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Hein  ·  4471 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's a favorite Beer or Wine of yours?

My favorite beers are Belgian: Hoegaarden, Leffe, Westmalle, La Chouffe, Duvel. But the circumstances in which beer is drunk are very important for its appeal too. After hiking in the Rockies for several weeks even a Heineken tastes like heaven. (No, it doesn't, it was an MCB actually. Heineken: fuck that shit!)





briandmyers  ·  4470 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Westmalle Trippel is one of the finer things in life.

The Belgians do beer right. Love all the Trappist beers, and the lambic family is a fun excursion to the edges of what beer can be - Boon especially. Drool...

b_b  ·  4470 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Heineken always tastes skunked to me.

thenewgreen  ·  4470 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Like I said, one dimensional and that dimension happens to be skunk.

Beer Advocate gives it a 65% rating based on over 1600 reviews. Pretty bad.

mk  ·  4470 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I get that too. Every once in a long while it doesn't but most often it does.

thenewgreen  ·  4470 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Heineken: fuck that shit!
-Wow, there's some serious Heineken anger. I've never understood why Heineken is so damned popular. It's a really one dimensional beer. I think they're just really, really good at marketing.
briandmyers  ·  4470 days ago  ·  link  ·  
thenewgreen  ·  4470 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nice, can't believe I didn't catch that. pour out a sip for my fallen homie mr. Hopper