Favorite Beer

Please try not to laugh to muck, but I'm all about the High Life...

The champagne of beer.

Love the vintage ad. Steel cans, remember those? Not that I do - just remember reading about them somewhere!

Can't forget to mention "red beer".  It's not for everyone, and it's sure to piss off the purists out there (you will get over it!).  Also a great way to kick off a football sunday.....

Take a big frosted mug and pour in a small can of spicy V8.  Then fill almost to top with your domestic of choice, squeeze in some lime juice and hit with some tobasco.

Although I'm hardly a purist, I've never been a big fan of "flavored" beers but I'm open to new experiences. This, however, is a new one! Maybe I'll give it a try sometime but I'm thinkin' I might just stick with vodka and the spicy V8!

BTW, have any of you home brewers ever experimented with these so-called "extreme" beers. It's like the coffee brew Judd mentioned but with more unusual additives. Definitely not Rheinheitsgebot (purity law) concoctions. I recently read an article about a guy in Rhode Island, I think, who's thrown all sorts of stuff into his batches, including clams...

Although I have some favs, the best beer is the cold one closest to my hand.

As long as it's not Keystone, nothing impoves that stuff .

Although I have some favs, the best beer is the cold one closest to my hand.

As long as it's not Keystone, nothing impoves that stuff .

Gotta agree with that - I just heard of a combination that some friends claim is great - now get this: Vodka, lemonade and beer. I know, it made me shiver, but they swear it rocks - and they said it was a great use of Keystone. I don't recall what the name of this concoction is, anyone else heard of this?

Gotta agree with that - I just heard of a combination that some friends claim is great - now get this: Vodka, lemonade and beer. I know, it made me shiver, but they swear it rocks - and they said it was a great use of Keystone. I don't recall what the name of this concoction is, anyone else heard of this?

I haven't heard of that exactly, but just beer mixed with lemonade is called shandy and is actually quite refreshing. I had it when traveling in Southeast Asia - maybe it's an Aussie thing? The addition of vodka probably just spikes it up a notch or two without changing the flavor too much.

In baja they make a drink called a Michilada which is Pacifico or Corona over crushed ice, with a ton of lime juice, and a salted glass rim.  I always thought it sounded disgusting.  After drinking a few (I am easily corrupted ) I have to say it is pretty  when its 110 outside.

San Miguel Beer is still my favorite. 



Kiel

seriously, Racer 5 or Blur are my current favorites, when I can afford them !

the "red beer" is excellent for a hangover, BTW

Any beer that's cold is fine with me.  Whiskey is even better!

Negra Modelo is good and usually cheap.  Guinness is tops, and Boddingtons is up there too, my two favorites if I feel like splurging.

Love red beer...  essential camping remedy.

To get off subject slightly, when I can't drink or want to pace myself, soda water is the shizzle...  I'm hooked on the stuff.

Gotta agree with that - I just heard of a combination that some friends claim is great - now get this: Vodka, lemonade and beer. I know, it made me shiver, but they swear it rocks - and they said it was a great use of Keystone. I don't recall what the name of this concoction is, anyone else heard of this?

I haven't heard of that exactly, but just beer mixed with lemonade is called shandy and is actually quite refreshing. I had it when traveling in Southeast Asia - maybe it's an Aussie thing? The addition of vodka probably just spikes it up a notch or two without changing the flavor too much.

I was at bar downtown and all the chicks were drinking "pink panties" .  Large round shaped glass, shot of vodka and pink lemonade on the rocks with a bottle of corona inside the glass and upside down.  As the drink level goes down the corona dumps into the lemonade. I got a quick swig of one and it didn't taste too bad.

In baja they make a drink called a Michilada which is Pacifico or Corona over crushed ice, with a ton of lime juice, and a salted glass rim.  I always thought it sounded disgusting.  After drinking a few (I am easily corrupted ) I have to say it is pretty  when its 110 outside.

Love micheladas.  For further corruption try a chavela.  Large frosted mug salted rim, lime juice, 2 negra modelos and a shot of tequila.  Goes down super smooth.

Clausthaler
Kaliber
Buckler NA
Bitburger Drive
Becks NA
St. Pauli Girl NA
.............all non-alcoholics.

Stay AWAY from both American brands, Sharps & O'Douls

Years ago I once made a batch of my own dark malt beer.
I used the best materials and brewed according to careful lab-process.
But I made one important change in ingredients to the primary fermenter:
I added two pounds of well-ground Hills Brothers coffee.
I came up with a beer so dark and thick, it would hang up in the neck
of the bottle for two seconds before it would begin to pour.

I attributed the incredible quality, smoothness and taste of this
original beer invention to my additon of the coffee.

You see, it was the caffeine, that kept the yeast-beasties up late into
the night working harder and harder and harder than any other yeasts
had ever worked in any beer brewed ever before.

You can take from me...
It's the Gods' Truth.

Judd

I had some German NA's back when I was in Iraq, they used to have Heiniken and Sharps in the Mess hall, but if you went to the Morale Support you could buy some of German NA"s.  I have forgotten there names but I remember they were very close to having the real thing.  My boss and I would grab a couple and have a couple of Cuban Cigars after a stressful day.  While not being a fan of Communism, I do look forward to the day I can get Cubans here legally.

If I'm not drinking beer, I'll be drinking either pink lemonade or rockstar and Skyy.  Skyy is nice because it's distilled enough that it doesn't have potato funk.  Family guy got me into mojitos a bit too, and I have a couple mint plants pretty much just for that purpose.

Given the sheer volume of beer at my house though, it's rare that I have mixed drinks. 

Friday night I spent 9 hours at the casino that just opened up in Placerville; Red hawk. I gambled a TOTAL of one dollar. Most of our time ( Becky and I ) was spent in the upscale bar area socializing where they have a fairly extensive beer menu. I wish I could remember them all.
Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat rings a bell.
They were all ringing bells the next day....ugh!!!!!!!

Skyy is nice because it's distilled enough that it doesn't have potato funk. 

There's a good reason it doesn't have that potato funk:

Actual production and bottling of the product is outsourced to Frank-Lin Distillers Products in San Jose, California. Bulk ethanol is delivered in railroad tank cars to Frank-Lin's railroad siding near the San Jose rail yards. The ethanol is mixed with filtered and deionized water, flavoring is added, and the product is bottled using a 42-head US Bottlers Machinery Company filling machine to ensure uniform product level.

The ethanol is purchased from MGP Ingredients of Atchison, Kansas, a bulk ethanol producer for beverage, industrial, and fuel applications. MGP uses wheat as a feedstock for the process.

As for beer: There is a lot of great American beer out there. I travel a lot and often experiment with local microbrews wherever I happen to be. But, when I want to treat myself I keep going back to those wild Belgian monk concoctions. American beer just doesn't come close to having the variety.

Last night I tried a beer called Winter's Bourbon Cask Ale. It was excellent!!
6% alchohol.
Imagine my surprise when I saw it was made by Michelob.

Yeah, the big breweries are trying to get into the micro brew thing.  Some are okay and some aren't.  Some taste to...mass market like for my tastes.