What's your favorite beer?
 

I did a search and pulled up a bunch of threads dealing with beer, but didn't see any asking the most basic question: What's your favorite?

My normal go-to beer is Stella Artois - light and crisp making it easy to have more than a few :D

On a recent trip I was turned on to Chimay. They were serving the Chimay Rouge at this bar and I loved it. Came back and placed a special order and Chimay Bleue is amazing, though a bit pricey I guess. The balance to that is since its 9% ABV you aren't drinking quite as much. Add to that the fact that the bottles are 750ml or 1.5L :eek: (they do have smaller bottles but I can't find them around here). Great stuff though ^

I've mentioned this before but it's worthy of repeat - in some parts of the UK Stella is known as a pint of wife-beater.

It depends on a few things: weather, mood, location, what's on tap? At home, bottles of Anchor Steam (nice to know what the Maytag family did with their money) or Sierra Nevada. At my local bar, they have Ommegang Ale (either Rare Vos or Hennepin) from upstate New York on tap, along with Chimay wheat for hot days. If I'm in the UK, an ESB on tap works, in Germany a Kolsch or something else local (Riegeler is my overall favorite, but not exactly easy to find outside Freiburg), etc.

So it all depends. There is no one best beer, except for the one you're drinking at the moment :-)

Bob

While sipping a delicious pint of Harp in Dublin the bartender leaned over the counter to inform me that Harp is referred to as Tinker's Piss by the locals. I took the hint and after finishing it off I went right back to Guinness! My all time favorite hands down.

Nothing could prepare for the derogatory term used by Australian’s when referring to XXXX. I think if I typed it out I would be banned from FlyerTalk.

lol

Like stated above, depends on if/what I'm eating, mood, weather, tap/bottle, etc:

Fat Tire
1554
Cutthroat Porter
90 Shilling
Laughing Lab
Negra Modolo
Toohey's Old
Guinness
Bass Pale Ale
Winter Warlock
Double Barrel Double Bock

I was with a friend at a bar in Sydney who got the same treatment after ordering a Foster's.

Mass market beer - Guinness - preferably in a pub in Ireland. They take much better care of it there.

Micro - Nut Brown Ale from the Bluegrass Brewing Co in Louisville.

Light mass produced cheap beer - Labatt Blue.

Any local lager bier in Germany
Leffe in French speaking parts of europe
Blue Moon in eastern to midwest US

I agree with tev9999 that Labatt Blue is a good utilitarian beer

Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat

Pyramid Hef

in no particular order

Yuengling Traditional Lager
Chimay Red
Duvel
Goose Island Harvest Ale
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale

Great answer! Bukowski in Boston, my home tavern (or should I say my tavern home? :D) has at least 12 microbrews on tap and 1 on cask (all constantly changing based on season and availability) and 100+ varieties in the bottle, so I'm spoiled for choice. I'm constantly switching up as I roam through the beer universe, with preferences skewed toward ales, fuller but not overly hoppy lagers, and porters. I prefer pints from the tap, especially since the taps at Bukowski are scrupulously maintained and the chill and carbonation are just right for me.

But I would be willing to throw some faves out there, just for fun:

• Favorite Beer After Mowing the Lawn on a Hot Day: tossup between Rolling Rock ("the glass-lined tanks of Old" Latrobe, PA) and Bohemia (MX)
• Favorite Beach Beer: Leon (MX), unattainable in the US (y sin límon, por favor ;))
• Favorite Session Beer: Brooklyn Brewery Brown Ale (Brooklyn, NY)
• Favorite Beer to Drink While Contemplating the Universe and/or My Navel: Berkshire Brewing Co. Coffeehouse Porter (South Deerfield, MA)
• Favorite Beer at Any US Airport: Sam Adams Boston Lager (Boston, MA)
• Favorite 6-Pack to Go at the Gas Station: Yuengling Traditional Lager (Pottsville, PA) or Anchor Brewing Co. Anchor Steam Beer (San Francisco, CA)
  

Boddingtons
Piton Lager

You people are a bunch of elitist....

Coors Light

and that's all I have to say about that.