Categories
Favorite Beer Flavor
General Beer Discussion by COTTRELL
What's that one flavor you find in beer that you just can't get enough of? There's two for me, smoke and pine (although not together....). I love a rauchbier, or any other smoked beer. I also dig smoky flavors from roasted malts, such as the smoky coffee flavors I picked up in Gonzo Imperial Porter. Great stuff. I love piny hop flavors, especially from Chinook hops. That piny flavor and bitterness is down right addicting for me. Troutbrook's Hop Meadow is full of pine needles and resins, that stuff is just plain addicting. So what beer flavor could you just not live without?
19 years ago
AABREWER318
7641
yeah i like pine but totally not with smoke flavor as you said. Rarely do i find them together tho...maybe in a porter i guess. I like resiny pine, but not too sprucey. One thing that really gets me going is floral flavors and scents. Also i dig fruity flavor thats not necessarily in a fruit beer.
CHANGEUP45
22525
I'm not sure I can just pick one as certain beers are good for certain activities/seasons. I do like a bitter hoppy flavor and grapefruit hops in an IPA, as another mentioned is very good, but I can't say I like that ALL the time. I love summer beers so a little lemon zing or "fresh" scent is nice when it's hot.
Ale yeast. Yep, that's pretty broad, but I like the fruits, the spices, etc. That's what makes a particular beer's flavor unique and interesting to me. Chocolate malts also rate pretty high with me because I like a bit of coffee flavor mixed with chocolate. All of a sudden, I'm thirsty for a Fuller's London Porter.
It really depends upon what I'm eating at the time. I like the chocolatey roastiness of an imperial stout, especially if I'm having some dark chocolate. The citric hoppiness of an IPA (or a double IPA) is great with spicy Thai or Chinese food. A rauchbier is great with smoked sausage or any sandwich loaded w/ deli meats. A gueuze is great with steamed mussels or w/ ceviche. Pick up a copy of Garrett Oliver's "The Brewmaster's Table" and you'll broaden your flavor horizons by getting ideas on how to pair beer. My 2 cents.
I am all about the flavor of Helles, especially the ones from Eastern Bavaria. They are like drinking sunlight. The other favorite of mine is the "beer" flavor of the local stark bier in Braunlingen in BW. That brew is amazingly simple, but so rounded and balanced between hops and malt it is wonderful. No other way to describe it-taste like BEER!!!! Rauch bier in the winter is just perfect, and those nasty sour Belgis are another of my favorites.
