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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
As a general rule, SN has a big bite at the end. Sometimes that is good, sometimes not so.
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Not the SummerFest. It is a clean, crisp lager with no hop bite at all. Notice I left off all of the American Pales and IPA's from being mentioned, as I didn't want to scare a novice off. I know that hoppy beers tend to scare away the uninitiated.
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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
Have yet to find a wheat of "hefe" worth the cost of the plastic Dixie cup it may come in.
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While not a big wheat beer fan myself, I would not go as far as your comment here. There are some quite palatable wheat beers out there. Case in point, Erdinger's Dunkelweiss.
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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
You need to move around more. How can you compare Bass and Sam Smith with Smuttynose and OSH? Not even in the same farmyard let alone barn.
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Again, this has less to do with my tastes and travels, than with trying to get someone who thinks Landshark and Blue Moon are what constitutes "real" beer to try some other offerings. I wasn't meaning to compare. I was trying to introduce. If I were to make a list of beers that I were to consider "great" and "good", then we would be here for quite a while. In defense of Samuel Smith, though, they have some good recipes for good beer (I am partial to the Oatmeal Stout and the Taddy Porter), and of course have a much more storied legacy than Smuttynose. (Hopefully you didn't read "Sam Adams" where I said "Sam Smith.")
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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
Victory, out of Downingtown, PA. Not bad, but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.
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You don't have to. Prima Pils is, IMO, probably the US's best pilsner. Some folks don't like a pils. That is up to them. Also, Victory's Hop Devil is a very good example of the American Style Pale Ale, with its many layers of complexity for beers that many just view as "hop monsters." The rest of Victory's brews don't really wow me, but I will defend those two as very respectable beers.