What are your favorite beers?

I find no need to sip a strong ale.
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That's certainly a good point; strong beers do not need to be sipped. But most big beer aficianados seem to slooowly drink their beers to determine any and all flavor characteristics.
 
Big beer, small beer, IPA, a more gentle ale, even a lager...

It's all good as long as it's good.

I have found that hoppy beers with less alcohal taste more bitter (in a bad way, and that hoppy beers with more alcohal taste more bitter (in a good way). The harshness of the alcohal may balance it out. I could be way off (I am not expert), but because of this I tend to prefer my big beers to be very hoppy and have a lot of taste and my small beers to have a more mellow flavor.

I love the strong bitterness of a hoppy IPA, but small beers like Stone's Levitation Ale that also have a lot of hoppiness make me scrunch my face up from the bitterness. I can still enjoy them, though.
 
I think this is the fifth time since I've been on BF that I've replied to a thread just like this.

Fat Tire
Delerium Tremens
Spaten Optimator
 
Mellow- I assumed this thread had been done before, but I did a search, and it had not.

I had a Rogue Shakespeare Stout last night and it was fantastic. It was my first stout with a strong chocolate aftertaste and I was suprised at just how much like chocolate it really was.
 
1. Taiwan Beer (seriously, its a great wheat beer)
2. Heineken (I can drink myself unconcious and feel fine the next day)
3. Fat Tire / Sunshine Wheat / Blue Paddle (I always get them confused)
4. Arrogant Bastard Ale (when I'm feeling like a bastard)
5. Guinness (when I haven't eaten anything)
6. Red Dog (when I'm broke)
7. Heineken Dark (when I can find it)
8. Mackeson's Triple Stout (when I want to forget my troubles)

Shao
 
Hair said:
Mellow- I assumed this thread had been done before, but I did a search, and it had not.

I had a Rogue Shakespeare Stout last night and it was fantastic. It was my first stout with a strong chocolate aftertaste and I was suprised at just how much like chocolate it really was.
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http://bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=401172
http://bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=354468
http://bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=350943
http://bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=331331
http://bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=302056
http://bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=252481

Just a few... I for one don't mind seeing new threads on this topic though!

Andy
 
Managed to find some Thwaite's mild in cans - quite pleasant!


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komondor said:
Chimay Cinq Cents
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I can't believe Chimay is known overseas. I'm on the french frontier not far from the Scourmont abbey where is brewed the chimay beer. What do you call "cinq cents", here there is the blue, the red and the white. The blue is the better, not only IMO.

A votre santé.

dantzk.
 
I occasionally drink Chimay, it is widely available here. All the big supermarkets keep it.

Andy
 
A.W.U.K. said:
I occasionally drink Chimay, it is widely available here. All the big supermarkets keep it.

Andy
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In Birmingham? Really? Then i will not die of thirst the next time i will be in your town. The last time was 30 years ago.

dantzk.
 
Chimay beers are extremely good, but there are plenty of equally good English beers!

Andy
 
dantzk8 said:
I can't believe Chimay is known overseas. I'm on the french frontier not far from the Scourmont abbey where is brewed the chimay beer. What do you call "cinq cents", here there is the blue, the red and the white. The blue is the better, not only IMO.

A votre santé.

dantzk.
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The white is sold as "cinq cents", the blue is called "Grande Reserve" and is the finest beverage known to man.

I'm surprised komondor can stomach the white, it is 8% ABV, after all ;)
 
A.W.U.K. said:
Chimay beers are extremely good, but there are plenty of equally good English beers!

Andy
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Please,don't think i'm unfriendly, but to the west of Brussels the only beer as good as the Chimay is the Guiness.

dantzk.
 
I have only had the blue and I believe a brown label Chimay. I have to have a certain glass for mine. It just makes it taste better.

All this talk has made me thirsty. I will have to enjoy one or two tonight.
 
stjames said:
the blue is called "Grande Reserve" and is the finest beverage known to man.

I'm surprised komondor can stomach the white, it is 8% ABV, after all ;)
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stjames, you are a connoisser. Stomach the white is a thing, taste it is an other one. As good is the Blue as bad is the white, the worst one.

dantzk.
 
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