bikes vs. beer

[yakstone]

Tastes change. How many of you are still dtinking the same wines, beers, bourbons, scotch that you drank 10 years ago?

[miwuksurfer]

Drinking tip for would-be mountain bikers:

After finishing your beer cans (yes, you have to drink beer out of a can on mountain bike rides) don't crush the can before putting it in your backpack. The intact empties serve as an excellent crumple zone when you end up on your back.

[sine]

Plenty of good brews in the USA to suit. Pairings are also important.

Imports (largely Pilsners and Lagers) are to be avoided as more often than not the shipment has been compromised and tastes nothing like it does in Germany or Czech Republic or Belgium.

Draft can make a world of difference for the better-especially when shipped during cool months.

Bike-brew analogy in the USA. Bikes and beer used to suck in the USA but thankfully that has all changed.

[rabo]

I feel that taste -like all our senses- deteriorates with age. Unfortunately.
Don't like all those funky micro brews either. German and Dutch beers for me.
A colleague of my uncle once got a large box full of Duvels donated after a factory visit in Belgium and washed 'm all through the sink because there was "stuff at the bottom of the bottle".

[shanerpvt]

Agreed.

I like my beer, and hard cider, like I like my bikes. Crafted in my hometown. Sometimes within driving distance.

You can learn alot about the craft by sharing a drink with either.

I agree with this, I like to drink local beers and vodka. I have grown to really like several of Central Texas beers and personally find the local Vodkas are FANTASTIC.

[RickM]

[/B]I find as time goes by, more and more I am going back to simple German or Czech pilseners.

Yes. Stick with them. USA craft beers are at worst guilty of the sort of fetishism quite commonly seen in...bada bing..the bike industry. So what? Almost all of them are still way better then macro crap. Reading this thread is another reminder of the Ersatz Effite Elititism that permeates a segment, (the segment that hangs here?) of contemporary society. Sit down sometime and really read/reflect on some of the bike threads, A-of-W threads, ShitIWantNow threads, blah blah blah. Fucking serious????

Building on TMB's quote; I find, as time goes by, that I don't give a fucking shit what kind of bike people ride. Long Live Butyl Tubes. Ya know?

[RickM]

Sam Adams is fucking terrible. The vast majority of Craft beer is fucking terrible. Same goes for bikes.

That's some funny horseshit. Not shit.

[david]

Most beer is served too cold, which reduces the ability to taste the maltiness, leaving nothing but hops on your tongue. Try letting it warm up a bit and you should find the beer to be better balanced.

agree with this. a samuel smith imperial porter on a cold night. rent a movie. stretch out on the couch. a sip every 5 minutes, each is better than the last.

[jimbo]

Sam Adams is fucking terrible. The vast majority of Craft beer is fucking terrible. Same goes for bikes.

Jerk San.
come to Portland, I'll take you to every brew pub in the city. You'll be happy.......We got delicous Beer in Spades

Lupalin = Love.

[Bob Ross]

Sam Adams is the 2:00am last call, "who should i take home" of craft beers

I have learned to...um...appreciate Sam Adams, mostly out of necessity: When you're stuck in some shithole dive and the tap list begins "Bud, Bud Light, Coors, Coors Light, Miller, Miller Light..." you find yourself praying "Please god, say Sam Adams!"

[DCT]

i can drink most beers. i tossed the rest of this one over my shoulder!

[chasea]

I have a fit at Signature Greenwich Wednesday at 1:00. Could some kind soul fix their fridge situation before then?

Hugs,

C

[Nierman]

I miss Chappelle's Show.

[classtimesailer]

Within the local industrial park, where the local Tuesday Night Worlds is held, is the local Brewery -- STRAND BREWERY. The don't bottle, but you can get it to go and it is found in the "better" local establishments. Great Pale Ale, Ok IPA. Maybe one day there will be a local frame builder in the same industrial park -- Local racing, local beer, local bikes.

[dashDustin]

Never understood the beer-bike relationship. For someone in "the program", socializing in the bike scene is damn near impossible.

[robin3mj]

I have a fit at Signature Greenwich Wednesday at 1:00. Could some kind soul fix their fridge situation before then?

Hugs,

C

This time of year, beer on the back steps is better than any fridge.

[roseyscot]

i can drink most beers. i tossed the rest of this one over my shoulder!

Agreed, that shit is horrible.

[RickM]

i can drink most beers. i tossed the rest of this one over my shoulder!

Lambics, to me, Suck.

[lukasz]

If you don't like North American beers then you should stop drinking IPAs or anything that has the word "hops" on the bottle. Even though it seems to be standard practice for every American brewery to have half a dozen varieties of it. I don't remember the last time I drank an IPA. There are plenty of good beers that aren't made in a style that was specifically crafted to withstand a several week voyage to India with taste as an afterthought.

[Bkat]

For someone who's not a fan of the ubiquitous Indian Pale Ales, I agree there's too much IPA coming from American brewers. I like some of Ommegang's offerings (Three Philosophers is great!) for that reason alone.