Beer, what style do you like the most?

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  • landry_p2000
    landry_p2000 Posts: 1,313
    edited July 2005
    Ditto to cold and free beer. I am more into the main stream with the Budweiser Select. From time to time, I drop a few Heiny's or Coronas. I don't go to many bars so I do the majority of my beer drinking from bottles.

    Oh snap! That reminds me. Only two friggin' beers left. EMERGENCY BEER RUN!:D (when I leave work of course)
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by Toxis
    hahaha, you to? I like the "****" beers as well.
    They aren't beers at all, more of a mixed drink in a bottle. Smirnoff, vodka. Bacardi, rum. I'm sure you knew that but I don't get it why people call them beers.
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by landry_p2000
    I don't go to many bars so I do the majority of my beer drinking from bottles.
    If you want the flavour, always from a bottle but pour it into a class. Draft beer can vary a lot. If you drink straight from the bottle you lose a lot of the taste as you get hardly any aroma.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited July 2005
    1-Pale Ale / IPA
    2-Bitter / ESB
    3-Stout
    4-Porter
    5-Bock / Double Bock
    6-Barley Wine
    7-Pilsner
    8-Lager

    Just about the way I'd round out your list. A lot depends on the season and mood I'm in. Summer is more IPA's / ESB's and the like where as winter it's Stout's and Proter's.

    My current ale of choice is North Coast Brewing Co's Old Stock Ale. This one is a butt kicker at 11.40% abv and is stonge in the hops and malt department with a nice light mouth feel and a slight tingle on it's way down. Even though it brews in very high the alcohol is well hidden. Not cheap either, the best price I've found is $10 a 4-pack.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by Sami
    They aren't beers at all, more of a mixed drink in a bottle. Smirnoff, vodka. Bacardi, rum. I'm sure you knew that but I don't get it why people call them beers.

    I'd love to agree with you, because those things are nothing like beer, but technically, they're usually malt liquor. And malt liquor is defined as "A type of beer of relatively high alcohol content (7%-8% by volume)"

    So technically they're "beer", but most beer-lovers would punch you in teh face before they'd admit to such :) And most girls at a bar wouldn't look at you twice if they saw you drinking one ;)
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  • NCrewson
    NCrewson Posts: 144
    edited July 2005
    Favourite beer right now is Alexander Keith's IPA. But otherwise I'm pretty open to suggestions. Not real keen on stouts or any of the darker heavier beers.

    Come to think of it a nice Red Stripe would go down good right now. Of course I think the Red Stripe has fonder memories for me than it should as the last time I drank it I was actually in Jamaica.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2005
    Killian's Red
    Foster's lager
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by bobman1235
    I'd love to agree with you, because those things are nothing like beer, but technically, they're usually malt liquor. And malt liquor is defined as "A type of beer of relatively high alcohol content (7%-8% by volume)"
    Ok, if they are malt it's different. Still not something I would call beer but rather malt beverage.
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  • landry_p2000
    landry_p2000 Posts: 1,313
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by Sami
    If you want the flavour, always from a bottle but pour it into a class. Draft beer can vary a lot. If you drink straight from the bottle you lose a lot of the taste as you get hardly any aroma.

    I thought it was just me.:D I always pour my Bud Selects into a pilsner glass or beer mug when I drink them. I try to stay away from cans all together, but if that is what I got, I still use the glass anyway.
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  • landry_p2000
    landry_p2000 Posts: 1,313
    edited July 2005
    What category does Bud or Bud Select fall under? Is it a pilsner or what?
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by landry_p2000
    What category does Bud or Bud Select fall under? Is it a pilsner or what?
    Ummm, water... :p
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited July 2005
    That'd be the sparkling water catagory landry_p2000.
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  • landry_p2000
    landry_p2000 Posts: 1,313
    edited July 2005
    Ha ha ha. Very funny. If you drink enough you still get F**ked up.
    My uncle calls it "dishwater". I never tried that ale or lager before, I have always drank in the Bud family for the last 12 years of my life.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by landry_p2000
    Ha ha ha. Very funny. If you drink enough you still get F**ked up.
    My uncle calls it "dishwater". I never tried that ale or lager before, I have always drank in the Bud family for the last 12 years of my life.

    Pretty sure that Bud is a lager.
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited July 2005
    Hoegaarden White
    Paulaner Hefeweizen
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by PhantomOG
    Hoegaarden White
    Paulaner Hefeweizen

    Those must be some of the German "kick you in the ****" 28% alcohol beers.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,896
    edited July 2005
    Very rarely have I met a beer that I didn't like.

    Bass Ale, Paulaner, Guiness, Red Stripe, Coronna, XX Amber, Amberbock, Stella, Warstiener, Becks, Heineken, Rolling Rock, Sweetwater 427, Sierra Nevada IPA, Harp, Molson Golden and LaBatts Blue, Lowenbrau, Amstel Light, Hollande 1620, etc, etc...

    I've drank my share of cheap beer too:
    Nat Light, Bud, Miller, Old Milwaukee, Coors, Busch, Red Dog, you name it...
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,896
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by ND13
    Those must be some of the German "kick you in the ****" 28% alcohol beers.

    Not in the US, they are just your average 4-5%.
    Hoegaarden is Belgian.
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  • woodyjacobs
    woodyjacobs Posts: 706
    edited July 2005
    Bud is a Pilsner (although a friggin' awful one, comparitively). The original Budweiser is a Czech Pilsner which is very nice and hoppy (similar to Pilsner Urquell)...and very unlike the US version.

    Don't get me wrong, I've consumed enough Bud to float a battleship. It isn't "good" beer (taste-wise)...but it is effective. Bud Light, on the otherhand, is just bad...tasteless and it will make me full before it gets me to the desired state of mind. The only beer I can think of that may be worse (other than NA beers) is Coors Light. Like water with a bad aftertaste.

    For you summer-beer drinkers out there Pyramid Brewing has a new Summer "Curveball" Ale that is excellent...a Kolsch style ale. Very refreshing...and not overly lemony like a lot of other "summer brews".
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by woodyjacobs
    Don't get me wrong, I've consumed enough Bud to float a battleship. It isn't "good" beer (taste-wise)...but it is effective. Bud Light, on the otherhand, is just bad...tasteless and it will make me full before it gets me to the desired state of mind. The only beer I can think of that may be worse (other than NA beers) is Coors Light. Like water with a bad aftertaste.
    Michelob Ultra Light is much worse IMO. Not an easy task to be worse than Bud Light but it does it.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited July 2005
    So I bet I'm the only one (of the legal age of course) on here who's never tasted beer...wow...
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by billbillw
    Not in the US, they are just your average 4-5%.
    Hoegaarden is Belgian.

    Yeah, I knew they weren't that potent here, I just figured he might have been in the military and was stationed in Europe and got a taste of some "real" beer.

    I have yet to find a beer that I could drink above 45 degrees without wanting to puke. Do any of you like warm beer?
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited July 2005
    Pyramid Brewing has a new Summer "Curveball" Ale that is excellent
    Saw this on the shelf the other day. I've pretty much steered clear of anything Pyramind in a bottle. For some reason it has that skunky like taste and smell to me that I cannot stand. I won't touch their heffe.
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  • landry_p2000
    landry_p2000 Posts: 1,313
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by ND13
    I have yet to find a beer that I could drink above 45 degrees without wanting to puke. Do any of you like warm beer?

    Yuck! No Way. Warm beer is horrible. It has to be ice cold for me to indulge.
    I did not know Budweiser rated so low on the totem pole around here. My old man drinks it, my uncles drink it, I grew up drinking it, and it is all I have drank since I was 21 years old. I have tried Rolling Rock, Michelob, Corona, Coors, Coors Light, and Heineken from time to time. When I go to the store, its Budweiser or Budweiser Select. Budwesier is the most consumed beer in my town of Memphis, TN. Everyone I know drinks it. Maybe we are just country folks.:D
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  • landry_p2000
    landry_p2000 Posts: 1,313
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by Ron-P
    Saw this on the shelf the other day. I've pretty much steered clear of anything Pyramind in a bottle. For some reason it has that skunky like taste and smell to me that I cannot stand. I won't touch their heffe.

    Heineken and Corona get that same "skunky" smell after they get a little warm.
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by landry_p2000
    Budwesier is the most consumed beer in my town of Memphis, TN. Everyone I know drinks it.
    It's cheap. It has no taste so it is "easy to drink". It's domestic and heavily advertised. Some of the reasons why it probably is popular.

    American mainstream beer is very tasteless compared to European beers so it also is about cultural differences, of what you're used to drink. Some don't like the stronger taste of European beers so they opt for what we call water... :)
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  • aaharvel
    aaharvel Posts: 4,489
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by danger boy
    bitter ? :p

    lol

    Guinness, Guinness extra stout, NewCastle,
    Corona, Modelo, Weinstephaner

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  • landry_p2000
    landry_p2000 Posts: 1,313
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by Sami
    It's cheap. It has no taste so it is "easy to drink". It's domestic and heavily advertised. Some of the reasons why it probably is popular.

    American mainstream beer is very tasteless compared to European beers so it also is about cultural differences, of what you're used to drink. Some don't like the stronger taste of European beers so they opt for what we call water... :)

    Sami. Toss a couple of names at me. I am opened to try new beer, I just never went too far out there with the lagers and ales.
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by landry_p2000
    Sami. Toss a couple of names at me. I am opened to try new beer, I just never went too far out there with the lagers and ales.
    Ones that are easy to find:

    Warsteiner & Sapporo are my favourites
    Beck's & Pilsner Urguell are good too

    I would start with those. Continue drinking them from a glass. Each are a little different but all have that the aroma I personally look for in a beer. Not a big fan of Heineken but it goes down as the night gets older.

    Pironi is pretty good Italian beer but it has been a while I drank one so I don't remember how good it actually was. A little harder to find but not impossible.

    I would open a Bud and one of the above beers and pour them in a glass. Don't drink yet but compare the aroma that comes from them. You will notice it is pretty different.
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by ND13
    I have yet to find a beer that I could drink above 45 degrees without wanting to puke. Do any of you like warm beer?

    I prefer many of the beers I drink, not to be warm, but clearly not cold either. I find you can taste all the flavors it has to offer that way. Much like red wine.
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