Any beer aficionados out there?

[Canadabis]

Im so torn everytime I go to the liquor barn.
I love Asahi beer, from japan with its high tech super advanced brewing automation and its consistent wuality and super dry taste and the chimay trappiste ale from belgium with its hand made, unflitered and unpasturized diharrea-to-whimps flavour...
There are just so damned many beers out tehre WHAT DO I DO!!!!!!
Well, anyone have some favourite beers? Probably tried half of em

[Nochowderforyou]

I like "Red Speckled Hen" beer from London. And of course Heineken from my homeland of Holland :)

I brew my own beer as well so I don't buy much anymore. I make about 65 bottles woth of beer every 8 weeks or so. I make it as strong as I want, and costs only $15 for a beer kit to produce the 65 bottles. Yah...:D

[Canadabis]

Nice! I was thinking of brewing my own, but I want to make it nice, not just cheap, any recomendations? Like can you buy any barrel fermentation, like how the monks brew beer form barrels that are already infested with yeast?

And thats funny, I was thinking of moving my tiny little painting business (which is basically jsut me and my amazing skills) to holland, what type of finishes are common there?
I mean I know paper, I can do all sorts of faux shit (which is tacky to the extreme, but if people pay meh) stucco, plaster etc. And of course wood ifnishing.
But painting, and hand painting is my true specialty, what type of common shit they have in houses there, and is there any new construction, or is it all custom spec?
I want to milk the wohle tall, blue eyed canadian thing for all its worth, and have a good time with those wonderful people. (yesh me knows my history^^)

[Optimus Pot]

I'm not much of a beer drinker, but I was high and had a Bud with Fried Chicken, it was real good.

I saw this concoction on TV. A Brooklyn Brewery Chocolate stout with Vanilla Ice cream. I wasn't that bad, but the Beer flavor overwhelmed taste of the Ice cream.

[Canadabis]

I am a lactose intolerant vegetarian mister pot!
I am so glad that megatron cut you up with his energon sword and got turned into galvatron.
But yeah, fried chicken AND chocoloate AND ice cream...
isnt there a re call on your sterring column? apparently its up your ass!

nvm :p I thought it was funny

[Nochowderforyou]

Actually, making your own beer is quite simple.

It costs about a $100 to get started, but trust me, it will be worth spent. You get the glass barrel, for brewing, all of the gizmos and gadgets that is needed in making it. Go to any brew store, you can buy it all in a kit :)

After you have all of the equipt., you buy a kit of your choice. They have everything from light Canadian lagar, Australian lager, light, dark, wheat beer, everything! A kit costs only $15, a produce 1/2 a keg of beer(about 65 bottles). In the kit, all you have to do is read the instructions, have part water, and in the kit is like a thick mollases(sp?), like a dark, thick syrup. Follow the instructions, very simple if you know how to read english, mix it with your corn sugar, that is what makes the alcohol content %, mix in some yeast and stuff, let the natural brewing process take place.

To make good beer, just follow the instructions. I find it best to add a bit more corn sugar for higher alcohol content, about 7% I like it at :D The key to getting a good brew is keeping everything as sterlilized and clean as possible. Any sign of residue soap and that brews up, you drink, can make you very sick. Checck it out!

If you like wine though, that's even easier to make. My mom makes that stuff and biy is it good. Wine making isn't as picky as brewing beer, but they both get you happily wasted

Holland is small, VERY small. The entire country of Holland can fit into Alberta 51 times...it is small. No new developments really because there is just no space. 14 million people live there, wood homes in very close corners. Not much space in between homes. People have even resorted to living in house boats along the canals. About 2000 houseboats are in canals there, they are everywhere. But hey, it's home :) But I live in Canada now, MUCH better.

[Canadabis]

thats funny, cause im also good with boat hull treatments :p
But where about in canada do you live?
I live in Toronto right now, looking at moving soon though, mabe to ottawa, or back to vancouver.


Oh and, do you have to use a glass barrel? I kind of like the archaic old idea of oak or something...just more a rustic guy I geuss.

I like my beer in the 7% range myself, mild enough to get teh flavour, strong enough for me not to be wasting my time drinking it :D

[duckofdeath]

amstel light best beer ever!

[TallulahGreen]

All my favorite beer I doubt you have heard of.

Except maybe Sierra Nevada....and Henry Weinhards.

[a. beezy]

Shiner Bock (shiner, tx)
Red Stripe (jamaica)

[Nochowderforyou]

thats funny, cause im also good with boat hull treatments :p
But where about in canada do you live?
I live in Toronto right now, looking at moving soon though, mabe to ottawa, or back to vancouver.


Oh and, do you have to use a glass barrel? I kind of like the archaic old idea of oak or something...just more a rustic guy I geuss.

I like my beer in the 7% range myself, mild enough to get teh flavour, strong enough for me not to be wasting my time drinking it :D

I live in Alberta. Vancouver is a wonderful place to live, but can be pricey as far as living is concerned.

I don't know if you HAVE to use a glass barrell, but I do know that glass is much more sanitary than wood. You don't want a beer that tastes "woody", unless you like that. Wine is more suitable in oak barrells than beer, as that what most wines were brewed in for centuries and still to this day.

I want to make my own whiskey and learn about it one day. Laws be damned! I'm gonna make my own damn whiskey in a barrel, and I'm gonna drink it all up.

[unmeg]

All my favorite beer I doubt you have heard of.

Except maybe Sierra Nevada....and Henry Weinhards.


Sierra Nevada what?
Pale Ale, bigfoot Ale, creame ale,Pilsner,porter,honey wheat
they have a huge selection,mine is thier Pale ale

[Fengzi]

Mmmmn, beeeer :p

I love a good Microbrew. Lately I've been drinking a lot of something called Red Seal Ale from the North Coast Brewery out here in Cal.

I used to do the homebrew thing as well. Nochowder is right, its pretty easy to make a really good beer and a lot of fun too. I used to do it all the time with a buddy of mine. We went in 50/50 on the equipment. Only prob was I left the country for a year or so and when I got back he had split with the stuff. Shithead. I'm thinking of staring again though. I'll have to give my wife some hints around X-mas time

Anyone ever been to a microbrew festival? They're awesome. You pay like $10-$15 and get a small (6-8oz)glass and a bunch of "tasting tickets" The last one I went to had about 50 breweries, each with 4-5 different beers. They're only supposed to give you a little taste for each ticket but they almost always fill your glass to the top. Usually you end up getting really fucked up by the time your done. Definitely worth cehcking out.

[colton]

I like "Red Speckled Hen" beer from London. And of course Heineken from my homeland of Holland :)

I brew my own beer as well so I don't buy much anymore. I make about 65 bottles woth of beer every 8 weeks or so. I make it as strong as I want, and costs only $15 for a beer kit to produce the 65 bottles. Yah...:D

Im quite partial to a 'speckled hen' too, but theres also loads of other real ales like that all over Britain - Bishops finger, IPA and Spitfire special are some of the ones iv tried!!

I dont mind the odd lager too ill drink any - Stella Artois, Fosters, Kronenberg, Carlsberg Export etc but i draw the line at Super T and Special Brew!!! lol

[dirty raider]

I'm more of stout drinker really so Guiness and Murpheys tends to be my posion but ale wish Hobgoblin's pretty nice or any of the Cains range except Mild.

You don't know what you're missing with the old super lager, might I recomend Skol Super.

[NightProwler]

groltch.

[TallulahGreen]

My favorite Sierra Nevada is their porter and bigfoot. I like their Hefeweizen too...shit pale ale is good too.

Dammnit theres too many great ones. I am obsessed with Sierra Nevada.

[D.Boone]

Millstream Brewery In Amana, Iowa. they brew all authentic german kinds of beer ive tried a few of them and i liked them. very heavy beers. but i got german blood in me so i can handle it.

[colton]

Anyone like Snakebite?

[TallulahGreen]

Grolsch? OR whatever? The green stuff that comes in the cool bottle? In a 22? Yeah that stuff is rad.

[jacquelyne]

yea make some home brew.I make all kinds for my partner stout, ale, lager, draught, pale ale every beer u can imagine.I have had a go at just about every kind its simple as if you have the right equip and can keep it at a certain temp for a few weeks.Its just as simple to make ginger beer and cider too.Im not sure but u can buy kits here in aus to get u started.

[colton]

Forgot to finish my thread lol - Snakebite is 1/2 lager & 1/2 cider = Paraletic!!!

Also proper cider is some seriously strong stuff - shit like scrumpy cider is well nice!!