Over the last couple of months I have been noticing that taste in beers has been shifting again a bit more towards lager. Where a couple of years back the craft beer mania got to a level where craft beer seemed to be the mainstream all of a sudden...it feels like this is cooling down again.
Or at least, by me that is the case. Although I still love a good IPA or even better a NEIPA, these beers are also the hard hitters...and that is what I am not too fond of.
So when I am just out and about, more and more the vibe of just a lager or a blond or a weissen are the beers that come back up again. Especially in the mountains!
Ofcourse local beers are always the choice of poison if the option is there. Maybe they are not the best ones around even, but it is a matter of always supporting the local community as well. Ratebeer is also not extremely enthusiastic about this one and I get it. It is 'just' lager....
Because it isn't all sitting down and just sipping on something. It is about where you are and who you are with and what you did before that beer. I mean, when you have walked up the mountain before having the beer as I was doing in this post then this is more like a victory drink.
That means high fiving and just cheersing that we all made it up and it really doesn't matter a second at all what kind of beer is heading along with this. It is about the setting and how the vibe is at that moment. I can tell you...the vibe there was good!
Or what about when you are making a hike towards somewhere and then all of a sudden someone pulls out a beer out of their backpack which is ofcourse still cold because the outside temperature is so cold. That is just like the biggest surprise and the cherry on top of the celebration moment.
This Belgian white ale coming from brewery 't IJ is a little piece of heaven and I must admit that I took a couple coming from the Netherlands to bring over to my friend in the mountains because these ones are just always fantastic and never get old.
I never thought they would end up being stuck in the backpack for a small in-betweener, but hey...Actually they were perfect for it.
So yeah beers in the snow. It feels like in the snow beers are so much more easy to choose from, because it feels like everything is fine. The easier, the more it fits the setting.
Mountain beers, I like the concept!
