I was wondering which beer style would be the most classiest of all? And by this I mean not only the style itself but the seasoning of the beer also.
The world classy indicates traditional british for me. So the quetion for me is: what kind of beer would a suited up british gentleman drink after a long day?
Dark or black colored beer is obvious I think. I’d say porter/stout mostly, with higher range of ABV. And flavoured with some strong alcoholic beverage. Scotch whiskey (maybe rum).
Which beer style with what kind of seasoning would be your most classiest beer?
Being a Belgian I cannot help you: saison is a peasant beer, gueuze, kriek and wit are blue collar beers, and trappists are austere monk brews. Certainly nothing classy for you here.
If it has to be dark, british, seasoned, and have scotch and or rum in it to be the “classiest”, then I would say the classiest beer is the runoff from a bar tenders drip tray at the end of the night.
Personally I find a fizzy yellow German pilsner to be very classy, with its crystal clear sparkle, clean crisp graham-like malt character, and elegant noble hops, with nothing else to obstruct its graceful simplicity. How could anyone ask for more!
If we are talking old school, Downton Abbey, posh classy; I don’t think they would drink beer. At least not in “classy” company. If they did, I agree with Dave, Pilsner. But then again, maybe not around the time of the wars. Anti-German sentiment was very strong in England in the early to mid 20th century.
Like Dave, I was thinking toward pilsner right off the bat. Something about a crystal clear beer served in a pilsner glass. Trust me - I checked on 3 different occasions yesterday, and all 3 glasses of Bo-pils looked very classy ;D
If not that, perhaps something that would be served in more of a brandy snifter type glass.
Luckily (IMO) beer and beer drinkers do not need to worry about being or looking classy. Much too laid back for any of that.
After the Reinheitsgebot, the Bavarian Royalty had wheat beers brewed only for their consumption. Then there was the old Bavarian royal when asked how he reached a ripe old age replied a liter of Doppelbock at Lunch and another liter at Dinner.
The British Royalty are of German descent since King George I. Just saying.
Sorry homoeccentricus, can’t agree with you on this one. My vote for the classiest beer would be Gouden Carolus Cuvee Van De Keizer Blauw/Blue. Brewed for a king’s birthday.
First of all, easy question: Miller High Life was, is, and always will be the “Champagne of Beers”. The King of Beers is a distant second.
To Steve’s point: I’ve read hundreds of P.G. Wodehouse stories and never has Bertie Wooster been known to drink beer, not even at the races. Whether it be a pop or two at the drones club with the lads or asking Jeeves to whip up a quick restorative after getting out of the soup with an imperious aunt, it was alwaysa gin and tonic or scotch and soda.
Beer has always been a drink of the people. Even my vote for classiest style, saison, had humble origins.
The first thing that popped into my head when I read through it was, beer’s made with care and amazing ingredients. In fact these beers are the ones that represent the finest of the category. It would most definitely be a beer that blows me away. So a friend and I opened a bottle of Firestone Walkers 18 over the holidays and I must say, I was really impressed. This beer was very complex and rich and ironically at $30 for the bomber, I felt like I was drinking a classy beer.
I suppose it depends on what area of Europe you want to identify and the time period. Many parts of Europe had royal breweries and beers made for the upper class.
In England there was a long history of different names for what can generally be described as barleywine that descended from the best made gruits, which were themselves very malty and high ABV. The beers that arose from this tradition carried names like October Ale, Audit Ale, etc. They would have been aged in barrels and were sometimes aged for years (I seem to recall reading they were at times aged up to ten years) but they likely would not have been aged in former liquor barrels, at least not intentionally. These were special beers brewed for special occasions and generally for the wealthy, royalty, the Church and other wealthy institutions.
