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I believe that is what really turned me off to IPAs. Like Surge, I won't turn down a perfectly good beer if someone is handing it to me, but they're never my first choice. Down here, breweries either try to see just how bitter they can make a beer as some kind of badge of honor or how many weird ass fruit combos can be added. It's akin to the hot wings trend, let's make these perfectly good chicken wings inedible as some test of manhood by adding 43 ghost peppers and top it with a scotch bonnet. People claim to enjoy them, but I can't see how. And it's all fine and good. Plenty of beer out there to like for everyone. Just annoying that every brewery has to have 60-75% of the menu dedicated to the same variation of style. In stores, seems that's all they carry anymore and most just suck (the ones you mentioned, Voodoo Ranger, Space Dust, 420, the list goes on). Many started out good, but over the years got bought out by conglomerates or over expanded and the quality dropped. Stone was sold several years ago and had never been the same. Everyone has their own preferences. I personally don't like German beer. Lukewarm on IPAs and Pilsners. Will never seek one out, but will never turn down a freebie.

I don't know if it's worth a damn, not having tried it, but I've seen in my local that several of the better known foreign brewers like Paulaner and Weihenstephan are making non-alcoholic versions of their beer. If anyone can pull off a reliably decent tasting non-alcoholic, it's probably going to be one of them. What's interesting about those breweries though, is because their beer is so "blah" in flavor, their quality control is absolutely topnotch. It has to be because being so lacking in actual flavor any deviation would be incredibly noticeable

Obituary ‎@ Frozen Alive recorded at Stodoła Club, Warsaw Poland. August 24th, 2006

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Non-alcoholic beer is actually a big trend with the kids and breweries are ramping up production to match. Personally, I don't see the point, but whatever floats their boat. If I want something non-alcoholic, many better choices. But hey, for folks with legit medical reasons to avoid alcohol but still want to enjoy a beer, it's a boon.

How does it feel to be part of the basic-bitch casual crowd that can't handle the throat-eradicating, tongue-petrifying bitterness real men crave? I think part of the reason they're everywhere is that they're easy to do an ok job on quickly, and the hop flavor and bitterness can cover up a lot of little flaws and inconsistencies that would ruin a more nuanced beer. But that doesn't make for a great experience. They are not all like that. If you're ever up this way, like for Messe Des Morts, lemme know. Too much good beer up here for you not to try some.

Mütiilation - Black Metal Cult (2024) This one snook past me.

>Brewers in Belgium using recipes crafted and honed over hundreds of years - "Our beers are malt forward, mildly bitter, with some noticeable dark fruit flavors" >Some dude in Australia who thinks beer is a synonym for yellow, fizzy water - "Beer should taste like beer, not a fruit bowl" Well, I'm convinced

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So much beer, so little time. I do prefer a beer you can't see through too. As I write I'm thinking fondly of the time I spent in Belgium last year. Mrs Thatguy wanted to see Art Nouveau architecture and eat mussels and chocolate. I wanted beer. We were both happy. If I were 30 years younger I would definitely cultivate a man bun and there's nothing wrong with that.

Both of these are swill in my book. They're better than Bud but that's not saying much. I can understand not liking IPAs, especially if you've never had a really good one as fresh as possible, or maybe if you're someone (like my wife) who finds hop bitterness disgusting. Even under good conditions the flavors can take a while to click. But unless you've tried the real deal, you don't know what you're missing. I was burned out on the hazy ones until I lost my sense of smell to Covid the first time around. Hazy, hoppy IPAs were the only thing that cut through the noise and tasted "normal" to me. Lucky me, northern VT is the land of plenty.

Having problems with my computer lately it is a 20 year old IMAC, that is my excuse and I am sticking with it Weihenstephan is without a doubt one of the best beers I have ever tasted about $6 a bottle here but worth it. That being said I try to avoid beer as much as possible and stick to clear alcohol when I drink, I lift weights and don't need those estrogen bombs in my system moobs and dickey do's are the last thing I want to be rockin. Vodka straight up with lime and soda water or Single Malt Scotch neat, vodka martini's and Black Russians are tasty too 🤘

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss - (1990)

THE STOOGES - Fun House

I mean, you have to respect their commitment to being mediocre 😆

Manager: Quality Control, make sure all that shit beer tastes exactly the same. Bland and unoffensive. QC: Got it sir. No problem.

Good bye, fucking Paris! Let's go to home! At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (1995)

Torgeist - Time of Sabbath (1995)

After recent health scare and the fact that any amount of alcohol now induces crippling anxiety for at least 24 hours afterwards, I quit drinking around 3 months ago. I have any zero alcohol option "beer" that is on offer in whatever place we are in at the time but the taste of these tings varies wildly from borderline tap water to completely OTT flavourings that are not well balanced. Erdinger and Leffe are the pick of the bunch with San Miguel coming a distant third. Increasingly, when in bars with microbreweries or specialist draughts I find the zero alcohol stuff sells out pretty quickly suggesting they order/produce minimal amounts. Prefer a green tea nowadays to be fair though.

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Pretty good actually. Glad to not have enough hair for a manly man bun or grizzly adams beard too. Definitely a regional thing. I'm sure there are plenty of good variations in local areas. The mass produced stuff always disappoints no matter the style. Beer should be local, like food in my opinion.

There is no fruit in the beer. Yanks could never adopt your Commonwealthers' usage of "pissed" because pissed already means angry over here. So if one of your bogan juicer mob says I got home late and she was pissed, it'd mean she'd been hitting the sauce while you were out and now she's sloshed. If we Yanks say I got home late and she was pissed it means she was waiting for you with a blunt object and/or she's changed the locks, and/or she's thrown all your clothes out on the front lawn and set them on fire.

Good band. Their 2021 album Svmma Cvm Nox Arcana made my year end list that year. Yeah he could be pumping the old iron, or he could just be a dedicated hardcore wanker who does it lefty. Narbeleth - Svmma Cvm Nox Arcana, Cuba 2021

Beer should taste like beer not a fruit bowl. It's nothing special, a little more bitter than the other piss water we produce but still beer. But at least it doesn't taste like a fruit salad.

Or he's found the VB...which is piss by the way. True, and is Thatguy approved. But fruit flavoured beer is not beer. It's just nasty.

Bro...are you having a stroke. you've said that like 3 times now 😆

Wanting beer that tastes like fruit is like wanting bacon that tastes like ice cream.

My goodness, I had no idea! I sure hope nothing disastrous happens while Joel is up high - seems like a bad combination with lots of beer drinking. Hardbone - "Dirty 'N' Young" Love some good ol' rock 'n' roll!

Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer

I used to take stout to parties all the time in the 80's because it was the only shit that would still be left in the fridge at the end of the night. Even a piss head wouldn't drink sump oil.

"I prefer beers I can't see through. So if it's too warm for a good stout, I want a black ale, scotch ale, or I will settle for a nice amber or honey brown." - Navy Goat Butcherer Yes this. I remember when I was in the pubs of Australia and all their beers were piss colored. I didn't know wtf to order, had to ask Carlissimo which piss he was drinking. My go-to here at home has become the Yuengling black & tan, $15 for a 12-pack, an eastern PA beer available everywhere and anywhere around here. And if they don't have it on tap they'll have their lager which is almost as ubiquitous as Budweiser around these parts, just with a wee bit more flavor. Because I don't always want a heavy syrupy stout with my dinner or in the warmer months. I'll grab a 6 pack of Smitty's red ale now and then as well. I ordered one at the Irish Cottage one time several years ago with my shepherds pie and I really liked it. And yeah fuck a bunch of bitter IPA's, I honestly find it hard to believe people like that shit so much.

Misfire - Sympathy For The Ignorant

If it weren't for beer nerds like us, we'd all be stuck with 1980's piss domestic swill for choice. Maybe just Bud Light for us yanks and Fosters for you folks on the wrong side of the planet. Be grateful for beer nerds.

When he started doing that he apparently never told anyone of his intention. Everyone from the band to the manager to the show staff called him down but he refused and just went higher. Since then it's gotten more and more out of control. Some festivals have tried to stop him but he generally finds a way up anyway. In that aspect he is copying Doc Neeson, singer of Australian band The Angles (Angle City in parts of America). Doc started climbing stage towers singing as he did it and always in bare feet. NP: Buffalo - Only Want You For Your Body