Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: saulgoldie
Date: 19 Mar 11 - 09:35 AM

Anything with character. That is to say, NOT any of the bottled American piss-beers.

I am blessed with several accessible brewpubs. Growlers, Dogfishhead, Rock Bottom, and Gordon Biersch. They all have a good variety. They all carry at least one stout, and a couple of other beers that I can happily drink. One or two is always sufficient. But whatever I am drinking, my favorite is a beer with good company.

Saul

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 19 Mar 11 - 07:37 AM

Cheshire Gold Beer. A pale golden beer brewed entirely from malted Maris Otter barley grown in Yorkshire and hopped with target hops with a late addition of whole leaf green bullet hops which impart pine lemon crispness and an excellent aroma.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Mr Red
Date: 19 Mar 11 - 07:09 AM

Cider

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 06:29 PM

ninkasi ipa....lots of flavour, you can taste the hops...and a couple of bottles or so will knock you flat on your ass.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 06:21 PM

Krusovice - the Royal Czech beer

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 02:48 PM

What beer is your current favorite?

Look, man, I don't swim in beer. I drink it. Know'm sayin'? If there was enuff to swim in, I would still drink it.

- Shane

p.s. The idea of havin' a river of beer is a damm good one. Someone should talk to the flippin' Ministry of lakes and rivers or somethin' and see if it can be done. Peple would not hafta go to the Beer Store no more.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: gnu
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 02:42 PM

Have another beer Mike... or is it Charley?

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 27 Jul 10 - 07:11 PM

Keith's has been around Atlantic Canada since 1820, and they started
brewing it out West this past year. Or they will be soon. I read it
somewhere that they were expanding.

I like Keith's, and I like it lukewarm. That's why I bring my own
booze to parties, because if I get offered a beer, it's always cold.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: maeve
Date: 27 Jul 10 - 06:48 PM

GUEST 999- Same, me.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 10 - 06:09 PM

*grin*

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Jul 10 - 06:03 PM

``Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?``

Adrien Doucette.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 10 - 11:47 AM

I posted way back in 2002 that 'would kill for an Orval Ale'...now I don't have to....I was give one for Christmas. Now I have the dilemma that, once I drink it, it will be gone, so I am pondering what 'occasion' is JUST right.

This suggests my revised answer to the original question:

If I was condemned, or had to choose ONE beer for my last, it might well be an Orval....but if the question is: "What beer would I choose for a lifetime supply on a desert island?" I might choose one of the Dogfish Head IPAs.
This choice could easily be revised over time if I could sample all those interesting items mentioned above by others...especially in England.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 27 Jul 10 - 11:16 AM

I moved house and job a hundred miles to live in Adnams country, with Tolly Cobbold as a distant second choice, but since Tolly's demise as a cask beer, Earl Soham 'Victoria' or Woodforde's 'Wherry' have filled in (and up) nicely. In a bottle, there's nothing to touch St Peter's.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 27 Jul 10 - 08:31 AM

If I'm in a restaurant that carries it (only one that I currently know, here in Indianapolis), I'll order Wahrsteiner Dunkel, a German dark beer.

If they don't have that, my first reflex is to order Blue Moon.

If I'm at my "neighborhood Brew Pub", I'll order what they call Lawnmower Ale. If in the winter, I'll make my lame joke about how they should call it Snowblower Ale.

For consumption at home, I enjoy Fat Weasel Ale, from Trader Joe's.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: vectis
Date: 27 Jul 10 - 08:20 AM

I am about to embark on a week or so in Otter country (Sidmouth). Delicious

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: GUEST,Patsy Warren
Date: 27 Jul 10 - 07:12 AM

London Pride & Spitfire beers are my favourite but tend to drink them in autumn and winter. Caffrey's is another one that I like but again it isn't a thirst quencher so I wouldn't drink this in warm weather.

On a slightly different topic can somebody tell me if Barley wine is realy a wine or is it classed as a strong malt beer? It is an acquired bitter taste, strong and hoppy and very potent. I haven't seen the stuff for ages. If anyone knows where I can buy it please could they let me know? I can't seem to find it in the local supermarkets.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 06:34 PM

Well, well, well... Joe F and I agree on one thing... Guiness Stout ain't half bad now and then... You know, when it's after midnight on Saturday night and the beer stores are all closed and you just run outta Irin City but ya' got a couple Guinesses in the frig...

B~

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Joe_F
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 06:26 PM

What I keep in my fridge is usually one or another version of Sam Adams. In public I try to be adventurous, but Bass Ale or Guinness is a frequent choice.

The potent anti-snob appeal of Budweiser is attested in the following story, which I read in the Boston Globe some years ago. The venerable saloon Doyle's in Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, came under new management, which aspired to move upscale. To get rid of the riffraff, it ceased to serve Budweiser, and the new owner was quoted as being well pleased with the results.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 05:24 PM

More beer-wantabees...

(((yawn)))

Iron City Rocks!!!

Okay, it might not have 8% alcohol... That's a good thing 'cause it's so good that once you drenk one you'll wanta drenk 20... Ya'll drenk you a couple of them beer wantabees an' yer on the side of the road pukin'... But if that's what ya'll think is fun then have at them Iron City Wantabees...

Like I say, Iron City is the world's best beer...

B~

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 02:13 PM

A local brew, Big Rock Brewery, which makes fine beers and ales.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Charmion
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 12:03 PM

Since the bankruptcy of the Hart Brewing Company of Carleton Place, Ontario and the disappearance of its lead product, Dragon's Breath Pale Ale, Edmund and I have drunk our way around the province in search of a viable replacement. We have finally identified a successor: Sgt. Major by the Scotch Irish Brewing Company of Fitzroy Harbour, Ontario.

Unfortunately, it is not consistently available, even at the LCBO.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 11:45 AM

The Thornbridge Hopton Pale was rather good at the VicFest in Beeston yesterday, causing a dancing attack around 2000 hrs. I then fell out of bed at 0258 hrs causing mild abrasions.

Incidentally one of the performers was a Jim Carroll in an excellent band called Acushla. Was it Mudcat's Jim Carroll? - if so jolly well played and sung Jim!

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 10:47 AM

My favourite is Deuchar's IPA, preferably served by fount rather than handpump, which means I have to go to the "Royal Oak", Infirmary Street Edinburgh (and enjoy the music).

As for lagers, my favourite is Staropranem dark, though last time I drank some, I had to go to Prague.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: GUEST,Steamin' willie
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 04:31 AM

Pale Rider.

Nothing has knocked it off its perch for a a good few years now....

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: John J
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 04:19 AM

Draught:
Generally any decent cask conditioned, full bodied and flavoursome, bitter-ish ale.

In the north of England (and sometimes available further afield): Timothy Taylor Landlord

More local to me (north Cheshire): virtually anything from the Dunham Microbrewery.

Bottled:
Current favourites: Badger 'Golden Glory' and Shepherd Neame 'Early Bird', although many bitterish bottle conditioned ales are excellent.

Cans: (only in emergency!)
Badger 'Tanglefoot'

JJ

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 02:22 AM

Can't get real ale here in Co. Clare (as far as I know). The next best thing currently is Morland's Old Speckled Hen & Fuller's London Pride in bottles available from Super Valu supermarket in Ennistymon.!

Incidentally, are the moderators asleep, the previous poster seems to have appeared in a number of similar recent postings under different pseudonyms?

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jul 10 - 07:50 PM

Samuel Adams' Summer Ale.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Beer
Date: 12 Jul 10 - 01:47 PM

Bobert!, what is the alcohol content of the Iron City beer?
ad.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 12 Jul 10 - 01:37 PM

Just performed woth Shanty men at the Weymouth 'Spirit of the Sea' and Dorset sea food Festival. main stage inBrewers Quay, mwhere the Devenish Brewery building now has multiple uses, including the Dorset Brewin Company's micro Brewery. They produce a suprisigly large range, quite impressed by 'Jurassic' and 'Durdle Door'.

http://www.dbcales.com/

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Jul 10 - 12:32 PM

Hurrrrummmffff!!!

Mean mouth Iron City, will ya'??? Best beer out there by far!!! I gotta a sixpack of it in my studio refrig right now... I save 'um fir special occasions...

As fir all them micro-brews beer-wantabees, like Copperhook, I wouldn't drink one at a goat fu*kin'...

B;~)

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Jul 10 - 12:18 PM

LOL! I just happily re-read most of this thread, wondering what had refreshed it. I am glad Beer has found a good local brew...

but I gotta giggle at Bobert's insistence that Iron City is 'special'.

A "life changin' experience", he says.... Yup! You don't think that beer got it's name just from its locale, do you? Why, I suspect doctors up there give it to patients with iron-poor blood! Drink too much, and you may start to rust iffn you get wet!

I will admit Iron City HAS flavor..(unlike some American beer)... but last time I tried some, I felt my tongue trying to point North for a couple hours. ☺

I just last night had some CopperHook from the RedHook brewery. Really decent, refreshing Spring Ale with taste.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Jul 10 - 10:41 AM

A&W, either straight or squoshed up with ice cream.

Subject: RE: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 12 Jul 10 - 10:21 AM

If I was passing through Western PA, I think I'd buy Rolling Rock.

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Jul 10 - 11:03 PM

Ummmm, first of all I never saw this thread...

Second, and ya'll listen up real carefully... When yer passin' thru Western Pa. I want you to stop in any establishmnet that sells beer and you go back to the cooler where the cheap stuff is and you pull you out an icey cold sixpack of "Iron City Beer" and take yerseff and that sixpack of iced cold Iron City somewhere that ya'll ain't gonna get busted and you and that Iron City get acquainted, if ya get my drift here???

Now peoples talk about all kinds of life changin' experiences and I'm here to tell ya' that that is exactly what is gonna happen...

But wait... Here's the best part... You can buy a sixpack of Iron "real beer" City fir the price of one lousy bottle of these fancy micro-brewery beer-wantabees???

What is that about???

B~

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Beer
Date: 11 Jul 10 - 10:33 PM

Started drinking a local brewed beer called Trembley. Like it lots and besides you get a free cap in the case.
ad.

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 02:46 PM

I drink it 'mostly' out of wooden mugs that I have made myself & a couple of leather mugs I bought...but I also have some glass & pottery mugs and glasses. (the wood & leather ones act as their own coaster, so I don't have to worry about wood surfaces)

ANY experience, including drinking various things, is what you make it. I often have food with my beer...but I often don't. I'm no gourmet, but I do see why some like to enhance dining with selected wine or beer.

*grin* "uneducated boors" at least save on the space I allocate to all my mugs.

Subject: RE: Beer
From: RangerSteve
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 02:03 PM

After trying my first bottle of Dogfish Head beer, I went to their website to see what they had to say about themselves. I was curious about what went into their 60 Minute IPA. It tasted kind of herbal to me, but nothing I could pin down. It turns out it has "Notes of citrus". All thier beers have "notes" of something. They also recommend the proper shapes of the glasses you should be drinking from. Being an uneducated boor, I drink from the bottle, presumabely missing out on the beer experience. They also tell you what foods to pair the beers with. Beer is not an effeminate experience. It is not supposed to be enjoyed with foix gras, truffles and other snob food. It shouldn't be drunk from dainty glasses, and you shouldn't have to buy a dozen different types of glasses to enjoy various beers with each course in a meal. My meals don't even have courses. The rule for beer, like wine, should be: drink what you want, when you want, how you want. Screw these dainty types who mince around with their meaningless adjectives. Beer wasn't created for little girls. It's a grown up drink for men. Women are welcome, but remember, it's not pretty and never will be.

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 07:10 PM

Does it come in a long-necked bottle?

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 06:29 PM

Its been15 years since I had my all time favorite beer directly from Denmark called Giraffe.

if its not from Denmark its a forgery.

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Rog Peek
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 05:54 PM

I'll take your word for that Ron. Forgive me if I stick with my Guinness.

Rog

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 07:50 PM

I just realized I have 3 "60 Minute IPAs" left...well, 2½ now...yum!

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 07:21 PM

Dogfish Head will spoil you!

Blue Moon, if we are thinking of the same thing...(Belgian style white beer?) was ok, but never impressed me after tasting Hoegaardens White from Belgium. If I could have ONE beer trip, it would be to Belgium.

Subject: RE: Beer
From: RangerSteve
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 06:18 PM

Bill D. - I just tried some Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA today. WOW!.
I'm not good at describing tastes, but that was like nothing else I've ever had. I'll definately be buying more.

I like to support local micro-breweries, so I've been buying River Horse from Lambertville, NJ. Their beers are my favorite. Saranac, from Utica, NY has some good ones. Considering that they're from the same brewery that once made Utica Club, which was crap, they've really made an improvement. Also, Blue Moon, which I believe is Canadian, isn't bad. Any brand that labels itself as a "Winter Ale" is usually good. I don't understand why no one can brew it year round.

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 05:07 PM

The 'very best you've tasted' gets into the type of high-quality, lower production I have been talking about. The others are run-of-the-mill mass-market items. I think it's been 10 years since I had ANY of those.

(In Kansas, in the 1970s, we used to think Foster's was 'special'...called it "Foster's 40 weight" after the resemblance to a can of motor oil.)

Subject: RE: Beer
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 03:30 PM

I can't stand Guinness but I like Harp.
I like Molson but Labatts always gives me a headache.
Beck's is a good buzz without much of a hangover.
Foster's is pretty good and also the only Australian beer I've ever seen around here.
The very best I've ever tasted is Great Lakes Christmas Ale. This is a Cleveland micro-brewery and not the cheap stuff from the 50's that someone mentioned earlier. The Christmas Ale comes out around the beginning of December and has flown off the shelves before the Holiday arrives.

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 12:01 PM

I have no idea what they import up there, Adrien.

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 12:00 PM

(or, "Imperial Russian Stout" I think it's called)

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:57 AM

and as I said above...get some Creemore Springs.

(Amos...Guiness is quite good, but Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout might turn your head)

Subject: RE: Beer
From: Beer
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:56 AM

Quebec Bill
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Beer
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:51 AM

"I never drink lager as I believe it is cruel to factory farm gnats!"

You've tasted the wrong lagers. The swill that the the large brewers put out is not a true reprentation.