Beer drinkers....

[Krell1]

And I'm sure we have quite a few on the forum. I'm a fan of numerous types of beer like Guiness, a personal favorite, IPA, Pilsner etc. One recent favorite happens to be a light beer (heaven forbid) Heineken Light. Lately though I've discovered a truly great IPA from California of all places. Lagunita IPA. Don't try it if you don't like heavily hoppy ale. This stuff is good.

Feel free to chime in with any good beer you've tried. I'm always open something new to try. Serious beer drinkers only. Anybody who drinks apple ale, blue moon, flavored beer etc need not comment. Just sayin, beer drinking is beer drinking. No need to ruin a good brew with stuff that doesn't belong in it.

 

[steveno]

Heineken , Sam Adams Boston Lager & Oktoberfest and most any German bier

 

[M&P Freak]

I've always liked Pacifico. Bottles at home, on tap at the local pub.

What time is it?

 

[jackvs1]

I am getting back to basics. For the last 20 years I did micro brews (ales, ipa, wheat, porter), my favorite being the Lake Placid Pub & Brewery beers, especially the 46er.
In saying that growing up I really enjoyed beer so this past year I am buying & drinking Bud, PBR, and Michelob, love the taste of beer, especially cold beer on a hot day. Also went to the Anchor Bar (home of chicken wings) in Buffalo and had a few pitchers of Genny Cream Ale; delicious.

 

[arjay]

Lots of good microbrews around here,but I always come back to Guinness.

 

[Krell1]

I am getting back to basics. For the last 20 years I did micro brews (ales, ipa, wheat, porter), my favorite being the Lake Placid Pub & Brewery beers, especially the 46er.
In saying that growing up I really enjoyed beer so this past year I am buying & drinking Bud, PBR, and Michelob, love the taste of beer, especially cold beer on a hot day. Also went to the Anchor Bar (home of chicken wings) in Buffalo and had a few pitchers of Genny Cream Ale; delicious.

I'm also from the Buffalo and Genny Cream Ale was always a favorite. Genesee beer however, was one step away from, well I can't say on the forum.

 

[jackvs1]

I'm also from the Buffalo and Genny Cream Ale was always a favorite. Genesee beer however, was one step away from, well I can't say on the forum.

We use to call Genny Cream Ale as Genny Screamers!

 

[vt_shooter]

I'm lucky to live in Vermont for the beer. My goto beer is the Alchemist' Heady Topper - good stuff, it's double IPA loaded with flavor (and a little kick - 8% alcohol). Went to a beer festival here recently and had a bourbon barrel beer that was absolutely amazing, problem is, they only made a single barrel go it. It's a bit of a tease to have a taste of something that's amazing but that you can never have again. On the other hand its fun to keep trying new beers.

 

[Absalom]

Sierra Nevada. The Pale Ale is in my fridge year round, supplemented by whatever the seasonal edition happens to be. Sometimes a beer goes off on the wrong tangent; they had (and may still have) a wheat beer that tasted like it had mashed banana in it. But especially the brown ales are always great.
Last time I was in Chico and did the free tour, in August, the tasting at the end included about 8 different VERY generous samples. The march, or rather stumble, back to the motel (we'd left the car anticipating this) in the late-afternoon August heat made me think I'd joined the Foreign Legion.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...always have one of these in the fridge...

 

[finesse_r]

I think the taste of beer is mostly about what you get used to drinking. For most of us in the USA with a typical pallet, any premium American beer is just fine, as long as it is ice cold.

Europeans with poor refrigeration equipment until recently got used to warm beer, and a heavier dark beer. A lot of Americans claim to prefer that also, but I think most of that is just affectation and trying to look cool, even at our advanced ages.

Perhaps I am just cheap by nature, or perhaps I lack the ability to truly discriminate among the many beers available. I remember as a youth every one it Texas thought Coors was great because it was not sold here. Now that it is sold in Texas it is just another common American beer.

So give me a Bud lite (I don't need any extra calories) and make it ice cold in a frosty mug.

By the way I do prefer my beer from bottles and not from aluminum cans, but Bud lite, or Coors lite, or whatever is cold is jes' fine with me. I have two cases of Bud in the pantry, and have not drank a beer in 3 or 4 months. I just don't drink that much any more. Was a time those two cases would be a good month's supply.

 

[Rustyt1953]

The older I get, the more I like cheap beer. It tastes fine, is suited for marathons and won't take my landing gear out.

 

[rjm6120]

I agree Guiness is always good, especially their Foreign Extra Stout on a cold winter Sunday watching football. I'm a real big fan of English ales i.e., Young's Double Chocolate Stout, Sam Smith's Winter Welcome & Taddy Porter, etc. Sam Adams stuff is good....also like an occasional lambic especially krieks. And I'm always up for trying anything from micros like IPA's, etc. The macro swill I stay away from, life's too short!

 

[hoosierone]

All beer is good, it's just that some is better than others. I'm a sucker for draft Guinness whenever available.

 

[Arik]

I think the taste of beer is mostly about what you get used to drinking. For most of us in the USA with a typical pallet, any premium American beer is just fine, as long as it is ice cold.

Europeans with poor refrigeration equipment until recently got used to warm beer, and a heavier dark beer. A lot of Americans claim to prefer that also, but I think most of that is just affectation and trying to look cool, even at our advanced ages.

Perhaps I am just cheap by nature, or perhaps I lack the ability to truly discriminate among the many beers available. I remember as a youth every one it Texas thought Coors was great because it was not sold here. Now that it is sold in Texas it is just another common American beer.

So give me a Bud lite (I don't need any extra calories) and make it ice cold in a frosty mug.

By the way I do prefer my beer from bottles and not from aluminum cans, but Bud lite, or Coors lite, or whatever is cold is jes' fine with me. I have two cases of Bud in the pantry, and have not drank a beer in 3 or 4 months. I just don't drink that much any more. Was a time those two cases would be a good month's supply.

That's all very over simplified. Beer for Europeans was always part of the daily diet. It was safer than drinking water and later when water was safe the culture of beer as a food stayed. The heavier darker beers are winter beers. Traditionally it gives plenty of nutrients to work throughout the day and packs on some weight for winter to stay warmer. Summer ales were brewed in early spring so that you had a refreshing beverage in the summer to quench your thirst while working in the field under the sun. They were light and had low alcohol %

Beer was never really supposed to be supper cold and it was by accident that they realized that in cold temp beer fermented differently and you got yourself a pilsner or lager instead of ale. If you notice, beer and most other liquid has almost no taste when very cold (room temp vodka vs from the freezer). American beer, like it or not, isn't made like normal natural beer. There is a lot of additives and chemicals in it. Instead of grain/barley corn syrup is used. That's not beer. Sorry. If you take for instance German beer that's made in Germany and not just a trademark they have a purity law. To brew beer there you cannot use 90% of the ingredients that's are used in America. Ingredients like GMO corn, Animal Based Clarifiers: Findings include isinglass (dried fish bladder), gelatin (from skin, connective tissue, and bones), and casein (found in milk), MSG, Propylene Glycol (an ingredient found in anti-freeze), Calcium Disodium EDTA (made from formaldehyde, sodium cayanide, and Ethylenediamine). This is just what I can remember off the top of my head. That's not beer but if you keep it cold enough all that taste goes away.

In normal brewed beer lot of the taste comes from the temperature at which the grain was cooked, the type of hops used and when it was added (did it sit in for 90 min or 10 or only for a moment at the end), the yeast used and the temp at which it was fermenting. You may try one beer and think it tastes like an orange but in reality there was no oranges but the yeast.

I for one was never a fan of beer...... It seemed like it that's what certain bodily fluids should taste like. .....until I tried real beer. It's amazing how good simple grain and hops can taste. Even American beers tasted different prior to ww2. And especially prior to the prohibition

 

[DWalt]

My favorite beer is whatever's on sale. Free beer is even better.

 

[GaryS]

Various Sam Adams, except the fruity ones and Boston Lager. I like Summer, Pale, Oktoberfest, and Light the most.
Shiner Bock. Much like Sam Adams in many ways.

The truth is it's all what you like. My son likes Bud Light, I can't stand the stuff.

I like Guinness and Smithwick, but not as a steady diet.

I'm more of a Scotch drinker anyway.

 

[kwselke]

Beer is the only alcoholic beverage I drink regularly these days, and I limit my consumption of it to keep my weight down and health good. I consider myself a serious beer drinker and enjoy sampling many brands, styles, and types of beer.

When discussing beer, as with any food or beverage, personal taste varies. The beer industry found out decades ago that image is a large part of consumer beer preferences. Anheuser Busch made good commercials as well as good inexpensive beer.

The fact that I am willing to sample various beers creates an image of a beer snob to some, a drunkard to others, and I just think of it as exploring that vast variety of the brewer's art.

I'm fortunate that there are three grocery stores in my area with beer and wine bars in then. These beer/wine bars offer draft craft beers. I'll go to one of the brew bars around once a week with a friend. Generally the barkeep will give me two or three samples of the 10 to 20 brews they have on tap and I'll buy a pint of whatever I prefer. Just because it is "craft" beer does not make it my preferred beer.

Over the last week or so I've been making beer comments in the Thread Drift thread. On page one of that thread I asked... What's your favorite beer? So 20,000 posts later I'm still talking about beer. When I pour a beer in a chilled glass, take pictures of it, post comments as to whatever about it, in a thread like that... they are serious comments which are humorous because of their context.

As a generalization I prefer darker maltier beers... stouts, porters, black lagers; but that does not mean I do not like many other beers.

 

[Salty RI]

Sam Adams.

 

[wyccad915]

Up until recently, I've never given IPAs a try, or if I had one I didn't know it was an IPA. Lately I've been trying them more, and I like them. And I have tried Lagunitas. It was good, but you're right, real heavy flavor. I tried one called chainbreaker and it's the opposite. I liked it, but have only had it once.

The types of beers I like are hefeweizens or just any wheat beer. A lot of people on here bash flavored beers, but I like shock top. That is usually my regular beer. I will have it with a wedge of orange when available.

I don't drink light beers, but I've been tempted to see how Heineken is.