28-08-2002 13:48									#91
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I can't believe I missed this thread!

What's worse, I can't believe ppl were drinkin and my fridge is empty of beers!!!!!!

Go Sam Adams! My favorite beer (American)!

	28-08-2002 17:58									#92
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My favorite Sam Adams beer is their octoberfest brew. It should be coming out in a month or so...

	28-08-2002 20:04									#93
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Aahh...

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	28-08-2002 20:08									#94
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quote: "Anything less than about 4.5% is watered-down piss!"

I beg to differ. It doesn't have to be strong to taste good. It's true that you Aussies drink stonger beer... but after all, those convict bloodlines have stronger tolerances. America, on the other hand, was founded in part by a bunch of Puritans. Then again, one of the first things they built was a brewery.

Since there's no way I'm gonna ship you a case of beer, we will have to agree to disagree.

-Arrian

	28-08-2002 20:36									#95
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quote: Originally posted by Arrian I beg to differ. It doesn't have to be strong to taste good. It's true that you Aussies drink stonger beer...

No they dont. Ive been there, and the beer is not stronger. They have light beers there too.

	28-08-2002 22:39									#96
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quote: Anything less than about 4.5% is watered-down piss!

I hope you don't seriously rate beers according to their alcohol contents. Almost any beer gets beaten by almost any wine (almost!) and rhum would be the only good beverage ...
It's perfectly possible to brew beers with 2.8%. What I don't like, however, are those beers who really are watered down (or, mostly, got their alcohol removed by other means).

	28-08-2002 22:42									#97
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Its pointless trying to educate him, the man drinks VB for christ's sake.

	28-08-2002 22:46									#98
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More alcohol does not mean better beer in any shape or form.

Just look at Natty Ice....that shitll knock you on your ass but it tastes horrible....

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	28-08-2002 22:53									#99
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Natty Ice is one of THE worst inventions in the history of mankind. My successor as social chair of my fraternity decided he preferred Natty to the Beast (I was a Beast man, myself ). Those were the two beers we could get for $40 per keg. Over my objection, he made the switch. That was fine. Then, in a moment of mind-boggling stupidity, he decided we should order Natty Ice for an upcoming party. We, and our guests, were used to regular 'ole Natty. This was what, almost twice as strong? Suffice it to say that a rather large percentage of the people at that party puked their guts out at some point.

I can't even imagine drinking either Natty or Beast now that I actually have a job. My stomach would probably reject it immediately anyway. When I think of the crap we used to drink... ugh.

-Arrian

	28-08-2002 23:31									#100
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quote: Then, in a moment of mind-boggling stupidity, he decided we should order Natty Ice for an upcoming party. We, and our guests, were used to regular 'ole Natty. This was what, almost twice as strong? Suffice it to say that a rather large percentage of the people at that party puked their guts out at some point.

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Gotta love college and the cheap beer

Yeah that **** is like 5.9 or something......and it provides a much different kind of drunk...like a wine drunk...brutal.

	28-08-2002 23:59									#101
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quote: Originally posted by Caligastia I dont think you can have a beer be more than about 8.5% alcohol and still have it taste good. Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout is 8.5% and one of my favorites, but any stronger and it wouldnt taste good.

There are many good Belgian Beers with about 10% alcohol that taste very good, like Red Dragon (I don't remember the name perfectly, but it comes in a white ceramic bottle).

Give me a good dopplee-bock any day! Celebrator, Salvator, Avigner Dopple Bock! It goes down like honey!

Hurrah for the Reinheitsgebot of 1516!

	29-08-2002 00:34									#102
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Dopple-bocks are fantastic, but it takes extra brewing skill to make high alcohol beer taste good.

	29-08-2002 01:59									#103
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quote: Hurrah for the Reinheitsgebot of 1516!

I've some doubts that the Belgians always keep to it.

	29-08-2002 10:23									#104
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quote: Originally posted by drake ahahahaaha Gotta love college and the cheap beer Yeah that **** is like 5.9 or something......and it provides a much different kind of drunk...like a wine drunk...brutal.

Wine drunk is warm and fun. Like a good high (so I'm told). Natty Ice/Beast drunkness is just plain retardation.

	29-08-2002 11:43									#105
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quote: Originally posted by Caligastia Dopple-bocks are fantastic, but it takes extra brewing skill to make high alcohol beer taste good.

I really don't like Chimay Ale. High alohol content ruins the taste of beer, I have to agree.

	29-08-2002 13:25									#106
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quote: Originally posted by Adalbertus I've some doubts that the Belgians always keep to it.

We don't have that Reinheitsgebot thing. It's typical german: "Ach, you hav to make bier like zis: the book, the BOOK! Streng verboten to make it other way".
That's why our (belgian) beers have different tastes. I tried german beer (mainly bavarian one). It's ok, but exept one I drank it in the (small) brewery itself (very fresh), there's almost no difference.
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	29-08-2002 21:37									#107
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quote: Originally posted by Lung Coopers Sparkling Ale

Mmmmmmmm, Cooooopers! Now you're making me thirsty.

Sadly, very hard to find here in the states . . .

	29-08-2002 22:04									#108
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quote: I tried german beer (mainly bavarian one). It's ok, but exept one I drank it in the (small) brewery itself (very fresh), there's almost no difference.

Two things: First, there is some unfortunate tendency to brew beers which are quite alike. Second, apparently you didn't drink far enough. Weizen (quite similar among themselves) which is made from wheat as you may have guessed, Bock, Doppelbock, and dark beer you certainly could have tried in Bavaria. Kölsch or Alt which use a different type of yeast are to be tried in Cologne or ...errrm....Düsseldorf. Jever provides you with loads of hops. Something which apparently done quite often with Belgian beer is to mix it with other things like fruit sirup. I know this only from Berliner Weiße (often served with raspberry juice, sorry, Mr. Fun) and the famous "Radler" (for south Germans) or "Alsterwasser" (for those around Hamburg) which is a 1:1 mixture of lemonade and beer and is very efficient against being thirsty.
In fact, Belgian beers are usually stronger, and (for my taste) a bit sticky.