Well, my long time favorite is Full Sail Pale Ale. It has the perfect balance of hoppiness and maltiness…
I also like Anchor Steam, Bass Ale, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Franziskaner Hefe-Weisen, various Scottish Ales, and a few others. Alaska Amber ale… Steelhead Pale Ale…
And there’s also Delerium Tremens Ale, but only because of the name. It’s a bit malty for my taste, but it is rather high in alcohol.
If you aren’t sure about most beers, try a lambic. It’s usually fruit-flavored, very sweet, and about as potent as wine.
Well, I just got back from the grocery store, where I purchased a six-pack each of: Guinness Draught, Sam Adams Light, and Stella Artois. This is because I already have a case of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in the fridge!
Homebrewed beer. My favorites to make are wheat beers of different kinds (especially Belgian-style witbeer) and brown ales.
If I’m drinking commercially-produced beer, I usually look for something from Goose Island, New Glarus, Flying Dog, Unibroue, Hacker-Pschorr, or for a Belgian beer to try.
I’m partial to anything from the New Glarus Brewing Company . They’re local, fresh, and have great variety. In fact, I’m enjoying a nice Staghorn Octoberfest right now as I type this. My favorite is their Uff-da Bock. Mmmmm.
these days it’s St Pauli or Becks and always a 4 pack of Guiness pub drafts in the fridge. Occasionally a Degroens pils in the summer or a Fordham helles. In the winter I like to go for darker more full bodied beers like Hacker Pschorr Octoberfest, Bass or (my favorite) Sierra Nevada Bigfoot barleywine on a really cold day.
I’m a Full Spectrum BeerSlut™, I’ll drink really light beer in the spring and summer and darker heavier beer in the fall to winter.
My salvation was the Beer fridge kit I got for Xmas last year…followed by the realization that the local microbrewery sells their beer in 5 gallon kegs for $35. That’s by far the cheapest beer I can get of any quality and the stuff rocks. They usually have 7 varieties or so on hand at any point in time.
The current Beer of the Moment is Sierra Nevada Porter.
Brooklyn Oktoberfest was quite good on tap this weekend, and Magic Hat No. 9 is a nice, light apricot ale that I do enjoy occasionally despite my distaste for nice, light ales.
Unibroue Quelque’chose is orgasmic at 170 degrees F. It’s a slightly spicy cherry beer that I adore.
Having said that, I did have a couple of pints of Greene King IPA at lunchtime, which also slips down a treat. Now got to try and concentrate on work :dubious:
The best beer in the world is Brand Bier from my own region of The Netherlands. Sadly it doesn’t get exported (except by me) and can even be tricky to find in other parts of Holland. This is also why the websit is in Dutch only.
Here in Ireland I drink Guinness.
I was over in the States for the first time recently and was dreading the beer situation as all we get in Europe is dreadful Budweiser. Is it that bad in the States as well, or is it only the exported stuff only that’s vile? I was pleasantly surpised by Sam Adams which was really most drinkable.
I tend to go to extremes. I like lightweight beers, very chilled, like Rolling Rock. Or I drink Guinness, not so chilled. The in-between stuff, like Bass Ale or whatever, doesn’t do much.
However, I did go on a brewery tour with my motorcycle club (sounds bad, I know, but we didn’t drink during the ride, I swear) to a brewery in upstate New York called, if I remember right, Ommegang, and they made several Belgian-style beers. I remember being pleasantly surprised by their products (I bought a sampler six-pack to take home). Quite tasty. And I was also surprised, after consuming their products, by the alcohol content.