B33R!

ploverwing said:
What I despise (thus far without exception): sours and mashes. Fruit is for ciders and wine. NOT. FOR. BEER.
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Glad I'm not the only one who hates these. Tried Belgian lambics years ago and the current trendy ones are no better to me.

bbkobabe said:
My wife prefers our local favorite, Lagunitas, which is available nationally. She loves their Maximus, a dupa (double IPA) that clocks in at 8% abv. A bit much for me since I usually like to indulge in a few at a time....Drakes Denoginizer dupa is probably my favorite local beer...
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Love Lagunitas Brown Shugga and it's derivatives, and Denoginizer is one of my go-tos.

Here in Santa Cruz Discretion Brewing makes good stouts and IPAs. Also Humble Sea Brewing has good beer.

Back in Marin Co., Iron Springs Brewery's Casey Jones IPA and their Kent Lake Kolsch are nice.
 
ploverwing said:
Good to know. I'd hate that.
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After thinking about this some more perhaps a better description would be is that it tastes like someone took Hersey syrup (which is artificial) and added it to the beer. It's like they tried too hard to push forward the chocolate flavor so there is no balance. It's an easy cash grab by pairing up with Hershey.

To be fair I'm not really a Hershey chocolate fan either. Once you've had good chocolate it's hard to go back. Similarly, once you've had a good chocolate porter or stout it makes that Hersey variation an abomination. I'll dig through my empties this weekend and see if I can find some others that I can recommend.
 
InTuneWithUke said:
To be fair I'm not really a Hershey chocolate fan either. Once you've had good chocolate it's hard to go back. Similarly, once you've had a good chocolate porter or stout it makes that Hersey variation an abomination.
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No, I don't either, frankly. I don't like most "candy" chocolate.
 
I'm Belgian, so I grew up with Belgian beers. The legal drinking age for beers / wine is 16, and 18 for liquors.
Many Belgian parents allow their children to do a bit of testing at home before they reach the minimum age they can and will get served in pubs. I liked cherry beers best, but there is a lot of difference between them (and I don't think I'd drink any of them nowadays). I do remember liking gueuze (lambic) in small quantities.
I later moved on to tripel (Westmalle. Orval) and for lighter drinking witbier (Hoegaarden or Brugse Witte). My nan liked IPA, but I never appreciated until I moved to the UK. Many Belgian beers are now over-carbonated, I think. I didn't like Duvel when I lived in Belgium. Now I really enjoy it. Whenever I visit, I check out which beers are past their expiry date and help clearing them. I leave the Guinness, since my brother-I-L loves the cans, and my mum uses the bottles in her stews.
When I was in the US, I mostly drank Yuengling and beers from the Dogfish Head brewery, and some Canadian brews from Unibroue.
 
I was a Guiness gal for years, what can I say I love classics. Lately I’ve been into Boddington’s Cream Ale which has been frustratingly hard to find of late.
Enjoy Stiegl having lived in Austria, and when I visited Poland I also ended up really liking their beers: Warka, Zwiec, etc. They are priced really reasonably too.
I’m not into crazy flavours, but any good local microbrewery is always up my alley as well.
 
We frequently have to pick up trash along our stretch of road. For some reason, I’m slightly less bothered when I have to pick up a can from a local brewery vs. A national brand.
 
Red Oak Brewery is about 10 miles from here and they make a really enjoyable dark beer called Black Oak. I like heavy dark stouts, porters and such. Everyone has their own taste and I won't put them down for it. I detest all the hoppy stuff they brew now. Sour beer just isn't right. I'd rather drink Busch that sat opened for a few days than either hoppy or sour. As at least I know why it tastes bad.

Thankfully OldScruggs said Yuengling which I will drank before stuff like Bud or Coors. Was afraid he would recommend Iron City! (Shudder)

Also some of the high test stuff that after I choke down a couple of 8% and above I can't taste what I am drinking.
 
I heard someone once say, that drinking NASCAR beer is like making sweet love in a canoo!

It's fxxxing close to water 😅

Anyway. In Denmark lager is in most taps, hhome of the Carlsberg beer, but craft beer is readily available. I can do with a lager now and then to quench a thirst, but gravitate towards brown ales and stouts.

For IPAs I prefer the lighter session IPAs.

Weissbier is for me best ice cold on a hot summer day. Not something I would go for in the winter.

I dislike:
-Sour beer
-Blonde beer, just because of the danger of high alcohol percent without the bite of a stout to hold me back.
 
Patty said:
Guinness Extra Stout is my current B33R tipple. I have a onesie just before dinner. I like the harp on the bottle cap.* A product of Ireland, like my forebears.

*I don’t like beer in cans.
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Wel raise a glass to St Patrick today then! ☘️
 
UkingViking said:
I heard someone once say, that drinking NASCAR beer is like making sweet love in a canoo!

It's fxxxing close to water 😅

Anyway. In Denmark lager is in most taps, hhome of the Carlsberg beer, but craft beer is readily available. I can do with a lager now and then to quench a thirst, but gravitate towards brown ales and stouts.

For IPAs I prefer the lighter session IPAs.

Weissbier is for me best ice cold on a hot summer day. Not something I would go for in the winter.

I dislike:
-Sour beer
-Blonde beer, just because of the danger of high alcohol percent without the bite of a stout to hold me back.
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I think we'll get along just fine. 🍻
 
Not a fan of flavored beers, lemony, summer beers that many put out. I generally like a good lager, a Foster's oil can never disappoints. But, the New England style juicy/hazy IPAs have gotten my attention lately. We live near Treehouse Brewery, which seems to always have 10-15 of the top rated IPAs in well known beer ratings. It is good stuff, their flagship Julius IPA is great. Recently was in VT, and stopped at the Alchemist, grabbed some of their Heady Topper double IPA, which is somewhat legendary in beer circles. It is very unique, tasty and complex, but I never want more than one can, as to me, any more than one starts to taste overpowering.

Oh, and even on St Patrick's Day, any green beer is an abomination, ugh.
 
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I'll reiterate Yuengling if you can find it. Sounds Asian but brewed in Pottsville, Pennsylvania USA. It always cracks me up when servers somewhat indignantly respond to my beverage order with, "Sorry, hun, but ma' boss doan buy no Asian stuff.". The Pottsville original location is our nation's oldest constantly operating brewery.

I've tried IPA's, always to my disappointment. Maybe my taste buds are just built this way but I prefer lager if available, stout (bitter) if not, porter as a far third choice, and ice water if none of that happens to be on hand. Yuengling Black and Tan is a bold, tasty mix of porter/ lager flavors.

I have no affiliation with any brewery and, as a lifelong Baptist, only recently stopped avoiding acquaintances in liquor stores:).
 
Supporting local business with a daily double from Sun King Brewery.

Weigh Down the Earth, rye dopplebock:
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Diddy Muckle, Scotch ale:
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At 12.5% and 12.9% ABV, respectively, these pack a nice punch. Hence the 10oz sniffer glasses.
 
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