# What's you favorite beer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 21, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934 "2003-09-21T06:23:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/61 "2003-09-26T07:14:43Z")
Corona. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/62 "2003-09-26T07:24:25Z")
The only beer i drink is root beer. IBC Root Beer is my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/63 "2003-09-26T07:26:19Z")
Dos Equis and Killian’s. They’re dark enough to not taste like water, yet light enough not to taste like sand. ---
**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/64 "2003-09-26T11:39:31Z")
Mmm Beer, Boddingtons & Worthingtons (cream flow), Banks’ (but only in the right pubs) Lots’ of real ales, Evesham ale for example. ---
**Author:** ![WillSantini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@WillSantini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillSantini)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/65 "2003-09-26T17:37:43Z")
Shiner Bock ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/66 "2003-09-26T18:45:55Z")
“What’s your favorite …?” threads belong in [**In My Humble Opinion**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=12). I’ll move this for you. * * * **Cajun Man** ~ SDMB Moderator ---
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/67 "2003-09-26T20:39:33Z")
\>3) Little brew out of Montana called Moose Drool Got the T-shirt. Love the beer. Not in my top picks, though: Anderson Valley Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout Redhook ESB (alive and well) Pyramid Apricot Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine Anchor Steam Brothers Brewing Co Honey Amber Pilsner Urquell A _real_ Black and Tan-- 1/2 Guiness, 1/2 Bass Ale. Harp, bleah 😉 21st Amendment Watermelon wheat Pacific Coast Tripel RIP, 20 Tank Kinnickinick Stout. ☹ (please don’t double post…) ---
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/68 "2003-09-26T20:39:43Z")
\>3) Little brew out of Montana called Moose Drool Got the T-shirt. Love the beer. Not in my top picks, though: Anderson Valley Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout Redhook ESB (alive and well) Pyramid Apricot Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine Anchor Steam Brothers Brewing Co Honey Amber Pilsner Urquell A _real_ Black and Tan-- 1/2 Guiness, 1/2 Bass Ale. Harp, bleah 😉 21st Amendment Watermelon wheat Pacific Coast Tripel RIP, 20 Tank Kinnickinick Stout. ☹ (please Mr. Message, please don’t double post…) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/69 "2003-09-26T20:40:35Z")
**Jodi** , I’m right there with you on Widmer’s Hefeweizen. Oh for my college days, when this was a staple of my diet! Sadly, nobody seems to distribute it here in the South; last time I had it was about three years ago, when **burundi** and I travelled out to the Pacific Northwest. If Widmer’s is out of the picture, I have other loves. -A local brewpub once made the best fucking nut brown ale I’ve ever tried. It brought tears to my eyes, it was so good – all toasty and rich and nutty and fresh-tasting. -Same brewpub made a Gold Ale that **burundi** and I served at our wedding. Damn good stuff, and with sentimental value; hopefully they’ll make it again soon. -The local pizzeria/brewpub/cheapo theater combo makes a fine IPA, all flowery and perfumy, that goes great with a Greek pizza. If brewpubs are out, then I’ve got a couple fallbacks: -Anyone living in the South and snotty about their beer should by now know about [Sweetwater Brewing Company](http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/review/273/), a maker of fantastic beers. I especially like their IPA and EPA; the only thing I’ve had by them that wasn’t so good was their blueberry beer, which, c’mon, is blueberry beer – I would’ve been profoundly disturbed if it HAD been good. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/70 "2003-09-26T20:44:14Z")
ARGH! ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/71 "2003-09-26T21:00:50Z")
Huh – I’m having fun reading the reviews of beers at [www.beeradvocate.com](http://www.beeradvocate.com). If I ever think my crowd of gamers are too geeky and self-absorbed in our trivial hobby, I can go back to this website :). (Incidentally, those bastards hate Widmer’s Hefeweizen for the exact reason I love it: it doesn’t taste like deliquesced moldy dinner rolls, the way most Hefeweizens do. The fools!) Daniel ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/72 "2003-09-26T21:19:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DMark \* > **Germans who come and visit ALL like Miller Lite…there is something called Weizen Bier popular in Muenchen that is truly wretched…** Wow. All my German relatives drink either Old Milwaukee or Piels real draft (from a can no less) whenever they’re staeside for a visit. A quick tally of the thumbs up/down on Weißbier: 7 - Good (or made the list) 1 - “Wretched” I’ll make it 8 “thumbs up” and nominate **[Spaten’s Franziskaner Weißbier](http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/beer.asp?beerid=887) (either Kristallklar oder HefeWeiß** - depending on my mood. I’ll concede that Weißbier as a very polarizing nature - People either love it or they depise it. For me nothing beats the smoothness, the flavor, the ticklish foamy head and the little sting it leaves right in the back of your throat. As an aside, something I’ve recommended before to non-beer drinkers to quench therithirst on a super hot summer day: A Shandygaff - named after the pub it was invented in 1700’s England. Made in a large glass 2/3 lager beer & 1/3 ginger ale. I can’t even the last time I had one - but they do quench a thirst ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/73 "2003-09-26T21:35:41Z")
Not cheap/imported/hard to find: Staropramen Pilsner Urquell Ruddles County Cheap: Lone Star Shiner Bock Coors ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/74 "2003-09-26T21:36:01Z")
Currently: MacTarnahan’s Amber Ale Widmer Hefeweizen (no lemon, thanks) Black Watch Cream Porter (MacTarnahan’s) Mirror Pond Pale (Deschutes Brewery) Batchelor ESB (Deschutes) If you think that American beers suck, come try some Pacific Northwest Microbrews. Might possibly change your mind. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/75 "2003-09-26T22:03:48Z")
Anyone ever have [OLDE FROTHINGSLOSH](http://www.saintjoe.edu/~kurts/slosh/slosh.html)? A novelty brew which was actually Iron City Beer in wolve’s clothing You have to love their slogans: _The Pale Stale Ale for the pale stale male with a taste so light, the foam is on the bottom_ and _Hippety hops make it tops! Guaranteed to fit any shape glass_ Miss Frothingslosh, a 300# bathing beauty who used the stage name Fatima Yechburg graced their cans until her death at the age of 54. ---
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Natural Light and Budweiser ``` but give seconds to miller high life and coors light. BUT, NATTY IS THE BEST!!!!!! ``` ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/77 "2003-09-26T22:37:57Z")
Anderson Valley Boont Amber Ale Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/78 "2003-09-26T23:04:52Z")
Such a simple question, so hard to answer. I’ll go along with the apparent consensus that Pilsner Urquell reigns as the best lager & Guiness the top stout. But this is a good moment to mention the fact that it matters a great deal where & in what form the beer is served. For example, I’m sure that Guiness served in the US, even tapwise, can’t compare with the real stuff. And bottled Guiness is awful. I’m also sure that imported Carlsberg is 2nd rate & I suspect so is imported Stella Artois (though it’s not bad considering). Underrated beers? I think of Mexico. The previously cited Indio is great & even better is Victoria. I don’t believe either is imported to the US, while the inferior brands Dos Equis, Tecate, etc. are. Also Modelo Especial really works for me; I prefer it to its sister Negra. Sapporo is my favorite Japanese, being silky & refreshing. The Brit ales should not be slept on. I love Samuel Smith Nut Brown or Oatmeal Stout, Whitbread, & Fuller’s ESB. I often wonder why the Brits I know in NYC so lackadaisically avoid their home brands in lieu of junk like Budweiser. By the way, could a Brit or Irishman please settle this question of how to make a real Black & Tan (i.e. with Harp or Bass)? The Belgians rate as well. Delicious Orval isn’t appreciated nearly enough, and the Chimays are incredible if you have the courage for them. And I can’t conclude without giving props to a couple of my local brews, Brooklyn Pilsner, which allegedly tastes the way American beer did a century ago & the mysteriously enchanting Brooklyn Weisse. Look for them. Many of the brands mentioned in this thread as favorites strike me more as examples of the worst beers on the market. E.g. Miller Lite, Red Stripe. Piels is truly atrocious & I dare anyone to finish a can. ---
**Author:** ![Kieras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a87d85/32.png) [@Kieras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kieras)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/79 "2003-09-27T01:26:17Z")
Well being from Oregon going into the beer section is suppose to be heaven. ☹ 😕 We have outrageous amounts of home brewed beers. I will take a Black Butte Porter though over most. Guinness Is like licking an ashtray to me… No offense ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934/80 "2003-09-27T01:44:11Z")
Guiness… McEwan’s… Skullsplitter… some microbrew stuff, like Rogue Brutal Black Bitter, and Rogue Dead Guy, Magic Hat #9, Magic Hat Chaotic Chemistry, (Magic Hat’s Ale of the Living Dead was interesting… but I ain’t normally big on “spiced” beers… I think it was the name…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-you-favorite-beer/202934.md?page=5)