What's your favorite beers of all time?

vansmith · May 2, 2013

McBie said:
I thought this was about beer !
Living in " Beer " country myself, Chimay, Orval, Maredsous are a couple of my favourites.

Difficult to decide with more than 200 local beers to choose from.

Cheers ... McBie

The Dutchman in me wants to inform you that you live next door to beer country. It's ok, we all make mistakes.

McBie · May 2, 2013

I think we have to agree to disagree.
The Dutch always confuse pils with beer.....but they are much better than us in selling their point.

louishen · May 2, 2013

I am more of an ale man, so Bishops Finger, Spitfire and London pride are staples, along with the occasional Guinness.

But I must say that since the recent influx of Poles to the area I have tried a few Polish beers, and must say that Tyskie is a great tasting Polish lager, miles apart from the more insipid British largers, and the rather dull Stellar Artois.

I would recommend Polish beers to anyone, don't be put off by the fact it is fairly cheap.

vansmith · May 2, 2013

McBie said:
I think we have to agree to disagree.
The Dutch always confuse pils with beer.....but they are much better than us in selling their point.

I don't actually care - most beers coming out of Europe are pretty decent.

louishen said:
I would recommend Polish beers to anyone, don't be put off by the fact it is fairly cheap.

The word cheap was supposed to dissuade me in the first place?

Germany_chris · May 3, 2013

McBie said:
I thought this was about beer !
Living in " Beer " country myself, Chimay, Orval, Maredsous are a couple of my favourites.

Difficult to decide with more than 200 local beers to choose from.

Cheers ... McBie

This is my least favorite beer..

I'm not a fan of Belgian or French beers.

Germany_chris · May 3, 2013

Dysfunction said:
Here, I just order 'pils', 'weiße', 'schwarzbier', etc.. I get whatever is poured most that way

viele Grüße aus Mainz

My problem is I work in Stuttgart, and Schwäbisch beer is hard to get to know, it's taken me 3+ years to get familiar. My wife is Frankonian so my first beers after moving here were Frankish so that is the standard I use to judge, rightly or wrongly. Schwäbisch and Frankonian beers couldn't be more different.

Dysfunction · May 4, 2013

Germany_chris said:
My problem is I work in Stuttgart, and Schwäbisch beer is hard to get to know, it's taken me 3+ years to get familiar. My wife is Frankonian so my first beers after moving here were Frankish so that is the standard I use to judge, rightly or wrongly. Schwäbisch and Frankonian beers couldn't be more different.

I believe it! Of course, I used to live in Augsburg ;D

Germany_chris · May 5, 2013

Augsburg in the Oberpfaltz or by Stuttgart?

TattooedMac · May 5, 2013

For me, not a big drinker now, only when i find beer worth knocking back, but when i was working in Deutschland i rather liked the Beer that came from the East, Bavaria area. Every Village had their own Brewery, or close enough.
I did stay in a little village called Schwabmünchen which was 50-60kms West of Munich and use to eat in this restaurant there that to this day had the best food i have ever eaten. Swordfish was to die for, followed by Calzone, but i was introduced to a beer called Franziskaner Weissbier and Ohhhhh how i miss it.

Was sweet, hoppy and when pouring the bottle into the glass, getting down to the last inch, with all the sediment, you swirled it around in the bottle and literally through it into the glass where is mixed with the beer in there, giving a good head, and making it this golden cloudy god given nectar …….. Im salivating thinking about it, and i have to this day, not found anything remotely like it

I will drink any Weissbier now though. Its got me hooked

Dysfunction · May 5, 2013

Germany_chris said:
Augsburg in the Oberpfaltz or by Stuttgart?

Schwaben.

Germany_chris · May 5, 2013

TattooedMac said:
For me, not a big drinker now, only when i find beer worth knocking back, but when i was working in Deutschland i rather liked the Beer that came from the East, Bavaria area. Every Village had their own Brewery, or close enough.
I did stay in a little village called Schwabmünchen which was 50-60kms West of Munich and use to eat in this restaurant there that to this day had the best food i have ever eaten. Swordfish was to die for, followed by Calzone, but i was introduced to a beer called Franziskaner Weissbier and Ohhhhh how i miss it.

Was sweet, hoppy and when pouring the bottle into the glass, getting down to the last inch, with all the sediment, you swirled it around in the bottle and literally through it into the glass where is mixed with the beer in there, giving a good head, and making it this golden cloudy god given nectar …….. Im salivating thinking about it, and i have to this day, not found anything remotely like it

I will drink any Weissbier now though. Its got me hooked

I agree Franziskaner is good stuff.

jt1968 · May 5, 2013

Germany_chris said:
I agree Franziskaner is good stuff.

I agree, Franziskaner is good. I also like Spaten (from Munchen), or any good German or Japanese dark beer. Most American beers look like watered-down deer urine, and many taste like what I would imagine deer urine to taste like. The only American beer I like is Samuel Adams, specifically their Winter Lager and their Oktoberfest beers. But nothing beats a good German beer!

Deutschland hat am besten Bier!

TattooedMac · May 5, 2013

jt1968 said:
Deutschland hat am besten Bier!

Das ist so wahr . . . .

RavingMac · May 5, 2013

Less filling . . . :Angry-Tongue:

Germany_chris · May 6, 2013

jt1968 said:
I agree, Franziskaner is good. I also like Spaten (from Munchen), or any good German or Japanese dark beer. Most American beers look like watered-down deer urine, and many taste like what I would imagine deer urine to taste like. The only American beer I like is Samuel Adams, specifically their Winter Lager and their Oktoberfest beers. But nothing beats a good German beer!

Deutschland hat am besten Bier!

Relative to what? Mass produced American beer?

Germans make some great beer, but so do Americans, Brits, Turks, Moroccans, Italians etc.

For mass produced German beer I don'r care much for Spaten, but I do like Paulaner. I like Bitburger but not Warsteiner, or Krombacher. I tend to like English darks over German darks the exception being Winker Bräu Bock.

The only thing I like without exception is political punk, and Nietzsche. I'd argue that Nietzsche is political punk to the mid to late 1800's

RavingMac · May 6, 2013

. . . Tastes great! :Angry:

To those of you under forty my last two posts (and perhaps most of my posts) won't mean a thing.

Germany_chris · May 7, 2013

RavingMac said:
. . . Tastes great!

To those of you under forty my last two posts (and perhaps most of my posts) won't mean a thing.

You gotta give us under 40's some credit

RavingMac · May 7, 2013

Didn't realize they actually redid this not all that long ago, regardless, a link to the originals.
Miller Lite Older Commercial Bloopers - YouTube

TattooedMac · May 7, 2013

RavingMac said:
. . . Tastes great!

To those of you under forty or from Australia my last two posts (and perhaps most of my posts) won't mean a thing.

There fixed it for you

RavingMac · May 7, 2013

TattooedMac said:
There fixed it for you

You are, of course, correct. I tend to forget that commercials aren't universal. I never realized till toward the end that the I'm a Mac commercials were different around the world.

Anyway, Brent my good friend, can't say you really missed all that much by getting a pass on the Less filling/Tastes Great commercials.

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