{"id":47522,"date":"2020-12-17T22:38:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T03:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47522"},"modified":"2020-12-17T22:38:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T03:38:54","slug":"advent-beer-17-alpen-stoff-by-burgerbrau-bad-reichenhall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47522","title":{"rendered":"Advent Beer #17: Alpen Stoff by B\u00fcrgerbr\u00e4u Bad Reichenhall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I\u2019m not a fan of IPAs.\u00a0 They\u2019re bitter, they taste like piss, and it\u2019s obnoxious that every microbrew and craft beer maker in the country makes their name off of some signature IPA.\u00a0 Every home brewer seems to make an IPA, and from what I understand, it\u2019s mostly because IPAs are some of the easiest beers to manufacture, which is why everyone who makes beer always tries to put their own twist on an IPA, when to people like me they\u2019re all basically goat piss<\/a> in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I first took a pull of Alpen Stoff<\/a>, my taste buds triggered my mind to go \u201coh no, it\u2019s like an IPA,\u201d but before the thought could really finish, the bitter note at the end of it came to an abrupt ending, right<\/em> before the point where I\u2019d go \u201cfuck I hate IPAs\u201d but not before I could identify the bitter note at the very end.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it kind of tasted like an IPA, but without that piss-like bitterness at the very end that usually makes me resent IPAs in the first place.\u00a0 According to BeerAdvocate, this is classified as a lager, but what the fuck do I know about classifications beyond a rudimentary level, but I would\u2019ve pegged this as an ale, since it kind of tasted like an IPA without being complete shit.\u00a0 It definitely has a grassy, hoppy flavor to it which makes me think that, but I guess it was fairly smooth and fairly light-bodied like a good lager.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, it\u2019s not my favorite beer of the month so far, and I\u2019d definitely slot this in the lower half of my rankings, but when the day is over, I feel like I want to give it some credit for almost tasting like an IPA, but being one that was actually palatable to me, and taking out just enough properties of a shitty IPA to make it remotely drinkable.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also realize that I\u2019ve made enough allusions to drinking piss to the point where I must actually disclaim that I\u2019ve never drank piss<\/a> in my life, of any species.\u00a0 Unless you count IPAs, because they\u2019re basically the same thing, and I\u2019d frankly find more satisfaction in saving my taste buds and my digestive system the trouble by just pouring them down a urinal instead of drinking them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Current Rankings:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. B\u00e4ren Weisse (#16)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. First Coral (#2)<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Kirta (#5)<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Turbo Prop (#6)<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Schwarze Tinte (#13)<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Perlenzauber (#9)<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Loncium Vienna Style Lager (#12)<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Jubil\u00e4umsbier 333 (#7)<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Zw\u00f6nitzer Steinbier (#4)<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Alpen Stoff (#17)<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Grandl (#11)<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Altbairisch Hell (#15)<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Hell (#1)<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Tannen Hell (#8)<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Tradition (#10)<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Hallertauer Hopfen-Cuvee (#14)<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. K\u00e4uzle (#3)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I\u2019m not a fan of IPAs.\u00a0 They\u2019re bitter, they taste like piss, and it\u2019s obnoxious that every microbrew and craft beer maker in the country makes their name off of some signature IPA.\u00a0 Every home brewer seems to make an IPA, and from what I understand, it\u2019s mostly because IPAs are some of the easiest … Continue reading Advent Beer #17: Alpen Stoff by B\u00fcrgerbr\u00e4u Bad Reichenhall<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,100,101],"class_list":["post-47522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-booze","tag-comparison","tag-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47524,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47522\/revisions\/47524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}