Maybe Milwaukee’s Best is actually the best? 
And yeah, I wouldn’t drink a DAB with Thai food[sup]*[/sup] , a Singha is pretty much mandatory.
[sup]*[/sup] Ok, I would.
You really can’t go wrong with any of the Ayinger beers. If you can get a hold of an Ayinger Jarhundert, that’s another fantastic lager. Maybe my favorite for that light Dortmunder style of lager.
ETA: Oh, and before I forget, Brooklyn Lager is quite nice, too.
Dos Equis in the green bottles is another of my favorites.
I was in NYC about ten years ago and went into a pub (can’t remember the name) in the Mid Town area that featured draft beer from old style wooden kegs and hand pumps.
It was pretty good beer, and if memory serves me right, they were using a very old recipe and method for lager beers. No idea if that place is still around.
In the DC area Brooklyn Lager is very easy to find. I even see it in my old East Tennessee stomping grounds. I agree that it’s very good; it may be my favorite lager.
I live in Baltimore and I have to go to an upscale liquor store to find it, and I only know a handful of pubs that serve it.
In Chicago, it’s fairly ubiquitous. I don’t see it on tap so much, but the bottles are in most liquor and grocery stores I go to, and I live in a working class part of town. So, easy-to-find some places, hard-to-find in others.
That shows what a difference a few miles can make. If I left my house in Silver Spring right now, I could be back home enjoying one in less than 10 minutes. My favorite beer (Loose Cannon) is made in Baltimore. Love it!
You think Singha goes well with Thai food, you should try it with naked bargirls. I’ll be meeting up with my friend who’s down from upcountry in about 11 hours, and we’ll be guzzling and gazing.
I fourth the Yuengling recomendation
Odell’s Double Pilsner is pretty good, as is Magic Hat’s Dream Machine IPL. Both are in the Double/Imperial category though.
As “normal” lagers go, Kozel Dark was probably the best tasting beer I’ve had, but then again, I was hungry, half-drunk and tired in Prague, so my experience was kind of skewed. I like Staropramen and Pilsner Urquell a lot.
As far as US lagers are concerned, I liked the Shiner Frost a lot (supposedly a Dortmunder style), and I like the Franconia Oktoberfest/Marzen and Dunkel quite a bit as well (local DFW German-style brewery). Lagunitas Pils is also pretty good as is Ska’s Mexican Logger.
I’ll throw in with the Sam Adams Boston Lager crowd. It’s my everyday beer.
American: Anchor Steam
Foreign: Hofbräu Helles, aka Hofbräu Original (Germany) or Estrella Damm (Spain)
Oooooo, Yes! Franconia doesn’t seem to make a lager I don’t like!
all the cool kids drink pbr now
Is PBR still the cheap hipster beer of choice? It was ten years ago, I’d assume they’d have moved on by now. I do remember the reformulated Schlitz making a comeback about six years ago or so, but it didn’t seem to fully take hold.
I tried the Sessions and a Kokanee, and both were quite good.
Seconded. I love Marzen styles the best, and this is maybe the best Marzen I’ve ever tasted.
I don’t know if it makes sense, but Marzens have always tasted the “beeriest” of all beer styles, to me.
LOL
The hipsters of ten years ago, are probably ghosts of their once hip selves by now.
My father claims that PBR and Schlitz used to be very good beers, but I’m a little doubtful of his claims. He speaks so fondly of everything in the 1960s and 1950s that I suspect him of having a biased opinion.
That said, both of those beers did alter their recipe and brewing process in the 1970s.
And Schlitz went back to its 1960s formula about six years ago (Old Style, too, tweaked its recipe to reincorporate kraeusening in the process.) The new old Schlitz definitely tasted different and a lot better than the Schlitz it was replacing. It’s actually a pretty decent American lager, in the same ballpark as Yuengling in terms of flavor and quality.