Wine and Beer Enthusiasts

[Scepticalscribe]

Agreed. The next one will be served at room temperature to try it out and taste it in all of it's glory! I was very happy with this one and I can't wait to try another one. To me the hype is real on this one as I it is that good!

The only beers I would recommend serving cold - as in really cold - are lagers, pilsners, and beers of that sort. Also those ghastly beers that you find in some parts of the US - those insipid tasteless things that do not mind having their non-existent taste numbed by the cold - it does them a favour if they are served cold.

But, and this I have learned from experience, (as I used to buy into the idea that all beers should be served cold) those robust, sturdy strong ales and stouts and porters are best served at something approximating to room temperature if you want to bring out the full flavour of the beverage and show its balance and taste and texture to best advantage.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Tonight, I fancied a Belgian beer, and so am currently drinking - nay, sipping - a superb Belgian (Abbey beer) triple by the name of Maredsous.

 

[0388631]

Those ghastly beers are often more refreshing served ice cold instead of water, especially if you're in a questionable area! I usually have porters at around 70-73*. Not cold, not warm, just right.

Currently having some leftover Willm Pinot Gris.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Those ghastly beers are often more refreshing served ice cold instead of water, especially if you're in a questionable area! I usually have porters at around 70-73*. Not cold, not warm, just right.

Currently having some leftover Willm Pinot Gris.

That is a fair point - and one I accept.

Enjoy your Pinot Gris.

 

[Huntn]

Franziskaner Weiss Bier- As a fan of hefewiezen and Weiss bier, hmm good. Found both it and Weihenstephan Hefe Weis bier at the local grocery store in Houston.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Franziskaner Weiss Bier- As a fan of hefewiezen and Weiss bier, hmm good. Found both it and Weihenstephan Hefe Weis bier at the local grocery store in Houston.

Yes, I know this beer and have enjoyed it; it is a classic Weissbier and is very tasty.

Glad you were able to find it - did you serve it in a tall and elegant beer glass with a slice of lemon as it is sometimes served in Germany? (Then, at the end of the night, you count your lemon slices....)

 

[0388631]

I eat my lemon slices.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I eat my lemon slices.

So do I.

But, then, I love lemons (and all citrus fruits).

 

[Huntn]

Yes, I know this beer and have enjoyed it; it is a classic Weissbier and is very tasty.

Glad you were able to find it - did you serve it in a tall and elegant beer glass with a slice of lemon as it is sometimes served in Germany? (Then, at the end of the night, you count your lemon slices....)

I sipped it from the bottle with a cozy, my favorite method to drink beer . Did not have any iced glasses in the freezer. /..\

Question- is drinking beer icy cold considered unrefined?

I should mention I'm always on the lookout for good domestic beers, I can recommend White Noise a Belgian style witbier made by St. Arnold, Shiner White Wing a Belgian White, and Fat Tire a spicey amber ale by New Belgium brewery.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I sipped it from the bottle with a cozy, my favorite method to drink beer . Did not have any iced glasses in the freezer. /..\

Question- is drinking beer icy cold considered unrefined?

I should mention I'm always on the lookout for good domestic beers, I can recommend White Noise a Belgian style witbier made by St. Arnold, Shiner White Wing a Belgian White, and Fat Tire a spicey amber ale by New Belgium brewery.

What is a cosy? Or cozy?

Maybe it is an American thing, but - while I will drink a can of beer from the can, (under mild duress), I prefer to pour my bottle of beer into a glass.

Re ice cold beer, I think where you drink it may influence the answer to that question. In other words, much of the continental US lies south of much of Europe - thus, your summers are hotter than what we - at least in northern Europe - experience - and you may have a greater need of being able to reach for a cold beer.

Certainly, anything I ahem read about the history of the US suggests that summer in the southern states was well nigh unbearable before the advent of air conditioning.

 

[Huntn]

What is a cosy? Or cozy?

Maybe it is an American thing, but - while I will drink a can of beer from the can, (under mild duress), I prefer to pour my bottle of beer into a glass.

Re ice cold beer, I think where you drink it may influence the answer to that question. In other words, much of the continental US lies south of much of Europe - thus, your summers are hotter than what we - at least in northern Europe - experience - and you may have a greater need of being able to reach for a cold beer.

Certainly, anything I ahem read about the history of the US suggests that summer in the southern states was well nigh unbearable before the advent of air conditioning.

I may have spelled it wrong- koozy? Here is an image. I know that good beer stills tastes good after it has warmed up, but I much prefer (as I think many fellow citizens prefer) icy cold beer. Summer time heat plays a role, but hot or cold outside, the colder the better. My impression is that the English prefer their beer slightly warmer, but still cool.

I detest beer in the can.

 

[0388631]

So do I.

But, then, I love lemons (and all citrus fruits).

Speaking of which, I've yet to see kumquats in the stores or at the farmer's market.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Speaking of which, I've yet to see kumquats in the stores or at the farmer's market.

I'm still clinging (almost passionately - not a word normally associated with me) to the last of the blood oranges.

Blood oranges appeal to something almost primeval in me - I love them with a savage joy and devour them with gleeful appetite.

So, until the blood orange season ends - which will be very soon - this week or next - my mind will not migrate to the contemplation of other citrus fruits.

 

[Huntn]

I'm still clinging (almost passionately - not a word normally associated with me) to the last of the blood oranges.

Blood oranges appeal to something almost primeval in me - I love them with a savage joy and devour them with gleeful appetite.

So, until the blood orange season ends - which will be very soon - this week or next - my mind will not migrate to the contemplation of other citrus fruits.

I'm not familiar with this. In the picture, the inside reminds me of a grapefruit.

 

[jav6454]

I dig Flying Dog Brewery. If you get the chance, try the "Raging Bitch Belgian IPA". It is freaking tasty! I also really like there Gonzo Imperial Porter and Chocolate Habaniro Stout. Yes you read that correctly, Habaniro Stout!

You mean this one?

 

[0388631]

I'm still clinging (almost passionately - not a word normally associated with me) to the last of the blood oranges.

Blood oranges appeal to something almost primeval in me - I love them with a savage joy and devour them with gleeful appetite.

So, until the blood orange season ends - which will be very soon - this week or next - my mind will not migrate to the contemplation of other citrus fruits.

I'm not a huge fan of them. The rinds are nice when candies or turned into marmalade.

 

[takao]

I'm not familiar with this. In the picture, the inside reminds me of a grapefruit.

it tastes nothing like a grapefruit thank god !

The big disadvantage with blood oranges is that normal oranges start to taste second rate unless they are really really good ones.
Over the last years i haven't had a single batch of them which i didn't like. Normal oranges on the other side i have thrown away nearly whole nets multiple times after tasting 1.5 of them because they were rubbish.

Freshly pressed blood orange juice is also quite fantastic. The store bought prepackaed one is usually not up to it. I suspect it's allowed to increase the volume with regular orange juice.

 

[0388631]

Oranges are fine here. I do end up with the occasional bland or unflavored orange. I love grapefruit, though. Though I may be in the minority here about them.

 

[Huntn]

it tastes nothing like a grapefruit thank god !

The big disadvantage with blood oranges is that normal oranges start to taste second rate unless they are really really good ones.
Over the last years i haven't had a single batch of them which i didn't like. Normal oranges on the other side i have thrown away nearly whole nets multiple times after tasting 1.5 of them because they were rubbish.

Freshly pressed blood orange juice is also quite fantastic. The store bought prepackaed one is usually not up to it. I suspect it's allowed to increase the volume with regular orange juice.

I can't remember seeing these locally (State side). I'd try one.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I'm not familiar with this. In the picture, the inside reminds me of a grapefruit.

The taste is both more tart - but richer, and yet much more intense - than that of a standard orange.

For me, they are a passion - I love them and cannot get enough of them when they are in season; their season runs from the very end of December (some years)- or (more usually) early to mid January until the middle of April. Late April, if you are lucky.

Sicily holds a blood orange festival in February.
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it tastes nothing like a grapefruit thank god !

The big disadvantage with blood oranges is that normal oranges start to taste second rate unless they are really really good ones.
Over the last years i haven't had a single batch of them which i didn't like. Normal oranges on the other side i have thrown away nearly whole nets multiple times after tasting 1.5 of them because they were rubbish.

Freshly pressed blood orange juice is also quite fantastic. The store bought prepackaed one is usually not up to it. I suspect it's allowed to increase the volume with regular orange juice.

Exactly - I hadn't spotted your post when I replied to @Huntn.

Agree with every word. And yes, you are quite right: Ordinary oranges taste much more boring, or "mundane" - or, yes, "second rate" once you have acquired a taste for blood oranges, unless, as you say, they are superb. And yes - agreed: I haven't had a batch of them I disliked.

"Quite fantastic" sums it up perfectly.

These days, I am still squeezing blood oranges - mixed with either ordinary oranges and/or pink grapefruit - to make freshly squeezed juice in the morning, but doubt I'll be able to do it after next week.

I miss them with a savage longing when they are not in season.
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Oranges are fine here. I do end up with the occasional bland or unflavored orange. I love grapefruit, though. Though I may be in the minority here about them.

As do I; I adore grapefruit, in fact.

 

[rhett7660]

You mean this one?

That would be the one! Between the two I listed those are my two favorite brews from them. I usually pick up their winter pack and also the summer packs when the come out.
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I sipped it from the bottle with a cozy, my favorite method to drink beer . Did not have any iced glasses in the freezer. /..\

Question- is drinking beer icy cold considered unrefined?

I should mention I'm always on the lookout for good domestic beers, I can recommend White Noise a Belgian style witbier made by St. Arnold, Shiner White Wing a Belgian White, and Fat Tire a spicey amber ale by New Belgium brewery.

White Noise and White Wing are now on my list of Whit/White's to try! You can have Fat Tire, that is one beer I cannot stand. I don't know what it is, but every time I have had one, literally just one, I get a rip roaring headache. So I stay as far away from that one as I can.

 

[Huntn]

That would be the one! Between the two I listed those are my two favorite brews from them. I usually pick up their winter pack and also the summer packs when the come out.
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White Noise and White Wing are now on my list of Whit/White's to try! You can have Fat Tire, that is one beer I cannot stand. I don't know what it is, but every time I have had one, literally just one, I get a rip roaring headache. So I stay as far away from that one as I can.

How's the taste?

 

[jav6454]

That would be the one! Between the two I listed those are my two favorite brews from them. I usually pick up their winter pack and also the summer packs when the come out.

I loved them both. Although if I needed to pick, I'd go with the Snake Dog.

 

[rhett7660]

I loved them both. Although if I needed to pick, I'd go with the Snake Dog.

It is good to. I actually haven't really had a "bad" beer from them. I have had most of not all of their beer that I can find and then some that I found on the east coast when I was back there.

 

[jav6454]

It is good to. I actually haven't really had a "bad" beer from them. I have had most of not all of their beer that I can find and then some that I found on the east coast when I was back there.

Although if I'm speaking of East Coast breweries, I loved this one. Like the Blue Moon but not as filtered.