Beer drinkers....

[blujax01]

Over the past few years, Columbus had had an explosion of microbreweries as well as craft beers, the latter made mostly in industrial parks and sold by the growler or on tap Thursday/Friday/Saturday. The good ones line up a food truck or two and make it a real party.

I joined my daughter at a Knotty Pine Brewery and their IPA was $6 a glass. I told the bartender that the last time I paid $6 for a beer, there was a brass pole involved.

Yuengling is a good go-to as well as Molson Canadian. I try to avoid the $14.4 Billion conglomerate AB Inbev brands as much as is practical.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Today is the start of the nation's largest Oktoberfest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest_Zinzinnati

I've booked a room.

 

[DeathGrip]

And they both take a back seat to Belgians.

There is a hotel in Progue, Czech Republic that has fresh beer on tap in your faucet! Want to drink on tap or have a beer bath? Go right ahead!

Now look what you done went and did,

That's now on my bucket list.

 

[chaparrito]

I buy in bulk as it's a long way to the beer store from out here in the sticks.My go-to beer store gets all sorts of distributor close-outs and blows them out for silly cheap prices. I just came home with 2 twelve bottle cases of Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout bombers (18.5 oz) @ 15.99 each. Regular single price on the bombers is 3.99 apiece. In addition, he got a ballpark cancellation of Anchor Steam Beer in 12oz. plastic bottles. Loose packed 24 to a case @ 10.99 each. Anchor Steam is usually 8 bucks a 6 pack. I only bought one case of that as I've read that the PET bottles don't keep well. Got two cases of Boulder Brewing's Chocolate Porter @ 13.99 a case. All in all a buttload of good beer. A decent pale lager, perhaps THE archetypal oatmeal stout and a nice heavy porter all for a fraction of what I would have paid for Bud-Miller-Coors horsepiddle.
Beer is food. You are what you eat.

 

[kwselke]

Saturday afternoon and I'm the only one drinking beer? Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout. I usually buy American, but after seeing what other here like I decided to try something different. This is good stuff... I like it!

 

[mike from st pete]

Longboard lager.

 

[Cyrano]

Just got back from Specks, who have a huge selection of beer. They even have Ba-Muoi-Ba, or '33'. I drank it in RVN, when they told us it was about 25% formaldehyde. It gave you a hangover like that too, although it was better than Biére Larue. No, I didn't bring any Ba-me-ba home.

 

[jcelect]

Gordon Biersch

Gordon Biersch makes a Dunkel in the fall that is outstanding! But the mainstay of my beer consumption is Yuenglings Porter, Black and Tan, or the Lager. I just put a case in the beer frig last night!
jcelect

 

[Skeet 028]

Yuengling...I remember that stuff from when I was going to school. 21 drinking age and I was 18..the lady I rented a room from bought another fellow and I beer..the above mentioned. Put it in the fridge and it got half frozen. We still drank it.. It was cr@p Heck till then I had never heard of it. Even Carlings was better...but not much

 

[Ozark Marine]

I'm was born and raised in Chicago. Retired to SW Missouri and really miss my Old Style beer. Before Schlitz (1974) changed the receipt it was the best beer. Now it's Pabst Blue Ribbon bottles, and Miller High Life 30 can packs. Hell, my taste buds are shot anyway. So as long as it's beer, I'm happy.

 

[MP1983]

Tsingtao, Red Stripe, or Modelo Especial in a pinch. Oddly enough I don't recall ANY one of these mentioned yet. I must have bad taste, but these do it for me flavor & body wise.

In my 20's just plain Bud was fine (along w/ a few others that were cheaper or higher in alcohol), but then I never could get on the "Lite" kick and today I only drink beer once every 2 or 3 months because it puts on too much weight. Johnny Walker Black and plain water is my stand-by at cocktail hour...a little Glenlivet or Pinch around the holidays.