Malty not Hoppy
[ Posted by Rebecca Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:46:38 GMT ]
Yesterday Becky and I realized our pest problem was a little worse than we had initially thought.
As a result, my head spun around and I spit pea soup everywhere.
Once I had recovered, I decided the last thing I needed to do was sit around my house and constantly scan the shadows for bugs. So, I joined Dominic and the cows over at BB Rover’s for pepperoni pizza (the only pork I’ll eat) and beer.
One of the cows brews his own beer, and harbors a wealth of knowledge about the various types and intricate flavors of beer. I asked him to fix my beer problem, and he did.
My beer problem is that most of the beers I try taste like pine-sol. I can’t stand the flavor so I usually stick to whiskey, because the flavor of whiskey neat is infinitely superior to beer. Heh.
So the guy ordered me an independence bootlegger and I thought it was just about the best beer I had ever tasted. Beer can taste that good? Really? Yummy beer? Contradiction of terms, if you ask me.
I drank the entire pint with my pizza, happy that there was one beer in the US that I could tolerate (the German hefes are really good, especially if you’re in Germany when you drink one).
He passed a few other beers my way and I took sips, describing the flavors, rating my ability to tolerate the taste, etc.
The verdict? I don’t like hops. I like malt.
My plan for now is to slowly sample all of the malty beers at BB’s, work my way up to the balanced beers, and if I can make it through those, eventually I’ll try more of the hoppy beers.
By the way, if you like the flavor of coffee, you have to try the Independence Bootlegger (a local brew, destined to up your hip factor). It has a very subtle coffee under taste that I love (the website says chocolate but it tastes like coffee to me).
