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Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
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Subject: RE: Beer From: gnu Date: 15 Jan 02 - 07:01 AM Moncton. Originally Three Miles In Back of Beyond, in western Kent County, NB... I got me a Country Cadillac too. Worked all over A-Canada, mostly NF & L. I ain't a Bluenoser, but I've drank a few Kieth's at the Bluenose. Hope you have a safe trip... we got a heavy snofall warning issued for tonight and part of Wednesday. Weather for Moncton is at http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/scripts/citygen.pl?client=ECCDN_e&city=YQM |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: GUEST,MC Fat Date: 15 Jan 02 - 07:13 AM No-one has lived until they've tasted TODGER'S OLD SCROTUM. Truely a classic ale, hard to find but especially good when your SROTUM is pulled by hand |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Aidan Crossey Date: 15 Jan 02 - 08:31 AM If having a few beers in the house, therefore out of a bottle or a can, T favour the following: Stout/Porter - Guinness draught (tins); Guinness Original (bottled); Young's Double Chocolate (bottles) Bitters/Ales - (all in bottles) Old Engine Oil, Wells' Bombardier; Black Sheep; Ruddle's County; Bishop's Finger; Newcastle Brown Lagers - Ostravar (local shop sells 500ml bottles for £1 and it's a tasty enough beer for washing down a take-away curry). In pubs - Guinness unless the Guinness is shit in which case I'll drink just about anything else (in a small bucket). |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: The Walrus at work Date: 15 Jan 02 - 08:47 AM Abuwood
"...Piddle in the Hole, Piddle in the Snow, Piddle in the Wind, and of course Royal Piddle..." Walrus
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Snuffy Date: 15 Jan 02 - 09:03 AM Definitely not, Walrus. they're from the Wyre Piddle Brewery in the village of (you guessed it) Wyre Piddle in Worcestershire. WassaiL! V |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: gnomad Date: 15 Jan 02 - 09:14 AM Temperature keeps raising its head here. British beers are generally best not warm (as is often supposed by those overseas) but at cellar to room temperature, nobody who lives here would mistake either of those for warm! That said many UK lagers are improved by deep chilling, it takes away the awful taste. To all our overseas friends who think they don't like UK beer I would invite them to come and try it in situ, the stuff you receive in cans and bottles is seldom even an approximation of the real stuff. Recommendations? Almost any of the non-national names, go to a free house (ie not tied to a particular brewery) and sample until you find a good fit, this may take a while as even a small pub may have a dozen brews on at a time, and yes, you can taste differences. One local micro-brew I loved when I lived in North Lincs was Willies from Cleethorpes. Decent, sensibly priced, and the best slogan for years "We like our Willies pulled by hand". |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: GUEST,rlhoek Date: 24 Feb 08 - 02:02 PM I like most beers, but prefer the europian ones the best. Mostly the Irish.. Harps is damn good so is the dutch Heinken.As for A&B Michelob isn't bad if you can't afford the imports. |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 08 - 02:33 PM My first thought on reading the opening to this thread was "Has Raptor remarried?" then realized this is a very old thread. So sad, so much has passed since he started it. I hope all is well with you, Raptor. How are you doing these days? I've been exploring beers, by the way. I've found several very good German brews. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Bill D Date: 24 Feb 08 - 08:45 PM I am, as I type, having a Longhammer IPA. It is not bad...not like Dogfish Head, but little is. Glad to see this old thread, even though it was revived with references to very average beers. |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Bill D Date: 24 Feb 08 - 09:02 PM By golly...I said 6 years ago that I was gonna take pics of my 'wall' of beer bottles, and since then, with a new computer, I have an easy way to do it...so I just did. Here is part of the USA section and part of the English/Scottish section (excuse the dust..it's right outside the woodshop) That's maybe a tenth of what I have stuffed in boxes & shelves. |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Bill D Date: 24 Feb 08 - 09:04 PM I see there's part of the Belgian stuff showing also. |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Sorcha Date: 24 Feb 08 - 09:29 PM Oh Bill......yer incorrigible you iz. |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Peace Date: 24 Feb 08 - 09:35 PM Ralph Nader matters. I'm posting that here because I posted on one of the Nader threads that beer matters. Tryin' to keep it egalitarian. |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Feb 08 - 10:45 PM That is quite a collection, Bill. And you drank them all yourself? Have you some way of keeping track of your favorites out of all of those brands and varieties? SRS |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Beer Date: 25 Feb 08 - 12:32 AM aaaah Beer. beer |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Bill D Date: 25 Feb 08 - 10:56 AM SRS..my rule is, it don't get on the shelf unless I drink it myself. I once made a half-hearted attempt to apply a rating system, but it would have been mostly to decide what to buy again, and too many disappear for it to make much difference. The very sight of the bottle often reminds me, and I now have a general idea of what is available. (and I can't afford to RE-try everything, anyway, as the collection is now 30 years old) I add a few new items every year...mostly of stuff that very thoughtful folks bring me from England, Wales, Canada, ...and occasional items from local breweries. also-- I drink 'em at a far slower pace than I used to! I got some wonderful stuff for Xmas, and am still working on those! |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Bill D Date: 25 Feb 08 - 07:09 PM Beer! refresh..... isn't this more interesting than more bad puns or wild comments about Ralph Nader? |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Beer Date: 25 Feb 08 - 07:20 PM So what brand are you going to try this evening Bill D? Me I'm having an Alexandra Keith's. Beer (adrien) |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Bill D Date: 25 Feb 08 - 07:26 PM I think a Canadian lager...Creemore Springs...one of the few actually GOOD lagers I have ever had. It was a present last Nov., and I have 2 left. You can't save lagers like you can barleywines and such dark stuff. |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Feb 08 - 10:34 PM it don't get on the shelf unless I drink it myself. That's odd; in my case it don't get OFF the shelf unless I drank it myself. I miss beer.... had to give it up because (A) the calories added up too fast at the rate I like to drink it (NA) and (B) never trust a fart, OK-- but NEVER trust a beer fart, esp when yer the pastor's wife out and about! :~) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Beer Date: 25 Feb 08 - 11:23 PM lol Susan. Bill D, I know I could Goggle it but would prefer not to. Where Is Creemore Springs beer found? Maybe i could get to try it. |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Bill D Date: 26 Feb 08 - 03:31 PM In Creemore,Ontario |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: irishenglish Date: 26 Feb 08 - 04:43 PM Top 5 in no particular order: Guinness Bass Ale Newcastle Brown Ale Sam Adams Octoberfest Corona (nothing like it on a triple h summer day in NYC) |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Beer Date: 26 Feb 08 - 07:02 PM Thanks Bill for the link. I hadn't heard of the place before. Beer (adrien) |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Steve Shaw Date: 26 Feb 08 - 08:14 PM By far the finest draught beer in Cornwall is Sharp's Doom Bar. A true cask-conditioned bitter produced by a brewery of real integrity. It is well-hopped (no crappy hop extracts) but is sweetly malty with pronounced fruit esters and fresh, green hoppiness on the nose. At 4.0% you can quaff it all night, unlike that horribly-headachey Abbot's muck and most of the brews from St Austell (though I can drink Tribute at a pinch). Skinners' beers (of Truro) are well worth avoiding in my opinion. Sharp's also make a beautiful bottle-conditioned beer called Chalky's Bite (Chalky was Rick Stein's dog), and the beer, subtly flavoured with Cornish fennel, is a fabulous aperitif and is also wonderful with seafood. It should be treated with respect at 6.8%, but it's as clean and fresh as a whistle. |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Bill D Date: 26 Feb 08 - 08:40 PM Sounds lovely, Steve....that is the way I feel about the various Dogfish Head brews from Delaware, USA. There's one for every taste, and they don't do anything badly. They make 3 different IPAs, each better than the last...and some strong, almost barleywine stuff also... |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Beer Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:03 PM So Bill it sounds as if you know your Beer. What would you recommend as a good American one? |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: GUEST,Rog Peek at work Date: 27 Feb 08 - 03:45 AM I never drink lager as I believe it is cruel to factory farm gnats! Rog |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Bill D Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:39 AM Beer...where are you? There are many good American beers these days, though you may need to be near an urban center to find a shop which carries an assortment. The only true way to find some to YOUR liking is to try a variety. If you have any access to that Dogfish Head type from Delaware, that's a good place to start...but for perfectly decent, easily available selection, the Sam Adams line or anything from Red Hook (Washington State) will let you find a direction....and any store which carries them, should have others. |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Amos Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:50 AM Karl Strauss is our local hero -- he makes a nice reddish lagerish sorta brew. But for serious discussions, Guinness rules. A |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Beer Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:56 AM Quebec Bill Beer (adrien) |
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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) |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Bill D Date: 27 Feb 08 - 12:00 PM (or, "Imperial Russian Stout" I think it's called) |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Bill D Date: 27 Feb 08 - 12:01 PM I have no idea what they import up there, Adrien. |
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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. |
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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.) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: Beer From: Steve Shaw Date: 28 Feb 08 - 07:10 PM Does it come in a long-necked bottle? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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~ |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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