which beer is the best in the world?

I toured several Ft. Collins' breweries several years back. Not New Belgium, though. They have quite a lot of breweries in that town!

Ft. Collins' breweries

Beer in Fort Collins: The Brewmuda Triangle
And Ft Collins was a dry town until 1969.
Amazing

http://publiclands.colostate.edu/digital_projects/dp/poudre-river/urban-industrial/beer-in-fort-collins/

I was just curious about how many breweries Birmingham, AL has since we are a big town in Alabama but not so much compared to other places...


1 Avondale Brewing Company
2 Good People Brewing
3 Trim Tab Brewing Company
4 Cahaba Brewing Company
5 Neighborhood Brew


I've tried Neighborhood, Avondale and Good People but not Trim Tab and Cahaba.

Now we have something to do on Friday night I suppose.

I just want to mention that from today onwards it's the "Bavarian insider's Octoberfest": Starkbieransti.
Starkbierzeit, Starkbierzeit, or )strong beer season), officially kicks off Two weeks after Fasching, or Fat Tuesday, each year, a short list of local celebrities gathers at the Paulaner cellar in Munich to watch an honorary braumeister drive a brass tap into a into a new keg (Anstich). It lasts until he Saturday before Palm Sunday.

Starkbier is actually a doppelbock, which is heavy on malt. The "strong" in strong beer, however, doesn't refer to alcohol content, but rather to the heavy, full-bodied flavor, which 400 years ago was meant to be as much a meal as a tipple (at least 7.5% up to 9% alcohol, standard Oktoberfest beers chalk up 4% to 6% alcohol.)



True starkbiers must be made within the Munich metropolitan area. The most popular brands come from four of the city's mainstay breweries—Paulaner, Lowenbrau, Augustiner and Unions—and they are only brewed in quantities to satisfy demand through the short strong beer season. Augustiner and Unions have maintained the local beer tradition of producing only enough starkbier for the Bavarian region. But outsiders can sometimes find bottled starkbier by Lowenbrau, which is owned by international conglomerate Anheuser-Busch InBev, and Paulaner, which has become a conglomerate itself, acquiring multiple breweries in Germany.

[img]Now we have something to do on Friday night I suppose. [/img]
Hop a flight to Munich.
Wouldn't that be something?

America’s Breweries Dangerously Close to Running Out of Funny Names for Their Beers
http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/02/the-difficult-of-naming-a-new-beer.html

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexalvarez/i-keep-bubble-wrap-at-my-desk-at-all-times

Yah....a bit more than the budget will allow. Downtown Birmingham, AL is closer. Not so hard on the checking account. Or credit card rather.

Had fun at Neighborhood Brew. Hung with friends laughed a lot.
[that's actually not downtown - it is in Shelby County]

Twitter’s Fantastic ‘Florida Man’ Account Now Has Its Own Beer
http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/03/florida-man-beer.html?om_rid=AAAgmh&om_mid=_BVAI23B8-1a6Qn

http://store.explosm.net/products/the-beer-is-addicted-to-me-pint-glass

NY Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Had one many years ago...was pretty good and smooth.

Not exactly related to the topic of this thread, but since it's about beer ...

In July 2010, a Baltic Sea shipwreck dated between 1800 to 1830 yielded many bottles of what is thought to be the world's oldest champagne. And the oldest beer.



The beer was undrinkable, but has been analysed in Munich. Those results have been published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry: Analysis of Beers from an 1840s’ Shipwreck

A Finnish brewery already has recreated this 200-year-old shipwrecked beer.
Stallhagen
But ...
"Don't think that beer which was made 170 years ago, would taste today's beer drinkers," says Walter König from the Bavarian Brewers' Association. This applies to all beers that are re-brewed according to historical sources. Although you can use the same raw materials, malt, hops and water are, however, different today. "The beer had a bitter, harsher note and less alcohol." You couldn't distinguish hops by their brewing quality, as done with today's methods of analysis. "You were lucky if you had the expensive spice at all."
(Source, own translation)

http://www.hulu.com/watch/766380

A New Beer Is Made With Yeast That Was Sent to Space
http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/03/new-beer-made-with-yeast-from-space.html

Trippy.

The Beerito Is The Answer To All Your Outdoor Drinking Questions:
The great dilemma of summer has been solved.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelysanders/beerito

Super Bock !

Is that made in Portugal, Fil?