The Beer Thread

[lukethedrifter]

Might I recommend your next movie classic?

[SHOW]

[JL21]

I'm kind of right in the middle of one of those, myself.

[Mary1966]

http://news.discovery.com/human/life/bu ... 140405.htm

California and the Northeast love wine, Colorado and the Midwest quaff beer, according to new maps of American alcohol preferences as filtered through Twitter.

Using geotagged tweets from between June 2012 and May 2013, geographers mapped U.S. preferences for wine versus beer, as well as for beer brands. When reaching for light beer, Easterners are likely to reach for a Bud Light, while many Westerners opt for Coors Light, they found.

The maps and the findings appear as a chapter in the new book "The Geography of Beer" (Springer, 2014) and arose from the research blog floatingsheep.org, said chapter co-author Matthew Zook, a geographer at the University of Kentucky.

[Swirls]

1) Most Saranac beers are terrible. Their brewery is about 90 minutes from where I live - there are only a couple beers of theirs that I can gag down. Almost all of them are undrinkable. In my experience, Southern Tier and Brewery Ommegang are much more popular craft breweries around here than Saranac.
2) Funny to see Miller getting no love whatsoever.

[jim]

Goose Island is pretty bad too.

[Gashouse]

I like some Goose Islands, but some are pretty bad. I've never even heard of Saranac or Hudepohl.

Grain Belt is a pretty decent beer.

[go birds]

goose is gross!

Been on this lately....pretty good:

[lukethedrifter]

Shiner's doing a Belgian White, eh? Is it Blue Moon or more Hoegaarden?

[go birds]

definitely not blue moon....i havent had hoegaarden, but ill go with that

[wart57]