Man, I love great wine and great beer (emphasis on great).
But you know, a good cider - preferably unfiltered - is a mighty fine beverage.
Downeast Cider (Boston, Massachusetts USA) Original Blend. Unfiltered. Just a tad sweeter than Iād prefer but thatās OK, itās got a very honest apple flavor that satisfies.
every few years I gift myself 6 of these. This is an easy beer to drink all of. I just started. Shiner a tiny Texas town where time stopped: same beer, same taste & recipe, same label, same blurb, same color over the years,. Caramel finish and definitely what you hipsters call a āsessionā beer. Itās funny they call it a ālagerā in the blurb on back and a ābockā on the front label. I donāt know the difference.
I only know itās 4.4% abv where regular macro lager is 3.5 thereabouts. So buzz factor
Onto the second bottle now, have 1 more think i might trade it now i looked this up right, 300 to 1200 a bottle? who the f pays that? thats me covered for a good year easy.
A lovely pint of bitter, at a premises where it is kept excellently. 5.2ABV (and for those outside the UK, by āpintā we mean 0.568L Not those poncy 440ml cans which are usually sold in chain supermarkets here; that isnāt even a US Pint, as far as I know).
¹ I wanted to post that at the time, but got fed up trying to send the photo Iād just taken to this forum, on the stupid SpamDroid⢠device which only wants to āshareā your personal content via its servers within its own ecosystem. I thought Crapple⢠were the ones who did that.
I used KDE Connect to transfer it to the computer, when I was back at home.
Damn you, @drunkenvicar. Your recent talk about lagers put me in the mood to try a new (to me) lager: Staycation Land brilliant lager (Baxter Brewing, Lewiston Maine USA).
Iām not much of a lager fan in general, but Iāve had a few decent beers from Baxter so I gave this lager a test drive.
Well I hate it . Iām not a lager fan in general, but I can at least appreciate a good one. I donāt consider this a good one. It has no crispness to it (and I expect at least a meager amount of crispness to a lager). Itās not bland like the big commercial lagers (rhymes with Mud Geyser) but itāsā¦wellā¦a different kind of bland. I find it dull. The flavors (some mildly biscuity maltiness, very light hoppiness, and a slight hint of citrus) are rather subdued, and nothing coalesces into any sort of satisfying whole. I expected more, and I got way less.
Of course, perhaps a lager fan would find this at least interesting. Not me. So again, damn you @drunkenvicar.
Nonetheless, Iām going to suffer through the whole six-pack - but Iāll be letting the expletives fly with each sip .
A drinkable, daily lagerāunlike Aleāis a minefield. The American Macro swill much of the time is better than American ācraftā brewer lager. American craft brewers despise their lagers and pils and the product reflects it. Ale is 95% of their market. Are you shocked Coors is making a comeback, as chemical corn as it is?
Lager Pro Tip: Mexico and Europe.
I really like you cursing my name after every beer, as long as you drink all six! Lager/pils you gotta be picky with.