What is your favorite beer?

[werk]

Oberon is a good wheat beer.

Hopalicious - so do you like IPAs (India pale ales), which are extra hoppy?

I like a lot, but IPA's are definitely at one end of the ale spectrum...hops taste like you are drinking flowers, and what could be wrong about that?

At Great Taste of the Midwest (beerfest-Madison) New Holland Brewing taps their really hoppy IPA (Mad Hatter) through a big, clear pipe filled with fresh hops...they call it the hatterizer. "Tastes like a new penny!"

Ale Asylum's Hopalicious isn't super hoppy, but it is definitely crisp.

White Hawk is another really hoppy IPA, from out west I think...it's a bit heavier, darker.

One that surprised me recently was an American Pale Ale from Rock Bottom Brewing, they called it American Dream. It was a very English take on American pale ale, very nice. I looked them up online and they appear to be a national chain, so I don't know if it is available everywhere or at the same quality...but I'm going to look into it



So...yeah, I like IPAs, just not exclusively.

 

[kyloss]

Root-

I love cooking with a decent beer just never got past the taste of the alcohol itself . For cooking its Schienerbock

 

[occam]

I'd just say a bunch of things no one outside of Wisconsin would understand...so for my favorite, I'll just say, local.

http://www.newglarusbrewing.com/

Mmm, New Glarus Red... uh, pardon me while I clean up the drool. One of my all-time favorite beers.

 

[occam]

In the fall which is just around the corner, there's pumpkin ale, which is a new favorite of mine.

For anyone living near Seattle, Elysian will be hosting a Great Pumpkin Beer Festival in October. Hmm... ah, here's an online source of info. Ten different pumpkin beers (six of their own, four guest taps), and one beer fermented in and tapped from a giant pumpkin!

 

[Chaldfont]

Favorite beer: hard to pin down. Favorite style: English bitter. It's what ale was before it got complicated. Bitter also makes a great gaming beer, because it is flavorful enough to stand up to pizza and chips, but is a nice, low-alcohol session beer (perfect for long gaming session).

That being said, I tend to brew some fairly normal brews (roasted brown ales, Belgian wheats, etc.) and some pretty out there brews (Pancake Porter, Rhu-Brew, and an Alaskan Fireweed blossom ale that's in the carboys right now). I'm away from my brew-log at the moment, so I can't give exact numbers for the Pancake Porter, but the key ingredients were about 1 lb. lactose (the idea was a breakfast beer, after all), oatmeal in the mash (similar to an oatmeal stout) along with dark DME, and priming with 1 cup of maple syrup (I prefer Vermont "B" maple syrup, as it is much more strongly maple-flavored than the typical "A" or "AA" syrups commonly put on waffles).

Priming with syrup! That's genius!

 

[werk]

Mmm, New Glarus Red... uh, pardon me while I clean up the drool. One of my all-time favorite beers.

At Great Taste, New Glarus has their Belgian Red Ale on tap!

For a couple hours until they run out anyways.

(It's one of my all-time favorites too, but I didn't want to get called names for loving 'fruity' beer )

New Glarus has a new Blonde that is great! Best Pilsner East of the Herkimer[sblock]Hometown Blonde

Embrace a classic! Hometown Blonde is an Old World style pilsner, assertively hopped with four premium hop varieties. Tettnanger, Saaz, Styrian Golding and Strisselpalt varieties all grace this German-style brew with the complex character you enjoy in a classic pilsner.

Expect to pour an elegant blonde glass of beer, crowned with a rich head of foam that resonates with our chorus of hops. Although delicate in appearance, our Hometown Blonde has a backbone, but of course in Wisconsin that is no surprise.


Style Pilsner
Flavor Fun, fruity and satisfying
Alcohol 4.8% by volume
Available in 6 packs, cases, 1/2 barrels and 1/4 barrels.
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[jaerdaph]

At Great Taste of the Midwest (beerfest-Madison) New Holland Brewing taps their really hoppy IPA (Mad Hatter) through a big, clear pipe filled with fresh hops...they call it the hatterizer. "Tastes like a new penny!"

I've seen that but haven't tried it yet. Definitely will next time.

 

[jaerdaph]

For anyone living near Seattle, Elysian will be hosting a Great Pumpkin Beer Festival in October. Hmm... ah, here's an online source of info. Ten different pumpkin beers (six of their own, four guest taps), and one beer fermented in and tapped from a giant pumpkin!

That sounds awesome! I wish I could go.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Guiness, generally, but I like most porters and stouts.

I really like Caledonian Amber Ale, but I can't get it over here any more. I also like Negro Modelo in the summer.

 

[jonathan swift]

Mostly ales and wheat beers.

Hobgoblin
Blue Moon
Sam Adam's Summer Ale
Raspberry Ale
Newcastle
Bass