dualstow wrote:Lots of good non-IPA brews out there in the brewniverse. Unfortunately the shelves are full of this fad.
MangoMan wrote:
dualstow wrote:Ha. Also, while I love beer, do you think people are getting a little carried away with hops these past several years?
I do.
No. Once you have had a good IPA, the rest of the stuff they call beer is just plain inferior.
Having spent 6 years in Europe courtesy of the US Army, I will have to say that there is nothing quite like Pilsner Urquell.
Tonight, however, I will be celebrating the 4th of July with friends in truly American fashion: fireworks and bottles of Coors.
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dualstow wrote:Ha. Also, while I love beer, do you think people are getting a little carried away with hops these past several years?
I do.
No. Once you have had a good IPA, the rest of the stuff they call beer is just plain inferior.
I will add this:
Although I love a good IPA, at 200+ calories per 12oz, a couple of pints with any regularity can make you fat very quickly if you're not careful.
One can always get a gig playing Santa Claus after a summer and fall of imbibing IPAs.
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Kriegsspiel wrote:Hefeweizen all day for me. Including morning.
Yes! It's amazing in summer. Especially Weihenstephaner.
I don't know where the not-before-12 o'clock drinking custom originated, but it must've been started by someone who wasn't financially independent.
I recently read something about how even children in Belgium drink their low alcohol "table beers." Jealous. I was raised on coca-cola and Tahitian Treat.
Kriegsspiel wrote:Hefeweizen all day for me. Including morning.
Yes! It's amazing in summer. Especially Weihenstephaner.
I don't know where the not-before-12 o'clock drinking custom originated, but it must've been started by someone who wasn't financially independent.
Oh yea, the best beer of summer.
I recall Ben Franklin scolded workers for drinking beer with breakfast. And John D. Rockefeller scolded EVERYONE who drank.
Kriegsspiel wrote:I like Jeff Tucker's Bourbon With Breakfast line.
I just stumbled upon that at Amazon. I didn't realize it was a line of books. When you wrote it, I imagined it as a line of mini bourbon portions with meal kits.
I should have put a comma there to show the intentional redundancy: