i mean light beer is all well and good if you wanna just buy a 30 of busch light with your friends and get hammered and play beiruit all night, but i alwyas love when i have a little extra cash and i can get a sixer of something nice. I love sittin back and sippin on a magic hat, newcastle or even a guinness. i want to know what other dark beer fans like for brews.
MagicHat! You must be from New England. I haven't had Magic Hat in a long time. Dark beers... You've listed my favorite, Guiness, but there are so many micro brew dark beers out there, its really hard to choose. I like dark chocolate and java stouts the best I think though...
Magic Hat is distributed all up and down the east coast, actually. I am just trying to think which of their beers would classify as a "dark beer." I haven't tried all their beers, but I really liked their "Blind Faith." "Dark beer" is such a vague term, but my favorite dark beer is Victory's "Storm King" stout.
I've only had Storm King once... i kept the front of the box.. anywhoo, I should try it again since you rave so much about it. I only keep the front of boxes that I like, so that's a good sign
Cool! Just make sure you don't drink it too cold, or it loses a lot of its flavor and complexities, particularly in terms of body and mouthfeel. I find that it's best right around 50 degrees fahrenheit, which is cellar temperature. Storm King is an amazing beer, but respect it as it's pretty potent stuff.
you are right, in 9.1% alcohol, its makin me feel pretty happy, but I also like the fact that it tells on the bottle, when it WAS bottled... this was bottled january 20th.... a little late, but hey.... it's good beer
Actually, you could probably cellar that beer for a good two years and it would actually mellow out a bit more and gain even more complexities with time. With high alcohol beers you don't really have to worry about shelf-life as much because they can remain good for several years, unlike lagers, pale ales and standard stouts, which have a pretty much limited shelf-life.
the only dark beer that people will buy for me is Guinness. now i like guinness, but i would love to try other dark beers. whenever we have a party, we just get a couple 30's of bud, but nothing really worth the title of a good beer. so i'm pretty much stuck for the next 2 years, unless my friends get more into drinking good beer instead of getting crap to get fucked up with all the time. i'm not saying we shouldn't get smashed, but i wanna expand to see what's out there. damnit, i'm such a youngin
