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Getting Good Beer
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:23 am
by Jccarlton
Why you can get good beer:
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/10/the-di ... -ecosytem/
Good beer comes from having a diverse selection.
Re: Getting Good Beer
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:47 am
by Schneibster
Closeby is best for your main tipple. You can get specialty brews from up to several hundred miles away without them being damaged; much farther than that and you chance long trips in semis under hot sun.
I drank Deschutes beers when I was in Seattle with an occasional Red Hook; before I moved up, and after I came back to Monterey, I've stuck with Sierra Nevada. For a treat I buy either Belgian ales, usually Chimay blue or La Fin du Monde, or else one of the local beers (literally four blocks down the street; I can get a pretty good Pale Ale or IPA, and a very nice American Ale as well) or a Stone Brewery or Speakeasy brew. I really like Stone's Arrogant Bastard but I can really only drink it about once a week any more. On the other hand Speakeasy Prohibition is the first amber or Märtzen I've had in a long time I liked. I had the bad luck to buy a sixer of Alaska amber and it tasted like rotten fish. I've had trouble with ambers ever since, but Prohibition Ale seems to have helped a lot. They also have a number of limited series beers that are always traditional styles and always good.
Very occasionally I have to have a Lagunitas Lil' Sump'n.