Guinness moves to second place for me, although it is close. Number 1 - Quilmes stout.....

I'm not much of a drinker period, but I do love Guinness! Sometimes just plain old green bottle Heineken tastes right also, but only with food. But no light beer, please!

Warsteiner

Ok, so in Montana here we just started getting Carlsburg and Gennessee Cream Ale. I have to say that these new additions have seriously shaken my tried and true favorites. So now I have to say:
1. Dos Equis
2. Gennessee Cream Ale
3. Carlsburg
4. Tona'

But if I am going to the bar to get tore up I drink Bud Light. Why? Because every bar has it, it's cheap , and it goes down like water. I can drink all night on it and be fine the next day.

Domestic....Bigbutt and carmel bock
German.....Aecht Schlenterla Rauchbier
And Lion stout

MMMMMM!!!! John Sleeman's Fine Porter!!

A fantastic beer!!

Oh Oh Oh oooooooohhh! Alexander Keith's Red Amber Ale!!

And Shaftebury Cream Ale and Honey Pale Ale!

Que Rico!!

Got a few friends over for Pazole, Tequila and beers! Great stuff being quaffed.

More to come!

Best overall: Beck's Dark

Honorable Mentions:

Ndovu
Kilimanjaro

Acceptable:

Castle

Red Stripe

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German.....Aecht Schlenterla Rauchbier

Marzen or Urbock ...???

Cold and more importantly in good supply...

But some great beers mentioned!

FREE!

Ken....

"Free" is my favorite, then Schlitz.

Too many good beers to pick just one...
some of my favorites are:

Sweetwater 420
Newcastle
Polar
Budweiser
Busch...yes thats right

I am a beer-aholic. I am also a beer-gourmet. The two meet at times, but mostly are mutually exclusive.

Special Occasion (out of town or pissed off wife beer)

Paulaner Oktoberfest
Spaten (most)
Oberdorfer (all)
Belhaven Scottish Ale
Fischer Amber Ale
Warsteiner (Premium Dunkle - but all good)
Newcastle
Rahr Brewery (Ft Worth TX!)


Better than normal days Beer

Red Stripe
New Belgium (all)
Anheuser Zeigen Bock
George Killian's Irish Red (mainly because I like what it was before Coors killed its spirit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian's )
Guiness (original - not the draft variety)
Dos Equis or Tecate (NEVER EVER EVER Corona)



Chuggin Beer (aka what I usually buy on a daily basis - and yes I should own stock)

Keystone (this is my answer to sports drinks heh)

and to a slightly lesser extent

Rolling Rock (for the wife)
Shiner (sentimental favorite - anything but the blonde)

It looks like my tastes are pretty generic. If I want a beer I can cut with a fork it's Black Butte Porter but only if it's out of a tap. I really enjoy Redhook esb, again only out of a tap. Other than that give me a Bud Light with some clamato. I also like some skunky Corona with a lime but like it to much if it's warm out.

Depends on the time of year, but both are made by a local up-and-coming micro-brewery:

In the hot weather, Mt Horeb IPA and in cold weather (like now!) Mt Horeb Fat Squirrel Ale.

Shiner Bock on tap; ICE COLD!
Ziegenbock which Anhiezer Busch brought out to compete with Shiner Bock; On Tap; ICE COLD!

A long time ago it was Superior beer on a Mexican beach with bikini girls.

Lately, the best is cowboy cold Kilimanjaro beer in Masailand with my son.

Whatever I am drinking in the company of my DRSS brothers! That's the best beer of all!

On all other accasions, Dos Equis, Modelo Especial.

Lone Star because it's $4.25 for a 16oz sixer at the HEB and essentially tastes like all the rest, actually better than most.

I don't like light beer. I used to when I used to drink to get trashed.

My favorites right now are:

Mac and Jacks African Amber
Bayern Pilsner
Hales Ale Mongoose IPA

All good sipping beer!

ddj

Anchor Steam Liberty Ale

It must be ice cold!!
It will be free. I won't buy it.
I must be realy realy thirsty.
I don't like beer....it's not the #3 drink in the world with any help from me.

Our favorite restaurant is the East Side Restaurant in New Britain, CT. Customers at the East Side are smiling or laughing because of the fun there and the big beer cheers.

Walter plays the accordion and its party time.

Turn up your sound and play the video to the right on this website.

http://www.eastsiderestaurant.com/

They have 12 german beers on tap.

nowdays,when I get out,if they have it - guiness.If not,michelob golden draft light.(thats what my buddy has in his kegmeister)

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Alaskan Amber

Yep I also like Moose Drool.



Cal30

Shiner.

Right now I'm drinkin' Busch Light.

All time favorite Beer ?. Who Man that is TUFF to decide !.

My Own brew which over the last 37 years I've been tinkering with on and off . A B&T or A

How about a good Maibock, served ice cold and at least 10% alc. Schell Maifest, Rogue Dead Guy Ale, and Ramstein Maibock are good examples.

Gotta go with a selection for this.

yuengling lager
paulaner
negro modelo

and if i happen across it (maybe not outside of guatemala)

GALLO!!! it's great stuff, and cheap as dirt

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Originally posted by 577NitroExpress:
Favorite domestic beer is Yuengling Lager - started just outside of Philadelphia, but can now be found lots of places.

Favorite beer overall is Goesser, an Austrian brew from Steirmark.

Yep, someone got to it before I did... they were "micro" before micro was cool.

It's a local product for me and you can easily identify the local watering holes that have it on draft... they are the bars not displaying an "out of buisness" sign.

around here you sell Yuengling Lager or you might as well pack it in.

As for the Sam Adams that started this?

IF I were oficially judging beer according to catagory there are very few that I wouldn't give terrible judging remarks, why?

"Not to Style" ALL Sam Adams varieties are heavily hopped, especially the ones that aren't supposed to be,
1)Porter is supposed to get it's bitterness not from Hops but from the Dark Roast Malt that provides it's color.
2)Stout? If you FORGET the hops in stout most people shouldn't even notice, it's bitterness comes from the black patent malt.
3)Wheat beers? Hops drowns out the deiicate flavors of the wheat and other flavorings.
4)Octoberfest is supposed to be very malty and actually sweet, not the Sam Adams version...

To me a brewer ALL Sam Adams EXCEPT his rendition of an IPA are excessively hopped.

Want some other Good beers? truely representative of style

Octoberfest? Paulaner is good
But there's an american Octoberfest made by the August Schell Brewery in New Ulm Minnesota that's pretty good...

a Wheat beer? Blue Moon's "Belgian White"
THIS is what Sam Adams "Summer Ale" should taste like, not the horribly overhopped mess they foist on an unsuspecting public with an add campaigne about how Hops is the "soul" of beer (it isn't), Beer is about MALT.

IT should be noted that "Blue Moon" is "Coors"
kinda... it's a Coors label, but they don't actually make it, they contract the Job to F.X.Matt the makers of the excellent Saranac line of Beers...

Try Saranac Chocolate Amber, no, there's no actual chocolate in the beer it's a type of dark roast malt, it basically winds up being a sofer more user friendly form of porter.

Flavor experiences everyone should have once?

Lindemanns Kreik
ANY Belgian Gueuze


Beer, it's why we created civilization in the first place.

AD

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THIS is what Sam Adams "Summer Ale" should taste like, not the horribly overhopped mess they foist on an unsuspecting public with an add campaigne about how Hops is the "soul" of beer (it isn't), Beer is about MALT.

Allen, being a man of such fine taste, might I invite you to try some of the beers from Wisconsin the next time you come this way. New Galarus brewing makes some very distinct beers. I have access to most of them including their Edel Pils which is a fine bohemian Pilsner and their Bock beer, which must be tried to appreciate. Bock so good that they call it Uff Da.

Allen

It appears our taste in beers is similar...as is our taste for Bushmills.

My new favorite beer is Boddington's Pub Ale in a pint can with a widget. An Englishman's stout, I guess. LOL

Paul

Shiner Bock, and Newcastle Brown ale.

the best tasting beer is one given to you by a good friend on a hot day... or cold day... or windy day.... the second best beer(s) are the one you stole from your old man's fridge when you were 15 and got shitfaced and went up town to bark at the chics.............. if you missed out on that you just missed out..............

Green King's Abbot Ale

anderson valley hop ottin ipa

can't get local

dog fish head 90 min ipa on tap

stone 12th anniversary stout on tap