Fifty Plus (50+) - What is the Official "Fifty Plus (50+)" Beer?

The Forum is open for suggestions...... :D (Where is that little Devil smiley?)

I'll vote for Carona....... with Blueberry pie of corse. :D

Please keep it on topic folks..... ;)

Has to be Fat Tire by New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins :beer:

Although 90 Shilling would be worth a taste test or two :rolleyes:

Back in the days of the British Empire, when the Raj governed India, the Brits had to supply their troops with beer. In order for the fine British ale to be able to survive the long ocean voyage, they had to fortify it with extra hops; hence, India Pale Ale. Because this obviously had to be the stuff drunk by the Bombay Bicycle Club back in those days, and because you have to be a real beer drinker to enjoy the extra bitterness of this brew, and because it just has more character (and taste) than normal "bland" beers, and because most cyclists 50+ have more character and taste than any younger riders, I vote for IPA as the "official beer of theFifty Plus (50+) geezers."

- L.

FAT TIRE all the way, and thanks for the post!

Oh, and I want to vote for Islay single malts as the "Official Scotch of the Fifty Plus (50+)" for roughly the same reason - very smoky, peaty flavor that takes a while to acquire. I'll have a snifter of Laphroaig or Caol Ila please...

- L.

Once upon a time there was the Coors Classic, however Coors is a very poor excuse for a beer. Even with that type of bicycle connection I'd vote against it.

Sierra Nevada has sponsored bike racing teams and brew some outstanding beers. They would get my vote.

Well, if its going to be official, then we'll need to take a list of names then hold a poll...

Fat Tire seems obvious.

India Pale Ale ( IPA) seems reasonable (is this a play on words? like there is a banned performance-enhancing substance that has the same letters?)

how about including the Duesseldorfer favorite brews known as 'Altbier'? appropriately-labeled for 50+'ers!

Oh, and I want to vote for Islay single malts as the "Official Scotch of the Fifty Plus (50+)" for roughly the same reason - very smoky, peaty flavor that takes a while to acquire. I'll have a snifter of Laphroaig or Caol Ila please...

- L.

+1

I particularly like Laphroaig. YUM!

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Someone mentioned a brewery just down the road from me in another beer thread ... New Glarus Brewery, out of New Glarus, Wis. They just won the best Mid-Sized Brewery in the USA gold medal for the second consecutive year at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. Three years ago they were smaller and won the Best Small Brewery in the USA gold.

They only distribute in Wisconsin, so you have to be here to buy it. The Sugar River Trail ends (or starts depending upon how you see it) in New Glarus. So you can start in Brodhead, Wis, ride 23 miles to New Glarus, down some New Glarus beer with a brat and then ride back.

Cold!

The Forum is open for suggestions...... :D (Where is that little Devil smiley?)

I'll vote for Carona....... with Blueberry pie of corse. :D

Please keep it on topic folks..... ;)

Beer and blueberry pie. Boggles both the mind and the digestive tract.

Well, if its going to be official, then we'll need to take a list of names then hold a poll...

Not a good idea. Beer, much like saddles, is just too personal a choice. I like the other thread where I learned lots of new beers to try when I get a chance. But don't try to tell us what beer to drink.

Are we pulling the nose hairs of the nearest mod with this thread. How cool. Every time they transfer us, it will pop up anew. FiftyPlus insurgency!!

Both Widmer Bros and Leinenkugels have bike jerseys so i think they at least should get a vote. I love Widmers Hefeweizen, it's an unfiltered wheat beer. Leinies also has a wheat beer.

Then of course, there's Pete's Wicked Ale.......

Are we pulling the nose hairs of the nearest mod with this thread. How cool. Every time they transfer us, it will pop up anew. FiftyPlus insurgency!!
What are they gonna do? Tell us to grow up? LOL, fat chance!!!!

So far "Fat tire" has the lead......

Ahhhnnnnn Xingu

Well. It's not Corona and blueberry pie and thats for sure. Sheesh, I'd be voting for Stolichnya and scones before that one!

IPA may carry the day, and always being one to vote with a trend, count me in as an IPA supporter. Unless there is a later front runner, and then I'll probably switch. Maybe.

Whatever's on sale. :)

I like to vary and buy different beers, sometimes following what Isits said, sometimes going for an expensive import. I guess my favorites are Grolsch, Becks and St. Paulie Girl. O'Douls is my favorite non-alcoholic beer.

Root

Henry Weinhard's
Hires
Barqs
A&W

All good!

Root

Henry Reinhard's
Hires
Barqs
A&W

All good!

Let's not forget Dad's Old Fashioned...

I used to drink and enjoy Fat Tire Ale. Then Sierra Nevada started sponsoring a bicycle racing team so I figured that I'd be loyal to those who were putting in an effort for my sport.

Then I discovered that Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is a REALLY good beer.

Last night I ordered a Sierra Nevada on draft. When it got there it was the wrong color but I figured, what the hell, and gave it a gulp and it was Fat Tire Ale instead. I've got to tell you, I've developed a taste for Sierra Nevada and that will probably be Tom's Official Beer at least until they stop sponsoring bicycle races one way or another. Of course all they'll HAVE to do is put a bicycle on the label.

Hamm's

Root

Henry Reinhard's
Hires
Barqs
A&W

All good!
I'm a big root beer fan. Have tasted close to 50 brands. It's Henry Weinhard, BTW, and that is very good. A smooth root beer with a nice vanilla finish.

Another very good one is Sprecher's. And Bulldog. And there's one out of Chicago that I only had once, Gale's, that is excellent.

But I've drunk so much good root beer, root beer that is brewed & frequently uses sugar cane, and is not simply carbonated water, corn syrup and extract, that I cannot drink Hires, Barqs, A&W, Dad's, and a bunch of others anymore. IBC isn't too bad, as they use more extract. Stewart's is good too, for a non-brew.

But the real brewed stuff is much better than the cheap non-brewed varieties. Unfortunately several fancy-label brands are also non-brewed. For example expensive brands like Dr. Browns, Gray's, and Berghoff are simply typical mixes.

It's dangerous to drink the good stuff over an extended period. All I drank for nearly a year was Weinhard and Sprecher, then I had an A&W. Yech! It had a weak, artificial taste. Took two sips and threw the rest of the can away.

Just what purpose is served by having this thread here on BF?
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Just what purpose is served by having this thread here on BF?

Someone is going to smack you. Be forewarned.

My favorite is Gus Riley's Redfoot Dunkel Hefe Weizen. But the general public has a hard time getting it. 7% of the smoothest brew around, and it will make your face go to sleep! :D

Someone is going to smack you. Be forewarned.
well, it was only a matter of time.
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LOLOLOLOLOLROFLOL. I love this place. Let's run a tab.

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Hamm's

As a kid, I used to love those bears and "The Land of Sky Blue Waters"... I would sing it. Eventually, I got to backpack into the Sierras and hike in Washington/Oregon. Always looking for those damn jolly bears and those mountain lakes. A minor personal grail.

awww...I remember those bears

I remember sitting in a greasy spoon diner up in Oregon when I was a kid, and they had a Hamm's display on the wall, featuring those bears. I loved it!

http://www.pogopress.com/graphics/hammsbig.jpg


From Wikipedia...

The name is most famous not for the company's beverages, however, but for its advertising jingle and for its mascot, the Hamm's Beer bear.

The original jingle, first used on radio and later extended to television, was derived from "From The Land of Sky-Blue Water," a 1909 art song with lyrics by Nelle Richmond Eberhart and music by Charles Wakefield Cadman. It started with the beating of tom-tom drums, after which a chorus intoned

From the Land of Sky Blue Waters,
From the land of pines, lofty balsams,
Comes the beer refreshing,
Hamm's the beer refreshing.
Brewed where nature works her wonders,
Aged for many moons, gently mellowed,
Hamm's the beer refreshing,
Hamm's the beer refreshing.
From across the rippling water,
Through the whisp'ring pines and birches,
Comes the beer refreshing,
Hamm's the beer refreshing.
Comes a call to cool enchantment,
Comes a call to cool refreshment,
Hamm's the beer refreshing,
Hamm's the beer refreshing.
Hints of lakes and sunset breezes,
Dance and sparkle in each glassful,
Hamm's the beer refreshing,
Hamm's the beer refreshing.


http://mmd.foxtail.com/Sounds/hamms.mid

I'm a big root beer fan. Have tasted close to 50 brands. It's Henry Weinhard, BTW, and that is very good. A smooth root beer with a nice vanilla finish.

I'm a root beer guy myself, and agree.

We used to make our own root beer as a kid...with naturally occuring carbonation, etc. Wow, it tasted good!

I'll vote for Carona.......



Corona?!? I call that "the official beer of the fake ID crowd". I'll stick with a grown-ups beer. My vote goes for Guinness. If you can get the real thing, in an actual Irish pub, more power to you.

Back in the days of the British Empire, when the Raj governed India, the Brits had to supply their troops with beer. In order for the fine British ale to be able to survive the long ocean voyage, they had to fortify it with extra hops; hence, India Pale Ale. Because this obviously had to be the stuff drunk by the Bombay Bicycle Club back in those days, and because you have to be a real beer drinker to enjoy the extra bitterness of this brew, and because it just has more character (and taste) than normal "bland" beers, and because most cyclists 50+ have more character and taste than any younger riders, I vote for IPA as the "official beer of theFifty Plus (50+) geezers."

- L.

Absolutely right! …but it has to be aged at least 6 months. Most of the IPA available here in the North East is "green"; it is brewed, sold and consumed without letting it age; it could be that which puts people off.

- Wil

Oh, and I want to vote for Islay single malts as the "Official Scotch of the Fifty Plus (50+)" for roughly the same reason - very smoky, peaty flavor that takes a while to acquire. I'll have a snifter of Laphroaig or Caol Ila please...

- L.

Sounds like a great idea! (I have a bottle of Laphroaig 30 year old in my stash)

- Wil

Thanks, BP, for the paddle down memory stream!! Now, of course, I 'll be singing it in the shower and humming it as I ride for a while. ;)

Just as I support my LBS, I must support the local Microbreweries....hence my nomination of all local Microbrewery Beer..

+1

I particularly like Laphroaig. YUM!

One more vote for Laphroaig. An ideal winter evening would begin with a ride home from work through falling snow swirling in the headlight, dinner, and Laphroaig before bed.

Paul

Let's not forget Dad's Old Fashioned...
Absolutely!

Nor the fact that I had to go back and edit my misspelling of Henry's name... Still not 100% sure, but at least now it starts with the right letter.

I'll vote for Carona.......


Proof advertising works, that beer is crap, you need to add lemon(or lime) to give it flavor what a joke.

Ballentine IPA, now THAT was a beer.

I love this place -- we are drawn together by a common interest (beer, errrrr, bikes? :beer: ), and then we learn more about each other by chatting about other things -- like bikes . . .

This what community is all about! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

If you really like the taste of beer, then IPA is the way to go. But pale ale is also good. Here in Montana we have lots of local brews, two of which I like a lot: Bent Nail IPA and Mirror Pond IPA. Sierra Nevada pale is good, as it Full Sail. And don't forget Guiness Stout, my absolute favorite. Fat Tire is too mild for me.

Good votes one and all, but I fear you show your ignorance. The best after biking beer is.......Full Sale Amber from Bend Oregon. I can say this with full assurance as I have spent more years and time beer testing than I have riding (at least in the last 30 years).. I have turned the tide this year and am riding way more than beering.

I'll try to keep this on-topic with bike stuff camouflaging the beer underneath. I vote for local microbrews and jerseys, Saint Arnold from right here in Houston. Their Elissa IPA is one of my favorites, and I drink lots of different IPAs :p ....

Oh, and what about those jerseys :D ?

B'Dog

http://www.saintarnold.com/products/merchandise/images/shirts/big/bike_saintarnoldjersey_front.jpg

http://www.saintarnold.com/products/merchandise/images/shirts/big/bike_divinejersey.jpg

Corona?!? I call that "the official beer of the fake ID crowd". I'll stick with a grown-ups beer. My vote goes for Guinness. If you can get the real thing, in an actual Irish pub, more power to you.
Isn't it strange the trivial subjects that get people all worked up and start insulting people?:roflmao: :D

Obviously, an official beer is an impossible quest. In my limited travels, I've managed to sample terrific beers from micro, local and regional breweries. Some are better than others, but all are great when served cold after a day of trekking, biking, kayaking, diving . . .

So my vote now goes to whatever cold brew is set up before me, as long as you are buying!:beer:

[Still, it is fun to expand my horizons with possible beers to sample after my next great adventure, whether it be around the corner or over the next hill! When in Bend, it will be Full Sale Amber, in Houston I'll lift up Saint Arnold and praise their jerseys! When on the Homer Spit, don't miss the Alaska Red at sunset . . .]