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Favorite brands? Unknown brands? Ways to get it cold fast? Favorite style? Places to drink? drinking games? Music to drink to? Let everyone know.

I'll start. First of all, Blackbeard Ale, made by the Virgin Islands Brewing Co. It is a bit stronger than I was expecting, but pretty damn good. I definatly suggest you pick some up. Doesn't hurt that the bottle caps have little skulls and crossbones on them

And secondly, some of you may have seen the mythbusters where they try to cool beer fast. I had a warm beer, so decided to try the ice and salt water. In under 10 minutes of it sitting in the salt water and ice solution, outside the fridge, the beer is nice and cold. Works great.

My beer is Flensburger Pilsener, but then again, I haven't had it for years. But the bottles remain the best ever. Plop!

And a fun fact is the trick where you get one bottle of beer and bump its bottom on the top of another bottle.

I'm not sure why (I'm thinking it's got to do with suddenly compressing the air in the bottle), but the bottom beer will come spraying out the top.

A fun party gag for those that didn't know it yet.

EDIT:
Let me show you what I mean with the best bottles.
http://www.biblebiere.com/Bieres/F/Flensburger/Btl_Verre_Flensburger_Pilsener.jpg

Favorite brands? Unknown brands? Ways to get it cold fast? Favorite style? Places to drink? drinking games? Music to drink to? Let everyone know.

I'll start. First of all, Blackbeard Ale, made by the Virgin Islands Brewing Co. It is a bit stronger than I was expecting, but pretty damn good. I definatly suggest you pick some up. Doesn't hurt that the bottle caps have little skulls and crossbones on them

And secondly, some of you may have seen the mythbusters where they try to cool beer fast. I had a warm beer, so decided to try the ice and salt water. In under 10 minutes of it sitting in the salt water and ice solution, outside the fridge, the beer is nice and cold. Works great.

I saw that show to, but it didn't work that fast, the getting the beer cold thingy

Best beer:
Domestic: Blue Moon
Import: Weinstephaner Hefeweitzen. (oldest brewery in the world)

I saw that show to, but it didn't work that fast, the getting the beer cold thingy
their machines didn't work that fast, but I think the ice water and ice salt water both worked in under 10.

did for me atleast.

While we mention fun party tricks, here is a personal favorite.

Get a bottle of Johnnie Walker. Get two glasses. Tell the other person that if they can get Johnnie to walk the other direction, they get a drink. If they can't, they owe you one.

the solution? Fill both glasses with water, place them in a line infront of the bottle. Look through the two glasses, and Johnnie has changed directions

Hetzelsdorfer and Krug Bräu are very good. Honorable mention goes to Hofmann and Zirndorfer.

All are brewed according to the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot). Everything else is not beer. :)

Favorite Beer, but can't get it here in the U.S., Dopple Bock. Extrememly strong thick German Beer.

Easiest way to get beer cold. Bowl of ice, set beer in laying on it's side, spin beer with fingers constantly. You can get a canned beer from room temp down to nearly ice cold in about 8 minutes..thought spining the beer does take a bit of practice. ( Hint, when done...thump the side of the beer can three times hard, to move the carbonation formthe sides back to inside the beer, unless you feel like taking a beer bath.)

I don't drink to music, I drink while playing online poker.

Drinking game favorite. We took a Jinga set, and put penelties/awards on each of the blocks ( drink one, give four drinks, everybody dirink one, drink entire beer..etc) and then played. Whoever knocked the tower down payed for the next round if we were at a bar, or supplied one case at the next party.

Let me show you what I mean with the best bottles.
http://www.biblebiere.com/Bieres/F/Flensburger/Btl_Verre_Flensburger_Pilsener.jpg
:eek: OOOHHHH! [/toystory aliens]

me want. now.

me want. now.
I don't think they export it...


Hehehe, look, I found the "Oxford Bottled Beer Database".
http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/index.html?beerid=2067

im in college and let me tell you guys keystone rocks the beer bong
wooooooooooo party on baby

Favorite brands? Unknown brands? Ways to get it cold fast? Favorite style? Places to drink? drinking games? Music to drink to? Let everyone know.

1. Already said my favorite brands.
2. La Fin Du Monde and Maudite (Canada) are pretty good too.
3. In college we utilized the "icy water with a ton o' salt poured it it" trick.
4. Hefeweitzen (i.e. wheat beer)
5. Home. Away from home.
6. #1 Beer Pong #2 Three-man. #3 Pass the Pigs #4 D.U.I. #5 G.O.L.F.
7. Southern Rock seems to be the best beer drinking music, but that may just be because I went to college (and thus spent my frat days) in the south.

im in college and let me tell you guys keystone rocks the beer bong
wooooooooooo party on baby
go for PBR. Cheaper, and still tastes like cold piss. Just like keystone.

Or if you hate your body, natty ice or milwaukee beast.

go for PBR. Cheaper, and still tastes like cold piss. Just like keystone.

And at least old rednecks will respect you for drinking PBR. NO ONE respects a Keystone drinker.

Or if you hate your body, natty ice or milwaukee beast.

The beast is the best beer for "beer pong". And Natty Ice is SO what you need if you just HAVE to get tore up, and have less than five bucks.

And at least old rednecks will respect you for drinking PBR. NO ONE respects a Keystone drinker.



The beast is the best beer for "beer pong". And Natty Ice is SO what you need if you just HAVE to get tore up, and have less than five bucks.
nah, we lose the respect by going to school in Boston.

We use PBR for pong, and PBR (notice a trend?) and Jenkins rum to get "tore up"
$15 a handle just can't be beat.

If I had a choice, I would go with Killians. Sadly, I don't have money. PBR it is.

nah, we lose the respect by going to school in Boston.

We use PBR for pong, and PBR (notice a trend?) and Jenkins rum to get "tore up"
$15 a handle just can't be beat.

If I had a choice, I would go with Killians. Sadly, I don't have money. PBR it is.

College Students here use Keystone and Milwakee's Best. We've had PBR and Steel Reserve from time to time (Steel Reserve is a mistake of a beer I say)

I think the Best beer I ever had was this Danish beer called Carlsberg a friend brought back from Canada. It was marvelous.

for favourite it's got to be delirium tremors largely due to it high alcohol content but out of convience it'll usually be carlsberg or if feeling cheap tuborg. however i'm moreso in favour of buckfast over just about anything it's a fortified wine and it gets you trolleyed. putting beer in the freezer is the preferred method of cooling or just drink it warm. drinking songs just about anything by andrew w.k.. drinking game has got to be circle of death

College Students here use Keystone and Milwakee's Best. We've had PBR and Steel Reserve from time to time (Steel Reserve is a mistake of a beer I say)

I think the Best beer I ever had was this Danish beer called Carlsberg a friend brought back from Canada. It was marvelous.
:eek: Carlsberg?!! In Tins? Errgh, that's just commercial pish-water over in europe. (unless there's some other carlsberg I've never heard of)

My current regular: http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/beer.asp?beerid=341
Thanks Neu Leonstein - cool link.

EDIT: I was trying to link to the entry on HOBGOBLIN. dunno what happened there...
EDIT 2: thats better

:eek: Carlsberg?!! In Tins? Errgh, that's just commercial pish-water over in europe.

Most Americans drink crap. Mexicans ship their equivalent of pisswater here too (Corona) and it sells like mad.

Favorite brands? Niewcastle Brown Ale, Guiness, Miller
Unknown brands? Ridleys' Tanglefoot and Prospect
Ways to get it cold fast? Put it in the freezer for about fifteen minutes.
Favorite style? Style?
Places to drink? The pub/ outside on a hot summer's day, either in my back garden, or in the stoner bit of the park.
Drinking games? I don't really do drinking games; i just drink.
Music to drink to? Saxon or Sabbath for the pub, The Doors elsewhere.

Favorite brands? Unknown brands? Ways to get it cold fast? Favorite style? Places to drink? drinking games? Music to drink to? Let everyone know.

Fave domestics back home in the US:

Sam Adams
Schiner Bock
Anchor Steam

Fave domestics here in Japan:
Asahi Super Dry
Yebisu

Fave micros back home:
Millstream (Iowa)
Santa Fe

Fave Micros here:
Ginga Kogen Weizen
Echigo Pils
Echigo Weiss
Niigata Ale

I hate really, really hate drinking "games".

best beer is :
http://www.mein-bochum.de/buegelverschluss.jpg
best time to drink :
while a football-game
best song to hear:
einer geht noch einer geht noch rein...

Favorite beers


Corona with Lime
Blue Moon with orange slices
Guinness
Yuengling
Mickeys (for chugging)
Coors light (for watchin football and playing drinking games)


Drinking games


Kings
Asshole
Drunk Driver
Texas Holdem (not really a drinking game, but fun when drinking. Drunk people lose money :D )


And the saltwater trick works the best! Room temp to ice cold in 8 minutes!

:eek: Carlsberg?!! In Tins? Errgh, that's just commercial pish-water over in europe. (unless there's some other carlsberg I've never heard of)

My current regular: http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/index.html?beerid=2067
Thanks Neu Leonstein - cool link.
Carlsberg Elephant??Still muck by beer standards.Best beer in the world? Schneider Weiss Aventinus Weizen Eisbock.Expensive but very good.

...
best song to hear:
einer geht noch einer geht noch rein...

Ah, yes. Good old German traditional music.... heartwarming.

Ah, yes. Good old German traditional music.... heartwarming.

can be use in many situations ;)

can be use in many situations ;)

Such as?
*asked with the due sense of dread

Such as?
*asked with the due sense of dread

I thinke there will be a time , when you sing it....and then i fear that it will not work ....

Favorite brands?

Whatever somebody else paid for, or whatever's cheapest.

Unknown brands?

Well, if I don't know them...

Ways to get it cold fast?

Freezer, or forward planning

Favorite style?

What the fuck does that mean?

Places to drink?

Here, there and everywhere. although I detest clubs, I will still drink there.

drinking games?

Eh. Circle of death/ring of fire/circle of ring (hybrid of the two invented at uni). Cricket is good, especially when playing with girls you really, really want to get hammered. Unscrupulous, me?

Music to drink to?

Any music that isn't shitty hip-hop/rap/dance.

Favorite brands? Erdinger Weisse, Dom Kolsch, Franziskaner, Augustiner, Weihenstephan...
Unknown brands? Maybe all of the above outside of Germany..oh and Aldaris Zelta from Latvia.
Ways to get it cold fast? In winter out on the balcony esecially if it is snowing.snowing
Favorite style? ??
Places to drink? for the UK Somewhere nice with the footy on a big screen, for Germany anywhere with decent music.
drinking games? Drinking games are for teenagers:p
Music to drink to?depends on my mood, lately it has been Kyuss, Lynyrd Synyrd, Black Crowes (second LP only) and Dinosaur Jnr.

Any beer you have to put citrus fruit into in order to make it drinkable isn't beer--Corona, I'm looking at you. Besides, there are plenty of decent and available Mexican beers that no one should ever drink Corona--get a Negra Modelo if nothing else.

For US beers, nothing beats Anchor Steam, especially right when it's come off the line out of a keg in the taproom after a shift. I have never missed a job so badly in my life, even though I love my current one.

...wasn't this very same question asked a few weeks ago in an earlier thread?

Nevertheless, living 7 years in Tokyo taught me at least one thing. Asahi Super Dry is one GREAT beer, by God!

ok...style=stout, pilsner, red, indian pale ale, light, etc.

Such as?
*asked with the due sense of dread
its useful for everything from getting drunk to taking over Poland. What more could you want from music?

I drank some Chesterfield Ale frome the Yuengling brewing company this weekend. Haven't tried it in a while, but it's better than I remember.

Need to get it cold fast? Fill a cooler with ice and cold brine and submerge the beers in it. It will cool faster than in a refrigerator or a freezer.