OK, so what is your favorite beer? I'm not that big of a drinker. In fact I rarely drink, but I'm trying to do some research. What are great socializing beers? What are great beers with food? And what is just all-around a great beer?

I'm rather fond of Sleeman's Honey Brown Lager myself. :)

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Coors all the way....when the ladies turn you down it makes the pain feel less because it increases your pain threshold, and not just emotrional pain. Whne a guy socks you one in the face it makes it seem more pleasent than it really is. Also it makes ugly people look like friday night eye candy. Yuppers...Coors all the way for me. Actually i don't drink but i have heard Coors is good:D

American beer is the pits. A lot of the beer is shipped without refridgeration. It winds up with that metallic taste in cans when shipped that way.

Some of the best beer I ever had was in Germany. I am sure there are many others of quality, just never got around to them.

I too, rarely drink, now.

Beer or not to beer ;)

I think Belgium Beer is very good and the Germans also know what a good beer is.
The best beer... hmm, i have to think more about this cause they are all so wonderful (almost all) :D

i usually buy mcsorley's. it's good, cheap and irish. or pete's wicked.

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Not the best tasting beer, but seeing as I can't stand anything
but Kokanee, this does the trick: it's cheap and strong! :D

Mad shout out to / for sicin up the Colt 45! :D

Personally, I drink more Budweiser than any other beer.

Jerrek, if you like the honey brown, I suggest you try Hornsby's. They have two kinds - I think the one I prefer has a red label, while the other has a green label, but either way, seems you might enjoy it.

As for alcohol, they all have thier place, depending on the circumstances, desired outcome, etc....

P.S. Coors sucks

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Originally posted by Weiser_Dub
Mad shout out to / for sicin up the Colt 45! :D


Hellz ja! You know how we cheap drunx do it! ;)

Rarely drink anymore but I bartended an Irish bar once upon a time and when I do occasionally want a brew it's a Guinness stout. They're not poured, they're built. Also enjoy an occasional half & half, Guiness and Harp. If I'm in a sushi bar though, a Kirin super premium.

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What does that name mean? Staropramen? Star-opra-men?

Coors all the way.

he said fav beer. that swill doesn't qualify. unless you like yours out of a funnel.


it begins and ends with Guiness:cool:

Anyone hear of a Fat Tire?

Bebelina,

Havn't thought about what the name ment before, so naturally i turned to google to find out more. :)

The name Staropramen means something like The golden Well. First drank it when I visited Prague last year. Really says everything about why Chechia is famous for making great beer.

Originally posted by spacemanspiff
he said fav beer. that swill doesn't qualify. unless you like yours out of a funnel.


it begins and ends with Guiness:cool:

Ahhhhh, (almost) nothing beats a cold Guiness. :)

Favorite beer is .....Iron City from Pittsburgh....It is a Local Beer..


Joerecc

favorite quote: One great use of words is to hide our thoughts....

Why is it that beer tastes like crap, IMHO? Mind you, i don't drink, ever, and if i do it's just a beer here or there. Beers i've had are all american ones, some mass produced kind like Budweiser, Heineken, Coors, and some others such as Pabst and Yuengling and Red Dog.

Maybe beer tastes different in Germany and Ireland and Canada etc? Someone enlighten me please

As long as it is drinkable and has a decent alcohol content :D

german beer is the mother of all beers :D
it is brewed under "the law of puritie" , a law that is 500 years old.
there are 3 things that you need for a good beer :
water ,hops and malt ;no chemical adds or something else !

@NenarTronian
try beer from eastern europe ,most of them taste a bit sweet

I seem to remember the Oktoberfests being popular in Germany. Big beer tasting festivals if i remember correctly. German wine also seems popular, because of the Rhine river feeding the grapes in the surrounding fields (though I don't know why this makes such good wine).

almost correct
hehe ,why does everybody knows the oktoberfest ?
beer ,pretzel and hitler ,this is our export :D
perhaps you think that reflects germany ,but it doesn´t !
it is a festival of some you would call "hillbillys" ;)

Kirin.

Mexican piss-water, aka Corona, is quite good.


Heineken, which is quite good occasionally and since it impresses the ladies when you drink such a manly beer.

Ewww. Heineken tastes like....like....like an icky tasting thing.

I actually do like a Micheloeb once or twice - light beer is good.

i always drink moosehead in canada.. its a great light beer...

other than that, heineken, budweiser or fosters... i've been drinkin this beer from south africa called 'castle' lately... it tastes awesome even when its not chilled... i hate drinkin warm beer, but this one does the trick...

and colt 45.. man, those were some cheap days..ehehe.. but good shit.. messes u up... :D

Oh yeah Fosters was my specialty when I was hanging out with my old high school and early college friends, I remember the big can it used to come in and probably still does (although they probably had a variety of sizes). Those were the days.

Yeah malt liquer is inexpensive and packs a punch. I was hanging around with a friend of mine in the city and we didn't want to spend alot or walk around the city with like a six pack, so I said lets buy a can of Old E each. He was very doubtfull but I convinced him. We downed the cans and the next thing you know we were walking around the village yelling you suck at some guy playing guitar in an open air bar and harrassing the people in some snotty, trendy, preppy, wussy open air cigar bar (the people got a kick out of us by the way so no harm done). Anyway, my point is malt liquer will mess you up, especially if you have not done any drinking in a while.

Loadsa favourites.. Depends on the mood... Kilkenny's... Staropramen... Carlsberg (the festival beer above all :D)...

Screw that, just gimme a beer and I'm happy! :)

Newcastle brown ale. That is true beer unlike all lagers which are not strictly beers at all. Well not in scotland anyway and if there is one thing we are expert on it is alcohol.

Originally posted by ben nevis
Newcastle brown ale. That is true beer unlike all lagers which are not strictly beers at all. Well not in scotland anyway and if there is one thing we are expert on it is alcohol. I thought that was the Irish's arena... :)

OK vote for the WORST beer... I think we can start right with Castle. Yuck.

worst- bud

best beer, i like yuengling and guiness but im gonna have to say that my favorite is imort ale made by i local brewer called dogfishead, it is so good and it has a really high alcohol content:D

Dizzle, not the dogfishhead brewery out of Rehobeth, DE, USA?

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Old Milwaukee light,
Red Dog
MGD
Bud,
and most of the mass produced american beers

it's all soo crappy. I lose respect for a person if i see them drinking that stuff.

Hands down, the best American brews IMHO are Rogue (http://www.rogue.com) Ales, specifically the Dead Guy Ale (http://www.rogue.com/brews.html#deadguy) & the
Shakespeare Stout (http://www.rogue.com/brews.html#shakespeare)

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Originally posted by Stoney.Hobbittess
Hmm... This looks like a thread that a soon-to-be-21 would begin. LOL! J/k. I'm 20, legal drinking age is 19 in Ontario.

Magic Hat (http://www.magichat.net/) is also a very fine American brewing company.

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Originally posted by Smokin' Joe
Hands down, the best American brews IMHO are Rogue (http://www.rogue.com) Ales, specifically the Dead Guy Ale (http://www.rogue.com/brews.html#deadguy) & the
Shakespeare Stout (http://www.rogue.com/brews.html#shakespeare)

there can not be a good american beer ;)

Rogue beers stand up to any beer in the world, I guarantee...

Rogue won Gold & Silver medals at the 2003 World Beer Championships...

... the Shakespeare Stout (http://www.brewingawards.org/Pages/winners/frameset/mainframeset.htm) took Bronze in the 2002 Brewing Industry International Awards in London (and many beers from the US medalled, btw)...

... and Rogue's Russian Imperial Stout took top Stout honors in Austrailia in 2002.

(not to mention all the awards they've won from American Beer Festivals)

It's difficult for the good beers from the little microbreweries in the US to compete with the huge Bud-Coors-Miller three-headed $$$ monster out there.

I love beers from all over the world: Guinness (of course), Samuel Smith (from Yorkshire's oldest brewery) is awesome, Young & Co's Double Chocolate Stout is delicious, la Fin du Monde from Canada is great...... the list goes on and on.

Don't knock it 'till you tried it!

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we do Budweiser down here in the dirty south, "this bud's for you!!" as to the comment about american beers being shipped in unrefridgerated trucks, thats beacuse most beers are pasteurized, like milk so they can be kept hot or cold.

Hehe, this can only be in Belgium. If there was a beer heaven, it would be in Belgium.

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Kilkenny Draught:cool:

so many to choose from...
As far as American beers
for a long time i drank Magic Hat's #9(humble patience is good too) which is excellent, but rather pricey outside of Vermont.,
After that I think Sam Adams and Yuenling are both excellent.

Lately I've been rather partial to the Russian beer Baltika Parnassus
and the chinese TsingTao.


If my goal is to get inebriated cheap I like 22s of Becks.

Czech "Rebel Beer" is also excellent.

When VT Senator Jim Jeffords switched from a republican to an independant, various republican leaning states started making noise about boycotting VT products. In response to this(and to honor Jeffords) Magic Hat brewery put out a special edition ale which came only in 22 ounce bottles(which magic hat usually doesn't make) called "Jeezum Jim Ale"
That was probably the best ale I ever had. I was devestated when they stopped making it.

In the UK the best beers are locally brewed 'Ales', with really weird names. Check and Belgian beers are wonderful and so are Irish beers.