The Beer Thread
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Lost Virtue
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You are lucky... The place I get it from only gets it in every few months and incredibly limited quantities. They should have Lost Abbey next week!!!
Fifey
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Leinenkugel has a pumpkin shandy and it doesn't taste as bad as I thought it would. It's also like 5% so it isn't just a waste of money.
ToeMissile
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ToeMissile
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Finally drank this over the weekend. It was interesting. It has a huge chocolate flavor on the front end then it finished the orange. It was pretty hard to drink more than a pint. Super, super heavy. I think I prefer the Creme Brulee more than this one, though.
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What kind? While the style variance in "German beers" doesn't run the gamut that "American Beers" or "Belgian Beers" do, it's certainly a wide target.
I like German style pilsners that are days old, hefeweizens, or berlinerweisses. Tastes with those are: "Crisp and refreshing", "Citrus flavor with a bit of banana", and "slighty tart (not overly)".
There's also the dunkel, alt, rauch, etc.
These guys make amazing beer (if it's not TOO old):Weisses Bräuhaus G. Schneider & Sohn GmbH | Kelheim, Germany | Beers | BeerAdvocate
Specifically under the Aventinus brand (a smaller brewery they bought out and kept selling, I believe).
The weizenbock is (Schneider Weisse Tap 6 Unser Aventinus | Weisses Bräuhaus G. Schneider & Sohn GmbH | BeerAdvocate) world class.
No... just no.
opiate82
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The "law" requires all beers to be made from "barley, hops, water, and yeast" (it also allows for wheat iirc). Pretty much every beer ever is made from barley, hops, water, and yeast. The only things you don't get are adjuncts like fruit, peppers, chocolate, coffee, etc. Even then you can make beers with those ingredients, you just can't label them as 'Bier.'
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The law didn't take into account yeast originally, because it was created before yeast was understood. They changed it after that discovery. It's sort of the malt beverage vs beer debacle covered in the throws of ancient health regulation/dietary law.
opiate82
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You'd be referring to the Reinheitsgebot which is no longer applicable today, but is somewhat of the bases for the Vorl?ufiges Biergesetz (Provisional Beer Law) in which current German brewers operate under. (*edit: I only bring it up because the original question referred to I'm assuming current German beers). It is worth noting only German-brewed beers are subject to the labeling standards in the Provisional Beer Law, imports are not.
Also upon further reading, the Reinheitsgebot did not allow for wheat and was pretty much created to stop brewers from using all the wheat so they could use it to make bread instead. Wheat is allowable under the Provisional Beer Law.
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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to opiate82 again.
Did not know that, thanks man.
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What kind of beer do you like? Are you doing any of the suburbs or just Minneapolis?
Surly has the best food of the breweries, but Northbound Smokehouse is pretty good (and a bit lower-class). If you're really focused on food, hit up East Lake in the Midtown Global Market and have some ethnic food (Taco Cat is my favorite, but all of it's good).
For Beer: Steel Toe, Indeed, Dangerous Man, Fair State, Sociable Ciderworks (Cider only), Fulton, Lift Bridge, Bauhaus, Insight, Town Hall (the food is meh), Tin Whiskers, and Dayblock. Skip 612 if people bring it up, I love the guys behind it but the beer is just meh (though the location is pretty great). Summit is the O.G. craft beer in Minnesota (and has more tap lines than any other brewery), so I always recommend a visit there as well. It's much more production scale than anything else (besides August Schell in New Ulm or Surly).
For Bars: Happy Gnome in St. Paul, Republic in Minneapolis (food is better at Happy Gnome).
edit: this was posted... might find it interesting for the travel:Out-of-Towners Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine
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ON ANOTHER NOTE: Lagunitas sells 50% of the company to Heineken...
Lagunitas Is Now Half Owned By Heineken, Will Go Global - BuzzFeed News
Lagunitas Is Now Half Owned By Heineken, Will Go Global - BuzzFeed News
Royal
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I tried Pumking for the first time today. Easily the best pumpkin beer I've ever had though admittedly I've not tried a huge percentage of the ones that are out there now. The vanilla flavor in it is really noticeable and is what is missing from so many of the others imo. Not too sweet, not too cinnamony. Will definitely revisit.