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[Bishop Steiner]

Being a good Lyran of mixed Germanic, Irish and Scandanvian descent, about the only thing I enjoy as much as trashing Snakes and Tweety-Birds in my assault mech, is relaxing afterward with a good cool brew.

Since Timbiqi Dark is many moons from being invented (and provided I am not violating some rule I missed), I thought it might be nice to see if there were others who enjoyed tasting and testing different beers from around the world.

So, I'll start with a few must haves in my fridge......

-Current favorite "Gourmet Beer/Ale"
CHIMAY "BLUE" trappist ale. (Belgium)
-what champagne is to wine, so a fine hand brewed trappist ale is to beer. It's not cheap, but for those with a refined palate, it is a true delight.

-German Beer (Gotta have those on any good list)
WARSTEINER DUNKEL (Germany.. duh!)
- It is not near as rare as it once was (got a pizza parlor that has it on tap.. heck to the yes!), but it never fails to satisfy. Thick heady flavor, but no bitterness after. Life's too short for bitter beer!

-Mexican Beer
DOS EQUIS AMBER
-How can a "dark" beer be so smooth and refreshing on a hot day?

*runner up: PACIFICO CLARO. A little thin by itself, but IMO the perfect base for a Michelada (combining Pacifico, Clamato, Worcestershire sauce, lime juice and hot sauce, for a surprisingly refreshing drink. My beverage of choice on a nice hot evening on a western Mexican beach)

-British Beer
NEWCASTLE BROWN ALE (England)
-Became a trendy beer in the 90s, but it's availability and popularity does nothing to diminish it's quality. Nothing better to go with fish n chips. (aside from some malt vinegar, of course)

-American Beer (hey, they aren't ALL bad!)
TIE (though admittedly BOTH are basically for cool refreshment on a scorching day)
LEINENKUGEL SUMMER SHANDY (Wisconsin.. lots of Germans there!)
Just darn refreshing.... beer and lemonade. YUM!
and
LOST COAST "TANGERINE" Wheat Beer (California)
Citrus highlights of this wheat beer are much more robust and pleasant than on many trendier ones like Blue Moon or Shock Top.


What are your brews of choice?

[Der BierVampiR]

A worthy topic for my first post on this forum!

My favourites are:

German Beer:

Aktien Zwick`l - A beer with a rich body, unfiltered
Schlappe Seppel dark - a tastefull beer
Krombacher - good to meat, pizza etc. but of course also without any solid food.
Altenmünster hopfig herb - a beer with a strong hop note
Kulmbacher Kellerbier - another unfiltered beer, also good but slightly behind Aktien Zwick`l.

Czech Beer:

Gambrinus - a beer with a nice mix of hop and malt flavor
Krusovice - a wonderfull beer with a slight hop note over the malt

Polish Beer:

Tatra - strong beer with 6,0% but so tastefull

That are basicly my favourites - but i have never tasted american beer so far.

[Rhanne]

Irish:
guinness... goes with out saying.

local:
Leinenkugel red or berry weiss.

Lithuanian:
SVYTURYS Baltas.... soooooo good w/ lemon. but so hard to find in the states.

Edited by Rhanne, 07 August 2012 - 10:18 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

Der BierVampiR, on 07 August 2012 - 10:05 PM, said:

A worthy topic for my first post on this forum!

My favourites are:

German Beer:

Aktien Zwick`l - A beer with a rich body, unfiltered
Schlappe Seppel dark - a tastefull beer
Krombacher - good to meat, pizza etc. but of course also without any solid food.
Altenmünster hopfig herb - a beer with a strong hop note
Kulmbacher Kellerbier - another unfiltered beer, also good but slightly behind Aktien Zwick`l.

Czech Beer:

Gambrinus - a beer with a nice mix of hop and malt flavor
Krusovice - a wonderfull beer with a slight hop note over the malt

Polish Beer:

Tatra - strong beer with 6,0% but so tastefull

That are basicly my favourites - but i have never tasted american beer so far.

oooooooooooh........................ (big eyes like kid at a candy factory)

soooo many beers, so few decent importers (and such STUPID American importation laws!)

[sicky]

as beeing a German Lyran ill start off with my two favorite german brews.

Pinkus Müller: A local brew from Münster where i grow up.
A "Blond" Altbier, witch is unique to Altbier, with a Wine like caracter.

Beck's: you should know this one. not unique at all but i like it.

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Next is Budweiser Budvar: (its sold in the US and Canada as Czechvar)
a very refreshing beer, perfect when its hot outside or if you fired to many of your PPCs in your Awesome.

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last but not least: Guinness, the irish classic.
I got hooked with this beer at my last visit in Ireland.

you can find all of those beers im my fridge and at the extra heatsink near my pilot seat.

[Pit Viper 117]

Import: Stella artois. its good.

Domestic(USA): Abita Andygator. its the best. ever. its 10% so its strong but the flavor is all there. it is the perfect beer. sold only in louisiana or surrounding states.

[CharlieV]

For those who like to taste some czech beer:
if you want to taste something really good, when you are in our country, try to find something brewed in small local breweries. Big ones (Gambrinus, Pilsner, Staropramen, Bráník etc.) are too much globalized and you sometimes dont know what you are actually drink. For example, Velkopopovický Kozel have on his back etiquette only adress of his owner, Plzeňský Prazdroj, so you dont know where beer in your glass was made. There is local rumour that most of Pilsner Urquell beer available in czech republic is actually made in Poland, because most of production made in Plzeň is for export (and from all 12° beers in market Pilsner is the weakest with only 4,4%, Kozel 11° Medium have 4,8%).

I can recommend these
Svijany (they have family of beers from wekest to stronger, dark ones included)
Krušovice
Velkopopovický Kozel 11 Medium
Radegast
Gambrinus 11 (10° improved with quality and taste too, maybe they were aware that what they made last few years wasnt drinkable at all )
Novoměstský pivovar Praha
Staropramen (they made good specials, their 10° isnt bad too)

and there is really large number of local breweries, with wide variety of different types of beer, because they realize they cant compete with big ones on market with cheap beer, but on small market with special (mostly stronger) beers customers will pay for quality instead quantity.

[RicXX]

I love tasting beers, once upon a time my goal was to go through and taste every beer at the Bier Hall in Glasgow Scotland. They had over 300 beers to taste! Alas after 4 days I had to give up my goal due to scotch tasting and absolute drunkenness where I was loosing my pallet ( they served me a Budwiser and I said it was good lol)

I have noticed that no one has mentioned any Canadian beers! Since I am Canadian I will say that one of my all time faves is Creemore Springs Cream Ale! It started as a Local micro brew for the cottage country but has grown and spread out, very delicious indeed. I will be visiting the brewery this fall for sure!

I have sampled many micro brews and local brew's from all over, I think that this is the way to go. When ever Im in a new City or Restaurant I ask for a taste of something Local, what a better way to enjoy a trip than to sample as much as possible in your travels. Sure the big names are standard and good but to find that gem you cat find else wherein the world is simply divine. Anyone else agree or disagree?

[Max Immelmann]

german: eku28
english: newcastle
japanese: tsing tao
american: michelob

if i am low on money, i go for the keystone ice 12 pack for $6.25

[sicky]

@ Immelman: tsing tao is from china

[Aym]

Man I like beer but I don't love your beers.
For German I like Bitburger.
For Mexican I like Bohemia.
For "Asian" (Note to Immemann Tsing Tao is actually Chinese) I like Tsing Tao.
For British I'm pretty torn, nothing really stands out.
Irish Guinness, Smithwicks, Harp, Wexford
America: Lately Sierra Nevada's Torpedo Extra IPA has been my go to beer.

[Theriophonic]

Gotta weigh in for all the Schwarzbiers (black lagers)
Kostritzer
Xingu
Shinner Black
Sessions Black

There are a lot more but those are some of my favorites.

P.S. Nice thread.

[JonAK]

My Glenlivet snears at your Beer, and my Cuervo vomits upon your shoes!

[Stormwolf]

Ah beer, gotta love it.

Dutch:
Alfa: Fairly standard beer, but I can drink it like water. I often bring quite a number of these along for festivals.
Brand: Has a nice aftertaste

Belgium
Jupiler: Beer that never gives me headaches
Brugse Tripel: Just try it, tastes good
Duvel: Duvel usually has a higher alcohol percentage then your average beer brand
Leffe: This beer often has herbs included, you can taste it really well

German:
Warsteiner: Most know this beer already
Bitburger: Some people find this beer a bit bitter, I like it
Krombacher: A good decent beer
Veltins: Love it, it's one of the beers I take to festivals when boozing at the camping site is involved

[Deathsiege]

Racer 5 from Bear Republic Brewing (7%)

[Murph]

Some of my favorites include:
Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Killian's Irish Red
Arrogant ******* Ale
Monty Python's Holy GrAil (Amazing stuff.)
Pabst Blue Ribbon (When it's all my budget allows. Anything beats schlitz or natty ice)

I'm lucky to have about a 20 minute drive to a specialty beer store. I've tried a lot of fantastic beers in my life, but those are the stand out ones in my opinion. I'm also partial to some scotch ales, though the names of the varieties I have tried escape me right now. I am inclined to go get some great beer tonight now though.

[northwolf]

Aym, on 07 August 2012 - 11:13 PM, said:

America: Lately Sierra Nevada's Torpedo Extra IPA has been my go to beer.

That is seriously good stuff, luckily my local bar stocks it

Have You tried any of the Flying Dogs pale ales? Or the heavenly Adnams Innovation?

Other stuff i like : Finnish Teerenpeli brewery stuff... probably impossible to get outside finland (btw they they make vy far the best non scottish/irish single malt whiskey i've ever tasted... and i've tasted a lot )

Velko Kozel from Czech is a good, dark, getting wasted beer..

[Bishop Steiner]

JonAK, on 07 August 2012 - 11:23 PM, said:

My Glenlivet snears at your Beer, and my Cuervo vomits upon your shoes!

Fortunately, there is plenty of time in life for both.

I see your Glenlivet, and raise it with THE BALVENIE CARRIBEAN CASK. a proper Speyside single malt aged 14 years in rum casks.

Speaking of rums, I would highly recommend:
-ORONOCO (Brazil) Oddly not Carribean at all, and it's a white rum that is sipping quality!
-ZAYA GRAN RESERVA (Trinidad) For those who like a thick dark spiced rum, this is the cadillac.

For Vodka, I have several
-OYO VANILLA & HONEY (Columbus, Ohio USA) Before one scoffs, I must say.... TRY IT. I Ama vodka fiend, have had pretty much everything on the market from Stolis to Grey Goose to Absolute, etc. this is quite literally BETTER than all of the above. OYO "just won a gold medal in the Beverage Testing Institute’s 2010 international competition. OYO vodka scored 92 points and placed 7th in the unflavored vodka category out of 128 entrants." The Honey Vanilla Bean won silver @ San Francisco World Spirits Competition Award (2011). I like to add 2 shots to 3 cubes of ice, let mellow, then sip and enjoy.

-Stolichnya Elit (Latvia? Isn't that where Dr Doom lives? Used to be Russia! Will be again soon!) silver medal at the 2008 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. One of the smoothest unflavored vodkas out there.

- Русский Стандарт "Imperia" (Russia!) See above, only more so!

-Stolichnya Strasberi and Stoli Chocolat Razberi are both in my freezer at any time, as they are like a candied dessert with a kick. A good snort of vodka is never to be turned down.

And for a proper potato vodka
-CHOPIN (Poland)
-TETON GLACIER VODKA (Idaho, USA)
are both quite worthy.

For tequila I live by 2 standys.....
-DON JULIO REAL (about once a year, when I can afford it! $349 a bottle!) and Anejo for every day drinking.
-PATRON GRAN PLATINUM & ANEJO

I am alcoholicly promiscuous!

[Aescwulf]

The only beer I drink is Carlsberg a Danish beer.

I'm more of a Vodka person.

A lot of the beer on the English market I cannot stand

[Refn St George]

Murph, on 08 August 2012 - 12:55 PM, said:

Some of my favorites include:
Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Killian's Irish Red
Arrogant ******* Ale
Monty Python's Holy GrAil (Amazing stuff.)
Pabst Blue Ribbon (When it's all my budget allows. Anything beats schlitz or natty ice)

Man, I love my American beers. I lived in Vermont for my college days, and we drank... Well, we drank the good stuff. Which is probably why I am now bankrupt. Here's to a nice Long Trail Double Bag, or the Six Points Resin (currently drinking both...)