Official Beer Review and Reflection Thread

[nkryptit]

I Love Beer.
Let's just start there.
I have some favorites, but I try to mix it up like a college slut.
So I propose a thread where we "Kiss and Tell".  If you've got an everyday brew, or just something you've picked up to try, let us know what you think.

OH!  And home brew is welcome, and I'd love to see some recipes with the review if possible.

[nkryptit]

Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout
Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Mendocino County California

+1 for Bears with make the beast with two backsing antlers!
+1 for Breakfast drinkablitity (oatmeal!)

I just picked this up for the first time tonight, and it inspired me to start this thread.

Great Beer!  Great Bear!

It's a classic Oatmeal Stout, not too much else to say.

"Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout is a full-bodies, creamy, sweet stout.  (It) is lovingly handcrafted from the finest pale, caramel, and chocolate malted barleys, blended with oats, then balanced with generous additions of our special blend of hops.  An intensely rich experience with a gratifying bittersweet finish, we recommend it with or for dessert, or as a nightcap.  It's not just for breakfast anymore."

I really enjoyed this brew.  Very solid stout with a sweet aftertaste that stays with you.  I drank it with a nice thick rib-eye steak after work today and I'm still recovering.

I say 4 out of 5]

[cmorgan47]

haven't brewed since superbowl, but for a while i had a 1/4 barrel per week output.

mostly IPA (what beer is supposed to taste like)

fond of cascade and centineal hops
and lots of them

[Tommy T.]

Hand-pulled Guiness is by far my beer-like drink of choice. 

This offerring from Utah, however, gets my vote for the best name and label:

[Vindingo]

my everyday tastes "good after working on the bike" beer is a tall blonde.  It is my favorite cheap beer and it makes me feel 'merican when I drink it.  Is it possible to feel classy (the champagne of beers!) and trashy at the same time?   I also will not drink it unless it is in a glass bottle. 


My favorite beer to drink for taste and pleasure would have to be Newcastle

My flavor of the week is

It has a pretty mild flavor but it is very thick and creamy.  I wish it wasnt $8 for a 4 pack though.  It also has that little widget in it that makes it have a lot of head like it had just been poured from a tap.  You deffinetly DON'T drink it from the can. 

[sno_duc]

We are lucky, the Kenai peninsula has 4 microbreweries.
Sharon is partial to IPAs, I like porters and stouts.
One of my chores today is to get the growlers refilled

Who's going to the GABF? We planning on making it this year.

[somegirl]

Hand-pulled Guiness is by far my beer-like drink of choice. 

I found that Guinness in the UK is better than in the US, and it's even better in Ireland than the UK.   yum!

I also really enjoyed the dunkel weiss (dark wheat) beers I tried in Munich. 

[Bick]

Who's going to the GABF? We planning on making it this year.

Not decided on whether or not I am actually going to the festival, but will be spending some time at Falling Rock.

Let me know when you get in town. 



http://www.beertown.org/events/gabf/

[He Man]

Favorite Beers...

Rare Vos- beguim style
Optical Illusion - i dont know what youd describe it as, but it has a very sweet flavor to it. I believe its an indian ale.

Ive only tasted 2 stouts, Guiness and Mothers Milk. Mothers is much better, but a guiness from the tap is pretty damn good. if its store bought, it taste like ass, except for the cans. they are pretty good.

As an everyday cheap beer, i dunno, Chilladas are pretty good, i havent tried bud lime, im pretty sure its gonna be nasty, but hey, if its free id drink it! BACON BEER!!!!!

[sno_duc]

Not decided on whether or not I am actually going to the festival, but will be spending some time at Falling Rock.

Let me know when you get in town. 

We will be at the Falling Rock Monday 10/6 for the tapping party.

[Ash]

let me preface by saying i love guinness and always will

but ive been getting into ambers lately... and the tastiest i've had was at the ukiah brewing company (rode up there last year)... the sunhouse amber.  it's delicious!!!

http://www.ukiahbrewingco.com/brewpub/brews.php

[Bun-bun]

This offerring from Utah, however, gets my vote for the best name and label:

This one gets my vote.

[SP3]

If ever in Winston-Salem stop in Foothills Brewing. Excellent food, good service, and some pretty good beers (B-/B+)as well.

If ever in Myrtle Beach run down to Pawley's Island and stop in Quigley's Pint And Plate. Also excellent food and service. I had a pint of two of their offerings and they were both solid B's. Seriously good soft pretzels.

I hit both on the family trip to Myrtle last week.

[MadDuck]

Guinness for sure. Draught from the tap, cans are good, the Extra Stout is even better.

Bitburger is another front runner.

For American beers I like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.  I'd also go for New Belgium's Fat Tire Ale but we don't get any out here in the islands.

[krolik]

Since I live in Portland OR, the micro brewery capital of the world, I have a hard time sticking to one favorite. 

Lately, one of my favorite is Bridgeport's Stumptown Tart http://www.bridgeportbrew.com/#/our_beers/.




Furthermore, on Friday I'm spending the day at the Oregon Brew Fest.
http://www.oregonbrewfest.com/