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For years I have mainly enjoyed the paler, hoppier beers. Recently I have tried more and more malt-forward beers and have really come to enjoy them. They are just the thing to sip on after dinner while reading the newspaper or watching TV. I still love the other styles but am taking a brief hiatus from pales and quadruple imperial IPAs. Feel like that f*cking swiffer commercial with the "baby come back" song and the sad broom.

Anyone else have a similar transformation?

We all go through phases. I go through a different phase every week it seems

I took a very similar trip through my pallate when I first got into beer.

I started drinking the hoppiest things I could. I was in a transition period in life and would go through 40ish pints of Alpine Beer Company's Pure Hoppiness a week. I was then made aware of a place just up the street call O'Brien's and I was in hop heaven. I spent about a year denting the hell out of my pallate with nothing of hops and then I went to......Belgium.

I went to an open brew day at Cantillion and did a complete 180 pallate wise. I went from the bitter hop end to the sour end.

These days I've landed just about in the middle. I still lean towards the hops and will have the occasional sour...like last week when there was a keg of Cable Car on at the Toronado, but these days I'm usually just looking for something I haven't had before. I'm still not really a huge fan of ambers and most red ales, but I really like the scotch and scottish ales.

San_Diego_Matt wrote:These days I've landed just about in the middle. I still lean towards the hops and will have the occasional sour...like last week when there was a keg of Cable Car on at the Toronado, but these days I'm usually just looking for something I haven't had before. I'm still not really a huge fan of ambers and most red ales, but I really like the scotch and scottish ales.

I'm kind of the same way. Not a huge fan of the amber range either but I really have been digging the scottish styles.