I don't like beer
sadly these days it's Estrella Damm Daura
but really, Guinness
I go through phases were I heavily favor specific styles of beer over specific breweries. For example, I went through a barley-wine phase (Sierra Nevada Bigfoot was my favorite), a porter phase, a brown ale phase (Abita Turbo Dog or Smuttynose Old Brown Dog), and last summer was an IPA phase (Dogfish Head was one my many favorites). This summer is a little weird as it's been mostly a beer in the can phase. Butternut Farms out of NY has some good beers in a can. Harpoon has also released their IPA and Summer Ale in a can. I thought as a beer snob I would find it blasphemous, but I'm enjoying the canned beer vs. bottled. However, one of my alltime favorites is Whale's Tale Pale Ale by Cisco Brewery on Nantucket. A bigger company is now brewing it off island so it's starting to get more distribution in the New England area.
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I love me some Guinness, but down here in Australia we've got a good range to choose from.
Personally I'm a fan of Cooper's Extra Stout in winter and Cooper's Sparkling Ale in Summer.
I'm also fond of the India Pale Ale and Jack of Spades Porter's Stout from James Squire's Brewery.
For the Guinness fans- An English style pub in my area came up with a drink called the Celtic Warrior. They've only recently started advertising it on the drink menu so you used to have to be "in the know" to order it. It's half Guinness and half Woodchuck Hard Cider (like a Black Velvet). The secret ingredient is a shot of Jameson. Caution, it is strong, so be careful. I tried to make my own modified version once around St. Patty's Day. Called the Blood Haze, I substituted a red ale for the cider. It was awful...
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Not a favourite but an honourable mention. I'm drinking a bottle of 'Blue Moon', which is billed as a 'North American Craft Beer'. It's bloody good. I wasn't suprised when I flipped the bottle round though and saw it was from Colorado. I've had nice microbrewery beer from there on a trip once before.
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I recently brought a sixpack of Moose Drool on a tubing trip. Good stuff at any time of year.
Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat is just a great easy drinker and is my choice when available. However, the brewery is based in Kansas City and they have limited regional distribution, which means I rarely get to enjoy one in Rhode Island. Luckily, I have Dogfish Head and several New England brewers to keep me safe.
Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat is just a great easy drinker and is my choice when available. However, the brewery is based in Kansas City and they have limited regional distribution, which means I rarely get to enjoy one in Rhode Island. Luckily, I have Dogfish Head and several New England brewers to keep me safe.
Boulevard makes great beers, no question. After leaving New England, I really miss the New England Brewing Company (Norwalk, CT) that used to make Atlantic Amber. That beer was phenomenal.
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Yuengling. Only beer I can drink. I'm new to beer drinking.You poor man. Don't worry. It gets better.HEATHEN!!! BLASPHEMER!!!
Yuengling Black & Tan is DELICIOUS...AND CHEAP...AND DELICIOUS!@!!
Oh, don't get me wrong, Yuengling makes some great beer. But, that being the only beer a body can drink is very sad. There are way to many awesome beers in the U.S. to just limit yourself to one.
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Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat is just a great easy drinker and is my choice when available. However, the brewery is based in Kansas City and they have limited regional distribution, which means I rarely get to enjoy one in Rhode Island. Luckily, I have Dogfish Head and several New England brewers to keep me safe.
Mmmmm....Dogfish Head. Now you're my language. Still, this Boulevard sounds interesting. I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
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Not a favourite but an honourable mention. I'm drinking a bottle of 'Blue Moon', which is billed as a 'North American Craft Beer'. It's bloody good. I wasn't suprised when I flipped the bottle round though and saw it was from Colorado. I've had nice microbrewery beer from there on a trip once before.
Blue Moon is a very not bad beer.
Blue Moon is a very not bad beer.
But a proper Belgian white is better. No corn in my beer, please. Not unless you're gonna put an illustration of an ear of corn on the bottle. That I'd buy, for some reason. Especially if it had a stupid little face on the corn.
Rohrbach Brewery in Rochester NY sells jugs of their Scotch Ale at Wegmans. That has served me well in my last two sessions of Runelords.
Weyerbacher - Imperial Pumpkin
Weyerbacher- Blithering Idiot
Strong Bow - English pub cider.
Summer - Modelo Especial with or without a lime
Winter - Samuel Smith's Winterfest...very yummy
I love me some Guinness, but down here in Australia we've got a good range to choose from.
Personally I'm a fan of Cooper's Extra Stout in winter and Cooper's Sparkling Ale in Summer.
I'm also fond of the India Pale Ale and Jack of Spades Porter's Stout from James Squire's Brewery.
I bought a box of coopers lager for an 18th. I havent gone near anything with that label since.
Do they do a good stout, though? I'll have to check it out. I can't name a single stout I can find down under that's palatable, and I definately need to branch out a little.
Not a favourite but an honourable mention. I'm drinking a bottle of 'Blue Moon', which is billed as a 'North American Craft Beer'. It's bloody good. I wasn't suprised when I flipped the bottle round though and saw it was from Colorado. I've had nice microbrewery beer from there on a trip once before.Blue Moon is a very not bad beer.
Being in Colorado, Blue Moon is the cheap equivalent of drinking a good beer (i.e. not Coors, Bud, Michelob) which are on tap everywhere. If you want something that's kinda light and cheap, but actually tastes decent, Blue Moon/Fat Tire it is.
Having said that, I still quite enjoy Guinness despite having about a billion microbreweries around me. New Belgium is a great company, especially since I love belgian-style anything. Their seasonal Somersault is pretty good. As is Great Divide's Oak Aged Yeti. For out of town, Deschutes' Black Butte Porter is excellent.
Likewise, there are some brew pubs around that have so much on tap. I had this on Friday and it was great.
At the end of the month I'll be going to the Great American Beer Festival. I'll have much more to share then. In the mean time, I'll keep trying to remember the good beers I've had lately.
*edit* Since apparently my brain is ahead of me by a couple days, that would be the end of September for the Beer Fest.
I like beers with weird names like this. Indian Wells make something called Lobotomy Bock - not too bad. Stone's Sublimely Self-Righetous is another good one.Weyerbacher- Blithering Idiot
This particular beer is aptly named, it's a really smooth barley wine that is like 15% by volume...
Paulaner makes a very good wheat beer.
Other beers I like:
Bass Ale
Newcastle Brown Ale
Heineken
Negra Modello
Dos Equis Amber
Blue Moon
Peroni
I used to like Guiness, but lately I haven't enjoyed it as much.
Paulaner makes a very good wheat beer.
Other beers I like:
Bass Ale
Newcastle Brown Ale
Heineken
Negra Modello
Dos Equis Amber
Blue Moon
PeroniI used to like Guiness, but lately I haven't enjoyed it as much.
If you like Paulaner, I would recommend Julius Ecter as well (another German wheat beer). Julies, as I call them, come in a 4 pack of big boy bottles. Delicious.
Paulaner makes a very good wheat beer.
Had this in Cork city about 2 months ago. Just found where i can get a pint down under. I'm giddy.
I recently brought a sixpack of Moose Drool on a tubing trip. Good stuff at any time of year.
+1
Blue Moon
Indio (Mexican)
Magners Cider (Bulmers in Ireland, where you can get a pear version that is very tasty)
Woodchuck Cider
Pacifico (Mexican that reminds me of my honeymoon in Mazatlan)
I love trying microbrews when we travel, usually prefer wheat beers but have had some stouts that were very tasty. Unfortunately my memory isn't good enough to name any specifically.
I'm glad to see Guinness love in this thread - have many of you had it in Ireland? Is there much of a difference? I've never had it abroad, but I've heard it can taste pretty different.
I'm convinced it's a myth.
I've had Guinness in Ireland, in the Boston area, in upstate NY and in Quebec. There is no difference really, the difference is whether or not the kegs are getting consumed fast enough. I think in the average American bar, there just isn't enough demand for it and so what comes out of the keg might be rather dodgy.
Of course, the atmosphere of being surrounded in a pub by Irish men and women ceremoniously drinking the black stuff, well that has in intangible quality that I think is the source of the myth.
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I've never understood Guinness' reputation.
It's not a bad beer but there are plenty of other stouts which are of equal or better quality. Samuel Smiths do three stouts (Oyster Stout, Imperial Stout, Oatmeal Stout) which I prefer. Ridgeway does a tidy stout too.
My favourite is probably Hook Norton Brewery's Double Stout.
I'm glad to see Guinness love in this thread - have many of you had it in Ireland? Is there much of a difference? I've never had it abroad, but I've heard it can taste pretty different.
In my experience, I've found it to be a huge difference. The closer to the brewery you get, the better it tastes. The best pint I ever had was about a block away from the brewery (not the tourist trap with the shop and tour).
To test the theory I once took a friend who couldn't stand Guinness to a pub in Dublin and made her try a half-pint. She enjoyed it so much she ordered two more pints. (Edit to Add:) A few months later she ordered one in Boston and ended up spitting it out again.
The difference really stands out after spending a week or two in Dublin and then coming back to the States and ordering one. Occasionally you'll find a pub that knows how to poor it properly, especially in Boston, but it still isn't nearly as good.
I've never understood Guinness' reputation.
It's not a bad beer but there are plenty of other stouts which are of equal or better quality. Samuel Smiths do three stouts (Oyster Stout, Imperial Stout, Oatmeal Stout) which I prefer. Ridgeway does a tidy stout too.
My favourite is probably Hook Norton Brewery's Double Stout.
I think the reputation stems from the long Dark Age of American beer. Throughout much of the country until the mid-90s, if you wanted something that wasn't a corn lager, Guinness may well have been the only stout you would ever encounter on draft. Hell, in many parts of the country, it is still the least of all evils on tap. For that, it has earned a special place in my heart.
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I think the reputation stems from the long Dark Age of American beer. Throughout much of the country until the mid-90s, if you wanted something that wasn't a corn lager, Guinness may well have been the only stout you would ever encounter on draft. Hell, in many parts of the country, it is still the least of all evils on tap. For that, it has earned a special place in my heart.I've never understood Guinness' reputation.
It's not a bad beer but there are plenty of other stouts which are of equal or better quality. Samuel Smiths do three stouts (Oyster Stout, Imperial Stout, Oatmeal Stout) which I prefer. Ridgeway does a tidy stout too.
My favourite is probably Hook Norton Brewery's Double Stout.
Like making love in a canoe?
That makes sense. The UK had a horrible period of domination by cheap lager as well.
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Guiness was always my first choice. I said was.
Someone turned me on to Sweetwater Georgia Brown. Dark like Guiness but smoother, almost like Newcastle (another favorite). It is brewed in Atlanta, Georgia if the name didn't give it away.
Anyone read "The Drawing of the Dark"? Must read for Dark beer lovers that post on Paizo boards. :-)
Later,
Mazra
Guinness
Jever
Becks
Smithwick's (the real Kilkenny)