Beer appreciation thread

You're a monster.

a higher level of carbonation is more common in lagers than ales - especially UK real ale. But there's a bunch of Czech styles that really don't make it out of the CR. A bunch of dark, malty beers that (I think) compare to UK Milds?

Name a better London brewed lager.

I meant in reference to you saying it was better than Meantime so, that.

I went to the Great British Beer festival last year and the best beer we tasted there wasn't British - or even American! - but this impressive little Italian IPA, recommended by a fellow libcommer who'd lived in Milan:

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/lambrate-gaina/143657/

If you ever come across it, I really can't recommend it enough.

Also, recently for IPAs I've been drinking this:

http://www.stonebrewing.com/gotoipa/

It's only 4.5% because, I'll be honest, those high octane IPAs at 7.5 or 8%, they just knock me out - I don't even get drunk, I just end up falling asleep.

Chilli: Yep, the Italian brewery scene has really taken off. Phenominal beers, but boy are they pricey. You're back in the states?

I would probably say Meantime's Helles was better than both but I think they've stopped producing it. Camden's Hells just tastes nice than the Meantime London Lager.

You can tell the London Lager is shit from the marketing blurb:

The blurb for the Meantime Helles was way better, was something along the lines of Hook went to Munich and learnt how to make beer. This is a beer.

thank kropotkin there's a hipster beer store near me so i try whatever IPA they have on tap. otherwise,

NB $4.50 a can.

Not quite on the same scale, but have you tried Dogfish Head's 'Midas Touch'? Its recipe is derived from the shit scraped out of vessels from Midas' tomb from 2800 years ago, more or less.

Indeed. Drinking my way up and down the East Coast.

Possible good news for the European IPA fans, it was just announced that Heineken bought 50% of Lagunitas. You'll be seeing a lot more big hoppy US IPAs. If they remain such.

Much of the Czech (and Slovak) mass produced beer tastes like shit. We call it eurobeer: it's usually hypercarbonated and has a generic taste. A lot of the post-socialist breweries here were bought by the likes of Heineken, SABMiller or Molson Coors and turned to shit. Budvar is still government owned and is one of the better major brands, at least in my view. But there's a growing culture of local breweries doing specialty stuff.