Flavored Beer

[ackvil]

I went to our local grocery store which has a beer and wine bar. They had 8 beers on tap - but not one was a traditional beer or ale. Every single beer was flavored. Citrus beer, chocolate beer, orange beer, pineapple beer, chocolate beer, grapefruit beer, strawberry beer, lemon shandy. But not one unflavored porter, IPA, stout, or ale.

Perhaps it's me, but what has happened to beer?

 

[drwevil]

Hipster.....ism [emoji15]


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[mbarn]

I think there's a renewed interest in beer, caused by people taking risks and making flavoured or hoppy beers. I like them, but I often find my favourite is a porter, where the flavour of the grains and yeast are the stars, rather than a smack in the lips with half a field of hops.

At least one classic on tap would be good.


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[NoBeardHere]

I am with you - proper beer. Not fruit.

I think some guys with BM's are trying a lot new things in their 'mash'.

 

[Badgerstate36]

Its the latest trend in craft beer. I enjoy them sometimes although a lot of them honestly arent very good. Right now, theres so many craft breweries out there, so people are constantly trying new things to be different and stand out.

 

[drwevil]

Here in Aussie we have Red's Apple Ale and it is rather yum.


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[martym]

Hmmm?
Naw??
Just good old Black Lager or Stout

 

[dangerousdon]

Millennials

 

[Guestabc]

Sure I like Flavored Beer....... as long as it tastes like Guinness

 

[shave/brush]

Some taste good but they don't taste like beer. If you feel like having a beer that is not going to hit the spot.

 

[Andy77]

-Broad appreciation of beer styles other than Lite American lager.
-A focus on locally produced beer.
-Small businesses like microbreweries or brew pubs flourishing.
-Appreciation of American Hops and the emergence of the American IPA as a discinct global beer style.

These are all good things. Fruit in beer? Not so much.

Take the good with the bad, I guess!

 

[mikelz777]

Coffee fans, try some of this some time, it's excellent!

 

[6Cuda6]

Coffee fans, try some of this some time, it's excellent!

I like coffee but sorry to say this hate beer...if i drank that i'd hate both....hahaha.

 

[Chango]

What's the problem?? Just put on your black skinny jeans, pull your hair up into a man bun, jump on a fixed gear bicycle and get with the times!

 

[Hoka Hey]

Coffee fans, try some of this some time, it's excellent!

Sir, might I recommend one of my favorites?

It's not just for breakfast anymore!

 

[bobmsp]

There are fruit-appropriate beers that are great. I'm thinking of Belgian sours and lambics.

 

[Brompton]

That's amazing. I've tried many fruit flavored beers. They are ok for a few sips but I need my beers to taste like beer.

 

[dws]

A citrus-y, white ale is about as far as I prefer to go. I enjoy ciders well enough but my brother-in-law highly recommended an apple flavored lager, to me, named "Mad Jack". It just wasn't for me at all. I enjoyed a couple Radlers over my summer vacation and they weren't awful. They weren't what I'd consider a beer though... Watered down, flavored beer, yes... Beer, no. Give me the traditional ales and I'm a happy guy.

 

[Alum of Potash]

This is what I'm drinking tonight, a real man's supermarket beer--that tastes like beer. Better with a splash of Picon though...

 

[Joma12]

How can they NOT have a standard beer on tap? Hate on American beer all you want, but it's still better than 99% of the flavored beers I tried. I do have to give special mention for grapefruit shandies. If there is one acceptable flavor to add to beer, that would be it. Limes are too for obvious reasons.