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Thirty beers: highlights
Sep. 30th, 2010 03:51 pmFirst, for my Dreamwidth readers, I've added extra tags to all my beer entries, so you can find things like beer I would happily pay for and the various beers I consider to be variations on the local lager with an easy click. Readers of the LiveJournal mirror: not all the tags made it over due to how I did the editing.
I think the biggest discoveries in the bucket were Belgian abbey beers — tasty, varied and generally complex. I'll have to try a few more over time! My personal favourite was one of the first ones I had: Orval. I also found Duvel to be "like a beer I like, but more so", which is a pretty good impression to get. I don't think I had any disagreeable Belgian beers in the bucket, although Duchesse de Bourgogne was a bit of a surprise.
Among the thirty beers, many were "the local lager" for a given country or region. There was a very strong central tendency to decent, grainy, easy-drinking beers here. At the "I think they should stick to distilled liquor" end of things was the unsettling Švyturys. At the happy end of the spectrum were Pietra, with its nice weight and flavour, and the first few aromatic sips of Hue. Although it's a "premium lager", Samuel Adams Boston Lager is in the genre and very tasty too.
The two memorable beers for me that don't fit into these categories were Weisen Edel-Weisse, for its notes of champagne and summer, and O'Hara's, for being a surpassing, balanced, tasty stout.
From here on in, it's beers of opportunity in my beer tag — I had an interesting Montreal stout and an Austrian lager lately, I may write one or both of them up soon…
I think the biggest discoveries in the bucket were Belgian abbey beers — tasty, varied and generally complex. I'll have to try a few more over time! My personal favourite was one of the first ones I had: Orval. I also found Duvel to be "like a beer I like, but more so", which is a pretty good impression to get. I don't think I had any disagreeable Belgian beers in the bucket, although Duchesse de Bourgogne was a bit of a surprise.
Among the thirty beers, many were "the local lager" for a given country or region. There was a very strong central tendency to decent, grainy, easy-drinking beers here. At the "I think they should stick to distilled liquor" end of things was the unsettling Švyturys. At the happy end of the spectrum were Pietra, with its nice weight and flavour, and the first few aromatic sips of Hue. Although it's a "premium lager", Samuel Adams Boston Lager is in the genre and very tasty too.
The two memorable beers for me that don't fit into these categories were Weisen Edel-Weisse, for its notes of champagne and summer, and O'Hara's, for being a surpassing, balanced, tasty stout.
From here on in, it's beers of opportunity in my beer tag — I had an interesting Montreal stout and an Austrian lager lately, I may write one or both of them up soon…
