We need a new beer thread
 

A couple of friends and I had another beer tasting tonight. The theme was "Great Divide"

The beers were (in order of exellence)

Yeti Imperial Stout
Old Ruffian Barley Wine
Denver Pale Ale
Titan IPA
Ridgeline Amber
Hercules Double IPA
HotShot ESB

Discuss.....

Re: We need a new beer thread
 

The key to a good beer "tasting" is making sure that each beer that you try is successively higher in alcohol volume.

Re: We need a new beer thread
 

I must say i have never heard of any of those beers and i have had my far share of good beer. I just got off a Victory kick was drinking that every weekend for the past few months good beer.

Re: We need a new beer thread
 

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The key to a good beer "tasting" is making sure that each beer that you try is successively higher in alcohol volume.

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Partially correct. You need to make sure, that the heavier beers are at the end. Heavier often but not always mean alcohol volume.

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Bump. I know next to nothing about good beer, and I want to drink something really good tomorrow night. Someone suggest something delicious and reasonably priced ( < 10 bones for a sixer). I tried Rolling Rock and Sam Addams yesterday and wasn't a huge fan of either.

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Beer is good.

Sunshinie Wheat Beer, Blue Paddle, and Loft from new belgium brewing

widmer hef, guinness, pyramid curveball, bridgeport anything, black butte porter.

apologies efor the dozens of beers i forgot, that was just off the top of my head.

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Bump. I know next to nothing about good beer, and I want to drink something really good tomorrow night. Someone suggest something delicious and reasonably priced ( < 10 bones for a sixer). I tried Rolling Rock and Sam Addams yesterday and wasn't a huge fan of either.

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shiner bock

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Bump. I know next to nothing about good beer, and I want to drink something really good tomorrow night. Someone suggest something delicious and reasonably priced ( < 10 bones for a sixer). I tried Rolling Rock and Sam Addams yesterday and wasn't a huge fan of either.

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Boddington's Pub Ale.

Re: We need a new beer thread
 

Any clue what kind of stuff you like? Do you want something smooth or something kind of hoppy? Some pretty decent choices that are widely available these days are Newcastle, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Stella Artois, . . . trying to think of some other specific recommendations. Those are three wildly different beers, by the way. I've liked the beers I've had by Dogfish Head and Rogue. I'm not sure how widely available it is, but Saranac puts out a bunch of different varieties that I generally find to be pretty high quality for the price (typically $6 for 6).

My beer purchasing habits over the last few months have largely focused on picking out something that's on sale that I haven't tried before. There's a lot of good stuff out there. Pick something out that's a little more expensive than Rolling Rock that you've never heard of before and you'll probably be in pretty decent shape.

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Bump. I know next to nothing about good beer, and I want to drink something really good tomorrow night. Someone suggest something delicious and reasonably priced ( < 10 bones for a sixer). I tried Rolling Rock and Sam Addams yesterday and wasn't a huge fan of either.

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MOOSE DROOL! Tasty, thick, and it just makes you happy to drink it. It's almost chocolatey.