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Originally Posted by world_citizen
(Post 8543626)
Well, I am not the biggest beer drinker, but I do have to say I enjoyed drinking Zlaty Bazant when I was in Slovakia earlier this month. Anyone familiar?
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Originally Posted by brendog
(Post 8514460)
I've been on a Redhook IPA kick as of late for no apparent reason. If left to my own devices, I generally revert back to PBR or Natty Bo (National Bohemian for those not from the Mid Atlantic). I lost my taste for dark beers at some point in my late 20s.
How is it that I've missed a beer thread for several days? As far as favorites, if I'm out where they don't have micros, then Sam Adams. Micros, it depends on my mood. I'm typically an IPA or ESB person, and don't have definite favorites now. It depends on my mood as to if I want this IPA or that IPA. :D Right now, I'm craving St. George's Brewing Company IPA or Golden Ale, although I'd settle for a black and tan (IPA and Porter). When we were in Hampton, Virginia, we lived near the brewery and would go over there on a regular basis. Very fresh beer, and if you helped with bottling or kegging, they'd "pay" you by giving you the leftovers that wouldn't fill a case or keg. Now, I typically hit Appalachian Brewing Company a few times a month, and opt for Hoppy Trails, Purist Pale Ale, or Major Hops Old Ale. We do enjoy finding micro-breweries when we're on the road. |
Summer Lightening
GFB Both from the Hopback Brewery in Salisbury,Wiltshire,UK. The first a golden ale with a hidden kick and the second a tangy session beer that really doesn't take hold until the first half dozen pints have gone down. Anything into double figures in pints and you're rocking. |
Just my own personal opinion. I'm not looking for anyone to agree or disagree.... In no particular order unless otherwise indicated.
Cheap Swill: Blatz, PBR, Natty Light, Stag (If its still being made. If so, this should more correctly be considered a regional. Blatz is also now a regional.) Macro Brew: Labatt 50, Molson Export (in that order, and only in Canada, although 50 probably no longer qualifies as a macro.) Regional Brew: Grain Belt Premium, Yuengling, Genesee, Dixie, Point, Shiner (Lager). Micro Brew: Fat Tire, Boulevard, Sea Dog Porter, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, Imports (for North America): Chimay (all labels), Fullers (ESB or London Pride), Red Stripe, Samuel Smiths (Oatmeal Stout and Old Brewery), Lowenbrau, Guiness, Swan, Kronenbourg. |
My top 5 are:
1) Becks 2) Boags Premium 3) Little Creatures Bright Ale 4) Asahi 5) Corona |
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.
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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!!!
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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.
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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:
Originally Posted by greggwiggins
(Post 8508596)
"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." |
Pilsner Urquell, Baltika 6 or 7, but for that cheap cold sunday afternoon bbq, busch.
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1. Tusker Malt - Kenya
2. Tusker Lager - Kenya 3. Little Creatures - Australia 4. Guiness - Ireland (does it count) 5. Crown - Australia |
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