I don't have a favorite anything from food to Flyertalker... I also can't label somethign as the best. I have a few brews that I like for different reasons:
*All around, great wtih almost anything: Sam Adams, especially the seasonals. (That one post about doing a mileage run to BOS and doing the door got me thinking
It's a great tour and you get to sample their brews and possibly pick the next great seasonal.)
(*But if I can't get Sam Adams Ill settle for Bass which is always dependable or even Yuengling. If I'm in a group and they're drinking Coors or Budweiser I won't insult by saying "I want an IPA or Sammy." My closest friends though keep Sam on hand just in case.)
*When I'm with my F-T buddies or having a cigar... Guinness. It's no fun drinking a Guinness alone though for me.
*When I'm in Texas: The great Shiner Bock (and I wait for the day I can get it in the NYC area. If anyone can bring some up here I'll share!)
*With Mexican food: Negra Modelo. Corona IMHO ain't all that. Nice ads but that's it.
*When in Singapore: Tiger beer (after all it's named after a member of the Feline family.)
*Also like the IPAs. I got gifted a six pack of Harpoon and it was yummy.
I tried the ALT when in Dusseldorf and it wasn't all that. I know a LOT of FLyertalkers love the stuff but after having that my friend and I went for Guinness. Maybe I just got a bad batch.
Of course with my business I don't drink and Cat sit!
that's alll I need to come home and have the client smell beer on my breath.
I think you said it best gregwiggins:
Originally Posted by
greggwiggins
"What's your favorite beer" is as unanswerable as "what's your favorite food" would be. Just as I'd hate to eat only one thing for every meal, so would I refuse to restrict myself to a single brand or style of beer. As others have also noted, what beer I order will depend on where I am, what I might be ordering to eat, and simply by what I feel like drinking at that particular moment. (I mean, with apologies to the vegetarians, aren't there times you want seafood and other times when you crave red meat?)
So I'll answer your question by quoting the dean of U.S. beer journalists, Fred Eckhardt of Portland, Oregon. I'm lucky enough to know the man -- Fred is in his 80s, hasn't slowed down a bit and is still a marvelous drinking buddy who, after leaving the USMC, has devoted more than half a century to fine beverages, good food and beautiful women. I don't know any writer on the beer beat who doesn't want to grow up to be Fred Eckhardt.
But, with his reputation and background, he's regularly asked, "what's the best beer" or "what's your favorite beer". And I've never heard a better answer to either question than Fred's...
"The one in front of me."