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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.