What's your favourite beer?

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Obviously, only intended for those of age... *nudge-nudge, wink-wink*

What beer is your favourite? I've a few - being originally from New Zealand, we have a nice range of 'em.

Lion Red
Steinlager
Mac's Gold (excuse the pun!)

But I was in Alaska a few years back, and had an amazing beer from Juneau, made from real glacier water. It's called "Alaskan Amber". That ranks RIGHT up there with the best...

:D

[peterjhill]

Sam Smith old pale ale
Draught Guiness
Harp

In that order

[coolshot125]

Bud
Wis
Er

[kwajo.com]

Moosehead Green ROCKS!
Alpine is great too.
Bud is really light beer. . . for pansy ass drinkers

[coolshot125]

oh yeah? well do you drink 3.5% fat milk? 2% is for lightweights!

[King Cobra]

>2% is for lightweights!

Heck yeah! And for people who want to become lightweights. :p

The closest I'll come to a "drink" would be Pepsi (No, I won't post that photo. :)) or old-fashioned Java.

Speaking of which, did you know that America is one of the most coffee-addictive countries? We're proud to be Americans! :cool:

[AlphaTech]

Murphy's
Boddington's
Caffrey's
and Guiness (can or bottle)

All of them have to have the NO2 cartridge in them (which all the cans do) to give the thick, creamy head that makes them rule.

bud is for lightweights... :eek: :p :D

[Ifeelbloated]

Guinness extra stout
Guinness draught
Lowenbrau
Becks
Miller Genuine Draft is the only domestic beer I like. The majority of domestic beer is like freakin' water. Blah.

[kevin49093]

Originally posted by AlphaTech
Murphy's
Boddington's
Caffrey's
and Guiness (can or bottle)

Very well stated Alpha!!

One that I can add to this list is Aldaris Porteris. A very nice dark beer from Latvia. It is now one of my very favorites. Find it. Drink it. You will love it!

[DavidFDM]

Geary's Pale Ale
Magic Hat's Hocus Pocus
Bar Harbor Blueberry Ale

[awrc]

I go through phases - I'll drink a particular beer almost exclusively for a few months, then find something else I like and drink that exclusively.

These days I try not to drink much at all, on account of beer being somewhat, uh, calorific, but my list of favorites in roughly chronological order is:

Rolling Rock (because it was OK for fairly cheap beer. At the time, cheapness was a major factor in my choice of beer)
Heineken (odd that, used to love it, now I can't stand the stuff)
Sprecher Dopplebock (local microbrewery, their spelling not mine)
Warsteiner (because it was OK for fairly cheap imported beer, for those times when quantity is more important than quality)
Guinness (not in a bottle, though)
Pilsner Urquell (current favourite - nice taste, reasonably priced, choice of 12 or 24oz :))

There's plenty of others I like, but all of the above are things that are fairly readily available without going to one of the big upmarket stores whose liquor section has lots of weird imports.

Oh, yeah - Sam Adam's Cranberry Lambic. Love the stuff, but you can only buy it around Christmas. Not a real lambic, lots of people hate it, but I'll buy the 12 bottle Christmas Selection (including the disgusting Old Fezziwig Ale) just to get the two bottles of Cranberry Lambic it includes. Also occasionally fond of Sam Adam's Cherry Wheat.

Finally, Sam Adam's Triple Bock. Most alcoholic beer brewed in the US (and I think the only things stronger are some of the Belgian abbey ales). Sells in a teeny little 6oz bottle costing about $13. Foul stuff - mix 5oz of Hershey syrup and a shot of vodka to get the same overall effect much more cheaply.

[wake up Jobs!!!]

Corona is the best (even though I can't Drink, from sipping it compared to many others , I find it the best!) For somthing I am allowed to drink, Dr. Pepper is like a Nirvana.:p :p :p

-GaBe-

[AlphaTech]

Originally posted by wake up Jobs!!!
Corona is the best (even though I can't Drink, from sipping it compared to many others , I find it the best!) For somthing I am allowed to drink, Dr. Pepper is like a Nirvana.:p :p :p

Corona is better then Mexian water, and that is about all.. :eek: :p :D

For Mexian beer, Corona Extra is ok (at best). Dos XX dark is much better... :p

[wake up Jobs!!!]

Originally posted by AlphaTech


Corona is better then Mexian water, and that is about all.. :eek: :p :D

For Mexian beer, Corona Extra is ok (at best). Dos XX dark is much better... :p

lol Mexican Water is realy bad.
:D :D
There is better beers but I have not tried them sipped them, I mean.:rolleyes:

-GaBe-

[Mr. Anderson]

ah, resurrection of an old thread topic - this might be the 3rd time I've seen this, but always interesting to see what people like.

I'm an ale guy, love the darker beers, guiness, bass and a nice little brew out of boston - Harpoon Alt. But once in a while a nice Belgian Trapist ale is great - Chimay (http://www.chimay.be/www/chimay/site8/en/a_abbaye/a0_frameset.htm)

But I do have to say on a recent trip to New Orleans - I had an opportunity to escape the heat in a practically frozen 20 oz. schooner of Bud. I don't like rice beers (most big american beers have more rice than hops or anything else), but this day it was perfect.

I haven't had one since - last beer I had was a Bass.

D

[kevin49093]

There's a great brewpub here in Kalamazoo, Mi (Bells). Their beer realy is amazing. Their summer speciality, Oberon, is fantastic. It actually looks like a nice big thick glass of orange juice! They are going to increase production in the next few years, so keep an eye out for it. Very worth your while.

[zed]

NewCastle
Guinness
Abita Amber (a microbrew from Abita Springs, LA).
Killians Red
Harp

sometimes i get on a lime kick and have to have a Negro Modello with a big hunk of lime in it :D

[jefhatfield]

guinness extra stout
fosters lager
fosters bitter ale
tsing tao
pacifica clara
sheaf stout
newcastle brown ale
chimay ales
amstel light
samuel smith's triple bock
saporro
heineken
fat weasel ale
negro modelo
anchor steam
sierra nevada pale ale
sierra nevada big foot ale
sierra nevada summer ale
warsteiner
eku 28 hell bier
oktoberfest beer
and many, many others

[Moxiemike]

Delirium Tremens. Hands down.

If i can't afford Delirium, theni go straight to NewCastle or Boddingtons.

Murphy's Irish Stout is nice too.

There's also a cool beer called "Old Peculiar" that I enjoy often.

[coolshot125]

oktoberfest beer sucks! nurnberg all the way, baby!:D

[Rower_CPU]

I'm all over the map:

Guinness
Newcastle
Sam Adams
Karl Strauss
Gordon Biersch

I'll try just about any minibrew I come across.:)

[Royal Pineapple]

Originally posted by dukestreet

But I do have to say on a recent trip to New Orleans - I had an opportunity to escape the heat in a practically frozen 20 oz. schooner of Bud. I don't like rice beers (most big american beers have more rice than hops or anything else), but this day it was perfect.

is that i geekfest plug?
i dont drink ;)

[billiam0878]

I'm also all over the map:

Dos XX
Guinness
Heineken


What we really need is a poll on hard drinks now... :)

Bill

[AlphaTech]

Originally posted by billiam0878
What we really need is a poll on hard drinks now... :)

That would be one poll I won't be on... Strictly beer and wine for me (for drinking, I cook with the other stuff).

[Wildcat]

Widmer Hefewiezen

[Beej]

Bah! Bourbon is the only real man's dringk, none of this beer stuff! :D

[job]

My favorite beer?

My own. :D

My dad and I homebrew and it's great fun.

[3rdpath]

sometimes a negro modelo if i'm having a bit of late afternoon r&r on the front porch... corona or tecate work well with meals-good taste and not too filling... shiner bock if i'm feeling nostalgic about texas.

of course if i'm having a stogie then a beer just won't do-gotta make a bombay sapphire martini...extra cold, dirty, bruised with extra olives...add a romeo y julieta or a hoyo de monterey (or the occasional cuban:D ) and life is just too good. but then again, life is always too good.:)

[jelloshotsrule]

i ****ing love em all!

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
i ****ing love em all!

What a lush!:rolleyes:

[iGav]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
i ****ing love em all!

You can't be picky when you have to get an 'Adult' to buy them for you can you jello....... heh heh :p :p

I love Strongbow (Strong dry cider) don't really drink much lager, I llike Caffery's, but I can't do Guinness or other Stouts, I like white wines, particularly Californian, South African and Austrialian........

Also Aftershock, Smirnoff Black, Absinthe, Mad Dog 20/20 (Strawberry), and cocktails..... especially in Frevds on Shaftesbury Ave in London........ one of the coolest, subterranean bars there is......... ;) :D

[groov']

You should all try Belgian beers. They are much tastier than all that Heineken **** and the like.

My favorites:

* Westmalle triple (brewed by monks, 9% of alcohol, unfilterd, so still full of yeast)
* Leffe blonde (6%)

[Geert]

Originally posted by groov'
You should all try Belgian beers. They are much tastier than all that Heineken **** and the like.

My favorites:

* Westmalle triple (brewed by monks, 9% of alcohol, unfilterd, so still full of yeast)
* Leffe blonde (6%)

I agree :D
Privileged to live in the country that has the best beers in the world.
There are too many really to start naming them all.
I went to a bar in Antwerp, and they serve over 800 Belgian Beers!!

Even the village that I come from has it's own abbey brewery!

My favorite is the normal light beer like Jupiler, maes. (5,5%)
Though a good cold Duvel is hard to refuse (9%) :p

[Edge100]

Stella Artois!!!

[peterjhill]

Originally posted by jefhatfield

samuel smith's triple bock



I think that you mean Samuel Adams Triple Bock

Sam Smith makes things like
Taddy Porter
Old Pale Ale
Oatmeal Stout
Imperial Stout
and um yum Nut Brown Ale

[peterjhill]

Originally posted by Beej
Bah! Bourbon is the only real man's dringk, none of this beer stuff! :D

Yum, give me a manhattan or old fashioned made with bourbon and I will be happy. Just make sure that the manhattan is neat.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by groov'
You should all try Belgian beers. They are much tastier than all that Heineken **** and the like.




in the us, there is the heineken you send to us with all the preservatives, and then there is the more pure dutch heineken which i used to get at a beer import store at twice the price

the same goes with lowenbrau...there is the us market stuff and then there is the real lowenbrau at twelve dollars a six pack

my friend is a alcohol buyer and his major american company gets all the us market stuff and much of it does not tell if there are preservatives on the label...currently, there is no law that demands it, but only suggests it...many hard core wine and beer buffs like me want that to change but profit and long shelf life beers is what goes in commerce hungry america

the best us market beer is warsteiner since the german warsteiner for the european market tastes only a slight bit better

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by peterjhill



I think that you mean Samuel Adams Triple Bock

Sam Smith makes things like
Taddy Porter
Old Pale Ale
Oatmeal Stout
Imperial Stout
and um yum Nut Brown Ale

oops, that's right

no one i know also likes it the way i do:p

[gaomay]

In my experience you can't beat a good Caledonian blonde.

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Mr. Hat - you didn't mention FOSTER'S, did you?!?

That stuff's like sex in a canoe...




...******** close to water.

I challenge you to try Grimbergen (12%), or even SemiSchluss - it's set at 14.9% alcohol, and comes out like treacle (so you have to literally chew it...).

:D

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
What a lush!:rolleyes:

did i mention that...

i ****ing love em all!


igav- fakies here in the usa are quite successful. people are stupid. and don't care. etc etc

[iGav]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule

igav- fakies here in the usa are quite successful. people are stupid. and don't care. etc etc

What tickled me, was when I was in some little town in Oregon, I went to a Safeways to get a few bottles of Newcastles finest to enjoy whilst staying up till 5 in the morning to watch a F1 race in Europe, and for the first time in my life, I was asked for ID...... even though I was 21 at the time (everyone I know reckons I look into my 30's the cheeky bast*rds :p ) I didn't have any ID with me at the time, but as soon as she heard me speak she was like, "oh you're English..... the laws different there isn't it....." and then let me buy it...... so what you need is an English accent.... none of this fake ID business..... heh heh :p :p

[jelloshotsrule]

absolutely bloody cheeky of them to say you look in your 30s!

i'm guessing it wasn't so much the accent as the well..... rotten. you know...

so i'm gonna stop brushing my teeth...






ps. why am i even in this thread????

[iGav]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
absolutely bloody cheeky of them to say you look in your 30s!
i'm guessing it wasn't so much the accent as the well..... rotten. you know...
so i'm gonna stop brushing my teeth...


My friends are like that....... they're normally generally pretty sweet though..... ;) :D

I have nice teeth and breath..... :D

[jelloshotsrule]

sorry, but that's kind of an oxymoron...

a brit saying "i have nice teeth..."


on the upside, you got the beer buying thing going for you (alcoholism is cool)

;) :p :cool:

[iGav]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule

on the upside, you got the beer buying thing going for you (alcoholism is cool)

;) :p :cool:

Yeah but looking like a thirtysomething in the process...... :( :eek: :p

[SilvorX]

hmm not a beer fanatic, tried out bud light b4, didnt like it, too wheatish tasting, n most canadian beer tastes exactly the same...i dont mind coconut rum n such...

[iH8Quark]

Harp, Guinness, and Harp :D

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by iGAV


Yeah but looking like a thirtysomething in the process...... :( :eek: :p

you mean like an old fart?

[AlphaTech]

Some of the Sam Adam's brews are good too... I don't care for all of them though, just some of them.

[iGav]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule


you mean like an old fart?

In my eyes I'm still a babe....... ;) :D

[3rdpath]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule


you mean like an old fart?

careful there zygote boy...;)

[awrc]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
sorry, but that's kind of an oxymoron...

a brit saying "i have nice teeth..."


Outdated stereotype. Somewhere between when I was born (1968) and when my brother was born (1971) the UK approach to dentistry shifted from "fix it when it breaks" to active prevention. The bad teeth thing isn't nearly as true as it used to be, at least for Brits under 30.

Me, I've got way too many fillings (at least I've had a lot of the amalgam ones replaced with nice white ones since I moved to the US) and somewhat uneven teeth (which I might have fixed one of these days). My brother, by contrast, has almost no fillings and got a lot of orthodontic work done (for free on the NHS) and thus has perfectly straight teeth.

The emergence of more private dentists in the UK has helped things too.

[awrc]

Originally posted by groov'
You should all try Belgian beers. They are much tastier than all that Heineken **** and the like.

The cost of Belgian beers, esp abbey ales, can be somewhat prohibitive in the US. Availability is also patchy. Typically $8-9 a bottle. $9.00 will however buy a 12-pack of Warsteiner, or some ludicrous amount of really nasty cheap domestic beer.

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by 3rdpath


careful there zygote boy...;)

dang. i wish i got that joke

must be an oldie...

[drastik]

Originally posted by awrc


The cost of Belgian beers, esp abbey ales, can be somewhat prohibitive in the US. Availability is also patchy. Typically $8-9 a bottle. $9.00 will however buy a 12-pack of Warsteiner, or some ludicrous amount of really nasty cheap domestic beer.

Especialy if you've been to belgium and known the joy of 50 Cl bottles out the vending machine for next to nothing.

BTW, my favorite beer is still Harp, just can't beat it.

But what do I know, my favorite domestic beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by awrc


Outdated stereotype. Somewhere between when I was born (1968) and when my brother was born (1971) the UK approach to dentistry shifted from "fix it when it breaks" to active prevention. The bad teeth thing isn't nearly as true as it used to be, at least for Brits under 30.

Me, I've got way too many fillings (at least I've had a lot of the amalgam ones replaced with nice white ones since I moved to the US) and somewhat uneven teeth (which I might have fixed one of these days). My brother, by contrast, has almost no fillings and got a lot of orthodontic work done (for free on the NHS) and thus has perfectly straight teeth.

The emergence of more private dentists in the UK has helped things too.

one thing i noticed besides the bad teeth, while i lived in london, was how the women aged...in the movie serendipity, with kate beckingsale and john cusack, one of the male characters mentions to cusack that "english chicks don't age too well"

i busted up because i saw so many homely, old looking english girls in their late 20s-early 30s

but i will say this...between age 18 and age 25, i have not seen any women in the world more beautiful than an english woman...one old english lady explained it to me like this..."when we are young, our porcelin skin gives us such an ethereal look, but when we get older, it just becomes too transluscent and we have the world's worst vericose veins...kind of like the london tube"...man, she cracked me up

i am asian and my asian friend, who is gay and into being very vain told my wife, "us asians look younger than anybody else in the world, but when we turn sixty, god turns us all into leather handbags"

this also busted me up since i don't see a lot of asians who look to be in their 40s or 50s...it's kind of like one looks 39 and then all of a sudden, instant senior citizenhood and one looks like the old man in one of those cheap hong kong martial arts movies

i will be 39 real soon, so if i end up looking like ghengis khan the following year, i will post a pic for all to see on macrumors:p :eek: :D

[sturm375]

How can you leave out the best beer ever?

Bass Ale!:) :) :p :p :o :o

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by sturm375
How can you leave out the best beer ever?

Bass Ale!:) :) :p :p :o :o

bass is great and strangely enough, goes well with guinness in a black and tan

in england, the bratender mixed it so one beer would float on top of the other, but in most us bars i have gone to, they just mix it all up and it pisses me off

not to mention, that a lot of us bars/pubs serve guinness super cold as if it was a budweiser

room temp is great for heavier beers and ales but even the english pubs i have frequented in the states are not that daring...sometimes i get the option of having a bottled guinness sitting on the shelf as room temp but there is nothing like room temp or only slightly chilled ale from the the tap...but it just doesn't fly here in the states

of course, i live in a small town and the big cities might have some real, authentic british pubs

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by drastik


Especialy if you've been to belgium and known the joy of 50 Cl bottles out the vending machine for next to nothing.

BTW, my favorite beer is still Harp, just can't beat it.

But what do I know, my favorite domestic beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon.

harp is also great...and answering another poster earlier, i mentioned fosters and fosters special bitter

when i first tried fosters, i hated it since i was a guinness man, but since i have been into weight loss practices since i turned 30 nearly a decade ago, i have learned to like lighter stuff like guinness, amstel light, and corona light...hey, at the right time, it still beats soda

[iGav]

God I never knew the whole world thought us brits had gob fulls of decaying mush in the name of teeth..... :eek: :eek: :p

As for english ladies that don't age well...... some do some don't..... Jane Seymour most definitely has....... Mo Mowlam most definitely hasn't...... heh heh.... I guess smoking has alot to do with it, many women still smoke, and smoking really add's on the decades..... as does our ******* climate.....

It's probably not as obvious in the U.S. though, cos once women hit 30 there, that's it, off to Doctor Tommy Tuck for that face lift and other Frankenstein specials in the name of beauty...... :p :p :p

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Geez, awrc:

Your brother is lucky...


We've just had to pay nearly £7500 for dental work on my wife's teeth to a "thief" of a dentist - she's had her jaw brought forward a bit with the use of wire brackets, and has had braces for at least 18 months. Finally, some time next month, she'll be free of the metalwork - she's just had a bridge put in for £1600, to fill the gaps created by the braces (we had to haggle the dentist down from his initial asking price of £2200!!!).

It wasn't that her teeth were really bad, either (she looks like Shirley Manson from Garbage during her red-hair phase - only better looking of course!). Apparently, she was getting bad headaches, a clicking jaw and bad lower back pain because her jaw was out of alignment. I gotta say that she's never had a problem since she started the treatment, though.


And what has this got to do with beer, you may ask?

Well - anything that stands in the way of being able to buy a pint every once in a while definitely deserves a mention...

:mad:

[sneed]

When I am in Portland, I'm always up for a Rubinator. You can find one at the McMenamins microbreweries throughout Oregon. The perfect Rubinator is three quarters Terminator Stout, and one quarter Ruby Ale. Don't look for it on the menu, you gotta ask... tasty.

When I am not in Portland, and dependent on availablity; Redhook IPA, Widmer Hop Jack, Heineken, or Guinness.

Mostly, however, I drink cocktails.