Victory Hop Devil IPA is a great beer for hopheads. As a matter of fact, I’m going out to the brewery in about 15 minutes to meet a friend for a couple.
Here’s what Michael Jackson (no, not that one, the Beer Hunter guy) has to say about the Devil:
Well, when I lived in State College and went to Zeno’s, I drank Belhaven Scottish Ale on tap. Mmm. For Victory Hop Devil IPA, I went to the Deli. **Yuengling Lager ** everywhere else.
Here in Seattle I drink Loki Lager at the Elysian, Hale’s Cream Ale at the Deluxe or Hale’s Brewery, Maudite at the Stumbling Monk…and on Trivia Night at the George and Dragon with my fellow Dopers, Boddington’s.
My beer of choice for years was Yuengling. Couldn’t get it when I first moved here to eastern Virginia, but now it’s everywhere.
picker, I feel your pain, and will now include a toast to you when I have a draft (if I don’t get too drunk and forget.)
I’ll have to support pyrrthon1’s love of Chimay. That being said, my favorite brew is a Belgium style Saison Ale called Hennepin, brewed right here at the Ommegang Brewery in New York (well…upstate NY anyway).
I’d also love to participate in any Doper beer tasting gatherings here in NY, if such a thing comes along.
I had the pleasure of tasting Hennepin during a tour of the Ommegang brewery last year. Also a few others – Three Philosophers (some limited-run beer) comes to mind. I bought a six-pack sampler of their various brews and took it home for a tasting (couldn’t taste the stuff on-site – I was riding a motorcycle back to New York City after the tour).
When I am back in Calgary, I drink Big Rock Traditional Ale in large amounts. Home, here in Austin I’ll drink Shiner more often than not and if I feel like a treat, I go with the Bass. I usually mix in some Guiness and other various beers for variety.
My usual beer is Newcastle Brown Ale.
Lately I’ve also been drinking some of the hyper-expensive Maudite.
For lagers, I usually go for Spaten, and sometimes Lowenbrau.
Penn State. $2 pints of Yuengling. Yum. We still drink it now (in NYState), probably our favorite regular brew. I’m also a fan of more traditional Euro lagers–Spaten, Pilsner Urquell, etc. Just tried the Ommegang ales (hennepin, witte, and, um, the main one whose name I didn’t see on the bottle) last week … oog. Fun and fruity, yes, but man, are they headache generators. Way too many esters. Reminds me of my old roommate’s homebrewed mead.
I’m also a bit ashamed to admit that I have a fondness for Genesee. A good summer barbecue beer. And cheaper than water.
Favorites are, depending on my mood: Guiness, Samuel Smiths Oatmeal stout, Stella Artois, Yueingling lager, Abita Purple Haze, and Caffereys. However, I am somewhat of a beer slut, and will drink what is around. I have had the hardest time finding the Abita PH and Caffereys in Florida, anyone have any suggestions?
Jever is the choice beer of one German cousin.
the other likes Krombacher.
He was laying his hand upon a winejar: Malachi saw it and withheld his act, pointing to the stranger and to the scarlet label. Warily, Malachi whispered, preserve a druid silence. His soul is far away. It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.
(James Joyce ruined my life.)
For the last few years, the Double Barrel Ale from these guys has been the default choice for me (not that I don’t like something different now and again):
They make a nice lager, too.
You arrogant bastards,the only worthy beer is from Belgium. 
It all depends on where I am. Here at home in the Netherlands, it’s Grolsch. At my parents home in Germany it’s either Pfungstädter or Schmucker. When visitng my grandmother it’s Ellwanger Rotochsen. When visiting my sister, it’s either Spezial Rauchbier (tatstes like liquid ham), or Hummel from a small brewery in Merkendorf.
German beers don’t taste good if they have been stored too long, and there are so many good local breweries, that there is no incentive in drinking a non-local beer.
I have no problems getting Brand here in Utrecht. It is actually my second choice after Grolsch. When it comes to Grolsch, I especially love the “beugelfles” or fliptop which can be seen in the middle here. Other decent Dutch beers are Hertog Jan, or in an emergency even Dommelsch or Bavaria will do. Anything but Heineken (tastes horrible and gives me headaches if I drink just one) and Amstel (tastes like horse piss).
I use the Grolsch fliptop bottles for bottling my homebrew. 
They serve a lazy brewer like myself well.
As for Heineken, I heard a joke from another homebrewer that if you tour the Heineken factory, they let you pet the skunks. (“Skunky” is a term used often to describe a foul off-taste reminiscent of skunk-scent in beer, typically caused by light exposure or other mishandling.)