ok..lets all act like adults ..whats your favorite brew?..if anyone posts coors light i will puke!..almost forgot mine..summer time..any good hefe-weizen..fall/winter..sammy smiths nut brown ale..spring/...smithwicks irish ale..rest of year..any one not made by miller.bud..coors...etc etc...

hmmm....some of mine include:

Fat Tire

Black Butte Porter

Dos Equis

Widmer Hefeweizen

fat tire..black butte..local stuff matt?..ive had widmer..good hefe..ever have rogue hazlenut?

Magic Hat: #9 and Fat Angel, Bodingtons, Harpoon IPA, and in the summer its always nice to have a Sam Summer or a Blue Moon while sitting outside at the local pub

Hi Nick,

You must be a NW guy because you have good taste in beer. Those are some of my favorites as well. If you like Fat Tire, you should check out Dick's Tripel. It's a belgian style beer that is really smooth and really strong. I think is is brewed in Washington. I too like Black Butte Porter and Spaten Dark. On a hot summer day nothing is more refreshing than a McMennamins Ruby.

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Cheers,

John Wanderscheid

Ahhhh..so john,,us guys here in the NE dont know good beer from coors huh?..took a noreaster to start this thread didnt it?...LoL

of course their is always some specialty or small brew that rocks but Killians is the beer I always seem to enjoy on a regular basis

John-

yes, I am from the NW....south of Salem.

I forgot all about my favorite brews from McMenamins. Actually, I like most of them....

Living just a few miles from Milwaukee, WI -  I wish I could say my favorite beer was some sort of Miller product, but it's not.  I do enjoy Highlife in mass quanities, but when it comes down to great taste I would have to say my favorites are:

1. Heineken

2. Blue Moon

3. A nearby brewery -- New Glarus Fat Squirrel

4. Spaten

Funny how blue moon has turned up more than once..and i hate to admit it aint bad..but it is made by coors..now killians???!! ...hmmmmm...welllllll..this thread shows how we all differ in taste..tonight im having Acme Brown ale from cal..

Hi Rich,

No disrespect to our friends in the NE. You guys have some great beers up there as well and I have to give you props for starting the thread. Our engineer is a true micro brew conniseur so I would expect him to weigh in next week when he is back from vacation (probably sampling a few new ones this week if I know him) so he should have some fresh picks.

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Cheers,

John Wanderscheid

hey John..i was just busting you!!..i like to try lots of different beers and the guy i buy from always has stuff from the west coast..saw your post about golf..we have some nice ones here too but got to admit the ones on the pacific look really awesome..maybe i can send you a couple of beers and a bucket of sand from a trap here..lol...RichG

Okay, I can't resist any longer...have to give some props to you Rich for starting the thread..

My favorites currently:

Lagunitas Czech Pilsner

Deschuttes Black butte Porter

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

Sam Smiths Oatmeal Stout

On a really hot summer day, PBR. Nothing beats it.

 

..i thought this site needed a little more spice and fun Ben..i think we all some really fond memory or maybe not so fond one while throwing back a brew or 2..Sierra...always been one of my favs..Sammy Smiths is like a meal in a bottle..heaven!..i have to check into if i can get that black butte here...cheers!!!..just for more info..what do guys prefer ..more malty or hoppy??

Being described on our site as a “Microbrew Aficionado” there seems no way to avoid this “brew ha ha”.

 

But I’d be delighted to list my favorite brews anyway.  My tastes in beer (unlike my tastes is speakers I should add) is unsubtle, bold and in one’s face.  My top five right now:

1)     Rogue’s Imperial Stout from Oregon.  It was made in 7 oz bottles.  The faint-of-heart were found searching for friend’s to help them share one of these.

2)     Sam Adam’s Triple Boch.  If you’ve written Sam Adams off as a Micro-Coors you need to find one of these.  Actually a step up the ladder from the Rogue.

3)     Dogfish Head’s 90 Minute IPA from Delaware.  It’s supposed to last 90 minutes but it’s never worked that way for me.

4)     Hawk's Russian Imperial Stout from Roseburg Oregon.  Hawk’s style is very smooth but huge and rich.  Let one of these evaporate in your glass and marvel at what’s left.

5)     Hopasaurus Rex made by Steelhead in my hometown of Eugene Oregon.  It’s an over-the-top-hoppy IPA in the style the NW is famous for.

 

So it’s pretty obvious that I live in Beer Heaven.  What a happy coincidence!

 

What about a slammin’ yard-beer you might ask?  For me, it’s Spaten Pils, Becks (yup!) or Pilsner Urquell.  So why can’t we Americans beat the Euros in the Pilsner category like we do with the big beers?  Here we are after work contemplating this very question:

 

 

Ken