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

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.