What's your favorite beer?

[auburngrad82]

I love Shakespeare Stout from Rogue Brewery. Probably the best beer I've ever had. And I've had a few beers in my life...

[Dogmudgeon]

1. None

How people actually enjoy the stuff, I'll never know.

But if you like it, drink away.

--bkl

[moderatepenguin]

2. I'm open to

suggestions. I have to be craving beer if I'm going to drink it. Most often as it is, I get a craving for Sierra Nevada pale ale.

[Scooter24]

3. I can only drink

beer if I'm already buzzed. Though I will probably lose masculinity points here, I absolutely love the apple Smirnoff Twisters.

[Racenut20]

4. The ones in a can

[T_i_B]

5. Campaign for real ale member here!

I'm quite partial to anything from Erdinger through to Hop Back Entire Stout, although my current fave is Blanchford's Raging Bull.

[LibLabUK]

42. CAMRA!?!

You're a beer nerd!

[T_i_B]

60. I'm not that bad

I'm not a "ticker", I just like good beer. :-)

You should try coming to a beer festival some time. It's a good way to spend a lazy day or a night out.

[drdon326]

6. Schlitz.

.

[jpgray]

7. Guinness Extra Stout, Bell's Kalamzoo Stout

That's for today, however. Shakespeare is a great beer.

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. Frank Boon Geuze "Marriage Parfait" 1994.

Without peer.

[tigereye]

35. how can you love that and then drink Blatz?

you are truly a man of the people ;)

and now you have the haircut to live at the monastery and brew your own!

[mrboba1]

9. shoot me now - but it's Killians.

[Magrittes Pipe]

11. And you mock me for drinking Blatz?

Dude, Killian's is worse than Schafer.

[mrboba1]

16. But at least it has a cool name...

Blatz?!?

[cheezus]

47. Killians is Coors, and Coors is funding right wing nutjobs

[cheezus]

49. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

my favorite all around beer than cheap beer drinkers can handle.

For me, any medium malty ale with lots of hops.

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. As far as stouts: Guinness.

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
Penn Dark
Brooklyn Brown Ale

[tigereye]

36. ah Brooklyn Brown Ale

one of my favorites

[terrya]

12. Harp's is my favorite beer.

Yum!

[Misunderestimator]

13. Guinness, Old Speckled Hen, Bass

And I'll drink a Sam Adams Lager if they only have domestic.

[redqueen]

46. Yum... Bass Ale

:)

[Commendatori]

14. Samuel Adams - only the Boston Lager, though.

I hate the summer ales and other seasonal crap.

[mac56]

15. Sam Adams Boston Ale is much better than the lager.

nm

[Commendatori]

22. I can't find that stuff anywhere around here.

Thought they stopped making it.

[SaveElmer]

48. Sam Adams Oktoberfest is their best!

[Krupskaya]

17. Baltika.

It's a Russian beer brewed in St. Petersburg. It is responsible for basically everything I did while living there. My favorite was No. 5.

Back on this side of the world, I prefer Molson Canadian. And Grain Belt!

[yelladawg]

19. If I can't get....

Huber Bock is the best. I can't get it in Oklahoma so I have to settle for Bass draft.

[AngryAmish]

18. Old Style

[mac56]

21. Or as we used to call it in the college days:

"Dog Style"

[auburngrad82]

25. Actually, Doggie Style Ale from Flying Dog Brewery is pretty good

I think Hunter Thompson has something to do with Flying Dog. And the labels are by Ralph Steadman.

[mac56]

26. I agree. All their beers are great.

I'll often purchase their "mixed litter" 12-pack. "Doggie Style", the IPA, the Scottish Ale, and the Amber Lager are exceptional.

[Surf Cowboy]

20. Newcastle Brown Ale

[X_republican]

24. Make that two.

[regularguy]

23. DogfishHead IPA

Or anything from DFH. Honorable mention to Anchor Steam Ale.

[northzax]

27. 60, 90 or 120 minute? <n/t>

[regularguy]

59. Never had the 120,

I like the 90 Minute, but I usually drink the 60 minute variety because of monetary and drunkenness concerns.

[tigereye]

37. another Dogfish fan here

[Racenut20]

28. Was this an exercise in naming all the yuppie beers ?

Well, I drink anything in a can as long as it was brewed by Anheuser Busch, wear cowboy boots, Tony Stewart #20 & DEI #8 & 15 hats, eat BBQ, Watch Big 12 & SEC Football on Saturday, AND VOTE DEMOCRATIC every time.

[mac56]

31. Like what you like.

Don't dis all quality/micro/craft brews as "yuppie beers", though. Sometimes, better beers are worth seeking out.

[Racenut20]

34. "better beers" than AB might just be my point. Nada happen.

[mac56]

39. How I envy you.

You have a vast world of first-time beer-drinking experiences ahead.

[Racenut20]

40. After doing college and the military on

mad dog wine and falstaff, I don't think I need any new beer experiences. LOL. Besides, they don't sell any of those brands everyone is mentioning here at nascar races.

[markus]

29. Three Floyds Alpha King Pale Ale

A hop-heads delight, really an IPA. It doesn't have the alcohol content on the bottle and I've never check the SG, but I know that two bottles at a sitting is my limit.

[RivetJoint]

30. Fischer

Best product France ever produced...besides Vueve Cliquot...

[tsakshaug]

32. My homebrew

Just finished off an IPA that was great!

[carla]

33. La Chouffe

The best ever, brewed in Belgium, available in finer bars all over Amsterdam.

[frylock]

38. ballast point's (san diego) dorado double ipa..

followed closely by Racer X and Racer 5. I love hops!!

[dr.strangelove]

41. BLACK BUTTE PORTER

The only evidence I have seen that led me to question that a god may exist, because I believe there had to be devine inspiration to create this most wonderful beverage.

[TahitiNut]

43. Root

A&W :shrug:

[redqueen]

44. Shiner Bock - Spoetzl Brewery

[slutticus]

54. Such a Texan....

... :P

[redqueen]

57. Born & raised!

:)

[Christof]

45. Miller Light.

It's the only one that goes down smoothly for me.

I used to like Guiness Stout, but that's too thick for me to take now.

[redqueen]

50. I used to drink that all the time

Tastes like water! ;)

[Christof]

55. Hey!

I can get drunk off Miller Light...after three or four pitchers. ;)

[redqueen]

56. lol... exactly!

It's a *great* beer for a long night of partying if you have to drive yourself home. :)

[DS1]

51. The one in my hand. Heh. Sam Adams Boston Ale, Guiness

[eleny]

52. so long as it's chilled - i'll enjoy any kind

i love trying new beers to see how they go with different foods.

[slutticus]

53. Hoegaarden Witbier

...Also the Trappist beers of Chimay are excellent

[LeftHander]

58. Too Many from Wisconsin...New GLarus and Capital breweries

I usually buy any the local regionals becuase they are sooo fresh.


New Glarus - Spotted Cow destroys all other beers in a bar for tap sales..everybody likes it...once you have it it is hard to stop having it.

New Glarus and Capital only US breweries to make top 10 in top international competitions. These two are The Best Breweries in the US...and they are 50 miles apart.

Spotted Cow, Fat Squirrel, Solstice, Naked from New Glarus brewing company and Fest, Wisconsin Amber, Maibock, Oktoberfest from Capital
Fuel Coffee Stout from Lakefront, Louie's Demise from Milwaukee Ale House is excellent as well...now available at the local liquor store...and Lienenkugel's Berry Wiess and Creamy Dark, Black Bavarian from SPrecher is yummy...rare to find on tap. 16 oz. bottles only.

the run down on the best of Wisconsin...

http://www.capital-brewery.com
http://www.newglarusbrewing.com
http://www.sprecherbrewery.com
http://www.ale-house.com/beer.php
http://www.lakefrontbrewery.com/meetbeer.asp

Oh the joys of living in Wisconsin...best beer....still

Black Earth Porter from The Great Dane in madision...

Lienie's Creamy Dark

Lienie's Berry Wiess

Out of state favs include:

Goose Island - Honker Ale from Chicago
Summit Ale from Minnesota

Imports:

Guiness...is always liked
Bass, Corona


Most hated Beers:

Pabst Blue Ribbon and Budwieser....YUK!!!!

If you come to SE Wisconsin to taste the beer here is where to go:

Madison: UW Union Terrace, get a day pass and buy big cups of New Glarus and Capital brewery beers and sit in the sun overlooking Lake Mendota. Head to The Great Dane for a Black Earth Porter...then catch a band at Capital Brewery's Beer garden in the summer and early fall...

Milwuakee - Milwaukee Ale House, Onopa's, The Nomad all have great selections...have fine WI cheese plate at the Tocedero and sample the custom Wiess beer crafted by Lakefront for them......mmmmmmmm

[EstimatedProphet]

61. Lindeman's Kriek

Lambic cherry ale

[arwalden]

62. Sam Adams Lager and Ale (Not To Be Confused With Gomez Addams)

[jdonaldball]

63. Stegmaeier! From Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Stegmaeier is the most foul beer I have ever had. But I love it because it reminds me of when I was a poor young college student.
If you look carefully you can almost see bits of anthracite coal at the bottom of each bottle.
Stegmaeier is ambrosia for all TRULY impoverished young students in Pennsylvania. (Fake impoverished students, the ones who PRETEND to be poor, know nothing of this.) May it live and brew forever! :-)

[Bridget Burke]

64. Guinness Stout is the ultimate...

But Houston's own St Arnold's brewery has some pretty good options. And their beers are available all over the city--hardly elitist. "Elissa IPA" is a current seasonal offering. Some of the proceeds from sales of this lovely, bitter, hoppy India Pale Ale go to upkeep of the the Elissa, Galveston's tall ship.

Shiner has some good regional beers--the little Spoetzl Brewery was in business before the word "microbrew" was invented. And Mexican beers can be excellent--not Corona, though.