What are your favorite beers?

DGG said:
Budweiser!
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This isnt a beer, its a gassy water like fluid that smells faintly of hopps.

Beer means made in Belgium, everything else is a wannabe.

Brigant all the way! Woo!

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high life for beer bong
guiness
fat tire wheat
red stripe
pacifico
anchor steam
full sail (on tap) not sure if its esb or what
old english in my younger days
 
This is Texas, and I'm drinking ice cold Bud Lite.

Chimay is also a fav. Thanks to a few buds from London.:thumbup:
 
Tadacaster Brewery Oatmeal Stout & Imperial Stout are both excellent.
Guinness is available at most pubs, so I'll usually order that when I go out.
Tried St. George Porter today . . . it was quite good.
Boddington's Pub Ale is best for eating pizza.
Red Stripe is best on a hot day -- very clean and refreshing.
Various wheat beers are also good.

I used to hang out with people who favored Busch and Mickey's -- they're not that bad if you have to have a few to be "polite." And my hillbilly friends love the Genesee Cream Ale -- which is actually pretty good out of a bottle.
 
CODE 3 said:
All of the wines are local vintage; I must admit that visiting the wineries is cool, but there sure are a hell of a lot of those stuck up, beamer drivin' asswipes there, turning their nose up at my old lady's minivan! :eek:
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Just put on a Mercedes hood ornament. :D
 
Beer means made in Belgium, everything else is a wannabe.
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Belgian beers are typically quite good. They figure heavily in my list. However, some outstanding beers do not come from Belgium. Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA is a work of art that comes from the vat of the beer gods themselves. Pilsner Urquell is brilliant in its unparalleled combination of lightness and hop/malt complexity.

Belgium was unable to be the one who discovered the genius in these two concoctions.

However, they did come up with Rodenbach Grand Cru, a pure treasure in itself.
 
Hair said:

Sam Adams isn't as good as the true craft beers (thought it was a microbrew at one time), but it is a great stepping stone.
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Definitely true.

You MUST have the 60 Minute IPA. Don't worry about the 90 Minute or the 120 Minute. Those are strong beers and strong beers suck in my opinion. The more alcohol a beer has (especially after 6%), the sweeter and more cloying it is. Those beers aren't that special. To make a delicious and quaffable and complex beer, all at once, is truly the mark of craftmanship.
 
komondor said:
strong beers suck in my opinion. The more alcohol a beer has (especially after 6%), the sweeter and more cloying it is.
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I am not fond of IPA's in general, and wouldn't bother with anything as weak as 6% ABV. Just a differing opinion.
 
Brad Greulich said:
...and every now and than a good old Faxe (500ml cans of %10 beer from Norway- in case you didn't know)
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I love Faxe, i miss the litre cans. Isn't it Danish though? i like the 10% and Faxe amber too.

My beers:
Becks
Stella Artois
Alexander Keiths
Faxe (10% and amber)
Schlitz
Olde English
Mongoose
Labatt extra dry
Tuborg
Steinlager
Grolsch
Lakeport honey lager
Steeler
Mickeys
Old Milwaukee/Old Milwaukee ice

Etc...
 
I am not fond of IPA's in general, and wouldn't bother with anything as weak as 6% ABV. Just a differing opinion.
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I think anything greater than 8% should be reserved for wine. Beer should be quaffable, and not reduced to sippable. The complexities of a true craft beer resides in its ability to be drank with gusto and appreciated as truly delicious which complements any inherent complexity. To find complexity in a brew on a sippable level relegates it to a complexity not fitting for a true beer, but rather a character-oriented liquid-- such as wine or scotch.

True brewing genius requires the production of a quaffable beverage first, with true taste/body characteristics that are inherent in the beverage second.

I could brew a beer on my first try that is 10% ABV, with all sorts of character notes and complexities. It would take years and years of hard work to brew a beer as enjoyable as Pilsner Urquell or Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA, because of their stellar drinkability and complexity. Big beers don't have that.
 
I like so many imports and Craft Beers, can't begin to list them.
One I've had recently I want to get more of is Unibroue Trois Pistoles
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Just a question to the non-Brits. Can any of you get dark mild ale? One of my favourite styles, especially on a warm day. Lowish alcohol, smooth, plenty of malt flavour, just slides down. Good dark mild is vanishingly rare here now. :(

Highgate mild

Andy
 
At home these days, a cold Molsen Export Ale is my favorite. Not very fancy I suppose but it really hits the spot. When I'm out, a Guinness if I can find one just for old times sake.
 
Any of the brews made by Fort Garry Brewing out of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Two rivers red, Pale Ale, and their Dark Ale, are the one I have tried so far.
All very good.
 
Imports:

Cusqueña - The real gold from the Incas!!!
XXXX Gold
XXXX Bitter (and almost anything else from Castlemaine......)
Sheaf Stout
Guinness

Domestic (Read Texan :D )

SHINER!!!!!
Shiner Bock, etc.....
ZiegenBock Amber

Cheers to y'all whatever yer drinkin'!!

J
 
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