Widmer Hefeweizen

[Spisey]

www.bellsbeer.com


Anyone in Michigan knows this beer, Oberon is like water here:-)


TwoHeartedAle is by far the most delicious beer ever produced by human hands.

mmmmm Kalamazoo Stout..... I <3 Bells. Finally we in Chicago get to partake again!

[Gunga]

no fruit in any of my beer.

and guinness??? puh leeeeess

you got ur t-shirt bottle opener and hat to go with it while ur drinking it too?

In my opinion guinness gives other stout beer a bad name because of its "fad" or "pop" status. It's OKAY and that is all. And that big freaking head that you bar rats like to put dimes on has nothing to do with the beer and more of how it is gassed at serving.

however guinness foreign extra stout is what i consider to be the companys crowning beer because its local taste that differs slightly in whatever country you find it in can add complexities of taste that are very different from what most people expect from guinness.



learn something

NO dude. No.

Guiness Foreign Extra Stout was made for you Micro Brew heads who need an exotic name to think something tastes good.

Guiness Draught, my choice of all beer, stout or other, is the same as it's been for 50 years, based on a recipe that has remained largely unchanged since 1821. All of your cute little micro breweries with their 3 month old stout recipe doesn't hold a candle to Guiness. Around for almost 250 years, the cause for an entire country teeming with alcoholics, Guiness practly owns Dublin. The Guiness family turned their house into the biggest and most beuatiful park in Dublin, responsible for for employing 1 out of every 30 Dublinites. If only their level of philanthropy could be duplicated by other new money families around the world.

Hardly a fad.

PS: In addition to the shirt and bottle opener, I'm sure I still have a neon sign somewhere.

OMG learn something.

[DelScorcho]

I am quite the fan of vodka myself but actually strayed away from it due to the pretention that was forming around it. It may be a regional thing but around here vodka snobs were becoming as bad if not worse than scotch/whiskey snobs. *shrug*

Luckily I never run into gin snobbery/pretention so it remains tops for me (Rogue distillery spruce gin = favorite currently)

Starting to think that maybe, just maybe, I drink too much... OR not enough as I seem to remember enough to form opinions

Never spend too much or too little on vodka. Vodka snobbery only lasts until the first bad night. Once people experience the horror of a hangover from Chirac or other grape based vodkas, they will meekly go back to their grey goose.

[ehcsztein]

Never spend too much or too little on vodka. Vodka snobbery only lasts until the first bad night. Once people experience the horror of a hangover from Chirac or other grape based vodkas, they will meekly go back to their grey goose.

indeed indeed ... though grey goose is actually good at room temperature which is a plus all in all.

On the original topic (kinda) Pinkus has an amazing hefe
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/31/82

[JetEskimo]

Widmer isn't bad, but there are better breweries here in Oregon. Not a huge Hef fan, but Rogue's version is better (bonus points for coming in a 22oz bottle), and their Dead Guy Ale is my personal favorite.

[wamjratl1]

Anyone ever try it?

Ya it's good. I prefer Hoegaarden, if I'm going to do a wheat beer, but usually just drink Guiness. Blue Moon from Belgium is the first wheat beer I tried. It's still pretty good.

[vtecfiend99]

NO dude. No.

Guiness Foreign Extra Stout was made for you Micro Brew heads who need an exotic name to think something tastes good.

Guiness Draught, my choice of all beer, stout or other, is the same as it's been for 50 years, based on a recipe that has remained largely unchanged since 1821. All of your cute little micro breweries with their 3 month old stout recipe doesn't hold a candle to Guiness. Around for almost 250 years, the cause for an entire country teeming with alcoholics, Guiness practly owns Dublin. The Guiness family turned their house into the biggest and most beuatiful park in Dublin, responsible for for employing 1 out of every 30 Dublinites. If only their level of philanthropy could be duplicated by other new money families around the world.

Hardly a fad.

PS: In addition to the shirt and bottle opener, I'm sure I still have a neon sign somewhere.

OMG learn something.

LOL

somehow i fail to see what a park has to do with the TASTE of the beer. I guess we'll agree to disagree on this pint.

gunga gunga... your foul mouthed rude antics in game aside, when you're ready to LEARN something about beer other than what the most effective advertising campaign in the history of alcohol teaches you let me know i'll be happy to help you out.

[thatguy]

Just finished my first glass of Leinenkugel. Its not bad, I probably wouldn't buy it again. I'll get the Widmer tomorrow night.

[thatguy]

Ya it's good. I prefer Hoegaarden, if I'm going to do a wheat beer, but usually just drink Guiness. Blue Moon from Belgium is the first wheat beer I tried. It's still pretty good.

I've heard of that, I'll have to add that to my list as well.

[vtecfiend99]

oh and on topic:


http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=aboutalearticle

[Ralmeth]

Mmm...Heffeweisen. That's good stuff, though you have to like wheat beer to enjoy it, which I do

[thatguy]

Mmm...Heffeweisen. That's good stuff, though you have to like wheat beer to enjoy it, which I do

I was watching a show on beer last weekend and in that show was Widmers, it looked good so I wanted to try it. Tomorrow night I'll find out. brb, going to grab a beer. lol

[frugal_gourmet]

redundant.

[frugal_gourmet]

Ya it's good. I prefer Hoegaarden, if I'm going to do a wheat beer, but usually just drink Guiness. Blue Moon from Belgium is the first wheat beer I tried. It's still pretty good.

Blue Moon is a product of Coors and is from the U.S. Hoegaarden is from Belgium and has pretty much set the style. The founder of Hoegaarden moved to Texas where he started the Celis brewery at some point. That had some very good brews as well.

Technically, though, the big American brewers are foreign owned. These are the light lagers that America exports and is made fun of for. The good American beer is mostly not exported anywhere.

[thatguy]

Honestly not much of a drinker at all, I like to try new beers though, there are so many different kinds. Funny thing, you can't order beer online in New Jersey and have it shipped, its illegal.

[Gunga]

LOL

somehow i fail to see what a park has to do with the TASTE of the beer. I guess we'll agree to disagree on this pint.

gunga gunga... your foul mouthed rude antics in game aside, when you're ready to LEARN something about beer other than what the most effective advertising campaign in the history of alcohol teaches you let me know i'll be happy to help you out.

Huh. What makes you think you could figure out how to help me if you don't understand the point I made about the park?

You stick to Kalamazoo Stout, and I'll drink Guiness.

[frugal_gourmet]

You stick to Kalamazoo Stout, and I'll drink Guiness.

I'll back you up, bud. Guinness is actually an excellent beer. It's probably the best beer that you can find just about anywhere. Even in some dive bar, chances are they still have Guinness. I might describe it as the world's best omnipresent beer.

[Magnyr_Delorn]

SCI-FI: I can not recomned Neal Stephenson's new novel "Anathem" enough. Brilliant HUGE ideas compressed into an enjoyable story. I was never really able to get into any of his other books but this one is a slam-dunk fo sho!

Did someone say Anthem? As in Ayn Rand? I just got done reading The Fountainhead... that was an awesome novel!

Great literature thread OP!

[krud]

Guiness is as real as it gets, Bucky. You don't put fruit in it. Learn something.

Fruit in beer?!!?! <puke> what the heck are they thinking? Isn't beer good enough as is?

I never could get into all those funky seasonal spiced brews. If I want spices or fruit I'll eat spice cake or apple donuts with my beer.

[geoffhanna]

A really good American wheat is Easy Street Wheat from the Odell Brewing Company in Ft. Collins, CO.

If you can find it, drink it!