When I was in school, the Union had this stuff called B.B. Lemon. It was super syrupy and nasty on its own, but the idea was you'd get a pitcher of that and a pitcher of Lite and pour them 1/2 and 1/2 together in a glass for a radler like thing that was prett darn good.
Beer fads that have passed
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Just popped up on my FACEBOOK memories... 2013 was the season for homebrewing/craft brewing of the Table Beers...
I predict the next little brewing "fad" bubble will be everything "NE" style... Just like how everything became "Imperial" for a bit. Brewers will be applying the same techniques they do to get NE IPAS to other styles... Like NE Irish Reds, NE Stouts.... We'll see.
SGTSparty
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So I grew up a Yooper, and everyone drank PBR non-ironically. I graduated high school w/ 2 or 3 kids w/ PBR tattoos (graduated in 03). I think its a fine beer for what it is, and its my go to cheap beer. Cut to 2010, I visit my now wife in Detroit on R&R from Iraq. I'm not from Detroit, I'm not cool, I didn't know what a hipster was. We sit down at a bar, ask what they have on tap and say "Oh, PBR, I'll have that" She rolls her eyes at me and calls me a hipster, which I didn't get. Then I just about lose my **** when they charge me 4.50 for a glass.
Thankfully the bloom has come off that particular rose and you can now get tall boys at a burger bar by me for like 2 bucks, should you want to.
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Before Southern Tier was bought by Constellation Group, I always looked forward to Pumking. Now, it just doesn't taste the same, maybe my palate has changed, or was unrefined at the time, idk. I might have to find the Pumking thread on HBT now
Remember this?
Sure, it was the foundation for all the alcopops, Mike's, Zima, those hard sodas, etc., but what an abomination.
Yep, the Ice beers - Icehouse, Lite Ice (I had a bar mirror of that in my dorm room) Bud Ice, Leinie's Ice, etc.
Remember when everything was a draft? Miller Genuine Draft, Bud Draft (or was it Bud Ice Draft?)
Or Dry? Bud Dry, Michelob Dry, etc.
Great! Back in '91-'92 I brewed for a small extract pub & we used Briess extract and ended up meeting a gal who was their head chemist at the Oregon Brewers Fest in the early 90's. She told me that one thing that came from the first attempts at making lite beer in the 70's was clear beer. They wanted to see what happened if they doubled up the charcoal in the filter and the end result was that they filtered out all the color, ha! I'm sure this is where stuff like Zima and the like came from.
Murphys_Law
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Killian's Red.
That was very popular "back in the day" but never could stomach the stuff. I was a MGD kinda guy then!
That was very popular "back in the day" but never could stomach the stuff. I was a MGD kinda guy then!
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Barley_Bob
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Barley_Bob
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Cream ale is having a moment. It seems like maybe it's replacing blonde ale as the summer light beer of choice? I'm definitely seeing cream of three crops and fizzy yellow beer come up a lot more often than centennial blonde.
Yeah, I think "dry" beer in general was a fad. I actually worked on some Bud Dry projects back in the day--it required some special treatment since it was a "draft"--i.e. unpasteurized--product. So they were trying to cash in on two fads--dry beer and canned draft beer, a la MGD.
Heh. Icehouse.
So when I was in the dorms, all the dorm residents would have "house picnics" at a local county park in the spring. (A "house" was a two-floor section of a 26-story tower - one men's floor, one women's floor, with a common lounge and laundry and kitchenette area). My house plus a keg of Icehouse was the reason house picnics were banned after 1995.
So when I was in the dorms, all the dorm residents would have "house picnics" at a local county park in the spring. (A "house" was a two-floor section of a 26-story tower - one men's floor, one women's floor, with a common lounge and laundry and kitchenette area). My house plus a keg of Icehouse was the reason house picnics were banned after 1995.
dyqik
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Can I interest you in my NE Hefeweizen recipe? Your's for just $10...
PlexVector
Mellow Goose Brewing
They are back in style now, but called session IPAs...
PlexVector
Mellow Goose Brewing
Good to know--I'll drop by there on the way home from work and give it a try. A proper and good NEIPA is harder to make than it looks...
Just tapped into mine, used mosaic. Waayyy better than the Genesee Cream Ale I am used to
bobeer
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If these are those margaritas with the little corona bottles in them then I'm guilty of liking them. Haha.
I used to get them on the water front tiki bars on the river after being on the boat all day. I'd still get one if I was feeling saucy!
bobeer
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Been seeing session sours a lot lately. Seems like a more sour gose with a tad less abv. Not really sure about it as a long lasting style. Hell, gose was a style that every brewery went nuts over last summer. I still see some around but not nearly as many as year or so ago.
Goses... Guezes...whatever they are called... I think they hit the homebrewing community for a few weeks last summer in terms of hot ness....
When I first got into home brewing (the heady days of 2014!) it was all about maximum IBUs. 100, 200, 1,000.
PlexVector
Mellow Goose Brewing
I didn't think it was to style...too dry, watery; tasted like they took a west coast IPA, threw in some random hops and didn't filter it to make it cloudy. too bad. Oak & Dagger did something similar a month ago, but at least it had more flavor, but I didn't like it either. Once you have a real NEIPA you know it.
Griffin495
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If these are those margaritas with the little corona bottles in them then I'm guilty of liking them. Haha.
I used to get them on the water front tiki bars on the river after being on the boat all day. I'd still get one if I was feeling saucy!
I thought Coronitas were the same as Coronas just in 7 or 8oz bottles...
dyqik
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I'm still waiting for the Bitter fad to start over here (the American interpretation of ESB served on keg doesn't count).
My friend* must have served about 4,000 casks of it this week, at one location. He'll have served maybe 10,000 casks of all real ales styles by closing tomorrow.
*plus the beer festival volunteers working for him.
My friend* must have served about 4,000 casks of it this week, at one location. He'll have served maybe 10,000 casks of all real ales styles by closing tomorrow.
*plus the beer festival volunteers working for him.
Beerswimmer
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Ahhh....Mickey D! Mickey D was the NICE beer people bought kegs of in college. We couldn't afford kegs of Pete's Wicked, so it was Mickey D or Killians Irish Brown for the beer lovers, and South Paw or Red Dog for something between "good" and Coors......
bobeer
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no idea... I guess I'm not up to speed on my Corona lingo. Either way those margaritas with the little corona's in em are good... whatever they['re called!
The California Commons yeast has really become my go-to for IPAs (I can't stand the fruity grossness of US-05/Chico). I don't use pilsner malt or anything, but the "hybrid" yeast strain really drops clear and bright and has a very neutral flavor for hops-forward beers. I generally ferment around 54-56 degrees and crash/lager for a week or so before kegging. I call it India Steam Ale if pressed.
Special Hops
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IP(Anything)
BMC Dry
BMC Ice
BMC Dry Ice Lite.
Reminds me of this from the Simpsons
Zima,
Smirnoff whatever.
BMC Dry
BMC Ice
BMC Dry Ice Lite.
Reminds me of this from the Simpsons
Zima,
Smirnoff whatever.
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I just got back from Barcelona, and all over the place they serve half n half beer mixed with Lemon Fanta... so kind of like a radler.
My girlfriends family does something similar to a Smirnoff "rocket" posted a page or two back, only it's a lager mixed with a Palm Bay cooler. They call them "Turbos" or "Ghetto Fabulous". Not that bad actually, the beer basically cuts the fruit and sugar to a reasonable level.
My girlfriends family does something similar to a Smirnoff "rocket" posted a page or two back, only it's a lager mixed with a Palm Bay cooler. They call them "Turbos" or "Ghetto Fabulous". Not that bad actually, the beer basically cuts the fruit and sugar to a reasonable level.
VApatriot
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I'm really tired of seeing shandy. Fruit in beer is just wrong to me. Either have a lemonade or have a beer, hell, have one of each at the same time just don't mix them together. Gaaaaaak...
If these are those margaritas with the little corona bottles in them then I'm guilty of liking them. Haha.
I used to get them on the water front tiki bars on the river after being on the boat all day. I'd still get one if I was feeling saucy!
Ordered one of these tonight because of this post. Not bad, but now that I've had one I don't think I'll order one again real soon.
