Top 5 best beers in your opinion.

grenache

splashthecash wrote: »

I saw the thread listing the top 5 worst beers and got wondering if everyone is giving out about nearly every beer....what is left that people think is nice?

I'm no beer snob, personally I'll drink pretty much anything (except a couple which were mentioned, dutch, hollandia, sol) but I do have a few that I think are really nice

Tiger (probably my favourite beer!)
Singha
Heineken
Corona

What else should I be adding to my list??

If you dont mind me asking, how can you like Tiger AND Corona? Tiger is a very tasty beer but Corona is bland generic flavourless gunk.

My top 5 would be:

1. Blue Moon
2. Svyturys Baltas Wheat
3. Okocim Mocne
4. Goose Island IPA
5. Moosehead Lager

Krusty_Clown

Bit of a mixed bag, but these are my current favourites:
Brewdog Hardcore IPA
Delerium Tremens
Speakeasy Prohibition Ale
Samichlaus
Anchor Humming Ale

Black Sheep

A very tough question. I will cheat.

Not all of these are in order of preference, but some of them are.

TOP 5 ALES

1. Metalman Windjammer
2. Dungarvan Brewing Co. Helvic Gold
3. Galway Hooker
4. Trade Winds
5. Sharps Atlantic IPA

TOP 5 STOUTS

1. O'Hara's Leann Folainn
2. Dark Arts Trouble Brewing
3. Portherhouse Wrasslers
4. Dungarvan Brewing Co. Black Rock
5. Porterhouse Plain

TOP 5 LAGERS

1. Harviestoun Schiehallion
2. Porterhouse Vienna Dark Lager
3. Brooklyn Lager
4. Porterhouse Hersbrucker Pilsner
5. Sam Smith pure brewed lager

Ruben Remus

As people have already pointed out, this is a very difficult question to answer definitively. As a result, I'm going to limit my response to the beers I've enjoyed most over the last month or so.

In no particular order:

Trouble Brewing Dark Arts (on cask)
Galway Hooker
Metalman Windjammer
La Trappe Quadrupel
Speakeasy Big Daddy IPA

wytch

Löwenbräu
erdinger weissbier
heineken
tsingtao
becks

BaZmO*

That's like picking your favourite child!

Hard choice and it changes constantly, but so far it'd look a little something this....

1. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (My 'go to' beer)
2. Absolutely love the beers from Odell Brewing Co. Their Cut Throat Porter, Red Ale & St. Lupulin would be my favourites from their range
3. Dungarvan Helvick Gold (the nicest out of their 3)
4. Porterhouse Red on draught
5. Goose Island IPA

Special mentions go to Harviestoun's Bitter & Twisted, Brooklyn Lager and of course, one of my all time favourite bottled beers which is sadly no longer available, Aldi's Traditional Ale.

LaBaguette

Tough question. As of now, let's say...

- Tripel Karmeliet. For me, it's simple the best blond beer. The 3 grains give it a unique flavour that I can't resist.
- Kaastel Bruin. So dark it has an almost sweet, chocolaty taste, but still has a strong body.
- Porterhouse HopHead on tap. Perhaps it's because I don't know many Irish beers, but I think they have a lot of excellent stuff. The fruity bitterness of HopHead is really nice.
- Chimay. Red over Blue, most of the time.
- Westmalle Tripel. Second best blond beer. Amazing grain flavour.


I would name each of the 7 trappist beers and a few others, but these are probably among my all-time favorite !

daveyeh

Corona
Budweiser
Heineken
Becks
Bavaria

neilthefunkeone

1. Guinness
2. O'Haras IPA
3. Anchor Steam(all varieties)
4. Innis & Gunn
5. Fruh


Guinness and O'haras are solid.. The rest are open to change.. just current favourites!

helimachoptor

For me

Cobra
Heineken
Carlsberg
I like a lot of Spanish beers


And thats it

Cill Dara Abu

Budweiser
Heineken
Guinness

Anything else is ****e!

osullic

1.Crown Larger
2.Kirin
3.Ashai
4.Tiger
5.Victoria Bitter

the beer revolu

It's getting hard to tell the best beer thread from the worst beer thread.

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Budweiser
Heineken
Guinness

Anything else is ****e!

You have, of course, tasted the hundreds of beers beers mentioned in this thread to know that they're all ****e?

Or do you just 'know' this from your huge life experience?

Paparazzo

Anything from the Belgium section in Redmonds.
Tripel Karmeliet
westmalle dubbel
Rochefort 10
Duvel
Staropramen

Mary28

At the moment I'm drinking:

Duvel
Chimay blue
Leffe - 3 diff types, can't remember the names & too lazy to look in the bottle bank bag it the kitchen.
Palm

I didn't drink much beer for a few yrs but in Belgium at the mo and these beers are about the only things going for this country.

the beer revolu

Mary28 wrote: »

I didn't drink much beer for a few yrs but in Belgium at the mo and these beers are about the only things going for this country.

What about fantastic chippers, waffles, amazing chocolate, great bread, moulle frites and generally really good supermarkets and restaurants?
Safe, clean streets? Good public transport? Ladies in windows? It's all good.

At least that was my experience in Antwerp.

Paparazzo

the beer revolu wrote: »

What about fantastic chippers, waffles, amazing chocolate, great bread, moulle frites and generally really good supermarkets and restaurants?
Safe, clean streets? Good public transport? Ladies in windows? It's all good.

At least that was my experience in Antwerp.

Belgium is the most underrated country in the world.

donnacha

out of the beers I've tasted recently ...

1. Hook Norton Twelve Days
2. O'Haras Stout (Draught)
3. Brooklyn Local 1
4. Anchor Porter
5. Great Divide Hibernation Ale

Hightower86

My five favourite beers would be:

Becks
Erdinger
Stella Artois
Grolsch
Tyskie

Its a pity they dont have some of these on tap in most pubs, end up having to drink a bland lager like Carlsberg/Budweiser etc Find the German beers dont cause a bad hangover the morning after either..

Dahtac

Hightower86 wrote: »

Find the German beers dont cause a bad hangover the morning after either..

Wish I could say that. I love my German beers but bah...morning after

RichieC

1. Old Engine oil. pretty much encapsulates good drinking, imo)
2. Duvel
3. Chimay grande reserve
4. Chimay Red
5. la trappe Dubbel


2-5 could be in any order, I love em all.

LaBaguette

RichieC wrote: »

3. Chimay grande reserve

... which is in fact Chimay Bluejust like the 500 and Première are White and Red

Also, not every Belgian town is as clean as Antwerp (or as wealthy, indeed) ^^

problemchimp

5 pints of Guinness please!!!!!!!!!!

Molloys Clondalkin

donnacha wrote: »

out of the beers I've tasted recently ...

1. Hook Norton Twelve Days
2. O'Haras Stout (Draught)
3. Brooklyn Local 1
4. Anchor Porter
5. Great Divide Hibernation Ale

Can I ask what did you think of Brooklyn Local ?

donnacha

Molloys Clondalkin wrote: »

Can I ask what did you think of Brooklyn Local ?

Really fruity, and strong on the nose. Probably the best Brooklyn brew I've ever tried. I wouldn't normally be a fan of this brewery - especially from tasting some of their other brews. I bought a bottle of summer ale recently which was awful.

sham69

Bishops Finger
Guinness
Bitburger
Old Speckled Hen
Krombacher

Grayditch

Cannot get enough of this stuff. Well... I can... otherwise we'd have a wee problem.

bobbysands81

My 5 aren't in order of preference and are always likely to change...

1. Guinness.
2. Pint Bottle Bulmers.
3. Schneider-Weisse Tap 6 (Aventinus).
4. Draught Paulaner.
5. Copper Coast Ale.

Conor_M1990

Ive never heard of half these beers metioned

BaZmO*

Conor_M1990 wrote: »

Ive never heard of half these beers metioned

Lucky you. Now you get to try them!

Technocentral

Conor_M1990 wrote: »

Ive never heard of half these beers metioned

It depends on how interested in beer you are I suppose, I've no interest in cars for instance so couldn't tell you anything about them but I love beer so am open to new ones all the time, I would recommend this excellent book to start you on your journey it lists around 1700 beers and is great value for money:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beer-Book-Tim-Hampson/dp/1405333014/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307969961&sr=8-1

Newtown Warrior

1) Hoegaarden
2) Bishops Finger
3) Fanziskaner
4) Guinness
5) Erdinger

BeerNut

Technocentral wrote: »

I would recommend this excellent book to start you on your journey it lists around 1700 beers and is great value for money

For 92p more there's this one. It has Irish stuff by me in it, but don't let that put you off.

oblivious

BeerNut wrote: »

For 92p more there's this one. It has Irish stuff by me in it, but don't let that put you off.

I can recommended it, nice book

ciaran76

I couldnt pick 5 beers as my top as my tastes change with the weather.

Some days I crave a hoppy beer the next it could be a malty type.

Its almost like picking a favourite child ! (Its you junior ciaran76 if you are reading this)

Grayditch

Tried Paulaner for the first time tonight.



Mmmmmmm, banana.

kevohmsford

Spaten
Hofbrau
Miller High Life
Augustiner Brau
Samuel Adams

gerrybbadd

Bhrama
Heineken
Grolsch
Carlsberg
Sol

Honourable mention for Miller High Life also,

dublincelt

1. Brooklyn Lager
2. Adnams Innovation
3. Leffe Brun
4. Sierra Nevada India Pale Ale
5. Belfast Black

rossie1977

not a beer expert by any means but my current favs include

1. Hoegaarden
2. Paulaner
3. sam adams boston lager
4. König Ludwig dunkel
5. guinness draft (stuff in cans and bottles :mad:)

irish_goat

Anyone tried Pliny the Younger (Russian River brewing company)?

Comes out top of the beeradvocate list anyway. http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/863/21690

BeerNut

I think the fact that it's exceedingly rare has something to do with its exceptional rating.

Pliny the Elder is lovely, but again I dunno about the best-in-class category.

Harrocks

Coors
Cobra
Spitfire
Kroneburg 1664
Guiness the Tucan brew off a few years back boys i loved that stuff.
Smithwicks

Antrim_Man

Guinness draught only
Stella Artois cans or draught not bottles
Tyskie
Bishops Finger
Amstel draught or bottles in Holland

foxyboxer

Paulaner
Draught Guinness
Bottled Peroni
Draught Blarney Blonde from the Franciscan Well
Bottled Heineken - Draught is muck.

kingtut

In no particular order:
Duvel
Heineken
Miller
Hoegaarden
Stella Artois

If I could pick a sixth it would be Orval.

dutch1 wrote: »

2. Duvel - Looks like a medicine bottle but love the 8% kick off it, not reccomended to drink it after drinking a different beer before it.

Duvel is 8.5% :cool:

the beer revolu

kingtut wrote: »

In no particular order:
Duvel
Heineken
Miller
Hoegaarden
Stella Artois

If I could pick a sixth it would be Orval.

You'd put Stella and Miller above Orval yet you like Orval???????confused
Now that's just strange.

kingtut

the beer revolu wrote: »

You'd put Stella and Miller above Orval yet you like Orval???????confused
Now that's just strange.

*cough* I said "In no particular order" *cough*
Orval was the last one that came to mind so I just put it at the bottom. If it was a which tastes nicest it would be fighting for 1st place with Duvel

Only Stella Artois and Leffe are made in the brewery I work in :cool:

rossie1977

anyone here tried Franziskaner Weissbier?? i saw it in lidl yesterday for about €1.70 for a 500ml bottle but didn't take the gamble, only when i got home i saw it got decent ratings on beeradvocate

Antrim_Man

rossie1977 wrote: »

anyone here tried Franziskaner Weissbier?? i saw it in lidl yesterday for about €1.70 for a 500ml bottle but didn't take the gamble, only when i got home i saw it got decent ratings on beeradvocate

Lidl's Grafenwelder Weissbeir tastes almost the same and is cheaper.