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2015-02-06 03:25:18 UTC
Beer varies batch to batch and is affected the by subsequent environmental exposures - trucking, storage, age, and by other mysterious forces unknown to me. The same beer purchased at different times or at different places can be so different. Sometimes I wonder, "Is this the same beer?"
That's why when reading beer reviews I just shrug. Yah, maybe it's a good beer now but what lot did you taste? Here's an example.
My favorite beer is Hacker-Pschorr. It's a sweet beer from Germany that I just love... when it's good. I buy it as a draft usually at the Black Forest in Minneapolis. Talk about variable. They serve 3 versions of it (from the same tap). One is just fantastic, and I make sure someone is along to drive me home. The second is a sour thing. I think it's actually rotten. I think it would be called stale beer, but it's worse than that. The third version is 'ehh'. The ehh beer ... well I'm not even sure the keg is hooked up to the Hacker-Pschorr barrel.
I'm not getting down on the Black Forest. This happens everywhere. To their credit they have taken back a "rotten" beer. (I didn't see any hustle to change the barrel out thou.)
Here's a can example. I used to love Miller Genuine Draft years ago. Today, it's not the same beer. And I don't care what anyone says. It just doesn't have that fullness, that "bread" taste the old brew did. Anyway, I was driving thru Twin Harbors, maybe 12 years ago, and stopped off at the local liquor store to stock up the cabin for the season. That night at the fire we opened up our first MGD of the hunting season. We all just looked at each other after the first swig. This Twin Harbors beer was probably the best canned beer I had ever had. Additional hunters traveling thru were instructed to buy them out. They did. We remember this as the great beer year - at least what we can remember of it. Man, did we drink. Next year we bought cases - but we never experience that great beer again.
The most recent experience with a "great batch" is a beer by Excelsior called "Big Island Blond". I had some last Monday and almost wet my pants. I ran right over to Glenn Lake Wine and ... something, and bought 6 bottles. I loose. Wasn't bad beer, but my pants are dry.
So, the purpose of this post is this question. Does anyone know of a real-time beer quality reporting page? I see a lot Minnesota pages that rate beer but nothing that says "Hey, the batch of Hacker-Pschorr at the Forest is GREAT... or ROTTEN". Well?
I know this is probably all for naught. Finding a good batch of beer will always probably be hit a miss. It's like a good cup of coffee. It doesn't happen all that often. Who's going to run home after an exceptional encounter and post it? I would, but I don't think many would.
Let me know if you have a site in mind. Thank you. (Maybe I'll put one together)
That's why when reading beer reviews I just shrug. Yah, maybe it's a good beer now but what lot did you taste? Here's an example.
My favorite beer is Hacker-Pschorr. It's a sweet beer from Germany that I just love... when it's good. I buy it as a draft usually at the Black Forest in Minneapolis. Talk about variable. They serve 3 versions of it (from the same tap). One is just fantastic, and I make sure someone is along to drive me home. The second is a sour thing. I think it's actually rotten. I think it would be called stale beer, but it's worse than that. The third version is 'ehh'. The ehh beer ... well I'm not even sure the keg is hooked up to the Hacker-Pschorr barrel.
I'm not getting down on the Black Forest. This happens everywhere. To their credit they have taken back a "rotten" beer. (I didn't see any hustle to change the barrel out thou.)
Here's a can example. I used to love Miller Genuine Draft years ago. Today, it's not the same beer. And I don't care what anyone says. It just doesn't have that fullness, that "bread" taste the old brew did. Anyway, I was driving thru Twin Harbors, maybe 12 years ago, and stopped off at the local liquor store to stock up the cabin for the season. That night at the fire we opened up our first MGD of the hunting season. We all just looked at each other after the first swig. This Twin Harbors beer was probably the best canned beer I had ever had. Additional hunters traveling thru were instructed to buy them out. They did. We remember this as the great beer year - at least what we can remember of it. Man, did we drink. Next year we bought cases - but we never experience that great beer again.
The most recent experience with a "great batch" is a beer by Excelsior called "Big Island Blond". I had some last Monday and almost wet my pants. I ran right over to Glenn Lake Wine and ... something, and bought 6 bottles. I loose. Wasn't bad beer, but my pants are dry.
So, the purpose of this post is this question. Does anyone know of a real-time beer quality reporting page? I see a lot Minnesota pages that rate beer but nothing that says "Hey, the batch of Hacker-Pschorr at the Forest is GREAT... or ROTTEN". Well?
I know this is probably all for naught. Finding a good batch of beer will always probably be hit a miss. It's like a good cup of coffee. It doesn't happen all that often. Who's going to run home after an exceptional encounter and post it? I would, but I don't think many would.
Let me know if you have a site in mind. Thank you. (Maybe I'll put one together)