Post beers.
Here is Greene King IPA, a traditional Indian Pale Ale made in Suffolk, in the rural East Anglia of England.
"Indian Pale Ales" are just pale ales - the "India" comes from the fact that these beers were made with extra hops, to preserve them on the journey to India, where the British Raj would drink them during colonialist times.
It's a very tasty beer.
Gonna go get a couple bottles of this for the snow storm tonight.
where are you from, friend
ipa is done to death, i like a nice stout
Nice. Is that Canadian? Judging from the French, and that map on the bottle looks like Quebec.
South of England but I worked/lived in Ipswich for a year. One time I went to Bury St. Edmunds for a night out, it's a nice place.
Anyway, I disagree with you my friend, IPA is making a big comeback.
Obviously you've got all the trendy "craft beers" like Sierra Nevada, Goose Island, Brew Dog, and more independent stuff than that.
I got into those beers a few years ago because it was the "trendy" and "cool" thing at the time.
Then I thought why the fuck aren't I drinking something like Greene King IPA? It's LITERALLY THE SAME KIND OF BEER as Goose Island IPA, the only difference is that the trendy youth associate English IPAs with fat old men with beer bellies.
But what does that have to do with the taste and quality of a beer? It's just fucking branding. So now I drink proper English IPAs and I don't give a fuck if some smarmy hipster thinks I'm out of touch. In fact I'm a POST-hipster. I'm so alternative, I'm even more alternative than they are.
Also I like that English bitters are served a little less cold than other beers. They're still cold, just don't give me fucking brain freeze. So I like that. Especially in the winter.
Posting another.
Boddingtons. Real tasty beer. Well it's not very strong flavoured but I like that. I like strongly flavoured beers too - strong hoppy pale ales, dark ales like Hobgoblin too. But sometimes you just want something palette cleansing, y'know? That's where Boddies comes in.
Tastes very pleasant. The smooth creamy foam is a lot like Guinness - like Guinness, it's achieved by adding nitrogen, which creates a micro-foam of very fine bubbles for a smooth texture.
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Metrosexual lager-drinking faggot detected
>starting a beer thread with Green King
>Saying it's tasty
End your life mate. Do you actually know anything about good English beer? All Green king is piss.
Find a decent independent brewery with a decent IPA before you start trying to drop knowledge like a smug cunt.
Probably drinking at the bar tonight to celebrate one more successful finals week. Only one more to go.
PBR or bust
I'M ENGLISH YOU CUNT
WHY DON'T YOU SHOVE ONE UP YOUR ARSE BEFORE TRYING TO ACT LIKE A SMUG CUNT
There's literally nothing fucking wrong with Greene King and it is, in fact, FUCKING DELICIOUS
Sure it's not as strong tasting as other pale ales, but I don't always WANT something strong tasting. Strong beers can get real fucking tiresome if you drink them all the time (which I did for a while).
Fuck off, you don't know shit. Propose a beer or fuck off.
Another beer, Hobgoblin.
Dark and tasty. A very nice, traditional English beer.
Calm the fuck down
Greene King is mass market garbage, it's the Carling of the Ale world. Bland, boring, weak. It has no substance to it.
Not all beer has to be 10000% to be delicious and it doesn't have to be in your face all the time but Greene King is bad even for a low strength session beer.
I know more than you by the sound of it, try some of these breweries, they all have a great selection of all sorts of stuff
>Osset Brewery
>Salopian
>Acorn Brewery
>Thornbridge
>Saltaire Brewery
>Titanic Brewery
Pretty much every beer all those breweries make is much better than Greene King.
>muh opinion is more right than yours based on my opinions and tastes
sounds about right
You're very new to beer, aren't you? Everyone has had all of these before.
Preserve is a funny way of saying mask the taste of spoiled beer
>not even wearing orange
>no goblin glider
>no pumpkin bombs
Far and away the worst Hobgoblin I've ever encountered.
I have really bad news about jerky and salami brah.
But salting actually preserves food
whereas IPA's where invented cause normal ales made in England and shipped to India would taste spoiled
Hops act as a natural preservative in beer, like salt. The world is at your fingertips
Got a three pack of this, double chocolate stout and the india ale with the nice glass for like $10.
green king is shit
btfo southerners
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its more you have a pleb taste in beers
I have one of these in fridge (took back from trip to usa with few other stouts). How good is it (or bad)?
>IPA
>ever
bitter tastes for a bitter soul
What's the best Czech/Polish/Slovakian/Eastern European beer?
I've always wanted to try them but never had the chance.
For me, it's Budweiser, an American classic.
embarrassing
(OP)
Drinking this. Getting through a lot of St. Louis seasonals this month.
Better than Schlafly's coffee stout but I honestly wish I'd bought another peanut butter stout bomber instead of a four pack of these.
What's embarassing about about Samuel Smith? Or are you just insecure about yourself?
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Just opened this after a bit at the bar. It's quite malty and chocolatey. The bourbon barrel adds just a bit of bitterness. The 11% ABV is very quickly felt but not too strong in the taste. As a good stout should it feels heavy in the mouth.
I really like it.
English style IPAs and the new wave of overhopped American IPAs are two totally different beasts.
I buy this 4 pack as long as it is in season. It rivals $20 4-packs for $13.
Pls explain. I'm American and IPAs have gone off the fucking wall with IBUs and hops. It's unbearable.
Best IPA is pic related. Ever. In the world. The best.
Excellent thread, OP. You're really skewering 'em. I imagine half these newfriends have yet to even sup 'pon a freshly-pulled Hobgoblin
I love this thread because here in the USA it makes it look like the UK is trying to break into the craft beer market when in fact most of these breweries and beers have existed since before the "brewmasters" churning out Racer 5 and other such memes were given a birth cert :^^^^)
seconding thornbridge, delicious stout
honestly, ive never had a good one from bottle, but on draft when I was in prague it all made sense. they're designed to be best when really fresh on tap, they don't travel well in my experience.
i liked kozel dark, but it's fairly ubiquitous in CZ.
Wheat beer is objectively the best tasting beer
They are still hoppy but not as intensely hopped as American ones. Malt flavours are more pronounced and often have a biscuity or caramelly characters.
At least that's from my experience, I haven't had a massive amount of English IPAs.
I disagree. I find Irish reds a bit better.
Innis and gunn IPA was quite nice, too bad it basically disappeared from the supermarket I usually go to.
I think it's the most accessible, but not the best.
Really? Most people seem to dislike wheat beers unless they're really into beer.
I've found the opposite. Everyone I've gotten into beer has started with a good wheat.
Best Japanese beer that I've had
Greene King is like the shit-tierest of shit-tier ales. It's exclusively sold in Weatherspoons which is full of societies undesirables anyway...