Great snobby beer poll READ CAREFULLY BEFORE RESPONDING

This poll is for those of you who can't stomach cheap-ass swillbeer under any set of circumstances. If all you want to drink is Natty Light with a wedge of lime in it to kill off the skunky, urine infested taste, then THIS POLL IS NOT FOR YOU!

This poll is for all of the people who are willing to pay an extra buck or two and get some REAL BEER. TIP OF THE DAY: it ain't hard to look under your couch cushions and scrape up the extra dollar so that you can have the pleasure of drinking something decent. DO NOT LOWER YOUR STANDARDS! A six-pack of great beer will almost always run in the six to seven dollar range.

Jeez-Louise....I can't believe that people will go out of their way to get a 30-pack of Milwaukee's Best.

Now, I tried to keep the choices to breweries that have wide distribution. Not all of them have nationwide distribution, but most cover enough of the country to be included in this poll. There are a couple of imports here as well.

CHEAP BEER DRINKERS, STAY AWAY FROM THIS POLL!! Go get your beer bong and your fraternity pledge shirt and meet the rest of the gang down at the 7-Eleven. I hear they have a sale on Mickey's Big Mouth's!!

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I want to, but I just can't.

:shrug:

So many yummy choices, but since I live in the SFBA, it has to be Anchor...

I haven't had some that are listed, but Anchor, yes.

Mmmmmm...

Try the Saint Arnold's Spring Bock if you like Shiner. Highly recommended.

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Local to the Mpls/St. Paul area.

Their Extra Pale Ale is the best beer I've ever had.

http://www.summitbrewing.com

You are so right - good beer is NOT that much more expensive.

The best--Midas Touch, 60 min IPA & 90 min IPA.. umm umm umm good!!!

http://www.dogfish.com

I've only has the 60 minute IPA thus far. They just got into the Texas market here recently. They have several beers in the Texas market now. The Raison d'Etre, the 60 min, the 90 min, and the Brown.

myself, then Brooklyn, then the Arrogant Bastard people.

Dogfish is wild, so many different options.

Mmmmm 120. 20% alcohol and all the hops you can stand

How are they different?

you can pay your buck or two extra to feel better about the swill you're drinking. some people may call that "better taste", i call it label-whoring :evilgrin:

Unibroue is wonderful. Habitants represent!

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Too close to call for me.

Some nights its Guiness and others Bass Ale, I love them both too much to pick one over the other.

Oh sorry, wrong poll. :D

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LMAO!!! Kudos.

I went with New Belgium Brewing Co. They do Fat Tire right? I love that stuff. Redhook is great too.

MN born and raised.

Have you tried Snowstorm and/or Caramel Bock?

They have a lot of good beers, also the creators (and current brewers) or the fand-abulous 1919 root beer (a hold over from my childhood, I still like the stuff).

I usually get it at Timber Lodge Steakhouse. There's a few other places that serve it too, can't think of them at the moment...

Like a sweeter Guinness. Can't find it around much any more regretfully.

And when I wake-up sometimes the next day,
I'll notice brain cell's have diminished.

from Deschutes and Rogue Breweries, respectively. Oregon has some sho nuff good beer.

I also love Moose Drool Brown Ale from Big Sky Brewing in Missoula.

You know, Bridgeport!

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But of course I'd prefer an Old Foghorn any day of the week...

good stuff.

Guess my homebrew didn't make the poll

Yummy. :-)

Are you crazy or something? Drunk?

Chimay does make some stellar beer. The Blue is a gold standard.

Mickey's is a "Fine Malt Liquor" not "beer". I was right there with you until the Mickey's blaspheming!

Weinhards has a good line up too (and their ROOT beer is AWESOME!).

www.saintarnold.com/

Generally, freshest is best. Their Elissa IPA is a kickass India Pale Ale with some proceeds going to the upkeep of Galveston's tall ship, the Elissa. The Winter Stout is almost as good as Guinness.

The Unibroue products are strange & wonderful, but don't always travel well. It's a long way from Quebec & they're far too natural.

And of course, Guinness is classic. As an industry giant, they appear to be pretty good at shipping; the "Draft" cans contain a fine-tasting product. I'm sure it's better in Dublin; need to find out someday.

And I remember sampling Anchor Steam Beer at the Vesuvio--across Jack Kerouac street from the City Lights Bookstore.

I got to experience my first one last winter. Great time, great beer!

They're the oldest micro in Texas. Great beers.

But I have only found it in Toronto.

here are a couple of great Colorado beers:

O'Dell's 90 Shilling

Left Hand's Sawtooth Ale

because they are really good -- far better than Sam Adams, a fakerobrew in my opinion, and Anchor Steam or Redhook! Brooklyn's Chocolate Stout has got to be best of breed. But what's not on this list! River Horse, from Lambertville, makes the best ultra-hoppy beer available. Dogfish Head, Lewes Delaware, Chickory Stout -- really a porter and about the best, though I agree that Rogue's porter is really fine, too. From Downingtown, Hop Devil, leader in the IPA category, though, from Adamstown, Stoudt's Scarlet Lady is close. Hey, man, no need to get as much as a hundred miles from Philly to get the best beers anywhere. Come see us and try the best!

do make some really good brew.

or whisky
or jager

forget the beer

:cry:

Rum is mother's milk. (Key's Conch here)

but it was tough. I like Guiness, and the Anchor Steam as well.

I tend not to like the IPA, but many other ales are fine with me. Amber lagers are great, too.

We've got a couple of microbreweries here, and one of them has a really good brown ale right now.

Basically, I'll take nothing, or water, over ANY light beer.

If the choice is Bud, or Miller, sometimes I'll take the beer, sometimes water.

Life is too short to drink lite beer.

Good beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy ;-)

Here is a man who GETS THE MESSAGE! Life is too short to drink crappy beer! DON'T DO IT!!!! If offered crappy beer, drink WATER instead!

Yowza!

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thus the "other" choice. You have some good recommendations. Paulaner makes some of the world's greatest beers. The Hefeweizen practically defines the style.

and Erdinger are also good examples of the style.

Paulaner makes Salvator which is the benchmark for Dopplebocks, although some prefer Augustiner's drier Maximator

Better than Optimator IMO.

It's interesting, though...Every bottle I've had tastes different. I'm not sure whether certain esters are more pronounced from batch to batch or whether my palate is more sensitive to clove one day and banana another...

I've never purchased a six-pack of the brew...only bought it singly. I guess it could have something to do with proper storage, too.

Damn, now I'm thirsty!!!

Which reminds me, is it HAPPY HOUR yet????? I am SO READY.

Disgusting.

I've tried every beer I could think of, domestics, imports, microbreweries, etc. The only difference I could figure out was the amount of sugar they fed the horse before he pissed in the bottles.

I'll stick with my Jim Beam. :)

...a pint of creamy English Bitter

So the horse ejaculated in the bottle after he pissed in it. Yippee.

;)

I think the major problem is the first time I ever got drunk was on Milwaukee's Best...LIGHT. I never really recovered.

Maker's Mark is a very fine American whiskey. As is George Dickel.

Jim Beam is good for cleaning brake parts, but it's not fit to drink.

I like what I like, what can I say?

I like most "good" beer, but like kick-ass-bob upthread, I've never been able to develop a taste for Sam Adams.

I also think Heineken is way overrated.

I always like to try new stuff when I can, but when I'm trying to save a few bucks, I'll usually go for 6-packs of Killian's, Michelob Amber Bock, or Amstel Light, since they're usually the same price as the usual Miller, Bud, Coors in liquor stores.

If I have to go for one of the domestics, I'll take Bud Light every time.

Anyone ever have original Coors? I just had one for the first time like 2 years ago, and I was really impressed. I guess I wasn't expecting much, knowing what Coors Light was like.

...and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is one of the best.

Sierra Nevada has a good lineup of beers.

and not tried the others. 'cept Guinness, of course, but that's something else.

Truth is, I just don't put even the better USian brews in the top tier.

I'll get one of those little keg-like things of Dinkelacker or Niersteiner for parties. Maybe a few sixes of other imports, but the "export" versions usually pale in comparison to the originals.

Ever had Heineken from the tap in Amsterdam? Nothing like the pisswater in bottles you get here.

Pilsner Urquell in Prague? The real Pilsner Urquell, not the German stuff.

I'm not going to argue over personal taste, but to me a great beer has the aroma of the hops and a slight nuttiness from the malt, with really solid body. A couple of the Sam Adams and some of the micros I can't remember came close, but just about all of the great beers I drank were in Germany, Prague, or Scotland.

The Czech Republic is possibly unique in not having ANY bad beer. Even the cheapest shit they had beat a Bud over the head. The same cannot be said for Germany or Scotland, where I did, surprisingly, find some truly bad beers.

Other countries don't count. Had a lot of beer from all over the world, and it's the British Isles, Czechia and Germany that mean beer. Everyone else, even France, Belgium and the Netherlands, are just followers. Mexico? Japan? China? Drinkable at best.

('specially with that raspberry wheat beer--YUCK!)

Oh, I shall immediately remove any credibility I may have by saying that I actually kind of like Ballantine ale. Not quite as good as stuff like Hoboken ale, but any port in a storm.

I am most fond of the Dinkel Acker mini's...

Very good beer! They donate to DEMS and used recycled paper for their labeling and packaging.

Good beer as well.

I am particularly a fan of the Sunshine Wheat and Fat Tire. Additionally Kalamazoo Brewing Company in Michigan makes a nice wheat ale, Oberon that is absolutely delicious! It may sound as though I am a pale/wheat ale lightweight, however I do enjoy my darker beers too, Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout and an occasional Guinness to the list.

Boy do I miss Dead/Phish tour.

What I would give for a Long Trail right now!

Try the Bier de Mars, it should be out now. They have a wonderful lineup. The Sunshine Wheat is a great choice!

New Belgium does not distribute to the East Coast (East of the Mississippi to be exact, I've called, heh!)

But you can't get it in Chicago. :(

fortunately, i live in new mexico, and it is plentiful, unless the liquor store runs out of it, which is happening more and more frequently.......

Belgian fruit beer made with cherries. Damn fine!

They has a labeling dispute with the TABC and were off of the shelves for a while. I need to try those.

well, i think it's actually called Newcastle Brown Ale ...

best damn black and tan i've ever had.

but now i'm brewing my own beer courtesy of the beer machine, so i have you all beat in the foamy tankard elitist department.

WELL worth the few measly extra coins their purchase entails.

:D

... then either you are rich or you are just not drinking enough :)

so I want what I do drink to be really good. ;)

I generally have one beer a night to unwind.

In Ontario beer at the Beer Store is really expensive compared to the states. But while a 6-pack of Bud or Molson is about $10.50 Cdn for a six-pack, most imports and microbrews are generally only a buck or a buck fifty more per sixpack. So it would just be dumb not to drink the quality stuff. So I'm tryin' different a different kind each week. This week it's Steam Whistle, a pilsner from here in Toronto.

Same goes for wine.

And scotch.

but I can't get it at my local pub, so there I drink Sam or Bass. Usually Sam since it's only $1.75 /pint and Bass is $3.

And I always check out local breweries wheneven I can.

Pronounced "Smiddicks," and made by the same people who are responsible for Guinness, but it's an ale: nice amber color, full-bodied, great round finish. Same recipe since 1710. Just became available in the U.S. a few months ago. Mmmmm. :beer:

I had it in Ireland, and I think in Charleston, SC.

By the 5-gallon keg.

Made locally in San Diego.

When they're out, I go for Stone Pale Ale or IPA.

:cheers:

Simply not possible. Here's my list of some of my faves:

Dogfish Head Chicory Stout
Magic Hat #9
Anchor Liberty IPA
Cantillon Gueuze
Fantome Saison
Guinness in the widget can

You might be interested in this thread from way back when. I didn't get many replies, even though I put a lot of research into it. Hope somebody checks it out anyway: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=990938

You truly appreciate the art of better beer. I applaud you and bow to your well-developed palate!

Here's to ya!

This one's making its US premiere in the next month or so.
Here's my favorite "decent imported brews" website:
http://www.sheltonbrothers.com/home.htm

you know I always buy that DF ChicorY Stout when I get a chance. It's wonderfully earthy and powerful.

I only live a couple of hours from Rehoboth Beach, DE; so we enjoy going over to the Dogfish Head brewpub for lunch, brews, and a walk along the beach.

Of course, we take a growler home with us. :-)

we always get Dogfish when we go to the beach.. and also here at home.

From Tadcaster in England. Available from my local Trader Joe's in Phoenix.
But as far as domestic brews go, Sam Adams takes some beating, especially some of their winter brews.

I drink Samuel Smith's organic ale, amazing beer, expensive, but worth it.

Beyond Elaine Benes' outburst in that most excellent Seinfeld episode, I have a major affinity for the Belgian brew, Stella Artois.

..and when I'm back home Bishop's Finger, Kentish Strong Ale or Goldings, Summer Hop Ale.

A character in a series of mysteries I've been reading over the last several years always prefers Old Peculier. I've never had it, don't think it's widely available in the US (the mysteries are set in Britain) but wonder what it is like...

Anyone?

tasteless copycat thread. :beer:

in alcohol.

...that just goes ape over HSA. Alas, Geary's doesn't distribute in Texas. Enjoy your luck in having access to what is apparently a great brew!

I like a slightly heavier beer like guiness, but I really Hate bitter beers (although not nearly as much as I hate coors light - which is THE most awful beer of all-time). To make a long story short I chose guiness for the lovely contrast of rich and creamy.

Puyallup, Washington brews some pretty good stuff. An exquisite amber ale, a delightful, frothy pale ale,and a chocolatey, nutty stout that you can practically cut with a knife.

Heavenly stuff, and you can buy it by the quart to take home! That's beer, my friends! :beer::9:beer::9:toast::beer::toast::beer:

Basically anything other than pissy light beer...my friends say I drink like a guy!

MMnnnppggghh.
Damn good.

Its brewed in Abita, LA, and is the pre-eminent beer in areas close to New Orleans.

Great stuff -- much better IMHO Sam Adams, etc. Not really a micro-brewery, as they distribute within about 300 miles.

I may be partial to Guinness...but I'll gladly try good new beers.

but Abita has 4-5 different brews. The Maddog and Purple Haze are much darker brews.

I'd try a good Amber..

I do not drink anything like Milwaukee's Best or Pabst or Bud. I don't drink Miller Lite. I avoid Coors, Coors Light, MGD, and so forth, but if that's offered to me, I can at least drink those.

I like beer with flavor.

Creamy as Guinness, lighter in flavor, and more refreshing (though I've been known to enjoy a Guinness every now and then). And Belgian Fruit Lambics are great too.

Lambics are a style all unto themselves. Seems like a lot of folks either just love them or won't touch them at all. Personally, I dig them. The Belgians brew some truly innovative stuff.

Negra Modelo, Modelo Especial, Dos Equis, Tecate, and yes - even Corona (if its fresh it can be really good).

...once in a while. The Negra Modelo and Modelo Especial are very good. I also like Tecate from time to time.

I've heard that Casta makes the best Mexican beer, but I have yet to try it. They have limited distribution into the Texas market. I need to look for them. Let me know if you've ever given them a shot.

Stone is always experimenting with new stuff. They kick ass.

Arrogant Bastard never disappoints!

They make some truly BIG beers. I have only tried the AB and the Stone IPA as that's all that they currently distribute into the Texas market. I have e-mailed their CEO Greg Koch a few times about the lack of distribution here, and he says that it's due to the low sales for the two labels that are already here. That, and the TABC's archaic labeling laws make it tough for new beers to get into the stores here.

I'll need to try more of them if I travel out West again. AB and the IPA rock!

Favorite old-fashioned middle-European Brewery: Spaten.
Favorite American microbrewery: Anchor (although Mobjack out of Richmond, VA is a close second)
Favorite of the British/Irish stuff: Murphy's or Wexford.
Favorite Belgian Abbey Ale: Nostadamus

A micro-brewery here in Alberta. Has a great line of beers from dark (Traditional has a mellow, nutty flavour), to wheat beers (Grasshopper is my favourite). A little on the pricey side, but it's local and great tasting. I refuse to submit my sensitive palate to that swill Canadian or Molson's or any American beer.

For me, it's a sip and savour beer. Just one will do. If I try a second, it isn't as enjoyable. The taste buds must be exhausted from the sensual experience. Because my source runs out from time to time, I keep my closet stocked for dry periods.