What's the best beer then?

I sez: "It's the title of a song by the Get Up Kids."

I stand by my Coronas. Molson's good tü. Never cared much for the Brooklyn Brewery stuff. I always thought it just tasted like Coors, ergo "Shit."

And before that, it was a line from Pee Wee's Big Adventure...

If it was possible to hug pubs, I wd hug the Head of Steam.

sam adams'=yuppie beer.

Still good beer

or

tsing tao - china

Crikey.

I really can't be doing with calling Budweiser "Budvar" nonsense. I've heard in the US it's called "Czechvar". How fucking insulting is that? It's like suddenly deciding that the Simpsons must be refered to as the Yanksons because we've just decided to use the Simpsons for some pathetically inferior product of our own.

I also have a strange fondness for Turkish beer.

Yes, Duvel is mighty fine. I tried some witbier in Brussels which was even nicer than Hoegaarden, but I've forgotten what it was called for some reason. Maybe I'd been drinking.

great beer+cheese in america=wisconsin. let's not say the US=just the same all over.

...by which you might possibly mean TROY, which I will forever associate with the Rough Trade RoTa free gigs at the Notting Hill Arts Centre!

They do? I stand corrected. Anyway, my understanding is that in Europe the Czech Budweiser was sold as Budweiser and the American imitation was sold as merely "Bud", whereas in the UK both were allowed to trade under the name "Budweiser". "Czechvar" just sounds completely absurd.

Anyway I was only kidding with my mischievous generalisations. Americans I know seem very fond of their "watery, domestic". And there is something 'traditional' about beer in cans and sporting events. I'm still not convinced about the cheese though.

Efes is the Turkish beer I like.

Then I drank a bottle of Stowells' Tempranillo and danced like a fool with Shoreditch TwatXors. Oh my head.

Mrs De Rijk's grandfather established the brewery which is still barely known outside the immediate area. Perhaps beer of this quality can only be produced on a small scale but I do wish it was more widely available. I only know it as the owner of my local café was so impressed he travels down to Belgium every month to ensure his is one of only two places in Holland that serves it.

Beer writer Michael Jackson on De Rijk

Austrian beer is great stuff, better than German (heresy!). That said, I really miss American microbrews as long as they don't get too fancy with the flavourings, and intend to reacquaint myself over the Thanksgiving holidays.

Yay, Zipfer!

I discovered a new candidate yesterday - Exmoor Beast! It's dark, it's nummy and it's 6.6%!

Lately for me:

Leffe Blond
Alaskan IPA / Deschutes Inversion IPA (my usual defaults)
Rogue Yellow Snow
Oaked Arrogant Bastards
Great Divide Hibernation
Unibroue Fin Du Monde
Cans of Olympia

KIRIN ICHIBAN.

I thought ILX wasn't started until August '00

The most drinkable ones I'm on right now:

Sam Adams Winter Lager (it's everywhere, but it's damn good, slightly hoppy and bitter, kinda spicy, very woody)
Red Hook ESB (solid all around)
Rogue Dead Guy (I bought it by the jug at the beer store)
Full Sail LTD (I don't know the details behind this one but it's so damn drinkable, not too bitter, I want to have gallons and gallons of it)
Most anything by the Dogfish guys

hmmm, weird, I think Ally's post is actually the first post of the thread...and hurting's post is actually from sometime later? Maybe something wrong with the db or something?

2nite i have had

bomber of Rogue Brutal Bitter
2 tallies of Surly Furious

regarding beer, I just finished a six pack of New Belgium's 2 Below, which was pretty good. Lots of crazy hop flavor, not a lot of bitterness. I'm looking for some good xmas/winter brews, if anybody has any good recs. Liked the goose island mild winter ale a lot, though I kind of want something less, uh, mild.

hmmm, weird, I think Ally's post is actually the first post of the thread...and hurting's post is actually from sometime later? Maybe something wrong with the db or something?

If I'm not mistaken, a couple of years ago there was this weird thing for a few hours where everyone's post was backdated to June 26, 2001. Maybe it also fucked with threads that were actually started on that date.

for some reason i've been gravitating towards heineken when no smaller brew strikes my fancy (mainly if i'm not in the mood for a pale ale of some sort) and whenever i decide to buy heineken before i got to the liquor store, i feel good about myself because it's a big brew and will be cheaper but then i remember that it's actually like... $9 for a six pack because it's an "import" - shit is so fake!

(i still buy the heineken anyway)

bud >>>>>> heineken!

idk! i'm okay with bud but i think it tastes weird out of bottles. kind of poisonous. and i'm in missouri, we'ere supposed to fuck w budweiser exclusively but idk :-/