Member Poll

[h4hahn]

I thought it would be fun to sort of take the pulse of the members. I’m also interested in how much diversity we have out there.

Poll #4355 Pick Your Poison

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

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Preferred Beer (check all that apply)

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Ale
5 (35.7%)

Brown Ale
7 (50.0%)

Pale Ale
5 (35.7%)

India Brown Ale
4 (28.6%)

Lager
1 (7.1%)

Pislner
1 (7.1%)

Maerzen
0 (0.0%)

Wheat/Hefeweizen
6 (42.9%)

Bock
2 (14.3%)

Dunkel
1 (7.1%)

Porter
7 (50.0%)

Stout
8 (57.1%)

Lambic
4 (28.6%)

Bitter/ESB
5 (35.7%)

Barleywine
3 (21.4%)

Other (comment)
3 (21.4%)

Best Styles (check all that apply)

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American
9 (69.2%)

British/Irish
7 (53.8%)

German
6 (46.2%)

Belgian
6 (46.2%)

Other (comment)
0 (0.0%)

Favorite Brewer

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Comments

[feuervogel]

For "other" in question one: I like a good Schwarzbier, preferably Köstritzer, but New Belgium's 1554 is a reasonably good substitute (and much easier to get hold of in the US). I also like Berliner Weisse (plain as in the NB Lips of Faith, or with peach as in Dogfish Head's Festina Peche).

I can't drink hoppy beers, especially the American brews that seem to be a contest to see who can get the most hops in a beer.

[h4hahn]

Oh yes. I had Köstritzer for the first time last year on a trip to Chicago. I wasn't too impressed when I found it in a bottle back at home. But, on draft it was pretty fabulous.

Americans do seem to love their hops, I was having a discussion recently with someone about how Pale Ales are the best selling craft styles. But, brewers seem to be adding more depth all the time.

[feuervogel]

I had it in Berlin earlier this year, draft no doubt. Delightful. (Then I went to dinner at a restaurant across the street and had a different schwarzbier, which was decidedly inferior.) I love being in Germany. My husband jokes that he's not worried about losing me to another man (or woman), but to Berlin.

But when I was in Budapest shortly thereafter, I tried a French beer, and it was good. I was surprised. It was a Kronenbourg Blanc, very refreshing and citrusy. But I love a good wit or hefeweizen in summer, and it was quite summer that mid-June day.

I don't know what the American fascination with MORE HOPS is about. I was talking with the beer buyer at my co-op, and he said that hardly anyone buys the whites and wheats, but the IPAs and ales and lagers always move. Though since they're a co-op, with a focus on locally produced food/bev, there's a good 20 shelf-feet of beer produced within 2-3 hours of here. I love our local breweries!

[fullygoldy]

Ditto on the good Schwarzbier, but my first love is big, hoppy beers

[feuervogel]

I can't even drink something as ... normal? as Beck's without cringing. Tried a Hennepin Saison from Ommegang; couldn't even finish the glass. It was good if you like that sort of thing (and I gave the rest of the 750-ml bottle to a hops-loving friend, who enjoyed it), but I just don't. Sometimes I wish I did, in the vague way that I wish I liked olives or avocados, because so many people tell me they're delicious and awesome, but all I get out of eating them is "eew, need water to rinse that taste out."

[youngraven]

New Belgium's 1554 is fine indeed.