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Tell me about your favorite Oktoberfest, Martzen, Pumpkin Ale, "Fall" beer varieties.

I had a Spaten Oktoberfest yesterday. It was tasty.

i've been pleasantly surprised by goose island's harvest ale

Do you not like their other offerings?

i like, not love their other stuff. i primarily drink their ipa and 312. solid, but not exceptional. i guess i just didnt have high hopes for the harvest ale

oh well the bavarians... interesting what they export to you. but this is much stronger than what you usually drink as beer isn't it?

stronger in terms of alcohol content or stronger as in "more substance than Bud Light"?

It's about normal for "good" beer, which is what 90% of the people on this board probably drink. Full flavor, well-made, more than 5% alcohol. But it's not much compared to the good stuff here (Bell's, Rogue, Dogfish, et. al.)

It was more about the taste, yes. it's interesting that there is much more influence of english brewing in the US than of german. maybe even more belgian, what do you think?

There's a lot more hippies that put loads of hops in their microbrews because hops are in the cannabis family. That's the main influence in microbreweries over here. I dislike all beers with load of hops.

If it's a lager or pilsner - I want something crisp, with a smooth aftertaste, not ultra-bitter and dry like an IPA or Pale Ale.

If it's dark lager or ale - I wanted roasted malts and chocolate

If it's a "warm weather" beer, I want a Wheat/Wit Beer (Belgian) style ale.

You and I have fairly identical tastes in beer.
Overhopping a beer is a truly unforgivable sin.

While I enjoy the mega-hopped stuff too, hopping is a very easy way to put some sort of flavor in your beer without being especially good at brewing. It's harder to get the subtle flavors out of combinations of types and roasts of malt and wheat than it is to just dump something with a high Alpha number into your beer shortly before shutting off the burners.

On of my favorite lagers and one I think is very underrated is Red Stripe. It has an almost sweet aftertaste.


I mean I'll drink just about anything except over-hopped beers and ales (Sierra Nevada Pale Ale/Sweetwater 420 - YUCK) and lambics.

Has anyone tried the Abita Pecan Harvest?

speaking of abita, has anyone tried their strawberry harvest lager? i saw a sixer of it a few weeks ago but really just wanted to try one.

I'm not a fan. I think it's pretty terrible because the pecan taste is overwhelming. I thought it tasted more beer flavored pecan drink.

People lose their shit for it here. They were actually limiting how many you could buy at some places because it's so popular. I find that it really varies from year to year and I found this year a little too sweet. A couple of years ago it was perfect if you like this kind of thing.

these fucking fruity beers need to stop

just came home with a 12er of schlitz cans.

Quoted for truth.

you went too far. i like good beer, just not fruity beer. only pepole who are over 60 or unemployed should be drinking schlitz.

Once you get squirrgled, you're forever grandfathered in.

Breaking a week-long abstinence tonight with a 12 pack of Stella, because nothing else in the store was even drinkable.

sorority girl beer of choice when I was an undergrad. srsly.

And they never gave you the time of day, did they, Schlitzboy?

1 or 2 are okay...any more than that and i might as well be drinking pina coladas.