Quote Originally Posted by maks View Post
there are soooo many microbrews in connecticut, it's insane. my town of 3,000 people has 2 of them. I don't think I've had a milkshake IPA, but I'm kind of over IPAs in gene4ral, it seems like half the goddamn menu at these places is IPAs or DIPAs these days and they all taste very similar. I understand the appeal of the higher alcohol content but if all I care about is getting drunk I'll just drink liquor.
yeah, the thing is an IPA is easy as fuck to do. i mean its seriously the most foolproof thing you can do: dump in a ton of these C-hops so all you can taste is... C-hops. you can make that shit with powdered malt extract and it wouldnt fucking matter.


another thing a lot of brewers do is say "lager" when it is not a fucking lager. its a clean ale and the thing is 99% of the public can't say 'this isn't a lager'".


my go to styles if it was some random brewery i had no backinfo on would be:

dry stout as long as its NOT nitro - its nearly impossible to fuck up a dry stout.
strong stout - it's not hard to make a strong stout and at the very least it will be passable and get me drunk
wit - another easy as fuck beer that is fine whether it is poorly or excellently made. wit is honestly the closest you can get in some ways to beer from hundreds of years ago.