...for the rest of your life, what kind/brand/brew/type/etc. would it be?
And nothing too exotic, because you'd be paying for it; and nothing too intense, because you'd be drinking a lot of it... so, in your opinion, what's the all singing, all dancing staple-beer-that-should-always-be-on-tap to rule them all? As for a benchmark, practical, just drink-out-of-the-bottle beer, it's probably gonna be a lager, but not necessarily.
Personally, I would choose Kirin Ichiban. I know they say variety is the spice of life, but it's so good with food that whenever I'm drinking something else, I usually end up washing it down with an Ichiban, to cleanse my palate. Maybe I have some weird mutant Ichiban sensor genes, but nothing else (that I've tried) comes close for me. The smell, the aftertaste of fresh bread...
Sometimes I worry that if I drink it exclusively, it will become trite and I'll lose my taste for it. But the more I drink of it, the worse everything else tastes in comparison. This discourages me from trying anything new, so I'm curious about yourâ€"not favorite, per seâ€"but standard beer. Hopefully I'll end up with more than one!
[beer]
Pilsner Urquelle
I fell in love with it on my honeymoon in Prague.
But only one beer for the rest of my life?
That'd be like asking me to only have sex with one woman from now on.
Uh, wait a second...
I like my Guinness and I like by micros and PBR's but if it's for life, Smithwicks comes to mind as "the one."
[drink]
Do microbrewerys count? or does it have to be mass produced? becasue micros are kinda cheating since no one knows how it taste like.
Id have to go for Bluemoon Winter or Yuengling..... id be happy with either
For microbrews, Blue Point Hoptical Illusion or Coney Island
Quote from: He Man on January 27, 2009, 12:06:40 AM
Do microbrewerys count? or does it have to be mass produced? becasue micros are kinda cheating since no one knows how it taste like.
Id have to go for Bluemoon Winter or Yuengling..... id be happy with either
For microbrews, Blue Point Hoptical Illusion or Coney Island
Yeah, I guess microbreweries don't really count (I'm really looking for a few new ones to try that I could find at the grocer). ;)
one beer? that's a really, really tough call... :P
hmm...
red strip
new belgium fat tire
guinness
flying mokey ale (a beer i've never had from the bottle. only on tap.)
but to narrow it down to one?
red stripe or fat tire. i just can't choose.
Quote from: zarn02 on January 27, 2009, 01:11:21 AMred stripe
Funny, I'm actually drinking a Red Stripe right now. This is one beer that I truly
want to like (hooray, marketing!), but am not totally sure about. It has a sort of... tangy honey flavor to it. God, tastes/smells are difficult to describe... maybe it's kind of like... cornbread?
It would be good with chili. But it has kind of a sickly-sweet nose.
I don't think we were meant to be. :'(
yeah, one beer is a tough call.
the easy answer is guinness. but the first time I had kilkenny on draught made me think otherwise.
very... VERY... arguable seconds are fat tire or echigo.
I absolutely love Guinness but it's not exactly quenching on a hot day.
Sooo... my all purpose beer has to be original Coors banquet. [thumbsup]
(http://justbeer.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/coors.jpg)
When you all say Guinness, do you mean the "serve extra cold" variety with the widget that doesn't satisfy das Reinheitsgebot?
It's like water. :-[
Echigo looks worth a try. Even if Asahi and Sapporo didn't quite live up to Ichiban's standards, it would be weird to find out that I have a Japanese beer fetish. :o
I'm afraid i'll have to educate you guy's [drink]
Newcastle Brown [thumbsup]
Now that will put hairs on your chest [beer]
BTW it must be served warm [laugh] [laugh]
Quote from: geoffduc on January 27, 2009, 03:23:01 AM
I'm afraid i'll have to educate you guy's [drink]
Newcastle Brown [thumbsup]
Now that will put hairs on your chest [beer]
BTW it must be served warm [laugh] [laugh]
*mutters something about 'limeys' and the queen...*
zarn02 that's not very chummy now is it, i'll forgive you for calling me a limey but please don't call me a queen!!!
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
Dos Equis lager would be my beer of choice.
Plus everytime I drink it I remember some of the best times I have ever had while I was in Mexico. [thumbsup]
Quote from: geoffduc on January 27, 2009, 03:23:01 AM
I'm afraid i'll have to educate you guy's [drink]
Newcastle Brown [thumbsup]
Now that will put hairs on your chest [beer]
BTW it must be served warm [laugh] [laugh]
I haven't had Newky Brown since I was a kid (well, if I'm not a kid anymore). I'll put that on the shopping list. [thumbsup]
I'll try it warm in a snifter...
Ommengang.
JM
maybe anchorsteam
I'd have to say for mainstream everyday beer for me would be Bass Ale.
If we are going with smaller Craft Brews. I would Drink Dogfish 60 Minute IPA.
Quote from: duclvr on January 27, 2009, 05:49:21 AM
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I would Drink Dogfish 60 Minute IPA.
i would beat an orphan for a good IPA. you can't find IPA in korea! :-\
Quote from: wark on January 27, 2009, 04:28:48 AM
I haven't had Newky Brown since I was a kid (well, if I'm not a kid anymore). I'll put that on the shopping list. [thumbsup]
I'll try it warm in a snifter...
And where pray Wark did you consume the nector known as Newky Brown [drink]
If in Canada? Waterloo Dark. That is some tastly stuff!
JM
For everyday, and drinking multiple at a time, I agree with a Coors or a High Life.
mitt
Guiness
One beer :-\ wow, maybe Duval.
Shiner Bock, the national beer of the Republic of Texas. Great with food, great by itself, regardless of the weather. This is my daily drinker.
Well I'd normally say Guinness but if I'm limited to the bottle/can versions I think I'd go with New Belgium 1554
i think i would cry. then i would start drinking a lot more rum and whiskey to soothe the pain.
my immediaate reaction is Pocono Lager, but I can't seem to find it very often if at all. it's been over a year since i last saw it and it's not brewed that far away.
so in order to actually have beer i would go with my standard utility beer, Yeungling Lager. but it better not come from the florida plant.
Bridgeport "Blue Heron". It's a very nice example of a Northwest Pale Ale.
Quote from: KnightofNi on January 27, 2009, 08:07:19 AM
so in order to actually have beer i would go with my standard utility beer, Yeungling Lager. but it better not come from the florida plant.
i knew that shit tasted watered down in fl!!!!!
I was drinking Modelo Especial for a while. It's a bit on sweet side like a lot of Mexican beers. I also like Negro Modelo, but I think people discovered it, and it went up in price. It is good, but I wouldn't pay microbrew prices for it every day. I have to go with Guinness as my desert island beer.
Quote from: geoffduc on January 27, 2009, 03:23:01 AM
Newcastle Brown [thumbsup]
I ordered one of those in a pub in England, and I got an eye roll. I was served a Tiger or something instead, which was good (and warm). I thought Newcastle is to England as Fosters is to Australia?
Quote from: il d00d on January 27, 2009, 09:17:32 AMI ordered one of those in a pub in England, and I got an eye roll. I was served a Tiger or something instead, which was good (and warm). I thought Newcastle is to England as Fosters is to Australia?
That was my impression too.
When I was there, if I didn't have a Guinness I'd typically go for something like Boddington's.
Quote from: DCXCV on January 27, 2009, 08:06:09 AM
Well I'd normally say Guinness but if I'm limited to the bottle/can versions I think I'd go with New Belgium 1554
I hate you! I can't get any New Belgium beers here!
Quote from: NAKID on January 27, 2009, 09:27:50 AM
I hate you! I can't get any New Belgium beers here!
Yeah but you're in CT now, right? So you can get Smuttynose and Buzzard's Bay I imagine - it equals out.
newky brown here as well.
for a single beer...its dark enough to have some flavor, but light enough for a hot day or with food.
and warm ??
i am all about the cask ale...but that is served cellar temp (50-55) like red wine.
i'll take my brown chilled [drink]
Every Australian I've ever talked to doesn't drink Fosters. It's the Australian beer Americans drink AFAIK. We lived off VB the month I was in Australia. Don't recall seeing much, if any Fosters while I was over there. It was joked about a lot
JM
here in the US...Foster's is a Canadian beer 8)
and in my opinion...Foster's is DELICIOUS.
but only drank one way.
Sitting on the grass on the turn 4 hill at laguna seca.
pulled fresh out of the icewater cooler at the corkscrew vendor.
preferably paid for by someone else
[beer]
Mac and Jacks African Amber Ale. Hands down the best beer. Only problem is they don't bottle it so you have
to buy it by the keg, ah life.
[drink]
Given free reign, I'd pick Westmalle Tripel. My favorite of the Trappist Ales.
For something closer to home, Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA. I've had the 60 minute, the 90 minute and 120 minute. All good, but the 90 & 120 are sippers. I'd have to go with the 60 for real drinking.
Ken
Pyramid Hefe Weizen, of course. [beer]
Quote from: NAKID on January 27, 2009, 09:27:50 AM
I hate you! I can't get any New Belgium beers here!
Try some Saranac if you can find it. Should be in your area.
it depends how its served....
On tap; Pilsner Urquell
Bottle; Bernard
At a hockey game on a plastic cup; Budvar
In a can; Does it matter taste like tin anyway.
So if I had a lackey to pull me a beer when ever I had the hankering, my only beer would be Pilsner Urquell
The Czechs make good beer.
Quote from: MrIncredible on January 27, 2009, 10:35:46 AM
Try some Saranac if you can find it. Should be in your area.
I've had the Saranac and it's DELICIOUS!
One of my favorite rides is the Warrensberg, Blue Mtn. Lake, Saranac, Lake Placid to Lake George loop that we do. [thumbsup]
make the beast with two backs I WISH IT WAS SUMMER!! [bang] [bang]
Quote from: NAKID on January 27, 2009, 11:44:14 AM
I've had the Saranac and it's DELICIOUS!
Get yourself to this place:
http://www.allstonsfinest.com/allstonsfinest/sunsetgrillandtap/sunsetgrill&tap.swf (http://www.allstonsfinest.com/allstonsfinest/sunsetgrillandtap/sunsetgrill&tap.swf)
Best beer menu ever.
Book a hotel room too-you ain't driving home.
109 miles away...
Quote from: NAKID on January 27, 2009, 12:01:05 PM
109 miles away...
Worth the trip. Seriously. 492 different beers in stock.
harpoon IPA
Sierra Nevada Pale is my every day. But to only drink one beer?
Not worth living! [drink]
[beer]
Quote from: JEFF_H on January 27, 2009, 09:51:57 AM
here in the US...Foster's is a Canadian beer 8)
and in my opinion...Foster's is DELICIOUS.
but only drank one way.
Sitting on the grass on the turn 4 hill at laguna seca.
pulled fresh out of the icewater cooler at the corkscrew vendor.
preferably paid for by someone else
[beer]
lol, i've also enjoyed every fosters i have ever consumed... although every fosters has been at the Indianapolis Motor speedway while watching F1 or MotoGP. [beer]
and if i had to pick one beer forever, i think i would go for Bells Two Hearted Ale. hope that's not too micro-ish
This is really not fair. We talking one beer IN ADDITION to whatever other booze?? I think I'm going to have to go with Old Style. 5xx bottles in a summer made into an entire wall and my stomach never once complained (don't judge me, it was college ;D)
Microbrews - Schlafly Dry Hopped APA
guinness [drink]
August Schell Dark.
MAGIC HAT #9
Quote from: wark on January 26, 2009, 11:45:14 PM
...for the rest of your life, what kind/brand/brew/type/etc. would it be?
Guinness.
Realistically, I would say Warsteiner Dunkelweiss
If it was a fantasy beer, I would have to say Sam Adam's Utopias. One of the guys from Boston broke out a bottle at the end of the new product meeting last night. I had 2 small glasses of it and am madly in lust with it now. Of course, once that ran out, he started handing out bottles of Triple Bock and Chocolate Bock...
For beer lovers the Sunset Grille in Allston, Ma is a great place. I was there last week for lunch which in turn.... turned into dinner. [beer]
If I had to choose..... Erdinger Dark. A co-worker turned me on to it and I had Kappys, a local liquor chain, order me a case. Which was $30 for 12 bottles. So.............. it's MY beer. I don't share it with any one!
Troegs Dreamweaver, drinking it as I type.
Straub of Saint Marys, PA
http://www.straubbeer.com/ (http://www.straubbeer.com/)
Its the every-day drinkin' beer. Miller High Life.
Not that its the best beer out there, by any stretch, but its pretty much my every-situation beer.
Camping at the lake and looking for an all-day buzz: High Life with breakfast.
Watching the game with friends: High Life with brats boiled in High Life.
Playing some video games: High Life and Ramen.
Shitty day at work: Sauza Hornitos with the juice of a lime.
So, yeah, High Life for me.
Today that one beer would be Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre. Ask me again in a month and it will probably be something else. Raison D'Etre is not my favorite all time brew, but I can get a six of it for what one 750ml bottle of Saison Dupont (my all time favorite) costs.
If you've never had a Raison D'Etre try one. It's as close as any American micro brewer has gotten to a real Belgian Strong Ale. (my opinion of course)
It kinda blows my mind though. I'm working down a sixer of DFH Shelter Pale Ale and it's not even close to being as good as Raison D'Etre. Kinda reminds me of Sam Adams. Some are great and some are really not so great.
Now if money were a real concern (and it always is) then I'm drinking Yuengling Lager. I havnt had anything that cost as low as 19 dollars a case that comes close to tasting as good as Yuengling.
I'd like to change my answer.
the beer I want to drink for the rest of my life is a magical neverending pint of beer.
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Quote from: ZLTFUL on January 28, 2009, 11:09:00 AM
Realistically, I would say Warsteiner Dunkelweiss
Franzikaner makes a good Dunkelweiss, as well.
Quote from: Obsessed? on January 28, 2009, 03:45:43 PM
Its the every-day drinkin' beer. Miller High Life.
Not that its the best beer out there, by any stretch, but its pretty much my every-situation beer.
Camping at the lake and looking for an all-day buzz: High Life with breakfast.
Watching the game with friends: High Life with brats boiled in High Life.
Playing some video games: High Life and Ramen.
Shitty day at work: a whole case of High Life
So, yeah, High Life for me.
+1, fixed
Quote from: Sinister on January 29, 2009, 07:18:34 AM
Franzikaner makes a good Dunkelweiss, as well.
my fav dunkel is augustiner.
if it weren't for the price and lack of availability then i would have chosen it.
then again if i just move to munich i can have it anytime i want, lol.
come to think of it, if i moved to munich i wouldbe a full on drunkard.
[drink] Great White from Lost Coast Brewery. [drink]
Quote from: Obsessed? on January 28, 2009, 03:45:43 PM
Its the every-day drinkin' beer. Miller High Life.
Not that its the best beer out there, by any stretch, but its pretty much my every-situation beer.
Camping at the lake and looking for an all-day buzz: High Life with breakfast.
Watching the game with friends: High Life with brats boiled in High Life.
Playing some video games: High Life and Ramen.
Shitty day at work: Makers on the rocks
So, yeah, High Life for me.
I feel 'Merican when I drink the champagne, and it tastes so good after a hard days work. I have people gawk at my choice, but once they taste it they are converted.
A tall blonde a day keeps the doctor away
San Miguel - when I was 20. Dolph ( 39 years ago )
Quote from: Vindingo on January 31, 2009, 05:15:42 PM
I feel 'Merican when I drink the champagne, and it tastes so good after a hard days work. I have people gawk at my choice, but once they taste it they are converted.
A tall blonde a day keeps the doctor away
My local saloon raised the price of a pint of Guinness again. $4.25 to $6.00 in one year! >:(
Fri. nite I drank champagne instead. $2.75 ea. [thumbsup]
I would drink a pint of fresh guiness...........from the brewery in Dublin.
Now that would be memorable seeing as I live in Washington State.
That would be a pint to remember. [drink]
Guinness [drink] Its even got an official animated icon on the board.
It's a drink, a steak marinade, a disinfectant, a floor polish, fuel for my old army truck, and I'm pretty sure it cures cancer too.
Quote from: silentbob on February 01, 2009, 08:33:55 PM
Guinness [drink] Its even got an official animated icon on the board.
It's a drink, a steak marinade, a disinfectant, a floor polish, fuel for my old army truck, and I'm pretty sure it cures cancer too.
I do like me some Guiness, but it's rare around here on draft and everybody who carries it otherwise keeps it cold.
Samuel Smiths would probably be my pick if you could only have one beer, but which one? Taddy Porter, Oatmeal Stout, or maybe organic Lager.
LA
If there is no vodka...
I'd drink Harpoon IPA
+1 Frazaskaner Dunkel or Heff.
My easy to find at the grocery store choice and generally super high quality brew. Paulaner Original Munich or Heff.
They are superbly made, consistent and readily available around most of the country.
Quote from: Charlief on January 28, 2009, 02:17:44 PM
For beer lovers the Sunset Grille in Allston, Ma is a great place. I was there last week for lunch which in turn.... turned into dinner. [beer]
If I had to choose..... Erdinger Dark. A co-worker turned me on to it and I had Kappys, a local liquor chain, order me a case. Which was $30 for 12 bottles. So.............. it's MY beer. I don't share it with any one!
I disagree. I have been there also. Walk in and look around you see lots of Fat Tire Ale pictures and such. I tell the waitress that I wanted a Fat Tire Ale, and she said they don't carry it. What a bummer. :'(
Arrogant Bastard (http://www.arrogantbastard.com/).
Quote from: trenner on February 09, 2009, 04:30:00 PM
Arrogant Bastard (http://www.arrogantbastard.com/).
That's a good one. Brooklyn Brown or Dogfish head's 60 min for me, or....forget it, so many good ones to choose from.
Quote from: LA on February 01, 2009, 09:10:59 PM
I do like me some Guiness, but it's rare around here on draft and everybody who carries it otherwise keeps it cold.
Samuel Smiths would probably be my pick if you could only have one beer, but which one? Taddy Porter, Oatmeal Stout, or maybe organic Lager.
LA
+1 on the Oatmeal Stout ( before the Migraines started frequently) . Dolph
Unibroue Trois Pistoles or Omegang Three Philosophers - both similar Belgian triples. MMMMMMMMMMM
Quote from: desmopr on February 09, 2009, 07:00:28 PM
That's a good one. Brooklyn Brown or Dogfish head's 60 min for me, or....forget it, so many good ones to choose from.
Two good ones.