There is a local brewery here in Alabama that makes a beer called “Sour-Pash”. Does it have a lot of alcohol? No. Hops? No. Is it fucking delicious and refreshing? You god damn right.
I love this beer, and it’s always sold out when I go to buy it.
There is an entire family of beers called "sours." They're funky AF. Pretty weird (but I've had good ones).
Dunno if that's what yours was, but might be something to look into if it is and you like that style.
Thank you, totally agree on this. Give me a nice kosch or something else interesting
I feel it's almost time to brew Altbier again. It will be good at the start of winter.
Sour beers are where it's at
Breweries are everywhere now but when I go and there isn’t even one sour on the list I get really disappointed.
I had the best sour a few weekends ago in NH. I really wish there was a wider variety around. They’re always my favorite. Love a good stout too.
Ugh same here, every selection is half IPAs. Not a fan myself but the history behind the style is my favorite beer "origin story". It would help if more breweries listed the hops used. To me that's the key to knowing if I'll like it
I did a Sweet 16 bracket elimination contest for regional IPAs a few years back just to force myself to identify the 'good' ones and eliminate bad ones. Even after doing that, I do a little dance any time there's something else available.
God, I thought I was the only one. relief
I agree. Shitty IPAs are shitty, but I guess that is by definition.
Never had a beer I liked, and EVERY SINGLE TIME a friend will tell me what they like is actually good "you can't even taste the beer flavor, just the blank" and every single time, it tastes like beer with no hint of the blank.
Same. I gave up on beers years ago. I accept it's not worth my money anymore just in hopes of figuring out what people like about it. I still enjoy some wines (though relatively few and I wouldn't consider it an amazing taste). Mixed drinks are really where it's at. Can't go wrong with spiced rum and diet coke! There's also so many very delicious sugary mixed drinks, but I try to minimize those because it'd take like 500+ calories to get a buzz.
Looking at you New Belgium. How many damn IPA's do you need? "Cigarette butts in a can" all taste the same.
You from the states? Over here in Germany I can get (in a 5 km radius):
We can get almost all of those here, too, though the traditional German ones seem to be less common. What bothers me is that IPA, fine brews, have been a freaking obsession here for about 10 years, and it's driving me nuts. It's at the point where one says "I want a craft beer" and they list 10 IPA, one lager, one amber ale, and Guinness.
C'mon people, take your heads out of your asses and look around!
I've switched back to regular old boring Heineken. Gimme something crispy and watery that won't weigh me down at 10am.
I feel you.
I brew my own beer just have a decent Munich style lager.
Thought I was on r/bartenders for a minute there :)
I like IPA and there's like 3-4 very distinct sort of IPAs. There's a imperial IPA from a local craft around me that's almost caramel dark and people might not even call an IPA on a blind taste test.
But, I must agree it's kinda silly theres 2-3 IPAs in the craft section for every other type most places. I tend to buy the IPAs when I buy craft beer (outside of making a trip to the really big selection places) because the only other craft options are like "bland blonde #82 from probably owned by Budweiser brewery" or "ale that tastes like spoiled Newcastle". Sometimes they have dales pale ale in a few different labels for more money.
Craft beer has just become a shit show at retailers for me. No one carries any of the cans I like anymore. I have to go far out of my way to buy anything I actually want. Fortunately I live 15ish minutes from a downtown with a half dozen good breweries that have 10+ beers on tap year round. I'm not a bar/brewery person and I wish I could get cans to drink at home still though.
Me, who drinks an imperial IPA: Umm, yeah, totally annoying that there aren’t more… pilsners?