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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 12-29-2004, 12:56 PM:
 
I like beer. No, I love beer. Nothing is better after work than enjoying my favorite beer while I recline in front of the t.v. in my underwear. My favorite beer is Boulevard Wheat. It's an unfiltered wheat beer made in Kansas City, served with a slice of lemon. My second favorite beer is Goose Island Honkers Ale, brewed in the beautiful city of Chicago. Goose Island is hard to find here in NW Iowa so whenever I go to Chi-Town (about every few months or so) I take advantage of it as much as possible. Since these 'micro-brews' can get a bit pricey I enjoy Miller Light when I'm out binging. I went to the Miller brewery in Millwaukee and they brainwashed me. What's your favorite beer?
 

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 12-29-2004, 12:56 PM:
 
Root.
 

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Posted by Jason Burroughs (Member # 68) on 12-29-2004, 01:03 PM:
 
Being from Texas - I have to say Shiner
 

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Posted by Chris Mosel (Member # 1451) on 12-29-2004, 01:22 PM:
 
Miller High-Life
Shiner Bock
Ziegen Bock
 

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Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 12-29-2004, 01:31 PM:
 
Deschutes Brewery Mirror Pond "Nectar of the Gods"!


 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 12-29-2004, 02:14 PM:
 


I'm not a beer fan, but Guinness is the best! I love it so!


AJG
 

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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 12-29-2004, 02:34 PM:
 
I'm also becoming a BIG fan of RedHook.
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 12-29-2004, 03:45 PM:
 
Where's Aaron when you need him?

Guinness Stout
McKesson Stout
Beamish Stout
Young's Oatmeal Stout
Watney's Cream Stout
Theakston's Old Peculier
Fuller's ESB
Thomas Hardy Ale

Celebrator Doppelbock
Chimay
Adelscot

Tsingtao
Singha
Sapporo
Yebisu
Asahi Kuronama

I know I'm forgetting some... What ales you?
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-29-2004, 04:06 PM:
 
Well at one video editing job I had the owner would always buy us beer a few days a week while we worked. I had no idea what he bought, but it wasn't in a can. I've never really cared for beer but I did acquire a taste for it after working there. Like I said I have no idea what brands he bought and it was different brands each time so I have no idea what would be my favorite. They really all taste the same to me.
 

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Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 12-29-2004, 04:11 PM:
 
Killian's Irish Red or Corona Extra.
 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 12-29-2004, 04:30 PM:
 
No beer for me but alcoholic cider is YUMMY:

#1- english Scrumpy Jack Cider (I can't find it in the states anywhere)
#2- Ace blackberry
#3- K cider (with a 7% alch. per bottle)
#4- Woodchuck. too sweet but it's ok for a domestic cider
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 12-29-2004, 04:53 PM:
 
Gosh Paul, can't you make up your mind? It looks like you'll drink whatever... especially when someone ELSE is buying!

Miller Lite: With my salad and red meat din din.
Sapporo: With Sushi and Japanese food.
Carta Blanca : With salsa & chips and Mexican food.

Bud and Corona are a big hype... the only good thing about them are their TV commercials.

While ya can only rent beer before peeing it out, Coors gives me the shits. YUK!
 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 12-29-2004, 05:30 PM:
 
The real nectar of the gods:

Newcastle Brown Ale!

Other faves:

Guinness Draught
OB Lager
Boddington's Cream Ale
Widmer Hefeweizen
Spaten Optimator
Warsteiner Dark
Gordon Biersch Marzen

I'll drink if none of the above are available:

Coors Light
Bud Light (tastes WAY better than regular Bud)
MGD
Corona
Heineken

Won't touch:

Budweiser
Any IPA
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
most 'cheap' beers

-Aaron
 

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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 12-29-2004, 06:03 PM:
 
Phil, OF COURSE I like any beer someone else pays for! As for not being able to make up my mind, variety is the spice of life. Specialization is for insects, and moderation is for monks.

And 'thank you' to Aaron for reminding me of Boddington's. How could I forget about Boddington's...

Forgot to list tolerable domestic product: Coors and MGD.
And the mixes: Black & Tan, Black Velvet, Port & Guinness...

Sadly, I haven't been to my Crown & Anchor pub in a long long time. Someday, when I have a real job and money to swill with again...
 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 12-29-2004, 06:24 PM:
 
Up here I like Lakeport honey brown and wee willie scotch ale
Also Rickards Red Ale
Alexanders Keiths IPA
on the imports
Tetleys
Guiness
Tartan
 

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Posted by Hugh McCullough (Member # 1542) on 12-29-2004, 06:36 PM:
 
Guinness Draught
Newcastle Brown
Boddingtons, and the beer I brew at home.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 12-29-2004, 06:42 PM:
 
I'm not an adventurous beer drinker at all. Miller Lite for me.

And it has to be cold. VERY cold. Warm beer is awful. (Insert your own apology to warm-beer-loving country citizens here)
 

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Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 12-29-2004, 06:49 PM:
 

quote: Gordon McLeod

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...Lakeport honey brown and wee willie...

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Yes Gordie, I know that's out of context, but it did strike me as a great title for my next film...
 

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Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 12-29-2004, 07:07 PM:
 
Phil do I get some of the royalties
 

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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 12-29-2004, 07:58 PM:
 
I also forgot about Honey-Berries. It's Leinenkugel's HoneyWeis mixed with BerryWeis. In fact, at some restaurants it comes served in a pitcher that has a divider in the middle. Honey on one side and berry on the other. When you pour it into a glass it evenly mixes together.
 

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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 12-29-2004, 09:12 PM:
 
Lately I have really enjoyed Yinpu. I believe it is a local beer in Changchun China. Another good one is TsingTao, but I need that one Ice cold. If I'm just drinking for quantity and not quality, then it is either Miller Lite, or Busch lite. In China though, I found places that I could buy 32 oz bottles of Yinpu for about 25 cents each, then I could turn in the empties for 12.5 cents each. In the bigger bars, they were about 2 and a half bucks each.

Rick
 

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Posted by Richard Greco (Member # 2032) on 12-29-2004, 11:18 PM:
 
Since I am a Redneck, I enjoy Bud Lite when I go out to the Dallas Bull It is a country bar and that helps me loosen up before I line dance.

Mainly though I drink Rum, Long Island Iced Tea, Jager, Jose Cuervo, and of course classic Jack!!

Not all at once though
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 12-29-2004, 11:38 PM:
 

quote: Hugh McCullough

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Guinness Draught
Newcastle Brown
Boddingtons, and the beer I brew at home.

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I've said it before...

Guinness is my logical equivalent to "Jacks or better for openers".
If the place I'm at doesn't have Guinness or something at least as good I'm probably going to drink Coke.

The only caveat to that is if I'm a stranger in a strange town. If you walk into a bar and ask for Budweiser, virtually nobody can fault you. When the beertender says, "What'll you have?", order a Bud unless you know they have Guinness, etc. Once you have established yourself as not being some kind of wierdo (in relateive terms ) you can upgrade your beer selection.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 12-30-2004, 01:22 AM:
 
I'm not some thick necked guy named "Gunter," but I enjoy a really good dark beer.

Guiness on tap is great. I'll drink their stout out of the bottle too and enjoy it. One of the Christmas gifts I received this year was a Guiness tee-shirt (from one of my best friends).

Now, living near the Red River Valley in "Texhoma" I also put away a lot of Shiner Bock. Not nearly as good as Guiness, but not quite as expensive either.

Other beers I like:
Becks Dark (OK+)
Heineken Dark (OK+)
Tecate (OK+)
Sapporo (OK+)
Dos Equis Dark (OK+)
Amber Bock (3.2 unfortunately)
Fosters (big oil can --and OK+)

The standard domestic beers (Bud, Coors, Miller, etc.) sold in Oklahoma are near-beer piss water. The whole stupid 3.2 thing only encourages more in the way of binge drinking. I mean, you have to drink a 12 pack just to get a buzz happening -and then you spend a shit load of time exercising your bladder! If you buy a foreign style beer (even Shiner Bock) at the liquor store, and with an "OK+" label you'll at least be getting something at normal strength.
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 12-30-2004, 02:32 AM:
 

quote: Randy Stankey

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Guinness is my logical equivalent to "Jacks or better for openers".
If the place I'm at doesn't have Guinness or something at least as good I'm probably going to drink Coke.

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Randy, I am deeply sorry that I have to be the one breaking the bad news to you: the Guinness you get here doesn't have anything in common with the one Hugh is talking about, except for the logo. Not that Guinness as such qualifies as real beer, but if Guinness, then at least the original. None of the beers served here that I have come across are the real thing. They are all watered down.
Real beer is what they make in the Czech Republic and Bavaria and beers closely modeled on these according to the "Reinheitsgebot", the Beer Purity Law of 1516, the oldest food/consumer standard in the world still in use. The original Budweiser (Budvar), again has nothing to do with Budweiser here, original Pilseners etc. Then there is a whole range of white and black beers. The so-called "Hefeweizen" here are a joke too, poured continuously into the glass from the tap, oh shit! A real Hefe is poured slowly against the inside of the glass so that it doesn't foam too much, then you roll the bottle on the counter to collect the yeast and pour it on top of the foam. Any good beer from the tap takes 6-7 minutes to pout properly. If you haven't tried any of these, you don't know what beer actually is.
And forget about all the "perceived value" crap where the beer has to fill the glass to the rim. This is what a real beer looks like:

Or better even like this:

 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-30-2004, 04:41 AM:
 
Who the hell drinks beer out of a wine glass? How girlie. It is manly to drink beer out of a mug or a bottle, never a can, wine glass, or dixie cup.
 

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Posted by Jeff Stricker (Member # 224) on 12-30-2004, 06:15 AM:
 
Some favorites

Labatts Blue
Cinci Creme (Canadian - no longer brewed)
Genesee Creme Ale
Andeker (Pabst premium - no longer brewed)

 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 12-30-2004, 07:16 AM:
 
That's not a wine glass, Joe. A wine glass has a much wider and shallower vessel.
 

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Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 12-30-2004, 10:18 AM:
 

quote: Michael Schaffer

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The so-called "Hefeweizen" here are a joke too, poured continuously into the glass from the tap, oh shit! A real Hefe is poured slowly against the inside of the glass so that it doesn't foam too much, then you roll the bottle on the counter to collect the yeast and pour it on top of the foam.

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quote:

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Or better even like this:

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Ah, yes! There is nothing like the beer or the food at the original Hofbräuhaus in München...



Yes, been there too

-Aaron
 

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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 12-30-2004, 03:05 PM:
 


I'm told it's better than Fudd.
 

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Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 12-30-2004, 03:37 PM:
 
my roomate and I brew out own, so I guess that's my favorite. I'm working on a new Cherry Wheat, I do have a name for it, but it's rather unappropriate.

I also like Pilsner Urquell a lot, and Guiness is my 3rd.
 

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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 12-30-2004, 04:32 PM:
 
Michael, how much do those glases hold? They look like about a litre and a half each.

I very seldom drink beer, or anything else that contains ethanol. I do have a very small glass, once very few months or so. I do think beer is quite interesting however, and am a regular visiter to the Great British Beer Festival, held in London each year. This event, and various smaller beer festivals around the Country is organised by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, whose aims I strongly support, though I personally don't much care for 'Real Ale'. Camra supports and promotes the idea of having a wide choice in drinks, and places to drink them, available.

The Beer festival also has sections for traditional cider and perry, it is one of the few places where you can still buy perry, bottled beers, including a large section for international beers, food, books, etc. There are many hundreds of beers on offer, thousands of people attend every day, people of all ages (there is a family room for children), sexes and races are to be found, singly, in couples and in groups. You seldom see anybody drunk, and trouble is almost ukknown. Contrast this with the pubs in the area where I live, which have few costomers beyond their twenties, are frequented largely by larger louts and vodka lout-ettes, and where there is trouble almost every night. Croydon is not a pleasant place to be on Friday and Saturday nights.

There was a television series a few years ago, called 'The Beer Hunter', presented by a man from CAMRA by the name of Michael Jackson. I remember that the started the first programme by syying 'My name's Michel Jackson, but I don't sing and I don't dance; and I don't drink Pepsi, I drink beer'.

CAMRA supports the survival of the small independant breweries, and their products, the traditional pub and sensible licencing laws.

web page

quote: Michael Schaffer

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That's not a wine glass, Joe. A wine glass has a much wider and shallower vessel.

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quote: Stephen Furley

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The correct procedure is to drink the beer, or more likely some strange blue or orange liquid containing lots of alcohol and sugar, from the bottle, and then use the bottle to hit somebody in the face before throwing up the liquid on the next passer-by.

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Sound like my kind of party! I think we need to get some more of the Film-Tech ladies contributing to this thread.
 

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Posted by Will Kutler (Member # 770) on 12-30-2004, 10:41 PM:
 
No beer/ale I have had in the US can come close to what I had enjoyed in England...

The pubs I visited brewed their own, and were served out of the keg.

These beers/ales had the smoothest beach-nut flavor w/o being artificially or overly sweet, and finished w/o a bitter aftertaste. The alcohol content was also very high as compared to what is available in the US.

Guiness and any of the decent imports are getting quite expensive in the US.

Some of the microbreweries in Portland,Oregon were pretty good.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 12-30-2004, 11:07 PM:
 
Yes, Michael, I know the Guiness that is exported is different than the beer available in-country. That's why I said it was my "Jacks or Better" beer. It's a poker metaphor. You have to have a starting hand of a pair of Jacks or a hand that is more valuable, else you must fold.

If they don't have at beer AT LEAST AS GOOD as Guiness (exported) then I will drink no beer at all.

I must agree with you, though. There are some MIGHTY FINE beers in Germany!

I only passed through Germany (and Switzerland) on my trip from Belgium to Italy. There were some fine trappist ales to be had in Belgium as well. In Italy, we drank wine. That was twenty years ago.

I would LOVE to go back there even if only to have a few drinks!
 

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Posted by Robb Johnston (Member # 239) on 12-31-2004, 12:27 PM:
 
My Beer of choice is made by the oldest Brewery in the US. Yuengling Lager. It is pronounced Ying-Ling. Based out of Pottsville PA, it is slowly spreading across the east coast. If only they get to enter Missouri soon, so I can stop sneaking it in (heh)

The closest thing I have found to it is Michelob Amber Bock, but it is a bit sweeter than Yuengling.

I miss PA
 

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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 12-31-2004, 02:19 PM:
 

quote: Robb Johnston

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it is slowly spreading across the east coast

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If it's the oldest brewery in the country then it must be moving reeeeeaaaallllyyyy sloooooooooow.
 

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Posted by Don Furr (Member # 1469) on 12-31-2004, 04:25 PM:
 
Miller Lite ONLY when the weather is warm, the salt spray is blowing in my face and I can't possibility purchase a margarita

Don
 

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Posted by Matthew Taylor (Member # 2310) on 12-31-2004, 04:51 PM:
 
I Like;

Fuller's ESB
McEwans Champion @ 7% ABV
Theakstons Old Peculiar
Most beers brewed by the Adnams brewery of Southwold

I hate; Budweiser
 

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Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 12-31-2004, 05:08 PM:
 
I dont drink beer at all and never (except for a sip by accident about 10 years ago which I spit out, I think it was Budweiser) up until this year. Most beers that Ive tasted make me gag after a few sips, I dont get why people like it, but hey whatever floats your boat. I did try some beers while in Germany and Amsterdam a few months ago, and they were excellent over there.
 

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Posted by R. Andrew Diercks (Member # 1725) on 12-31-2004, 05:21 PM:
 
I am a corn belt typical beer drinker. Bud Light is typically my choice, but Coors and Michelob will do fine. I do enjoy a Sam Adams on occasion. I have tried a few microbrews and I definatley prefer the pales above the stouts. I would love to try authentic German or English brews.

I actually detested beer until I discovered nickel ($.05) pitcher night in college.
 

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Posted by Brandon Willis (Member # 2345) on 01-01-2005, 01:20 PM:
 
Killian's Irish Red.
Yuengling.
 

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Posted by Brent Neal Jones (Member # 1048) on 01-02-2005, 02:29 AM:
 
I dont like beer, I'm a lick-her....oh Im sorry ...liquor man myself.

However, Im partial to Smirnoff Tripple Black
 

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Posted by Robb Johnston (Member # 239) on 01-02-2005, 09:16 PM:
 
Well, Yuengling was just a local that you couldn't even get in Philly until about 12-15 years ago. but in the last decade it has spread to most states along the east coast, especially after they bought another brewery in florida a few years back.

So after not expanding their sphere of influence for oh 160 years, it is now expanding rather quickly
 

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Posted by Dennis J. Losco (Member # 1374) on 01-03-2005, 01:16 PM:
 
Yuengling, is my choice! Best brew in th country
 

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Posted by Kris Brunton (Member # 432) on 01-03-2005, 01:47 PM:
 
I enjoy a few different kinds of beer.

Camerons creme ale, alexander kieths, smithwicks is good as well. Canadian does the trick as well.

I really like a beer I was drinking in Croatia, Ozujstko but sadly cannot be found here in Canada.

Anyway cheers to the beer drinkers.
 

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Posted by Christian Volpi (Member # 2370) on 01-03-2005, 02:02 PM:
 

quote: Robb Johnston

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it is now expanding rather quickly

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I wish that Goose Island would.
 

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Posted by John T. Hendrickson, Jr (Member # 849) on 01-04-2005, 07:35 PM:
 
Whatever happened to Olde Frothingslosh? You Pennsylvania boys may have the answer to that question.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-05-2005, 05:54 AM:
 
I drink European beers mainly (or 'poofter pints' as English 'real ale' drinkers sometimes unkindly call them when they've had a bit too much of the latter, given that they're usually served in much smaller quantities than a pint), my favourites being Duvel (8% ABV - yum!), Hoegaarden and Beck's. But of course living in York just can't be done without sampling the local brew every now and again...
 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 01-05-2005, 08:33 AM:
 
I'm not a beer drinker, I'll take my Captain and Coke anyday! But if you were to force me to choose, it would have to be Heineken. I like Heine's. My dad drank it while I was growing up and I'd sneak sips every now and again, now its the only beer I can stand the taste of.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 01-09-2005, 06:10 PM:
 
Olde Frothingslosh!?

The Beer With the Foam on the Bottom!

Actually, there really WAS a beer by that name but it was just Iron City repackaged. Appearently a joke by some of the guys at the brewery. Every so often it makes a reappearence.

However, the only people who actually drink Iron City are people from Pittsburgh.
 

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Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 01-10-2005, 06:40 AM:
 
It is interesting that in every discussion of beer, everybody claims a dislike of Budweiser yet it continues to be the largest selling beer in the US. Somebody is drinking it.
 

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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 01-10-2005, 07:01 AM:
 
We have a "newspaper" here called 'The Sun'. It's full of rubbish, and just about everybody claims to hate it, but I think it has the biggest circulation of any national daily; it certainly did a few years ago.

There are not that many beers from the US which are generally available over here, though there are quite a few, all bottled ones obviously, available at the Great British Beer Festival; they also sell 'Zymurgy' magazine there.

The opinion which most British beer drinkers that have tried them have of US beers is that most of what comes from the big brewers, including Budweiser, is poor, and that to get a good beer you need to go to the small, independant, craft brewers. Actually, they tend to think the same with British beers, but to a greater extent with the US ones.

I tried Budweiser once, and I thought it was pretty tasteless. I don't know if the stuff they sell here is imported, or if it's brewed here under licence, or even if Anheuser-Busch brew it themselves over here. I've had a look on their British web site, but it doesn't seem to say; there actually seems to be more about football and motor racing than there is about beer.

Home brewing is something you don't hear much about over here now; it was quite popular some years ago, but seems to have largely died out.
 

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Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 01-16-2005, 06:07 AM:
 
It depends on the mood, but I go back and forth through the following ... oh, but never on the same night!

Guinness Draught, Bass, Newcastle. An ice-cold cold Sam Adams is nice, and that's the lightest I'll go before I can start tasting the water. My local pub has started pitching Smithwicks ("from the people/brewers/bottlers [I forget] who brought you Guinness" the beer mat says) and it's a mighty fine, dark, and tasty beverage.

And if I'm feeling really in the mood for it ... a Guinness Stout, or an Arrogant Bastard . Oh wow, 22 oz. of that and I need a Guinness Stout to wash it down and settle the stomach. That's more of a celebratory, need to wince and forget about life for a while, 7% alcohol by volume beverage. Good, good stuff.
 

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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 01-16-2005, 09:41 AM:
 
I am a happy teetotaler. But, being a Winchester native, there is one Ale for me:


(the fruit and ginger soft drink)
 

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Posted by Bruce Hansen (Member # 281) on 01-18-2005, 12:42 PM:
 
My favorite beer:

FREE
 

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Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 01-21-2005, 12:08 PM:
 
Free beer is good, but I'll turn down free beer if it is of what I consider to be a nasty variety.

Beers I like:
Newcastle
Guinness
Honey Brown
Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale (it's only seasonal though)
Seadog Bluepaw
Bass
Harp

...I've not been brave enough to try a wide variety of beers, but my list is longer now than it was 5 years ago!
 

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Posted by Don Sneed (Member # 955) on 01-22-2005, 09:28 AM:
 
Japanese Beer (prononce: Bee-ro) "ASAHI" the 64oz... of course!!
 

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Posted by Brian D. Whitish (Member # 825) on 01-23-2005, 02:50 AM:
 
Well I usually drink the lamest of all-Rainier when Im decompressing at the local watering hole commensurating with my other projectionist friends. But I really do like Widmers Heffeweisen. And I have a soft spot for Weinhards Ale(Portland non craft brew). There are some fine brew pubs in Portland ans Seattle.
 

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Posted by Howard I. Neustadt (Member # 1447) on 01-24-2005, 06:18 PM:
 
Anchor Steam (on tap at the Film Center Cafe in NYC), Leffe, Chimay, Duvel or anything Belgian.
 

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