sheffield hatter
23-04-2018, 12:11
I was taken to task by Mobyduck/Citra recently on Alan Winfield's blog, The Neverending Pub Crawl (http://neverendingpubcrawl.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/different-types-of-pubs.html#comment-form).
In response to my encouragement for Al's plan to go to Brighton with his missus, Mick wrote this:
Citra17 April 2018 at 10:51
Yes I agree with Will (about Brighton, not his lack of adventure in beer flavour), If you get the chance Alan there's an almost endless amount of pubs there for you to enjoy.
I don't want to make out that I was upset about this off the cuff remark (sob!), and obviously I didn't want to hijack Al's blog by replying there, so I've started this thread here to maybe kick off a conversation about adventurousness in our appreciation of beers. (I know he was only pulling my leg, but I thought it would make for a good discussion, so here we are.)
I read recently on another blog (https://weebeefyspubblog.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/) - Wee Beefy was responding to the supposition that all Double IPAs taste the same - "Remember when almost all beer except lager was brown?". Earlier in the same piece, he had mentioned that back in the early 90s, all beer tasted like Wards, Stones, Tetley or Marstons. Now not only were not all of those beers brown, but as far as I can recall, they all tasted different, too. I would imagine that the same is true of DIPAs, too. To be fair, Wee Beefy then goes on to extol the choice and range of different beer styles available today, but in comparing that with what it was like 25 or 30 years ago, I think he is maybe guilty of a little bit of exaggeration.
What he overlooks is that the sort of extremely hoppy beers that he describes are a fairly niche feature of the overall beer market. Maybe more to the point is that nowadays certain beers have become ubiquitous: Sharps Doom Bar, obviously, but also St Austell Tribute, Timothy Taylor Landlord, Marstons Pedigree, (formerly Wells) Bombardier and (formerly Thwaites) Wainwright, to name a few. I know some people swear by Bass (when it is well kept), just as I do Black Sheep (with the same proviso). I reject the idea that this means I am unadventurous, however.
What I do say is that, while I am always willing to try a new beer or a new beer style, there are some that I have tried and don't like. Beers with citra, centennial, cascade and mosaic hops, for example; milk stouts too. And after a few experiments I like to come back to a beer that I know and love.
In response to my encouragement for Al's plan to go to Brighton with his missus, Mick wrote this:
Citra17 April 2018 at 10:51
Yes I agree with Will (about Brighton, not his lack of adventure in beer flavour), If you get the chance Alan there's an almost endless amount of pubs there for you to enjoy.
I don't want to make out that I was upset about this off the cuff remark (sob!), and obviously I didn't want to hijack Al's blog by replying there, so I've started this thread here to maybe kick off a conversation about adventurousness in our appreciation of beers. (I know he was only pulling my leg, but I thought it would make for a good discussion, so here we are.)
I read recently on another blog (https://weebeefyspubblog.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/) - Wee Beefy was responding to the supposition that all Double IPAs taste the same - "Remember when almost all beer except lager was brown?". Earlier in the same piece, he had mentioned that back in the early 90s, all beer tasted like Wards, Stones, Tetley or Marstons. Now not only were not all of those beers brown, but as far as I can recall, they all tasted different, too. I would imagine that the same is true of DIPAs, too. To be fair, Wee Beefy then goes on to extol the choice and range of different beer styles available today, but in comparing that with what it was like 25 or 30 years ago, I think he is maybe guilty of a little bit of exaggeration.
What he overlooks is that the sort of extremely hoppy beers that he describes are a fairly niche feature of the overall beer market. Maybe more to the point is that nowadays certain beers have become ubiquitous: Sharps Doom Bar, obviously, but also St Austell Tribute, Timothy Taylor Landlord, Marstons Pedigree, (formerly Wells) Bombardier and (formerly Thwaites) Wainwright, to name a few. I know some people swear by Bass (when it is well kept), just as I do Black Sheep (with the same proviso). I reject the idea that this means I am unadventurous, however.
What I do say is that, while I am always willing to try a new beer or a new beer style, there are some that I have tried and don't like. Beers with citra, centennial, cascade and mosaic hops, for example; milk stouts too. And after a few experiments I like to come back to a beer that I know and love.