So, always bean a ratebeerian since 2006, but still a rookie rater, and yea, I'm really from Beaver County, Pennsylvania USA, the land of taxes: Seriously, we have the highest taxes in the nation; gas, tolls, real estate, sales, you name it.
In my other life, I question the worth of any round over $1. BTW, a round is a bullet, beer, drink or lottery ticket. I also am suspicious of any cigar over $2, gun or fishen rod over $10, old sporty over $2K, a shovel over $4K, a contemporary no-leaker HD big twin over $7K and especially anything labeled IPA.
JMHO; IPA, its happy BS, IPA is not natural or real beer. Again, these are JMHO's.
Much to the chagrin of my colleagues, cheap beer is beer and I like it! Its cool when my local beer store has a case of 30/12 oz on sale for $7! Or, possibly a case of 24 for $11 and a rebate of $6!
You are probably aware that RB says: "This isn't about how well the beer conformed to its style definition -- its about a measurement of my own appreciation."
So; I am by no means a beer expert, nor am I qualified to rate by style; my rating numbers are for my personal review of enjoyment only, a rating of 0-5 is based only on how much I enjoyed it and my own feeling about it.
IMHO/JMHO, purposefully bitter hops are adjuncts which were originally used as a preservative, on long ship deliveries; in a land long long ago and far far away. They add an unnatural bitter flavor and hide the real complexities of fine, fresh, well made, beer. We don't need preservatives today with modern technology. I guess I'm just a luddite.
It used to be, the stupid ubiquitous cheap beer when I joined RB, was macro pale lager, but its now IPA; those cheap IPA outnumber pale lager by a long shot. They're cheap, everyplace, and are rarely well made; especially those made by so called craft brewers. Additionally, many styles have been bastardized by the IPA.
Yes, many styles now have IPA in them, now that style is now longer that style but it still carries that name and it rates high because of the so called IPA lovers out there. But that style is now corrupted, its no longer that style.
Go figger. How about all those IPA deflowered, hehehe, no longer virgin styles?
Guess what? They're all IPA. It's not a witbier, its an IPA. Its not a lager, its an IPA. It not a belgian, its an IPA, etc, etc, ect.
Yes, IPA and IPA influenced other styles are the new cheap macro, not pale lager; and BTW pale lager is good compared to that ubiquitous IPA happy BS!
No quarter for IPA granted here. Even macro jiggah beer companies make plenty of IPA styles today, just so they can get a part of the action, what a niche
It's all because IPA is the manly thing to do, you know, all that peer pressure to say you actually like that terribly bitter brew?
Hey, even real women say they like IPA, no?Nevertheless, I have tremendous respect for those, gender neutral real beer experts who enjoy IPA style hops, session or not!
In the end, I will taste any beer that comes across my path, whether I like the style or not; I will ticket it, as long as I deem it worthwhile, $ wise; yes; I'm a tikker. Why do you think I have rated so many stupid nasty, terribly on style IPA and impy? Sometimes I even put impy stouts into this category.
Finally, real lambics are to beer like old loud smoking, oil-leaking HDs are to bikes.... there....ya have it, what else can be said? Except maybe, gimmie a bottle of Gueuze Cuvée René, Hanssens Oude, or if I'm lucky, Cantillon Classic Organic Bio, Bios Flaamse or even a simple cheap Rodenbach! In the end, I'd rather have the big O and you know what that is; just really good plain old beer.
ORVAL - this is the beer of which all others must be compared!
Caution: Don't hang round me when I get a new top 10 beer cause, I'll git me mah han-me-down 44 mag revolver out and shoot aimlessly into the air in celebration. What goes up must come down, and love the percussion.
As a final thought, Isn't it funny how left leaning ideas do the opposite of what they say they will do?
~Later, gottah go fix my tardis.
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So, always bean a ratebeerian since 2006, but still a rookie rater, and yea, I'm really from Beaver County, Pennsylvania USA, the land of taxes: Seriously, we have the highest taxes in the nation; gas, tolls, real estate, sales, you name it.
In my other life, I question the worth of any round over $1. BTW, a round is a bullet, beer, drink or lottery ticket. I also am suspicious of any cigar over $2, gun or fishen rod over $10, old sporty over $2K, a shovel over $4K, a...
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