Rotating beer types with the seasons is standard. I drink way more stouts over the winter then switch back to IPAs in the spring. Lots of wheat beers and sours in the summer.
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I think there’s a certain masochism associated with IPAs and that trend will die down when we see less use of ghost peppers, Carolina reapers, and other super-spicy things.
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I get it of course. Just saying that there are a lot of breweries making high quality* Stouts right now so I think it might become more widespread next year.
*based on other people’s reactions, I am not qualified to judge.
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I’ve been waiting for the IPA trend to die down for about a decade now. But I go through a phase every 2 or 3 years where I enjoy them again for a month or two before I move on, so it’s not like I can’t enjoy them.
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What is the difference between those?
The German name vs. the American name.
So if you go to Germany and order a hefeweizen, do they look at you funny and think you’re a philistine?
Doubtful, because hefeweizen is also a German word, but it’s not what they usually call that style of beer. They might look at you funny if you pronounce the first syllable “hef” like Hugh Hefner instead of rhyming with waif.
I’ve never figured out how to say that right. What I ended up with was Heefe (rhymes w/ Georgia O’Keefe).
There are also a lot of American weissbier with no yeast in the final product. (Well either filtered or forced carbonated.) It’s pretty much just an ale with wheat as the primary grist.
“Hefe” is German for yeast, and true Hefeweizen is always bottle conditioned And rather than pouring the beer off from the settled yeast like you would with most bottle conditioned beers, with Hefewiezen you are meant to drink the yeast. You swirl up the last bit in the bottom of the bottle and pour it in your glass.
Wookie I’m pretty sure you know all this that was for Melkerson’s benefit.
Heff like Hugh Heffner. Vie like tie. Zin like Zinfindal
Heff A Vie Zin
Wookie just said it wasn’t ‘Heff’?
Thanks. I definitely did benefit.
Interesting. That’s how I’ve always pronounced it and everybody else I know too.
I read it with this sound effect. Drama itt
It’s “Heff” in 'Murican, but it’s more like waif in German.
Nobody gave me any dirty looks in Germany! (They were probably just being nice.)
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Yeah, they probably had you pegged as American within ~3.50 words, even if those words were German. No sense correcting the accent of the boorish Americans.
How much do you want to spend total?