Poll: Beer!?
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Pretty America-centric options there 
Personal favorite is a Dutch beer called Hertog Jan (translation: Duke John. Named after John I of Brabant - my home province. He was a 13th century duke famed for his medieval equivalent of legendary frat parties, some lasting several days and were so badass people occasionally died. Bitchin'). You probably won't find it in the States but every American kid I've ever introduced to it prefers it over their domestic brands. Which makes sense because Americans can't brew for shit! Yeah, went there.
Out of the options in the poll I'd pick the 'microbrew' option - Heineken for me. Not really that micro though, it's the biggest brewery in the Netherlands. Weird thing is it's not nearly as good here as it is abroad: this is because a different recipe is used for export. Go figure right?
Personal favorite is a Dutch beer called Hertog Jan (translation: Duke John. Named after John I of Brabant - my home province. He was a 13th century duke famed for his medieval equivalent of legendary frat parties, some lasting several days and were so badass people occasionally died. Bitchin'). You probably won't find it in the States but every American kid I've ever introduced to it prefers it over their domestic brands. Which makes sense because Americans can't brew for shit!
Yeah, went there.Out of the options in the poll I'd pick the 'microbrew' option - Heineken for me. Not really that micro though, it's the biggest brewery in the Netherlands. Weird thing is it's not nearly as good here as it is abroad: this is because a different recipe is used for export. Go figure right?
I presume I'd go with imported as I'm English, so therefore all my alcohol is imported to you.
Guiness for me. Failing that, a strong larger, or whiskey. I'm not too fussy, but I love my Guiness.
Guiness for me. Failing that, a strong larger, or whiskey. I'm not too fussy, but I love my Guiness.
No beer for me yet, still have to wait a year before I can legally drink... But I'll probably be too busy trying to graduate film school.
I'd pay good money to watch someone attempt to sing the first bit while drunk.UnableToThinkOfName said:
OT: I'm not a big beer drinker; I've pretty much only ever tried Becks' from the beers (as far as I know >_>). I'll have a nice pint of Strongbow, or a couple'a shots.
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Even though the picture is pretty damn bad, the beer itself is really good.
But I prefer smaller amounts of stronger alcohols tbh.
Even though the picture is pretty damn bad, the beer itself is really good.
But I prefer smaller amounts of stronger alcohols
tbh.
Dear lord who likes coors, bud, and all american beers? Im american, and i know better than to waste money on those things...ok well we do have sam adams, thats the rare exception.
My favourites? Too many to list.
My favourites? Too many to list.
They taste different, there are things I wouldn't call ale or lager like John Smiths, I'd just call that beer. There are a few things where I wouldn't call sub genres exactly the same as I'd call the over all genre.Megalodon said:
I also said I'm sat here with Carlsberg so if I made sense through typing I'd be quite happy.
Megalodon said:
You're both British by your profiles. When beer is said here it usually means bitter, which is really just a type of beer.D4zZ said:
John Smiths is a bitter, for instance.
I don't know the real difference between lager and bitter, but to me lager is fizzy, bitter is not. Lager tastes tart and acidic, bitter tastes strong and full. And you can drink bitter at any temperature (though it's best slightly chilled) while lager can only be drank on the point of freezing or it tastes very bad.
Ale is what I would consider the best of them all though there's so many different types you need a degree to understand them. When my family get together all the old men recommend ales for me to drink and this makes me happy. If I'm shopping for myself I'll just buy some simple bitters.
Fair enough.D4zZ said:
John Smiths is I believe a Bitter, which is technically a type of ale. Normally weaker than other ales but more heavily hopped than other weaker ales such as Milds. John Smiths, while being perfectly fine, is far from the best that Bitters can offer.
I'm sat here with Hobgoblin.
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The chief difference between lager and ale is in the fermentation . Lagers are fermented for longer at lower temperatures than ales are. Taste-wise you are completely correct.Actual said:
John Smith's is bitter. Really, beer is the overall term, like wine. You have ale, which is the original stuff, then you have lagers, which use a different type of yeast, and have only been around recently (19th century onwards, roughly). Then there's bitters, which are like ales, but tend to be smoother and creamier. Then there are stouts, like Guinness. Incidentally, all of these should be served at different temperatures, and out of different mediums. Lagers go well ice cold from steel barrels (because really, lager is there because it's refreshing, not because it's a connoisseur's drink), bitters are served at cellar temperature, usually from steel (though the line between bitters and ales is very blurry, so there's often a lot of mixup), ales and stouts are at room temperature, and ales are preferably out of wooden casks. Cask ales also tend to use gravity flow to get them from cask to glass.D4zZ said:
Also some of that might not be perfect, I'm just about to go out so I don't have a lot of time to check my facts.