# Longboard Lager **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longboard-lager/361148 "2006-06-18T04:10:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longboard-lager/361148/1 "2006-06-18T04:10:21Z")
It seems that the only beer I’ve been buying lately is Longboard Lager. (Not that I buy beer very often, but when I do it’s Longboard.) If I go out and they don’t have it, I’ll drink something else. And at a pub I’ll still get my Guinness. But I developed a taste for Longboard at a seafood restaurant in Orange a few years ago. It’s not heavy, and it’s not light. It just tastes good. What do you think of it? ---
**Author:** ![Nekosoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@Nekosoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nekosoft)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longboard-lager/361148/2 "2006-06-18T07:24:51Z")
I tried a bottle when I was on the west coast this spring: very, very good! I’m no beer snob: I know what I like, and this fits the bill. Simply impossible to find in the Ozarks, though… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longboard-lager/361148/3 "2006-06-18T13:26:02Z")
> [@Nekosoft](#): > > I tried a bottle… I need to go back to that restaurant sometime. They have it on tap. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longboard-lager/361148/4 "2006-06-18T15:29:13Z")
Where, Johnny? Goat Hill Tavern in Costa Mesa has about 170 beers on tap, I wonder if they have it… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longboard-lager/361148/5 "2006-06-18T15:31:11Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Where, Johnny? Market Broiler at The Block. It’s been almost thee years since I’ve been there. Where’s Goat Hill Tavern? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longboard-lager/361148/6 "2006-06-18T20:20:24Z")
Newport Blvd in Costa Mesa, just south of 19th street. Across from Triangle Square. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longboard-lager/361148/7 "2006-06-19T00:01:12Z")
(Forgive me if I’m thinking of a different beer, but I’m 99% sure it was Longboard Lager . . . ) I was at a bar in Hawaii a few years ago and asked if they had any Hawaiian beers and the bartender said something like “not exactly,” and without any further explanation handed me a Longboard. I took a few drinks and said, “This is pretty decent, but it tastes exactly like Sierra Nevada,” to which the bartender replied, “It is, they just put a different label on it here.” Fast forward to about a year or two ago and I start seeing Longboard Lager all over the shelfs here on the mainland. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longboard-lager/361148/8 "2006-06-19T12:21:51Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > “This is pretty decent, but it tastes exactly like Sierra Nevada,” to which the bartender replied, “It is, they just put a different label on it here.” It’s been a while since I’ve had a Sierra Nevada, but I don’t recall it tasting the same. I think a bit of Comparitive Beverage Analysis is in order. 😉 Longboard is brewed in Kailua Kona, HI; and Sierra Nevada is brewed in Chico, CA. (I could have sworn that I was told that the Longboard on tap was brewed in Orange County, CA; but now I’m not sure.)