Chuck52
Veteran Member
Re: At the end of the day, what\'s your brew?
Once, while sitting through a particularly dull seminar, I started a paper going around the audience asking the grad students to list all the beers they had sampled. Since we had a number of foreign students, the list got really long and included quite a few beers I had never heard of, but what was really surprising was that a fella from rural Wisconsin named about ten different local brews from there, beers that never got out of their counties of production, probably, and this was back in the 70's, before the growth of microbreweries.
As to my own favorites, there's a local brewpub that used to be way up there on my scale, but the brewmeister left for greener pastures and the new guy has no imagination. I like really bitter IPA's, and I understand that is not "normal", but the brewpub used to make an "Anerican" style IPA that hit the spot. Now they stick with the "British" style, which is just your basic bitter. My own brews tend toward IPA styles, but usually include a lot of wheat in the mix. I started doing that after having a Red Hook Hefeweisen I particularly enjoyed. I liked it so much I cultured the yeast from a six-pack and used it for years to brew with. The culture finally died on me....my fault. It may not have been the actual brewing yeast for the Hefeweisen anyway, but perhaps a yeast added to the bottles after brewing, though it made me soime good brews.
I'll drink any of the light beers during hot weather....they have less taste than bottled water and are probably more pure, and usually cheaper. For taste, the Boulevard beers out of KC are OK. Red Hook IPA is almost bitter enough. I've worked my way through most of the locally available micro brews without finding one that has earned my loyalty.
Speaking of lists....has anyone been to Paradise Alley in Jax Beach? They list several hundred beers on their menu.
Chuck
Once, while sitting through a particularly dull seminar, I started a paper going around the audience asking the grad students to list all the beers they had sampled. Since we had a number of foreign students, the list got really long and included quite a few beers I had never heard of, but what was really surprising was that a fella from rural Wisconsin named about ten different local brews from there, beers that never got out of their counties of production, probably, and this was back in the 70's, before the growth of microbreweries.
As to my own favorites, there's a local brewpub that used to be way up there on my scale, but the brewmeister left for greener pastures and the new guy has no imagination. I like really bitter IPA's, and I understand that is not "normal", but the brewpub used to make an "Anerican" style IPA that hit the spot. Now they stick with the "British" style, which is just your basic bitter. My own brews tend toward IPA styles, but usually include a lot of wheat in the mix. I started doing that after having a Red Hook Hefeweisen I particularly enjoyed. I liked it so much I cultured the yeast from a six-pack and used it for years to brew with. The culture finally died on me....my fault. It may not have been the actual brewing yeast for the Hefeweisen anyway, but perhaps a yeast added to the bottles after brewing, though it made me soime good brews.
I'll drink any of the light beers during hot weather....they have less taste than bottled water and are probably more pure, and usually cheaper. For taste, the Boulevard beers out of KC are OK. Red Hook IPA is almost bitter enough. I've worked my way through most of the locally available micro brews without finding one that has earned my loyalty.
Speaking of lists....has anyone been to Paradise Alley in Jax Beach? They list several hundred beers on their menu.
Chuck
