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In the spirit of Top 5 lists, let's talk BEER!

What are your top five favorite beers? You may include additional commentary if you like, such as if it's your staple beer, indulgence beer, why you like it, etc. Or, simply list them and that's it. I included fairly universally known beers, but there's nothing wrong with listing more obscure brews if you like. With the 4th of July weekend I figured people would be getting their beer on.

I'll start:

1. Newcastle (my staple beer, easy to find, tastes nice all year around)
2. Guinness Draft (although I usually refrain during the summer)
3. Stella Artois (actually a tie with Guinness for me)
4. Red Stripe (for the warmer months)
5. Corona (nice in the summer with a little lime)

I look forward to the replies. Bring on the beer!  :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

1 Olde english malt liquor
2. Pabst Bue ribbon

Tiger
Leffe (blonde, but brown is nice too)
FAXE
Newcastle Brown Ale aka Newkey brown
Tuborg

having said that, why do I always end up going for carlsburg export when I get beers in  :question:

Heh heh. As soon as I saw carlsburg I knew you must be on the east end of the pond. Cheers, mate.  :cheers:

 :cheers:

I've got a 'mate' who usually brings round cans of Carlsburg "special brew" (9.5%) whenever he comes over. it's like syrup to drink and tastes rancid. always end up with a messy head the next day. it's possibly the worst beer ever, lol

The only two beers I usually drink are:

Natural Light 32 ouncers
Pabst Blue Ribbon 6-packs

1. Duvel - the champagne of beers. 8.5% alcohol, as complex tasting as a wine.  Terrific stuff.
2. Guinness - on draft, when properly poured and served at the right temp. I also love a black and tan (half Guinness, half Bass)
3. Chimay Blue Label - another high alcohol Belgian

Those three are way ahead of all the others.  My last 2 are subject to change but for right now:

4. Grimebergen Blonde (this is about tied for me with the Leffe, which DCA mentioned)
5. Young's Double Chocolate Stout - this stuff almost tastes like alcoholic chocolate milk. 

For an American beer I'll go with Sierra Nevada, I've never had a bad beer from them.  For light beer I'll go with Sam Adams light. 

Leffe are pretty heavy as well, what are they, about 6.5%? dont drink them too often but they're nice/

I went through a phase at university of only drinking this dutch beer called 'Orangeboom' for about a year, but now I can't touch the stuff, it's too sweet

5.  Michelob Amber Bock - Not the greatest but the only mass produced domestic I can tolerate. 

4.  Asahi Super Dry - Actually, like it quite a bit. 

3.  Guiness - The nice dark stout.  I didn't like it at first but find myself wanting it all the time. 

2.  Moosehead - This is my standard drink.  Don't know why but bought it once and couldn't stop. 

1.  Dos Equis - Don't buy it much but do love it. 

However, suffer from the Oklahoma 3.5% alcohol.  Grrrr, come on at least get us to a decent 5% so I don't have to buy out of state. 

I'm insanely boring with my choices but...

1.) Coors Light
2.) Tequiza (no longer made I think but the next one is about the same)
3.) Bud Light with lime
4.) Bud Light (normal)
5.) Some German import I had at a Bavarian restaurant, can't recall the name

I don't drink much beer, but if you want to start a whisky thread...  

In any case, here are mine, just three:

Spaten Octoberfest (get this on tap; it's incredible on tap)
Guinness

and my inexpensive standard:

Yuenling Lager

Going to find and give Duvel a try.  This is the second time I've heard it mentioned by someone who really liked it.

Orangeboom. I used to drink that, and completely forgot about it. I haven't seen it in ages. I wonder how hard it is to find these days.

akira- do you ever drink 40's?


Also, here in masscahusetts we have na embrassment of the belgian ales. I can't remember the names of them but in general I would say the ones that are from belgian are the best.

Desperados

Westmalle Trippel.  I've been lucky enough to travel to Belgium a few times for work and I always look forward to drinking this beer while I'm there.  I've tried a variety of Belgian beers, but I always come back to this one.  Two thumbs up!

I'd like to hear your 4 runners up, since I love Belgian beer.

I forgot to even mention lambics... I haven't had one in so long.  I forget which Kriek it was I loved... Lindemann's?

I am a virtual teetotaller but I do have a cold beer every so often. Nothing reminds you more of where you are than an ice cold Castle Lager.  :smile:

does that have the painting of the gleaners on the front of the bottle.  yeah the triple is good. piraat is a good triple

But not as good as Pabst Blue Ribbon?  :drink:

Yeha I got really into belgian ales for a while then I was like holy crap these things are expensive.  but the junp from malt liquor to belgian ales is pretty simple same alc level.

I jumped too, but I'd never go back.  To me it's worth the extra $$$ for something that tastes good. 

Tough to say . . . Duvel, Jupiler (which I think is a good "chugging" beer  :drink:), Jan van Ghent (which I believe is just a local beer in Ghent: I'm not sure how common it is in other parts of Belgium), Leffe Blonde, Delirium Tremens (with the pink elephant on the label!) . . . too many to name and I'm sure I'm forgetting some good ones.

5.) Coors Light- I generally hate the taste, but if no other beer is available, it gets the job done.  Everyone in the family loves it (except me), so for things like the 4th of July, eh.

4.) Miller- I drink it occasionally.  Seems to be a middle of the road type beer.  People like it or they don't.

3.) Corona- sometimes, on a nice hot Summer night.

2.) Michelob- My original beer of choice, before it got replaced.

1.) Budweiser- My all time favorite, drink of choice.  Apparently Universally LOATHED, I LOVE it. 

1. Mackeson Triple Stout (my fave all-time beer, unfortunately recently defunct.)

2. Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout (a close second to Mackeson, full flavored but not bitter.  I love it.  I'm very partial to English stouts.)

3.  EKU 28 (A very potent German beer with a slight sweetness.  Very filling, but so incredibly good.)

4. Samuel Adams Double Bock (another potent, full flavored but smooth delight.)

5. Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout  (not quite as good as their oatmeal stout, but it's close.) 

"Whiskey's too tough
Champagne cost too much
Vodka puts my mouth in gear
This little refrain
Should help me explain
As a matter of fact
I like BEER"

--Tom T. Hall

5. Heinekin
4. Fat Tire
3. Newcastle
2. Duck Rabbit Dark Stout
1. Guinness

When I got married, my Best Man and his wife (one of my wife's bridesmaids) was into home brewing.  They brought 8 cases of home brew to our rehearsal dinner party and it was great.  Though not listed explicitly on my list above, a lot of my favorites are home brews or microbrewery beers.

Long live the little guy.    :cheers:

I wouldn't say loathed, it's the best-selling beer in America and maybe the world.  But all of those beers are American cereal lagers; people either prefer them, often because they grew up with them, or they hate them.  I'd consider Budweiser like the McDonald's cheeseburger version of a beer, and the others I named like filet mignon.

A few years ago I had to go to in London for work.  Before I went everyone advised me, "Don't drink Budweiser in England . . . you'll be laughed at."  I went to a pub out in the suburbs and ordered an English beer.  Then i noticed about half of the locals were drinking Budweiser . . .

A friend of mine in Brussels warned me never to drink Heineken as "it has 43% horse pee in it". I went  :buggedout: and asked him how he knew that. He told me to look at the label where it said Hors concours ~ actually meaning "Out of competition".  :drink: :smile:

I had an Irishman tell me he preferred American beers because of the lower alcohol content: he could drink longer before passing out.

I figure it sells well enough, but almost everyone I know personally hates it.  And others I meet, we talk, and they often quite mention how horrible it tastes and don't know how people like it.  

I kinda like the taste.  It's not bitter, not sweet.  Not overly filling, and the perfect amount of alcohol content.  I know how far to push it when I drink it before I'm at the point where I'm stumbling around with my underwear on my head. :wink:


It's pretty disgusting.  One of the worst tasting I've had.  Along with Rolling Rock.  But they were cheap so I drank them.  Then again, my 'tastes' are pretty damned disgustin.  Twinkie-Wiener Sandwiches and all. :wink:

Guinness isn't bad at all.  Haven't had it in quite a while, actually.  Should look for it next time I'm out.  The others you mentioned, I haven't even heard of.  But I have a very, very picky sense of taste, including beers. 

 :buggedout: :buggedout: Oh no, you too?  :wink: :teddyr:

I find Budweiser to be kind of like making love in a canoe.




It's f**king close to water.

Sorry. Couldn't resist.  :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

^ lol

I was in the supermarket 2 days ago and I remembered this thread so I thought I'd try out some new beer. bought 8 bottles of Cusqueñas, which is peruvian beer. not bad, a bit too sweet for me (still drank 'em though)

Man there's too many to list here that I enjoy, but some good stand-bys for me:

Sapporo and Asahi, two really good Japanese brews.
Hoegaarden: fun because of the name, but more importantly is a nice drop too!
Little Creatures Pale Ale
Peroni
Duvel if I want to be Mr Fancy Pants [but its usually too expensive to drink often]

Once or twice that I remember. :wink: :teddyr:

So now I count, and have a friend count as well, just to make sure I don't go over said number.

I had that in a Peruvian restaurant that used to be here in Vegas.  Great stuff!  I didn't know any supermarkets had it.  I'll have to look around for it.