Green Geek Beer

DigiDave writes "A time honored tradition on St Patty's Day is to drink green beer. But some breweries go out of their way to make sure that the brewskies we drink are always green, by using environmentally friendly brewing methods. The makers of Fat Tire, for example, use a cogeneration process that involves anaerobic bacteria turning wastewater into methane gas for power."

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Fat Tire

[Solder Fumes]

Fat Tire is pretty good. It's not recommended if you ever plan to go back to Bud. Some people don't like a sweet beer, but then some people don't like chocolate either. Ignore those mutants and grab a nice mug if you're in the southern Midwest sometime.

Re:Fat Tire

[jbrader]

Why the southern midwest? I live in Tacoma Washington and the Fat Tire flows like water around here.

Re:Fat Tire

[kamapuaa]

I suggest you consider the merits of Australian beer (and for reference Fosters is not an Australian beer, they just pretend that it is).

What's hilarious about this comment (which you often hear from Australians, when beer ever comes up in coversation) is that the most popular beer in Australia is Crown Lager, which is literally the exact same beer, made by the same brewery in the same factory, with different packaging.

So if an Australian ever tells you that Foster's is the worst shit, that only Americans drink, you can mentally note that the person doesn't know anything about the taste of the beer, and is a little too easily swayed by advertising campaigns.

Re:Fat Tire

[poopdeville]

Fat Tire has been brewed regionally since Miller bought out New Belgium. Neither advertises the fact, for obvious reasons. But the recipe has changed and now sucks. (As opposed to being a tasty, but poor imitation of Belgian beers.

Re:St Patty's day

[waferhead]

From a second generation Irish/American who spent a few years in Portland, Oregon...

Try Fat Tire, and DEFINATELY get to a McMennamins and try Terminator Stout.
(They frequently have a "special" version (can't recall what it was called) that would rip yer head off.)

Go to Portland if you get a chance, I'tll be sorta like home, only with more guys wearing leather walking their boyfreinds downtown on dog chains.

Only wetter.

And I personally suspect Mad Cow, rather than any pork issues.

Real "Green" Beer

[geln12]

I assumed something like Wasabi Ale.....
#Miyamori Wasabi Beer at

Drink the right beer!

[riflemann]

Most people associate beer with cheap piss, generally only drinking it as a social lubricant and really ignoring the true flavours of the beer. That's true for just about any mass-produced beer (VB, Fosters, Bud, Miller, Heineken).

Go out and trying a real beer for once, and not just Guinness on St Pats (arguably not that great a beer). Some of the world's greatest beers are quite accessible and will blow your socks off with their complexity and flavour.

Similar to wine coinnoseurs, there are also those who are (mostly self-professed) experts in beer, preferring something good like a trappist beer with their meal to wine, and deservingly so. A properly brewed beer's a lot more interesting to have with a meal than wine, and there's infinitely more variety.

Heineken is not a good beer. Really. In Holland it's considered mediocre. If you see a beer everywhere, then it's mosty likely crap. Stella's pissy too. Budvar, Pilsener Urquell, Hertog Jan...they're ok for lagers.

A coding session's a heck of a lot more enjoyable when combined with a decent brew. But be careful, too good a beer will distract! Some of my best output's come after having a good Belgian.

Seriously. Go down to your nearest large speciality bottle shop/liquor store and find a few bottles of the higher rated beers that you can find. Drink them, out of the proper glassware and at the right temperature then you'll never go back to a macro again. It could get more expensive, but damn it's worth it. A hint - drink light-coloured beers in warmer weather and darker ones in cool weather.

And then you can have good beer all the time.

Fat Tire is a great beer...

[ayjay29]

I was in Seattle a while ago, and was advised by all the locals to try the beers from the micro-breweries (after trying Bud-Light i was weary of beers from the other side of the Atlantic).

After trying a few brands (some OK, some not so OK), i tried Fat Tire, and it was the best beer i've had in a long time.

(Coming from Yourshire in England, I'm usually a bit weary when it comes to sampling beers not brewed within 50 miles of where I was born...)