Wine and Beer Enthusiasts

[it wasnt me]

my own view is that much of the current beer market is flooded, nay, saturated by legions of over-hopped IPA style beers

I wholeheartedly agree. That's one of the reasons why I resisted craft beer for a long time: I thought they were all such tediously boring IPAs with extra hoppiness in the hops. They all taste the same. Fortunately, I've learnt a lot since then. But IPAs still bore me.

I find that I far prefer a reliable weissbier, or helles, or kristal style beer as a regular beverage.

My normal after-work beers at home are often Pilseners or Helles (usually the Tegernseer one, because that's available almost everywhere here), but I agree that with wheat beer you at least basically know what to expect: Nice heavy yeast and often bananas. (Hardly any bananas found in Weihenstephaner! I still gave it a 4.2 out of 5 stars in my ratings.) It's a fine art to make a wheat beer that I find truly dreadful. I like that.

(Which is not to say, of course, that I don't now know several truly vile wheat beers).

 

[Scepticalscribe]

At the moment, I am strangely mellow.

The Chablis is going down rather well.

Actually, I think that I could live perfectly well as long as I am amply supplied with seriously good coffee, Burgundy wines, and German and Belgian beers...among other sundry necessities in order to ensure that one is able to maintain a decent quality of life.