sorry for the late post.

Thats an interesting thing to think of, we do have good water quality.
M yes i remeber seeing Fat Tire recently, ill have to try it sometime.

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I like Yuengling's Black and Tan or Lager.

It's never a bad time to bump the beer thread!

I have recently discovered a small Scottish brewery called Brewdog (http://www.brewdog.com) and am gradually becoming acquainted with their range. They have a great website and have made short videos about many of their beers, which are quite amusing/informative - this one tells how they made the (at the time) world's strongest beer:

http://www.brewdog.com/tactical_nuclear_penguin

Oooo...beer thread. Thanks for bumping, Pips.

This summer I had a great apricot ale. It became my favorite summer ale. It's a sweeter beer, but very refreshing and perfect for hanging out on a patio or porch on a hot, sunny day.

I've also discovered Kawartha Lakes Brewery's Cream Ale, which is very good. Cream ale's tend to be my favorite beer type, but not many companies make a cream ale, so when I find one I tend to try it. Usually I'm satisfied.

I've also been drinking Abbot Ale, which I think is English. It comes in tall cans, and is very good.

Wow! Apricot ale sounds heavenly.

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"Pete's Wicked Strawberry blonde" was pretty great when i had it. kind of forgot about it till now. i used to drink "Heavy Seas' Loose Cannon" a pretty good bit. it's a Maryland beer (where i'm from). i think they distribute to most of the east coast. i can pretty much drink anything though and, that's not always much of an attribute the next day. as far as low-down cheap beer i will give "Pabst Blue Ribbon" some props for not being horrible.

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This week I bought these beers, none of which I have tried before:



The second from the left is Scottish and matured in old whisky barrels. All the rest are from two breweries in Norfolk, the county in the east of England where I grew up. (It is agricultural and sleepy with not much industry - so the typical jokes are about farmers, tractors, and people marrying their cousins.)

*beer and geography tutorial ends*

Are there any jokes that combine all three elements?

Not to my knowledge, but if you can make one up I'll save you one of those beers

Another recommendation: Beez Neez honey wheat beer (also first tried in Perth, WA... I detect a pattern here...)

http://www.matildabay.com.au/our-beer/beez-neez (though turn off your speakers first)

Beer! I am living in Melbourne and working my way through the Aussie beer catalogue...

Carlton Draught - blech
Boag's Draught - okay (especially at pub triva night when we win free jugs)
James Squire's amber ale - quite nice
James Squire's golden ale - very nice
Little Creatures pale ale - one of the best!
Fat Yak pale ale - very nice
Sleeping Giant IPA - okay

I saw a tiny homebrew kit at K-Mart; am considering a tiny homebrew experiment.

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Great article in the newspaper today on craft breweries, or How The Americans Are Coming!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/jun/24/american-craft-beer-hippest-hops

Lots of interesting beer facts and links to good breweries in the comments below too.

I don't know the name, but the monks in austria once a year make a christmas beer that is extremely smooth but potent.....along the lines of a good whiskey. After one of these, my german ex wife filled her large beer mug with puke....when I went to put her in the car, I dropped her and she rolled about 100 meters down the side of the mountain before I could get to her....
They also breed awesome st. bernards....
yes, really

I've been very happy with Wisconsin microbreweries.. Plus giants such as Miller and Schlitz and countless others are hailing from Milwaukee - a huge freshwater supply over there.. Those who have a chance to visit stop by at a local gas station and get some Spotted Cow by New Glarus Brewery. This farmhouse ale is pretty unique and very drinkable, perfectly cloudy. A little sweet but still, good brew (:

I like beer. I think I like good wine more but it's not something I can always afford. I like dark, full-flavoured beers, stouts, ports, ambers. I also like pale ales. I think it's an acquired taste. I love black coffee so getting past the bitterness was never an issue for me. So far my favourite is Guinness Extra Stout. I am sure there are better stouts over there but this one can be found almost anywhere and it has a very good flavour. Not as bubbly and smooooth as the most popular brand of Guinness, it has a little more character to it, I think. I can't help but feel like a sailor when I drink it. I love the foam on my mustache (when I have it).

I just think beer is the ultimate folk drink.. It shouldn't be too expensive and it shouldn't be for sipping. It must be gulped, drank plenty from big glasses and accompanied by hearty foods and snacks.

This is a good thread. And, damn, INFP's are witty...very very witty...

First off, commercial american beer has an aftertaste that makes me gag. I avoid it like the plague.

That being said, here are my favs: Guinness (on tap), Chimay Blue, Fat Tire.

Unfortunately, there are so many beers out there that I am sure that if I had the time and money my favs would most likely change over time...if they do I will revisit the thread to update my choices.

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pretty regional to the pacific northwest and BC, but...



I'm not really much of a beer drinker in general, but If I have a beer this is what I'm having.

Since this thread began my beer tastes have changed somewhat because I have both discovered craft breweries and also started doing my own homebrewing.

Craft breweries in the UK are still quite new and are nowhere near as widespread as in the USA. It has been quite interesting to embark upon such a big learning curve and this has been greatly aided by Twitter, where following one person or brewery tends to lead to another three or four useful links.

As for homebrewing, this is leading my palate in new directions I never suspected it was capable of going, one example being Russian Imperial Stouts. WHAT a discovery! I have to admit that I thought that stouts began and ended with Guinness, with perhaps the odd Guinness substitute such as Murphy's or that other Irish one, all of which are OK but don't really set the world on fire in my opinion. Previously I would have said that as far as stout is concerned I could take it or leave it and could certainly have gone ten years without having a pint of Guinness. Enter the Russian Imperial Stout... I suppose I didn't realise that a style of beer was 'allowed' to differ so much from the benchmark style. Or to put it another way, I suppose I knew very little about beer and had/have a lot still to find out.

As I write, we have 5 gallons of imperial stout homebrew aging on bourbon-soaked oak chips and cacao nibs in a fermentation bin underneath the windowledge (we have high hopes for this one!). I am also currently drinking some of this beer, which I got as a take-out at a beer festival yesterday:

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/13307/70609

To borrow an expression from another thread: Beer, you rock!