beer: S & D

my grandfather drank pieles up until the day he died. don't front.

here's an older thread:
What's the best beer then?

also president's choice dry lager from superstore. for a generic no-name beer it's stunningly good.

destroy: carling black label, becks (what's the point?), lucky lager, extra old stock, TNT (which i haven't bought yet but they were selling it for $5.00 a six pack when i last went to the liquour store).

destroy : lion red & it's hellspawned children.

Destroy-Heineken, Miller Genuine Draft, many others whose names I can't remember.

Don't like: the evil twins Heiniken and Amstel Light, most wheat beers, any stout in a local brewery/restaurant, most Pete's Wicked beers.

And when it comes to cheap domestic, anything beats Coors Light.

destroy: that american budweiser and any of its variations.

but I will drink most anything. yes, including that american budweiser and any of its variations.

Unfortunately they don't sell it in California (unless someone knows otherwise!). They do sell something called Czechvar which is supposedly from the same brewery but doesn't taste nearly as good.

Search also: Guinness (yes A, beer is good food!), Budweiser (especially during Raider games - n.b. it tastes like shit in Britain where they change the formula) Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Red Hook, Anchor Steam, and Keystone Dry (for being the best tasting dirt cheap beer when I was 18 and had no way of obtaining anything else - respect).

Although I might be completely off my rocker. Does anyone know if this is true?

When it comes to the really hearty stuff, my butt was once kicked by a little Czech beer called Lobko. (Anyone else familiar with it?)

I miss Red Hook Rye, which I can't find here on the east coast.

destroy: budweiser. just can't get it down.

I like their ESB Double Black Stout. Never had the Rye.

SUMMIT local Minneapolis fancy brew. yum.

i am confused. if only i were drunk too.

Additional Q: Why do some bottled lagers (Rolling Rock, Stella etc) smell exactly like Skunk weed?

it tastes even worse in the states and is weaker.

Light causes beer to "skunk" through some chemical reaction. Clear bottles are useless, green a tiny bit better, and dark brown the best, but not perfect, at preventing this.

Search: Red Stripe, Newcastle Brown, Wild Goose, Negra Modelo

Pass: Pilsner Urquel (at least the version for the U.S. market; I find it strangely watery)

destroy: miller fucking lite, miller high life, lots of cheap beers

Destroy: Bud and all of its kin

Cheapies, I dunnno, I think I've had nearly all, but have found some redeeming qualities in their cheapness, even Colt 45, but the situation has got to be right, I guess.

search: kilkenny, guiness(a local place imports kegs from ireland, and there's a definite difference), cream ales, stouts.

destroy: most wheat beers. hefeweizen, hoegaarden, grasshopper.

D: Italian beers

D: Red Dog.

But at one time (late 60s) it was the number 2 beer in America.

d: http://www.euro-beer.co.uk/stock/p1512d.jpg

D: most mass-market US beers, tho MGD is one of the better ones. Corona = Mexican Bud.

Destroy: the usual.

one with the pink elephants is Delerium Nocturnum.

Is Schlitz an ironic thing or something?

More of a dirt-poor alchoholic with taste buds thing. It's like a half-step up form PBR on the taste-ometer, and just as cheap.

Upthread somewhat: Yuengling is good, but it's not available here.

i like high life.

my favorites = mexican: negra modelo, especial, tecate, pacifico

This needed to be said. Tastes like somebody came in it.

anyone tried this? its in...tescos at the moment?

i had this cottonwood endo

http://ratebeer.com/beerimages/3304.jpg

which was really great. and a carolina pale ale which was good too

tried this duck rabbit too, but i didnt like it that much, it was a bit heavy maybe

http://www.ratebeer.com/beerimages/38876.gif

http://www.weyerbacher.com/cwo/Our_Beers/Hops_Infusion/

http://www.weyerbacher.com/cwo/Our_Beers/QUAD/

Okay but not tiptop: Wild Goose, Sierra Nevada, Bass, Rogue Dead Guy.

House pale ales at Dr. Dremo's, Rock Bottom, and Sweetwater Tavern.

And please let us do not be hating on the Budweiser. For what it is, it is excellent--very easy to drink and it reminds me of my ancestral homeland of St. Louis, Missouri.

Oh and I forgot to mention the Magic Hat #9.

http://popthecap.org/

North Carolina repealed Prohibition in 1935, two years after the federal repeal. As the state prepared to once again allow wine, beer and spirits into the state, powerful mill owners pressured state legislators to impose an alcohol by volume (ABV) cap on beer.

Not wine. Not scotch, whiskey or pure grain alcohol.

Only beer.

Why? Mill owners were concerned that workers would fail to report to work on Mondays.

-Capital Brewery Winter Skal (I think we exhausted the last supplies of every liquor store in the city)
-Capital Brewery Blonde Dopplebock
-New Glarus Nut Brown (Fat Squirrel)
-New Glarus Spotted Cow
-Bell's Two-Hearted Ale
-Smythwicks
-Tyranena Brewing Company, Rock's Revenge Bourbon Brown
-Dogfishhead Chicory Stout
-Miller High Life

I want to make a batch of this.

"Schlappeseppel" means "Stevie the Gimp", so it has to be good. And it is. Keep your damn apple wine -- THIS stuff will be my favorite memory of Frankfurt when I leave here (and it's really from Aschaffenburg!)

tadchester? not tadCASTer? ;)

we went to the Mavs-Spurs game and the beer there was somewhat less than impressive (unlike the box we were in ;o) I tried Coors lite, bud lite and miller lite, it almost put me off drinking beer for life, and I was in a real beery mood too

Search: Guinness (on tap, fuck the bottled version) and Boddington's Ale

http://www.victorybeer.com/Beers/HopDevil.htm

I love them even if I don't usually buy them.

I find myself liking Sam Adams Boston Lager a lot more than I used to (though not really anything else by them. Haven't tried the chocolate stout. I didn't feel like spending that much money for a bottle of beer, especially after the colossal failure of their overhyped, overpriced Triple Bock. It tastes like soy sauce.

S: Full Sail Wassail, Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale....there are way too many to count.

And I have been to the Dogfish Head restaurant in Rehoboth many times, but I believe the actual brewery where most of the bottled beer comes from is in Lewes.

Destroy: most shitty domestic stuff: Bud, Coors, Miller, etc.

(I thought the sam adams Triple Bock tasted like molasses to me. it wasnt bad, but not worth 10 smackers.)

D: Red Dog - worst beer EVER

i'm about to go have beer right now, yay!

In the AB product positioning heirarchy:

Natural (Ice)
Busch
Budweiser
Budweiser Select
Michelob
Anheuser World Select

And they all suck! The "World Select" is just a fucking Heinikin.

Abita Turbodog is the second-best Louisiana beer, Dixie being the best.

Destroy: NOTHING

Destroy: Michelob Ultra, Coors Light, Budweiser, Fosters Lager, Sierra Nevada that's not ICE COLD, that godawful Pumpkin Ale they trot out at Halloween, Corona without lime unless it's a really fucking hot day & there's nothing else to drink

My favorite beer ever might be Highland Gaelic Ale, which I've only found in the south.

D: Every Lambic ever created, novelty coffee/hemp/weaselpiss flavored crap, Corona, Camo, anything holiday related.

Mentalist!!!

OK, nevermind, you caught me and I am full of shit. Still...I fear them, and like them not a bit up until now. I'll also be the first to admit that anyone who preaches the virtue of Black Label as much as I do is not, shall we say, a picky drunk.

Is everyone OK with my holiday beer moritorium in principle, at least?

anyone tried this?

They just started carrying Old Speckled Hen ale at my local liquor store. Four guinness-style tall cans (with the ball) for $10.99 -- not cheap, but I had to have it.

Still not as good as on tap, but the ball does seem to give you a pretty good tap simulation.

Search: Spaten, St. Bernardus Abt 12, Anchor Steam, Allagash White, MGD

Destroy: Edelweiss, Rolling Rock, Bud Light, American Brand

Spaten seconded... i had this in the arizona desert and it was wonderful

http://www.sevenpack.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/SpatenOptimator.jpg

I am still smitten with Tecate and a lime. That's going to be my summer standby, since the Sam Adams seasonal is too heavy this year, I think, plus pint glasses don't stay cold enough like a longneck or a good frosted mug can.

Oh yes, there was a little German restaurant in Monterey that had the 1 Liter mugs of Spaten, a friend and I got a couple of those with Optimator in them and had a very good time, plus then we got fat.

Speckled Hen = guaranteed hangover with me so I tend to avoid it.

TOMBOT OTM, however a good plan is to get a ginger beer bitter shandy and a pint glass full of ice on the side that you can steadily decant into.

old style is actually pretty good for cheap beer, i used to hate but i'm coming around to it lately. (too much time in chicago)

shiner bock is good

honestly Budweiser isn't bad at all (for cheap-ish beer) and i feel like people hate just cuz, you know, mcdonalds of the beer world

Search: Asda Whitechapel Porter which is made by Shepherd Neame, nice stuff if you like porter (which I do) but possibly a bit heavy for the time of year.

i've been enjoying russian and polish lagers lately (i can't remember the names unfortunately)

Budwieser tastes like the wee of a anaemic, water drinking, rice eating vegan.

otm

and it doesn't travel well either

also they came out with the dumbest containers on earth, those short-necked metal things. bud is over-carbonated and under-flavored and is completely untenable at any temperature over about 4-5C

deej i agree 110%.

it's the king of beers and i think people should respect that. taste wise it's pretty non offensive imho!

Do you guys get the "Canadian beers" over there? Any which you would S/D in that... err, genre? Region? Style? Whatever?

I'm curious as a Canadian about American perception of our beers.

we feel your beers are too cold and too hockey obsessed and have weird haircuts.

Bud kinda tastes like someone put a cigarette out in it.

Search:
http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/photos/salvator2.jpg

http://www.merchantduvin.com/images/brewery_art/rochefort_art/rf_8.gif

Budweiser isn't really that cheap over here, so I think hate is justified. Plus someone upthread said they use a different recipe.

Labatt is very big in my home state (MI). You can get just about any of the big macro varieties like Molson et al. My friends and I used to drink the shit out of Molson Brador (I think that's what it was called) because it was cheap and very boozy. Rickard's Red is another Canadian beer I remember liking.

i like old speckled hen.

What happened to Blue Moon? It used to be so nasty, and now it's, like, my favorite thing ever. Did the company get sold or something?

Oh, beers of the moment in my life: Lagunitas Pils, Brooklyn Lager, the welcome return of Goose Island Kolsch, and the ubiquitious HIGH LIFE.

xpost: Blue Moon is still made by Coors as far as I know.

canadian beers that actually are honest about being from canada (not fosters or other "imported" stuff claiming to be from some other country) that I have enjoyed in the past:

Molson Golden - cold, yellow, better than corona or bud

Labatt's - I have no memory of what this tasted like but I do remember making an impassioned argument that 2Pac and Meat Beat Manifesto were the two most important artists of our time after having a lot of it

Moosehead - I used to like this very much and then one day it was just too sweet and acidic for me, like a cider or something, I couldn't deal.

haha yes I forgot I have also been drinking a lot of Miller High Life this summer! It's great for parties as I can put away loads and loads of it and still be a mostly tolerable human being

canadia:
used to like molson ex, haven't had it in a while
a friend is a big moosehead fan
molson golden, canadian/laurentide, labatt's are pretty meh
those la fin du monde types are tasty
best beer i ever had was a big rock ale (from alberta?)

Lagunitas is OK but I think I actually prefer Stella

This Brador stuff is virtually unheard of on this side of the border, apparently-- I had to Google it! You can still get it, it seems, but not much... it's apparently better known south of the border.

I'd generally take a Labatt beverage over a Molson one, so good to hear it's better over there, too. Then again, in Quebec, if your options are "Bleue" (color of Quebec sovereignty) and Canadian (not so much), you might want to drink Bleue, just in case there's a very drunk sovereigntist (is that a word?) looking for a fight! OK, it's not that bad anymore, but yeah. Safety first! Also, tastes less like tumors.

whoa more xposts

xpost.

I never had Golden either. Ironic that nobody has mentioned the Molson I am most familiar with: Molson Export! Hah! Moosehead is alright in the summer I find, but there are other, more delicious things (ESPECIALLY in Quebec, and they're cheaper here, too)

I can recommend some delicious Quebecois beers, if you'd like?

If you want Texas-brewed beer you can do a lot better than Shiner Bock (which isn't bad for what it is.)

To wit: Real Ale Brewing Co (especially the Full Moon Pale Rye Ale), almost anything from the Independence and St. Arnold's breweries, and I think Celis is still in business after their resurrection.

http://www.shandygaff.com/images/millerhighlife.gif

timothy taylor landlord/summer lightning/newcastle brown ale/fruli/leffe/belle vue framboise/pilsner/corona extra

my kinda brew.

Mmm, Summer Lightning...

i had a pint of Reverend James the other day and it was ACES

the sam adams summer is pretty much the only sam adams i like. DO NOT WANT CORONA

Oooh I forgot about the Unibroue products, good call.

"Brador" = Canadian for "Golden spilled on factory floor, disinfected with grain alcohol and marketedd to American college students", apparently! :D

I've been drinking a lot of Summer Lightning of late. Great stuff for the ever-higher temperatures we're being subjected to. For those not in the know, it's a sort of strong, sweet ale. Works a treat.

Fruli is simply the most refreshing drink ever invented.

Corona with lime is something I like to order when a bar serves nothing but crappy lagers. It's nicer than anything else they'll have.

The most refreshing drink ever invented is the Ginger Beer/Bitter shandy, FACT.

labatts is super watery

Fin du monde is pretty fantastic. That shit will kick your ass.

if i'm not confusing it w something else xp

Labatts (I've only ever had it from a can) is DISGUSTING

Foster's Lager: decent, or just the usual watery bullshit in a hueg can?

I think I will try some ginger beer/bitter shandy. I love ginger beer, that crappy ginger ale stuff can go away though.

the latter

xpost

fosters = lager to be drunk when you are too hungover to drink anything else

apparently no one in australia drinks fosters ever

ginger beer & gosling's rum is the BEST drink ever invented, but yeah perhaps not nec. the most refereshing

Haven't had too many Australian beers but Cooper's Sparkling Ale pwns Foster's.

I think I once tried a Cooper's Wheat(?) Stout that wasn't bad at all.

good beers i wish i had at home:

badger golden glory (though i think i may have got tired of this)
cottonwood endo
doghead something or other
bleubird coniston
marstons old empire (dont like any of the other marstons, but this is nice)
anchor steam
shiner bock
sierra nevada

doghead something or other

Dogfish Head!!!!

Oh c'mon, I'm not usually into snobbery but HOW can you bring up Foster's on this thread? I want to be told of exotic, unknown (if perhaps marginally more expensive) brands, not the same old piss we get served at cricket matches.

Badger Golden Glory OTM

thats it! dogfish head!

you cant get it over here:(

I have seen it here, but can't remember where

not too keen on the badger GG (is that the fruity one?)

fruity = yay

cottonwood too?

the last time i had golden glory i felt like i was having a nice beer and someone had poured some perfume extract into it. it might just be that ive had enough of it and its time to move on, not sure

Dogfish 90 Min. IPA may be my favorite beer ever.

dammit tissp why did we not have cambridge beer festival FAP

"Oh c'mon, I'm not usually into snobbery but HOW can you bring up Foster's on this thread? I want to be told of exotic, unknown (if perhaps marginally more expensive) brands, not the same old piss we get served at cricket matches."

Well, check my post on Texas beers, then. Oh, wait! You'll never get any of these delicacies because you're forn. HAHAHAH!

Also, hell yeah to Dogfish. Gimme the HOPS!

Also, Mr JGO, a lot of the muck we get in the UK masquerading as foriegn beers is brewed here with little reference to the original recipes. (See also, Wife Beater, Kronenbourg, Labatts, MGD, Coors Extra Gold)

Foster's could be the best beer in the world (it isn't) and we would never know without going to australia or finding some imported stuff.

Oh god, British-brewed Coors *shudder*

Uk-brewed Labatt's? Hahaha!

FWIW, I wouldn't recommend American Coors either. Slightly better than average M.A.I.L., not quite as good as MGD (which is about as low as I'm willing to stoop.)

Coors isn't an American beer?

Coors co. beers in general are :-/

Killian's Irish Red, Blue Moon, Belgian White, ZIMA, Keystone?

ugh

San Diego's own:
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/ArrogantBastardAleBeer.png
Arrogant Bastard Ale

and

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/44905.jpg
Green Flash West Coast I.P.A.

Where fine beers are sold.

Mothafuckas.

Dogfish Head OTfuckingM

The Bell's embargo here in IL is starting to get to me. I want their Pale Ale.

Can it be had in chicago, because that is my next port of call in the US?

dammit tissp why did we not have cambridge beer festival FAP

i know! :(

did you actually go?

Bell's? No. Because of this: http://www.chicagoist.com/2006/10/16/the_bells_in_the_distance.php

(xpost to Ed)

Sorry, not Bell's Dogfish Head

Oh, well then yes! It's in stores and quite a few bars in either 60min or 90min format.

excellent.

I might be pootling through michigan in december so I'll try and hit Bell's too.

I am going to marry the High Life moon girl one day. I have been drinking High Life mimosas fairly regularly.

Red Hook has a summer brew called SUNRYE or SUMMERHOOK or something like that which is excellent.

One brewery that the lack of Bell's has led me to explore more fully is 3 Floyd's. Gumballhead is the new Oberon.

I didn't, tissp, but FAPpage might have tempted me out of revision.

Last year was great though!

oh I got the SUNRYE a weekend or so ago, that was pretty good as I recall

ooooh i love that Green Flash too. Bell's Hopslam is fantastico, as is the Oberon.

I'd started a non-Philistine thread here, Louis: Beer in the new era

(Seriously, there are some interesting tips here.)

i managed to go along for one of the evenings (thursday i think)... there were some great beers, a shame though that they'd run out of some of the interesting looking ones

On the recommendation above I found and brought home a sixer of Bell's Oberon. Results later.

someone pls tell me i'm not the only one to see the unexpected Room of Evil Red stripe commercial

Re: Oberon (his is going to sound kind of snobby, but I don't care)

It just hasn't been the same since they started making it all year long. Either that, or they changed the recipe big-time. It was never very hoppy, but still had the Bell's "bite" that was found in all their beers. Last summer I had one off a tap and could've sworn the place was watering it down, but a taste of a bottled version confirmed that the flavor was severely lacking. I don't know, maybe my tastes have changed, but it sure doesn't seem as good as it used to. People used to clamor for it at the beginning of summer, and as soon as it was released it was sold out almost instantly. Still a pretty great beer, but if any one Bell's product has suffered as their popularity has (deservedly) risen, Oberon is it.

(Maybe this doesn't sound that snobby, I knew people who refused to keep drinking it once they changed the name from Solsun and stopped selling it exclusively in 22oz. bottles...)

Like, I remember it being cloudy, yeasty, a real great thirst-quenching summer wheat beer. Now, it's just kind of... thin and limp?

Ginger beer + Maker's Mark is my new favorite drink, btw.

"Ginger beer + Maker's Mark is my new favorite drink, btw."

Also fine with Rye whiskey. Or, for that matter, vodka and a twist of lime.

Mmmm...ginger...

Deschutes Brewery out of Bend, OR makes some fine beers. Their porter is probably my favorite. Haven't tried (or seen, I don't think) their IPA.

http://www.deschutesbrewery.com/ThemeImages/DeschutesBrewery/Themes/Splash/SmartSaverPro-2x1.jpg

Anytime I'm at grocery/gas station/low selection joint I always go for the Redhook ESB. Can't go wrong, yum but populist enough for all & the price is right.

I miss Bells in Chicago. Thank god the insane Illinois liquor laws haven't killed Three Floyds availability. Gumballhead on tap is to die for.

I got totally destroyed on this last night. It was pretty excellent
http://www.beerstore.com.au/beerstore/uploads/beerImages/Cascade_Stout_Large.jpg

S: Beerlao, this Laotian beer I had over the weekend, seriously smooth and two bucks cheaper than a....

D: Fucking Corona, why does everybody I know drink this piss?

Corona is the worst. When I was in Mexico every waiter would always assume I wanted one, and I was like "FUCK THAT SHIT MAN - BO-HE-MIA!

corona sucks

It's way too spensive in Australia too. Like $55 a carton.

Yeah, also why have Corona if you can have the aforementioned Tecate (my favorite, too), Modelo, Pacifica, or Dos Equis?

BTW does anyone know if the Bohemia exported to (or brewed in?) the U.S. is different than the stuff in Mexico? I distinctly remember it tasting better down there.

On that note, the Beck's that's brewed in Australia tastes nothing like the proper gear.

They had this Dogfish Festina Peche stuff at Rebar - whoa, wtf it was really really good?! Fruit beer? In my vagina?

I saw that in the fridge today and was like "uh"

you guys and your microbrews drink some high life jeezus

I ordered it just seeing the dogfish tap and figuring it was an ipa or something.

It was actually really good - it does have a noticeable peachy taste but it's very tart and not sweet

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/64/35720

Fuck a high life you lowlife.

(kidding)

are you sure?

High life is for when you're with bros. Microbrews are for when you're doing the couple thing and you're not about to get loaded so you might as well enjoy the taste. One day you'll understand.

haha <3 u hurting

(i'm 33 so i'll probably never understand)

(I'm being dishonest anyway. I never hang out with the bros anymore. ;_;)

you never did, did you?

like you can talk

zing

But believe it or not, my college house had a legendary schmidts can stack.

i believe it.

dandy of gamma chi...where the hell am I, etc.

btw tom I would back you up on the wheat beers if not for bannage. Can't say I love the Widmer, but Paulaner, Franziskaner, Allagash all among my favorite beers.

Tom and Ally's hating on Anchor Steam and Sierra Neveda Pale Ale is the rongest stuff I've read in long while.

to be fair, i don't think anyone's taste in beer is "wrong." everyone likes different beers, no big whoop.

It's funny how that's the most obvious truism that no one on ILX seems to accept (and not just about beers, but about everything)

I LIKE PINA COLADA

BAN RUPERT HOLMES

These beers do not have an lingering aftertaste of dishwater. The claim is preposterous and smacks of conspiracy and or trolling. xxp

Really, I'm okay w/all beers save malt liquors, Milwaukee Beast/Keystone/etc., esp. if someone else is buying. Oh, I don't really like Hamm's, either, though I do often sing that "the beer refreshing" jingle in a slow Andrew Eldritch voice.

Asahi Super Dry is probably my favorite. Also likes the Hoegarden (sp?). I've just been drinking plain old Budweiser lately; it's been treating me surprisingly kind.

The Mexicans in my neighborhood will make fucking fun of you if you drink Tecate, and if you've got Corona they just straight up call you a chilango. All they ever drink is Bud Light.

everyone knows partly-Sierra-fed Potrero Hill water sucks

how that's the most obvious truism that no one on ILX seems to accept (and not just about beers, but about everything)

well the thing is if we accepted it we wouldn't be having discussions about much. I mean we can all sit around and be like "I like this" and "i like that" and nabisco says "thing is you're BOTH right" and everybody is all "another nasty dunk by nabisco" but that internet is boring.

of course there's a thin line between contentious debate and calum vs blunt but I'd rather err closer to the flames than hang out with a bunch of promise keepers know what I mean

TOMBOT PRMIS KEEPIN IN THE @!ST CENTUREIS

if that's how you fell, Tombot, then that's how you feel and I'll respect that.

In Him,
Wanko

feel

all beers are His beers

Right now I'm drinking a Brooklyn Pennant Ale. Yum.

Tonight is all High Life and Hamms. It's checking crank bearings tho.

Weekend was Hammerhead and Terminator, some wheat beer, some IPA at a Round Table, and some Plymouth Gin but that's not a beer.

I had a Sam Adams regular lager 24 oz, no hip points but I've always liked it.

I bought myself a 1pt 9oz bottle of Black Sheep Ale. So-so bitter ale, slightly weird licorice aftertaste. Definitely not worth $4 for the bottle when I could have just gotten Franziskaner for $2.50

I had a Czechvar last week and then brushed w/ cinnamon toothpaste and was told I had vodka on my breath (somehow?). Oh if only.

Nonetheless, I think I'm going to just try the various pint nine bottles at my liquor store for a while rather than winding up with a four six pack of something I don't want

Tonight I decided to try a couple of the Polish beers available at my local offie - Lech & Tyskie. I think I prefer Tyskie.

And I had a Whitechapel porter, and a bottle of dark Leffe. Which are both nice.

It suddenly occurred to me that this thread title sums up my entire life.

The other night in the bar I came up with the phrase "Six buds none the wiser" - did I steal that from somewhere?

good bar band name

Dogfish 90 Min. IPA may be my favorite beer ever.

-- Mr. Que, Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:49 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

I had a lot of fun drinking this beer tonight. It's the Willy Wonka's Three-Course Dinner Chewing Gum of beers. A real treat. Doesn't taste like a 9%. So, search.

I have to stay away from 9% beers. I drink all beers at the same rate! Disaster beckons.

You'd really want to stop and savor this one. It's all about the flavor and creaminess. I tend to hit my beers pretty hard too, but this is one worth settling down for.

Two beers in the fridge right now: Dogfish Indian Brown and Bitburger. Not that thrilled by the Dogfish considering all the hype and the fact that the IPAs are very good. The Bitburger was $20 for a 24-case and it's really pretty good for the price -- sort of like a better Budweiser (which itself is not a bad beer).

god i love beer
it sucks being broke

also if any of you come across it there is a quebecois beer by the name of la fin du monde that is righteously delicious

smutty nose hefeweizen is right tasty
as is allagash as always
also got a couple or three of some difft flavr hitachino nests and not a one of them bad so far

o also alaskan brewery makes a smoked porter that is http://torchthebridge.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/yumyum.gif

My beer of choice lately has been of the pale ale varieties, IPA or no.

I've been hanging around a lot with those people that don't eat meat so its all Stella's and Becks.
Hairy times.

Yeah, I drink Fin du Monde and its Unibroue bretheren from time to time.

Allagash is a longtime favorite of mine.

IPAs seem like a good summer beer for people who don't like summer beers.

courtesy gr8080:

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/2008/06/20/20080620matt.html

I dig all the Unibroues that I've had. I'm about to have an Ephemere apple one and normally I don't even like fruit beers - this one just smells more like apple than it actually tastes.

Lately the default beers in my fridge have been Alaskan IPA and Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale.

I've been hanging around a lot with those people that don't eat meat so its all Stella's and Becks.

Drinking mainstream continental lager and vegetarianism go hand in hand do they?

I quite like Becks (is it just me that thinks it tastes slightly of apple juice?), Stella is rank though.

Had a locally-brewed highly-hopped beer in Omaha a week or two ago and while I used to not dig lotsa hops it really worked for me, so when I got home I tried a thing from PA called Hops Infusion. Oh man. This here is a great beer. brewery's website is here:

http://weyerbacher.com/cwo/Home

I just tried something called Left Hand Sawtooth Ale - it was plugges as being similar to a classic British bitters. It had annoying dumb-ass hippie packaging, but it was really, really good.

I like Weyerbacher's Double Simcoe IPA

I'm gonna have to dig that one up, our local beers place has so much stuff there's no way of seeing it all but this Weyerbacher is MMMMMM.

Anderson Valley's Summer Solstice Cerveza is one of the best brews I've had in a long time (and I've pretty much had everything the distributors around here provide)

OTOH Mendocino Valley's White Ale is nearly undrinkable. Tasted like fruity/spicy sausage. Should be ideal for making beer brats, though.

I love a lot of cheap beers, but I got a free case of molson canadien recently and it was really gross; sweet, almost syrupy. still drank it all.

my local beer of choice:

http://www.aleasylum.com/cms/images/Hopalicious_LARGE.gif

Last night I asked for a Blue Point and got a Blue Moon instead (it was quite dark and I didn't realize it for a minute). YUK!

"Had a locally-brewed highly-hopped beer in Omaha a week or two ago..."

I was in Omaha last year, and remember some pretty decent brews.

Just bought a 6 pack of Bohemia which should go down nice on this beautiful 95 degree New Jersey day

A company called Alchemiste has four beers that I'm aware of-- an IPA, a blonde, a red, and a bock. Search the IPA, but as I learned this week... destroy the other three. :( The blonde tastes so sickly sweet it's almost syrupy. Augh.

S: Any real German/Czech/Polish lager (see above Budvar/Budweiser discussion). Any Scottish lager, any English ale (especially hand pumped served NOT ice cold.

D: Guinness (tastes awful, costs a bomb), Tennents (battery acid/clyde water), Carling, Budweiser, hell - almost every bad premium lager served in bars over here...

are there any lagers of note brewed in england? that are available in america?

English lager? Well ... There's a lager made by Wells that is available over here, but I don't think I've ever seen Wells lager in England. Must be an export only deal (possibly a re-brand of something less notable) so I probably wouldn't recommend it unless you want English lager for the sake of English lager.

And that is actually all I can think of.

search: all

destroy: all (by drinking them)

Beer (So Nice). Right On.

I'm enjoying Newcastle Brown these days.

I think I posted this on another beer thread, but lately I've been drinking Hofbrau Original whenever possible. A crisp, flavorful, refreshing German-style lager.

"English lager? "

My local liquor store carries Samuel Smith Organic Lager. It's very good.

I love beer. Wheat beer, fancy belgian beer, cans of lager, in a bar, in the park, at home.

Just about to try one of these:

http://www.northcoastbrewing.com/beer-brotherThelonious.htm

yeah it's pretty good

holy shit 9.4%

It's not bad, a little sweet for my tastes (but I guess most of those Belgian-style ales are). Awesome name/label though.

I just had an Andersen Valley 10th Anniversary Imperial IPA two nights ago. Wooot! Fucking more hops than a kangaroo.

I had a He'Brew RIPA last week - some kind of double IPA dedicated to Lenny Bruce. 10% ABV and very drinkable.

Redbridge: C/D? Wife is celiac, so the list of drinkables is short.

Sierra Nevada Anniversary Ale: not that good

There was some discussion of Dogfish 90 Minute IPA. I love that! Also I have recently drank a Brazilian dark lager called...Xingu?

I meant to also say in that post that Xingu was good, when I saw it in the glass I thought "fuck I don't want this stout in summertime" but hooray it wasn't stout.

If any of yous guys can get Kentucky Ale Bourbon Barrel you should do so because it's very very good.

Franziskaner?

I say yes!

dogfish head raison d'etre went nicely with a corned beef sandwich and potato pancake

i've also enjoyed brooklyn's post road pumpkin ale, esp. with indian food

At $5.99 a six, 7% ABV and relatively tasty, Trader Joe's Hofbrau Bock is the bargain of the decade, I must say.

Last night I asked for a Blue Point and got a Blue Moon instead (it was quite dark and I didn't realize it for a minute). YUK!

One time I asked a waitress for a Mad Hatter and got a Manhattan.

what kind of bourbon?

Trader Joe's Name Tag lager in a can seems very close to this in design: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/435/51855

This is the TJ's version: http://nuxx.net/blog/2011/06/07/trader-joes-name-tag-classic-lager/

would i ~blow your mind~ if i told you they were one and the same?

TJ's used to be labeled Red Oval, then it changed for some reason.

Old speckled hen is sure a nice bottle of beer, so is hobgoblin.
Keep forgetting to check if the one place that does seem to do the various Wychwood varieties has anything season specific in.

& still not sure why London Pride still hasn't appeared on the shelves of the supermarket that had it advertised in a promotion last winter that never actually featured it's physical presence. tend to find it a lot handier when promotions feature solid objects innit?

Pour one out for:

Hamm’s Special Light, Henry Weinhard’s Private Reserve, Icehouse Edge, Keylightful, Keystone Ice, Magnum, Mickey’s Ice, Miller High Life Light, Milwaukee’s Best Premium, Olde English HG 800, and Steele Reserve 211.

https://fox8.com/news/molson-coors-retiring-11-economy-beer-brands/

I was not even aware of the existence of most of those varieties. I wonder if there's anyone truly disappointed by this news.

Maybe this guy?
https://therooster.com/files/styles/hero/public/beeramid.jpg?itok=KmbaeMoH

We imbibe econo

Pouring one out for that guy.

Although regular Miller Lite? Isn't that kind of fancy?

My nephew brought an 18 pack of Hamms Special Light to the house we were renting for a family reunion. I believe it cost $8. Even that price point could not redeem it.