Fat Tire..........
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Overrated based on East Coast scarcity. I remember buying it in the parking lots before Phish shows and thinking it was great. Then I traveled to SF for awhile and drank it whenever I was there. I couldn't stand it after 2 months or so. After one, the toasty/caramel taste becomes too much. It dries out your tongue.
I had a couple last weekend in Chesapeake City, MD and remembered why I didn't like it.
I had a couple last weekend in Chesapeake City, MD and remembered why I didn't like it.
Average to below-average "craft" beer.
While in Oregon last week, I did have a tremendous beer though...Boneyard Brewing's "RPM IPA".
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/23066/60750/
While in Oregon last week, I did have a tremendous beer though...Boneyard Brewing's "RPM IPA".
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/23066/60750/
Strantely enough, recently my parents were reminiscing about how, when they traveled out west in the '60s, their friends would all request beer to bring back. Wild and exotic stuff, like Coors.
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There are really only two levels of beer: 1) beer that is made with shit and therefore tastes like shit. Has to be ice cold so that you can barely taste it.
2) beer that is made with actual beer ingredients and can be tasty depending on each persons taste and whims
2) beer that is made with actual beer ingredients and can be tasty depending on each persons taste and whims
I'm old enough to remember having that same conversation myself (in the 70's for me).
Before SPG comes on here and rips this to shreds with a detailed exposition on ingredients, could you please let us know which category Blue Moon falls into? He seems to have it in a category between the two.
I was on the Western Slope of Colorado earlier this year. I liked it so I drank it.
Scarcity brings a lot of hype for beer. Theres people that can't wait to drink a Yuengling when they are in PA.
Scarcity brings a lot of hype for beer. Theres people that can't wait to drink a Yuengling when they are in PA.
Old joke: How is American beer (before craft beer) like having sex in a canoe?
They are both f…..g near water.
Agree with Tom Dudes as it is a matter of personal taste but the quality and range is far better as craft brews are finding their place at the bar.
Yeah that is beer worth seeking out for sure. As someone that spends quite a bit of time in northern vermont during the winter months, the beers you can drink in waterbury really spoil you for others. Jersey's Carton and Kane (starting to can this fall) are both examples of craft done well but I agree there is a lot of meh to get through.
Fat Tire did have sort of mythical status out here but does underwhelm me. Similar to Bells which is talked about in such high esteem but which I found just good... not great. On the other hand places like Russian River and Alchemist or Hill Farmstead get that same hype but deliver.
And while yes, beer, music, food is all subjective.. the idea theat there is no good or bad is lost on me. The macro brewers do a good (kind of amazing) job making a consistent product with their Adjunct lagers. Can't hide impurities behind something so water thin and flavorless but at the end of the day its a product made to make money not to deliver good taste.
I have no problem drinking Blue Moon, particularly when its on special.
Mock me all you want, but the kangaroo doesn't always feeling like dropping $6+ on a beer.
Mock me all you want, but the kangaroo doesn't always feeling like dropping $6+ on a beer.
There are definitely some beers "better" than others. Maybe I should have said, it's useless to try and convince someone else to agree with your opinion since personal preference ("taste") can vary so widely. For me, I like trying different craft beers, and I have developed a preference for some of the local brews in my area. But if all a place serves is bud heavy, I'm ok with that too.
They still sell the original Victory Lager.
I miss the original Victory Lager. It was a bit different from Helles.
They still sell the original Victory Lager.
Personally, I find Magic Hat #9 disgusting. That's why there are different types. Some of the ones I like are:
Wells Bombardier
Wychwood Hobgoblin
Ayinger Altbairsh Dunkel
Hofbrau Dunkel
Victory Headwaters
Troegs Nugget Nectar
Terrapin Hopsecutioner
Firestone Walker Union Jack
Clown Shoes Galactica
Deschutes Mirror Pond
OMB Copper
Newcastle Brown Ale
I tend to stay away from hoppy beers and gravitate towards brown ales. I can appreciate an IPA, but it's not something I'm going to drink all day- usually one and I'm done. I like:
Smuttynose Old Brown Dog Ale
Newcastle
Dogfish indian Brown
Sammy Smith Nut Brown Ale
Avery Ellies Brown
Don't mind Fat Tire as it's pretty drinkable, but nothing mind-blowing.
Smuttynose Old Brown Dog Ale
Newcastle
Dogfish indian Brown
Sammy Smith Nut Brown Ale
Avery Ellies Brown
Don't mind Fat Tire as it's pretty drinkable, but nothing mind-blowing.
Gave you one. I don't actually like Bkue Moon (although I don't mind it), I just remember its role in your earlier treatise on beer ingredients and the scarcity of good beers. I wanted another lesson in adjunct ingredients.
Just read the miller lite post from burrs and I'm actually in the same boat. Cold miller lite and I'm happy. I like lite beer. I can drink other stuff and appreciate one or two real beer . Down the shore and went to the liquor store, beyond all the booze and wine, picked up stella, which is really just miller lite in another bottle and Corona lite. Which I love in the summer.
Wasn't bringing Coors across the Texas-Arkansas state line the whole premise of the original Smokey and Bandit movie?
When I was in middle school we lived on a Navy base in southern Spain (my dad was a Marine). Periodically a Navy Pilot friend of my dad's would roll through from somewhere in the western US and would bring my parents a couple cases of Coors. It seemed to be a big deal at the time as inevitably a bunch of my parent's friends would show up and they would drink it all in an evening.
Back on topic - don't care for Coors, do like Fat Tire. Drinking a Shiner Bock as I write this.