I am forever reminder here that while I have an unbelievably refined cigar collection, I am the most unsophisticated dirtbag beer drinker in the world. Honest to God give me Yuengling, Coors or even a fucking Stella over all the super special limited IPA crap that everyone else does backflips for. I have NEVER understood the IPA/Craft craze. If I want pumpkin I'll eat a fucking pie. If I want beer Yuengling has been making a great lager for almost 200 years.
I get it. Different strokes for different folks, but the race to have the weirdest or most niche and unfindable beer product has never made any sense to me. I don't even like the taste of most of it. Whatevs. I'll drink my Yuengling with the res t of the trash and stay out of highbrow skinny jean IPA hawt talk.
I remember making fun of the IPA bros. They’d be in arguments over which IPA was the hoppiest and produced better bitter beer faces.
Yeah I have never liked that sour bitter taste thing at all. But it's all the rage. That's for sure. I keep Yuengling loaded in the auxiliary fridge at Camelot Trailer Court and I like that just fine. To be fair I have only come around to whiskey lately (was always a rum guy) under the expert tutelage of @PurpleBaze and @YellowSnow and I am starting to get my whiskey legs a bit but still don't like the super peaty shit that once again, is all the rage right now.
Maybe all the drugs fucked up my taste buds or something? I'll kill for a nicely aged good year Cuban or Honduran stick, but for whiskey gimme blue label or something else that's smooth and easy, and beer I'll just take the regular shit. I do "get it" though, because I know piles of guys who wouldn't know the difference between a Cohiba Magicos and a Macanudo Gold. You need to smoke hundreds of stogies to actually start understanding flavor profiles. I have had hundreds of beers of course, but I suppose it was all the wrong kinds. Heh.
You either like peaty whisky, or you don't. I don't think I've ever met anyone who used to not like peated whisky and then acquired a taste for it later. I think it's the same with mezcal - you either like it or you don't. Yes, tastes do change, but I've never met anyone who's been a peat convert. You don't have to like it. There are so many varieties of whisky & whiskey out there that you don't have to taste a drop of peat in your lifetime.
My unsolicited beer take: IPAs have definitely been overdone and I don't order them. If I'm with someone who orders it and they offer me a sip, I'll usually take it. There are actually some tasty IPAs out there, but most others have been over-hopped to death. I'm a pilsner, blonde, lager, & kolsch kinda guym.
Not many guysm here can saythey’ve hosted @PurpleBaze for peated whiskig tasting and @DerekJohnson for dirty rainy night in NE Seattle jazz in the same evening.
I’m with @YellowSnow on the Banquet being my go to beer but on my way to a concert yesterday, the liquor store was out of Coors and I had to settle for Yuengling which made me think of @Swaye.
I’m with @YellowSnow on the Banquet being my go to beer but on my way to a concert yesterday, the liquor store was out of Coors and I had to settle for Yuengling which made me think of @Swaye.
Strong move. I feel like I can see a hint of nacho cheese on the can.
I’m with @YellowSnow on the Banquet being my go to beer but on my way to a concert yesterday, the liquor store was out of Coors and I had to settle for Yuengling which made me think of @Swaye.
Strong move. I feel like I can see a hint of nacho cheese on the can.
You should the backside of the can. It’s more than just a hint of cheese sauce.
I’m with @YellowSnow on the Banquet being my go to beer but on my way to a concert yesterday, the liquor store was out of Coors and I had to settle for Yuengling which made me think of @Swaye.
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