Yes, beer industry people love Lagers. Straight up beer drinkers love Lagers. And I think Lagers are good. Cool. Fine.
They are “easy to drink”, aren’t they? That is a good thing…except when it is not:
Lagers go away too fast!
I just drank the Bridalveil Lager above, from Tioga Sequoia Brewing, and it is gone REALLY damn quickly. Way faster than when I have an IPA. That kinda sucks, yeah?!
Maybe I just have a drinking problem.
5:21 PST. Karl Strauss Brewing’s slightly-hazy, Boat Shoes IPA.
Cheers to Saturday!
Update: Lots of floaties in this boat:
8:42: “Particle Drift” HIPA by There Does Not Exist, from San Luis Obispo, CA.:
So many people love Allagash White. It makes many beer geek’s Top Five Beers of All Time lists. But it tastes terrible to me. Always has. Sorry.
But, hey, what a good beer is can be very subjective. A large community inside Beer Twitter and beer folks in general, adore Allagash White. Some herald it as the perfect beer.
I could never stand the fucker.
A thin, old-tasting beer that feels like it was put through a Randall filled with mushed bananas? No thanks. It’s not Allagash’s fault, I know, it’s the style. Still.
Honestly, though, it had been a long time since I had one. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe my palate had changed. I am wrong a lot so I could be totally off.
So I decided to try this classic beer once again:
Yep. My review of Allagash White is: Still as awful as I remember. Maybe more so. So difficult to drink. Just gross.
Something in my chemical makeup rejects Belgian Yeast. I am sure it’s not Allagash Brewing’s fault. Doesn’t matter what brewer is making it, I assume it will taste bad to me. Maybe all Wheat Beers are bad to me. I am probably the problem.
Allagash Brewing is a great top-tier Indie brewer that I highly respect. But Belgian Wheat beers are terrible, and the King of the style is Allagash White. So, congrats on being the kings of a garbage beer style.
Alli’ White is a low-alcohol Belgian-Style Wheat Beer. The amount of alcohol is 5.2%. This means it has 157 calories (give or take a few) for one can or bottle.
Beer Twitter regularly bashes Untappd for everything, especially the people that don’t like the style of a beer and rate it poorly.
While I agree if you REALLY don’t understand the style you are drinking you should refrain from rating it and just leave some comments to your future self like “Don’t drink this again, ya dummy!”
BUT. Untappd is whatever you (and I will die on this virtual hill), whatever you want to use it for. If I want to rate beers on how it actually tastes to me and not what a Cicerone trained geek thinks of it, then I will. I paid zero cents for the app just like you, I’ll do what I want and that doesn’t make me better or worse than Beer Geek Twitter.
While we are here, where does this want for Untappd ratings to be 100% accurate end?
The beer pictured at the top, Bottle Logic “Machine Learning” was a total label-buy. Love the label. Love IPAs and usually Hazzies. The beer? Not really. I won’t get it again.
This is my rating:
Basically if I rate something under a 3.75, I was not into it. Nobody is going to grill me for the mediocre rating. But maybe I don’t know what the hell a HDIPA featuring Galaxy, Idaho 7 & El Dorado is supposed to taste like.
Should I have NOT rated it? Of course not. So leave Untappd ratings alone, yo. Make it how you want. ✌️?
