The Beer thread

[Liv'poolFaninAZ]

Just thought I'd start a discussion about one of the most important things you need when watching Footy, or any other sports. I've recently had the misfortune of actually trying a "Chang" beer, it reminded me of oyster water! I really hope that those poor bitters at goodison aren't held hostage by their shirt sponsor and forced to drink such a foul excuse for brew.

I must say that I don't really get the chance to try ALL the different beers of the world. I'm limited to whatever the liqour stores around me carry. As far as European beer, I love Carlsberg and Newcastle. If you guys can tell me of something else I should try let me know, I always want to try new things. As far as American beer goes, my favorite is Miller genuine draft, if I go somewhere that it's not available, then Budweiser will usually do as I prefer FULL taste.

As far as Mexican beer is concerned, I think Corona has done a good job of marketing themselves, but cannot hold a candle to Dos Equis.

Being Puerto Rican and going back there every few years I always jones for my Medalla beer, (If you're ever in P.R. you can't go wrong with that), and once in a while you can get the Dominican beer Presidente which is awesome.

When I was in the Marines and spent a lot of time in Japan and Okinawa, I really didn't find any beer that's worth mentioning, I tried Asahi, Kirin and another one I can't remember.

Well anyway, I look forward to you sharing your fave brew, so I can try new things when I get the chance!

Cheers mates!

[655321]

I'm mainly a lager man these days. I used to drink tons and tons of ales, stouts, etc, etc. But I normally stick to Harp, Stella, Becks, etc, etc now. I occasionally have a Guinness. Tecate is normally purchased at 2:15AM when no one wants to keep drinking and we're on the way to some sort of after party.

[twh3]

If I have my choice, I drink a lot of Belgian or Belgian style beers, but I don't like white beers. I also like Fin Du Monde, Delirium Tremens, those as well. But at the pub watching the match? Stella Artois all the way. Yum.

[kaisermohr]

Fat Tire- I think it is easily one of the best beers in the world.
Guinness- I think it speaks for itself.

Got a few local Brew Pubs here in my small Illinois town that deserve a shout. The Uncommon Stout at Bent River Brewery. Ale brewed with copious amounts of coffee. Great after dinner drink.

[Crown Paints]

Carlsberg and Newkie Brown are my faves. Also Fosters is pretty nice (and is what I usually end up having cause few places nr me have Carlsberg on tap). Sol is pretty nice, and so is Cobra (its an Indian beer I believe and its pretty strong).

Oh and can't forget Erdinger or Hoegaarden. Theyre Wheat beer

[stanaccrington]

A beer you may want to try from England is Old Speckled Hen, I have found it in a few stores and a pub I frequent had it as a special on tap, I did manage quite a few that evening.
Boddingtons is a manchester brew that is very good on Draught but crap in a tin, even with a widget.
Thekstons is a Yorkshire Ale that is very strong, if you can get Old Peculiar that is the best they do.
One thing I have found on my travels is that English beer does not travel well and the only way to truely taste the different beers is to go there and drink as many different ones as you can.
http://www.camra.org.uk/SHWebClass.ASP?WCI=ShowDoc&DocID=13034

I highly recommend this as a great couple of days boozing, free ale and food!!!!!:) I went to a smaller version a couple of years ago and don't remember much :) so it must have been good.

[usscouse]

All we have on draft here in my local in sunny downtown Stanwood, Washington is Guinness and Newcastle Brown. It's nice when the barman sees you park your car and walk on in that he's already pulling your pint.

When I travel I always carry my "Blood type card and this"

Language - Beer
Afrikaans bier
Albanian birrë
Arabic beereh (biræ)
Azerbaijani pivo
Basque garagardoa
Belorussian piva
Bengali beer
Breton bier
Bulgarian bira
Catalan cervesa
Chechenian jij
Chinese (Mandarin) pi jiu
Croatian pivo
Czech pivo
Danish øl
Dutch bier
English beer, ale
Esperanto biero
Estonian õlu
Faeroese øl, bjór
Finnish olut, kalja
Flemish bier
French bière
Frisian bier
Gaelic (Scotland) leann (lionn), beòir
Galician (Galego) cerveja / cervexa
German (High) Bier
German (Low) Beer
Greek mpíra (bira), zýthos
Hawaiian pia
Hebrew beera
Hindi beer
Hungarian sör
Icelandic öl, bjór
Ido biro
Indonesian bir
Interlingua bira
Irish (Gaeilge) beoir
Italian birra
Japanese biiru
Korean mek-ju
Kurdish bîre
Lappish (Sámi) vuola
Latin cerevisia, cervisia
Latvian alus
Lithuanian alus
Luganda bbiya
Macedonian pivo
Malay bir
Manx (Gaelg Vannin) lhune, beer
Neo biro
Nepali biyar, jad
Norwegian (bm & nn) øl
Occitan (Provencal) bièra, cervesa
Persian (Farsi) ab'jo
Police Motu bia
Polish piwo
Portugese cerveja
Quechua sirbisa
Rheto-Rumansch biera
Romanian bere
Russian pivo
Serbian pivo
Sesotho jwala
Slovak pivo
Slovene pivo
Spanish cerveza
Swahili bia, pombe
Swedish öl
Tagalog (Pilipino) serbesa
Thai bia
Turkish bira
Ukrainian pivo
Vietnamese bia
Volapük bil
Welsh cwrw
Xhosa ibhiye
Yiddish bir
Zulu utshwala

http://www.geocities.com/mosvends/beer.html

[browfish]

Now here's a thread I can really sink my teeth in to!

Stout - 'Beamish' or 'Guinness'
Pilsner - The original 'Urquell' or 'Bitburger'
Plain old Lager - Kronenbourg
Ale - My favourite type of beer so it's tough to pick just one, but if I have to go with a more mainstream ale, then I'm with Stan - 'Old Speckled Hen' it is.
Wheat Beer - 'Erdinger'.

Sorry if you heard this one before, but here goes...

How is American beer and having sex in a canoe the same?

They're both f*#king close to water!

Interesting fact - There are more calories in 12oz of Budweiser than in 12oz of Guinness.

[FatAndUgly]

Finally, a thread I actually can contribute something of semi-intelligence to!

My credentials:

I've been brewing all-grain beer since the late 80's.

I have three kegerators in my garage, 24/7, one of which has my home brew in it.

I go to homebrewing club meetings (which makes me a dork by association but I don't care)

I have a Guinness tattoo on my arm

My favorites:

Spaten Optimator Dopplebock
Paulaner Salvator Dopplebock
Ayinger Celebrator Dopplebock
Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout
Aass Bock
Mackeson XXX Triple Stout
Gosser Dark Lager
Mammoth Brewing Company Amber Ale

A lot of people prefer Aventinus doppelbock, but it's made with wheat and I don't really care for wheat beers all that much.

I understand why people like Newkie Brown, but having it side-by-side in my garage next to Optimator makes it taste like piss. Most of my guests say so as well. I actually have a sign over my Optimator tap that says "Hosts" and one over the Newcastle that says "Guests".

I'm not a big fan of Mexican beer, but Negra Modela ain't so bad. I heard somewhere that German immigrants brought a dark lager recipe with them and started brewing it in Mexico back in the day.

As for South American beers, Xingu from Brazil is pretty tasty.

We have a lot of good macrobrews in the USA, Rogue being a pretty good example, and Anderson Valley as well.

I'm in the process of finalizing my own doppelbock recipe, tentatively named "Re-animator". My label shows a goat (the traditional mascot of bock and dopplebock beer) with x's for eyes, busting out of a grave, to drink it from a bucket. The slogan is "So good, you'll come back from the dead for it!"

If I ever get financing, I hope to distribute it worldwide. If you ever see it on the shelf, give it a try. And of course I intend to sneak some sort of LFC reference on my label. But that will be our secret.

The link below is an excellent resource to hear about the world's "best beers", according to reviewers. I guarantee there will be 100's of beers you've never heard of, and they divide it into 90 or so different categories. It even gives you the worst beers of the world. Fun to browse.

http://www.ratebeer.com/Ratings/Ratings-Beer.asp

Cheers!

[usscouse]

Finally, a thread I actually can contribute something of semi-intelligence to!

My credentials:

I've been brewing all-grain beer since the late 80's.

I have three kegerators in my garage, 24/7, one of which has my home brew in it.

I go to homebrewing club meetings (which makes me a dork by association but I don't care)

I have a Guinness tattoo on my arm

Nice post, now we know why the name "Fat and Ugly!" Let me know when you distribute on the West Coast.

Funny I used to drink Mackie Mixed back in my teens a couple of years ago. :rolleyes:

Mackie mixed was Half a pint of Walkers, Tetleys or Higsons Mild with a bottle of Mackies stout poured in a pint glass. It was pretty popular back then.

The only larger beers we could get was to go to the American Bar on Lime Street and get Carsburg.....on ice. The did have Bud but it was for decoration only, no body drank that piss.

[liverbird]

They did have Bud but it was for decoration only, no body drank that piss.

You mean the "Official Beer of the Premier League" and the only adult beverage available at the Nike Trafford Dome and Chelski Bridge? You wouldn't drink that?

[655321]

The did have Bud but it was for decoration only, no body drank that piss.

When I was in London a few years back, that's what I mainly saw people drinking. I remember most corner stores having coolers with two rows of Newcastle, two rows of Becks, etc, etc and then like ten rows of Bud.

[FatAndUgly]

Nice post, now we know why the name "Fat and Ugly!" Let me know when you distribute on the West Coast.

Will do. Then with any luck I'll change my name to FatAndUglyButRich.

[LFCFanInCali]

My time spent in England was mostly spent in the pubs. I remember drinking a lot of Bass, Worthingtons, and Guinness. Tried several others that I can't remember right now. Basically I tried everything I could find that had the hand-pumped taps. I like the Bass in England much better in the UK than here in the States. It doesn't have the creamy texture over here.

I was just amazed at the amount of people paying more for a 12 ounce Bud in a bottle than a pint of something on tap. Since our chief exports seem to be McDonalds and Bud, I can see why the rest of the world hates us!

Over here in the States I enjoy Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, and Gordon Biersch. And while most of the Mexican beers aren't that rich or flavorful, they can be refreshing in the summer when it's too hot to really enjoy anything too dark.

[FatAndUgly]

...in the summer when it's too hot to really enjoy anything too dark.

Blasphemy!! It's always a good time for a dark beer!! :D

[kaisermohr]

Interesting fact - There are more calories in 12oz of Budweiser than in 12oz of Guinness.

...and more alcohol as well. 5%bv to 4%bv

[usscouse]

An interesting aside; Way back when I was 21, I went into Walton Hospital for an ear infection. (Never combine parachuting and scuba diving) Found out from a nurse I used to sneak out at night with, that the patients on the maternity ward got 2 bottles of guinness a day as part of their dietary suppliment.
Made for healthy babies and healthy scousers.

My friend made sure I got my share, had to keep up my strength.