What is your favorite beer?

[Teflon Billy]

Guinness for "Available everywhere"

Dixie Blackened Voodoo for Microbrew (though I have no idea if they are even making it post-Katrina).

 

[GlassJaw]

I've been on a Guinness kick lately. I really like Black & Tans too.

For a "beer & pretzels"/"watching football"/"cooking on the grill" beer, and being a native Roe'dilanda I have to support 'Gansett:

www.narragansettbeer.net

In my gaming group, Joe (Warehouse23 here on EN World) brews some amazing homebrew, including various types of mead, English style ale, a porter with maple syrup (Pancake Porter), and something with rhubarb in it.

 

[Aeolius]

Redhook Longhammer IPA, for me (used to be Ballard's Bitter, then just Redhook IPA), though for a seasonal Redhook's Sunrye with a twist of Key Lime does the trick!

 

[Chaldfont]

I've been on a Guinness kick lately. I really like Black & Tans too.

For a "beer & pretzels"/"watching football"/"cooking on the grill" beer, and being a native Roe'dilanda I have to support 'Gansett:

www.narragansettbeer.net

In my gaming group, Joe (Warehouse23 here on EN World) brews some amazing homebrew, including various types of mead, English style ale, a porter with maple syrup (Pancake Porter), and something with rhubarb in it.

Wow, that porter sounds good. Think you can get me his recipe?

 

[Goldmoon]

Guinness.

 

[GlassJaw]

Wow, that porter sounds good. Think you can get me his recipe?

Not sure - it might be a secret!

He posts here occasionally so I'll direct him to this thread.

 

[Warehouse23]

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).

 

[Ferret]

I dislike beer, so I substitute cider. My preference is Scrumpy Jack or Woodpecker.

How does the rhubarb alcohol taste?

 

[Warehouse23]

Rhu-brew is a beer with rhubarb fermented in, so it has all the good qualities of beer (head, fizz, amber color, etc.) with a nice, tart, not-too-beer-like flavor.

 

[Ferret]

I'd like to track some down, sounds funky.