Post #125567 by Gigantalope on Sun, Nov 14, 2004 8:46 PM

Belgian Ales, aye?

I too have gifted those with mixed results. Which do you give?

Lindeman's Frambrois with a bar of Sharfenberger chocolate is an old stand bye...though it's been recived with mixed results, often people don't know the two go together, and give the Bitter Chocolate to thier kids, and don't expect the beer to be fruity.

Saisson DuPont and LaChuffe are others with great charachter

I've also done a chronological 6er of Big Foots (which takes 6 years to collect of course) These seem to always get grabbed by individuals and not sampled together.

Wine can run such a gambit of prices too...I often feel like people like what they've heard advertized, (Kendall Jackson...or JD or Jose Cuervo, or Bushmills...) and choose not to taste first, then evaluate.

Do you tend to give what you like? or give something new and different? or try to find the persons stand-bye hooch?...or do you pick a winery, get a case (and a bit of a discount) and finish it in one fell swoop?