Beer we like!

Sid Guppy · Post by **Sid Guppy** » 09 Oct 2003, 13:55

Bet if I go and post a "Hey, what's the best type of beer in the world" topic then that will compete with this one for dubious use of bandwidth.

Excellent notion, Jools

#1: Grolsch lager
#2: HARP Guinness
#3: Bavaria lager (from near my howntown)
#4: HARP lager
#5: Trappist-beer from Belgium

doctorzeb · Post by **doctorzeb** » 09 Oct 2003, 15:07

#1. jacobite ale (if I feel extravagent)
#2. Scots pine ale (if I feel flush, and fruity)
#3 . Edinburgh IPA ( for the everyday tipple)
#4. Mickey's or Hogarden Blanche ( if I feel like falling over, and forgetting the fact that I spent al my money on a night out on the p*ss)

rob

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 09 Oct 2003, 16:51

OK, so you knew it was going to be moved to it's own topic.

#1 - Tiger Beer - it's just so good when it's cold.
#2 - Cristal - Peru's big beer and also a great thirst quencher.
#3 - Guinness - especially when drunk cold in warm places
#4 - Caledonian India Pale Ale (same as Edinburgh IPA above) - top curry beer.
#5 - Milwaukee - My favourite session beer as I appear to be able to drink it forever and you can't get it in the UK so I don't have the opportunity to drink so much of it to ensure I go off it. Oddly, Americans don't appear to think too much of this brew.
#6 - San Miguel in big bottles of fizzy gut filling tasty lovelieness.
#7 - Red Stripe one of the best strong lagers and great, er, cold...

** slinks off home via off licence **

Jools

Chocky316 · Post by **Chocky316** » 09 Oct 2003, 17:21

heineken and fosters

mallemalle · Post by **mallemalle** » 09 Oct 2003, 17:41

Specjal from Poland (quite good beer)
Ringnes from Norway (this took over after mothersmilk

)
Presidente from Dom.Rep (very good served cool, but gives me major hangover)
Duvel from Belgium (gets me drunker than ever and i like it)
Kilkenny from Irland (goes along with good music, i can drink alot of this)

after 11 months in Dominican republic i figured out that i should stop drinking beer and just consentrate on the rum, since there are no cats down there i put all my time into Brugal.

Mallemalle

pturley · Post by **pturley** » 09 Oct 2003, 17:52

When I've got a bit of money to spend I like any of Great Lakes Brewery's (Cleveland area local) offerings so far.

I typically drink either a Lager or IPA.
Samual Adams Boston Lager
Asahi Extra Dry, rarely, particularly with fish.
I particularly liked a New Zealand Bitters I had last year but cannot find it locally.

Everyday brew would either be the Sam Adams or Michelob Light.

Sincerely,
Paul E. Turley

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 09 Oct 2003, 18:01

#1 Velkopopovicky Kozel from VelkeP in Czech Rep.
#2 KÃ¶stritzer black german beer
#3 Mcewans Ale 80 Shilling
#4 Newcastle Brownale
#5 Weizenbeer in any form Bavarian specialty called Weissbier made from wheat.

and Guinness of course with no ranking caUZ ITS SO GREAT:)

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 09 Oct 2003, 18:18

Hi all!!!

#1 of course the only and original Guiness, but not the s**t that are sold in bottle, and not the Guiness that is sold elsewhere with that "rest of the World taste"!!!!
#2 the beers that Canadian singer Robert Charlebois makes in his Microbrewery. Trust me they are delicious and quite strong as well!!!
#3 Budweiser: make me miss the good old state...and the good time I had there!!!
#4 Scoll. Cerveja bem gelade. When really thirsty under the brasilian sky... good cold beer...

Cheers
Yann

FatCat · Post by **FatCat** » 09 Oct 2003, 20:51

Wow wish I could pronounce some of those names. O yes must agree that Americans dont think too much of milwaukee. Its like the I cant aford a good beer, beer.

Here goes!

Fosters lager. "Australian for beer" We americans are suckers for a good comercial.
Coors light
Dundees Honeybrown lager.
Anything beginning with BUD
Like that Guiness in a Black and Tan
Miller Genuine Draft Or "MGD"
RollingRock

jscoggs27 · Post by **jscoggs27** » 09 Oct 2003, 22:49

So when will this lot be moved to the AA sponsored alcoholics forum?

Dave Rinaldo · Post by **Dave Rinaldo** » 09 Oct 2003, 23:02

FREE!!!

Post by **Barbie** » 09 Oct 2003, 23:13

HAHAHA! Now Dave, you have a very good point there!

I personally like heffeweissen with lemon, but for around home, I tend to just dump a bit of my homemade bloody mary mix in beer and "ruin" it, so we tend to buy Bud Light,

Barbie

Post by **Dinyar** » 09 Oct 2003, 23:19

Vodka and fish filter washings, with a dash of cumin! Beats Bloody Mary. And goes great with curry.

Dinyar

Sid Guppy · Post by **Sid Guppy** » 09 Oct 2003, 23:22

oooops
I'm on the opposite end of that, I guess

I don't care much for booze (whiskey, rum etc), but I DO like special beers.
In Belgium (wich is about 8 kilometers from my frontporch), they have this stuff called "Kasteelbier" (wich means Castle Beer). It's got 11% of alcohol......and here we have Grolsch Kanon (yup, that's "cannon"), 11,5%. Quadruple from my home-town has been yeasted 4 (!! four!!) times and has almost 12% in it....lethal stuff*

Two half liter bottles of that, and they can drag me through town on my left nostril, won't feel a thing

I loooooove heavy beer.

*wich reminds me of the fact, that there's a 1 literbottle of exactly that in the kitchen; I'm off; see ya later, MUCH later

magnum4 · Post by **magnum4** » 09 Oct 2003, 23:47

Just got back from the pub and i think i've had some bad ale i keep imagining people on a catfish forum discussing beers from around the world so in order:
1# newcastle brown ale (cus its just the dogs bo**ocks or thats what they put in it, can never remember which after a good nights drinkin')
2# stella because it nums the pain when you need it.
3# kronenberg because i have gained the ability to drink loads and not have it catch up with me for about 3 days, thats 3 days of drinkin with only one hangover fantastic.

coelacanth · Post by **coelacanth** » 09 Oct 2003, 23:53

Jools wrote: #1 - Tiger Beer - it's just so good when it's cold.

This should really only be drunk when in Singapore, sat with Oliver and a table full of seafood...

Jools wrote: Oddly, Americans don't appear to think too much of this brew.

It's probably too strong for them, over 2.5% alcohol....
Personally I like anything brewed properly and ale-like, plus Chimay, anything by Unibroue (when in Canada...), Ice-cold Tiger (only with good oriental food), but as there is a BEER FESTIVAL all weekend here in Bolton I may have a few more to add, should I survive...
It's a hard life

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 10 Oct 2003, 00:17

@barbie

heffeweissen with lemon

= hefeweizen?

We have a thing here thats called Radler its beer with orange llemonade also called Alsterwasser or called Dreckiges (dirty) or kalter Kaffee (cold coffee) with Cola
My favourite of mixed beers is Weizenbier with banana juice...also good is Guinness with Portwine...;)

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Chocky316 · Post by **Chocky316** » 10 Oct 2003, 00:31

i liked foster's when in thailand, because it had a higher alcohol content than here in the U.S./ i still drink it on occasion here; i drank san miguel, when in the phillipines, for the same reason.. i liked this microbrew called "SAXER'S LEMON LAGER", BUT CAN'T find it anymore??? it tastes like lemon beer, not malt liquor like doc otis or that other stuff---gooooddddddd sh*******t!!

T · Post by T » 10 Oct 2003, 00:33

TENNANTS LAGER !!!!

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 10 Oct 2003, 00:39

hehe @all those americans if you want killer beer try to find "Elephant Beer" if i remember right (which is very hard after 1 can) its around 11.9% alcohol...

S. Allen · Post by **S. Allen** » 10 Oct 2003, 00:49

Hard to go wrong with a Fort Collins brewery...

Ahh... Fat Tire... but it's unknown anywhere but the southwest and Raliegh NC, where a DJ's got an unhealthy fixation with it... Funny to watch my cousins pack a trunk full of the 12 packs every time they're out here.

90 Shilling's good too, but that's nearly unknown in state, and I'm guessing it never sells elsewhere...

Not too terribly far off is the Golden CO brewery...
Coors is not so bad if I must drink a domestic macrobrew.

And budweiser is palatable if free.

for imports
Fosters can be good, providing the right food and the right mood.

Pilsner Urqell(sp?) is a fave of mine too.

I like Dinyars idea... I'll have to try that, I'm sure it'd clean ones body of all evils and most bodily fluids in a few hours. Stoli and fish mess... call it a brown daquari or mulmschlager or something.

;) so when do we go into mixed drinks and things? I'm more accustomed to those. mmmm..... gimlets...

doctorzeb · Post by **doctorzeb** » 10 Oct 2003, 00:49

Ever heard of Skull Splitter. It's black and thick like tar, sold in orkney, and they had to stop selling it in pints 'cos even the old ladies were starting punch ups and breaking into the local grocers!!!!

ClayT101 · Post by **ClayT101** » 10 Oct 2003, 00:50

I like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale the best. If you are looking for strong, try a beer called Salvatoire (sp?), very high alcohol percentage. Another strong beer that is very similar to Savatoire (but not as tasty) is Abita Andygator (its also a local beer).

T · Post by T » 10 Oct 2003, 00:51

Oh man its a green bottle with an elephant on the front, that stuffs lethal.

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 10 Oct 2003, 01:07

@s.a. Pilsner Urquell http://www.pilsner-urquell.com/
i visited the brewery in august...

on a university workshop travel...learn more about czech culture...;)

Post by **Barbie** » 10 Oct 2003, 01:21

I just KNEW I was mangling the spelling on that one,oops, but then again, I rarely write it, just ask my waitress, lol, so yes, its Hefeweizen. My favorite was the stuff at the Moose's Tooth in Anchorage, but I actually haven't found one yet that I truly disliked, as long as I have my lemons

Barbie

Chocky316 · Post by **Chocky316** » 10 Oct 2003, 01:27

HEFEWEIZEN IS A GREAT BEER ALSO!! I AGREE

FatCat · Post by **FatCat** » 10 Oct 2003, 01:52

In Belgium (wich is about 8 kilometers from my frontporch), they have this stuff called "Kasteelbier" (wich means Castle Beer). It's got 11% of alcohol......and here we have Grolsch Kanon (yup, that's "cannon"), 11,5%. Quadruple from my home-town has been yeasted 4 (!! four!!) times and has almost 12% in it....lethal stuff*

Im ordering plane tickets on another window right now!

kronenberg because i have gained the ability to drink loads and not have it catch up with me for about 3 days, thats 3 days of drinkin with only one hangover fantastic.

Called hair of the dog I believe

It's probably too strong for them, over 2.5% alcohol....

Them theres fightin words here

metallhd · Post by **metallhd** » 10 Oct 2003, 03:14

Well now I just have to wade in . . . believe it or not I don't drink

But I used to, and have travelled a fair bit also. Such thirsty work drove me all about, especially to Portland, Oregon (USA) where the microbrewery craft is in abundance, to the tune of some 200 local brews.

#1 without a doubt some Granville Island brew, Honey Nut Brown Ale. Vancouver's best!

#2 Grolsch, love those bottles

#3 Corona, it's just so nice and clean, and lime is divine - you could just guzzle it on a hot day . . .

Of course this is from memory

Must say I don't miss hangovers but I do miss beer w/lime on a hot day. Oh and finally IMHO and just to stir the hornet's nest, American beer is largely rot esp Hamms or Coors, most Canadian beer is not much better, and Guinness is just foul - right up there on my "how can drink this?" list with scotch. Blech.

MC · Post by MC » 10 Oct 2003, 03:31

Ok, cool

As an aussie, can I just say, with no offence meant to those who love it, Fosters Lager is one of our worst beer's.

My favourite beer's

Newcastle brown, Heineken, James Boag's Premium Lager, Carlsberg, Guiness, Corona w/ Lemon oh and of course Crown Lager.

Some local brewed stuff that is cheaper and more regularly drunk, Emu Bitter, Swan Draught, and Toohey's old when eating a steak.

The worst hangover beer ever is something called Emu Export - if ever in Australia, buy a carton of this stuff, and see how you go.

its nasty.