Beer

[Fishy]

Why do you keep trying these? We know you prefer beer that tastes and smells like the floor of Ted's circa 1986.

I'm the site's beer expert now. Go sit down.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

At Orchard Beach Maine drinking real beer.

 

[karstenkibbe]

At Orchard Beach Maine drinking real beer.View attachment 110950

I’ll give you the Paulaner and Old Orchard Beach. HARD NO on the Grolsch!

 

[AreBee1969]

Yeah, I know it’s too early.

 

[karstenkibbe]

Yeah, I know it’s too early.

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It used to be that August was too early for Fest beers. They started dropping in July this year. Insane.

 

[Fishy]

Ignore the beer gendarmes - drink whatever whenever.

Leave them to what they do best - trying to remember how spell “herbaceous” for their Jucy Lucy Big Fruit Monkey Bomb Double Hopped NEIPA for Beer Advocate.

As the site’s Beer Expert, I have many reviews in the pipeline. I apologize for not being more prompt but I have traveled widely to experience beers that you can’t.

 

[Fishy]

I’ll give you the Paulaner and Old Orchard Beach. HARD NO on the Grolsch!

I ain’t drinking anything out of a green bottle that had to travel on a boat to get to me.

 

[Fishy]

“But you’ve never tried the right IPA, Boneyard beer expert! If you did, you would see the light!” Okay, fine.

This is what you drink when you’re pretentious, but also afraid of being too pretentious so you go old school….only to find that you’re even more pretentious as a result. This beer is like listening to Coldplay on vinyl. It tastes like a desperate need for approval.

Insult this beer and they come after you. Well, they sell this at ShopRite next to Garage Beer, so settle down.

Overall, it’s fine. It tastes like the rest of them. It’s a good option you’re looking for something that will make your next beer taste much more refreshing. (I chased this one with a Chechvar - was like touching the face of God.)

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I’ll give you the Paulaner and Old Orchard Beach. HARD NO on the Grolsch!

First time at OOB. For the record my son brought the Grolsch (although I do view it as a very good beer).

Having grown up about a quarter mile from a beach (I'm a Coveboy from Stamford), I assumed glass wouldn't be allowed at a beach.

For purposes of what I believe should be standard protocol I will never bring a glass bottle to a beach.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I ain’t drinking anything out of a green bottle that had to travel on a boat to get to me.

Everyone is allowed their own taste but you're missing out on some very good stuff with that attitude; including Spaten, the best that there is.

 

[Fishy]

Everyone is allowed their own taste but you're missing out on some very good stuff with that attitude; including Spaten, the best that there is.

My dad grew up about three miles from the brewery; I’ve been there.

Issue is that the green bottles are so hit and miss in transit and essentially everything coming from Germany and elsewhere is now available in cans.

Then again, as the Boneyard beer expert, I am tasting beer at an elite level and some other people might not recognize the difference between green bottles, brown bottles and cans.

 

[Dove]

Ignore the beer gendarmes - drink whatever whenever.

Leave them to what they do best - trying to remember how spell “herbaceous” for their Jucy Lucy Big Fruit Monkey Bomb Double Hopped NEIPA for Beer Advocate.

As the site’s Beer Expert, I have many reviews in the pipeline. I apologize for not being more prompt but I have traveled widely to experience beers that you can’t.

Back in the late 70s, my aunt Lucy attended North Country CC in Malone, NY. Her personality name was Juicy Lucy. I thought she was so cool.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

My dad grew up about three miles from the brewery; I’ve been there.

In Munich?

If you're a descendant of a member of the Schutzstaffel that would explain quite a bit.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I ain’t drinking anything out of a green bottle that had to travel on a boat to get to me.

This is one of the first things you've said about beer that I agree with 100%. Green bottles -> light stroke. Heineken has mostly fixed it with packaging.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Wonder what the beer expert thinks of this one. It was excellent.

 

[Lafayette]

At Orchard Beach Maine drinking real beer.View attachment 110950

I have a 4 hr layover in Frankfurt coming up a couple of weeks.... methinks a good German beer will make the time pass!

Although ironic once I had a layover in Hamburg, and this time in Frankfurt.....

 

[Waquoit]

Last week, I discovered a bodega at the beach selling the 19.3 oz can of Sip for $4.50 out the door. Every time I strolled by I picked one (or 2) up. I go in on Thursday, the guy stops me at the door to say he's all out. "You bought them all"

 

[Fishy]

Last week, I discovered a bodega at the beach selling the 19.3 oz can of Sip for $4.50 out the door. Every time I strolled by I picked one (or 2) up. I go in on Thursday, the guy stops me at the door to say he's all out. "You bought them all"

Wonder what the beer expert thinks of this one. It was excellent.
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Try drinking bourbon instead and give my mom back her table cloth.

This is one of the first things you've said about beer that I agree with 100%. Green bottles -> light stroke. Heineken has mostly fixed it with packaging.

I fixed that by not drinking Heineken.

 

[Deepster]

I have to admit. Until today I didn't have any clue this thread still existed or, moreso, that any pompous d-bags still stood around at cookouts blathering on about IPA's. Hasn't the 15 minutes of craft beer being a thing long since passed?

 

[Fishy]

I have to admit. Until today I didn't have any clue this thread still existed or, moreso, that any pompous d-bags still stood around at cookouts blathering on about IPA's. Hasn't the 15 minutes of craft beer being a thing long since passed?

In fairness, they don’t really go outside much - the sun burns their pasty white skin and if you have ever tried to quench your thirst with a triple hopped hazy DIPA, you would not go outside either.

But as the recognized Boneyard beer expert, I am educating them and showing them that they have options.

You can tell that change is starting to come - even the IPA-heavy brewers are starting to make and market “real” beer.

It makes sense. You want to sit around a campfire and drink one $7 8.2% beer, sure, sounds good. But if you’re outside or at the beach and you want to do some day drinking with the crew, you’re not having six IPAs unless you enjoy having no saliva in your mouth on a 90 degree day or you’re just a raging alcoholic who should be drinking Deep Eddy’s instead.

 

[Deepster]

It's like the old joke.

How do you know someone likes IPA's?
Stand next to them for a minute and they'll tell you.

 

[Fishy]

Also, @Deepster, there’s room here for more beer experts.

Pretty sure @karstenkibbe is the second-ranked beer expert here but the field gets kinda muddy from there. The guy who broke like 12 rules drinking at Old Orchard is probably third now, but not sure.

 

[Fishy]

I need to get back to the reviews for the people. I allowed myself to be distracted by riff raff and their table cloths.

Just A Beer - rice lager from Spotted Octopus in Rochester, NY.

You will never find it and if you did, you would not buy it. From the quality of the label, I am guessing that their distribution does not extend much past their restaurant-breweries in Buffalo and Rochester….BUT, if you’re there, my neighbor brought me a sampler four pack and it was pretty good. Just a Beer was likely my favorite….not quite like a Japanese beer, but perhaps more like what would happen if someone with a talent for making beer reimagined a Budweiser.

 

[Fishy]

Last week, I discovered a bodega at the beach selling the 19.3 oz can of Sip for $4.50 out the door. Every time I strolled by I picked one (or 2) up. I go in on Thursday, the guy stops me at the door to say he's all out. "You bought them all"

Feels like victim shaming.

He should have just stocked more.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Thought I’d share something even the site beer expert would like. Maibok from Treehouse. They crush it with traditional styles. Deck has since been power-washed.