Beer you say?

[vroomery]

Just wondering what types of beer people prefer. The Sam Adams Oktoberfest has just become in season again and I am enjoying one as we speak. What else you guys (and gals) getting in to?

[luvmyshiner]

Heh, heh, a topic made just for me (and Marnold).

Love Sam Adams, and of course, I have to mention my favorite, SHINER.:

http://www.shiner.com/

But lately I've been drinking a lot of St. Arnolds Elissa IPA. Texas' oldest micro brewery.

http://www.saintarnold.com/

[MichaelE]

Paulaner, Paulaner Oktoberfest, Paulaner Salvator, Spaten, Spaten Oktoberfest, Ayinger 100 Jahr, Ayinger Dunkle, Hofbräuhaus (HB), Weihenstephan, and probably others I'm forgetting as well.

[Spudman***]

Cold is my first choice. My second is a room temp Guinness. I generally like a thick chewy beer since I don't drink much. I like quality over quantity.

[Kodiak3D]

I generally like a thick chewy beer since I don't drink much. I like quality over quantity.

Ditto. On the rare occasion I drink a beer (VERY rare), I'll take a Guiness or something else dark and thick.

[Spudman***]

Ditto. On the rare occasion I drink a beer (VERY rare), I'll take a Guiness or something else dark and thick.

(disclaimer: I am not encouraging drinking )

[Robert****]

I like ale. I am weak for Guiness. Sam Adams is pretty good. My new favorite is Tank House Ale, from Toronto.

Ya'll should try this one http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/st-ambr...out/839/92057/
St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout. Wicked!

[sunvalleylaw]

Beer is generally my drink of choice if I am drinking, other than red wine on occasion. I go for quality over quantity as well. My favorites come from the IPA variety, American, West Coast particularly. Stone Ruination IPA, Deschutes Organic Green Lakes, Long Hammer IPA from Red Hook, and Sierra Nevada Pale are some favorites. Guiness or a really good Oatmeal stout is my other favorite style. And I also like Arrogant Bastard from Stone Brewing as well, for a malty choice. I love Christmas brews, with often Deschutes JubleAle being a favorite commercial offering I can get. But I like my own homebrewed Christmas brew the best of the Christmas brews. I have not made any in a while. A couple are plenty, high octane.

My favorite, really cold, lawn mower beer from a can is PBR.

[peachhead***]

Wow, SVL, I don't think I have ever known someone to admit they like PBR. Very cool!
I'm an MGD man myself, it's been my favorite for years. I like Sam Adams, Killians, Newcastle, and although I don't find it here much, Abita Amber. I like trying something new whenever I go somewhere away from home.

[SuperSwede]

I love ale, especially Bishops Finger.. But I also love a smooth ice cold Carlsberg or Tuborg. MMMmmm beeerrr

[deeaa*]

I don't really care, as long as its wet and has alcohol it's OK. Doesn't have to be even really cold or anything. Except for wheat beers and many ales; those taste too yeasty when lukewarm.

I prefer *tasty* lagers, like Karhu, and stuff like Velkopopovicky. Kozel dark etc. when I want a great taste. Carlsberg, Beck's, etc. are great on the tap, bottled just as good as any other beer. I generally dislike too much hops bitterness and prefer a rye-kind of sturdy taste more.

But..any basic lager, most ales, it's just great by me...I haven't really drank much american beers but all I've tried are just fine by me, Miller, Coors, Budweiser, all good, quite tasteless and light beers which go down just great. I always drank Milwaukee's Best when in the U.S. because it was the cheapest, and actually had some more taste to it too. With Milwaukee's I also learned the 'shotgun' trick to down a few beers in just a few minutes :-)

But all in all I don't care much. Of late I've been buying these half-litre cans of this 'light' beer that has like 50% less calories...tastes watery but I don't care. I drink a few of those every day and think it's best to watch the calories a little and they still give the same buzz.

Yesterday I however drank a couple normal 'Koff' beers and a whisky chaser (Ballantines) before bed. Which reminds me, gotta go to the store to get some beer, the fridge is empty!

[vroomery]

There are some great beers listed here. I am also a fan of a guiness extra stout at a little bellow room temp. It gets too bitter when its cold. Killians Irish Red is tasty as well. I'm usually not too big of a fan of IPA's b/c the ibu is typically pretty high. If i want something that goes down pretty easy but still has flavor I'll go for beck's or red stripe, and I haven't tried an Oktoberfest style beer that I haven't liked. The Spaten Oktoberfest is pretty darn good along with the Sam Adams Oktoberfest.

[duhvoodooman***]

The Spaten Oktoberfest is pretty darn good along with the Sam Adams Oktoberfest.

What a coinky-dink! I had the Sam Adams Oktoberfest last week and bought a 12-pack of the Spaten two days ago. It's the time of year!

Other personal favorites: Stella Artois, Newcastle, Smithwick's, Pilsner Urquell, Blue Moon, any well-made Hefeweizen during hot weather, several of the other Sam Adams brews. And one called De Koninck that I had in Antwerp while traveling on business that I'd love to find here in the States....

[Tone2TheBone]

You beer snobs. Guinness, Newcastle, Bass, Leffe, Sol, this German beer I can't remember (help me out beer snobs) and the usual cheap BBQ beer. I love alcohol so yeah I like to drink me some beers.

[duhvoodooman***]

Ah, yes--Leffe! Another great Belgian brew I forgot to mention! :

And St. Pauli Girl! Can't forget that one....

[sunvalleylaw]

Wow, SVL, I don't think I have ever known someone to admit they like PBR. Very cool!
I'm an MGD man myself, it's been my favorite for years.

I normally would much rather have one of the others I listed, but for "lawnmower beer", Peeber does just fine. It has to be iceee cold though. MGD used to be my favorite American cheap beer. Henry Weinhards I used to like. But PBR is cheaper, and just fine. I do not really like Bud at all. Has rice in it. As a homebrewer, I cannot abide that, and it tastes funny to me. I don't get the Rolling Rock thing either. Rice and Corn in that one. Corn sugar is sometimes used in home brewing in very small quantities to pressurize bottles by "bumping" the yeast as the beer is bottled, but should not be used as a fermentation sugar. Bleh!

[FrankenFretter***]

I rarely drink anymore, but I prefer stouts and porters most of the year, with the exception being summer, when I prefer pales, ambers and brown ales. Some of my favorites are; Black Butte Porter and Obsidian Stout, both from Deschutes, and of course, Guinness. I also love Rasputin Imperial Stout, almost anything from Hale's brewery, and Mirror Pond Pale. Lately I drink more wine than beer, although it's Port, so it's not your everyday run of the mill red wine. I will not drink Merlot with those people!

[street music]

generally like a thick chewy steak since I don't drink much. I like quality over quantity. Modified to make my hunger go away. Beer isn't one of my favorite drinks, however I do like Strum's beer girls if that counts for great taste.

[sumitomo]

I haven't drank for over 5 yrs,but I used to like my beer after work,it was always Mirror Pond Ale,that stuff was great and it had to be cold to get the proper taste.Then the changed the way it was made they took away the krausening so no sedments in the bottle and it took away the flavor so I then switched to Becks,and now watch out cause I'm a juice head I make all kinds of my own juice.Sumi