Beer, what style do you like the most?

[RuSsMaN]

Just curious, I thought about all the different beers I like, and the majority are Lagers.

Cheers,
Russ

[swerve]

Originally posted by RuSsMaN
Just curious, I thought about all the different beers I like, and the majority are Lagers.

Cheers,
Russ I'm right there with ya.
well not age-wise... but I do it at home... yea....

[F1nut]

Root beer

[RuSsMaN]

If you are a fan of sassafrass , you need to try birch beer if you haven't already. Similar to root beer, but with a little more 'wood' taste and bite.

Mighty tasty.

[Spawndn72]

My favorite is amberbock.

[nadams]

'round these parts, you can get blue birch, red birch, and regular clear birch beer.... it's all good stuff, and yes, it does all taste different. I think my favorite is blue birch.

[nadams]

oh, and I can't speak for it myself, but my dad prefers Yeungling lager longnecks.

[woodyjacobs]

I voted for ESB/Bitter, because I love the English-style Ales, but hey...they all have their place. In my fridge and in my belly. The only beer style I can think of that I generally don't dig are the Lambics. Just don't like a lot fruitiness in my beer.

[petrym]

Bitters for sure... mmmmm. :)

[Sami]

Lagers are about the only beers that I drink. Lapin Kulta, Sapporo, Warsteiner, Beck's, Pilsner Urquell. Nothing with a twist cap.

[MacLeod]

Right now I love the Smirnoff Twisted beers. The Black Cherry and Raspberry are delicious! I hate the taste of alcohol but these taste like sodas, with 6% alcohol!

[jtgranby]

Originally posted by RuSsMaN
Just curious, I thought about all the different beers I like, and the majority are Lagers.

Cheers,
Russ
Are we talking about quality or quanity?

JT

[Mike682]

Couple of months ago I went to a happy hour for a friend's B'Day. The bar we go to has a variety of beers, about 25-30 different ones. So I decided I was going to try each one. My "taste test" backfired because the next day I couldn't remember which ones I liked...:D


Mike

[nadams]

What's wrong with a twist cap? just makes beer access faster and easier...

[Sami]

Originally posted by nadams
What's wrong with a twist cap? just makes beer access faster and easier...
Because I haven't drank anything with a twist cap that tastes good.

[warren]

Lagger, ale, Henry Wienhart is pretty good when I can get it ,favorite import is Stinelager when I can get it, hell,its about all imported except for the micro breweries in town. Aloha, Warren

[Shizelbs]

Dark ales for me. Seattle/Portland is quite the place to be for fresh microbrews.

[bknauss]

During this time of year, Hefeweizen is definitely the way to go.

[aaharvel]

I like my beer like I like my women.

[RuSsMaN]

Originally posted by jtgranby
Are we talking about quality or quanity?

JT

We're talking what you drink MOST, what you like BEST.

If you could only have one 'style', whadd'le it be?

[danger boy]

Originally posted by aaharvel
I like my beer like I like my women.

bitter ? :p

[danger boy]

i'm not much of a beer drinker. but i know i don't like the dark beers. i like that cool crisp taste you get from an ale. yeah that's it. ale or pale ale.

[danger boy]

i'm not much of a beer drinker. but i know i don't like the dark beers. i like that cool crisp taste you get from an ale. yeah that's it. ale or pale ale.

this one is my fave. Pacifico Beer from Mexico

[dragon1952]

1) IPA
2) Pale Ale
3) Stout

Sierra Nevada, Stone and Alesmith are my favorite breweries. Alesmith makes a 14% alcohol IPA....yee haw!

[TroyD]

Stranded on a desert island and can only have one beer?

Newcastle.

Two?

Newcastle and MHL's.

Three?

add Boddington's.

BDT

[dorokusai]

Bitters.

[Toxis]

Originally posted by MacLeod
Right now I love the Smirnoff Twisted beers. The Black Cherry and Raspberry are delicious! I hate the taste of alcohol but these taste like sodas, with 6% alcohol! hahaha, you to? I like the "bitch" beers as well. Smirnoff or Bacardi... mmmm. But if I want a traditional beer, it's gotta be Boulevard Wheat, a local legend here in KC. Dear god, it's goooooooooood with a touch of lemon. *drool*

[Shizelbs]

There is a Rogue brewery about 5 minutes from my house. Hands down the best beer on the whole I have ever tasted.

Diamond Knot makes a phenomenal IPA. For anyone who digs the IPA stuff, if you can find it (unlikely unless you are in the Seattle area) you will like it very much.

[Willow]

Stella


edit: which I think is a Blonde

[pmlewis]

In order of preference:

1. Cold

2. Free - especially if it's for kick'in your boss/co-workers A$$ on the golf course.

Pat

[wodom1]

Stouts/Porters/Dark ales preferably around 50-55 degrees. I love heavy beers. I'm not too into lagers and can't stand pilsners.

My favorites:

1. McEwans Scottish Ale
2. Anything by Samuel Smith's
3. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

-Josh

[landry_p2000]

Ditto to cold and free beer. I am more into the main stream with the Budweiser Select. From time to time, I drop a few Heiny's or Coronas. I don't go to many bars so I do the majority of my beer drinking from bottles.

Oh snap! That reminds me. Only two friggin' beers left. EMERGENCY BEER RUN!:D (when I leave work of course)

[Sami]

Originally posted by Toxis
hahaha, you to? I like the "bitch" beers as well.
They aren't beers at all, more of a mixed drink in a bottle. Smirnoff, vodka. Bacardi, rum. I'm sure you knew that but I don't get it why people call them beers.

[Sami]

Originally posted by landry_p2000
I don't go to many bars so I do the majority of my beer drinking from bottles.
If you want the flavour, always from a bottle but pour it into a class. Draft beer can vary a lot. If you drink straight from the bottle you lose a lot of the taste as you get hardly any aroma.

[Ron-P]

1-Pale Ale / IPA
2-Bitter / ESB
3-Stout
4-Porter
5-Bock / Double Bock
6-Barley Wine
7-Pilsner
8-Lager

Just about the way I'd round out your list. A lot depends on the season and mood I'm in. Summer is more IPA's / ESB's and the like where as winter it's Stout's and Proter's.

My current ale of choice is North Coast Brewing Co's Old Stock Ale. This one is a butt kicker at 11.40% abv and is stonge in the hops and malt department with a nice light mouth feel and a slight tingle on it's way down. Even though it brews in very high the alcohol is well hidden. Not cheap either, the best price I've found is $10 a 4-pack.

[bobman1235]

Originally posted by Sami
They aren't beers at all, more of a mixed drink in a bottle. Smirnoff, vodka. Bacardi, rum. I'm sure you knew that but I don't get it why people call them beers.

I'd love to agree with you, because those things are nothing like beer, but technically, they're usually malt liquor. And malt liquor is defined as "A type of beer of relatively high alcohol content (7%-8% by volume)"

So technically they're "beer", but most beer-lovers would punch you in teh face before they'd admit to such :) And most girls at a bar wouldn't look at you twice if they saw you drinking one ;)

[NCrewson]

Favourite beer right now is Alexander Keith's IPA. But otherwise I'm pretty open to suggestions. Not real keen on stouts or any of the darker heavier beers.

Come to think of it a nice Red Stripe would go down good right now. Of course I think the Red Stripe has fonder memories for me than it should as the last time I drank it I was actually in Jamaica.

[ND13]

Killian's Red
Foster's lager

[Sami]

Originally posted by bobman1235
I'd love to agree with you, because those things are nothing like beer, but technically, they're usually malt liquor. And malt liquor is defined as "A type of beer of relatively high alcohol content (7%-8% by volume)"
Ok, if they are malt it's different. Still not something I would call beer but rather malt beverage.

[landry_p2000]

Originally posted by Sami
If you want the flavour, always from a bottle but pour it into a class. Draft beer can vary a lot. If you drink straight from the bottle you lose a lot of the taste as you get hardly any aroma.

I thought it was just me.:D I always pour my Bud Selects into a pilsner glass or beer mug when I drink them. I try to stay away from cans all together, but if that is what I got, I still use the glass anyway.

[landry_p2000]

What category does Bud or Bud Select fall under? Is it a pilsner or what?

[Sami]

Originally posted by landry_p2000
What category does Bud or Bud Select fall under? Is it a pilsner or what?
Ummm, water... :p

[Ron-P]

That'd be the sparkling water catagory landry_p2000.

[landry_p2000]

Ha ha ha. Very funny. If you drink enough you still get F**ked up.
My uncle calls it "dishwater". I never tried that ale or lager before, I have always drank in the Bud family for the last 12 years of my life.

[ND13]

Originally posted by landry_p2000
Ha ha ha. Very funny. If you drink enough you still get F**ked up.
My uncle calls it "dishwater". I never tried that ale or lager before, I have always drank in the Bud family for the last 12 years of my life.

Pretty sure that Bud is a lager.

[PhantomOG]

Hoegaarden White
Paulaner Hefeweizen

[ND13]

Originally posted by PhantomOG
Hoegaarden White
Paulaner Hefeweizen

Those must be some of the German "kick you in the ass" 28% alcohol beers.

[billbillw]

Very rarely have I met a beer that I didn't like.

Bass Ale, Paulaner, Guiness, Red Stripe, Coronna, XX Amber, Amberbock, Stella, Warstiener, Becks, Heineken, Rolling Rock, Sweetwater 427, Sierra Nevada IPA, Harp, Molson Golden and LaBatts Blue, Lowenbrau, Amstel Light, Hollande 1620, etc, etc...

I've drank my share of cheap beer too:
Nat Light, Bud, Miller, Old Milwaukee, Coors, Busch, Red Dog, you name it...

[billbillw]

Originally posted by ND13
Those must be some of the German "kick you in the ass" 28% alcohol beers.

Not in the US, they are just your average 4-5%.
Hoegaarden is Belgian.

[woodyjacobs]

Bud is a Pilsner (although a friggin' awful one, comparitively). The original Budweiser is a Czech Pilsner which is very nice and hoppy (similar to Pilsner Urquell)...and very unlike the US version.

Don't get me wrong, I've consumed enough Bud to float a battleship. It isn't "good" beer (taste-wise)...but it is effective. Bud Light, on the otherhand, is just bad...tasteless and it will make me full before it gets me to the desired state of mind. The only beer I can think of that may be worse (other than NA beers) is Coors Light. Like water with a bad aftertaste.

For you summer-beer drinkers out there Pyramid Brewing has a new Summer "Curveball" Ale that is excellent...a Kolsch style ale. Very refreshing...and not overly lemony like a lot of other "summer brews".

[Sami]

Originally posted by woodyjacobs
Don't get me wrong, I've consumed enough Bud to float a battleship. It isn't "good" beer (taste-wise)...but it is effective. Bud Light, on the otherhand, is just bad...tasteless and it will make me full before it gets me to the desired state of mind. The only beer I can think of that may be worse (other than NA beers) is Coors Light. Like water with a bad aftertaste.
Michelob Ultra Light is much worse IMO. Not an easy task to be worse than Bud Light but it does it.

[AsSiMiLaTeD]

So I bet I'm the only one (of the legal age of course) on here who's never tasted beer...wow...

[ND13]

Originally posted by billbillw
Not in the US, they are just your average 4-5%.
Hoegaarden is Belgian.

Yeah, I knew they weren't that potent here, I just figured he might have been in the military and was stationed in Europe and got a taste of some "real" beer.

I have yet to find a beer that I could drink above 45 degrees without wanting to puke. Do any of you like warm beer?

[Ron-P]

Pyramid Brewing has a new Summer "Curveball" Ale that is excellent
Saw this on the shelf the other day. I've pretty much steered clear of anything Pyramind in a bottle. For some reason it has that skunky like taste and smell to me that I cannot stand. I won't touch their heffe.

[landry_p2000]

Originally posted by ND13
I have yet to find a beer that I could drink above 45 degrees without wanting to puke. Do any of you like warm beer?

Yuck! No Way. Warm beer is horrible. It has to be ice cold for me to indulge.
I did not know Budweiser rated so low on the totem pole around here. My old man drinks it, my uncles drink it, I grew up drinking it, and it is all I have drank since I was 21 years old. I have tried Rolling Rock, Michelob, Corona, Coors, Coors Light, and Heineken from time to time. When I go to the store, its Budweiser or Budweiser Select. Budwesier is the most consumed beer in my town of Memphis, TN. Everyone I know drinks it. Maybe we are just country folks.:D

[landry_p2000]

Originally posted by Ron-P
Saw this on the shelf the other day. I've pretty much steered clear of anything Pyramind in a bottle. For some reason it has that skunky like taste and smell to me that I cannot stand. I won't touch their heffe.

Heineken and Corona get that same "skunky" smell after they get a little warm.

[Sami]

Originally posted by landry_p2000
Budwesier is the most consumed beer in my town of Memphis, TN. Everyone I know drinks it.
It's cheap. It has no taste so it is "easy to drink". It's domestic and heavily advertised. Some of the reasons why it probably is popular.

American mainstream beer is very tasteless compared to European beers so it also is about cultural differences, of what you're used to drink. Some don't like the stronger taste of European beers so they opt for what we call water... :)

[aaharvel]

Originally posted by danger boy
bitter ? :p

lol

Guinness, Guinness extra stout, NewCastle,
Corona, Modelo, Weinstephaner

Best cheap beer- PBR, Honey Brown,Yuengling

[landry_p2000]

Originally posted by Sami
It's cheap. It has no taste so it is "easy to drink". It's domestic and heavily advertised. Some of the reasons why it probably is popular.

American mainstream beer is very tasteless compared to European beers so it also is about cultural differences, of what you're used to drink. Some don't like the stronger taste of European beers so they opt for what we call water... :)

Sami. Toss a couple of names at me. I am opened to try new beer, I just never went too far out there with the lagers and ales.

[Sami]

Originally posted by landry_p2000
Sami. Toss a couple of names at me. I am opened to try new beer, I just never went too far out there with the lagers and ales.
Ones that are easy to find:

Warsteiner & Sapporo are my favourites
Beck's & Pilsner Urguell are good too

I would start with those. Continue drinking them from a glass. Each are a little different but all have that the aroma I personally look for in a beer. Not a big fan of Heineken but it goes down as the night gets older.

Pironi is pretty good Italian beer but it has been a while I drank one so I don't remember how good it actually was. A little harder to find but not impossible.

I would open a Bud and one of the above beers and pour them in a glass. Don't drink yet but compare the aroma that comes from them. You will notice it is pretty different.

[Shizelbs]

Originally posted by ND13
I have yet to find a beer that I could drink above 45 degrees without wanting to puke. Do any of you like warm beer?

I prefer many of the beers I drink, not to be warm, but clearly not cold either. I find you can taste all the flavors it has to offer that way. Much like red wine.

[whitetruk]

busch warm or cold

[Mike682]

Reading this thread made me want a cold one.

After work, I went and bought a six of Bass for tonight....nice and cold..

Mike

[Shizelbs]

Originally posted by whitetruk
busch warm or cold

Egads! :eek:

[wodom1]

Originally posted by ND13
Do any of you like warm beer?

45-55 degrees is where I prefer my beer. The colder a beer is, the less flavor it has. But then again, try drinking one of the beer-flavored water's out there (any bud product, miller, coors, etc...) at a warm temperature and I think anyone would throw up. I like my pale ales a little colder but for barleywines, stouts, porters, and heavy ales, they've got to be fairly warm. When I went to London a few months ago, I was in heaven with all of the room-temp hand-pulled (cask) ales and stouts. Cask beer is my favorite and is always the first beer I order when I go to my local microbrewery (Goose Island (www.gooseisland.com) ).

Josh

[wodom1]

Originally posted by Ron-P
Saw this on the shelf the other day. I've pretty much steered clear of anything Pyramind in a bottle. For some reason it has that skunky like taste and smell to me that I cannot stand. I won't touch their heffe.

I tried a six-pack of Pyramid Scottish Style ale and I couldn't finish it. It tasted really skunky. I'm with Ron on Pyramid.

[wodom1]

landry_p2000,

Go to the Flying Saucer Draught Emporium off of Beale Street and start trying different styles. I recommend Belhaven for one. Let me know what you think of the different beers available there if you go.

Josh

[Ron-P]

Do any of you like warm beer?
Most all stouts and porters I drink at room temp.

[Polkapops]

A good stout's the only way to go!
Seems to get the job done quicker, too..... :)

[landry_p2000]

Originally posted by wodom1
landry_p2000,

Go to the Flying Saucer Draught Emporium off of Beale Street and start trying different styles. I recommend Belhaven for one. Let me know what you think of the different beers available there if you go.

Josh

Thanks Josh. My old lady knows exactly where it is. Maybe this weekend.

[gshisme]

Yeungling porter...lot's of 'em. See my sig.

[MSALLA]

We have a micro brewery in our area called Victory. They make a beer called Golden Monkey. I don't even know what type of beer you would call it. It has a light golden color to it with a heavy taste. It is 9% alc.
I have never tasted anything like it but it's out of this world!!
Just be careful, they pack a punch.

[dragon1952]

The Golden Monkey is a Belgian-style ale. I've tried their HopDevil Ale which is like an IPA. Good stuff for an East Coast microbrewery.

[woodyjacobs]

Oh yes oh yes, Victory brewing. My brother-in-law usually has a keg of Victory on tap at his house when I visit. Excellent stuff. Do they still brew "HopDevil"? That was the hoppiest beer I have ever ingested.

And greg, my everyday beer is Yeungling lager...and I like the "Lord Chesterfield Ale" too, although to me it doesn't taste like an ale...tastes like a German Lager (ala Becks or Spaten).

Ron, I really like Pyramid's Heffe but locally can only find it on tap. I haven't run across a skunky batch of the bottled Pyramid I've bought, at least not yet. I did run across a wicked skunky sixer of Beck's last weekend. Man...that produced some serious results the morning after.

[markmarc]

Fat Tire, an amber ale from New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado.

[dragon1952]

I had some of that Yeungling on a trip to Philly. That style is a little light for my tastes but not bad tasting beer at all.

Becks is not that great of a German beer, IMO. Just happens to be heavily exported. Actually most towns over there have their own local breweries and brands.

[gshisme]

That's it! I'm off to the local distributor. Oh, my backup to Yeungling Porter....Genesee Red Lager. $14.80 for a 30 pack. The drunkard's (like me) cup of tee.

[gshisme]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by dragon1952
I had some of that Yeungling on a trip to Philly. That style is a little light for my tastes but not bad tasting beer at all./QUOTE]


dragon, check out their Black and Tan next time around if you didn't already. Uhm.............good!

[Shizelbs]

Fat Tire, while far from my favorite, is very good. I have yet to try that breweries other offerings.

[BobMcG]

Bass Ale, Sam Adams, and Black & Tans made w/ Bass Ale and Guinnes.

[aaharvel]

"Beer, what style do you like the most?"



The kind that gets the job done. :D