Favorite Beer

[Tom]

A lot of the guys will quaff a bunch at the rally site after the days activities are done.  I went for the beeeg cheez hamboogie last year and the place had a great selection of beers.  Didn't drink too much because we needed to ride back to the rally site but once there the cooler was opened up. :D

[Dean Rose]

being new to moto guzzi, i ask--- do you folks ever organize a rally around roads and breweries?  not encouraging drinking and riding at the same time,  but having a rally site specifically selected because of the good riding roads around it leading to good breweries where one could moderately sample and then bring a batch back for the campfire and tire kicking seems like a worthy way to plan a rally.  maybe we could have one such rally a year organized around longitude.  a right coast rally around 75 degrees would pick up western ma. and upstate ny brewers and access to boston and some pennsy brewers.  something around 95 degrees would make it a minnesota to texas deal.  could alternate over the years.   same for the 125 where it could be that fine stuff mentioned by greg in washington,  or oregon or cal or mexico.   regardless of how its done,  8 pages of responses  indicates some serious libation interests.

The Maryland Rally is near a brewery. They send over free beer to the rally and you can ride over there for samples. I believe this is it.



http://www.wildgoosebrewery.com/

Another brand they have.

[VA Sean]

The Maryland Rally is near a brewery. They send over free beer to the rally and you can ride over there for samples. I believe this is it.



http://www.wildgoosebrewery.com/

Another brand they have.

I'm really hoping to make that one this year... Howard and I chatted about it when he was helping (okay, he was doing the work, and I was helping) out with the V50.

[Two Checks]

I have two favorites:

1.  COLD

2.  FREE

[gnorts]

This thread *is* on a roll - -  ;D

I'm fond of amber ales.

Alaskan Amber, brewed in Juneau and available at Costco here

Fat Tire (or Flat Tire, as it's sometimes called - "A loaf of Flat Tire, my good man!"

Bohemia (used to say "Mexican Ale" on the label, now it's "beer," but it's the same stuff)

Hammerhead, which I can get on tap right across the street from my building at the Six Arms Pub.  It's a McMenamins tavern, and they brew their own somewhere - not at the Six Arms, though.  The McMenamin brothers are from Portland, OR, and they've built an empire of about 70 pubs in the NW.  Like Starbucks, there's money to be made when you can make your product for a nickel and sell it for four bucks. 8)

[Pfaff!]

Another brand they have.

If the beer is as good as the label is interesting, it must be something special! :D

[betres]

gnorts,   you are surprisingly close on the numbers.   here's some numbers from a beer institute group's publication about 5 years ago.

ingredients in a "mass" beer (bud)6 pack,  $.16,   craft beer (sam) $. 25   
   
labor, management, ads, packaging --mass $1.47,   craft $2.68,
retail markup, mass $ .80,   craft$1.30,
distributor markup mass $. 66,  craft  $1.20,
brewer profit, mass  $. 25      craft  $ . 67
taxes and shipping not included.

guess the lesson is don't go into business raising hops.

[gnorts]

Tire Bite!  Love it.  Pretty direct shot at Fat Tire, ya think?

Ralph Steadman is sooo twisted.  I discovered him when he was Hunter Thompson's favorite illustrator.

[y2kbassa]

Mississippi Mud is the best!! (of course)

[theecricket]

Another brand they have.

If the beer is as good as the label is interesting, it must be something special! :D

Is good beer.  Used to be great beer but as in a lot of brews that go for a larger distro they lost something when they went for the money.  I'm pretty sure they started in Colorado.

Flying Dog is the most desirable offer.  Try it, you may like it but be forewarned it has been better...

[T.B.]

Old Style, Rheinlander, Keystone Ice, Carlsberg Elephant

[casalambretta]

Chili Beer.. hands down, has a whole jalapeno in it that gives a great kick, wish i could find it in miami.

[T.B.]

yeah, i've had it.  its a little too hot  :o  i prefer my beer to be refreshing.  like a mountain stream.   ;D

[Sasquatch Jim]

 Two favorites, neither of which I can get where I live.
 American beer,  "Cave Creek" It has the jalapeno in it.
 Foreign beer,  " Victoria Bitters"  Ask Pete Roper about it.

 Sasquatch Jim

[T.B.]

best book ever.  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  yeah.  vincent black shadow.  we're with the factory team...

[Seagondollar]

[jhardy]

Mort Sabite "Quick Death" only available in Belgium
Arrogant Bastard (Stone Brewery) San Diego
Stella Artois (Thank you Budweiser for signing that deal to input to the US)
and naturally Guinness, because sometimes its not a beer you want it's a meal you need!

Cheers,

John

[scra99tch]

My favorite breweries

Ommegang, New York.
Allagash, Portland.
New Belgium, Colorado.
Unibroue, Canada.

Just to name a few.

[bpreynolds]

I love Franziskaner Weissbier...The beer with the friar

Glu glu glu...

bye Diego

Another vote for Franziskaner here!!!!!  I don't drink beer anymore, long ago moved to move to my favorite drink of choice, bombay saphire gin; yet, on the rare occasion that I do have a beer, it's almost always a Franziskaner.

[Mark in TN]

Wow, what a diverse group of brew connoisseurs!  I'm impressed! ::)  However, for what one bottle of those fancy beers cost, a fellow could get a 6pk of something along the lines of "The Beast" (Milwaukee's Best)  Much more "bang for the buck", (if you can get it down).  My palate is much more discriminating....g rew up on Pabst Blue Ribbon, and now enjoy cold Bud Lite.  The label says it's a "premium" beer and that's good enough for me.  :)
 
Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill is my beverage of choice for Black Tie affairs.  It never fails to impress on those occassions when it ain't appropriate to be standing around with a can of beer. ;D  But, around these parts, untaxed "sippin whiskey" is plentiful and negates the need to endure any "bloating".  Also cures colds, moles, risin's & piles and makes childbirth a pleasure!  ;)

[Dean Rose]

Wow, what a diverse group of brew connoisseurs!  I'm impressed! ::)  However, for what one bottle of those fancy beers cost, a fellow could get a 6pk of something along the lines of "The Beast" (Milwaukee's Best)  Much more "bang for the buck", (if you can get it down).  My palate is much more discriminating....g rew up on Pabst Blue Ribbon, and now enjoy cold Bud Lite.  The label says it's a "premium" beer and that's good enough for me.  :)
 
Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill is my beverage of choice for Black Tie affairs.  It never fails to impress on those occassions when it ain't appropriate to be standing around with a can of beer. ;D  But, around these parts, untaxed "sippin whiskey" is plentiful and negates the need to endure any "bloating".  Also cures colds, moles, risin's & piles and makes childbirth a pleasure!  ;)

Yeah, I really missed my usual sampling of that untaxed sippin whiskey at the Kentucky Rally this year. Just got to get there next year.

[Mark in TN]

Dean, Pat, Dave, George and I raised the jar in your honor.........sever al times ::)

[Dean Rose]

Dean, Pat, Dave, George and I raised the jar in your honor.........sever al times ::)

Thanks guys, I would do the same for you. Guaranteed!!!

[john hooper]

At the Blue Bell home of the north staffs branch of guzzi club GB we have had over 2500 different beers to try over the years, i promise i have and will continue to do my very best to keep up guzzi honour  ;D , mines a pint of  Timothy Taylors Landlord.

john

[Ragnar]

At the Blue Bell home of the north staffs branch of guzzi club GB we have had over 2500 different beers to try over the years, i promise i have and will continue to do my very best to keep up guzzi honour  ;D , mines a pint of  Timothy Taylors Landlord.

john

Well that means you only have another 1,500 beers to go for the full set.

My favourite changes evey week but currenmtly it is this;





Nectar.

[Pfaff!]

Better nectar.

[Nick]

Better nectar.

Great choice Holt!
Brought back 10 bottles this year. (My cousin's husband's family owns the vineyard ;D)

Saving this one for Christmas.

[SidecarMike]

I'm a Jaegermeister drinker myself, but for those few times that I do drink beer I prefer Leinenkugel's HoneyWeiss or Original.  Even after they sold an interest to Miller, their beers have stayed consistantly good.  If I'm drinking mixed drinks, it's Yellow label Beam and Coke in winter and Tanquer and Tonic in summer.  Schnapps or Jaeger any time, any day.
Not a Beam snob, but it's about the only Rye Whiskey I can find around here.

[Ragnar]

I'm a Jaegermeister drinker myself, but for those few times that I do drink beer I prefer Leinenkugel's HoneyWeiss or Original.  Even after they sold an interest to Miller, their beers have stayed consistantly good.  If I'm drinking mixed drinks, it's Yellow label Beam and Coke in winter and Tanquer and Tonic in summer.  Schnapps or Jaeger any time, any day.
Not a Beam snob, but it's about the only Rye Whiskey I can find around here.

Jaegermeisters great if the beer gives you acid. A shot of that will kill it fast.

[biggerjim]

 

    guiness extra stout, and pabst blue ribbon. (PAULENER SALVATOR DOUBLE BOCK)