drink for the next four weeks. The best thing is when I told my wife the price I paid she said, is ok, you love beer and you deserve it ...cheers :)
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oooohhh you enjoy that!

I'm actually about to get a 6 gallon carboy and 4 cans of some pale lager extract kits. I'm thinking of boiling some hops pellets into the water as well when brew day comes. Any suggestions for what hops to add/how much for a batch?
 
#794
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Tasting report to follow.

(edit: tasting report follows)

Poured very clear, not a huge head but not a wimpy one either. Lots of hops in the aroma. First taste good - hoppy but enough backbone to balance. Sits in the mouth very nicely, a little thick, but at 9.5% alcohol it's going to have some weight to it. Then ... it vanishes. Very little aftertaste.

Could pass for an extremely tasty lawnmower beer if you weren't paying attention. Big *and* refreshing. They've pulled off a nice balancing act here.
 
#795
As I said earlier in this thread, I had a bottle of Sam Adams Winter Lager, which I would report back on once I tried it. I dug it. I thought it was kind of oak-y, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I wasn't in love with it, though. I'd probably order for a meal, but I wouldn't buy a six pack.
 
#799
MatticusMania said:
An excellent drinking tip: Dont drink beer in green glass bottles. The green glass allows more sunlight in which messes with the beers chemical makeup, giving the brew inside a skunky taste. Unlike with pot, you dont want your beer to taste like a skunk.
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avoid clear glass bottles as well. Light in general breaks down the oils from the hops which causes it to bond with other compounds in the beer, one of them being almost chemically identical to the skunk smell compound. Sometimes green bottled beer is okay, but you have to be sure it hasn't been under light for very long - aka solid boxes for packaging as opposed to the little six-pack holders, and whether or not it's been under other lights while on display/in-store. I will also say though, some beers have a bit of a skunky smell or taste to them and are perfectly fine, some beers are apparently supposed to taste that way - DAB for instance smelled a bit skunky to me but didn't taste that way, as well as Pilsner urquell, and they were both darn good beers that were in cans. If the beer is skunked, it will be quite strong and almost undrinkable.
 
#800
I use clear and green bottles with my homebrews as usually one of three tester bottles. It's easier to see if there's some sort of bad stuff going on in the bottle.

That being said, it's not a bad rule to avoid clear and green bottles. Green bottles for a saison can add an interesting funk and in a good way! I made a saison about 2 years ago and my tester bottles had a certain funk over the brown bottles (that comparison got me fairly lit up) and I decided if I make another saison, I'd use as many green bottles as I had on hand.
 
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