Steel cut oats...

[East Coast Hustle]

I'm a purist. I don't even like most ales.

You can cover up any number of flaws in an ale, but a shitty lager will be shitty no matter what you add to it.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I'm a purist. I don't even like most ales.

You can cover up any number of flaws in an ale, but a shitty lager will be shitty no matter what you add to it.

Well the reinheitsgebot (spelling) won't allow the Germans to mess with their lagers. But oats and chocolate are usually added to stouts. As far as purity goes, I'm interested in what you consider to be pure. Barley, hops, water, yeast only?

[East Coast Hustle]

by "I'm a purist" I mean that I like my beer to taste like beer. If I wanted weird flavors and other shit in it, I'd buy Smirnoff Ice or Twisted Tea or some other such abomination. Adding that shit to your microbrew and selling it for $10 a 6-pack doesn't make it anything more than expensive Smirnoff Ice.

I am, of course, a crotchety old fuck and I don't necessarily expect you young'uns to agree with my radical ideas.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Well by beer do you mean lager? Pilsner? Stout? Ale? Belgian?
There are a lot of different types of beer, each with a unique and distinct flavor.

But if you're a lager fella, then yeah. I can see where adding anything other than what's in the purity law can bother you.

I still love a good choc-oatmeal stout.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Also, "chocolate" stout can simply refer to stout brewed using a malt that's been roasted to a chocolate-like color, and this can give it a flavor kind of like dark chocolate.

IOW, they don't always add actual chocolate to your chocolate stout.

[East Coast Hustle]

Well by beer do you mean lager? Pilsner? Stout? Ale? Belgian?
There are a lot of different types of beer, each with a unique and distinct flavor.

But if you're a lager fella, then yeah. I can see where adding anything other than what's in the purity law can bother you.

I still love a good choc-oatmeal stout.

I am mostly a lager and pilsener guy. Not to say there aren't some ales I really like, but they tend to still be more straight-up stuff rather than fruity weird shit.

I think my favorite american-brewed ale that is widely available is Rogue Brewery's Dead Guy. I also really like Pike Place Brewery's Kilt Lifter.

[East Coast Hustle]

and before anyone says "what about stouts or porters?", I will point out (for the benefit of those ITT that are not beer afficionados) that those are also ales, as "ale" is a term that encompasses many styles of beer. There are a handful of porters and stouts that I like, generally with a meal of bloody red meat, but for the most part I don't want my beer to be that filling.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

[pet peeve]

ALTON BROWN IS NOT A CHEF.

[/pet peeve]

ETA: but he's right, oats are glorified horse food.

I didn't say he was a chef...just that he would give you the TROOF on oats

Also, I find his show to be rather awesome for the technical discussion and less than awesome for his 'recipes'. I love what he talks about and generally dislike what he actually cooks.

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I've had steel cut oats that cooked in about 10 minutes and they are so worth it. They have a bite to them and the taste has more umph.

I like mine with peanut butter and banana MMMMMMmmmmm

I tried this the other morning.

D E L I C I O U S .

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Well now I have to try that







PS- Cainad- i know

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

If you have to make your beer taste like oatmeal and chocolate, it's probably shitty beer.

Disagree again :/

I would agree that if you HAVE to make it taste like that, as in the only way you can make your beer taste good is to add a bunch of extra flavor to it from nontraditional gimmicky ingredients, then yeah, the underlying beer is most likely shitty.

That's not the case with the Founders Breakfast Stout.  Founders also makes awesome beers when they use nothing but water, malted barley, hops, and yeast.

[Sister Fracture]

[pet peeve]

ALTON BROWN IS NOT A CHEF.

[/pet peeve]

ETA: but he's right, oats are glorified horse food.

I didn't say he was a chef...just that he would give you the TROOF on oats

Also, I find his show to be rather awesome for the technical discussion and less than awesome for his 'recipes'. I love what he talks about and generally dislike what he actually cooks.

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Hey, now. My apple pie recipe was originally based off of his (with some changes, yeah), and I still go look up the recipe for the amount flour I need for the crust. I can never remember that shit.

[Jenne]

Steel cut oats were so boring to my kids that my husband started doing funky things to them.  Like making them with ketchup and mustard.

...probably shouldn't have shared that.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Steel cut oats were so boring to my kids that my husband started doing funky things to them.  Like making them with ketchup and mustard.

...probably shouldn't have shared that.

Actually, you are not alone, my kids have done some whack stuff with oats going savory as opposed to sweet.  I will have to say that while it wouldn't be my first choice to eat oats with worchester or horseradish or sriracha, (of these the horseradish was not that bad) there are worse things out there. 

Eh they are a grain and oats are heart healthy, we're probably ruining that heart health with the sugar and butter and cream anyway.

[Don Coyote]

Steel cut oats were so boring to my kids that my husband started doing funky things to them.  Like making them with ketchup and mustard.

...probably shouldn't have shared that.

Oats and ground beef.