No one: “you know what I want? A beer that smells like skunk weed.”

"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats) 03/22/2019 at 18:11 • Filed to: None

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Me: “this smells like the study suites in my dorm.”

This is the beer equivalent of a car crash, it’s awful and sickening, but I can’t stop smelling it.

DipodomysDeserti > Honeybunchesofgoats 03/22/2019 at 18:16

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New Belgium: the brewery for bros who think Stella is a good representation of Belgian beer.

Honeybunchesofgoats > DipodomysDeserti 03/22/2019 at 18:20

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Eh, I think they fit perfectly well into their market of being shitty beer that’s slightly less shitty than similarly priced shitty beer. 

M.T. Blake > Honeybunchesofgoats 03/22/2019 at 18:27

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I would expect this if it was truely from Belgium but apparently Colorado IS the ‘New Belgium’. 

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > DipodomysDeserti 03/22/2019 at 18:28

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I drink at brewery vivant. The Brewers there have.....opinions....on new belgium and  some other “Belgian” style breweries. They have respect too, but there’s still some deserved shade thrown at new belgium for not really having the actual techniques and processes of a Belgian brewery.

just-a-scratch > DipodomysDeserti 03/22/2019 at 18:33

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Their beer was better back in the day. I don't bother with them anymore. 

dumpsterfire! > Honeybunchesofgoats 03/22/2019 at 18:36

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While I am biased as a non dope smoker in Colorado, my personal opinion (worth what you’re paying for it) is that New Belgium is the jack of all trades and master of none but is still one of the breweries that gave us options other than a century of pale piss beer and upped the ante for everyone else.

In the early 1990s, beer selection was generally shiite, but Fat Tire helped change that.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Honeybunchesofgoats 03/22/2019 at 18:38

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Oh bong water beer, shit we were drinking that back in ‘92.

Honeybunchesofgoats > dumpsterfire! 03/22/2019 at 18:44

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I’m totally on board with your opinion. I’ve lived most of my  life in “Yuengling is shit, but at least it’s cheaper and slightly less shit than Coors” country.

LongbowMkII > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 03/22/2019 at 18:56

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True any brewery younger than me has valid opinions on 14th century brewing techniques.

dumpsterfire! > M.T. Blake 03/22/2019 at 18:59

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We do like our bicycles also out here in New Belgium

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Honeybunchesofgoats 03/22/2019 at 19:10

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There was a hemp beer named Buzz that was sold long before cannabis was legalized in Canada. It was bad. 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > DipodomysDeserti 03/22/2019 at 19:11

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I generally agree with this, but I’ve got to give them credit that even in the smallest towns rural Western Nebraska the local bar will have fat tire available .

jimz > Honeybunchesofgoats 03/22/2019 at 19:13

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the best thing about Yuengling is that after about 8 or 9 of them, it’s pronounced “Bud.”

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > LongbowMkII 03/22/2019 at 19:19

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Granted, those techniques are now impossible to replicate since the strains of crops from back then have long since been bred and hybridized out of regular growth. But yes, they are known for having mostly sour beers and picking hops and malts similar to older recipes.

Honeybunchesofgoats > jimz 03/22/2019 at 19:20

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And that  the bar tab for those 8 or 9 will be >$10 in Pennsylvania. 

wafflesnfalafel > Honeybunchesofgoats 03/22/2019 at 20:34

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T he nose really is skunk cabbage?  I’d like to try it, but ewww....  I had a green tea beer once that tasted like boozy cut grass, like licking a lawnmower...

Honeybunchesofgoats > wafflesnfalafel 03/22/2019 at 20:35

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It’s genuinely unnerving how dead on the smell is. It doesn’t have the litter box smell of the worst weed, but it’s close. 

gettingoldercarguy > dumpsterfire! 03/22/2019 at 21:05

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I really thought it was Sierra Nevada, especially for the hop heads.

Merfthemadmauler > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 03/22/2019 at 23:18

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‘77.