How To Save Beer
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Drinking a "Gustav's mit Brother's Cascadia Wunderbock" as Octoberfest fades and I get back to the other 11 months out of the year that I hate.
It reminds me of a collaboration between two e-commerce companies: dysfunctional and full of retards. Otherwise it's good.
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Ah yes. I believe you turned me on to the pfriem white cans a while back. Delicious.
I recently had a pilsner on tap that was outstanding. I wish I could remember what it was.
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I think breweries can specialize in 1-2 beers while still making beers across the range that taste good. Those things are t mutually exclusive.
Ethereal Brewing here in Lex is a great example. Specializes in Sours and Goses but also puts out a very drinkable scale of beers besides those.
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A major aspect for what I think is really being describing is the slow death of the tavern, dance club and local spots to watch live local music which for generations had been the backbone and driver of the “culture to drink beer socially”.
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I'm old enough to remember when Seattle still had "Taverns" and sitting in the Duchess smoking cigarettes when they only poured beer and wine. Not a bottle of booze in sight.
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BLUF: Go to Bruges and Ghent
I went to UW and lived in Seattle during the early craft beer times (Red Hook was independent!!! They made a rye…)
I live in England now, but I tend to gravitate to German beer (Hefeweizen is my #1 overall - BTW Pyramid Wheat is good AF). Belgium is an outlier of beer goodness, but almost in their own world (like gose and sour, if I had to make a corollary).
England makes good fucking beer. Mostly Ales. Even their IPAs (which are ales) wouldn't register with the Seattle IPA palette.
As a rule, hate fruit beer. Belgium will change you. Their cherry and raspberry beers are so fucking good. Go to Bruges and Ghent (super underrated destinations - TRUST ME). Mussels and French fries are the national dish.
I happen to like pine cone beers. BUT - it is crazy when I visit my parents that 95% of the section is 7% IPAs.
I like pine cone beers, but only one is needed
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Pyramid is dead, bro. Their Apricot Ale was top shelf as a day drinking beer while waiting for a Mariners game to start across the street.
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That blows. I don't remember another one from them I liked, but the wheat was super solid in the 90s.
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I used to love their Apricot Ale. My first favorite fruity beer.
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Shit mang. I was drinking Trappist ales in Antwerp beer halls while you were still on you Mom's tit!
Belgium is the highest quality beer on the planet.
