Best beer.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-10-20 11:44am

you´re all fools! fools! fools!

the best beer is

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-10-20 02:20pm

I love guinness, unfortunatley it hates me and i can't drink it anymore if i want to continue to lose weight. Guinness is very heavy and any more than 7 pints means your putting on a lot of weight. When drinking in the house i'm partial to Carlsberg Export. And when i was in Belgium a few years ago i drank a wonderfully strong beer called Hoe Garden, honestly. Newcastle Brown is nice but it causes me to do bad bad things that usually result in me getting into a fight, and losing.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-10-20 02:39pm

If you offer me a beer, I'll say Smirnov Ice

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-10-20 02:49pm

Zoink wrote:If you offer me a beer, I'll say Smirnov Ice

....[stabs]....

~ver

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-10-20 04:22pm

verilon wrote:
Darth Fanboy wrote:Heh, I remember back in the day when "Best" meant how much can you get for the lowest price.

30 cans of High Life for ten bucks or so, made it sickeningly cheap to be an underage drinker.

hahah! Now I settle for no less than a good Rolling Rock or Killians.
I don't know about Killians.. but Rolling Rock? blech.

~ver

Ok, you've stated that you don't like beer. It's extremely pointless to go about commenting on how everybody can possibly like Beer X at every opportunity.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-10-20 04:26pm

Of all the foreign beer, the only one I've liked is Heineken. Corona is pretty much undrinkable unless you stick a lemon in it, and Bud or Coors are nasty stuff. I had some "Leinenkugel" or something like that when I visited a friend in the US, it was good, red-beer or some nonsense like that. Of course, there was a lot of it available, probably because this guy's dad's last name was Leinenkugel.

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2003-10-20 04:55pm

I used to like light beers when but lost the taste for them after a couple of years then progressed to black&tans, then stuck with heineken for a while, but then shifted towards to Bass Ale as my preferred beer, and Bass it still is.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-10-20 05:03pm

Yuengling Lager: it's good, it's cheap, it's relatively local.

When I'm in western New York or Canada: Labat Blue. Suck it, Molsen.

Guinness is perfection in a glass, but sadly it usually costs a lot more than a Yuengling.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-10-20 05:28pm

Slartibartfast wrote:
verilon wrote:
Darth Fanboy wrote:Heh, I remember back in the day when "Best" meant how much can you get for the lowest price.

30 cans of High Life for ten bucks or so, made it sickeningly cheap to be an underage drinker.

hahah! Now I settle for no less than a good Rolling Rock or Killians.
I don't know about Killians.. but Rolling Rock? blech.

~ver
Ok, you've stated that you don't like beer. It's extremely pointless to go about commenting on how everybody can possibly like Beer X at every opportunity.

My fault.

I don't like beer in general, but I can handle my Shiner Bock (that was actually pretty good).. Rolling Rock I though was just gross.. as most beers are.. but we'll not go there. Again.. my apologies.

~ver

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-10-20 05:30pm

Slartibartfast wrote:Of all the foreign beer, the only one I've liked is Heineken. Corona is pretty much undrinkable unless you stick a lemon in it, and Bud or Coors are nasty stuff.

Correctamundo!

However, I prefer my Corona with lime.

It's not the greatest in the world, but it's still not a bad beer.

~ver

Jawawithagun · Post by **Jawawithagun** » 2003-10-20 05:33pm

The_Lumberjack wrote:I am rather partial to Speckled Hen, as well as Bishop's Finger (nothing quite like draining the head from a Bishop's finger... ), Abbot is alright, and back in Lancaster, I was rather partial to Lancaster Bomber. But mainly Old Speckled Hen.

Dunno, wasn't too impressed by Hen, drinkable but not especially good ... but that could be very well the pub's fault.

Lilith · Post by **Lilith** » 2003-10-20 05:39pm

Negra Modelo is the best Mexican beer. Corona is, well, just plain.

There's some real nice regional and local breweries in the Northwest. My favorite is "Polygamy Porter" from Utah. Slogan: "Why have just one?"

BrYaN19kc · Post by **BrYaN19kc** » 2003-10-20 05:43pm

MILLER LITE

Nothin' better!

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-10-20 10:29pm

Jawawithagun wrote:
The_Lumberjack wrote:I am rather partial to Speckled Hen, as well as Bishop's Finger (nothing quite like draining the head from a Bishop's finger... ), Abbot is alright, and back in Lancaster, I was rather partial to Lancaster Bomber. But mainly Old Speckled Hen.
Dunno, wasn't too impressed by Hen, drinkable but not especially good ... but that could be very well the pub's fault.

Well, I'm very new to this drinking lark, tend to prefer the real ales, I'm no guarantee of a good review. Hobgoblin was quite nice as well.

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-10-20 10:46pm

Victoria Bitter, in Australia, is good. Now in the US I cannot find it, so I indulge in Henry Weinhard's.

The best beer from a tap I ever got was this dark, kinda sweet brew in the Vyversicht Bar just outside of Brunssom, in the Netherlands. There's a NATO base there and the Vyversicht is (was?) about a kilometer or two down the road and around the corner, next to some sort of old observation tower for tourists.

Damn, that was REFORGER 1987...

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-10-20 10:50pm

I'll drink to E.S.B., Fuller's makes some damn fine beers.

Youngs Double Chocolate Stout is the best beer I can think of that hasn't been mentioned already.

Three Floyds makes some beers worth checking out too.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2003-10-21 03:55am

Sriad wrote: Youngs Double Chocolate Stout is the best beer I can think of that hasn't been mentioned already.

I love that stuff, but it's a little expensive for an everyday drink.
Rolling Rock is definitely an acquired taste, but it goes well with a meal.

Sapporo used to make a dark beer that was pretty good for the price.

My 'standard' beer is Michelob Amber Bock. Not the greatest, but it sure beats the shit out of Miller Lite or Colorado Kool Aid.

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2003-10-21 04:18am

Macs Amber ale.
but the Macs and Monteiths range is pretty damn good on the whole.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-10-21 11:24am

Molson....mmmm...

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-10-21 12:20pm

verilon wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:Of all the foreign beer, the only one I've liked is Heineken. Corona is pretty much undrinkable unless you stick a lemon in it, and Bud or Coors are nasty stuff.
Correctamundo! However, I prefer my Corona with lime. It's not the greatest in the world, but it's still not a bad beer.

~ver

Well, I don't have lemon or lime per se, just another similar fruit that tastes better than the two combined. I call it lemon because it's the closest phonetically.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-10-21 12:32pm

Slartibartfast wrote:
verilon wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:Of all the foreign beer, the only one I've liked is Heineken. Corona is pretty much undrinkable unless you stick a lemon in it, and Bud or Coors are nasty stuff.
Correctamundo! However, I prefer my Corona with lime. It's not the greatest in the world, but it's still not a bad beer.

~ver
Well, I don't have lemon or lime per se, just another similar fruit that tastes better than the two combined. I call it lemon because it's the closest phonetically.

Limón? That would be lime.. However, if not that.. ok.

~ver

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-10-21 12:39pm

verilon wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
verilon wrote: Correctamundo! However, I prefer my Corona with lime. It's not the greatest in the world, but it's still not a bad beer.

~ver
Well, I don't have lemon or lime per se, just another similar fruit that tastes better than the two combined. I call it lemon because it's the closest phonetically.
Limón? That would be lime.. However, if not that.. ok.

~ver

Yes, it would be limon, but nope, it's not the same as lime. Unless you're talking about the european one. The one I speak about has like 100 times the concentration of acid. You can actually cook fish in it in under 20 minutes.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-10-21 12:46pm

Slartibartfast wrote:Yes, it would be limon, but nope, it's not the same as lime. Unless you're talking about the european one. The one I speak about has like 100 times the concentration of acid. You can actually cook fish in it in under 20 minutes.

The word limón means lime.. it's a variation of the lime, I think. It's also what they flavor a certain type of Bacardi with of that I haven't had yet.

~ver

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-10-21 12:59pm

verilon wrote:The word limón means lime..

Then how do you say "lemon". To those who use the word "limón", there isn't a clear distinction betwen lemon and lime. Except one is more sweet, the other is more acidic, one is green, the other is yellow, one's bigger, the other is smaller, and it's never consistently the same one (I actually ran a little poll, nobody in a US supermarket or a couple families could tell me which one was which, even after I bought them, showed it to them and allowed them to taste them)

it's a variation of the lime, I think. It's also what they flavor a certain type of Bacardi with of that I haven't had yet.

Well, yes I think I've tried those. There's also Vodka.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-10-21 01:05pm

Slartibartfast wrote:
verilon wrote:The word limón means lime..
Then how do you say "lemon". To those who use the word "limón", there isn't a clear distinction betwen lemon and lime. Except one is more sweet, the other is more acidic, one is green, the other is yellow, one's bigger, the other is smaller, and it's never consistently the same one (I actually ran a little poll, nobody in a US supermarket or a couple families could tell me which one was which, even after I bought them, showed it to them and allowed them to taste them)

Damnit.. I can't remember.. been a couple of years since I took Spanish..

Informally, yes, limón is for both. Formally, there is a different word for lemon.

it's a variation of the lime, I think. It's also what they flavor a certain type of Bacardi with of that I haven't had yet.
Well, yes I think I've tried those. There's also Vodka.

Vodka...

~ver