Beer, revisited

[SerenityNigh]

Dylan's Beer thread is too old for me to reply, but I wanted to see what you guys drink and like. Tell me about your favorites.
-Cheers

Now, I am not much of a drinker, but I do have the opinion that most American beer is ****e. Budweiser, Miller, Coors etc etc are all crap. When I do feel the need for a beer, I usually opt for some Stella or Corona. Rarely, if going for something darker I aim for Murphy's over Guinness. Also if out at one of the micro-brew resturants we have over here, I will normally go for the sampler of whatever the hell the brew (look up Gordon Biersch).

What do you guys drink?

Ahh, been looking for this thread. Wanted to write up my top five beers, but having trouble with that. Need more sampling I think. I'm a lightweight myself, 1 good beer is the limit if I'm driving, 2 might put me to sleep. I suppose if I drank Coors Light it could be more, but who really wants to drink that trash?

So my favorite drinks are:

1. Franziskaner: the first beer I fell in love with and still my favorite wheat beer. Sometimes a little too heavy on a hot American summer day, but always very high quality.

2. Sam Adams. Simple and beautiful, the American beer. Always, always good.

3. Liefmans Goudenband. My first belgian sour, blew my mind. Still trying to comprehend this brew. Nothing bad about this one, if you can find it.

Not sure which take spots #4 and #5, but I like almost anything brewed by Montreal's Unibroue.

La Fin du Monde is very good

but Maudite is probably better

 

[orchard]

I thought everything in the states had to be pasteurised and canned mate!

A long time favourite. Rights to brew in UK were sold a few years ago, probably start as soon as a strong recovery starts, so I'll be looking elsewhere

Also:

 

[carlos21]

strongbow
magners.

 

[EFC David]

Leffe's a great shout. I'm ashamed to say despite my middle class routes I drink Budweiser and Stella. Lowering myself I know but needs must in this credit crunch.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Nice one, very much like La Fin du Monde. Almost too sweet for me, but a great drink. We don't many good selections among bitters over here, or at least we get the larger brews, but I'll look for Butcombe (sounds like a naughty name). Boddingtons in draft cans can be had around here and I probably need to revisit both Bass and Newcastle.

 

[roydo]

I thought everything in the states had to be pasteurised and canned mate!

A long time favourite. Rights to brew in UK were sold a few years ago, probably start as soon as a strong recovery starts, so I'll be looking elsewhere

Also:

Butcombe brewery is near me. It is an ace beer.

 

[coollino]

Much prefer the Brooklyn Lager as opposed to the Samuel Adams one.

 

[Eville101]

Its always when one goes on a health kick vowing stay off the sauce for a whole month, something like this pops up in every walk of life. I did intend on ignoring the thread, but, being a weak and shallow man, I thought I'd peruse it. Its got IMAGES of creamy nectars. Lovely bottle of lager, a dark ale, a rouge ale, a naughty little blond thrown into the mix for good measure. Completely thrown the kibosh on my good intentions. I even went to the trouble of hiding my Polish lagers up in the attic as a treat for when I had completed my good intentions. Now they lie, nestled in the fridge, 2 in the freezer, and a glass of red wine in hand to pass the time to said lagers are chilled to the bone.

The thread is quite detrimental to where I was hoping to be, but yet very beautiful at the same time.

 

[SerenityNigh]

strongbow
magners.

We get Strongbow here but I've never tried it. Will put it on my list, mate. My wife loves cider but haven't seen Magners. Just bought here some Crispin "Artisanal Reserves," good stuff.

 

[carlos21]

We get Strongbow here but I've never tried it. Will put it on my list, mate. My wife loves cider but haven't seen Magners. Just bought here some Crispin "Artisanal Reserves," good stuff.

okay mate what is crispin like.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Much prefer the Brooklyn Lager as opposed to the Samuel Adams one.

Never tried any of the Brooklyn brews. Good stuff? Hard to get where I'm at, probably all over Texas. I'll be there soon to take in an FCD game with the family, maybe I'll grab one then.

 

[SerenityNigh]

okay mate what is crispin like.

I'm no cider expert, but I suppose it's the Leighton Baines of American ciders. Both subtle and complex, full of class, will not disappoint.

 

[Eville101]

Leffe's a great shout. I'm ashamed to say despite my middle class routes I drink Budweiser and Stella. Lowering myself I know but needs must in this credit crunch.

Nay, Sir - Stella (despite your middle class roots) is a fine lager, up there with the best of them; made vulgar by Jeremy Kyle's in this millennium looking to get plastered with haste; but a fine lager no less. Bud, even in the credit crisis, there is no excuse for. There are many cheeky Eastern European beers at a low low price you can afford, with ten times the body, and not that awful tin like watery taste of a 4.2%.

I knew I should have ignored this thread, I'm going to be drinking all night now.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Birra Moretti is my current favourite.

 

[carlos21]

Birra Moretti is my current favourite.

what about kropperberg mate.