Any Craft Beer Drinkers on Here Lately?
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Served on the board of directors for the homebrew club in Anchorage (Great Northern Brewers Club) for many years, love brewing. Won many a comp and brewed some batches at a few commercial breweries as a result. My favorites lately have been IPAs, sours, brett beers, saisons, wits and weizens, and any variation of stouts/porters. But I like it all.
I love craft beer. There are so many great breweries out there anymore. I play music for my second job/side hustle and pretty much try to play all of local breweries I can ...you get done earlier than bars, almost always drink for free, and generally have pretty chilled out crowds. Now if I could only smoke my pipe inside...but that's a whole other can of worms... I've been really into Rhinegeist beers lately.
We have.... somewhat... of a scene here, in New York City(and surrounding areas). I pick up a different IPA with just about every supermarket visit, and they're almost excusively hazy DDH NEIPA. Some suck, but others are trascendental beverages. I've loved most things from Interboro, and having sampled a few Other Half offerings, they certainly live up to the hype. More readily available supermarket beers I'm a big fan of(not sure what qualifies as "Craft" these days):
West coast style:
Bell's Two Hearted Ale
Stone Brewing IPA
Cigar City Brewing Jai Alai(not sure if this is west coast style, it's very resinous though)
Others:
New Belgium Voodoo Ranger Imperial IPA
Sierra Nevada Hop Hunter
Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing
Favorite Breweries in general:
* Interboro
* Other Half
* Omnipollo
* Stillwater Artisanal
* Frost Beer Works(off of a single beer, "Lush Double IPA" -- floored me)
* Beer'd Brewing Co. (off of a single beer again, "Dogs & Boats" -- a stunner of a DIPA)
I'm sure there's more I've forgotten about, but yeah...
West coast style:
Bell's Two Hearted Ale
Stone Brewing IPA
Cigar City Brewing Jai Alai(not sure if this is west coast style, it's very resinous though)
Others:
New Belgium Voodoo Ranger Imperial IPA
Sierra Nevada Hop Hunter
Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing
Favorite Breweries in general:
* Interboro
* Other Half
* Omnipollo
* Stillwater Artisanal
* Frost Beer Works(off of a single beer, "Lush Double IPA" -- floored me)
* Beer'd Brewing Co. (off of a single beer again, "Dogs & Boats" -- a stunner of a DIPA)
I'm sure there's more I've forgotten about, but yeah...
HAHA. been into "craft beers since the mid '80s. Back then we just called them "good" beers. Sadly there are many great beers that have disappeared.
Must be the old codger in me i dont like them. Wife bought me a "Antihero IPA" ?. Tasted like a skunk sprayed directly on my tongue. Craft beer for me is when i get Heineken once a year
Not a big beer drinker here, but I enjoy the occasional brew, and craft beers can be tasty, usually ordered by me when I'm eating out, back in those days. In those cases, I look for exceptional examples of traditional style brews. Unusual flavorings and exceptionally light and dark don't play well with me, perhaps because I don't drink beer as much. No pumpkin spice, please, please. I wish someone would buy the license to the recipe for the old Chicago brew Meister Brau, a working man's beer sold in big glass bottles, and later in cans. In the bottles, it was truly a German beer brewed in the U.S., and the best of its type to me. Way better than Schliz or Pabst. I am surrounded by small breweries in N.C., but there are so many you'd have to drink a lot and a big variety to establish favorites.
Oly was one of the first beers I ever had,along with Rainer,and Hamms.At about 5 or 6 years old,my mother used to give sips of her beer on camping trips to Luther,Montana.Right then and there,I knew in the back of my mind,I would be a beer drinker later on in life.How correct I was.
I'm which you 100% on Founders! I remember going to the Class 6 and they had a free 6 pack of Lone Star with any other beer purchase; no one would take it. You know a beer sucks when you can't even give it away to young soldiers! Six years stationed in Germany spoiled me on beers.
Had this a few weeks ago when I was in Mexico. It's one of my favorites to have when there.
It's a peanut stout. Flavor is a smooth creamy peanut butter over a medium strength stout without much bitterness.
It's a peanut stout. Flavor is a smooth creamy peanut butter over a medium strength stout without much bitterness.
Lawson's Sip of Sunshine. Boom Sauce. New England Brewing Sea Hag. I miss Pete's Wicked Ale, long gone and very different from the beers I drink nowadays. Drink mostly spirits these days anyhow, but so many great beers out there to enjoy. Cheers.
Basically one of the first from 1980
or this, from Fritz Maytag
or this, from Fritz Maytag
I've never seen those before. As I now love and respect my liver, I will likely enjoy them vicariously...
Sierra was one of the best then and it's still one of the best now. And Anchor is still top notch too. I remember way back in maybe 1992 or 1992 their Christmas ale was "Anchor Spruce" absolutely fantastic, but they've never done it since. Sadly.
I think Olympia made Lucky, that’s what made me think of them. It was a good lager and the riddles in the caps were fun.
Oh yeah, both were totally in my rotation. I would choose my bars based on whether they had Sierra on tap back when that wasn't a given.
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