What's the best beer then?

my local liquor store now seems to have 10 new varieties of American hopped-up beer every month, and somehow I always feel the need to try the newest German or Belgian before I get around to those.

also these companies need to start selling more samplers. I'm not about to throw down $12 for six (let alone $15 for four) beers when I might not be too psyched about drinking five of them.

I love finding stores that have shelves full of singles and "build your own sixpack" signs.

OMG Wegman's now stocks Sam Smith's and Framboise Lambic. Why do I have to leave Buffalo so soon?

(I was looking for other beer threads where I've expounded on Scandinavian porters and Belgian abbey ales but I can't find them.)

lately:
Widmer Hefeweisen - tasty, but not as good as:
Blue Moon Wheat Ale - kinda sweet, doesn't really need the orange everyone serves with it
Shiner Bock - made me feel all Texas patriotic

I'm really enjoying the Oskar Blues product lately...Old Chub, Dale's Pale Ale

Asahi "Dry"

Blue Moon Wheat Ale - kinda sweet, doesn't really need the orange everyone serves with it

Ha! Someone on an old Nanci Griffith board actually sent me a bottle of that from the states and it arrived intact and delicious. Sweet memories.

budweiser

I have to say that this thread features the most ridiculous statement I've ever read on Ile.
-- chris (chris), Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:20 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

was this my budweiser is amazing, budvar is rotten stance? : D

I still believe that, btw, and I make no apologies!!

weyerbacher hops infusion, I'm pretty sure I said elsewhere, is SO SO FINE

I really dislike the sweetness of Blue Moon.

I also think Widmer is one of the least good Hefeweizens out there.

budweiser

shit, I get the same taste from drinking the shit that comes out of my sink pipes.....

Dogfish Head IPAs got me really sick one night. not cuz they weren't good, but because I drank five of them in less than an hour

Maybe you should try the faucet. (xpost)

I did, but that tasted more like Miller Lite....

Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat is my favorite wheat so far (tho I'm not really a fan of the style). It's got a hint of lemon, and a lot of people say it's too sweet, but on a hot day it does down nicely.

^^^worst Leinie's ever IMHO (even Berry Weiss is better), but Leinie's still rules.

I bought a mini-keg of Bell's Oberon the other day on occasion of being in Michigan.

Lately I've been liking Jever Pilsner, Three Floyds Pride & Joy, and the ever-present cheap Stiegl at my local.

It's July.
http://nohatnocattle.com/jibbajabba/050110-Tecate.jpg

I had a bunch of Sol a week or so ago while grilling a bunch of steak for tacos and eating the tacos.

Liking Six Points Sweet Action - not as sweet as it sounds.

Hofbrau Original is my new favorite.

http://thebeersnob.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/420.jpg

is that some kind of magic beer that actually tastes decent after smoking? (serious q)

some guy kept telling me about some weirdass beer this sat night but he also claimed to hate the taste of beer so i didnt bother remembering

Tecate is disgusting.

Been really diggin on these Rogue Dead Guy Ales lately. yum yum.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3024/2657849790_f26cf2937d.jpg?v=0

possibly the best Unibroue I've had yet (and that's saying something, because I love basically everything I've ever had from them)

http://www.brewbrain.com/Brew%20Brain%20Images/Rogue%20Dead%20Guy%20Ale.jpg

Did me right.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/managed-images/AnchorSteam2.jpg

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9591/malzmuehlefassbiernj9.jpg

ive never liked kölsch or malzbier, but this ^^^ malty kölsch totally won me over.

pbr because i can have THIRTY of them for THIRTEEN BUCKS!

Per Ian's post above, like Rogue Dead Guy, but I had a couple Rogue Junipers on draft recently, and they were very tasty.

Hofbrau Original is my new favorite.

this, absolutely. i wish i could get it here.

runners up: paulaner original, pilsner urquell, spaten
honorable mention: bass, harp, newcastle, smithwick's.
best cheap beer: pbr

we should get develop a catch-all beer thread to make up for the 5 or 6 threads out there...

but in any case, i tasted a pretty insane stout this weekend (and extremely well-balanced one, for a big stout like this):

founders breakfast stout:

http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.59.2/t.gif (not my photo)

weird, didn't show up. anyways it has a baby eating a bowl of oatmeal or something on the bottle, it's a thick, black, opaque stout that's brewed with coffee, chocolate, and oatmeal

Duvel is a perennial favorite.

any if you Nashville folk tried the Yazoo beers? I dig the ESB and the pale ale a lot. They won some big award for their Hefeweizen, but it was prob my least favorite of the bunch. Brewmaster L1nus is first cousins with one of my oldest bros.

http://bp3.blogger.com/_nXTU8U2MRaQ/RYlsjS5X4GI/AAAAAAAAADQ/JeWLwk0tNSA/s1600-h/Founders_Breakfast_Stout.jpg

grr

i have been digging the sour ales as of late, but they are def a love/hate sort of thing. also less satisfying in the winter death freeze.

leinenkugels' honey weisse is pretty pointless, or perhaps I should say it has a lot of "drinkability"

+ thanks to bud light admen for giving me a new term to describe the degree of similarity between a beer and a glass of tap water

I finally figured out what a "session beer" means.

harp is fucking disgusting! omg how can someone say harp...

no idea, takes all kinds

Schneider Aventinus Weizenbock is the answer to the original question AFAIC. Weisse-style mouthfeel, light enough to drink during the summer but has a hint of cloves at the finish that makes it perfect for right now. 8% abv but you don't taste it. You know that Snoop and Dre video where they are at the house party and some guy opens the fridge and it is filled with 40s? I want to do the same with this beer.

this list is kind of lame but it's partly inspired by drinking nostalgia... the beers that hold that subjective "best" place are pretty much all from my o.g. boozing days

wheat: paulaner dunkel weizen
pale ale: bell's
amber: bell's
brown: bell's
stout: so many of these taste the same to me... something something oatmeal something
lager: leinie's original

I almost never drink stout, but a few of us had the Left Hand Milk Stout last weekend, which is v. drinkable.