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TheRoarOfTheCrowd
Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,607
So there is a relatively new brewery that is making various versions of cool ass German style [and others] beers that is completely awesome... the cool thing is that they will deliver directly to your home free of charge
with a 50 dollar order if you live in California. Yow.
So here is the link, my new favorite beer is the German KÖLSCH STYLE ALE KSA but i am about to also try the italian pillsner and the Dortmunder style ale.
https://fortpointbeer.com/
with a 50 dollar order if you live in California. Yow.
So here is the link, my new favorite beer is the German KÖLSCH STYLE ALE KSA but i am about to also try the italian pillsner and the Dortmunder style ale.
https://fortpointbeer.com/
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...there's millions of barrels of that, but actually this country has the widest variety of good beer in the world (or maybe "had" - before everything turned into fucking Hazy IPA).
Similarly, not every Italian beer is Moretti.
Italian Pilsner is just German Pils with some extra dry hops of noble varieties. Frankly, not much different, just more floral hop flavor and especially aroma. Many of us already brewed German Pils that way. Basically it is the current "IPA everything" movement but in lager form.
Firestone Walker Pivo Pils, the archetype of the "style", won the gold medal for Pils 3 years in a row at the Great American Beer Festival. Many rushed to mimic this new hoppier pilsner and called it "American", until they found out it was itself an ode to an Italian beer.
TL;dr - great beer can come from anywhere.
A similar story to the OP that actually piques my interest is that Great Notion has a similar beer-to-your-door program. My brother's been ordering a shipment every time they're available, so I've been over at his place a lot... Paying for shipping to have a limited release imperial maple stout or blueberry pie ale or mimosa smoothie in a can shipped to my door seems more worth it than a pilsner or kolsch that at best will be slightly different or better than any other pilsner or kolsch I could get at the gas station down the street.
To each their own, though.
I did pour a Keystone out on the ground once in 1990 or 91. Couldn't drink it.
Back when I was drinking a lot of Sam Smith, I also used to buy what I think was a cream ale from St. Peter's in England. It was unique because it came in a bottle that was flask-shaped instead of round, but it was also really good. I haven't seen it around here in ages, although I just checked their website, and they're still doing their thing.
Are you thinking Boddingtons? You can get that around here at just about any grocery store and has been a house tap at the bar I named my son after since I started going there. It's not bad, either.