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beer thats not hoppy
roland_7707
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This may be a silly topic, but is there a beer that does not taste like hopps? Like cigars, I'm still new at this too and the few that I'v had, had an overwhelming flavor of hopps. One was Sam Adams Octoberfest and the other was a Corona. Trying to branch out, but not sure which direction to go. Thanks for your help.
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Delerium Nocturnum is my favorite. Strong, complex, and gets better with age.
Nocturnum is pretty much amazing, one bottle of that and I'm flying high.
Another amazing beer that isn't too hoppy is Anderson Valley Boont Amber. Or if you want a nice, sweet beer to go with a maduro, Rogue Hazelnut Brown.
Lost Coast: 8 Ball stout and Downtown Brown
North Coast: Old Rasputin imperial stout
Rouge: Hazelnut Brown
Samuel Smiths: Nut Brown, imperial stout Avery: The Reverend Belgian ale
Firestone: Velvet Merlin
Anderson Valley: Oatmeal Stout
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And if beer is an acquired taste, I certainly don't remember having to go through a testing phase where I didn't like it! lol
From the beers you mentioned, I'm honestly not even sure what you're tasting and disliking is hops. Corona has very little hop flavor, and Sam Octoberfest is a very malty brew. That being said, Corona tastes horrible and Octoberfest was pretty bad this year as well, I got a distinct charred taste and I think maybe they over-roasted some malted barley or something. So I think what you're tasting is just bad beer. Hops IS bitter, but its bitter in a very specific way: it smells floral and sometimes citrus and sometimes like weed, and it tastes the same. Most people say it tastes very strongly like grapefruit and I know multiple people that came to appreciate the flavor a lot more once they made that association.
There have been some great brews mentioned already on this thread, but I think you might want to start a little slower. Some good simpler and less hoppy beers are Yuengling, Blue Moon, Boddingtons, Beamish Stout, and previously mentioned Sam Smith's Nut Brown and Rogue Hazelnut (that one has some hops, but the nuttiness more than balances it out). Also there's a lot of stuff by Dogfish Head that has hardly any hops (of course, not the ____-minute IPA series, but plenty of others). Then you could find beers that balance hop flavor with malt flavor well like a lot of Sam Adams and Stone beers (when they're not trying to be hoppy as hell) and the list continues on and on. Then, if find you've acquired a taste for hops, crack open a Sierra Navada Pale Ale and see what happens.
Of course, there is another way. You could alwayas just blow your palette out and break it like a wild horse on some crazy hoppy beers, that's what I did. One six-pack of Sierra Navada Bigfoot and I could drink anything from then on out. Until I got to Stone Ruination IPA and Dale's Pale Ale and had to do it all over again. . .
the welsh have always drank beer, usually to slate the thirst after a hard days graft. i like to keep the tradition alive by skipping the hard work and just getting straight onto the beer
not to knock your tastes, as i know beer is the same as cigars and everyone likes differnt things but boddingtons is awfull stuff, its like the swishers of the beer world. there are so many much nicer beers over here.
if any one's ever over wales shoot me a pm and ill buy you a pint in my local. Brains SA, affectionately known as skull attack. Ill leave you to work out why :P
I once had a scotch ale with a similar name, Skull Splitter. I found out why real quick. And I can no longer drink scotch ale, lol
Even among beer drinkers there are avenues that are acquired tastes even beyond normal, quality beer. These types, like wheat ale (hefeweizen, white, etc.) or certain belgian ales (chimay, abbey, etc.) are very unique tasting and your like or dislike of beer shouldn't be based on these specialty brews.
Corona, Michelob, etc. have a tremendous amount of non-barley (like rice) sugar in the wort and really shouldn't be allowed to be called beer. The only way these are at all palatable is if they are so freezing cold your taste buds are numbed and can't actually taste them. When you have a room temperature beer that tastes awesome that's when you know you are having a quality brew.
London pride is awsome imo. Ofcource how it tastes over here is going to be vastly differnt from. Hhow it tastes over there.