To evangelize a bit (should I be doing this in GD?) the beautiful thing about real beers is the nearly endless diversity of styles, once you escape from lager and pilsner. Perhaps it’s because so much of my adult life has centered in the Northwest and in Belgium, but there’s something for every mood. I shall wax poetic.
Chocolate porters and coffee stouts to hefeweizen and rye beers to hoppy biting things-- the fiery anger of Boonville’s Hop Ottin IPA–to malty chewy caramelly brown things to complicated amber things of myriad hints of diverse flavor to the estery coriandery goodness of a Belgian strong ale like DT or Duvel to the tart cherry idiosyncratic wonderfulness of an oud bruin like Rodenbach to the real fruit craziness of a flavored lambic or the dainty date-rape drug of Pyramid’s Apricot ale, or some obscure passion-fruit or orange-chocolate or mustard-seed enhanced thing from some insane mad-scientist-brewer’s kitchen in suburban Bruges, the spice and pine decoration of a Anchor Christmas (I believe it is 1996 or '97 that I still dream about-- there was clove, orange and pine. . . it was like drinking Christmas) to an exceedingly tart geuze for masochists like me or the diabetic, to a creamy mellow stout you can stand a spoon up in or a Guinness or the rock solid smoove Black Butte Porter and, since we’ve just been working outside and it’s 104 degrees, the ice-cold hint of a flavor in a bottle of Kokanee.
Miller, mostly. There might be a couple of areas where Miller doesn’t have the brewing capacity for contract brewing, but I know that Stroh’s and PBR are Miller contract brews.
Wow. That post made my nipples hard.
My usual beer is Corona, I don’t bother with lime slices, I just keep a bottle of lime juice in the fridge and add a shot to each bottle.
Even better are Pacifica and Carta Blanca.
Sometimes even Tecate.
I like the Mexican beers!
capybara, marry me. 
That made me thirsty, and I already have a beer in hand. Damn.
River Hippie – capybara
The yin and yang of beergeeks, together in their appreciation of the wonders of malt, hops, yeast and water.
Yay, I’m a beer pornographer!
There’s a Phillips Amnesiac double IPA here from Victoria, BC that needs attending to. I was going to have a vodka tonic night but you’ve all got me in the mood.
All beer is good, to some degree. Except for Saxer’s Lemon Lager, which tastes like yellow starburst candies, and Verhaeghe Vichtenaar, which should be oud bruin but tastes like balsamic vinegar.
For the record, I’m drinking a Red Stripe at the moment.
And Singha, which tastes just like another bad beer when going down, but then you get hit with the aftertaste of ammonia, polecat, and Peruvian wrestlers’ jockstrap. I’d honestly rather drink the local tapwater in SE Asia. Luckily, there are any number of locally-brewed Euro knock-offs which are almost drinkable, and a few decent local brews.
I think we may have to fight over him.
GT - drinking a Stella Artois solely because of this thread
Finished off another Stone IPA with dinner. Now to enjoy that bomber of Ruination IPA. Ah…the joys of locally-produced microbrews. I wonder what the peasants are drinking?
It’s a she-capybara, ladies, but thanks for the thought. Not that I assume that changes anything. . . it’s a rainbow beery coalition here.
Theloaded dog–nice anti-porn prose there.
In that case…
How you doin’? 
Doesn’t change a thing for me, capybara. A trip back home to the lovely Garden State for me and we could be wife and wife!
My husband won’t mind, really.
Beer - helping messageboard members flirt with each other since 1867.
I must say this is the first time I’ve been flirted with on the dope. By three people! All thanks to beer. The cause of and the solution to all life’s problems.
Try J.W. Dundee’s Honey Brown 
Well, I disagree with you here on a number of counts.
I know plenty of people who like beer who don’t like Sierra Nevada. Sierra Nevada is geared more towards people who like hoppy beers. Sure, it may be mildly hoppy compared with an IPA, but it’s still pretty much most people’s introduction to dry hopped beers, and many people simply don’t like the hops. Yet, they still may enjoy a Belgian or a stout or a porter. Plenty of Germans I know don’t like it, but love their pilseners and wheat beers. I think it’s an incorrect assumption to say if you don’t like Sierra Nevada, you don’t like beer. It’s a very particular taste, and it’s not to everyone’s style.
That said, I like Sierra Nevada. It’s one of my standard everyday drinkers…along with Sam Adams. While Sam Adams is not top of the heap, when I want a lager, it’s Sam Adams that I go for. They make some very nice beers–their Scotch Ale is certainly accomplished, and their Imperial Pilsener is simply inspired. Their Black Lager is quite palatable, too. And I miss their Honey Porter. To knock Sam Adams as “crap” is, I think, simply wrong. I suppose I also have a soft spot for it because Sam Adams is what got me drinking beer again.
At any rate, right now I’m enjoying a nice Dogfish Head Chickory Stout.
I would say that if somebody doesn’t like beer, then it’s worth at least checking the Belgians out. Personally, I’m not a die-hard fan of the Belgian beers (except for the gueuze) because they lack the hops I so enjoy. I do enjoy them on a nice winter’s day, but that’s about it. They may as well be another drink unto themselves. That said, the flavor profile of Belgian trappist ales and the like is so different than the typical beers that I find many people who hate beer do have a fondness for them. Try the Chimays, the Rocheforts, etc. If you like it sweet, try the Lindemann’s Kriek or Peche or Framboise or Pomme or Cassis.
Oh, and the last thing I disagreed with…I’ve never had a good Bass in the States. I think it tastes like piss at most bars here–certainly worse than Sam Adams. In Britain, though, it was a very different pour. I don’t think it was an exceptional beer, but certainly drinkable. However, there are so many more British beers that are better. I kind of think of Bass as the Beck’s or Stella of British ales.
Well, golly, if we’re talking non-traditional relationships, then it could be wife and wife and wife. Or we could have a really fun evening out.
GT