Food What kind of beer drinker are you?

Good to see a few fellow wiessbier drinkers.

I drink Stella pretty much because its the only option a lot of places have on tap which isnt Carling. (Plenty of pubs here will literally have on tap 5 beers on tap - probably Guiness, Strongbow (allright thats a cider), John Smiths, Stella and Fosters or Carling. I find Stella has a bit of a chemical taste, but its often the best of a bad lot. A few places in Ipswich used to have Becks on tap, but havent found anywhere in Walsall that has (not that I drink as much these days)

Ive spent a grand total of about 6 weeks of my life in America, but the best thing I had on tap was Sam Adams winter beer I think.

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Reminds of the greatest meal I ever had. I used to have a picture on my old phone, but I went with a mate to this place when I was in Germany and had a burger and a beer. The beer was a litre of some local brew the guy had concocted in his shed, the burger had a full 1 1/2 of meat (was literally the size of the entire plate. Obviously if you ate that for dinner every night you'd probably be dead in a year, but as a one off it was pretty cool.

 

One of the best beers I can remember drinking was a beer called Velvet. I am pretty sure it was only available from a couple of places in Prague. The fact that I drank that beer over 12 years ago should tell you something.

 

Was in Prague a few years ago and do not remember any beer named Velvet. Mostly Pilsner Urquell, Budějovický Budvar (the original Budweiser) and Staropramen (my favorite). Did have an unamed dark beer one evening with dinner that was excellant. Wish I knew what that was. Maybe Velvet?

 

Currently, Magic Hat no.9 or Newcastle Brown Ale top my list, but I try something new whenever I run across it. I enjoy the occasional Blacksmith... Guiness and Smithwick's, although it tastes pretty good with Murphy's, too. I've never found a "light" beer that has an appealing flavor. The only wheat beer I have really enjoyed is Atwater's Dirty Blonde, but won't disparage the whole genre... I just haven't experience enough of them.

While in Spokane, WA, last year, I grabbed a six pack of Moose Drool. Mighty tasty! Also, a bar there had a darkish ale from Hawaii that I liked a lot. I can't recall the name, though.

There's a little pub/brewery just a few blocks from my home: http://blacklotusbrewery.com/ . They have a lot of brews that they rotate monthly, but the one that knocked my socks off was a peppered brown ale. Wow! Smooth and flavorful up front with just enough of an afterburn in the back of your throat to let you know that it was there. Great chaser for their house burger or pulled pork sandwich (which are both rather tasty, too!).

 

I once made a home brew which was a kit I got from the supermarket, double the amount of sugar they said, and a load of licquorice melted into it. It was pretty harsh, but actually once you got used to it was tolerable (if you tried to swallow it and not taste it you could never get used to it, you had to hold it on your mouth and fight the taste until it stopped attacking you)

My housemate passed out on the stairs after four bottles, thats a pretty advert for it.

 

My taste in beer is evolving. Stepping outside the norm of domestic light lagers, over the past four years or so I took first to wheat beers (Hefes and Belgian wits) then ambers, pales and stouts. I'm still learning and trying to keep an open mind and palette. To that end, I feel lucky to have access to a pair of fantastic local liquor stores that stock a fantastic assortment of microbrews, including lots of local outfits—Flying Dog, Dogfish Head, Clipper City, among others.

Ten years ago I wasn't a beer drinker. Now I am.

 

is "frequent" a type of beer drinker?

 

Just as much as infrequent in my case

 

Anyone try any of the beers from Three Floyds? Based in Munster IN, so I guess I'd have to call them local for me. I don't think they distribute much outside of the midwest. Some very intersting beers. Check them out.

 

o my. i like belgian ales. on tap, though. and they have to turn over (even trappists get skunky, apparently). i like most of the trappist ales. i like to think the trappist monks channel their speech into the beverages they make. they're a chatty buzz. they're also dangerous. even la chouffe, which is pretty ubiquitous, can cause an otherwise ambulatory boy to bump into things. i like la duchesse de bourgogne (it's a kind of sour cherry ale. monks--from philadelphia--is pretty good too).

and i shall say here that the one thing i miss about chicago more than any other is being close to the map room. greatest beer place ever.

for more everyday beer requirements, i like ipswich ale--or did until it started to taste sweet to me. that may have been a saturation effect. (magic hat 9 is too sweet, i think.) at the moment, i like sierra nevada when i am out and about. pete's organic ipa. the local brewery in gloucester--cape ann brewery---makes a fresh hopped ipa that i'm quite addicted to when i'm there. red stripe for laying about on a boat on a summer afternoon. i like yuengling lager once in a while. this is maybe a nostalgia for philadelphia thing. but i drank WAY too much of it over the years i spent there.

there are others that i like but it's hard to think of them in the morning. maybe i'll post more at a more appropriate time of day.

 

I'm not a big beer guy, but when I do drink it I prefer Yuengling. I won't touch budweiser or coors. If I have to go with a mass production beer it's usually Mich Ultra

 

I like variety in beer. Colorado has one hell of a lot of small micro breweries with very good products. Most every ale is very good, though the local IPAs are a bit hoppy to my taste.

I've been drinking a lot of Ellie's lately.


Ellie's Brown Ale

 

So first off, I work at a brewery. So I drink a lot of Sleeman's beer. Both at home (I get 12 a week free) and at work (taste sampling). I rarely buy it though because I need something different.

As far as what do I buy? My regular purchases would be
Wellington SPA from http://www.wellingtonbrewery.ca/
Labatt 50. I started drinking it in highschool, and I like it. The only Molson/Labatt product I buy.
After that it's usually me wandering through the beer section of the LCBO trying to find something new and interesting.
http://theflyingmonkeys.ca/ been trying their stuff, and it's not bad at all.
My favorite beer this summer has been the Lemon Tea beer from http://www.millstreetbrewpub.ca/content/our-beers. Very very refreshing beer.

 

I drink Session Black as my regular every day go to beer. Before that it was Black Butte Porter. Before that it was Alaskan Amber.

 

bud light, bud light lime, or land shark lager. landshark is hard to find sometimes

 

This stuff is very nice also.