Finest Beer in the Known Universe

Depends on hether one is drinking to relieve thirst, because it's hot, or to get a liquid meal.

In the liquid meal category, Aventinus by Schneider and Sohn (Germany) is a contender. A really tasty bottle-conditioned wheat dopplebock at 8%. Not cheap, but worth it.

Decent wheat beers are made very rarely in the US--most seem to have discovered how to throw in some wheat and get something just like Miller. Really, why bother?

For cheap swilling suds it's hard to beat Oranjaboom I can get 6 tall cans for about $4.50. Peter's Brand fromm Holland is about the same, a sixer of 11.5 oz cans for aboutf $3.50. Hardly distinguishable from unskunked Heineken. Generic mass produced lager is generic mass produced lager, find the cheapest one that doesn't taste bad and and use the savings to buy real beer. If it tastes bad at any temperature above freezing, it is p*ss, and that's all there is to it.

A decent cask conditioned ale, that has been properly kept is at the top of the list.
 
Breckinridge Brewery makes Sunshine Wheat beer which is not bad, I like it at least as well as Fat Tire.

I would still vote for Belhaven's St Andrew's Ale as the best brew I know of.
 
Someone already said NEWCASTLE. Newcastle Brown ale, on draft not bottles, is my current favoriate. I didn't care for beer until I went to England and drank bitters. Then a trip to Ireland made me a Smithwick's fan but Newcastle is the nearest available in the US. I hear that Smithwick's may be imported soon!
Lynn (opened a Newcastle)
 
I have a lot of favorites, often the one that is in my hand comes to top of the list! In the fridge right now, Guiness pub draft cans, Pilsener Urquell cause it's summer, Fuller's London Pride Pale Ale, and some incredibly delicious Anderson Valley Oatmeal Stout.

I was a dedicated homebrewer for about 8 years. It was my big hobby before I got back into ceramics and metal work. I was in a couple of clubs and met a lot of interesting people in the homebrewing community, some quite well known if you are in that world. My buddies and I brewed a lot of beers, entered competitions, judged in some. A doppelbock that one friend and I made went to the second round of the nationals. That was a phenomenal brew.....

BTW, I agree 100% with rdanger. :D

Locally, my favorite brew pub is the People's Pint, their Brakeshoe Porter on the cask conditioned is to die for. Today at lunch we went to the Amherst Brewing Company, their Two Sisters Imperial Stout is excellent even if it's not on the cask. :)
 
Sorry Tom I hav'nt but sounds some nice
I guess while over there I should have asked them for a tote
:D
hey,, missed you at the Hammer-in at Ig's today.
you staying on board?:) Frank P was there with a sweet $3800.00
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This thread reminds me of something an old man from East Texas once told me (he worked in the oil fields as a young man): I had asked him if they drank much beer out there, and he said "DID WE?, Well, let me put it this way....we didn't drink ALL they could make, but by God, we had 'em working nights!" :)
 
Originally posted by Peter Atwood
I was a dedicated homebrewer for about 8 years... I was in a couple of clubs and met a lot of interesting people in the homebrewing community, some quite well known if you are in that world. My buddies and I brewed a lot of beers, entered competitions, judged in some. A doppelbock that one friend and I made went to the second round of the nationals. That was a phenomenal brew.....
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Excellent. I have lost about 30lbs since Feb, need to lose 15lbs more, then I'm going to start home brewing myself, this winter. Ales for a while, then onward to stouts.

A friend at work brews, he gave me a sample of a dandy Lambic he brewed up ... had to age it for a year. It was great. But whew. Unclear I have that kinda patience. I'm thinking the (fast) ales will suit fine for a while.
 
For someting I can buy in most good-sized grocery stores, I LOVE boddingtons pale ale. I mean don't get me started because with this stuff I can't stop!

"A Boddy for your body" as they say in England!
 
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