# Tasting new beers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [September 15, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasting-new-beers/950724 "2021-09-15T22:49:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasting-new-beers/950724/81 "2024-12-07T22:38:41Z")
Someone gave me a bottle of the annual aged-for-a-year Samichlaus beer. At 14% abv it was obviously sweet, but not overly so. So it was malty and fruity and pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasting-new-beers/950724/82 "2024-12-08T13:41:46Z")
I’ve downloaded my year in beer from Untappd. December is my dry month so my “drinking year” runs from Jan 1 to Nov 30. I checked in 530 new beers and 66 new venues. I had no barrel-aged beers this year. The strongest was a 9.1% peanut butter milk stout called Peanut Brother from Great Notion Brewing in Portland, OR. Had it in a tiny little pub in Preston, UK. When looking for something new I usually look for big IPAs but for everyday drinking you can’t beat a traditional English cask conditioned bitter like Timothy Taylor’s Landlord. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasting-new-beers/950724/83 "2024-12-09T13:09:58Z")
A brewery near me (Conny Creek) often brews beers specifically using locally sourced ingredients. Saturday night we were there and I had an IPA made with local knotweed, of all things. Slightly vegetal taste but really interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasting-new-beers/950724/84 "2024-12-10T01:58:18Z")
My current favorite is Boulevard Brewing Company’s _Dark Truth_ stout. I like the name, too. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasting-new-beers/950724/85 "2024-12-15T20:50:25Z")
Keeping it weird (as I am wont to do) I am at this moment sipping a Great Divide Mexican Chocolate Yeti Imperial Stout. Nice green pepper/cinnamon scent, cinnamon dark chocolate taste, very dark and rich, and quite tasty. At 9.5% it is definitely a sipping beer, though. Grocery Outlet never fails to amuse and amaze me. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasting-new-beers/950724/86 "2024-12-16T14:26:00Z")
I’ve been on the lookout for Kelpie, a seaweed brewed beer brewed in Scotland. One of my favorite oddities, one of my gf’s coworkers introduced me to it years ago. > **[Kelpie: The Seaweed Beer](http://www.thebeerwhisperers.com/2012/07/kelpie-seaweed-beer.html?m=1)** > > Ever since I met my wife Heather I have loved encountering anything related to the lovely purple perennial.  In fact, one of my most be... ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasting-new-beers/950724/87 "2024-12-16T15:19:03Z")
I’ve not had that but have had Williams Brothers Fraoch Heather Ale. According to Untappd it’s “The Original Craft Beer; brewed in Scotland since 2000BC”. It’s classed as a gruit which uses various herbs for flavour and bitterness instead of hops. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasting-new-beers/950724/88 "2024-12-16T15:47:40Z")
I’ll keep an eye out, that sounds lovely. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasting-new-beers/950724/89 "2024-12-17T02:19:05Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Heh, until you go really crazy. Sam Adams brews [Utopias](https://www.samueladams.com/utopias), a barrel aged beer that tops 28% ABV. It is released every other year. My wife bought me a bottle of that in 2013. Definitely a unique flavor. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/kkEyvLx.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/kkEyvLx) [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/UYstZMF.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/UYstZMF) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tasting-new-beers/950724/90 "2024-12-17T12:14:01Z")
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