Let's talk beer!

You guys dont know what you're missing, black and tans, half and half's, blacksmiths. Go back to your bud lights. Don't make me find the toucan guinness bird.

I found a good reason why Guinness is just damn cool:

I live down the street from Great Lakes Brewery so I always have great fresh seasonals on hand.

Session Beers:
Red Stripe (by the pint bottle)
Moosehead (I've always liked it more than Stella, most of my friends dissagree)
Yeah they're cheap macro lagers, but at least they're good macro lagers
Sierra Nevada IPA
When I'm with the RX-7 guys its Killians

My dinner beers:
Heavy Seas Winter Storm
Brooklyn Brewery Dark Chocolate Stout (gets ya drunk fast!)
Abita Turbodog
Guinness Extra Stout (for the irish car bombs, as well)
Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout
Anything Great Lakes

and that's really all I do regularly. Occasionally I'll have something weird and then forget about it.

Have any of you guys had Corsendonk Brown Ale before? It's high dollar stuff, but it's damn tasty. It's been awhile since I've had one, but if I remember correctly it's brewed with raisins and chocolate.

Dude, did you see my list of beers at the top? I'd hardly qualify as a typical "Bud Light" drinker.

Guinness is okay, but there are better choices for B/T and H/H. To be honest, people who don't know shit about beer talk Guinness up like it's the greatest, but most of the time it fails. It's not bad, but in STL the frat boys tried to invade all the good spots and "act" like they know about beer. You can always spot them by the signature 'cringe' downing their Guinness and their faint cries for Golden Tee.

Besides, Bud at the factory and Bud on the shelf are totally different. It's like drinking Natty Ice and then your Guinness. No comparison!

^ Actually I prefer smithwicks, but I'm also liking shiner bock right now. But if I went thru all the local brews I like you guys haven't even heard of so its not worth it.

Fuck that, name them!

Try this site: beergeek.biz

Good site where you can order about 80% of US/world beers. You would be surprised at what we/I drink. I know 2ndGen has a buddy who brews a chocolate stout that is supposed to be dy-no-mite!

No. Local beer place here has mix and match 6 packs though so if they have it I'll pick it up.

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I seriously doubt you'll find it in a mix and match pack. It's got a higher alcohol content than most beers and, like I said, it's kind of high dollar stuff. I haven't bought any for a while now, but when I was drinking it it came in 4 packs or singles only. The bottles are also larger that your "normal" beer. Not 40 oz. style, but more than 12 oz.

If they don't have it, they can order it.

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I don't fancy myself as a beer connoisseur, but I know what I like. I went through a dark beer stage when I was younger and discovered Corsendonk to be on the top of my list of quality beers. I never liked Guinness much not due to the taste so much as due to the fact that I could drink one Guinness and my stomach felt like I had just ate a huge ribeye with all the fixins'. Corensonk isn't that heavy to me so I was able to enjoy a few of them before I had to switch to something lighter.



On a side note, I noticed that no one mentioned the New Belgium brewery. With all the college guys on this forum I figured at least one of you would mention Fat Tire or Sunshine Wheat.........

By the looks of it I will probably be the only one that likes it, but I find Black Dog's Honey Raspberry ale to be extremely tasty also.

I tried this Raspberry beer a few months back. It was in a bottle that had a old fashioned baseball player on the label and the cap resembled a baseball with the stitches and such. It was mightily delicious.

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Fat Tire is pretty good. I'm not a fan of it in a bottle, but tap is pretty tasty. As for Cornesonk, it probably comes in a 16.9oz bottle/500mL bottle.

As for fruit beer, if you like lemon try a "Raddler" style beer. It's brewed with half lager-half lemon soda. You can actually drink it when you're thirsty. Krombacher is the only style that I really dig. It's a good thing to have around for a beach day and/or the women your life.

These days I like to drink Corona with real limes during the hot days. It's not heavy at all and is actually quite refreshing whilst floating in teh pool. And I'm not a big fan of lemon anything really so lemon beers don't appeal to me at all.

I've never really liked anything by new belgium.
I used to buy "1554" all the time thinking I liked it, 'till I actually thought about it and I really didn't. lol.

Heavy sea's small craft warning is another one I forgot to mention liking when I can get it.

Can't stand any mexican beer.

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If I was stranded on a desert island and could only have one kind of beer it'd be dogfish head 120min IPA.

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