Beer Thread

[AJ_rider]

The good stuff:

Yuengling - Delecious lager from America's oldest brewery.
Landshark - Like a less filling Corona (from Jimmy Buffett's brewery), nice for hot days at the beach or out on the boat.
Heineken Light - It's a Heineken but w/ only 99 calories!
Heineken - Althought it tasted much better when I was in Amsterdam.
Stella Artois - Just plain tasty.
Kronenburg - All I drank while in the UK, maybe why I dont remember much of the nights.
Bud Light - Hey, it's cheap.

The bad:

Hoegarden - Recently tried one, couldnt get down half before chucking it.
Coors Light - More like water light
Genesee/Genny light - Local beer, brewed from from the Genesee river, if you ever saw the Genesee river you would stay way away from this beer.
Keystone - 33 cents a beer, enough said. Brings back college memories though.

[chokeslam512]

I could go on for days here but I'll keep it short

Favorites (living room/bar):
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Sam Adams Black Lager
Boulevard Porter
My Russian Imperial Stout homebrew (I have too my own horn a bit)

Favorites (where glass is not permitted or when money is tight)
Miller High Life.

Not so much:
American/bottled Guiness (I have been to Ireland... it is different)

Gag Inducing:
Bud Light
Any Flemish Sour
My latest Maple lager homebrew (I am an honest guy what can I say?)

Iam in the process of harvesting and ripening pears from my backyard to make a pear mead for next spring.. hopefully that makes it to the top of the list next year :cheers:

[Hellgate]

Pear mead sounds great. It is very sweet or more flavorful?

[chokeslam512]

Originally Posted by Hellgate

Pear mead sounds great. It is very sweet or more flavorful?

I'm not sure, the only mead I've made with fruit added to it was blackberry and it had more acidity. I'm thinking that the pears should add quite a bit of flavor. I am planning on making a plain mead and a pear cider and then combining the two after primary fermentation to give more contrast between the two flavors. Gotta love the artistic freedom when it comes to brewing.

[quick fz]

i like the cheap crap:
coors light
busch light

then:
any sam adams that doesnt have cranberries in it
long trail makes a couple good brews
blue moon
#9
Black and Tans

Anything that will do the job after a long week at work.

usually friday nights start with a Bud heavy and shot of JD

[HowlFZ6]

Favorites:
Newcastle
Bell's Best Brown
Sam Adams Boston Lager, Light, and Summer Ale
Rogue Shakespeare Stout (Delish!)

Not So Good:
Landshark - Packs a punch as well as a Hangover like boxed wine

Scotch Whiskey:
Johnnie Walker Black - After a long hard day
Glenmorangie Port Wood - An extra special treat

[peppaster]

Good:
Dutch (Heineken, Grolsch)
Scottish (Tennents, Beamish)
French (Kronenburg)
Mexican (Corona, XX, Negramodelo)
German
Japanese (Sapporo)

Bad:
American (Bud, Coors, Miller)

[rainman]

Most Fullers brews, especially 1845 and London Pride.
Then there's Bombadier and Abbot ale
Not to mention the wonderful flavor of banana bread beer!

[bmccrary]

So I dont have as much beer experience as some of you since I did just did become of legal age.

Favorites
Petes Wicked Ale
Black Dog
Old Stone Mill
Yuengling
(Had some Apple Cider beer when at Epcot in London. Not sure of the name, but it was great on a hot day!)
New Castle

I prefer a nice ale. They all seem to pretty good, esp when on draft!

Bad
Anything that you can find in a can!

[pedwards89]

Originally Posted by Cloggy

I like most of the mainstream continental beers, Heineken, Amstel, Stella I like Grolsch but it always seems to give me a bad head in the morning.

Love most of the Belgian trappist & dark beers, westmalle, afligem & palm among others, (i've never understood how such a small country can brew so many good beers )

I think that the Brits have gone a bit overboard in the marketing, over here Hoegarden is pretty standard and all different types of people drink it, me included
you can't beat a cool white beer on a warm summers day. Over here they have other makes too like Witte Raaf and wiekse witte (to name but a few).

Whiskey:
Blended:
Cardhu
Johnie Walker
Jamesons

Single malts:
Ardbeg
Laphroaig
Most other Islay whiskeys.
Most of the "glens" (not Golden glen, cooking whiskey )
Actually there are few single malts I dislike

Dear god man! you like Ardbeg? I poured 3 parts of a bottle down the drain recently. Couldn't drink the stuff, it tastes like TCP