The Official Beer Thread

[ken]

Originally Posted by Brad

I often go for the Franziskaner Weiss as well. Paulaner is also an excellent choice. Around these parts, finding either one on tap is very rare. Being from Chicago you must have access to some really good brews on tap, namely: Three Floyd's.
Also, Two Brothers Brewing and Goose Island. The Goose Island Honker's Ale is darn good. I wouldn't be surprised if Franziskaner on tap makes it out to you soon. I see it popping up all over the place lately.

 

[Brian278]

Originally Posted by Brad

I often go for the Franziskaner Weiss as well. Paulaner is also an excellent choice. Around these parts, finding either one on tap is very rare.

Being from Chicago you must have access to some really good brews on tap, namely: Three Floyd's.

If you like those two wheats, you should also try Hacker-Pschorr.

 

[Brad]

Originally Posted by Brian278

If you like those two wheats, you should also try Hacker-Pschorr.

I like Hacker-Pschorr quite a bit. It was my favorite tent at Oktoberfest.

 

[SamIam33]

I also like purple haze....yum.

 

[dusty]

My new favorite available-everywhere beer is Blue Moon.

 

[SamIam33]

I also like plain old miller lite...

 

[Laffertron]

Red-blooded Aussies will know what I'm on about when I say Hahn Super Dry...



Despite being low-carb (usually a bang-on indicator of a sissy beer that tastes like watered down lemonade), HSD is a full-flavoured, full strength beer. It treads the fine line between bogan beers that make you blind (VB, Power's bitter) and pretentious beers that get ordered by posers who work at call centres (Pretty much any import)

I never buy anything else.

I'd also like to point out that nobody in Australia drinks Fosters, contrary to popular belief. Foster's is disgusting.

 

[Ludeykrus]

Originally Posted by Laffertron

Foster's is disgusting.

You're not kidding....

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

Last night, I went to the Brick (the Brickskellar, a dive-bar type place with a beer selection that runs in the thousands for all you non-DC residents) with a friend. The first beer I had was La Fin Du Monde. As good as advertised, but it hits like a hammer. Then I had a Great Divide Double IPA, which was rather non-descript. I finished up with a mixed drink composed of Scotch, Drambuie, and Bellhaven Ale -- basically a Rusty Nail mixed with beer. I felt alright when I got home and watched an episode of Prison Break on DVD. The next thing I know, it's 1:45 in the morning, all the lights in my apartment are on, and I have a splitting headache.

 

[eg1]

Originally Posted by Laffertron

Red-blooded Aussies will know what I'm on about when I say Hahn Super Dry...



Despite being low-carb (usually a bang-on indicator of a sissy beer that tastes like watered down lemonade), HSD is a full-flavoured, full strength beer. It treads the fine line between bogan beers that make you blind (VB, Power's bitter) and pretentious beers that get ordered by posers who work at call centres (Pretty much any import)

I never buy anything else.

I'd also like to point out that nobody in Australia drinks Fosters, contrary to popular belief. Foster's is disgusting.

Originally Posted by Ludeykrus

You're not kidding....

How about the Swan Lager?

 

[DouggiePhresh]

hofbrau dunkel is my winter beer
paulaner oktoberfest marzen for autumn
weihenstephaner hefe for summer
spring can be a mix of anything.

throw in some random dogfish 90, chimay grande reserve, few sessions of stone ruination, stone oaked arrogant bastard, alot of boddingtons sessions, maybe westvleteren 12 once every couple years. And whatever else is aging in my basement.

 

[chronoaug]

^^^I rather like the dogfish 90 too.

This wine and cheese gallery nearby has a large beer selection with a bunch of brands i've never heard of and some other ones i've seen elsewhere such as dogfish head and unibrou. My friend bought this 750ml bottle of Unibrou 16 (in honor of their 16th anniv) which was really good. My favorite of their more common offerings is La Fin de Monde.

They have a 750ml bottle of Dogfish Head "Fort" which is brewed with pureed raspberries and is 18% alc. I really want to try it but the $18 price tage is holding me back a bit. I'm going to try and find a friend who wants to split a bottle with me. The Dogfish Head "Midas Touch" was pretty interesting with a really intense flavor.

I also recently had Rogue's "Hazelnut Brown Nectar" and "Double Chocolate Stout" which were both fantastic.

 

[spertia]

Originally Posted by chronoaug

They have a 750ml bottle of Dogfish Head "Fort" which is brewed with pureed raspberries and is 18% alc. I really want to try it but the $18 price tage is holding me back a bit. I'm going to try and find a friend who wants to split a bottle with me.


This sounds fantastic. I'll gladly split a bottle with you -- come on up here....

I also recently had Rogue's "Hazelnut Brown Nectar" and "Double Chocolate Stout" which were both fantastic.

I recently tried a Rogue ale (not sure which one) for the first time, at Ruby Tuesday of all places, and it was one of the best beers I've had in a while.

 

[Brian278]

Originally Posted by chronoaug

^^^I rather like the dogfish 90 too.

This wine and cheese gallery nearby has a large beer selection with a bunch of brands i've never heard of and some other ones i've seen elsewhere such as dogfish head and unibrou. My friend bought this 750ml bottle of Unibrou 16 (in honor of their 16th anniv) which was really good. My favorite of their more common offerings is La Fin de Monde.

They have a 750ml bottle of Dogfish Head "Fort" which is brewed with pureed raspberries and is 18% alc. I really want to try it but the $18 price tage is holding me back a bit. I'm going to try and find a friend who wants to split a bottle with me. The Dogfish Head "Midas Touch" was pretty interesting with a really intense flavor.

I also recently had Rogue's "Hazelnut Brown Nectar" and "Double Chocolate Stout" which were both fantastic.

I've the the Fort, it's....interesting. Very much tastes like pureed raspberries over a base of high-alcohol IPA (which is the base of most of their limited edition big-bottle stuff). I've had almost all of their limited edition stuff, and honestly it's all worth trying, but very little of it I would buy to have again. The World Wide Stout, the Raison d'Extra, the Golden Pilsner all fall into that category of those that I have purchased more than once.

 

[rjmaiorano]

Depends... If its a good beer to hydrate, say, during ultimate frisbee then you can't go wrong with some Natty Ice, a quality 'fitness beer'.

...

If I'm beating my kid, then PBR.

But otherwise all beers from Stone Brewery, also Sierra Nevada Brewery turns out good stuff. Just tried my first Chimay Trappist and it was amazing also.

Everything will always be second to a Dos Equis on the beach on a beautiful day.