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So is Hoppy Beer Driving Away Craft Beer Drinkers?
Maybe.
I'm a Vienna Lager style drinker by preference -- give me a Negra Modelo, or even better, the perfection of an Augustiner Brau Dunkel (dark) beer. I like smooth, odd beers like Old Peculiar or Young's Winter Warmer. But I had an Englishman turn up his nose at my 500+ year old German beer style, uninterested in it. He was seriously a hops man.
When I would look at menus, except for Negra Modelo, there would be no Vienna Lagers. You couldn't even buy my favorite beer in Texas, the last time I looked. I was going to be forced to give up gluten, and I wanted one last beer. Couldn't find one. I almost had a Newcastle Brown or a Voodoo, but I really wanted that German beer.
Or fresh Shiner Bock. None of that available, either.
Alfreda's mother brews beer. The heroine of a mystery I did is a bootlegger's great-granddaughter, finding the family hop in the back forty! I will slip the drink of the gods in whenever possible.
Because -- Beer!
I'm a Vienna Lager style drinker by preference -- give me a Negra Modelo, or even better, the perfection of an Augustiner Brau Dunkel (dark) beer. I like smooth, odd beers like Old Peculiar or Young's Winter Warmer. But I had an Englishman turn up his nose at my 500+ year old German beer style, uninterested in it. He was seriously a hops man.
When I would look at menus, except for Negra Modelo, there would be no Vienna Lagers. You couldn't even buy my favorite beer in Texas, the last time I looked. I was going to be forced to give up gluten, and I wanted one last beer. Couldn't find one. I almost had a Newcastle Brown or a Voodoo, but I really wanted that German beer.
Or fresh Shiner Bock. None of that available, either.
Alfreda's mother brews beer. The heroine of a mystery I did is a bootlegger's great-granddaughter, finding the family hop in the back forty! I will slip the drink of the gods in whenever possible.
Because -- Beer!