Meanwhile in America

[Speaker to Animals]

If IPA gets that reaction out of him.. I wonder what sour beer would do..

[TheReal_ND]

I had some sours that were like 8 point or more iirc. They fucked me up after just a six pack of shorties. The next day I didn't even want to think of sour beer.

[Montegriffo]

That was like a gay man comparing the taste of 5 different pussies.
Funny though.

There's this weird animosity towards IPAs in America. They are really popular, but there are certain dudes that equate it with being gay (not just jokingly).

IPA was a provision for the British soldiers in India. It's pretty far from a wine cooler.

It's generally high alcohol and has extra hops to act as preservatives on the long journey to the Raj.
If you are used to tasteless lagers like Bud Light then IPAs are difficult.

Beer, the lifeblood of so many happy hours, is the most popular alcoholic drink in the United States. But while there's been a burst of craft brewers introducing beers with complex flavors, Americans still largely love their beer to taste one way: bland.

Almost every best selling beer is a light beer. Bud Light, the most popular brand by far, accounts for nearly one out of every four beers sold in the United States.

Dismayed by the popularity of tasteless beers, economist Ranjit Dighe decided to figure out the origins of Americans' preference for pilsners, lagers and other milder brews. What he found is that a taste for bland beer might as well run in Americans' veins.

"It goes back to the early 1900s, or even late 1800s," said Dighe, who teaches at the State University of New York at Oswego. "Americans have preferred to drink bland beer for more than a hundred years."The reason, outlined in a recently published article by Dighe, is fairly simple on the surface: alcohol has a long-time stigma in this country. But bland beer has also benefited from history in ways other tastier brews have not.

Let there be light

In the late 1800s, the temperance movement, which pushed for moderate to no alcohol consumption, swept across much of the Western world. In certain countries, including England, beer was promoted as a 'temperance beverage," something that could be imbibed because it had a lower alcohol content than spirits and wine. But when brewers tried to pitch the same argument in the United States, it didn't work.

"Protestant, baptist, methodist values—they all were too strong," said Dighe. "So the whole temperance movement had a profound effect on the type of beer Americans drank. No one touched the more alcoholic stuff."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... e-in-beer/

[Speaker to Animals]

Sour beer is the original beer, though. You probably should get fucked up on it at some point to at least see where beer started.

[TheReal_ND]

Double hops means double the estrogen mimickers. It's not even a joke, people that drink IPA's act and look bitch made. That's why they are so popular with hipsters. I actually like bitter and sour tastes but I gave up IPA's years ago. I just stick to boring domestics. The new Natty Lite seltzers are actually good too.

[Speaker to Animals]

I like porters and scotch ale, mainly.


Some of the local IPAs are pretty good occasionally.

I think I want to try barleywine since it's close to the wee heavy. Might need to see if I like that better.

[Montegriffo]

They stopped making my favourite local ale over 20 years ago.


Mild and sweet and only 3.2 %

Apparently, they have resurrected the name but not the recipe.



Not tried it yet.

[Montegriffo]

I like porters and scotch ale, mainly.


Some of the local IPAs are pretty good occasionally.

I think I want to try barleywine since it's close to the wee heavy. Might need to see if I like that better.

Too syrupy for me and far too alcoholic and bitter.

[Speaker to Animals]

Might buy one of these later today:

[Montegriffo]

How's the mead coming along?