The Beer Thread -

[Coffee Druid]

Firestone special releases these have all been amazing. Especially the dark ray. Top of my list are porter's and stouts.
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Had Firestone Walker Kriekey Bones? That's a sour cherry, good beer. You'll probably like Pilsner's too. Timmermans strawberry was good, can't find it anywhere anymore though. Also Petrus Cherry Chocolate stout is really good.

I can try those. I might be getting a job at a liquor store, so maybe I'll buy something new here and there for, uh, market research... Or even if I don't get it I'll still do that.

I cannot for the life of me drink beer. Think it tastes like carbonated piss half the time. I usually drink liquor instead. When I do drink by the bottle, it's typically hard ciders.

I love hard ciders. They're my number one drink of choice when I'm not drinking liquor. It's too bad where I am there's only like 4 brands to choose from. But they're good. I want to find a real perry sometime, one that isn't just cider with pear mixed in.

On the topic of "alcohol that's not beer but has similar ABV" is draft mead. I only know one brand (Meridian Hive), but they're lemon mead is delicious. I don't know if it's technically true mead though? But that's enough of getting off topic.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

On the topic of "alcohol that's not beer but has similar ABV" is draft mead. I only know one brand (Meridian Hive), but they're lemon mead is delicious. I don't know if it's technically true mead though? But that's enough of getting off topic.

I've had home-brewed mead before at a debate watch party (because every CR group has that one libertarian survivalist type it seems). I thought it was pretty good, just wish I could find some commercial stuff on the regular and potentially make it for myself.

 

[Coffee Druid]

I've had home-brewed mead before at a debate watch party (because every CR group has that one libertarian survivalist type it seems). I thought it was pretty good, just wish I could find some commercial stuff on the regular and potentially make it for myself.

There’s a few brands in stores near me. They differ in quality. Not to powerlevel but I’m a friend of a friend of a person who owns a meadery. Great stuff, and great people. I also go to renaissance fairs and people will make their own mead or flavor their own liquor and bring it to share.

 

[SITHRAK!]

potentially make it for myself.

Take it from a home brewer and distiller, mead is a fucking pain in the ass.
You want to learn to brew, start with wine or hard cider, which is piss-easy.
Then move on to beer, which is a bit tougher.
Mead is the final boss of home brewing because it takes fucking ages with multiple rackings, any one of which can fuck your brew, and honey kills yeast if not sufficiently diluted.

 

[CWCissey]

Guinness isn't my favorite for actually drinking but it makes a great reduction. Half Guinness, half brown sugar, heat until it just barely starts to bubble, reduce heat, simmer until reduced to about half its volume. Great to top your favorite pot roast recipe, also you can substitute Guinness for some of the beef broth.

You can really use any stout but if it's better than Guinness I'd generally prefer to drink it.

This leads to a potentially interesting conversation, cooking with beer.

Any recipes you lot want to share?

I sometimes cook the mince in Hobgoblin beer when I make chili, it legit brings out a ton of flavour in the meat.

 

[AnOminous]

Any recipes you lot want to share?

Any chili recipe with water, you can substitute beer. And again, a stout works fine. I don't mind using Corona either, and again, it's almost a cooking beer because I wouldn't want to drink it. I think using a really good beer is a waste because you only get the most prominent notes after stewing it for hours.

That reduction is really good on almost anything where you'd ordinarily use a sweet/savory sauce.

 

[Fireman Sam]

Been into this one recently, pretty nice actually, little costly though.
I like malt beer, goes well with meaty foods!

 

[Meat Target]

Where have all the Foster's Lager oil cans gone? I haven't seen them for months.

Go ahead and bully me for my white trash tastes, I don't care.

 

[Kornheiser]

There is something fun when you are drinking German beer out of a boot shaped glass that’s the size of a liter.

 

[Pitere pit]

Are those germanic glass good? You know with the lids and handles.
My tobacco's shop sell them and they aren't that expensive.

 

[TFT-A9]

Where have all the Foster's Lager oil cans gone? I haven't seen them for months.

Go ahead and bully me for my white trash tastes, I don't care.

Anything imported is getting absolutely fucking rogered because of the knock-on effects of lockdowns/import delays from muh COVID. Imported wines are COMPLETELY fucked right now. Non-domestic beers are getting stupidly hard to find. It's retarded and it makes me pretty fucking MOTI tbh.

 

[Stoneheart]

Are those germanic glass good? You know with the lids and handles.

look inside, they have to be smooth or its useless. the glas ones are fine, helps keeping insects out of your beer while sitting outside.