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So, what are your presonal favorites? For some reason mine is Bass.

Carling if I have to drink beer. Otherwise its gotta be Snakebite & Black

Carling if I have to drink beer. Otherwise its gotta be Snakebite & Black

carling has to be the worst beer in the world. It is completel gutless and is lesss alcholic then water.

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now theres a fine beer. So's kronenburg

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Stella.

Carling if I have to drink beer. Otherwise its gotta be Snakebite & Black
A great black and tan. I prefer the orginal: Bass and Guinness. What else brings the Irish and British together?

im torn
Stella
Grolsch or
Corona

Duvel
(Hard to choose though, when your country has over 100 kinds of premium beers. Long live the Belgian beers.)

mgd
That is the best of the Miller products, which kicks the crap out of Bud.

Budvar, Leffe, London Pride, Pedigree, Innis & Gun

That is the best of the Miller products, which kicks the crap out of Bud.
Miller, Bud.....Aaaaaah, American beer.....like making love in a canoe.

Okanagan Springs Pale Ale. (real beer)

Duvel
(Hard to choose though, when your country has over 100 kinds of premium beers. Long live the Belgian beers.)

over the cheap crap i.e Fosters

Czech beer rocks aswell

carling has to be the worst beer in the world. It is completel gutless and is lesss alcholic then water.

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now theres a fine beer. So's kronenburg
The only reason why I should love my Irish heritage.

carling has to be the worst beer in the world. It is completel gutless and is lesss alcholic then water.

http://www.upforanything.net/poker/guinness.gif

now theres a fine beer. So's kronenburg

I'm sorry but thats just not well poured, sorry my snobby barman side has come through

Miller, Bud.....Aaaaaah, American beer.....like making love in a canoe.

Okanagan Springs Pale Ale. (real beer)
Most American beers suck, especially the commercial ones. It is the microbrews that make it all worth while.

Bud Light, end of discussion

Bud Light, end of discussion
I hope that is a joke. Rice beer sucks.

Herforder and Krombacher, Warsteiner can be good, too.
(All German beers :) )

carling has to be the worst beer in the world. It is completel gutless and is lesss alcholic then water.

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now theres a fine beer. So's kronenburg
yeah i know but somehow i like it *shrugs*

Hobgoblin.

"Afraid of the dark, Lagerboy?"

Hobgoblin.

"Afraid of the dark, Lagerboy?"

"Whats the matter lagerboy afraid you might taste something"

Nice

Used to be Stella, but I can't drink that anymore. Now it's Hoegarden or other 'white beers' (Leffe, La Chouffe). Skullsplitter (from Orkney) is also good for a laugh.

I should turn this into a debate over which type of beer is best: ales, lagers, or stouts. I prefer ales. Lagers suck.

I should turn this into a debate over which type of beer is best: ales, lagers, or stouts. I prefer ales and lagers suck.

Drinking to get wasted - Lagers
Drinkin for enjoyment with company - ales

If anyone has said budweiser, stella artois or any variation of a beer with 'lite' after it, I shall kick them repeatedly in the teeth. Budweiser is scum, stella isn't beer and it's secret name is wife-beater, and anything with 'lite' after it is not worthy of being deemed drinkable. :eek: Someone doesn't like awful beer, oh my god!

. :eek: Someone doesn't like awful beer, oh my god!


And I don't smoke a pipe or have a big grey beard and am under 40

SHOCK HORROR

And I don't smoke a pipe or have a big grey beard and am under 40

SHOCK HORROR
Errr...I'm 17. I got kinda sick of stella and the like by the time I was 15, after being paraletic far too quickly without even tasting my poison.

But meh, who am I to judge, I still like Fosters :p

Errr...I'm 17. I got kinda sick of stella and the like by the time I was 15, after being paraletic far too quickly without even tasting my poison.

But meh, who am I to judge, I still like Fosters :p
Nothing wrong with Fosters. It took me until I was 19 to like beer.

Nothing wrong with Fosters. It took me until I was 19 to like beer.

not a lot right with it though :p

Here's a question for you all (I won't say y'all, for some reason) - When you first started drinking, what was your drink of choice?

I am unhappy to say that I started on those 700ml bottles of WKD blue. It was the most foul and sugary drink known to man, but it was 5.5% and at 14 that is VERY strong

Here's a question for you all (I won't say y'all, for some reason) - When you first started drinking, what was your drink of choice?

I am unhappy to say that I started on those 700ml bottles of WKD blue. It was the most foul and sugary drink known to man, but it was 5.5% and at 14 that is VERY strong
I started drinking at 16 (normal in America) and I usually had orange flavored vodka and Budweiser. Thank the lord my tastes have changed.

I started drinking at 16 (normal in America) and I usually had orange flavored vodka and Budweiser. Thank the lord my tastes have changed.
the orange flavoured vodka is similar to WKD, except I think that the blue one was supposed to taste like bubblegum. The other one was worse, though. It was supposed to taste like Irn Bru, except it was a cheap knockoff called Iron Brew. You could make people sick at the site of that stuff

the orange flavoured vodka is similar to WKD, except I think that the blue one was supposed to taste like bubblegum. The other one was worse, though. It was supposed to taste like Irn Bru, except it was a cheap knockoff called Iron Brew. You could make people sick at the site of that stuff
I have heard about that. It was another one of those alcopops like Bacardi Sliver and Smrinoff Ice. They do taste nice and sweet but I will never drink them ever again. Once your alcohol maturity rises, you understand how crappy, and expensive they are.

I started on Cider oh the shame

I started on Cider oh the shame
That is nothing to be ashamed of...that is much better than cheap crappy American "beer"

That is nothing to be ashamed of...that is much better than cheap crappy American "beer"

It is when its White lightning and it is drunk out of a cheap plastic bottle

It is when its White lightning and it is drunk out of a cheap plastic bottle
Oh...

It is when its White lightning and it is drunk out of a cheap plastic bottle
3 litres? boo yeah. i did that for a while when the local offy did a 2for1 on 3 litres of strongbow. Man, does that stuff make you piss.

*drinks some lukewarm strongbow*

mmm....better than WKD

*5 seconds later*

oh shit, I need to go

*zzip* *jet of urine so strong it fractures the toilet* :D

My favorite is either Killian's Irish Red or Rolling Rock
Also like:
Fat Tire
Sam Adams
Amber Boch
Icehouse
just about any microbrew

For American "yellow" beer:
MGD
Miller "champagne of beer" High-life ;)
Coors
Bud, sometimes

I also like all but the nastiest malt liquors and ice beers:
Mickeys & Mickeys Ice (if I can ever find it again)
Smirnoff Ice
Schlitz Malt Liquor
Bud Ice

Oooh, it's a stretch to call it beer, but I really like hard lemonade and hard cider. I haven't yet found a brand of such stuff that I don't like.

Don't like:
any Lite/Light beer
PBR
"The Beast"
Michelob
Busch
Corona (rather have a XX)
Korean beer
bitter ales... I just don't drink beer often enough to maintain the taste for that stuff anymore.

I started at 13 on Bell's whiskey, then moved onto cider, then to vodka, then anything.

I started at 13 on Bell's whiskey, then moved onto cider, then to vodka, then anything.
If i had neat bells at 13 I wouldn't have drank till 15 lol

If i had neat bells at 13 I wouldn't have drank till 15 lol

It was okay, my first ever joint took the edge of it ;)

umm..good old Greene king...Mind you it's rare to get these days, if not Stella or Guiness

No-one has put boddingtons up so far. Is it really that hated?

Ahh, all this experimentation reminds me of the days my friends and I used to make the fateful 'shit-mix'. To make this, you basically took every alcohol-form present in each of your parent's houses (whiskey, rum, cognac, cider, beer, sherry, etc.) then chucked some of each in an empty 3 litre bottle and drank it between you in 10 minutes. My god, if you ever want to projectile vomit further than 6ft, this is the drink for you. I'll never forget the day we put my dad's absinthe in it..... :eek:

No-one has put boddingtons up so far. Is it really that hated?

Ahh, all this experimentation reminds me of the days my friends and I used to make the fateful 'shit-mix'. To make this, you basically took every alcohol-form present in each of your parent's houses (whiskey, rum, cognac, cider, beer, sherry, etc.) then chucked some of each in an empty 3 litre bottle and drank it between you in 10 minutes. My god, if you ever want to projectile vomit further than 6ft, this is the drink for you. I'll never forget the day we put my dad's absinthe in it..... :eek:

We call that a 'Bomb' where I'm from.

Budvar, Bavaria, Grolsch. Spitfire's great to, if you want something different than lager.
When I first started drinking I started with Budweiser (oh the shame :( ) and Vodka orange, still do that last 1 :D

carling has to be the worst beer in the world. It is completel gutless and is lesss alcholic then water.


As bad as MGD?
:mp5:

A short list:

Everyday beers:
Asahi
Yebisu

Mainstream Beers:
Guiness
Bass
Anchor Steam

"Microbrews":
Shiner (http://www.shiner.com/)
Sam Adams
Fat Tire

"Real" miro-brews
Millstream (http://www.millstreambrewing.com/)
Echigo (http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/review/5046/)

Home brews:
'taint telling. ;)

As a proud Québecois I have to side with my beer/ Étant un Québecois ben fier de mes origines je dois choisir la merveilleuse bière du Québec
Here are just a few
Chanvre Rouge (Contains a "special ingredient" from the family of the marijuana plants :p )
La Maudite
http://www.unibroue.com/products/maudite.cfm
L'Eau Bénite
http://www.unibroue.com/products/eau.cfm
Trois Pistoles
http://www.unibroue.com/products/3pistoles.cfm
La Raftman
http://www.unibroue.com/products/raftman.cfm
And now the one beer I do love and that isn't from Québec, is a wonderful beer from Ireland. I first drank it in Dublin, Ireland and cannot await to go there again to have more, THE GUINESS, Irish people really got skills to make a good dark beer. http://www.guinness.com/guinness/en_ZZ/home/0,6657,125540_125584,00.html

And to answer The Tribes Of Longton's question, I started with wine (What can I say i'm part Fench!!) When I was 11, and I still remember starting to drink wine one evening and then waking up in the stairs of my house with drool on both sides of my face the next morning :rolleyes: Aaaaaaaaaah... the memories :p

1. Alexander Keith's IPA - daily drinker
2. Ten Penny Old Stock Ale - wanna get pissed?
3. Guinness - creamy & heavenly
4. Okanagan Pale Ale - Imported from BC: smooth
5. Newcastle Brown Ale - toxic & delicious

Shiner Bock, Abita Amber, Abita Turbodog

except when Abita Bock is availabe (its only produced seasonally), then the other three have to wait.

Tennents (most people prob havent heard of it)

cheap and nasty

actually thats a lie, its just cheap

My top three:
1) Becks
2) Dos Equis
3) Molson Golden

Living here in "The States", I have to say thank you to the rest of the world for providing me good beer.

What? No love for Sierra? Dogfish 60 aside, it's harder to think of a better IPA.

Killian's
Red Stripe
Fat Tire

Tennents (most people prob havent heard of it)

cheap and nasty

actually thats a lie, its just cheap

Super T is nasty man that stuff is like 8%, for beer thas just wrong

carling has to be the worst beer in the world. It is completel gutless and is lesss alcholic then water.

http://www.upforanything.net/poker/guinness.gif

now theres a fine beer. So's kronenburg
YAY! Guinness!

Tangle Foot.

MGD vs. Corona they are both very good but the best beer in the wolrd would have to be bush for me im a bit of a redneck and thats the number 1 redneck beer

Rolling Rock

Ah forget about beer!!!! Its a load of crap!!!! Stick to Southern Comfort or Jack Daniels!!!!! Jack...... a very good friend of mine!!!!! ;) :)

Guinness

:headbang: Stella does it for me every time. you dont call it wifebeater for nothing :D

No one else likes Bass? It is the greatest thing to come out of Britain.

Oh, thanks for bumping the thread, whoever you are.

Ah forget about beer!!!! Its a load of crap!!!! Stick to Southern Comfort or Jack Daniels!!!!! Jack...... a very good friend of mine!!!!! ;) :)
SoCo is gross. Who came up with idea should be shot. That crap made me lose my voice for a week (ignoring the fact that I was alrady sick). Whisky is only good at certain times. Beer is good at any hour of the day. Even breakfast.

SoCo is gross. Who came up with idea should be shot. That crap made me lose my voice for a week (ignoring the fact that I was alrady sick). Whisky is only good at certain times. Beer is good at any hour of the day. Even breakfast.

Whiskey is good any time of the day or night...... even at half 3 in the morning after being rudely awoken by a friend!!!!!! :)

Super T is nasty man that stuff is like 8%, for beer thas just wrong
but proper tennents is 4.5 i think. and its dead nice

San Miguel Super Dry or Crown Lager.

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So, what are your presonal favorites? For some reason mine is Bass.
Corona Extra

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thats not beer

thats piss

thats not beer

thats piss
But it is best of the Ameripiss.

true

My favorite is the beer I help produce, and generally drink at least a couple of everyday (since I get a free case a week and get to drink at work):

Anchor Steam Beer
Made in San Francisco since 1896.

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YAY! Guinness!

Never liked Stout but Guiness makes some pretty damm good beer. Kilkanny (spelling) is one of my favs.

How is BIG ROCK not in here? Molson BLAH, BUD even worse BLAH, i wouldnt puke that shit, why not just drink some COLT 45?

Stella has to be the most over rate beer in the world...

Aghhh! I hate best of lists. There is no one best beer. There is only good beer (ignore the others), what you have to be in the mood for. If you are in the mood for a lager, don't have a stout. It doesn't mean one is better than the other, but that they are brewed for a specific purpose.

I also just wanted to give a shout out to North Coast Brewery. They have a stout called Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout which is a little chunk of heaven. They also have another stout called Old No. 38 Stout which is real good. In fact, all the beers I've had from them have been good. Sierra Nevada is another one to check out, as well I think their beers are more available. And now, I leave you with a song:

When I was seventeen,
I drank some very good beer,
I drank some very good beer I purchased with a fake ID,
My name was Brian McGee,
I stayed up listening to Queen,
When I was seventeen.

Anyway, where is the love for Pabst Blue Ribbon?

Wow! can I group this into categories?

Australia: Boags Premium
Belgium: Stella Artois
Canadian Domestic: Kokanee Gold
Canadian Micro: Granville Island Honey Brown
Czech: Rohozec
Denmark: Tuborg
Germany: Warsteiner
Ireland: Guiness
Italy: tie - Moretti/Peroni
Netherlands: Grolsch
Poland: Zwiec - also one of the coolest bottles ever - it has a drinking temprature sensor on it!!
Scotland - McEwans
United States: Samuel Adams

Anyway, where is the love for Pabst Blue Ribbon?


You gotta love the PBR.

I am also a fan of the MGD.

BUT. My absolute favorite is Woodchuck. (Yes, its apple beer-buts its OHSOGOOD!!!)

Wow! can I group this into categories?

Australia: Boags Premium
Belgium: Stella Artois
Canadian Domestic: Kokanee Gold
Canadian Micro: Granville Island Honey Brown
Czech: Rohozec
Denmark: Tuborg
Germany: Warsteiner
Ireland: Guiness
Italy: tie - Moretti/Peroni
Netherlands: Grolsch
Poland: Zwiec - also one of the coolest bottles ever - it has a drinking temprature sensor on it!!
Scotland - McEwans
United States: Samuel Adams

Kokanee GOLD over Big rock are you on crack? STELLA IS CRAP...

<snip>
La Maudite
http://www.unibroue.com/products/maudite.cfm
<snip>


You would eat your young wouldn't you? There's a re reason there's a devil on that bottle you know. Brewed in the depths of Hell I swear it. Blech.

Sorry, rant off. I tried the stuff once, and one mouthful almost made me sick. For the beer is all about the Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale, followed by Big Rock Traditional Ale, and then Kokanee Gold.

I like Amstel regular. It isnt found in America only in Europe.

I like Amstel regular. It isnt found in America only in Europe.
Really? I thought I just saw that yesterday.

EDIT: Oops. That was not the regular. That was light.

Kokanee GOLD over Big rock are you on crack? STELLA IS CRAP...

Big Rock is horrible, I lived in Calgary for two years, even went to a formal tasting at the brewery - and furthermore, the comparison youre making isnt valid, it would be Big Rock vs. Granville Island (in which case, Granville Island wins anyway)

started with Golden Wedding Rye (cheapest available) drank that almost exculsively for a year, now avoid rye of any kind.

best beer: bohemian (molson) it has light carbonation, medium hops, 5%

worst beer AGD (Alberta Genuine Draft) especially when warm

Big Rock is horrible, I lived in Calgary for two years, even went to a formal tasting at the brewery - and furthermore, the comparison youre making isnt valid, it would be Big Rock vs. Granville Island (in which case, Granville Island wins anyway)


Wow your nuts I have never heard of Granville Island beer, I have been to Granville Island I am surprised those hippies would be able to make beer instead of smoking up...

Guinness - overall

Summit Extra Pale Ale - domestic

Booze is so over rated.

Here's an out-of-the-box answer: lambic. (My specific favorite -- Lindeman's framboise).

Of the "regular" beers, it would be Shiner "Bock".

I also like the fruit relatives (cider, hard lemonade, etc.).

My wife and I used to homebrew, and the best beer we made was a spicy, peppery lager.

BTW, stout is not separate from ales and lagers. It is a type of ale.

When I drank, I didn't drink beer, I drank Vodka and Whiskey. Cause beer isn't good for having fun drunken times. But if I had to choose, I'd say a cold Coor's.

When I drank, I didn't drink beer, I drank Vodka and Whiskey. Cause beer isn't good for having fun drunken times. But if I had to choose, I'd say a cold Coor's.
What are you talking about? Beer drunk is the funniest drunk and you don't get hangovers as often.

Wow your nuts I have never heard of Granville Island beer, I have been to Granville Island I am surprised those hippies would be able to make beer instead of smoking up...

Well, its great beer regardless of whether or not youve tried it, Big Rock... don't get me wrong, they do have some good beer, the McNallys, Black Amber and Traditional are all decent, but Im not about to give them a blue ribbon yet.

And as far as everyone on Granville Island smoking up, yeah, thats a pretty stereotypical attitude. I live here in Vancouver now, and the stereotypes about rampant drug use here, are no more deserved than they are in Calgary or Edmonton.

You poor people, living in ignorance, drinking Bud or Coors or Miller or whatever other enema-water is being passed off as beer.

If you have your heart set on drinking only American beer then at least pick up a Samuel Adams or an Anchor. The Sam Adams Winter Lager is in stores at this time of year and is a damn fine beer. The Sam Adams Ale is a good anytime beer. The Anchor Liberty Ale is delicious and the Anchor Porter is smooth and creamy for those unafraid of the dark.

The Brits and Irish make some of the best beer in the world. And while a hand drawn Old Speckled Hen is always a treat, for me there is no beer that compares with the Devil's Buttermilk:

Guinness Stout

Leine's Honey Weiss, straight from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin :)

Leine's Honey Weiss, straight from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin :)


that is some good stuff :)