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Share your favorite beers & breweries here:

Here is my favorite Hefe: Ayinger Ur-Weisse - Privatbrauerei Franz Inselkammer KG / Brauerei Aying - BeerAdvocate

Here is my favorite Belgian: Chimay Grande Réserve (Blue) - Bières de Chimay (Abbaye Notre Dame de Scourmont) - BeerAdvocate

My favorite US brewery has to be New Belgium Brewery (Fort Collins) but I also think Boulevard (Kansas City) has some really good beers.

Finally my favorite neutered Utah beer is Uintah's goldspike: Golden Spike Hefeweizen - Uinta Brewing Company

What beers are your favorite? Share so we can all try them.

im2smrt4u

You live in Utah and like beer? I'm so very sorry.

Kidding aside, here are some of my favorites:
Hefenweizen - Weihenstephaner/Franziskaner/Paulaner (Three way tie)
Doppelbock - Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock
Pale Ale - Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale
India Pale Ale - Alesmith IPA
Imperial IPA - Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
Triple IPA - Russian River Pliny the Younger
Barleywine - Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine
Strong Ale - Lost Abbey Angel's Share Brandy Barrel Aged
Imperial Stout - Stone Imperial Russian Stout
Trappist - Westveleteren 12 (Quadrupel)
Sour - Russian River Temptation

As you may notice, I love beer!

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SabrinaFair

Not a huge beer drinker, but I enjoy the occasional brew. My favorite local brewery is Bluegrass Brewing Company (BBC). i like their Summer Wheat, Altbier, Oktoberfest, and Hell for Certain beers. (Hell for Certain is actually the name of a small town in Kentucky) Their Pale Ale is way too "hoppy" for my taste, but I like most of their other types. They also have a Raspberry Meade that I adore.

I tried Schlafly's Christmas Ale the other day while having drinks with some friends...I found it to be quite tasty.

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n0nsensical

I generally prefer light but strong beers. Not a big fan of stouts or really bitter IPAs but I'll try anything once. I wont even bother drinking anything less than 5% because the piss quotient is too high for the buzz. So those fucking $1 PBRs are right out.

Local:
most Triple Rock brews are great, I'm partial to the Titanium
21st Amendment Brewery especially Watermelon Wheat
Anchor Steam
Other domestics: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
I'm going to need to try that Sierra Nevada Bigfoot.
Okay cider might not really count as beer, but if I'm going to drink a cider it's going to be a Woodchuck Granny Smith
Imports: Heineken, Grolsch, Stella, and Corona arent very original but compose most of my drinking.

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fiatguy85

I'm a huge fan of hoppy beers. My favorite has to be, of course, those that I brew. Following that, some of my favorites:

Rouge - Dead Guy (and Double Dead Guy)
Stone - Ruination IPA
Flying Dog - IPA
Lagunitas - Almost all of their beers
Oskar Blues - Dale's Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada - Their Seasonal ones always seem to be good
Highland Brewing Co. - Gaelic Ale
Victory - Hop Devil (IPA-ish) & Storm King (Stout) (apparently makes a great Black & Tan too, which I need to try)

PulpMind

I'm a huge fan of Belgians... my favorite drink ever having been of a Konigshoven dubbel from a tap (!!). Not something stocked anywhere really, it was a great treat.
My favorite brewery is Dogfish Head. Based out of Deleware. Everything they make is phenomenal. IPAs are generally disgusting to me, but their 120minute IPA (something like $10 for a 12oz bottle) is heaven! They are always coming out with new brews and none have ever dissapointed.

Meanwhile, I live in Portland, Oregon which has more micro-brewers than anywhere in the world but Belgium. Although many of them tend to be on the more bitter side (not my favorite), many of them are amazing in their own right. Rogue is probably the most famous, and if I'm in that rare mood for bitter and strong, they never fail.

It's amazing to me that after years of being the laughing stock of the world beer drinking community, the United States now produces some of the best (if not THE best) beer in the world (depending on your taste). Go us!
It's also sad that Budweiser and Pabst are still the only "beers" that most people know.. but that is slowly changing =)

Vigilante

Sam Adams all the way.

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snowy

Hooray for Beervana!!!

I love living in Oregon. So much good beer. Even here in Corvallis (pop. 50,000) there are 3 breweries inside city limits.

My favorites change, depending on season or what I've had lately. Generally, we drink a lot of Deschutes. I'm sad to see Deschutes Jubelale off shelves, but there is plenty of other good wintry Deschutes to drink, like Obsidian Stout or Black Butte Porter.

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Baraka_Guru

It's too difficult to pick favourites all at once, so I'll just post as I go along.

I had my first (three) Hoegaarden witbier on New Year's. I rather enjoyed it despite not having any lemon slices to go with it. It just gives me a reason to have it again soon. It hit my top-10 list immediately.

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QuasiMondo

Hooray beer!

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Sam Adams Oktoberfest
La Fin Du Monde
New Castle
Fat Dog Stout
Brother Aaron's Quadruple

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stevie667

I'm a fan of a belgium blonde beer.

I once went to a bar in brussels where they had every single style of Leffe and then some on tap. Needless to say i had the mother of all hangovers the next day

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MexicanOnABike

Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale is my favorite. it was the 1st beer I liked and i've sticked with this brand since now and it's all delicious. If i'm in a more hungry mode, i would order an Alexander Keith's Red Amber ale. Equally great but a bit more filling.

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Dammitall

Flying Dog In Heat Wheat is my favorite, and they've moved their brewing operations right here to Frederick. Yay!

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ratbastid

My favorite belgian-style is actually Canadian, a trippel-style beer called Le Fin Du Monde, by Unibroue in Quebec. It's very, very nice.

I generally like an IPA or APA very much.

Tully Mars

Sol or Superior sometimes Carta Blanca. I like Corona too but it's not often available in the bars and restaurants of the Yucatan. Think Sol, or it's maker Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma, has the cerveza market cornered down here.

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lordsummerisle

Some favorites:

New Belgium Fat Tire
Oskar Blues' Old Chub/Ten Fidy
Belhaven Scottish Ale
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout/Raison d'Extra/Indian Brown Ale/Midas Touch
Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
Troeg's Troeginator (Doppelbock)
Green Flash IPA
Wolaver's Oatmeal Stout
Fuller's London Porter
Erie Railbender Ale
Smuttynose Robust Porter and Old Brown Dog Ale
Delirium Noel
Victory Storm King Imperial Stout

As you can see I like mostly dark beers--porters and stouts.

IPA's are growing on me though. I like the Dogfish Head ones, Southern Tier IPA from NY, and the Green Flash as noted above.

I am peeved at how difficult it is to get Fat Tire on the East Coast. This does lend some incentive to head west of the Mississippi a couple times each year.

Man, I love beer.

World's King

You know that one beer that comes in a bottle or on tap that has alcohol in it... Yeah that one... The one that tastes like Heaven...


I'll drink anything. And that's not in the alcoholic way... I just love beer.

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spindles

I never did understand the need/requirement for a slice of lemon/lime in beer. Is the beer that bad it needs an additive to make it drinkable?

I'm like Worlds King (alright not like him but...) I love just about any beer, but I have a dislike of low carb beers - they just don't taste right to me and I'm thin enough not to have to worry

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Baraka_Guru

No, no, not so.

It's more or less the same principle with many things we put into our mouths: it's to enhance the taste/experience. The beer in question is quite delicious without added fruit.

I wouldn't say it's needed.

What's a bit of a requirement for me, however, is that I can't stand certain cheap beer. I'd rather not drink it if it doesn't taste good. I don't drink to get drunk. (It just tends to happen.)

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Plan9

Baraka + Pabst Blue Ribbon

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My favorite beer is Rogue's Dead Guy.

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World's King

Holy shit... We agree on something.


Dead Guy had to be one of the best beers ever made.



If there is a way to get it in your part of the world... You really should check out Pin Strip from Ska Brewing Company...

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spindles

ok - I just like my beer unadulterated - hold the lemon wedge for me thanks, or stick it in my wife's g and t.

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Psycho Dad

You're thinking Corona.

Although I've never heard of using lemon in a witbier, usually I've seen those served with orange slices. Lemons in hefes though I believe are common.

It is like BG said though, served correctly, it is an enhancement to a beer that is perfectly enjoyable on it's own merit.

A beer I'm going to keep on hand for a while is Siera Nevada's new Torpedo Extra IPA. /me likes the IPAs.

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World's King

I tried this for the first time yesterday. It's really good. Not at all what I expected. It's a very light Pale Ale.

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dippin

For me, it depends entirely on the weather. When it is hot outside, a pilsner just this side of freezing is great. Warsteiner is a good one.

mixedmedia

I'm not a big beer drinker, but when I do drink beer it's usually Red Stripe. So i second that other Red Stripe poster way up there. Woo hoo.

In fact, I am enjoying one right now.

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snowy

That sounds super-tasty. I love Sierra Nevada--their Pale Ale is my default beer. I'll have to look around town and see who has it.

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Glory's Sun

Not a big fan of beer (vodka please) but if I'm drinking beer it's gotta be Yuengling.

World's King

Well sadly we don't get any on my side of the country.

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im2smrt4u

Drinking one now. Excellent!

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Glory's Sun

Yeah East Coast only..

although I wonder what the laws are about shipping alcohol.. my buddy has been in Texas for a few years now and constantly begs me to send him some Yuengling

World's King

Try sending it to him first. If it works... You have to send it to me.

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Glory's Sun

tell you what.. you find out what rules exist for fedex or ups and I'll ship you a case

snowy

I tracked down the Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA. I'm looking forward to trying some tonight!

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Psycho Dad

Rules aren't in favor of it... If you declare that you are shipping beer... Know what I mean?

Homebrewers do brew swaps all the time. Pack it well, ship it as fragile and you should be fine.

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I'll be having one later tonight as well. My boss leaves for Yulee, Florida Sunday and he is supposed to have some ready for me when I get there next Sunday so I don't have to go without until I search out a liquor store there.

Right now I'm enjoying a brown ale I brewed about 10 months ago.

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snowy

I'm really enjoying it so far. Yummy stuff. It definitely has more of a resiny taste.

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grumpyolddude

A co-worker's brother sent a variety of Left Hand Brewing fare via UPS. I'm suspecting that shipping that way does evil to otherwise tasty brews. About half the selections were a bit on the skanky side.

I'm a fan of ales, amber and brown especially. Bell's makes a very tasty amber, though my current favorite is Newcastle Brown Ale. Smithwick's is also on my short list.

I'll never turn down a Guiness or Murphy's stout, though.

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World's King

Here ya go Grumby...

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