Favourite Beers?

[legion]

My favourite beers, in this order:

Guiness
Blue Moon
Leinenkugel's Berryweiss
Hacker Pschorr (SP?)
Sol
Sam Adam's Boston Ale
Rolling Rock

I absolutely cannot drink Miller Lite. I did a little experiment a few months ago and found that I always get a headache when drinking it, even if just one beer and no other alcohol is consumed that day.

I recall there being some special step in brewing Guiness that no other beer does. Does anyone know what that is?

I generally do not like lagers, to thin and bitter for me. The lagers above are the only lagers I like. I prefer porters, stouts, and ales (and of, course, wheat beers).

[Moses]

Anchor Steam Beer. In a bottle, it's wonderful. On tap, it's the finest beer I've had.

[legion]

That's just shown up in my local grocery stores Moses. I might give it a try. What type of beer is it?

[Moses]

It's about the same color as Sam Adams, but a more complex fragrant brew. I usually like a real "hoppy" beer, but Anchor Steam is not real hoppy. Pour it in a glass and let it foam up a bit. Rich creamy head. Wonderful beer. Tell me how you like it.

From a review in "The Beer Advocate";

Appearance: Hazy copper with a thick, off-white, rocky, bubbly, sticky, chunky head.

Smell: Earthy malt aromas with semi-caramel sweetness.

Taste: Immediately, the mouth is hit by a sharp bitterness, some salt and slight lemon from the hops. This is a beautiful thing, full of flavour and character. After, a mildly astringent, earthy, highly toasted malt guides you to a dry, grainy, residual citrus after-taste.

Notes: You don't find other beers like this, not even close in their mimics. This is truly a unique brew, and a classic; a legend in the hand-crafted/micro industry.

[legion]

Mmmm.....sounds like a perfect complement for the slow-cooked smoked ribs I'm cooking for dinner tomorrow.

[Moses]

Originally posted by legion
Mmmm.....sounds like a perfect complement for the slow-cooked smoked ribs I'm cooking for dinner tomorrow.

Funny you say that! I always get Anchor Steam with ribs. Great match.

[stevepaa]

Guiness
Guiness
Guiness
Guiness
Guiness
Guiness
and did i mention Guiness

[fastpat]

Originally posted by legion
My favourite beers, in this order:

Guiness
Blue Moon
Leinenkugel's Berryweiss
Hacker Pschorr (SP?)
Sol
Sam Adam's Boston Ale
Rolling Rock

I had a tremendous selection while in the SF Bay area, not quite as much here, but not bad either. When we finish remodeling the house, the new wet bar will include a beer cooler with tap, and that will have one of the local microbrews in it most of the time.

In downtown Greenville there's Blue Ridge Brewing (1200 barrels a year), both a brewery and pretty good restaurant of moderate cost; excellent brews but they don't bottle. There's Thomas Creek (4000 barrels a year), who bottle several types from lager to their dark doppelbock, and about three inbetween. I've had the lager produced by Palmetto Brewing (4000 barrels per year) in Charleston, very crisp and refreshing in the bottle There's Highland Brewing up in Asheville, but I did't care for their output, at least not in the bottle.


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[Mr_Wizard]

Miller High Life

[Joeaksa]

Guys,

Hope someday that you all can try real beer, and its usually made in Europe, or to be more specific, Germany. Yes, Guiness is very good if you like a thicker beer.

Also it has to be said, the best beer in the world is made here:
http://www.budvar.cz/budvar/budvar-web/corporate/prvni_en.cms

Budvar Budweiser is made in the Czech Republic and is simply one of the best there is in the world. The American firm Anheiser Bush has been trying to buy their company (and formula) for years and they refuse to sell, at any price. The last time I looked, AB has gotten a legal injuction against Budvar so that their product cannot be sold in America under its correct name. This may have changed but believe that they can however sell under the name Czechvar I believe but its not really the same beer you would get here.

If anyone ever gets on a vacation outside the country, try a Budvar Budweiser and see what a real beer taste's like. The other stuff under the Bud name is watered down cow pee...

Joe A

[CJFusco]

Unibrau Ephemere
Unibrau Maudite
Thomas Hooker Octoberfest
Dogfishead Punkin Ale
Erdinger Heffenweisen

[scottmandue]

There are so many good micro brewery's out there I have lost track. When I was visiting Portland last year my friends took me to a hard core English pub that had a list of local brews as long as your arm. I drank all night, didn't have that same thing twice, and none of them were beers I had heard of before. I best as I can remember I liked them all... but then again half way through the night I loved just about everybody/everything.

My local English pub had "Old specked hen" on guest tap... excellent beer!

I guess my favorite beer is whatever is on tap at the brewpub I'm sitting in!

Harpoon in Boston is good... Goose island in Chicago is good but only at the brewery, didn't care much for it in the bottle.

[pwd72s]

Methinks you guys need a trip to the Pacific Northwest. I read in THE OREGONIAN (always consider the source) some time ago that Oregon now has more breweries than Germany. Any town seems to have a microbrewery in it. Bottled? Any Safeway here offers a wide selection of microbrews. Black Butte Porter, made by Dechutes Brewery over in Bend seems to show up in our fridge more than most..

[austin552]

Samuel Smiths Oatmeal Stout
I hear Dark Lords has the best Stout ever made though.

[azasadny]

Franzikaner Hefeweisen
Guinness
Bell's Porter
Bell's Stout
Berliner Weise

[MichiganMat]

Hacker Pschorr - theres a beer I haven't had since I left MI, good times
Bells Oberon - a nice little brewery in Kalamazoo, MI. Good Cherry Stout too!

Budvar, hells yeah. Man I drank I lot of that when I was in Prague. Im also partial to Krusovice, also a good E. Europe beer.

[MikeCT]

St Bernardus Abt 12
Thomas Hooker Liberator Doppelbock
Brooklyn Brewery Brown Ale
North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout

I think Budvar is sold in the US as Czechvar. I don't think I've ever seen it but any time anyone mentions Budvar they say great things about it.

[deathpunk dan]

dogfish 60 minute IPA
harpoon IPA
narragansett (bottles only please) -good solid 'yard work' beer
warsteiner
bass
harpoon winter warmer
both dos equis
dogfish 90 minute IPA
Sapporo
Trinity IPA
Union Station Brewery Summer Blonde


the following are banned from my fridge:
-Coors (pete coors=bigot/racist plus their beer sucks)
-Heineken (my fave til a nasty case of sea sickness on a blue water sailing trip a few years ago...can't even look at the stuff now)
-Bud. it's just awful
-miller hi life. playing in punk rock bands puts me in close proximity to this nasty ****

[CJFusco]

good taste, dan!

Have you ever had the Dogfishead 120 min. IPA? That bad boy is crazy. It's just too much hops, too much alcohol for a beer; I seriously think that it was brewed just as a novelty- nobody could REALLY enjoy a beer that strong.

[svandamme]

Originally posted by MikeCT
[B]St Bernardus Abt 12

the abbey is 10 km's from where i used to live
great roads down there , it's on my to-drive list when the targa is fully operational again...