The Beer Thread

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
I'm sorry, I should have ignored your post as everyone else I'm sure did.

But you do see that your post was the equivalent of a 50 year old guy who claims to like rock music going on a "rock music" thread and proclaiming he had just heard Tom Petty for the first time….right?

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
I had water last night. Probably pretty similiar in taste, and less calories!

I expected an asshole comment from you.  Do you do anything but troll?

That beer has only been imported for a couple of years. I have never seen it in a bar before.    You are an asshole.  You know it. I am sure you wouldn't talk like that to me in person because I would knock you down, little man.  You are the one who admitted to drinking coors light and bud light all your life. I  never drank that crap.  I am not a wimpy man who needs to approve what he likes by reading beer advocate first.  How pathetic can you be?  I know you do that.  You drink a beer than you look on the review on beer advocate to decide whether it is Ok for you to like it.  Don't you see how sad that is? 

I can imagine how much fun it would be to go to a bar with you.  Bitching the whole time about the beer selection.

Net Threats!!!

For the record, I've never had a Coors Light or a Bud Light in my life. Before I got into craft beer, I was a wine drinker.

I did once go to the Coors Brewery and took the tour and got the free samples. But I don't think I chose Coors Light for a sample.

I can state that when my mom went through a bit of a beer drinking phase in her 60's, she did drink Coors Light and Kilkenny Irish Cream. Lol.

Hey, wanna come to our next 9:30 bottle share party?

James wrote:
For the record, I've never had a Coors Light or a Bud Light in my life. Before I got into craft beer, I was a wine drinker.

I did once go to the Coors Brewery and took the tour and got the free samples. But I don't think I chose Coors Light for a sample.

I can state that when my mom went through a bit of a beer drinking phase in her 60's, she did drink Coors Light and Kilkenny Irish Cream. Lol.

Hey, wanna come to our next 9:30 bottle share party?

Absolutely not.  I don't think I could stand being in the same room as you.

atomicfront wrote:
That beer has only been imported for a couple of years. I have never seen it in a bar before.   

then you haven't been to many bars.  it's been a staple of "irish pubs" for a long time.  kilkinney was one of the first beers i got into when i was discovering that beer could be more than insipid fizzy yellow lager - that was some time in the mid-90's.

sweetcell wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
That beer has only been imported for a couple of years. I have never seen it in a bar before.   

then you haven't been to many bars.  it's been a staple of "irish pubs" for a long time.  kilkinney was one of the first beers i got into when i was discovering that beer could be more than insipid fizzy yellow lager - that was some time in the mid-90's.

From what I read until 2010 the only place in USA it was available was in Dubliner Pub in DC. I don't go to a lot of Irish Pubs that is true.  But you see Smithwicks, Guinness, and Harp everywhere. 

If that is the case, I offer you my apologies. I honestly don't pay attention macro grocery store beers anymore. Kilkenny, Smithwick's, Killians, Harp…they're all gateway beers that have fallen off my radar.

Sweetcell, could it be that Kilkenny was much more readily available in Canada (where I presume you were) in the mid-90's than it was in the US?

atomicfront wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
That beer has only been imported for a couple of years. I have never seen it in a bar before.   

then you haven't been to many bars.  it's been a staple of "irish pubs" for a long time.  kilkinney was one of the first beers i got into when i was discovering that beer could be more than insipid fizzy yellow lager - that was some time in the mid-90's.

From what I read until 2010 the only place in USA it was available was in Dubliner Pub in DC. I don't go to a lot of Irish Pubs that is true.  But you see Smithwicks, Guinness, and Harp everywhere. 

fwiw I don't think i've ever seen Kilkenny on tap in Ireland - usually Guinness, Smithwicks, Harp and then the global macros

"'Kilkenny' name was originally used during the 1980s and 1990s to market a stronger version of Smithwick's for the European and Canadian market due to difficulty in pronunciation of the word 'Smithwick's'. It now refers to a similar yet distinct beer."

Interesting.

According to your much detested BA website, Smithwick's is a smidge stronger, 4.5% to 4.3%.

I wonder if they've watered it down for the American market and it's now different from the beer Sweetcell is referring to that he drank in the 90's.

atomicfront wrote:
"'Kilkenny' name was originally used during the 1980s and 1990s to market a stronger version of Smithwick's for the European and Canadian market due to difficulty in pronunciation of the word 'Smithwick's'. It now refers to a similar yet distinct beer."

James wrote:
Sweetcell, could it be that Kilkenny was much more readily available in Canada (where I presume you were) in the mid-90's than it was in the US?

sounds like that's the case.

what's so hard about pronouncing Smithwicks?  sounds like "smidicks", no?

edit: i have no idea what the ABV was back then, but it was as strong as any other beer on offer which was typically 5.0-5.5%.  beers generally tend to be a tad stronger in canada.  gotta fight off them winter chills.

back in the day DC used to get Caffreys ale while I remember liking

James wrote:
Interesting.

According to your much detested BA website, Smithwick's is a smidge stronger, 4.5% to 4.3%.

I wonder if they've watered it down for the American market and it's now different from the beer Sweetcell is referring to that he drank in the 90's.

atomicfront wrote:
"'Kilkenny' name was originally used during the 1980s and 1990s to market a stronger version of Smithwick's for the European and Canadian market due to difficulty in pronunciation of the word 'Smithwick's'. It now refers to a similar yet distinct beer."

Well the current Killkenny is a cream ale.  Smithwicks is an Red Ale.  So I don't think it is a watered down version at of all.  The current Smithwicks would be a watered down version of the older Canadian Killkenny.  Also the current Killkenny uses nitrogen so you get a really slow poor like Guinness which can be annoying.

according to style definitions, cream ales are lighter than red ales so watering down a red ale could indeed produce something close to a cream ale.  doesn't mean that the beers are what they claim to be - you can label your beer to be any style you like regardless of whether you are in its bounds (for example you can call whatever beer you like an "IPA"), there is no style police.  so who knows if kilkenny truly is a cream ale, stylistically; or if Smithwicks is in fact a "true" red ale.

stopping by mad fox today, i snagged a growler of batch 300.  tasty strong ale, and you get 50% off a growler fill if you write a yelp review for them and show it.

the real winner of the trip was a taster of the molotov hoptail '13.  similar to hoptimum, but maltier. i recommend snagging a glass if you see it around.

Thinking of canned beer I am reminded of my youthful trip to England where I enjoyed Carlsberg Special Brew.  They came in these big cans and are 9 percent alcohol.  I usually drank 3 a night.  The first was god-awful.  The second tasted pretty good and by your third you had lost all sense of taste or memory. 

atomicfront wrote:
Thinking of canned beer I am reminded of my youthful trip to England where I enjoyed Carlsberg Special Brew.  They came in these big cans and are 9 percent alcohol.  I usually drank 3 a night.  The first was god-awful.  The second tasted pretty good and by your third you had lost all sense of taste or memory.   

that was probably just the brain deformities setting in from the aluminum can.

i had my first carlsberg special brew last week in hong kong at club 7-11.

that beer has the rare ability to give you an immediate hangover, rather than waiting for it to settle in the next day.

special indeed.

Evidently the Special comes from that they brewed it especially for Winston Churchill's visit to Denmark in 1950.  The quick hangover you get is just an added bonus. 

i believe something similar to this was posted somewhere on the board previously, but the information here seems pretty fresh:

The Nationals Park Beer Guide
http://thenationalsreview.com/the-nationals-park-beer-guide/
(coding is sloppy and it crashed one of my browsers, but the maps are very detailed)

Timely, as we're going Sunday. And it if keeps on raining, we could be at a tripleheader!

I'm a little disappointed Hennepin is no longer an option at the ballpark.

I went in April and had a Dogfish Indian Brown. $10 plus tip. For a beer that sells four $8 a six pack at Total Wine. At least my ticket was free.