The Best Tasting Beer
October 26th, 2007What is the best tasting beer? Given that it’s “Beer Week” at CottageDaily.com, it’s only natural that we would set out to try and answer this question. In retrospect it might have been easier to prove God’s existence.
When it comes to beer, it seems we all have an opinion on what constitutes a great tasting beer.
For example, the overall winner of the 2006 Canadian Brewing Awards is likely a brewery you have never even heard of, Magnotta Brewery, who won five of the six categories they entered.
At the International Beer Championships held earlier this year in Barrie Ontario, the gold medal winners were:
- Castle - European Amber Lager - South African Breweries
- King Pilsner - Pilsner - King Brewery
- Lug Tread Lagered Ale - Light Hybrid - Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company
- Blanche de Chambly - Unibroue
- County Ale -English Brown Ale - Wellington Brewery
- Tankhouse Ale - Pale Ale - Mill Street Brewery
Again, no familiar names on this list not even Molson’s Coors Lite, which is the number one selling beer in Canada.
After visiting a number of forums like Yahoo.ca, I found the majority of respondents there liked the following:
- Alexander Keiths
- Moosehead
- Kronenberg 1664 - French beer
- Rickards Red
- Heineken
- Sleeman’s Honey Brown
Women (myself included) seemed to prefer Corono - with lime of course. Interestingly, there was just as much discussion about bad tasting beer, no offense to our American neighbors, as there was about good tasting beer.
There was also some concern about how cold beer should be when it is served. According to RenegadeX, any quality beer should be served at slightly-below room-temperature. If a beer is below optimum temperature, depending on the type of beer, anywhere from 6-15C, it will diminish the flavour. Cold kills.
I personally like my beer icy cold. I find it more refreshing.
So what is the best tasting beer? That’s easy - the one that’s in front of you.
Cheers,
Julie
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October 31st, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Julie,
I have said for years that there are no bad beers…..some are just better than others. Buying beer at the beer store for me is easy. No so for my daughter. Since moving to the east coast she has become somewhat of a beer snob….not much of the beer available at home meets her approval.
At home on the mainland I tend to spend more on beer than at the cottage, likely because the cheap beers are what sell at the cottage. They don’t seem to stock much other than the standard fare.