Favorite Beer?

[Bloodstone Press]

So you pull up a seat at the local pub and order a beer. What does the bartender bring you?

Or, perhaps, you are having a party this weekend and you decide to stop by the "beer store" and pick up something. What do your friends find in the fridge when they arrive?

Or, what sort of beer do you find remarkably appealing and/or unusual?

For me, I don't drink much any more, maybe just a few beers a year. In the summer, when the weather is hot I prefer a light pilsner like Rolling Rock or Becks. But in the wintertime, when the weather is cooler, I prefer a heavy, dark beer like Guinness or Sam Smith’s Oatmeal Stout.

However, my all time unusual/appealing beer has to be Makeson's Triple Stout. If you haven’t tried it, here is a review of it, better detailed than I can give:

The aroma is tarry, burnt-curranty and coffeeish, most closely resembling sweetened Turkish-style coffee, with some hints of vanilla and strawberry. The palate is very full, a little like dandelion and burdock soft drinks, and also has that Turkish coffee quality; there's some raspberryish fruit, and a definite milky texture and flavour with a sharp creaminess reminiscent of powdered milk or milk gums. The overall sweetness is well-lifted by a burst of bitter chocolate and hop bitterness on the swallow, and the beer finishes with tangy, fruity hints. Admittedly it will not be to everyone's taste, but if, like me, you have a fascination for dark sweetish beers, especially those that manage to pack a lot of complex flavour into a low gravity, but you've not yet been tempted to crack open a bottle of this one, you may be very pleasantly surprised.

What he said.

There are also some fair micro-breweries around here. Boscos and Blackstone, both in Nashville, have some good beer.

So what sort of beer do you perfer?

 

[Qlippoth]

Tremont Ale (lovely English-style pale ale) and its bitter cousin, Tremont IPA.

I don't even need to order--it's waiting for me before I can pull up a barstool.

(Otherwise, it's Stone IPA).

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I generally subscribe to the 'if I can see through it, it's not beer' philosophy. Guiness is of course the pinnacle of the brewer's art.

I'll also drink Negro Modelo, Old Speckled Hen, and I love Caledonian Amber, which is impossibly hard to find in my area, but I can get Bellhaven which is almost as good.

I'm blessed to live a few minutes from the Brickskeller in D.C., which features a several-hundred item beer and whiskey menu, so I get to try lots of unusual stuff when the mood hits.

 

[diaglo]

I'm blessed to live a few minutes from the Brickskeller in D.C., which features a several-hundred item beer and whiskey menu, so I get to try lots of unusual stuff when the mood hits.

pull my mug down from off the wall and have one on me when next you are there.

 

[Gregor]

Im becomming a huge fan of German Weisse Beers. Whitish in colour, sediment, rich hints of citrus, corriander etc. The German brands I really like are Hacker Pschorr and Schneider Weisse. Hoegaarden is a good Dutch Weisse and here in Canada, there is a good Quebec Brewery that makes a really good Weisse - Blanch de Chambly. They also make a beer called Maudite which is pretty darn good as well!

Cheers,

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

pull my mug down from off the wall and have one on me when next you are there.

Um...I've heard about where you work. I don't know that I want to drink out of your mug. Although, if the alcohol content is high enough, it would probably kill anything still hanging around....

This discussions has reminded me I have a gift certificate for the place that I haven't used yet. Might be a good day to leave work early.

 

[Aeolius]

If I'm having a beer with dinner at a restaurant, it'll be Budweiser or Bud Light. Did I mention that I am part owner of an Anheuser-Busch distributorship in North Carolina (where over three out of every five beers consumed is an A-B product)?

In my fridge at home I have Redhook Sunrye. Since A-B owns 25% of Redhook (Redhook brews it, A-B distributes it), it doesn't make me feel guilty. Otherwise it's Redhook IPA, Kirin Ichiban (brewed by A-B here in the States), A-B World Select (reminds me of Carlsberg, which A-B used to distribute), or a Widmer Hefe-Weizen (did I mention that A-B also owns a chunk of Widmer Bros. as well?). On the east coast, Widmer is contract brewed by Redhook...go figure.

 

[BecketVelar]

The beer of choice around my parts is Labatt Blue....That would be the most common as I tend to be snobbish and avoid American beers like the plague. Some microbrews are quite tasty however and I had a lovely scottish ale at the Waterstreet Brewery in Milwaukee whilst at Gamefest.

All around favorite beer would be a Guiness however.

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[jinx crossbow]

The favored beer of most gamers I know is "Tannenzaepfle" from Rothaus

http://www.rothaus.de/html/02biere/biere/022_tannenzaepfle.htm

It tastes more like a elven beer than a dwarven one

 

[Sado]

Everyone here says German beers are the best, but I found that I really prefer English beer. John Courage is my favorite. Also like Newcastle and Old Peculiar. There's also a great beer from Australia called Boag's, or at least there used to be. Haven't seen it here in years.

Of course I usually end up drinking Miler Lite or some other domestic, mostly due to price.

If I am ordering one in a restaurant, I go for one of the better imports. If I'm buying a six-pack for the house, it's bud or miller.