Just recently made a few infused syrups for making cocktails:
1) Apple Cider Syrup (boiled down apple cider @ about 4:1 cider to sugar) -- not really one of the infused syrups
2) Mint Syrup
3) Ginger Syrup
4) Habanero Syrup
Immediately after I finished making these, I made an delicious drink with Maker's Mark, ginger syrup & habanero syrup, muddled ginger, and bitters. Absolutely delicious. Wish I had better bitters, guess that's my next mission!
That sounds good. So I looked... and the nearest place that sells it to me is 724 miles away.
I don't understand how a company can get that stuff all over the world and stillmissmajor metropolitan areas. Anything like it that you know of?
If you're talking about Gulden Draak, I actually don't like the taste of it at all.
The reason I mentioned it was 9909 was looking for a sweet beer and seemed to like Belgian ales, and Gulden Draak is both a Belgian ale and the sweetest beer I can think of. The stuff is syrupy.
If you're talking about Gulden Draak, I actually don't like the taste of it at all.
The reason I mentioned it was 9909 was looking for a sweet beer and seemed to like Belgian ales, and Gulden Draak is both a Belgian ale and the sweetest beer I can think of. The stuff is syrupy.
Even the packaging looks like an "Authentic Quebec Maple Syrup" jug
I was just mentioning it because I try to find any beer you list on this site to try and 95% of the time they don't exist here.
Today I am trying to figure out why Rogue Brewery's beer is so expensive though. $9 for a bomber of their stuff. $15 for a 32ounce of the seasonal stuff. No idea. It's good and all, but twice the price of other good beer?
Even the packaging looks like an "Authentic Quebec Maple Syrup" jug
I was just mentioning it because I try to find any beer you list on this site to try and 95% of the time they don't exist here.
Today I am trying to figure out why Rogue Brewery's beer is so expensive though. $9 for a bomber of their stuff. $15 for a 32ounce of the seasonal stuff. No idea. It's good and all, but twice the price of other good beer?
Wait what? You live in Oregon. Rogue is in Oregon. Why on earth would an Oregon brewery charge that much in Oregon? That makes no sense.
I don't even consider Rogue that good.
I'd be happy to throw a bunch of beers at you that I think are worth trying:
Pilsner Urquell
Czechvar
Hofbrau Dunkel
Hoegaarden
Weihenstephaner Hefe-Weissbier
Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock
Anchor Steam Beer
Bass Pale Ale
Guinness Extra Stout
Fuller's ESB
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA
Newcastle Brown Ale
Fuller's London Porter
Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout
Samuel Smith Imperial Stout
North Coast Old Rasputin Imperial Stout
Westmalle Dubbel
Westmalle Tripel
Trappistes Rochefort 10
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Jolly Pumpkin La Roja
Saison Dupont
Flying Dog "The Fear" Pumpkin Ale
You may not like all of those, but they're at least worth trying.
Wait what? You live in Oregon. Rogue is in Oregon. Why on earth would an Oregon brewery charge that much in Oregon? That makes no sense.
I don't even consider Rogue that good.
It doesn't. A 6 pack of Dead Guy Ale is $11
I like their stuff just fine, but when you have some seriously amazing stuff on the shelf next to it for half the price it boggles my mind. That said, I have recently started brewing with their Pacman Yeast and so far it's looking good - a really clean fermentation. So, I guess the home brewer in my respects them, but the beer buyer is a bit less convinced.
I've had about half those on your list and you will never get me to buy a Pumpkin beer, but the rest... I'll look for them.
If you're talking about Gulden Draak, I actually don't like the taste of it at all.
The reason I mentioned it was 9909 was looking for a sweet beer and seemed to like Belgian ales, and Gulden Draak is both a Belgian ale and the sweetest beer I can think of. The stuff is syrupy.
While I am okay with ciders, I don't like sweet bears; I'd rather drink sweat.
I can't really drink much given that im doing a Keto Lifestyle, but during gatherings and such things i would likely drink whiskey, mostly because it doesnt make me hangover.
As for brand... i have few choices so i have learned to not be picky.
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I was really into what you were selling until you mentioned licorice. Yuck!
Apparently the intensity of the chocolate and pure alcohol made it less anise flavored than I thought. I picked up the smoked rye and dark chocolate a lot more than I ever caught Licorice.
and you will never get me to buy a Pumpkin beer, but the rest...
I mean, if you don't like pumpkin, there's no reason to get one. But if you do, "The Fear" is worth trying. It's quite a rich, brown beer, so it actually does taste like beer as well as pumpkin, and not like Pumking or Smashed Pumpkin which taste like pumpkin candy.
Incidentally, Galspanic, you said you homebrew, right? You should check this blog out. There's a series of articles called "Let's Brew" that provide recipes for old British beers.
(In particular, they have the recipe for Thomas Hardy's Ale. Which is a big deal. If you ever find Thomas Hardy's Ale, proceed to pay whatever obscene price they charge for it.)
Just any kind of whisky, really. Sorry you have no advice on scotch. I love Jack Daniels, but I feel like there's more out there that I'm missing out on.
Apparently the intensity of the chocolate and pure alcohol made it less anise flavored than I thought. I picked up the smoked rye and dark chocolate a lot more than I ever caught Licorice.
Well, that sounds alright then. I just have an aversion to licorice. I can't stand the stuff.
I mean, if you don't like pumpkin, there's no reason to get one. But if you do, "The Fear" is worth trying. It's quite a rich, brown beer, so it actually does taste like beer as well as pumpkin, and not like Pumking or Smashed Pumpkin which taste like pumpkin candy.
Oooooooo that sounds nice! I've been looking for a darker beer with a pumpkin flavor. The fact that it's also called "The Fear" is a plus (though I think that has more to do with my obsession with MGS than anything else : P)
Just drank a bottle of Cantillon Gueuze, just to see if there actually was anything behind this gueuze/lambic craze that seems to have taken off in America.
Answer is no. No there isn't. Save your money. Saison Dupont is cheaper and better, and I don't even like Saison Dupont.
Yeah, I am a hops guy and all those ages wild yeast beers don't really do it for me. All too sweet too.
Actually, lambic isn't sweet at all. It's bone dry. The reason the beers you might have had were sweet (especially if you had Lindemans' lambics) is because people have often sweetened lambic to offset the funkiness.
One type of sour I would recommend is Flemish sour red ale. Rodenbach Grand Cru is my favorite, but Jolly Pumpkin up in Michigan also makes a good one called La Roja.
Recently drank Thornbridge Bracia. Yesterday was sort of my, "drink expensive beer to conclude if it's actually worth the price" day. The beer was good, but it was sort of like drinking an Imperial Stout. The difference being Imperial Stouts have this tendency to be way the hell cheaper in price. Not a bad beer, but not one that justifies the price, and the honey involved in the beer added nothing particularly special or meaningful.
They tend to be so expensive that I can't taste test too many. And, the ones I've tried were fruity to a fault - my wife hates beer and loves that Framboise stuff.
1. Coors Batch 19 — The good first: I've always wondered what beer in America tasted like pre-prohibition, and now I know. It's kind of cool of Coors to give us a beer that is both a history lesson, and a beer that actually tastes like a beer.
That being said, I have no reason to ever drink this beer again. It isn't horrible, but it barely passes. This beer has a heavy corn flavor, not sure how much they used in the brewing but it seems like a sizable amount, and the result is the beer is really... clean. In an antiseptic sense. Its flavor is even lighter than a Kolsch. I'm sure this beer is legendary compared to the normal stuff Coors and other like breweries put out, but I really don't like that flavor of corn. The thing was bland and slightly off in a way that made me feel strange afterwards. I had to drink a Hofbrau Original to counteract it. I could even see some reason to buy it if the beer were really cheap the way most beers are, but it was at a normal six-pack price when I saw it, so I see this beer as only being useful as a history lesson.
2. Hofbrau Original — I really like this beer. Good, solid pale lager. Most importantly made in accordance with the German purity laws, which guarantees NO CORN was used when brewing. Ah, sweet, sweet, beautiful barley malt. The difference between this and the above is astounding.
3. Dogfish Head Chicory Stout — A stout that contains both chicory and Mexican coffee. The thing is, I don't like stouts that add things like coffee or chocolate into it. The reason being I find they actually make the beer less interesting. Since the malts used to make stout already make the beer taste like coffee and chocolate, why would you add chocolate or coffee to it? All you're doing is making the beer taste less like multi-dimensional malt and more like a one-dimensional thing that isn't malt.
That said, the beer was still alright. Wouldn't refuse it, but wouldn't go after it again.
4. Firestone Walker Pivo Pils — Well, I have to hand it to Firestone Walker. Worst beer of the night. This beer tasted like Pilsner Vitamin Water. I knew something was weird when it poured really pale. Very bland. Pilsner Urquell is a pilsner. This is piss.
Poured it down the sink.
If any beer has ever been a lesson that BeerAdvocate is full of ****, this beer is one of them.
I actually picked up a variety pack of Kona recently, and while I have had their Longboard Island Lager, this variety pack let me explore the other beers they had.
Fire Rock Pale Ale was pretty great actually. It had a nice full body, plenty of aromas and was a nice warm feel that was surprisingly not as overbearing as I thought it was going to be. I recently had a Banana Spice beer (forgot the name) that was pretty similar, but that was a pretty rough ride for me and Kona Fire Rock was a nice step down.
Big Wave Golden Ale was the next on my agenda. This was a much lighter body beer that was pretty sweet. Maybe just a little too sweet for me. Back home, we have a local brewery that makes some Apricot Ale similar to what Pyramid has. Apricot Ale is pretty sweet, but this Kona beer is a little too much for me I think. It may have had something to do with the BBQ chicken I spent the day making, so I am willing to give this one another shot with a bit lighter meal some other time.
Then there is the Longboard Island Lager and the Pipeline Porter which I really do not have much to say as they are nothing really new to me and I know the Longboard is pretty much the go to Kona beer from my understanding.
What I would do to get my hands on some Watermelon beer here in San Diego this time of year...
Samuel Adams Norse Legend Sahti: It's a respectable Sahti, the thing is I'm not a fan of juniper flavors in beer. I like the use of rye though. I need to find a good rye beer.
Founder's Red's Rye PA: Worth trying
Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye: Drink Founder's Red's Rye instead.
Hofbrau Oktoberfest: One of my favorite beers. Very balanced, like Hofbrau Original except maltier, which makes it *wonderful*.
Weihenstephaner Hefe-Weissbier: I like it.
Weihenstephaner Vitus: The doppelbock version of the above. Tastes a bit stronger and significantly more of alcohol given the higher strength. I prefer the above, but this is worth trying.
Ommegang Sickle and Scythe: This is not worth trying. Terrible beer. It's like what a band would be if any thought of composition were thrown out the window and every member had no agenda beyond playing "Loud". A bunch of flavors that are all strong and all going in different directions.
Lots of water and NyQuil in the last couple days. For those with a discerning palate for cold medicine, I would say that the Walgreen's generic brand is a poor, poor, poor substitute (flavor-wise) to NyQuil.
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1) Apple Cider Syrup (boiled down apple cider @ about 4:1 cider to sugar) -- not really one of the infused syrups
2) Mint Syrup
3) Ginger Syrup
4) Habanero Syrup
Immediately after I finished making these, I made an delicious drink with Maker's Mark, ginger syrup & habanero syrup, muddled ginger, and bitters. Absolutely delicious. Wish I had better bitters, guess that's my next mission!
I find a glass of alcohol makes some of the threads here on MTGS somewhat bearable.
If you're talking about Gulden Draak, I actually don't like the taste of it at all.
The reason I mentioned it was 9909 was looking for a sweet beer and seemed to like Belgian ales, and Gulden Draak is both a Belgian ale and the sweetest beer I can think of. The stuff is syrupy.
Even the packaging looks like an "Authentic Quebec Maple Syrup" jug
I was just mentioning it because I try to find any beer you list on this site to try and 95% of the time they don't exist here.
Today I am trying to figure out why Rogue Brewery's beer is so expensive though. $9 for a bomber of their stuff. $15 for a 32ounce of the seasonal stuff. No idea. It's good and all, but twice the price of other good beer?
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I like this one just fine.
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Wait what? You live in Oregon. Rogue is in Oregon. Why on earth would an Oregon brewery charge that much in Oregon? That makes no sense.
I don't even consider Rogue that good.
I'd be happy to throw a bunch of beers at you that I think are worth trying:
Pilsner Urquell
Czechvar
Hofbrau Dunkel
Hoegaarden
Weihenstephaner Hefe-Weissbier
Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock
Anchor Steam Beer
Bass Pale Ale
Guinness Extra Stout
Fuller's ESB
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA
Newcastle Brown Ale
Fuller's London Porter
Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout
Samuel Smith Imperial Stout
North Coast Old Rasputin Imperial Stout
Westmalle Dubbel
Westmalle Tripel
Trappistes Rochefort 10
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Jolly Pumpkin La Roja
Saison Dupont
Flying Dog "The Fear" Pumpkin Ale
You may not like all of those, but they're at least worth trying.
It doesn't. A 6 pack of Dead Guy Ale is $11
I like their stuff just fine, but when you have some seriously amazing stuff on the shelf next to it for half the price it boggles my mind. That said, I have recently started brewing with their Pacman Yeast and so far it's looking good - a really clean fermentation. So, I guess the home brewer in my respects them, but the beer buyer is a bit less convinced.
I've had about half those on your list and you will never get me to buy a Pumpkin beer, but the rest... I'll look for them.
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Annul is really good in EDH
Yup. They are one of the standard "big" good breweries out there. I've never had a bad one and I live 3,000 miles from where it's made.
I got wrangled into buying a Uintas Labyrinth Black Ale today. 13.2% abv
Aged in barrels with licorice.
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While I am okay with ciders, I don't like sweet bears; I'd rather drink sweat.
Yeah. I didn't know Central European beers were that yummy.
I may give this a try anyway. Thanks for the suggestion.
You can probably buy this online and have them ship it to you or find it in a nice beer garden.
I am drinking water but may put the kettle on for tea.
As for brand... i have few choices so i have learned to not be picky.
I was really into what you were selling until you mentioned licorice. Yuck!
Btw, I'm trying to expand my horizons with whisky. Any suggestions?
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But you drank a pilsner with syrup?
Which kind of whiskey?
Scotch you're on your own with, as I don't like scotch. Same goes for Irish and Canadian.
For Tennessee whiskey, Jack Daniels.
For bourbon, my favorite is Knob Creek. Other favorites include Woodford Reserve and Wild Turkey.
Apparently the intensity of the chocolate and pure alcohol made it less anise flavored than I thought. I picked up the smoked rye and dark chocolate a lot more than I ever caught Licorice.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
I mean, if you don't like pumpkin, there's no reason to get one. But if you do, "The Fear" is worth trying. It's quite a rich, brown beer, so it actually does taste like beer as well as pumpkin, and not like Pumking or Smashed Pumpkin which taste like pumpkin candy.
Incidentally, Galspanic, you said you homebrew, right? You should check this blog out. There's a series of articles called "Let's Brew" that provide recipes for old British beers.
(In particular, they have the recipe for Thomas Hardy's Ale. Which is a big deal. If you ever find Thomas Hardy's Ale, proceed to pay whatever obscene price they charge for it.)
Just any kind of whisky, really. Sorry you have no advice on scotch. I love Jack Daniels, but I feel like there's more out there that I'm missing out on.
Well, that sounds alright then. I just have an aversion to licorice. I can't stand the stuff.
Oooooooo that sounds nice! I've been looking for a darker beer with a pumpkin flavor. The fact that it's also called "The Fear" is a plus (though I think that has more to do with my obsession with MGS than anything else : P)
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Answer is no. No there isn't. Save your money. Saison Dupont is cheaper and better, and I don't even like Saison Dupont.
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Actually, lambic isn't sweet at all. It's bone dry. The reason the beers you might have had were sweet (especially if you had Lindemans' lambics) is because people have often sweetened lambic to offset the funkiness.
One type of sour I would recommend is Flemish sour red ale. Rodenbach Grand Cru is my favorite, but Jolly Pumpkin up in Michigan also makes a good one called La Roja.
Recently drank Thornbridge Bracia. Yesterday was sort of my, "drink expensive beer to conclude if it's actually worth the price" day. The beer was good, but it was sort of like drinking an Imperial Stout. The difference being Imperial Stouts have this tendency to be way the hell cheaper in price. Not a bad beer, but not one that justifies the price, and the honey involved in the beer added nothing particularly special or meaningful.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
1. Coors Batch 19 — The good first: I've always wondered what beer in America tasted like pre-prohibition, and now I know. It's kind of cool of Coors to give us a beer that is both a history lesson, and a beer that actually tastes like a beer.
That being said, I have no reason to ever drink this beer again. It isn't horrible, but it barely passes. This beer has a heavy corn flavor, not sure how much they used in the brewing but it seems like a sizable amount, and the result is the beer is really... clean. In an antiseptic sense. Its flavor is even lighter than a Kolsch. I'm sure this beer is legendary compared to the normal stuff Coors and other like breweries put out, but I really don't like that flavor of corn. The thing was bland and slightly off in a way that made me feel strange afterwards. I had to drink a Hofbrau Original to counteract it. I could even see some reason to buy it if the beer were really cheap the way most beers are, but it was at a normal six-pack price when I saw it, so I see this beer as only being useful as a history lesson.
2. Hofbrau Original — I really like this beer. Good, solid pale lager. Most importantly made in accordance with the German purity laws, which guarantees NO CORN was used when brewing. Ah, sweet, sweet, beautiful barley malt. The difference between this and the above is astounding.
3. Dogfish Head Chicory Stout — A stout that contains both chicory and Mexican coffee. The thing is, I don't like stouts that add things like coffee or chocolate into it. The reason being I find they actually make the beer less interesting. Since the malts used to make stout already make the beer taste like coffee and chocolate, why would you add chocolate or coffee to it? All you're doing is making the beer taste less like multi-dimensional malt and more like a one-dimensional thing that isn't malt.
That said, the beer was still alright. Wouldn't refuse it, but wouldn't go after it again.
4. Firestone Walker Pivo Pils — Well, I have to hand it to Firestone Walker. Worst beer of the night. This beer tasted like Pilsner Vitamin Water. I knew something was weird when it poured really pale. Very bland. Pilsner Urquell is a pilsner. This is piss.
Poured it down the sink.
If any beer has ever been a lesson that BeerAdvocate is full of ****, this beer is one of them.
Fire Rock Pale Ale was pretty great actually. It had a nice full body, plenty of aromas and was a nice warm feel that was surprisingly not as overbearing as I thought it was going to be. I recently had a Banana Spice beer (forgot the name) that was pretty similar, but that was a pretty rough ride for me and Kona Fire Rock was a nice step down.
Big Wave Golden Ale was the next on my agenda. This was a much lighter body beer that was pretty sweet. Maybe just a little too sweet for me. Back home, we have a local brewery that makes some Apricot Ale similar to what Pyramid has. Apricot Ale is pretty sweet, but this Kona beer is a little too much for me I think. It may have had something to do with the BBQ chicken I spent the day making, so I am willing to give this one another shot with a bit lighter meal some other time.
Then there is the Longboard Island Lager and the Pipeline Porter which I really do not have much to say as they are nothing really new to me and I know the Longboard is pretty much the go to Kona beer from my understanding.
What I would do to get my hands on some Watermelon beer here in San Diego this time of year...
Why is this thread full of liquor, lol?
Samuel Adams Norse Legend Sahti: It's a respectable Sahti, the thing is I'm not a fan of juniper flavors in beer. I like the use of rye though. I need to find a good rye beer.
Founder's Red's Rye PA: Worth trying
Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye: Drink Founder's Red's Rye instead.
Hofbrau Oktoberfest: One of my favorite beers. Very balanced, like Hofbrau Original except maltier, which makes it *wonderful*.
Weihenstephaner Hefe-Weissbier: I like it.
Weihenstephaner Vitus: The doppelbock version of the above. Tastes a bit stronger and significantly more of alcohol given the higher strength. I prefer the above, but this is worth trying.
Ommegang Sickle and Scythe: This is not worth trying. Terrible beer. It's like what a band would be if any thought of composition were thrown out the window and every member had no agenda beyond playing "Loud". A bunch of flavors that are all strong and all going in different directions.