Whats your Favourite Beer?

kaimera

smithwicks is the pint of choice.
the odd guinness depending on where I go out.

Evil Phil

Heiniken or 1664 if I'm feeling expensive.

byte

Likes:
Smithwicks
Bulmers
Bergadler Pils (Lidl)
Stella Artois

I'd try most other beers, though absolutely detest Heineken.

irishboy99_

Staropramen (Czech Beer) €2.49 for a 500ml bottle @5% can't go wrong... on special offer in Tesco for only €1.99 a bottle

technobob

Heineken
Singah
Corona (strangely the girly lime makes all the difference)
Bulmers
Koppaberg

all very much likes

kenmc

Delirium Tremems, Duvel, Hoegaarden,Kwak, Piraat, Orval, Hoegaarden Grand Cru, Judas, Any of the Leffes, Kasteel, Wickse Witte, Barbar.
Any of these are fine fine beers. Damn I miss living in Holland, where they have a choice of decent beers in the supermarket.

Edit:
Oh yeah, and MGD is officially not beer. Proven in court. Read all about it.
http://www.readingeagle.com/berksblogs/archivedstories/1413813.asp.

From the article:
"But Sprecher ruled, in an order made available Tuesday, that prosecutors failed to prove Miller Genuine Draft is indeed beer."

Hardly a surprise TBH.

MonkeyTennis

Krusovice or Hoegaarden.

Corruptedmorals

Tuborg and Corona Extra.

The Sweeper

I've just tried a franziskaner weissbier on the reading of this thread... hmmm, eeeeeenteresteeeeeeng....

missingtime

Amstel is the best for when ur drinking at festivals or before heading out. Only 1.30 sumthin a can and its far from piss. Better than Harp in my opinion

Sarky

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

I've just tried a franziskaner weissbier on the reading of this thread... hmmm, eeeeeenteresteeeeeeng....

Was it poured properly?

Makes quite the difference, pouring a weissbier proper-like. Gets all the yeast back into the liquid, makes the head good and frothy.

According to Franziskaner themselves (If I recall correctly), the glass should be cold and just rinsed in water, still wet ideally. Beginning with a very shallow angle, pour it in smoothly and constantly until there's about an inch left in the bottle. Then give that a good swirling around to scoop up any settled yeast and froth it up a little before pouring it into the glass. The head should pile up over the rim of the glass.

Weissbier- How do you pour yours?

Dave

I have to say I'm quite partial to a nice cold bottle of Budvar if they bar has it.

memphis

Mine's a pint of Budweiser, will seldom drink anything else. Though my uncle gives me stick about it all the time saying that "it's like making love in a canoe... it's the nearest thing to water!"

When I'm in the nite club, due to many bad experience of bad pints, I'll stick to bottles of bud rather than pints, though lately i've found myself drinking alot of bottles of Miller in the nite club now!

mayordenis

franziskaner without a doubt

kenmc

memphis wrote:

"it's like making love in a canoe... it's the nearest thing to water!"

I think he means that it's "fcuking close to water", otherwise the joke makes no sense.
I have to admit that the guys who brew Coors, Miller and Bud are *the* most talented brewers in the world. They manage to consistently brew the exact same same tastless stuff, despite there being so many potential things that can go wrong with the process (mutated yeast, different strength of malt, different temperature....) and produce an off flavour. With most other beers there's somewhere for that flavour to hide, but not with C/M/B.

Do you actually like the taste(lessness) of bud though? I mean seriously? Have you ever tried any of the Belgian beers, or a good Ale? I mean there are so many beers out there that have a taste, I really fail to understand *why* someone could settle for C/M/B

jester77

Budvar does it for me.... amazing taste!

Followed closely by TsingTao!

Worthy mentions also are Flensburg Pils, Paulaner, Franziskaner (God bless the Rheinheitsgebot ) and Singha. Heineken in Holland is lovely, can't stand the s**t they serve in Ireland.

V1llianous

I love Curim, after that probably Erdinger. Looking forward to trying a mixed case of Belgian beer and maybe Czech ones after that !

Blub2k4

V1llianous wrote:

I love Curim, after that probably Erdinger. Looking forward to trying a mixed case of Belgian beer and maybe Czech ones after that !

Do Czech first, much more subtle than the Belgians, which tend to be strong and sickly. (IMHO)

Budwar, Staropramen and Pilsner Urquell would be a good place to start.

the magician

What i drink usually depends on where i am.
Gotten a taste for Newcastle ale lately though and am very fond of
corona
desperados
erdinger
budvar.

Zebra3

If in a (decent) pub, Guinness.

If at home, Stella, 1664 or Warsteiner.

Budweiser is conclusive proof that advertising works. It really is horrendous.

The Sweeper

Hmmm - I'd like to see a poll-type response to this... any objections to adding a poll to this thread? If not, then can people list what they think should be included in this poll? I'd envisage something like:

Guinness
Other stouts - Murphys, Beamish etc.
Premium lagers - Stella, Nastro Azzuro [other suggestions]
Other lagers - Budweiser, Miller etc. [Or American lagers?]
'Continental' lagers - Corona, San Miguel [& others]
Weissbeers - [sort by country of origin? any ideas?]
Ale - [standard available on tap]
Special Ale - [suggestions?]

So on and so forth - what ye think?

Civilian_Target

Nah - too many varieties. If you do add, make sure its multiple choice!

jester77

Zebra3 wrote:

Budweiser is conclusive proof that advertising works. It really is horrendous.

Yeah, it's amazing what some ads can do. I'm in Germany at the moment and you'd actually have to do some searching to find some. There was uproar recently as Budweiser got exclusive rights to serving beer at World Cup games. Hopefully we can bring in our own

Catsmokinpot

its a toss up between carlsberg, tuborg and miller.


BUD IS THE DEVIL!!

Sarky

I've been drinking a beer my parents got in Spain recently called S. Jorge (I only saw the . recently and used to call it Sjorge in a Norse accent, to much amusement. I suppose the little bloke on the horse with a sword should have been a giveaway...)

Nice, crisp and tasty. And ridiculously cheap, too. If you find yourself in Spainlandia, give it a try.

ratboy

Desperados or Corona have to be the nicest.

dceire

Labatt Blue

Although I havent been able to get my hands on it over here.

Zaph

Mother Kelly's in Talbot Street have been selling Labatts on draught at €3 a pint recently. Not sure if the draught is Blue or not. Labatts is all right, although neither it or Molson got me particularly excited when I was in Canada, but at least they're better than Bud and Miller.

dceire

Cant say I found molson particularly appealing but couldn’t get enough of Labatt blue, might pop in there next time I’m in town!

ciaran76

Anothe beer i found very tasty is a beer called Little Creatures from Fremantle in Western Australia. It ranks up there with the best. Anyone i know who tasted it have said same also including cider drinkers