I love this time of year because we get pumpkin beers and other amber types. They always take me back to good times with my friends during Oktoberfest.
I’d like a beer that doesn’t taste bitter to me. I know this is probably me because I am very sensitive to bitter tastes (I can even taste the light bitterness of artificial sweeteners in drinks). But I’d love to experience an alcoholic beverage for once without the bitter taste.
sour beers in my experience tend to be less bitter.
modelo especial with lime juice is about my favorite non-craft beer. usually i tend to favor less-bitter beerd myself such as witbiers, kolsch, or hefeweisens. there are some IPA’s I like and will drink but I find that most of the ones I prefer tend to be on the less-bitter side for an IPA (which means they’re still bitter-er than most non-IPA beers).
I think part of the problem is that alcohol itself tastes bitter. So I guess look for quite a low-alcohol beer, maybe a fruity one with not much hops…
I don’t think alcohol tastes bitter, if you drink straight vodka it doesn’t taste like much of anything it just burns going down. I think alcohol makes drinks more bitter owing to the fact that it’s a pretty good solvent that can extract bitter compounds from the drink’s other ingredients so you taste them more easily.
Also a lot of beer is flavored with hops (tho most beers don’t include as much of them as your typical IPA) which is typically bitter. I’ve had tea and sparkling water that were non-alcoholic but had hops as a flavoring component and they were unpleasantly bitter to me.
I’ve been enjoying Magic Hat lately
OMG, I’ve quit so many homebrew clubs because of their unnatural fascination with hops, Hops, HOPS!!! Boil 'em, brew on 'em, back 'em in your taps… HOPSSS!!!
If i wanted to feel like I’ve just been smacked in the face with a bag of fresh grass cuttings, I’m sure I could pay a guy.
One fucking guy was making hops extracts to DROPPER into his Hazy New England IPA so there was a fucking green oil slick on top. I quit on the spot, got up and walked out.
Reference brewing in to US is a lost art. Present a Kölsch or a Maibock in spec and they shit on you because its too sweet, but if you just make it an Imperial with more hops…?
Ptui.
Urban millennials. It’s barely even ironic, although in my experience the retreat into hedonism and arrested development are coping mechanisms for a world that isn’t even remotely what any of the adults in the 90s promised us it would be. Any outward excitement is simply a mask over a deep ennui.
Also it’s a copypasta.
