Best New Beer You've Tried

[robsawyer]

The goal of this thread is two fold:
1) Allow those of us who can legally drink beer to share our recently imbibed beer.
2) Introduce others, not familiar with beer outside of the normal Bud / Miller / Coors, to something different and encourage you to try something new.

I am drinking a De Proef Reinaert Flemish Wild Ale. Its a Belgian ale brewed with a wild yeast strain (Brettanomyces). Its taste is reminiscent to a belgian strong pale ale (think Duvel) but with an earthyness (funk) which is a classic signature of the Brett.


We have east coasters and west coasters on here, both big beer areas, so share you best new beer.

[DjMattyD]

I've had it before but I found it for the first time in bottles

[robsawyer]

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I've had it before but I found it for the first time in bottles

No information about the beer to share? Where its from, why you enjoyed it, etc?

[DjMattyD]

Oh sorry its a Czech lager. Kinda taste similar to Heineken. I also have good memories of it cause I was in Prague for their beer festival which was awesome since it was around 70 cents for a pint of beer.

[whitmax]

I know it's not the classiest beer, But I love it. Smooth and Delicious.



Love it. Plus it is brewed 5 minutes from my old house. local brews FTDUB

[robsawyer]

Stone Arrogant Bastard Image...
Love it. Plus it is brewed 5 minutes from my old house. local brews FTDUB

Stone Arrogant Bastard! Nice choice. I have a few 12 oz. Oaked Arrogant Bastards in my beer fridge right now, along side some Stone Ruination! Are you still close to Stone? Want to get me some Stone Vertical Series (i.e.-08.08.08, 07.07.07, etc!)

[skimnczach]

Laotian beer.



Time magazine named it the best Asian beer of 2004, so it has something going for it.

[robsawyer]

Wife is still not home from work... I polished off the 22 oz. bottle of 9% Belgian Wild Ale, I think its time for something tamer. I am struggling to decide between home-brewed Belgian Sour Witbeir that I inadvertently infected with Bret (it was fermenting next to my Beir De Guarde which is fermenting with Brett), or a Green Flash West Coast IPA.

[LoganM]

Laotian beer.



Time magazine named it the best Asian beer, so it has something going for it.

so is it Japanese or Chinese.

[whitmax]

Stone Arrogant Bastard! Nice choice. I have a few 12 oz. Oaked Arrogant Bastards in my beer fridge right now, along side some Stone Ruination! Are you still close to Stone? Want to get me some Stone Vertical Series (i.e.-08.08.08, 07.07.07, etc!)

Yeah. It's about 20 minutes from Encinitas.

[RickSawyer]

Hell yeah. Just had Sierra Nevada's Harvest Fresh Hop Ale 22oz, moved over to a Texas craft, Southern Star Pine Belt Pale Ale. About to head out to a local beer bar/restaurant for a pizza and some fresh Sierra Nevada Harvest on draft.


But, best new beer I have had is actually an old beer. Smuttynose Imperial Stout aged over a year in the cellar. Shared it with Rob the day after my wedding two weeks ago. SICK!

[GnarKill1029]

Tsing Toa is where its at
forgive me if i butchered that spelling

[Icej]

[Black]

I'm liking Newcastle right now. I'm also growing a good taste for regular old Sam Adams Lager, and the Octoberfest is badass.



And for lighter beers:


Molson Canadian. It's like a Miller Light with more flavor. Miller Light meets little brown ale.

[LAXitives288]

[IMG]and the Octoberfest is badass.

QFT!

[fireball]

this is my current favorite.

[zeus]

never had anything other than light, it looks like it would be good and the names sound good

[fireball]

lol if your talking about mine im just fracking. shit is like 13 bucks a 30 pack. personally i enjoy yungling lager (northern beer) and sam addams octoberfest is good too.

[zeus]

i knew you were kidding, its like moose piss that is dirt cheap. like a 40 oz

[skimnczach]

so is it Japanese or Chinese.

Really?

Laotian beer.

www.google.com, search Laos.

[Will925]

Sweetwater 420 is a awesome pale ale, brewed in atlanta

[joshcraig]

my current favorite is blue moon drafts, very flavory, but not too much of that lager aftertaste. delicious beer i must say.

[Will925]

my current favorite is blue moon drafts, very flavory, but not too much of that lager aftertaste. delicious beer i must say.

have you tried the summer version of blue moon, honey moon, its really good. and yeah draft blue moon with a orange in it is amazing

[Rocco]

shock top

squeeze in a bit of sliced blood orange and it makes it even better

has a nice citrus flavor to it

[heavyheavylowlow]

i like the beer at downtown brewery in San Luis Obispo. honey blonde i believe is a good one there.

[RickSawyer]

Sweetwater 420 is a awesome pale ale, brewed in atlanta

Their Donkey Punch Barley Wine is phenomenal.

[LI HxC]

lets reminisce, think back to about 16, when you all were short on cash but wanted to get plastered whatd you turn to?




awww yeahh ratty natty, nothin better then the good old 36 pack for 12 bucks

as for my favorite beer

[heavyheavylowlow]

36 pack?

[MDskimmerMAtt]

yes i love me a 30 pack of natty lol.

[ejb]

case o natty, 12 bucks. hell yeah. 30 case of keystone. 12 bucks. shit tastes terrible but if you're playing pong/other games. hell yeah.

how is octoberfest btw? still haven't gotten around to getting some, probably this week. what's it taste like?

[Black]

Sweetwater 420 is a awesome pale ale, brewed in atlanta

I'll have to try this out when I'm in ATL. I've been going a lot lately.

how is octoberfest btw? still haven't gotten around to getting some, probably this week. what's it taste like?

It's damn good. Tastes like a mix between a summer ale and a dark lager. (hence "october" I'm sure)

Very flavorful, but still smooth. Like smooth enough to chug I guess if you wanted.

[joshcraig]

no, but i just found out that the bar/grill near my house has honey moon and blue moon drafts. so pumped.

[beachbum]

Yuengling lager for tonite. $15 for a 24. Cheapest good beer around here.

[dan.nj]

Budweiser that taste nothing like budweiser... damn good (hate if you want)

Rogue Dead Guy Ale... delicious.

[waddsworth]

The goal of this thread is two fold:
1) Allow those of us who can legally drink beer to share our recently imbibed beer.
2) Introduce others, not familiar with beer outside of the normal Bud / Miller / Coors, to something different and encourage you to try something new.

I am drinking a De Proef Reinaert Flemish Wild Ale. Its a Belgian ale brewed with a wild yeast strain (Brettanomyces). Its taste is reminiscent to a belgian strong pale ale (think Duvel) but with an earthyness (funk) which is a classic signature of the Brett.


We have east coasters and west coasters on here, both big beer areas, so share you best new beer.

I gotta say right off the bat... good to have another beer geek on the boards (that goes for your bro, too).

Personally, I don't really have too much of a palate for Belgians. Not that I dislike them, I just have a really strong preference for "big" American Ale styles. I did, however, have a Fin Du Monde not too long ago (Belgian Trippel) and I really enjoyed it. Its true character seemed to develop as it warmed, and I was surprised by its hop content. I would certainly drink another, and it could be the beer to help broaden my appreciation of different styles.

But it just so happens that tonight I picked up a case of:


Its my first time having it, and I really like it. The aroma is phenomenal and matches the taste - big citrus. But there's alot of other shit going on too. I'm not going to pretend to be able to identify all the different flavors, but this brew ain't no one-trick-pony for sure. The price is reasonable, and if its available it just may be in my "rotation".