BB beer?

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Hops Enthusiasts Are Ruining Craft Beer for the Rest of Us
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I have a friend who is what you might call a "hops snob." He believes that if you have an educated palate as a beer connoisseur you will prefer hoppy beers. I hate the bitter stuff. Yuck.

 

[Silver Blue&Red]

I prefer a nice bud light in a can. It has a nice refreshing bouquet, with woody overtones, with a nice clean finish on the palate. I'm drinking one now, vintage 2 weeks ago. A good year. ... In mass consumption, of course.

 

[The Boston Patriot]

 

[n1997y]

I have a friend who is what you might call a "hops snob." He believes that if you have an educated palate as a beer connoisseur you will prefer hoppy beers. I hate the bitter stuff. Yuck.

if he cannot distinguish the variety of hops used to brew a craft beer either it's not very good or he's not very good. If he can never do it, the latter.

 

[n1997y]

Not real bubbly but ultimately a consistent winner.

well balanced.

 

[n1997y]

Have tried quite a few and have a beer app on the phone where I grade beers, when I go to the liquor store there are so many choices usually rely on my grading system from the app.

Sometimes I go to the local micro breweries, and am very disappointed in things like "bitter lemon beer", "Blueberry infused beer", "chocolate infused beer"... most of which taste like crap. Beer makers should stop their feeble attempt to try to market beer to women and try to cater to a larger audience who really like beer.

The market is flooded with really crappy beers right now.. I like the idea that I can ask for a sample before I buy a pint.

Nope. I will continue to brew my beer for an audience of one. But I do really like beer! So if I come up with a brew that I like it seems other beer lovers usually like it too. At least I assume so, based on how much lighter the Corny keg is after the party.

 

[Joey007]

I had so many jokes in my head to say about this, but you all beat me to all of them.

 

[Mark.]

What about other coach's beer? We all know Harbaugh's will be a little salty; Rex's will smell like feet.

 

[RayClay]

Quit for many years and went back.I'm hooked on the IPAs. Love em.

 

[Tony2046]

I am an IPA fan who is almost 70, was speaking to a local brewer who claimed that IPA's were my demographic.. that is why there is so many flavored beers available to appeal to a younger crowd and to appeal to women... they certainly do not appeal to me.

After being stationed in Germany for four years and drinking Bittburger Pils, Weizen, Carlsburg gold etc.... coming back and drinking a watered down Budweiser no longer cut it. Fortunately when I came back new beers had popped up such as Shipyard and Taverns with 100+ micro's on tap were popular. One of my favorite Taverns is the Great Lost Bear down on Forest ave in Portland. Great beer and they make a mean buffalo chicken sandwich.

Anyways fruity beers suck imo. I enjoy a good pale ale or an IPA and even moreso when from the tap.

 

[Tony2046]

When pop open up a can of Bud: Pssshhhtt

When pop open up a can of BB: snorkgurgleschnott

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

When pop open up a can of Bud: Pssshhhtt

When pop open up a can of BB: snorkgurgleschnott

You know, you're a good looking kid but that uniform is butt-ugly...
Let's pop open a couple cold ones after the game...

 

[SEA_Pat]

What about other coach's beer? We all know Harbaugh's will be a little salty; Rex's will smell like feet.

You drink one "Andy Reid Radler" and you won't know what time it is...

 

[Satchboogie3]

What about other coach's beer? We all know Harbaugh's will be a little salty; Rex's will smell like feet.

I think Harbaugh's would have to be 'pissweiser', the imaginary beer from the GTA game series.
Rex's would be Brewery's Salt of the Earth. Super nasty and salty gose that basically smelled like old gym socks. Not good!

I don't find anything wrong with the hop-craze, though I think some people just chase 'hype' rather than quality. I love the 'hyped' stuff from Hill Farmstead, Tree House, Trillium, etc, but I'm also not afraid to say that Hill Farmstead hasn't been right since the new brewery, Trillium rushes their beer to market (needs at least another week+ to condition), Bissell Brothers is an out of control hype-train (good beer, but not even close to the hype/effort), or Foundation's Epiphany is way off lately.

I dislike the "it's only good if it's cloudy" crowd. You can have it anyway. I like a good IPA. Cloudy, crystal clear, old-school West Coast, 'shelf terds', Celebration Ale! There's no 'right' way to make an IPA.

I like most beer. I like fruited beers if they are sours(GOOD sours, not a lot of the crap on the market, or in rare cases some raspberry stouts. I'm thinking Lindley Park here, NOT Founders sweet-mess Luscious!) Adjunct Stouts are good if they aren't overly sweet. I geeked out in the past for stuff like Black Tuesday, but I've realized those are just sweet messes. Really they aren't all that good.

I had this Bella Czech pilz at a bar recently, but had no idea it was a BB reference (didn't see the can and wasn't paying enough attention!). But I'll certainly revisit this and keep the can!

 

[SEA_Pat]

Mike Tomlin's beer would be called "Sneaky Trip Ale", and one sip would send you out of bounds in a hurry. Aftertaste is very bitter.

 

[SEA_Pat]

Pete Carroll's "Jacked and Pumped Porter" is a winter beer, not something you'd drink before then as it's flat until the weather gets bad. It's pretty good, so long as it's not served by the Butler.

 

[pherein]

I bought a 6 pack of BB beer last night, but according to the directions on the
1st can I had to trade it to a guy in cleveland for his 1st and 4th can of beer next year.
2nd and 3rd can I had to trade to a guy in oakland for a 1st and 6th round can of beer next year.
which only left me with 3 BB's to drink.
3rd can I had to sit because it didnt open well on the 1st try.
The other 2 cans of BB beer hit hard and did the job though,
but the fedex cost to ship my trades were pretty high.

 

[Ross12]

Bill, how do you feel about Blue Moon?

BB: "I'm only going to talk about the beers currently in this refrigerator."

 

[patfanken]

OK, good there are beer mavens in this thread and a couple as old as me, because I'm having one of the memory problems you can help me out with. I was working one summer at Bunratty's a very popular bar about half way between BU and BC just off Comm. Ave in Brighton back in the mid- 70's, and a lite beer cam out about a year or two before Miller Lite made the scene, and lite beers (pilsners) became a very popular choice. At any rate it came and went, just a bit too early to catch that wave. So every now and then I take the time to try and remember the name of the beer which optimizes the phrase "bad timing".

For no reason the letter P seems to come to mind, but nothing else ever comes. I could be very wrong. Anyone else out there remember what I think was the first "lite" beer to hit the general market.

 

[n1997y]

I bought a 6 pack of BB beer last night, but according to the directions on the
1st can I had to trade it to a guy in cleveland for his 1st and 4th can of beer next year.
2nd and 3rd can I had to trade to a guy in oakland for a 1st and 6th round can of beer next year.
which only left me with 3 BB's to drink.
3rd can I had to sit because it didnt open well on the 1st try.
The other 2 cans of BB beer hit hard and did the job though,
but the fedex cost to ship my trades were pretty high.

Yeah but you'll have four cans next year, two of them better than any of the three you gave up to get them.

Of course you do realize three of the four you're getting next year will have to be traded, right?