Favorite Beer

[Porterhouse]

Great timing for the re-emergence of this thread.  For any of you Seattle denizens, get over to Seattle Center this weekend for the Seattle International Beer Festival.

How's this for a beer list?!?!

Three days, hundreds of beers, live music, and a smattering of food to ease the transition to the blissful state of beervana...

[oldmxdog61u]

A cold one after a long day doing traffic control in the sun, or prisoner processing at the jail. Just sitting there in my lounger, boots off, looking put my veranda window, a free man with a good wife, a good life, some good friends, a good bike, and a good cold beer. Pop, ajhhh!

[nsumax]

Coors Lite, ice cold but once in a while at room temprature in memory of my dad. :BEER:

[Guzzistajohn]

Stocked up the cooler last night with 2 cases of PBR bottles and 40lbs. of ice, with a little luck I can skate outa here early for a 4 day weekend WWWOOO HOOOO!! Happy Independence Day!

[Blueboarhound]

Founders Breakfast Stout
Hacker-Pschorr Weisse (Hefe Weisse)
Hacker-Pschorr Weisse Dark (Dunkle Weisse)
Nastro Azzurro

[JoeW]

My current favorite is Flying Dog's Raging Bitch!

[Kev m]

New one to ad to the list

DuClaw's Sweet Baby Jesus (Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter).

http://www.duclaw.com/beers.aspx

Just found it recently at a MD liquor store close to the marina where we keep our boat.

Not an all night beer for sure, but a decent treat.

[Andrew Thomas Evans]

I'm a big local beer fan.

- Brainerd Lakes Brewing
- Surly
- Indeed (just down from the studio)
- Lift Bridge

Pretty much anything from MN I'm all for

From there my taste varies - Pacifico, Dos Equis, Pilsner Urquell, to anything that comes in a 45, to some belgans, doesn't matter just as long as it's beer.

Also, my home brewing finally was ready to drink, and it's amazing! http://www.midwestsupplies.com/octane-ipa.html

[Blueboarhound]

New one to ad to the list

DuClaw's Sweet Baby Jesus (Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter).

http://www.duclaw.com/beers.aspx

Just found it recently at a MD liquor store close to the marina where we keep our boat.

Not an all night beer for sure, but a decent treat.

Spring House Brewing Co. in Conestoga makes a Chocolate Peanut Butter Stout called Big Gruesome (  http://www.springhousebeer.com/pages/beer/big-gruesome  ) they have it on tap at their Taproom in Lancaster.

[Kev m]

Spring House Brewing Co. in Conestoga makes a Chocolate Peanut Butter Stout called Big Gruesome (  http://www.springhousebeer.com/pages/beer/big-gruesome  ) they have it on tap at their Taproom in Lancaster.

Good to know - thanks...

[Guzzistajohn]

I like all those fancy expensive beers too, just not 3 times better than a good old beer like Pabst Blue Ribbon.

[LonerDave]

Miller High Life (The Champagne of Beers).  Ice, ice cold.  Gotta be in the clear long neck bottle.  

Sometimes in the summer, with a bit of ginger ale to make a shandy.  Yum.

With some butter, onions and bullion, makes a great "bath" for the brats as they come off the grill.  Double yum.

[Guzzistajohn]

Leave it to a Wisc. man to have a good no nonsense taste in beer. And include a brat! 

Miller High Life (The Champagne of Beers).  Ice, ice cold.  Gotta be in the clear long neck bottle. 

Sometimes in the summer, with a bit of ginger ale to make a shandy.  Yum.

With some butter, onions and bullion, makes a great "bath" for the brats as they come off the grill.  Double yum.

[ritratto]

Negra Modello from Mexico... a dark german ale.

[Kev m]

Negra Modello from Mexico... a dark german ale.

 ???

Ale?

That would surprise me.

Most beers produced for tropical climates are Lagers and though the flavor of Negra Modello is more complex than your typical light lager/pilsner, it certainly doesn't strike me as having the complexity of an ale.

If it wasn't already covered in this thread

* ALES are top-fermented at warmer temps and therefore contain more radical and complex flavors. They don't HAVE to be dark, though they often are. L

* LAGERS are bottom-fermented at cooler temps (traditionally in caves/lagering cellars, like those cut into the Pottsville mountain side by Yuengling in the early 1800s). They don't have to be LIGHT, but they often are. The cooler temps allow more simple,  clean/crisp flavors.

A Pilsner is a particular style of light lager that is mimicked (quite badly in most cases) by most of the big American breweries. So if you're a PBR, or Bud, or Miller, or Coors fan (and argue the merits of one over the other) you're simply a Pilsner fan with a taste for a very simple, relatively bland Americanized version. If you want to taste where that all came from try something like Pilsner Urquel or a fine German Pilsner and compare, you'll find something similar with just a touch more well-rounded flavor.

Anyway, the importer doesn't specify

http://www.crownimportsllc.com/ourbrands/negramodelo.htm

But Wiki suggests it's a lager as I suspect

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

Negra Modelo is a 5.3% abv Vienna lager[11] first brewed in Mexico by Austrian immigrants, and was introduced as a draft beer in 1926.[12][13] Negra Modelo comes in an unusually shaped, wide brown bottle with a trademark gold label. The full name of the beer is Cerveza Negra Modelo. The word "modelo" means "model" or "example" in Spanish. "Negra" means "black" or "dark" and modifies "cerveza."

Ratebeer.com seems to agree

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/negra-modelo/745/

I'm going with a Dark Lager...

[LonerDave]

Leave it to a Wisc. man to have a good no nonsense taste in beer. And include a brat! 

If there's one thing I know about, it's beer and brats. 

But I guess that would be two things.

[wrbix]

A recently discovered favorite: Green Flash Brewing's West Coast IPA. Crisp start, nice bitter finish.... How they do that?

[ITSec]

Great - now I have another reason (besides the 155 degree temps) to want to be somewhere other than Las Vegas!

BTW, I like heavily hopped lagers best, but an IPA will do in a pinch. I wish Radegast were easier to find in the US....

[DaGoose]

You guys suck, you really suck. Telling the tales of drinking  Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter or Chocolate Peanut Butter Stout. You and your damned drink it with your pinkies out regional beers. I hope you are proud of yourselves. Sounds to me, like the kind of beers, only to be drunk if you are wearing a Kilt!

If needed I will buy a damn kilt. I would love to try some of it.


Willie

[redbirds]

My favorite...whatever is on tap at the Dodging Duck in Boerne, Texas. All beer is good if you're hot and sweaty from working in the heat.

[donn]

There are too many for me to have a real favorite.  Since we had a couple warm days here, temperatures in the 80s - no kidding, there was an official weather warning, probably broke a record in there somewhere! - I especially enjoyed a couple of our local Elysian's "Super Fuzz" blood orange pale ales.  (Don't worry, I walked home!)  One of the local joints is pushing the stuff pretty hard, and the waitress was talking about a citrusy IPA, but it was not so heavy on that, really pretty nicely balanced.  It apparently really does have orange juice in it, so perfect breakfast beer.  I am not usually attracted to gimmicks like this, absolutely hated that apricot beer, and the watermelon beer likewise, so I'd been steering clear of this stuff, but now I'm up for more!

[betres]

don't have the time to read all 10 pages of this thread so maybe i am repeating what someone has said however,    what a country!!!!!!   there is so damn much good beer in america today that if i was a recent immigrant, visitor or alien from another planet i would just get me a bike and ride  from one town to another.......portl and, great stuff.....seattle, my oh my.....asheville... sweet mother of gawd..and don't even start me on the right coast, left coast and everything in between...i do not care where you are if there isn't a store, restaurant, micro or man at a rally sharing his own 'stuff' well i missed that part of the country.....yep,   the best thing to happen to this country in the past two decades is americans are making and drinking great beers.....now back to the kitchen to check two carboys,  one with a stout perking and the other with a belgian with a tardy yeast......

[Pfaff!]

One's talking about cherry another about choclat and yet one on citrus flavor.
Don't you guys like beer as it comes   ;)

[mickyvee]

 ;D Timothy Taylor's Golden Best.
Moorhouses Pendle Witch.
Thwaites' Wainwright.
Ossett Brewery Silver King............... .the list goes on! BTW, as a non flying Brit, I am not likely to ever sample Bud or Coors in their native land. Are they better than the bottled swill we get over here? (They could hardly be any worse!).

[Key Lime Pie]

It varies and I love trying new ones.  Right now I’m back to Innis & Gunn.  My 2 favorites are the Bourbon and the Rum.  :BEER:

http://www.innisandgunn.com/

[segesta]

I love good beer, but when it comes down to it, it's like coffee: as long as it's free, and the correct temperature, I'll drink anything.

But being a Chicagoan, I really like Goose Island's premium beers, like Bourbon County Stout and its upcoming Ten Hills line.

[Triple Jim]

BTW, as a non flying Brit, I am not likely to ever sample Bud or Coors in their native land. Are they better than the bottled swill we get over here? (They could hardly be any worse!).

As another home brewer, I can say that the mass produced American beers, including some of the ones considered by some to be special, taste very much like bottled water to me.

One of the beers I make in rotation regularly is a version of Sierra.  Any good IPA is worth drinking.

[rtbickel]

Being the least interesting man in the world, I prefer Dos Equis.  Ice cold, with the #5 Mexican dinner.

[Andrew Thomas Evans]

I've been picking up some of this lately when I see it - http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/417/96518

I usually try to keep things local to the city and state.


Well and these are fun - http://www.oldspeckledhen.co.uk/products.php

[Unk Tantor]

This:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emfwXmLpkK0


Although its not as good as it used to be.