bah. Who here is drinking. I have half a 26er left, and i was planning on drinking the bottle tomorrow.
its not all bad. usually when people think of magic hat htey think of #9...which isn't that great. and magic hat makes magic hat, they are microbrwers in Vt
The microbrews up here blow you all away. Pyramid Red Hook Bridgeport Widmer Black Butte Full Sail Rogue Mirror Pond ... And they're mine all mine! Bawhahahahaha!
I bet that those are awesome, yet we get Rogue here and it's a tad plain. I'm kinda glad I don't live in a place with good local breweries... I'd blow all my money.
Yeah, Rogue is the definitely worst of that lot. But Mirror Pond and Bridgeport don't cost much more than budweiser around here, and they're both sweet as fucking honey.
there are some really great breweries in the New England area...especially Allagash...i love their beer.
Shiner Bock isn't all that bad, and it's cheap here cuz it's local. you'll get a bad batch every so often, though, depending on where you buy it...
yeah Shiner is the only thing I would drink in Texas, Yuengling was the only thing I would drink in Pennsylvania. In Florda, I was shit out of luck, Of course all I could afford back then was busch anyway, :ack: But when we could splurge as kids it would always be Canadian beer, either Moosehead or St Pauli Girls.
I tried the number 7 or something... No, I think it was Number 9. Anyway, it was a hot day and I crawled into this little bar/restaurant and was very thirsty. They didn't have it on tap, but I really wanted to try it and so I had a bottle. It tasted skunky and wasn't the kind of cold that a cold beer should be when you order it from a bar. I was quite disappointed. I want to try Circus Boy however, because I've heard that it was pretty good. What would you recommend?
Circus Boy is a German-style wheat beer (hefeweizen). It's not that good, IMO. I like Jinx, which is a smoked ale. It's a seasonal fall beer. My favorite from them would have to be Blind Faith, which is an English IPA. Also, Feast of Fools, which is a seasonal fruit beer. It is 7.5% ABV, and each 1 liter corked bottle is made with one pound of raspberries -- very good stuff.
you knwo, for being in Vt. and real close to the brewery, not much is distributed out that i've seen around here other than the big ones they produce (#9, circus boy). i've had Jinx before, its good. i want to get up to the brewery though and some of the beer pubs up in Burlington - though, hard to get up there and friends aren't interested as much as i am in craft brews so they only like going up there to go clubbing
I like clean wheat beers. I think I'd like to try the Feast of Fools, please. That sounds like the kind of beer I'd love. I did try Sam Adams' Oktoberfest beer when I was in the USA this past October, and I really enjoyed it.
I like wheat beers to be unfiltered. That's the way they should be, as the yeast does a lot to give the beer its flavor. The filtered wheats lose a lot of their character. I am not big into German hefeweizens, but I like Belgian witbiers a lot. With the domestic German-style wheats, the banana and clove flavor is just too much for me, unless it's one of the top-notch beers from Germany, like Weihenstephaner, which is one of my favorite beers of all-time.
I love Weihenstephaner! That's probably my favourite wheat beer. I think it ferments at a higher temperature, so it has a hybrid-yeast cream wheaty taste. Mmm... let's have some beer.
I been looking at home brew kits for the last hour or two. I even found a trappist style ingredient kit. My loving fiance discovered a pre-brewing major class at the local city college for me to take this fall. I eventually want to attend UC Davis or Oregon State University after I get my twenty in the Navy done, to study fermentation sciences. mmmmmm beer
