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For those who enjoy a good porter, Yuengling Hershey's Chocolate Porter is on the shelfs now. I was introduced to it three years ago and now look forward to it every year. A good blend of two old line Pennsylvania companies.
When I was a kid in the 50's, all my dad and grandad drank was Yuengling. It was probably the cheapest beer around. IIRC about $3.00-$3.50 a case for returnable bottles.
Cheap beer or not Yuengling and Rolling Rock are pretty decent everyday beers, plus Yuengling is still the oldest operating brewery in the US and still in the hands of the original family.
In this world of acquisitions, mergers and buyouts that's significant in my book. A lot of good beers got systematically eliminated because of that.
And that, friends, is why the beer world is now awash with craft beer. Locally produced same as beer was thru about the 1970s when all the corporate raiders decided to buy up local breweries who had a strong following, then alter the formula over a couple years till each beer basically tasted just like the raider's primary brand and was brewed by that formula.
I've had some decent "craft beer" but a lot of it doesn't suit my lager, pilsner and witbier taste. My experience is some of these craft brewers think the more hops the better, to where it's so damn bitter as to be undrinkable.
This one has chocolate residue that pours out from the bottom of the can. Normally I’d shake the can to mix it, but you know what would happen with a can of beer.
I really enjoyed the 2000s in terms of drinking beer. There were some small breweries that had been around for a while, like Red Hook, Pyramid, and Gerst, and you could get European stuff like Paulaner and Hoegaarten and other things. I don't think I've had a Red Hook ESB in 20 years. My buddies and I drank all the beers at a 75 tap beer joint and I have the T shirt to prove it and I am on the Wall of 69. Did the achievement in 03, but took the pictures on a visit in 15 since there were very few digital cameras then.
Nowadays, there's TONS of microbreweries, but they are all making sours and triple IPAs and all that ****. The idea behind being a small beer company is everyone should like your beer when they drink it and you are limited by your production to exclusivity, not making a beer so bad that only the pretentious like it and you get exclusivity that way.
Like Tom T. Hall sang "I like beer". I would put a link up to save ya'll the time but can't figure it out sorry.
I remember you carrying on about Sam Miguel's painted label beer you drank in the Navy. We finally found it at Red X one time and it wasn't anything special.
FWIW, there are so many craft beers now I have to limit myself to homebrew, local breweries or Boulevard (from KCMO where I grew up). There's no reason to drink a corporate pilsner like Coors or Budweiser.
I, too, hate this proliferation of IPA's. If I wanted skunky beer, I'd set it outside in the hot sun and let it turn bad. Currently, on a Sam Adam's Oktoberfest kick, as the local Sam's Club has been stocking it in 28-count cases of glass bottles.
This one has chocolate residue that pours out from the bottom of the can. Normally I’d shake the can to mix it, but you know what would happen with a can of beer.
Chocolate beershake? All over the ceiling? And everything else in the immediate vicinity?😛
There's three microbreweries in the nearest small city. Two of them make a decent brew; the third, the owner fancies himself an old-world biermeister and comes up with some really nasty-tasting stuff. He's pushing some pumpkin flavored creation this month.
Pumpkin spice anything is nasty. I won't even try pumpkin beer.
A local "gourmet" burger joint bar stocks all threes' products as well as plenty of truly good beers. I get amused at the beer snob hipsters holding court and evaluating all the different beers as if they were Chateau Lafite 1959.
I like their burgers, esp combined with a good witbier. Can't say the same for their sweet potato fries and sweet potato salad, which are the only sides they offer. Burger needs savory, not sweet.
Yeah, I remember getting 2 O'doull's non-alcoholic beers in Iraq and at Bagram AB in Afghanistan on Fridays at the DFAC when I was overseas. I'd never drink the non-alcoholic beer here in the states, but it was special at the time.
I, too, hate this proliferation of IPA's. If I wanted skunky beer, I'd set it outside in the hot sun and let it turn bad. Currently, on a Sam Adam's Oktoberfest kick, as the local Sam's Club has been stocking it in 28-count cases of glass bottles.
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If you are a fan of beer/beer not water, Yes Sam Adams a quality fair price point product.
Had the October Fest last years batch.... waiting for the frugal guy close out sale blitz at the local grocer
I don't know how popular Sierra Nevada has become inn your area, but in my parts it's everywhere. Maybe in the late 70s or early 80s, Paul Kunice one of the original owners of Sierra Nevada and a fellow shooter on our hi-power team would throw a party at his house and bring out some of his new brews, at that time brewed in his garage of the same house party was being held. I favor the dark beers, and he had a few that were a full meal in a bottle, super good but very heavy, three was about my limit on a couple of levels....Tedd
I don't know how popular Sierra Nevada has become inn your area, but in my parts it's everywhere. Maybe in the late 70s or early 80s, Paul Kunice one of the original owners of Sierra Nevada and a fellow shooter on our hi-power team would throw a party at his house and bring out some of his new brews, at that time brewed in his garage of the same house party was being held. I favor the dark beers, and he had a few that were a full meal in a bottle, super good but very heavy, three was about my limit on a couple of levels....Tedd
Cool story-
Yes Sierra Nevada has been in the local wisco stores I have seen it, although have not taste tested yet.
Neat to hear of the personal tie with the garage party and your connection, garage parties here in wisco are common and a fun time ....I like the dark/amber beer/beers quality vs quantity
Yeah, I remember getting 2 O'doull's non-alcoholic beers in Iraq and at Bagram AB in Afghanistan on Fridays at the DFAC when I was overseas. I'd never drink the non-alcoholic beer here in the states, but it was special at the time.
Tedd, I discovered Sierra Nevada many years ago when I lived on the Gulf Coast, either in SW LA or SW TX (can't remember which). I really liked their Pale Ale (which is not an IPA - those do not agree with me).
Nowdays I am like you in that I prefer the darker beers (Russian Imperial Stout is my favorite style), but Sierra Nevada's Narwhal is excellent. Wait, what am I saying I have always liked darker beers, it's just that I have come to the realization that Russian Imperial Stout is the one I like best.
I used to home brew but gave it up after the microbrew selections became so very abundant (thank you Jimmy Carter).
While I approve of Sierra Nevada as a non-sellout good beer company, I never cared for their stuff, found it just a little too bitter. It was fine, but I wouldn't get two in a row, sort of beer, by which I mean, it's a good selection of beers, just not to my taste.
Wow, this took off way more than I would have expected. There are so many craft brews out there now. A guy that I used to work with claimed that his passion was to drink one of every brew available out there. I don't think that will ever come to pass! Just in my corner of the country it seems we get more every year. Some of my favs include anything by Abita, most of Lexington Brewing in Kentucky, many of New Belgium of Colorado and anything by Shiner of Texas. Most of Kona's brews are actually brewed here on the mainland but if you get to Hawaii you must try their Porters which are only brewed and served in the islands. For you Navy guys, do you remember beer ball games? Plenty good times then.
... Tedd
