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I'm more of a hard-liquor guy if I can help it, but I won't ever say no to a nice beer.

I don't consider it to be a "good" beer, but I drink Colt 45 rather often. It honestly tastes like rat-piss and gets warmer significantly faster than any other beer I've ever seen, but I just can't stop drinking the stuff. I think it comes from my old habits of buying a 40 at lunch during highschool to make classes more interesting. I started with Black Label's big 10's but couldn't stomach the stuff, so I downgraded to the magic of Colt. On that note, the worst beer I've ever tasted is called "Boreale" which amusingly enough we refer to as "Bore Ale." The stuff tastes like water someone left on the counter for too long with a drop of what cat piss smells like.

In terms of good tasting beers, if I want something refreshing on a warm day, I go straight for Corona. It's not particularly sensible for the palette, but with some lemon or lime and a heatwave, it's a godsend.

Here in Quebec, we have some random in-province beers, such as "La Fin Du Monde" which at first looks like it ought to be terrible. It's label is a bunch of French settlers in a rowboat, about to fall off the edge of the world with the devil in the sky apparently laughing. Tasting it however, is interesting. It's rather smoothe and while slightly dry, it's a nice balance.

Of course, we have the army of Molson named beers here, which vary from extremely dry to tasting like water or piss respectively. Of these, I prefer Molson High Dry, which despite it's name, is probably the most balanced of the other Molson Beers, considerably more so than Molson Export which I can't bring myself to stomach anymore. Molson High Dry is what generally stocks up my fridge, next to Coronas.

As you can tell, I'm a fan of beers that are easy to go down but still retain a distinctive taste.

This post has been edited by Dragon_Fire on 5th January 2007 08:10

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Milwaukee's Best Light is still the standard at any college party here in Wisconsin. It's cheap, not bad

I refute this claim. There is a reason why we call it the Beast.

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Glad to see Unibroue's beers come up in this topic. They have a variety of beers from light 5% to very strong 9-10%. I haven't tried them all but flavored beers like Maudite (spicy) go down great. Just don't try to binge on them! La Fin Du Monde is another one I enjoy.

Coors Light is my domestic beer of choice simply because it goes down easy. Molson beers aren't my favorite but Export is decent in a pitcher. A lot of flavor.

Colt 45 is sour but it goes down easier than some other 8% malt liquors I've tried. Smells like acetone and doesn't taste much different, but it works, and it's cheap as hell. I much prefer Milwaukee's Best Dry, but it's 5.9% so it's not ideal for the night of binge drinking.

Light imports? Corona over Heineken any day, even if lacks distinct flavor.

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Molson Canadian Light is my "cheap" light beer of choice. If I'm looking for a bit heavier "cheap" beer I'll go with a Yuengling Black & Tan.

(Cheap as in good, but lower costing. Not cheap as in piss like Natty Ice, PBR, or the Beast.)

A bit pricier, but oh so well worth it:
Magic Hat: I pretty much like any of their offerings, but my favorite is Circus Boy (a hefeweizen).

The previously mentioned Sam Adams Cherry Wheat: A necter from the gods, really.

Ithaca Beer Co.'s Apricot Wheat.

And I could go on and on and on.



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most anything sam adams, (cept that cranberry, bleh) especially their old fezziwig ale, blue moon with an orange , samuel smith nutt brown ale, any hefeweizen, german beers such as heineken or becks, some others, good beer is few and far between.... really.

I like the high octane stuff. My absolute fav is jagbombs (jagermeister and red bull). Next would be a tie between jim beam/coke and vodka tonic. As for beer...Guiness in a bottle? Brilliant!

This post has been edited by ramza_beoulve on 6th January 2007 06:34

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Milwaukee's Best Light is still the standard at any college party here in Wisconsin. It's cheap, not bad

I refute this claim. There is a reason why we call it the Beast.

Beast Light grows on you. It's kind of metalic tasting, but after a while it goes down easy, great for chugging (which is usually the point at college parties haha). Beast Ice is still pretty bad though. Ice House is even worse. One Ice House is an automatic hangover. I don't know what it is, but I've never not gotten a hangover from Ice Beers. Higher alcohol content (it's not by much either. Usually about a 1-1.5% difference) may get you drunk faster, but I'd much rather have a few more and not deal with the headache tomorrow.

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I much prefer Milwaukee's Best Dry, but it's 5.9% so it's not ideal for the night of binge drinking.

Beast Dry? I didn't even know there was such a thing. Beast Ice is 5.9% I know compared to Light which is 4.5%. Most domestics lights like Miller, Bud, and Coors are all 4.2%.

This post has been edited by Tidu-who on 7th January 2007 22:56

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-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

- Medalla (Puertorican light beer)
- Colt 45 (ghetto version)
- Dark beers
- Red Stripe
- Budweiser (Private Reserve)
- Presidente
- Kirin Ichiban (Japanese YAY!)

AND DUFF, gotta have a Duff!

and Patriot Ale, freakin sweet!

This post has been edited by SaffireWeapon on 8th January 2007 00:06

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Quote (Tidu-who @ 7th January 2007 17:52)

Higher alcohol content (it's not by much either. Usually about a 1-1.5% difference) may get you drunk faster, but I'd much rather have a few more and not deal with the headache tomorrow.

It's not the alcohol content that provides the hangover though it's something else inherent to those cheap beers. Granted you probably already knew this, but I just thought I'd clarify for laymen. Most of the best beers have higher alcohol content than your garden variety Bud and taste better and are much less likely to leave you hungover.

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I dont really mean to bring back a dead thread but i figure this might be better than starting a new one and catchin hell for it

so i was prousing the interweb the other night and i came across this page.

United Nations Of Beer

and i noticed there was no one represting my specific area of the world (Saskatchewan Canada) so i put an application in and lo and behold i am a new Beer Delegate for this particular website. Im not just trying to plug my outside work here or spam or anything i just wanna say there there is a bunch of reviews and interesting things to read about, like beer festivals, reviews of region specific beers, and so on...so if you ever get the chance to check it out. Do it! its worth your time if you are a fan of beer like i am.

my specific site on there is Saskatchewan Beer Guide (my reviews)

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for something hard, ill take anything sweet, Rum, anything with some flavor, also a big Jager fan...

ill take a bud light, or bud select any day.... gotta be ice cold though... i just cant drink warm beer...

im also a big Wine fan, tastes good, gets u drunker faster.... cant go wrong, right..?

Budweiser Select is never bad. I also like Sapporo, Warsteiner, Red Stripe, Monty Python's Holy Ale. Nwcastle is good, rather than Guiness, I drink Harp. Kirin Ichiban is also good on me.

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I surprisingly left out Alexander Keith's form my first post, so here it is: Keith's has a lot of flavor! Excellent beer from the Canadian maritimes.

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I can usually only drink beer when I'm drunk already, but there are 2 I can handle pre-drunk:

1 - Sam Adams Cherry Wheat. It has been mentioned, but it's tasty stuff! Yay for that flavor that is like a splash of grenadine!

2 - Red Stripe. I don't know what it is about red stripe but it's just downright drinkable, and if you've never seen one of their commercials, check out youtube. I think their marketing alone is worth buying it HOOORAY BEER!

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This thread just keeps coming back to life.

This weekend I tried a Sam Adams Cherry Wheat for the first time. Pretty good stuff. Tastes like a good beer to have with food, rather than a beer to drink one after another while watching football.

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Personally, I find that the Cherry Wheat, in much of a fashion as what you've said, requires more than sitting and watching. It requires standing and watching. I had a Cherry Wheat while I was grilling for my mom on mothers day, she wanted steak for dinner, I go to school for culinary arts, and I had connections to get the best steaks in town quite literally.

I used to hate beer, but it has slowly grown on me. Beer Pong helps with that as well.

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Man the darker the beer the better, but here are some favs

I like:
Arrogant Bastard Ale
XX- Amber Lager
Blue Moon
Honey Brown
Pacifico
Guiness

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My favorite regional beer is Fat Tire Ale, from the New Belgium Brewing Company in the northwest US. Good stuff.... too bad they don't ship to North Carolina.

This is definitely my pick for favorite beer of all time. There's a very decent liquor store in Laurel, MD that's known for obtaining hard-to-find drinks, and when I asked them about fat tire the response was, "You'll have to drive to Arkansas for it, just like I did." It made me happy and sad simultanously - knowing that the beer was that well represented, but also knowing that I couldn't get it where I live.

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Kokanee, and Canadian Beer in general

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I tend more towards a well-crafted carefully-measured cocktail than some cheap beer, but the occasional dry beer can get my interest. Especially if I'm somewhere playing pool with a few friends.

I'm mostly into dry beers. As dry as they come. IMO, their flavor is much more complex than other kinds and you have to hunt around a little to find it. There's something subtle there and it gives it more depth than when you're just drinking for the sake of drinking. Anyway, a beer that's too light just tastes like old water to me.

Last weekend was the beer fest here in Montreal. There were plenty of interesting beers there, particularly some weird fruity kinds (nothing I'd ever be caught dead drinking but interesting nevertheless ) and oddball imports that were fairly enjoyable. The steep price (about 4-5 bucks per beer... at a beer festival) made it hard to sample a lot of beers though, so I'm fairly sure I missed out on some mind-numbingly unique flavors. :/

There was this fat german man with a brown felt hat and green suspenders running around and talking excitedly about beer though. If anything, that was the most awesome thing ever. That, and the Guiness girls.

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Budweiser Select is never bad. I also like Sapporo, Warsteiner, Red Stripe, Monty Python's Holy Ale. Nwcastle is good, rather than Guiness, I drink Harp. Kirin Ichiban is also good on me.

See, I'm the opposite. I love Guiness, but am not too keen on Harp or Smithwick's.


I've become quite the beersman since I last posted in this thread (and it's showing on my stomach...even though my arms and legs are still incredibly skinny). I'm a poor college student without a job, so I can't be as explorative as I'd like to be, but what can you do?


My favs:

Red Stripe - Worth the pricetag. I don't know what it is, it's kinda sweet, but outstandingly tasty. I don't normally like sweeter beers, but I love this stuff.

Asahi - Japanese Rice beer. Pretty good, but way too pricey for me. $9/6pack

Beast Light - I'm sorry. I'm hooked. I'm just too poor to not drink it. I'd actually take this over a Miller Lite. Is something wrong with me?



Man, I wish I had money and good get whatever I wanted. Oh, worst beer I've ever had was a Hocker-Pschorr (sp?). I don't know, it was just horrible. Maybe I got a bad one. It doesn't wrong. Like almondy, brown, mothballs. It tasted nutty or something. And I was drunk too, so it really had to be bad for me to react to the taste.

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And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

I hadn't really been a beer guy until several months ago, but rooming and working with a bartender has helped get me introduced to a pretty large variety. I'd say my favorites are broken up into categories:

- Best Cheap Beer at a Bar - Killian's. 2.50/pint at most of the bars I go to, and all that delicious semi-irish flavor.

- Best Cheap Beer for Parties/Drinking Games - Keystone Light. 30 Stones is $12, which is super. Barely any taste to get in the way for chugging, which is ideal for what it's used for. Not good beer by any stretch - but suits its purpose rather well.

- Best Overall Beer - Sam Adams Boston Lager. The only beer that I would still drink even if it didn't get you drunk. The beer that got me started on liking beer, and nothing has matched it yet.

Well, I'll keep this simple.

Best *cheap* beer -- Keystone Light

Best beer in general -- Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat

There's just something about Leinie's that makes a hot summer day so much more bearable. Well, any Leinie's but Honey Weiss. Can't say I'm a big fan of that stuff, but it's not terrible by any stretch.

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I am not a big beer drinker; my drinks of choice are rum and Scotch.

I have managed to acquire a taste for Alexander Keith's red amber ale, and the India pale ale isn't bad either. I didn't like these at first, but the professors in my department always get it and I eventually grew to like it.

I had a glass of Guinness when I was in the UK once and I thought it was pretty good, but when I have tried it since then, I have never been able to finish a single bottle. Perhaps foolishly, I did not realize that there was a difference between Guinness there and Guinness here, so maybe that explains it.


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We had a small gathering for New Year's Eve, and for it we picked up our standard Sam Adams Cherry Wheat. To go with it, we also got a twelve-pack of Sam's Brewmaster pack, two bottles of each of six of their different brews (but one of those six is Boston Lager, so big deal).

If you want to try some different stuff, I definitely suggest picking up one of these. None of it is really something I'd never had before, aside from maybe the Scotch Ale (a really tasty ale with a dark, smoky aftertaste), but as a collection, it's solid. Check it out: http://www.samueladams.com/world_of_beer.aspx

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I like a Danish brew called Tuborg. When I lived in Norway we used to drink Tuborg Grøn. But now that my friends and I have moved to Sweden, we drink Tuborg Gold, which is somewhat stronger.
Sometimes I also drink a beer called Sofiero, the normal edition and the Gold edition.

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We had a small gathering for New Year's Eve, and for it we picked up our standard Sam Adams Cherry Wheat. To go with it, we also got a twelve-pack of Sam's Brewmaster pack, two bottles of each of six of their different brews (but one of those six is Boston Lager, so big deal).

If you want to try some different stuff, I definitely suggest picking up one of these. None of it is really something I'd never had before, aside from maybe the Scotch Ale (a really tasty ale with a dark, smoky aftertaste), but as a collection, it's solid. Check it out: http://www.samueladams.com/world_of_beer.aspx

Is that the same as the Winter one, with Black Lager and Old Fezziwig? I've seen that around lately. As I mentioned way back when in this thread, my Dad's always been a big Sam guy. We'd sit around and look at the label for Old Fezziwig and laugh at the portly fellow on it. I have to get around to trying it again.

I've taken to buying single beers at really nice, huge liquor stores like Binny's Beverage Depot and DiCarlo's this semester, now that I finally have a job and a little bit of disposable income. Create-your-own 6 packs are probably the greatest idea ever. I like trying out beers, and not being stuck with 5 others is awesome.

I now enjoy really heavy, malty beers like porters. I've started keeping a bottle collection up at college, lining them on the tops of cabinets in the kitchen. Fun stuff. I like keeping it organized as well. Some notables:


Young's Double Chocolate Stout - Strong, thick, and chocolately. A little bitter aftertaste (that's the stout), but still good.

Lefthand Porter - It's got an Ace and Jack cards on the front, I love poker and that was the only reason I got it. It was fantastic.

Dirty Bastard - This beer is a kick to the face. Just wow. I guess you call it "chewy beer".


If I was up at college I could check out my collection, I need some memory refreshers lol.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

just turned 21 earlier this month, and from what I've had so far I know I like


Killians Irish Red
Guinness
Michelob Ultra
and Bud Light

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just turned 21 earlier this month, and from what I've had so far I know I like


Killians Irish Red
Guinness
Michelob Ultra
and Bud Light

Anybody tried Yuengling?
Also, since you're newly 21, try some Harp, I think you'd like it.

This post has been edited by AnarchistDream on 5th February 2008 02:57

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Anybody tried Yuengling?

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1. Yuengling Black and Tan: It's not the best Black and Tan I've ever had, but it's pretty inexpensive and it really is good. It's from the oldest brewery in America, and appears to be available mostly in the Northeast (it's brewed in eastern Penn). It's stout, but not overpowering due to the mitigating "tan" aspect. Really, I like just about everything I've tried from Yuengling, so if you like a proper Black & Tan made to order at a pub, this is a good choice.

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