BANNED!

No doubt as a man of culture you understand tastes are varied and different, not bad. I would rather be run over than have a beer that is sweet, meaning like sugar sweet, or fruity as in has rasberries or some other garbage added to it.

We all can ID different flavors in beer just as we can in wine. You drink what makes you happy.

Bud tastes like crap to me, always has, always will. Green apples to you, thats fine. I taste old rotted hay and sawdust.

I enjoyed some lambic beers in France a few weeks ago. I enjoyed some. Others not so much but enjoyed the experience.

Im going to have a Boulevard Pilsner and see what I can pick up.

This is a much more reasonable post, HCF. I agree with you that beer shouldn't be sickly, cloyingly sweet. That's part of the reason that hops are used -- in addition to their preservative qualities they provide much-needed bitterness to balance beer. Because beer is inherently a sweet beverage.

I also agree that Bud is not a pleasant drinking experience. You're using figuartive language when you say it tastes like old rotted hay, though. Right? Because there are beers -- saisons, biere de gardes, guezes, unblended lambics -- that have a heavy hay/barnyard flavor to them. Bud isn't one of them. Bud is pretty much straightforwardly cooked rice, green apple, and a bit of those nasty beechwood chips.

Speaking of Saison... how do you rate Saison DuPont?

Had it while eating at Brasserie in St. Louis and really liked it.

I love it so much. Saison Dupont Vielle Provision is the classic, standard-bearer of the style. It is a gorgeous beer that pairs so well with so many dishes. I buy it pretty much constantly. It isn't the best of the style, but it is pretty close.

Brasserie kicks ass, btw, if you ever get a chance to get up to St. Louis. Urbanspoon reviews on it suck, but I really think people just must not get it. Bad ass rustic French food and some pretty badass beer.

This is a little over the top

Concessions have VASTLY improved with the upgrades. BlueMoon and Boulevard seem to be pretty popular out there, along with your standard fare in stadium beer drinking. If you like mixed drinks, it's kind of suprising at the selection of those that are available.

Reaper is, literally, writing a book on beer.

Menu looks real nice. For a place called "Brasserie" (French for "brewery") it really skimps out on the beer list. It would be shameful if the few bottles they do carry didn't match up reasonably well with the majority of their menu. They could get away with just Matilda, Dupont, Tripel Karmeliet and Chimay Blue, but I'd like to see a much wider variety if you are going to call your place "Brewery."

Yeah, I think they're going with the more common usage of the word than its literal meaning.

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2010-...art-on-sleeve/

Reaper I am curious where do you find all these beers that you reviewed or what made you want to try them? I have never heard of half of these.

Anyone had the Boulevard Amber Ale? Me likes.

I know, it's probably something "common" that "everyone" likes. That's great, too.

I want to know how a grad student can afford to drink so well. It's not fair!

I'm assuming that he drinks like 1-2 of those good beers a day at his house. It's definitely good beer, but lots of grad students spend way more than that on booze in an average month... especially if they're going out and drinking at bars.

Drink two $15 beers for a total of $30. That would be drinking some seriously good beers.

A $30 bar tab for a night on the town would be pretty light for most college kids. It's pretty easy to go out and drop a hundred in a night if you're really drinking much and bar hopping.