What is your favorite beer? Do you prefer dark or light? Do you drink every week?
My favorite is Killians or Amber Bock. I prefer the dark beers.
I don’t drink every week. I am a closet drinker. My ex husband was/is an alcoholic. I never allowed alcohol into the house because of this and even though he is out of the picture I still don’t. I never drink in front of my kids. It is an ugly reminder to them. And since my kids go just about everywhere I do…I have to sneak a drink.
Beamish stout.
I can only get it on tap at a few bars around here, but then I somehow find myself at those few bars quite often …
Obviously, this means I like dark, thick beer.
While not drinking in front of your kids is admirable, I suppose, the words “sneak” and “closet drinker” seem a concern. You’re an adult and not a problem drinker, so why do you feel the need to sneak? Just curious, not attacking or anything.
I like bitter German beers, btw.
If I drink once a month I am exagerating my drinking habit. I rarely drink. But every now and then nachos with beer or wings and beer hit the spot. I feel I have to sneak cause I don’t want my kids to ever see me with alcohol or know that I am drinking under any condition.
Labatts
Harp
Killians Red
Wouldn’t it be good for the kids to see what responsible drinking looks like?
I like Sam Adams and Guinness.
I understand that because of your ex, you are hesitant to drink in front of your kids. He took it to one extreme (which was irresponsible of him, and set a bad example), but you’re taking it to the other, and that’s sending just a bad a signal to the kids, also. As **cmosdes[/d] mentioned, perhaps not treating the occasional beer as something that needs to be enjoyed on the sneak is a better way to go. It removes the mystique and forbidden aura that you are giving it (and will likely make them more inclined to sneak some themselves), and you’d be setting a positive example, that a beer can be enjoyed in moderation and responsibly. Just a thought.
Oooo tough choice I love nearly all beers. My favorites are generally Ambers but I like Heffeweissen, and Blonde beers too.
I like anything German. but my favorites are probably Augustiner, followed Hofbrau, and Paulaner.
For domestics, I like Fat Tire and I like this bitter ale called Arrogant Bastard.
Oh and I like Belgian Chimay too. Yummy!
My standards are Sam Adams, Goose Island, and Leinies.
While vacationing up in Michigan, we took quite a liking to Bell’s.
Hacker Pshorr - Weisen (with a slice of lemon) - a wheat beer; not too filling - when I drink at a local bar.
Guinness Stout - If I’m only having 1 beer (like before my train ride home from work).
Yeungling Lager - When I feel like drinking 2-3 beers while sitting at home watching TV.
Killian’s - While eating dinner at Outbacks or some other TGIF-like place.
Coor’s Light - After drinking a few other harder drinks.
Yeungling Lager
Now I want a beer, damn it. I still have 2 more hours to work!
I have a keg of Miller Lite on tap at my house, so I can have it any time I want to. BUT, it’s my husband’s choice to have that. I’d prefer bottles of Coor’s Light.
Favorite beer? Like just one? Does…not…compute. I can’t even name a favorite * style * of beer much less an indvidual beer. Stout, light or amber it’s all good, just depends on my mood.
My favorite common beers are (in no particular order):
Guiness Stout
Newcastle Brown
Bass Ale
Negro Modello
Spaten Oktoberfest
Harder to find beers from the Left/Upper Left Coast and The Greatland
Redhook(Seattle, WA) ESB
Deshutes (Bend, OR) Black Butte Porter and Jubel Ale
Thomas Kemper(Seattle, WA) Happy Cow
Alaskan Brewing Co’s Amber, Oatmeal Stout and Smoked Porter
Mooses Tooth (a brewpub in Anchorage) Coffee Stout, Smokey the Beer (rauchbeir) and Darth Delerium Belgium Stout.
Sadly, most of my favorites aren’t available in the tiny little state I moved too in Febuary. With a few exceptions, Texans just don’t know how to brew. 
Fortunatly I’m also a homebrewer so I’ve always got good beer around when I want it. Current beers on tap are heavily hopped brown ale, a coffee stout and some cranberry mead, currently have an IPA fermenting away in the closet.
Guinness. Probably too expensive for a student, but since I only manage four before collapsing it’s not too bad 
Newcastle Brown… Miller Lite if I’m broke.
So usually, miller lite…heh
Coors Lite is what I prefer. I don’t drink too often seeing as I’m not of age, but Coors Lite is my favorite. I also like Natty Lite (laugh all you want) but that was the first kind of alcohol I ever tried. It was my Sophomore year at a big hick party out in the country. Good times.
The second runnings off my heavy scotch ale is probably my favorite.
After that, it’s the “Free Beer” brand.
I love Guinness, one of the few beers I actually enjoy drinking. Other ones I seem to find good:
Corona (kinda the opposite of the Guinness, I’m weird like that)
Labatt Blue
Coors Lite (eh, I know it;s not great, but sometimes I just want to enjoy something that isn’t too heavy, on taste or my wallet.)
Dammit, you people are making me thirsty!!!
All time favorites, in order:
Hacker-Pschorr
Spaten Oktoberfest
Whitbred
However, nowadays I usually drink Heineken.
I’ve had those both in Santa Cruz- they ain’t bad.
My favorites are Big Daddy and Prohibition, both from Evans Street’s Speakeasy Brewery. Corona, Guiness, hefeweisen or Heineken will do in a pinch, though.
I’ve only had Fat Tire and Yeungling once, but I enjoyed both throughly.
If you around the Twin Cities area, try some Summit or James Page. Both are local breweries, although they do have some distribution outside of the Twin Cities (found Summit in Champaign, IL suprisingly).
I also have a soft spot for Michelob Golden Draft. It’s a ‘mass-market’ beer, but it’s only available in about 4 states IIRC.