Dakkadakka,

I love beer. I brew my own and drink far more than is probably good for me. In the US I have access to a TON of micro breweries and awesome beer. I've been in a few places in the world and American beer had been represented by Budweiser. Shame. I want to know where are you from and what kind of beer do you like? Do you like a pilsner, ale, hewezien, dubbel, trippel, brown ale, porter, stout, pumpkin ale, lager.....ect...do you like a 9% or a 5%? What is beer to you? What country makes the best? How thick should it be? What kinds of beer does your country have that we dont? What beers do you drink in some seasons that you dont in others? I would love to tour the world a drink a beer with each and every one of you. Lets talk beer....

Beer drinkers of the world unite!
Strombones

Ohio. Smack in the middle of Midwest microbrew land for sure.

I'm gearing up for pumpkin ale season. I love pumpkin ales. I'll drink anything, with a heavy lean towards stouts, porters, and scotch ales. The only thing I'm not a huge fan of are IPAs.

I'm glad you said that. I am a pumpkin beer fanatic. It's a bit unhealthy. Then I'm sure you are familiar with southern tier pumking?

Iwate Kogen and Baeren are both local brewers that make a fine selection of beers only available here in Northern Tohoku. Sapporo Black Label and Kirin Ichiban Shibori are both fine mass market brews. Kirin makes a lovely autumn brew which is slightly higher in alcohol and more heavily hopped than their standard lager.

We get Ichiban and SopporA in the states but I wonder if it's the same thing you get. Probably not. I bet the Japanese make some great seasonal beer.

Edit: @joshinjapan: just saw you might be a westerner in Japan. Where are you from? Also, I feel as if all the Japanese beer I get in the states is on the lighter, pilsner side. Is that what you mostly find? Or are there local darker, porters and stouts, and I dont mean imports like Guinness



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I live in Australia.
I prefer pilsener type beers, overall.

They don't need to be from Pilsen, either (the origin of the beer). Just as they don't have to be Dutch to be lagers (Comes from the Dutch word for "wait").

@Strombones: I know how you feel. We get tourists looking for "fosters" here (I haven't seen it sold in a decade in the domestic market).

The aussie beer that hasn't been sold domestically in years in australia, priceless Anyways I am from the home of coors and hate it with a passion but fortunately New Belgian brewery is based here, I love all their seasonals and the classic Fat Tire. I'm a total beer snob for sure even have a few tours done at Old Chicago with their world beer tour thing. Name a beer and I probably have tried it

A few good Ales are always great, Abbot Ale and Tradewinds are top of the heap but occasionally hard to find. Besides that some of the local stouts are quite good, Belfast Black is perfect and cheap as chips!

As far as beers go, anything that is heavy bodied and a good deep amber tends to on the right lines, the Czech brand Staroprammen is the best by far compared to Budwiser etc, but its expensive over here due to the distributors.

I live in San Diego. We have a lot of beer snobs, our big breweries are Ballast Point, Stone, Mission, Karl Strauss, Green Flash is somewhere round here, and probably a few more I can't think of.

What sucks for me is that every brewery round here makes several different IPAs. I dislike hoppy beers. So every bar with a "local" or "craft" selection will have multiple IPAs and probably won't have a sexy Russian Imperial, American Strong Ale, or other dark beer.

 Strombones wrote:
We get Ichiban and SopporA in the states but I wonder if it's the same thing you get. Probably not. I bet the Japanese make some great seasonal beer.

Edit: @joshinjapan: just saw you might be a westerner in Japan. Where are you from? Also, I feel as if all the Japanese beer I get in the states is on the lighter, pilsner side. Is that what you mostly find? Or are there local darker, porters and stouts, and I dont mean imports like Guinness



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I'm originally from Arizona, but I've been here since 2002. There are quite a few local breweries in Tucson that I quite miss...

Japanese beers are mostly lagers, with a little more body than Bud/Coors/Miller. MGD or Sam Adams are roughly analogous. Dark beers are not exactly common, but you can get Yebisu black (for example) at any grocery store.

In short: I like beer.

I live in Greenwich, London.

We are very lucky, in that around 30 yards down the road we have the main pub for Meantime Breweries, one of the better UK small outfits. Lots of great pale ales, particularly their London Pale Ale, a real staple.

I'm an addict for amber Viennese-style lagers; we had one here called Union. there's a german beer called Schoenram Dunkel which I like a lot, I recently had a fab Croatian equivalent called mrki medvjed and I generally like most bottled IPAs (but not the inferior draft ones we sometimes get). I have been overjoyed, in my last half dozen visits to the US, to see the proliferation of smaller breweries; I'm always happy to drink a Sierra Nevada pale ale for instance. I'll slum it with a bitter quite happy, some recent faves include Adnams Broadside, and anything from Dark Star.

For the last decade or so, I've been whinging about the "Japanese" beer available in the UK, which is all actually brewed in Bradford or Tadcaster and tastes of nothing much. But during a fab vacation in Japan last year, I discovered I no longer like much real Japanese beer either, altho I do remember a wonderful Pale Ale from a Kyoto brewery .

For many years I treasured a commemorative glass from Ashley's, a bar in Ann arbor Michigan, for trying out 100 beers. In fact, I helped a fella out with his last 8 or so - the final one was a Meantime London Pale ale, brewed in my home, which I bought for him and earned me the glass.

Here's my desert island booze. I should point out that I now only drink THurs-sun, and I'm not the 12-year old half of Hive Oblivion!

Cheers!

Shouldn't this be in the Off-topic forum?

Anyway not a fan of plain beer, i like Belgium beers , Hoegaarden, Westmalle, Chimay, Kwak.....

Lots of good stuff!

I hate beer.

I love beer, I'm a Yorkshire man so typically I love the yorkshire brewery produce, especially Centurion, very dark and a smoky taste to it. Though it is EXTREMELY HEAVY. If you aren't used to it, prepare to feel horrifically sick a few hours after several pints

I remember beer. I think I used to drink it before the Mrs started calling the shots.

Highlands of Scotland.

Besides the usual supermarket's decent range of world beers, we've got a great little local shop dedicated to real ales; they also get some really good stuff sent over from Germany for the Oktoberfest. Overall I'm spoiled for choice.

My tastes centre around weissbiers, ales and stouts. My current favourites include Hobgoblin, Hoegaarden, Duvel, Guinness, Trooper, and pretty much anything brewed by Shepherd Neame (Spitfire, etc).

London.

Ale. Leaning towards bitters in the summer and milds in the winter. (though I do like weissbeer on occasions too)

The good thing about London is the number of decent pubs, most of which serve many and varied guest ales, meaning I get to try all sorts from all over the country. It's a good life sometimes.

http://www.renaissancebrewing.co.nz/content/stonecutter-scotch-ale-craft-ale.html

NZ Craft Beer. Worth killing your mother for.

I live in Dusseldorf and I like the Alt they sell here. Sort of ale like, dark, bitter but not as flat as some English ales. I lived in Essex too and thoroughly enjoyed all the English ales I could get my hands on.
But before that I was in Ireland and my favourite beers were flavourful stouts like Wrasslers XXXX or O Hara's. Wasn't such a big fan of Guiness though it's okay in an emergency.

UK here. I'm a real ale man, enough so that I'm now a proud member of CAMRA. We've been getting a bit of a resurgence here lately what with more supermarkets stocking proper ales. They've always had a few staples like Bombardier or Newcastle Brown but now there's a real variety - and of course, we have proper pubs and festivals too.

Wychwood brewery are a personal favourite - in particular the famous Hobgoblin - but really, I prefer trying my hand at a few new ones whenever I go to pick some up. I'll go for bitters, stouts and IPAs over things like golden ales but all are ultimately welcome.

I live in Cleveland, Ohio, land of the Great Lakes Brewery .

I'll drink any beer as long as it doesn't say, "Light" or IPA in it's name. My favorite standby beer is Guinness because it's "cheap" enough that you don't spend an arm and a leg drinking it, and it's dark, which is awesome

I'm willing to try anything once or twice beer wise (again, except IPA), and really enjoy all beer, I just don't drink it constantly. I also love that it's fall season, yay pumpkin beers!

 Alfndrate wrote:
I live in Cleveland, Ohio, land of the Great Lakes Brewery .

I'll drink any beer as long as it doesn't say, "Light" or IPA in it's name. My favorite standby beer is Guinness because it's "cheap" enough that you don't spend an arm and a leg drinking it, and it's dark, which is awesome

I'm willing to try anything once or twice beer wise (again, except IPA), and really enjoy all beer, I just don't drink it constantly. I also love that it's fall season, yay pumpkin beers!

Seriously. Christmas Ale can't come soon enough.

I don't get the IPA thing either. Apparently all the local craft joints serve them because IPAs are popular with hipsters, I just don't understand why.

 cincydooley wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
I live in Cleveland, Ohio, land of the Great Lakes Brewery .

I'll drink any beer as long as it doesn't say, "Light" or IPA in it's name. My favorite standby beer is Guinness because it's "cheap" enough that you don't spend an arm and a leg drinking it, and it's dark, which is awesome

I'm willing to try anything once or twice beer wise (again, except IPA), and really enjoy all beer, I just don't drink it constantly. I also love that it's fall season, yay pumpkin beers!

Seriously. Christmas Ale can't come soon enough.

I don't get the IPA thing either. Apparently all the local craft joints serve them because IPAs are popular with hipsters, I just don't understand why.

Stone Brewing Company... I blame them. Stone was a "small"-ish brewing company, and so hipsters drank their stuff because it had edgy names and few people liked the taste (the average person not liking IPAs), and as Stone grew, so did the prevalence of IPAs by other micro-breweries. Though I also think it has to do with the fact that everyone wants to make something everyone can enjoy.

I drink Corona with a lime in it, to fight scurvy.

 Seaward wrote:
I drink Corona with a lime in it, to fight scurvy.

That's what The Wife drinks, so I generally have some in the fridge during the summer. I've been drinking Yuengling lately, it's a good solid beer.

I need to work on my beer vocabulary, so I can describe what I like better. I recently tried one that was billed as very hoppy, and didn't care for it. I understand that's what IPAs generally are. I like darker beers, up to and including guiness.

As for where, I'm in upstate New York. There is a good selection of beer around here.

Maybe I'm missing something that's different about US IPA's. Over here, they're celebrated and a fine example of a good drink. Nothing hipster about it.

 Super Ready wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something that's different about US IPA's. Over here, they're celebrated and a fine example of a good drink. Nothing hipster about it.

Many people in the US love IPAs, Monster Rain has been "ruined" by Stone's IPAs (his own words), and IPAs are celebrated as being good beers because it's not "bitter" it's "complex".

The reason why hipsters have ruined IPAs is because the average person doesn't want a bitter beer with complex notes, so hipsters drink IPAs from microbreweries and it makes them look "esteemed" and "cool" (i.e. I drank Arrogant Bastard before it was cool, blah blah blah). So the hipsters start ordering IPAs and demand goes up, so breweries continue to produce IPAs and to produce hoppier IPAs, which leads you to things like the 120 Minute IPA, Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale (which smells and tastes like a pine forest), until you reach IPAs that are so bitter and so hoppy that it's not a badge of honor to drink one, it's a dare like the gallon challenge for milk... The best IPA I've ever had was an unfiltered IPA my buddy made in his house. It had all of the complex notes of an IPA without being fething bitter as hell.

I will try and most likely enjoy anything that isn't an IPA or EPA.

I am from Minnesota, and within an hour have plenty of great micro and "small" breweries. Luckily they all make a variety of things. My current favorite (of the last couple years) has been Finnegan's Irish Amber, brewed by summit (but not a summit beer)

I live near Frankfurt/Main. I prefer Pils (Licher/Pfungstädter/Darmstädter/Schlappeseppel/Binding/Bitburger/Becks) directly followed by Weißbier naturtrüb (Schlappeseppel/Franziskaner/Erdinger).

But as a true Hesse it's always Ebbelwoi > Beer.

 Sigvatr wrote:
I hate beer.

Your german citizenship has been hereby revoked. Don't let the door hit you on your way to France.

For those of you that like Belgians, I thoroughly encourage you to check out pretty much anything from the Ommegang brewery out of New York. They're fantastic.

Oh, and they're also the ones behind the GoT small batch brews.

I live between the german and belgian border.

Fav beers:

Palm
Grimbergen (triple)
Alfa
Jupiler
Trappist
Hoegaarden

And probably lots more.

The best beer I have ever had was a house porter at a small raw bar in downtown Charleston. Now, I enjoy beer, but I'm hardly an aficionado. For me, most beer ranks somewhere between undrinkable (PBR) and satisfyingly, but not awesomely tasty (Guinness, Stella Artois). This porter, on the other hand, was delectable, unlike any other beer I have ever had since.

Yeah I probably should have posted this in the off-topic thread forum but I was a little drunk when I started this topic so oops. Edit: great. Looks like someone moved it for me.

I'm glad to see that dakka has a fair share of people who can appreciate a good beer. Although the city I live in has 4 local breweries and twice as many craft beer outlets, most people here still drink Bud Light, so a good conversation about beer is rare.

Bud Light is not beer. Bud Light is to beer as chicken McNuggets are to chicken. All Budweiser products and their equivalents taste to me as if someone spilled a bit of old beer into a glass of water.

Anyway there is a brewery here called Holy City that is run out of an old warehouse. They make an Oyster Stout brewed with oysters during winter that is unbelievable. It runs about 7% and has a unique mineral/ocean taste to it. I know it may sound disgusting but it's awesome.

Born in Mlinnesota, going to school in Iowa. I really like Leinenkugel's. I actually toured their brewery a couple years ago.

Seattle, WA - lots of great microbrews in the Northwest.

My favorite is Menage a Frog, a Belgian Tripel made by the Issaquah Brewhouse. Probably a little fruity for most people but it's my weapon of choice.

Not into ambers or stouts, used to like IPAs until the local brewers went crazy with the hops. Although there's one with my name on it - Arrogant Bastard

I am an ex-pat who was born in Australia; while living there, VB was the first choice followed closely by Crown Lager (although Crownies can be a bit heavy after 5-6).

Now living in South Caolina; Red Stripe.

I like lagers

I'm more of a Cider man myself, but we locals have two beers called Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger, maybe you've heard of it. Pretty darn good.

Australia. I like most beers although stouts feel like someone spat in my beer and ales not so much due to the lack of carbonation. My favourite being Schöfferhofer Hefeweizen, a fantastic beer, the Schöfferhofer Kristallweizen isn't as nice to me ,it tastes like metal.
But I'm happy to drink anything as long as it has some flavour - corona is the worst of beers.

This is my absolute favorite beer, a delicious 5.2% Ale. Available on the Island and Lower Mainland. Brewed right here!

My job takes me all over the country, so I've gotten to try a couple. My favorite, hands down comes from Portland Oregon and it is called Terminator Stout, made by a microbrewery called McMennamins (sp). Fantastic stout, puts Guinness to shame. My dad also makes an amazing Belgian, that has the faint taste of banana. Also amazing. A nice oatmeal stout will do in a pinch.

British Columbia Canada. Guinness is my beer of choice

Currently in Denver, CO.

I like most all beers... I just wish I could hold them down... I think I drink too much too fast... s'like water going down... s'like something else coming out.

 djphranq wrote:
Currently in Denver, CO.

I like most all beers... I just wish I could hold them down... I think I drink too much too fast... s'like water going down... s'like something else coming out.

Chunky Soup?

Old Empire, which is an IPA, but I was drinking it before it was cool, so I guess I'm double hipster.

I also like ruby ales like Hobgoblin, and similar normal ales. I'm not too much of a bitter or stout fan.

Another cider drinker.
"Fruit-based drink for" me too
I've never been one for beer of any type, it not being sweet enough, I expect.
After saying that, I'm not that enamoured on fizzy cider, either, preferring still 'scrumpy'-type stuff. The ale of ciders, not the Strongbow lager-types.

So, if I did convert to beers, what would you suggest I try?

Oh yeah, I'm in the Midlands, UK.
Close enough to the cider-growing capitals of the world

I am a cider drinker.
I drinks it all of the day.


Not really ... - I don't do fizzy drinks. I used to like reef with a shot of archers in it - so I'm claiming the prize for unmanliest drink here.

PredaKhaine wrote:
I am a cider drinker.
I drinks it all of the day.


Not really ... - I don't do fizzy drinks. I used to like reef with a shot of archers in it - so I'm claiming the prize for unmanliest drink here.

Well only since we haven't had anyone claim to enjoy Appletinis

Am currently in California and I have a deep seated hatred for alcohol.

Michigan. We have some stellar microbrews here in the way of Bell's, Founders, New Holland, just to name a few.

My favorite, Dragon's Milk (9-10%) from New Holland brewery.
http://newhollandbrew.com/beer/mainstays/dragons-milk-bourbon-barrel-stout/

Dragon's Milk is tasty, but it's fething expensive. 16 bucks for a 4 pack (local bar sells it for 16 bucks a bottle!)

I live in the mountains of British Columbia. And while not an expert I love the stuff.

My favorite brands though.
-Local-
Whistler powder mountain lager. *Very -very- local*

Molson Canadian

Rickard's red.

-Imported-
Guiness

Stella Artois

Vow of Silence

Northern Indiana. I prefer spirits to beer (later this week I'll be making some blueberry gin) but I have found some beer that I will tolerate;

 Alfndrate wrote:
Dragon's Milk is tasty, but it's fething expensive. 16 bucks for a 4 pack (local bar sells it for 16 bucks a bottle!)

We also have the Beer Exchange. It's a bar that runs beer prices like the stock exchange...so the more popular the beer is the more expensive. Then, once in awhile, the market crashes and beer is at its cheapest (wholesale per pint).

Dargon's Milks is expensive but I don't think we pay that much for it up here.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Northern Indiana. I prefer spirits to beer (later this week I'll be making some blueberry gin) but I have found some beer that I will tolerate;

I must get me a bottle of that

 Grey Templar wrote:
I must get me a bottle of that

It's 10% alcohol by volume so it is a wee bit more pricey than other beers

I'll remember my Tums

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
I must get me a bottle of that

It's 10% alcohol by volume so it is a wee bit more pricey than other beers

And it hits you hard. One of their big, single, bottle of it will be enough.

They also age the beer in oak bourbon barrels so it takes on a lot of flavor of bourbon on top of the nice, rich, lager taste.

 ProtoClone wrote:
And it hits you hard. One of their big, single, bottle of it will be enough.

They also age the beer in oak bourbon barrels so it takes on a lot of flavor of bourbon on top of the nice, rich, lager taste.

But it is awesome

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
I prefer spirits to beer (later this week I'll be making some blueberry gin)

Do you take debit?

Sold!

Swan-of-War wrote:
Seattle, WA - lots of great microbrews in the Northwest.

My favorite is Menage a Frog, a Belgian Tripel made by the Issaquah Brewhouse. Probably a little fruity for most people but it's my weapon of choice.

Not into ambers or stouts, used to like IPAs until the local brewers went crazy with the hops. Although there's one with my name on it - Arrogant Bastard

Yeah, I'm not a fan of hop escalation. To me, over a certain level of hops it just becomes stunt brewing and the bite overwhelms the rest of the drinking experience. It's not unlike the stunt cooking you see with buffalo wings, where over a certain level of Scovil units you lose any actual flavor.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Northern Indiana. I prefer spirits to beer (later this week I'll be making some blueberry gin)

OK, flavored vodka I get, but what do you use blueberry gin for? It might make for an interesting martini, or add a twist to a gin and tonic, but I can't think of a gin drink that would get a lot out of a blueberry.

Genuinely curious. I like gin, and blueberries; I just don't see them together...

And to keep this kinda on topic, I've had some very nice blueberry beers. Other fruits in my beer I'm kinda "meh" on.

 rubiksnoob wrote:
Do you take debit?

Just doing a small test batch that should be ready for Christmas

 Nevelon wrote:
OK, flavored vodka I get, but what do you use blueberry gin for? It might make for an interesting martini, or add a twist to a gin and tonic, but I can't think of a gin drink that would get a lot out of a blueberry.

Genuinely curious. I like gin, and blueberries; I just don't see them together...

And to keep this kinda on topic, I've had some very nice blueberry beers. Other fruits in my beer I'm kinda "meh" on.

Part of it is curiosity. I got a cookbook from back home that had a recipe for sloe gin, and we went blueberry picking on the morning of the wedding and we had a lot of blueberries and some gin left over so I thought I'd try it. Gin goes well with other fruit that has a little bite like lime so we'll see what comes of it.

We drink Sierra Nevada Pale Ale out of Chico....

All other beers must bow!

My favorite beer is Newcastle Brown.

Saint Louis, Missouri

Honestly, I love all types of beer, but two favorites are Stouts and IPAs. Normally, I stick to lager, especially since my uncle works at Anheuser-Busch . Also, there's a local micro-brewery, Schlafly, that makes several different kinds of beer, and I especially love their Double IPA.

Pennsyltucky USA.

I like Yuengling, Newcastle, any pumpkin ale, and Bass Ale. I am very picky about my beer. Even in college, I brought my own instead of drinking the Coors/Coors lite, Budweiser etc that made the party circuit.

Now married and with children, I limit myself to one beer on Friday, maybe another on Saturday with dinner. Finishing off a case from the summer in order to get some pumpkin ale. Jacks Pumpkin Spice Ale was a pretty good brew, looking for that one now.....

Used to make beer with my cousin when I lived in NJ, but he hasnt made a batch in a while :(

That picture of Dragon's milk makes my mouth water..does that mean im an alcoholic

Anything dark.

Schwarzbier is good. Koestritzer is one of the best kinds. I really want to get one of the kegs of it.

Rauchbier is also very good. It's expensive though. The dopplebock version is the only kind I've had where the alcohol improved the taste.

 Skinnereal wrote:
Another cider drinker.
"Fruit-based drink for" me too
I've never been one for beer of any type, it not being sweet enough, I expect.
After saying that, I'm not that enamoured on fizzy cider, either, preferring still 'scrumpy'-type stuff. The ale of ciders, not the Strongbow lager-types.

So, if I did convert to beers, what would you suggest I try?

Oh yeah, I'm in the Midlands, UK.
Close enough to the cider-growing capitals of the world

You Need sweet beer?
, or

I'm allergic to beer. It makes me cough up blood :(

#postingaboutitondakka

Yukon Gold is a favorite. Moosehead is good too.
But my usual beer is Yuengling Traditional Lager.

 chapgrimaldus wrote:
That picture of Dragon's milk makes my mouth water..does that mean im an alcoholic

It just means that you have great taste

 Slarg232 wrote:
I'm allergic to beer. It makes me cough up blood :(

#postingaboutitondakka

In true Dakkanaut fashion...


Remember Slarg, 1492-2000 AD

best beer,

seriosuly if youhave not tried it,

crabbies ginger beer...


tastes better then non alchoholic ginger beer, i didnt even realize it was alchoholic the first time i drank it....

cant hardly get the stuff though, limited supplies, and lots of demand for it.

Beer... mmmm...

My local favorites!

Waterloo Dark


Sleeman Honey Brown


I prefer whisky or scotch, but when I decide to drink beer, this is what I have.

I'm a cider drinker myself. never had a taste for beer. I live in oklahoma city.

I like strongbow, fox barrel, will drink woodchuck, occasionally run into micro-brew ciders at restaurants around here that are pretty tasty as well.

So the above tips for beers that people who like sweet beverages is helpful to me as well! (I assume those were posted in seriousness and not out of a practical joke!) Grolsh and amstel from jehan?

Lancashire, UK. But no bear. Just cider an mead FTW

I live in England, and enjoy stout and ale mostly.

Old Tom is probably my favourite

Ah, another beer I really liked was Molson Brador. It's not available in the US, but the girl I was dating at the time would always bring some back for me when she visited her family that still lived in Ontario. So delicious!

Edit - Technically, it's not a beer (it's a malt liqour), but I'll lump it in this thread.

 master of ordinance wrote:
Lancashire, UK. But no bear. Just cider an mead FTW

You drink bear?


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 easysauce wrote:
best beer,

seriosuly if youhave not tried it,

crabbies ginger beer...


tastes better then non alchoholic ginger beer, i didnt even realize it was alchoholic the first time i drank it....

cant hardly get the stuff though, limited supplies, and lots of demand for it.

Yes!!!! Crabbies is awesome! If you have not tasted it pick up a bottle next time you're buying beer

Currently living in Michigan.

I'm into IPAs mostly. Anything hoppy, really. My girlfriend is a huge fan of porters, which means that I often get to sample them. These days I find myself mostly enjoying cocktails though...

I live in Oregon, micro brew capital of the world, and I do not like beer.

You can laugh at me all you want but my favorite beer just made its way to Florida last month (mid July). Fat Tire! Prior to that, I was only able to get it when I traveled for work. Then again when you're a public accountant, travel is close to 75% of your life... Now that I'm on the private side, I don't have to leave my state to get a good beer.

boyd wrote:
You can laugh at me all you want but my favorite beer just made its way to Florida last month (mid July). Fat Tire! Prior to that, I was only able to get it when I traveled for work. Then again when you're a public accountant, travel is close to 75% of your life... Now that I'm on the private side, I don't have to leave my state to get a good beer.

Tastes better fresh right off the line as it were after the tour of the brewery

 master of ordinance wrote:
Lancashire, UK. But no bear. Just cider an mead FTW

Real mead, or the usual sherry-with-honey stuff most places sell?
I took a couple of bottles of 'mead' on my honeymoon, as a month of mead is where the name comes from, I'm told.

 Skinnereal wrote:

 master of ordinance wrote:
Lancashire, UK. But no bear. Just cider an mead FTW

Real mead, or the usual sherry-with-honey stuff most places sell?
I took a couple of bottles of 'mead' on my honeymoon, as a month of mead is where the name comes from, I'm told.

The real stuff. Im getting the equipment to brew my own-basically several Demijons, some airlocks and lots of honey

From Ireland but enjoy Becks Vier.

Can I ask the US peeps amongst us, do you guys drink/like Budweiser?

Over here, especially from pub/nightclub taps, its muck, utter utter muck imho and not much better from bottles.

Is it drunk much in the US or have we (in Ireland) just been swamped by Budweiser advertising (huge hoarding near where I live etc etc).

I loathe the stuff personally (and Miller is not much better).

Bud, Bud Light, Miller, Miller Light, etc... are generally drank by people that want to get drunk and not spend a lot of money on it. It tastes like garbage (though Iron City Light smells like sewage), it's "cheap" and it does the job eventually... It's a mainstream beer with little to no flavor...

 Ratius wrote:
From Ireland but enjoy Becks Vier.

Can I ask the US peeps amongst us, do you guys drink/like Budweiser?

Over here, especially from pub/nightclub taps, its muck, utter utter muck imho and not much better from bottles.

Is it drunk much in the US or have we (in Ireland) just been swamped by Budweiser advertising (huge hoarding near where I live etc etc).

I loathe the stuff personally (and Miller is not much better).

I will drink one bud, on the 4th of July, while grilling. This year I poured it into a guiness glass to see if it helped. It didn't. It's piss-water mainstream 'murican beer.

Sad thing Alf though, is that over here, it costs the same as much better tasting/quality/stronger beers.

I dont even get drunk cheap on it (not that I'd stomach the gak anyway).
Ah well.

Ireland also and do enjoy Heineken aithough i am partial to a couple of local largers from Germany and Spain

Will agree with Ratius,if Budweiser was the last beer on Earth,I think I would go without!

Also I think some of you guys might like this http://www.porterhousebrewco.com/index.php

 Ratius wrote:
From Ireland but enjoy Becks Vier.

Can I ask the US peeps amongst us, do you guys drink/like Budweiser?

Over here, especially from pub/nightclub taps, its muck, utter utter muck imho and not much better from bottles.

Is it drunk much in the US or have we (in Ireland) just been swamped by Budweiser advertising (huge hoarding near where I live etc etc).

I loathe the stuff personally (and Miller is not much better).

Personally, I enjoy a Budweiser quite a bit, and Pabst more so. I think it's great to drink when you're grilling outside with some friends, or if you're at the bar and not wanting to spend a ton of money. Is it the best? No. Is it my favorite? Not by a long shot...but it's still beer. I'll never understand why people hate "American" beer so much

 Alfndrate wrote:
Bud, Bud Light, Miller, Miller Light, etc... are generally drank by people that want to get drunk and not spend a lot of money on it. It tastes like garbage (though Iron City Light smells like sewage), it's "cheap" and it does the job eventually... It's a mainstream beer with little to no flavor...

Bud is a fine beer for what it is-- a cold one goes down well after mowing the lawn or trimming the hedges. Coors, however...

Thank you, someone agrees with me!

4hands warhammer IPA is my favorite beer, though it is seasonal. I just picked up a growler of 4hands resurrection IPA that they finished just two days ago. Furthermore IPA"s are my favorite type of beer, but I do like to drink Hamms, Bush light, and Stag. I do not drink Keystone, Miller, or porters

I'm from the south of the UK and we have a fair number of independent breweries in the area, mostly for ale. Not much of a fan of ale so I'd have to say my favourite would be a Heineken. However, the worst beer I've ever had was also a Heineken, albeit one from a bar in Australia; ended up costing me the equivalent of £11! Pretty shocking stuff, and the beer was mediocre at best, not at all like the stuff back in Europe.

 JoshInJapan wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
Bud, Bud Light, Miller, Miller Light, etc... are generally drank by people that want to get drunk and not spend a lot of money on it. It tastes like garbage (though Iron City Light smells like sewage), it's "cheap" and it does the job eventually... It's a mainstream beer with little to no flavor...

Bud is a fine beer for what it is-- a cold one goes down well after mowing the lawn or trimming the hedges. Coors, however...

That's fine, I've certainly partaken of my fair share of bud, and you're right, Colorado Horse Piss should never bee drank (Coors).

Hey I think that was my old horse's job

 Valkyrie wrote:
I'm from the south of the UK and we have a fair number of independent breweries in the area, mostly for ale. Not much of a fan of ale so I'd have to say my favourite would be a Heineken. However, the worst beer I've ever had was also a Heineken, albeit one from a bar in Australia; ended up costing me the equivalent of £11! Pretty shocking stuff, and the beer was mediocre at best, not at all like the stuff back in Europe.

They must have seen you coming ... Either that, or you were frequenting a strip club.

You can usually get Heineken here for about $5-6 (no more than about £3). Paying over $20 for a mid-range import is ludicrous. Not even the more obscure belgian monk piss comes close to that in pricing.

 chromedog wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
I'm from the south of the UK and we have a fair number of independent breweries in the area, mostly for ale. Not much of a fan of ale so I'd have to say my favourite would be a Heineken. However, the worst beer I've ever had was also a Heineken, albeit one from a bar in Australia; ended up costing me the equivalent of £11! Pretty shocking stuff, and the beer was mediocre at best, not at all like the stuff back in Europe.

They must have seen you coming ... Either that, or you were frequenting a strip club.

You can usually get Heineken here for about $5-6 (no more than about £3). Paying over $20 for a mid-range import is ludicrous. Not even the more obscure belgian monk piss comes close to that in pricing.

It was a pretty fancy hotel bar in Fremantle. To be fair I only bought a drink so I could use their Wi-Fi.

North of Daytona Beach Florida here. One of my fav beers is Hop Rod Rye http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/610/3158
If I can get it I enjoy Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout. I'd give a pile of cash to get a supply of their Imperial Stout. I enjoy trying beers from all over this world. One thing I can't stand is Bud. That gives me "bud-mud" every time the next morning.

From New England.

Prefer lagers, stouts, and porters, but i'll drink just about anything, frankly. I dislike IPA's and Pilsners mostly.

Favorite is belgian white.

 Valkyrie wrote:


It was a pretty fancy hotel bar in Fremantle. To be fair I only bought a drink so I could use their Wi-Fi.

Ah, Free-o.

Explains much.

Everything costs more over on the west coast - because they are soooo far from the rest of civilisation and the mining mobs can afford to pay for it.

Weltenwolf wrote:I live near Frankfurt/Main. I prefer Pils (Licher/Pfungstädter/Darmstädter/Schlappeseppel/Binding/Bitburger/Becks) directly followed by Weißbier naturtrüb (Schlappeseppel/Franziskaner/Erdinger).

But as a true Hesse it's always Ebbelwoi > Beer.

Licher ist actually really good. Theres a Licher Kellerbier, which is extremely good! You can get in a restaurant in Gießen,
While no beer, Äbbelwoi is excellent stuff

Our store here has a huge selection of all sorts of fancy beers. I recently tried hobgoblin for example, which was okay.

Of the crap beer, Miller Lite is the only one I like. Used to like Coors, not anymore. Don't like Bud, Busch, Milwaukee, Genessee, Rolling Rock, Labatte Blue, etc. Bud Lite Lime is okay. Gimme mah stouts!!

I've always wanted to know if Irishmen actually drink Guinness. Irish dakka daunts.. Is it true?

New Orleans.

Nothing too crazy: Nola Brewery(blonde, brown), Shiner(bock, prickly pear when I can somehow find it), Blue Moon(Belgian White).

 Strombones wrote:
I've always wanted to know if Irishmen actually drink Guinness. Irish dakka daunts.. Is it true?

I spent 6 weeks studying in Dublin, and spent a significant amount of that time in pubs. Avoiding the Temple Bar area, I'd say that, yes, the Irish DO in fact drink Guinness (Heineken's also very popular), so it's not just some marketing ploy. It was also my drink of choice over there - I can also confirm that, yes, the stuff tastes better closer to the source - and I also got the chance to try a variety of Irish microbrews. As a fan of pale ales, I was hooked (haha) on Galway Hooker.

Here in the states, I'll drink Guinness if the place can pour it well. I try whatever microbrews are on tap in any bar I go into, and as an East Coaster, I've been drinking Yuengling since beer was in any way appealing to me. And if I want something really light/cheap when it's hot out, I'll take a really cold bottle of Heineken.

I hate beer. But at the recent Irish Fest here in Michigan I found that I really love Morgans Irish Cider.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I hate beer. But at the recent Irish Fest here in Michigan I found that I really love Morgans Irish Cider.

You mean Magners/Bulmers?

And yeah, that stuff is delicious. Also take a look at Angry Orchard hard cider. The Crisp Apple is really good.

Argh! That's what I meant. It was the first time I had ever heard of it, so I couldn't remember the name, lol. Thanks.

Are there any good places to get Magners? I know of an Imported food place in town that has a huge selection of wines and beers, but other than that I don't have a clue.

New Zealand here and I seem to prefer lagers and the occasional pale ale and wheat beer. Favourite is probably Sapporo Draft.