Maybe it was just the right beer at the right time, but I had a Cascade Premium Lager (from Tasmania) in Melbourne and enjoyed it greatly. Can't seem to find it in the US.

Hey, what a great thread. Too bad it's 7:30 on a Tuesday morning.

I'm more of a hot weather beer guy - so I like the lighter styles. My faves are:

Victoria from Mexico (only available there)
Heineken
Orangeboom
Pilsner Urquell
Coors Light

Hoegaarden. Ummmm!!!

My Favorites are (in no particular order)

Stone Oaked Arrogant .......
Sierra Nevada Anniversary Brews
Pizza Port Saigon Summer
Green Flash Extra Pale Ale

My favourites

1. Any of the Big 6 Munchener Helles (Spaten and Augustiner in particular)

2. Hacker-Pschorr Hefe-Weizen (taste of it is more to my liking than Schneiderweisse or Erding although Paulaner is very good)

3. Caledonian 80/- Great Scotch ale

4. Canadian beer. Wellington County Ale,any of the Unibroue beers and Big Rock Trad or Grasshopper on a hot day.

5. American beer. I'd have to say Sierra Nevada Pale Ale although that could be because the first time I drank it was in the Fillmore listening to a great band and looking out over San Francisco Bay at night through the bar's windows.:)

Kona Longboard Wheat beer....Stella Artois....Fat Tire...Negra Modelo..hate any LITE beer.

Amstel Light
Stella Artois

Anything cold...

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:

Pilsner Urquell, Baltika 6 or 7, but for that cheap cold sunday afternoon bbq, busch.

1. Tusker Malt - Kenya
2. Tusker Lager - Kenya
3. Little Creatures - Australia
4. Guiness - Ireland (does it count)
5. Crown - Australia

Coors light for drinking while cleaning the garage or yard work in summer.Or when more than a dozen beers will be consumed eg. UGA football games, fishing etc.

Sweetwater 420 (atlanta based brewery)

Terrapin Big Hoppy Monster

Can't just narrow it down to one.

Miller Lite or Coors Light for fluid replenishment (i.e. when I should be drinking water or a sports beverage)

Dogfish 60 Minute IPA Nice and hoppy, having one makes me want to have another. While I like other IPAs, after drinking one of them I'm ready to move on to another taste.

Fullers London Pride, served in a pub in England

Guinness, served in a pub in Ireland

In Canada--Alexander Keith's Ale.

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:mad:

What is your favorite beer?
 

While I was in Germany for business I had the privilege of experiencing Paulaner Weissbier..........WONDERFUL STUFF........... Its like a mixture of candy and cocaine although Ive never had cocaine I'm trying to convey it's a FANTASTIC BIER

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What I Said In October Still Holds True
 

I'm going to copy the answer I gave last year in the thread on this same subject mentioned by Cupertino.

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"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."

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Its got to be Guinness, esp today!

Happy Paddy's Day to everyone...I'm off to consume several pints of my favourite beer :p

Peter

Widmer Weiss is almost as good as Paulaner (a bit drier and more aromatic, due to Oregon hops, so some would say better).....so you can easily enjoy your new-found vice at any major city in the US (Widmer is widely distributed). The Paulaner imported to the US is pasteurized, so you might want to try it to see the difference, but it will be quite poor compared to your Paulaner. So 2 lessons from this.

If I had to pick just one, the hands-down winner would be Westmalle Tripel trappist ale. Just tried it for the first time a few weeks ago, and it blew me away....

But if I happen to be sitting on the outside patio at the Kona Brewing Company (the original one in Kona, of course:D) -- their Hefe Weitzen will do just fine.

The best beer is hands down Westvleteren 12:D

I have yet to try it but have a bottle of Westvleteren 12 waiting to be consumed on my 40th birthday in a couple of weeks. I am looking forward to sampling and savoring it!

Any Weiß Bier (white ale) - hefeweizen (I'll settle for Paulaner since that's what most bars have here in LA), bluemoon, etc

Taiwan Beer (surprisingly)
Singha Gold

Guinness was the beer of the day.
Czech beer will have to stay in the tap a while longer.
Tiger was my ber of choice last month and suited the humid conditions.
:)

At $4.50 a pint, we ended up having more of them, so am feeling a little mellower today. ;)

Yuengling Lager is found in all of the BamaVol household fridges (including the one masquerading as a nightstand in the MBR). Special occasions call for Abita Purple Haze and Sam Adams will be ordered from the tap when out for dinner. But, truly I will drink almost any beer except the watery American Lites and not complain above a whisper. Especially if you're buying.

Anything from Four Peaks in Tempe, AZ. Their peach ale is perfect when it's 115 degrees out. Or some Kiltlifter, with a big plate of spinach dip and pita bread. Yum.

I tend to like darker, heavier beers. I love Newcastle, Michelob Amber Bock, Guiness, and I also like lighter crisper ones like hefeweizen.

Racer 5
Heineken
Smithwick's - prob my fav
Portalnd Honey
Anchor Steam
Guniness
Beck's Light - 64 calories wow
Kirin
Newcastle

I like strongly-hopped beers. Stone's IPA has been mentioned here. Samuel Smith's IPA has not --excellent. And my local brew -- Mahou 5 Star.

When I'm in the States: None
In Spain: Cruzcampo
In the Stans: Siberskya Korona

Lord help us, I hope that Cruzcampo is better than it once was, only a step ahead of pig swill in the halcyon days of my youth.

Unlike "vin du pays", you have to take care with "bier du pays", 'cuz brewing is just not the forte of some areas....

Time, place, climate and circumstances have more to do with the appeal of what's placed on the bar before me.....(obviously, Guinness being best in Ireland and good at almost every occasion, but just doesn't hit the mark when you're feet are locked on the transom during a tugging constest with a big fish on an August day in the Gulf).

Day in day out.....

Negra Modelo
Shiner Black Lager
Shine Bock
Many IPAs, unless they are the sort that the brewer has put so many hops in the vat that the flavor is of chicory.
Several "local" German and Czech beers (in the towns of their brewing and on tap.

May have to give this one a try this weekend. Have you tried the Shiner 99? How do these two compare to Shiner Bock? I like Shiner Bock so much that I really have not ventured away from it to try these two. ;)

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Pilsner Urquell or any other good Pilsner.

I can't drink most mass-market American beers and any beers that have any amount of rice content in them.

I picked up some 99 this week. It's labeled as a "munich style helles lager". For that style, it's not bad at all.

But it's very different from your usual bock. I would have recommended Shiner 98 to a bock drinker, but probably not the 99.

Boulevard wheat (kc,mo)
blue moon (Denver)

Augustiner Helles has to be one of the worlds best.

In the US:

Widmer Hefeweizen, especially in Portland, OR.
Full Sail Pale Ale
Mirror Pond Pale Ale (Deschutes Brewery)
Red Hook ESB

In Japan:

Sapporo Classic (in Hokkaido)
Kirin Ichiban-Shibori
Sapporo Black Label

In Europe:

Haven't been since 1998, but don't recall ever drinking a bad beer there. :D
Spent a lot of time in Italy, so I'll say Moretti.

Blatz:

"Smoother....
Fresher....
Less filling, that's clear...
Blatz is Milwaukee's finest beer!"

(1952)

While not my absolute favorite, La Fin du Monde is def on my list ^

He may have been referring to the fact that we all have individual tastes.Somebody likes that bad tasting beer or they would quit making it.A frind from Austria visited me a few years ago and he fell in love with Michelob,in fact he brought a case home.I understand Mich isn't horrible but certainly there are better beers in Austria