Perhaps you saw this kind of problem when taking tests in your youth. Pick the one of each four that is least like the others.
– Geary’s Pale Ale, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Magic Hat #9, Fuller’s London Pride.
– New Belgium Blue Paddle Pilsener, Victory Prima Pils, Alaskan Stout, Miller High Life.
– Blue Moon White, Allagash White, Hoegaarden, Weihenstephan Weiss.
– Guinness Draft, Deschutes Black Butte Porter, Rogue Chocolate Porter, Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter. Added June 13 – Oops, that should be Rogue Chocolate Stout.
What did you base your decisions on? Style? Color? Price? Size of the brewery? Something in what you taste? Something else all together? There are no right or wrong answers, unlike the home school problems Sierra was working on while I composed this post.
Written Monday, June 9, on the ferry Taku en route to Sitka, Alaska.
“- Geary’s Pale Ale, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Magic Hat #9, Fuller’s London Pride.”
SNPA is the sole non-butter bomb in the pack.
“- New Belgium Blue Paddle Pilsener, Victory Prima Pils, Alaskan Stout, Miller High Life.”
AK Stout. I mean come on! Miller High Life is a primo Pils!
– Blue Moon White, Allagash White, Hoegaarden, Weihenstephan Weiss.
The only phenol bomb in the bunch, WW.
– Guinness Draft, Deschutes Black Butte Porter, Rogue Chocolate Porter, Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter.
Guinness Draft. Stout is not Porter.
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That was fun!
I thought it started life as Stout Porter? 🙂
1. Magic Hat #9 – The only one with Apricots/Fruit
2. Miller High Life – The only one that is not deeeelicious!
3. Blue Moon – The only one made with cold rocky mountain water.
4. Rogue Chocolate Porter – The only one that does not exist.
Chocolate Stout, Mocha Porter mix them together and what do you get? Stan on a ferry in Alaska!
Jeff…dude. You’re letting me down! Blue Moon is made in eastern Canada!
Lew, dude, what are you saying? That there’s no cold water or rocks on Montreal’s Mont Royal?
dude… everything I know about beer I learned from watching TV. If only the moon turned blue when the beer was cold enough to drink.
Jeff – We are off the ferry for a few days (one trip after that, then north to Fairbanks).
A map.
There better be mountain water in Quebec or that macro called Laurentide is one big lie!
@Loren: “Stout is not Porter”
You’ve not been paying attention in history classes. To quote Ron Pattinson here:
“London brewers regularly made Porter and Stout from the same mash. I have examples of this that span pretty much the whole period I’ve looked at (1805 – 1955)… At one time in the 1800’s all their beers – two Porters and half a dozen Stouts – all have exactly the same recipe, except for the quantity of water. Guinness Porter and Guinness Extra Stout in 1883 had pretty similar recipes. All the crap about them being two distinct styles has just been made up in the last 30 years.”
“All the crap about them being two distinct styles has just been made up in the last 30 years.”
Exactly. I’m nowhere near as old as crotchety Ron P.
Hehe…
BTW, Mocha = Chocolate, last time I checked.
I would like to know where you were headed with this. I like the set-up; now where’s the analysis?
Jeff – No real plans to be honest. It was posted as an opportunity for readers to answer and think about why.
I thought Loren did a good job of that.
On the first one, for instance, if you put a premium on all-malt you would throw out the Miller High Life. If you care about “style” or color then the Alaskan Stout.
On the last it would have really helped if I typed Rogue Chocolate Stout, but I wanted to throw in Gonzo Imperial Porter because it won best American Imperial Stout in the World Beer Cup.
In any event, the most “different” one in there for me is the Guinness, from an international company and brewed at multiple sites.