Beer thread

[Mindtoaster]

I love beer, I spent about a year working in a liquor store that had the largest selection in my state.

Whats everyones favorite? I'm actually a big fan of carlsburg, even though its not that great by many peoples standards, as an American i think its really great and you can sometimes actually get it on tap if you look hard enough for a really good bar. They had it all over the place when I was in NI and it was great

I just drank a bunch of Piraat beer tonight, which i think is a Belgian golden or pale ale, and it has an 11 percent alcohol content. Definitely the highest in any beer I've ever drank.

I also like Smithwicks ale, Chimay, Pranqster, and some more fruity beers such as Blue Moon and Shocktop.

What are other comrades into? Sorry for typos, im drunk and dont feel like proofreading for the moment, but will probably come back and fix them tommorow

[Comrade B]

Dos Equis, Fattire, and a German beer I haven't found anywhere else, Jesus Beer AKA St. Valintine's Weitzen Bier

[bcbm]

Steel Reserve.

[Mephisto]

I prefer bottom-fermented beer with preferably a strong and bitter taste, mostly from eastern and northern Germany and Czechia.

The only top-fermented beer I like is stout.


What I don't like are things like wheat bear and the stuff they drink at barmy events like the "octobre fest" or "beers" like Kölsch which in my area is usually referred to as cat piss.

[Kamerat]

German pils and helles in additon toCzech pils are my favorites. Easy to drink and not so bitter.

Guiness is great too, but its completly diffrent with a more creamy taste.

[Killfacer]

If by beer you mean cider then i agree

[Mephisto]

I like Cider, but it's not beer.

[Killfacer]

I like Cider, but it's not beer.

Cider is better.

[Mindtoaster]

Cider is disgusting

[An archist]

If you like Piraat, then check out Bush beer (also Belgian). Also really good, and 12% ;)
http://www.bier-index.nl/afbeeldingen/bush.jpg

Other then that I'd have to recommend La Chouffe, 'the leprechaun beer'
http://feryvanhemelryck.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/lachouffe.jpg
Edit: crap that's a big image
And for regular pils I usually go for Stella or Jupiler, wich are the most common Belgian pilses, though Carlsberg is also pretty good.

[Wanted Man]

For every day lager drinking, I'll have Grolsch any time of the week. Other than that, I mostly like Belgian beers, particularly trappist or abbey dubbels and tripels. There are also lots of good ones like La Chouffe (mentioned by An Archist), Urthel, Gulden Draak, etc. I'll have a lambic too, but I know of only one place where I live where they serve good ones (as opposed to artificially sweetened fruit juice...). Almost all good Belgian beers are readily available here, which is good news for me and bad news for my wallet.

A pint of real ale is always good, but it's impossible to get here. A liquor store nearby does have some bottled versions of English ales, but it's not the same, most of them are filtered after all. Another store imports several beers from two micro-breweries from the USA, which are all fucking good.

As for cider, I haven't tried a good lot of it, except for the usual ice cold fizzy stuff. Which probably does just as good a job of getting people shitfaced, but it's not too satisfying. I think someone on here named some decent ciders for me once, but nobody buys, sells or drinks ciders here anyway, except for a few enclaves of aforementioned fizzy stuff (for expats and yuppies?).


What I don't like are things like wheat bear and the stuff they drink at barmy events like the "octobre fest" or "beers" like Kölsch which in my area is usually referred to as cat piss.

People never really appreciate perfectly fine beers from their own countries. It's just like Belgians and Brits who only drink lager, Americans who think that all micro-brewed beer is piss, or Dutch people who only drink Heineken. Why?

[bellyscratch]

Cider is better.
This mans got taste. He will obviously be a true leader of the revolution :D

[Wanted Man]

Oh yeah, there are also some great Dutch beers, usually from smaller breweries. Try to get your hands on, among others:

http://www.arendsnest.nl/images/christofel.gif
(Christoffel Blond, a really fucking good and unfiltered pils)

http://www.kroegenweb.nl/media/nieuws/2364.jpg
(Jopen Extra Stout, yes, a stout from the Netherlands)

http://www.kroegenweb.nl/media/nieuws/2366.jpg
(SNAB Pale Ale, dry-hopped and fucking awesome)

http://www.kroegenweb.nl/media/nieuws/2869.jpg
(Hertog Jan Grand Prestige)

[Jazzratt]

Some of these posts are really giving me the thirst :lol:

I've not been having many new beers recently, I lack for money so I'm sticking with my old standards:

http://www.harveys.org.uk/uploads/20081023164429_best.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3495/3822813031_1e902c99dc.jpg

- At the pub (if I'm not having Guinness or a guest ale).

and:

http://www.k1664.co.uk/images/layout/home-can.jpg

For cheap lager drinking. Maybe grolsch or something for variety.

[Killfacer]

http://www.crackedkettle.com/store/images/Westons_Old_Rosie_66cl.jpg

The west country replies with a big FUCK YOU!

Or on those hot days when your playing football in the sun:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1022/1084554731_aa813e9c5d.jpg?v=1187107811

[Wanted Man]

Grolsch = win, this lady agrees:

http://api.ning.com/files/Li9eummgMCVUdPXQy9EtV3rN9EJOn5MW59MZL8hJWNsA057Nsn JuPUnXFWrwlQH2Ld5B0juHyPfHwAZsQA8ONrjQlZTUc-U7/grolsch4groot.jpg

Unfortunately, all we have at home is Jupiler. Which is sufficient as well.

[Jazzratt]

This was £1.80 at my regular last tuesday:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3104/2791019026_9dface94d0.jpg?v=0

While I didn't keep notes or do any real tasting I do remember it was slightly nutty with a less hoppy taste than I had expected with little in the way of aftertaste. While it wasn't bad there wasn't much special about it. It was better, however, than some of their selection (Greene King IPA, for example, which tastes like bovine micturation).

[Dr Mindbender]

lol, i noticed Wanted Man didnt step up to the gauntlet to defend Heineken.

:lol:

[Wanted Man]

Why should I want to? It's a load of freshly squeezed horse piss.

[An archist]

Why should I want to? It's a load of freshly squeezed horse piss.
A Dutchie dissing Heineken? Has the world gone topsy-turvy?

For fun reference, there's a beer that's called " 't zelfde " Wich means 'the same', so you can order "the same". It's not special or anything.

And Geueze and Lambic beers are indeed quite good, but they taste a bit special and they're a 'love it or hate it' kinda beer.

[Wanted Man]

:lol: About half of the people like Heineken because they don't know better, others are quite aware that it is inferior, but most will still drink it if it's the only thing available (myself included).

[Jazzratt]

Get your brew out:
http://hywelsbiglog.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/image33-csb-can.jpg

[nuisance]

Get your brew out:
http://hywelsbiglog.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/image33-csb-can.jpg
Fucking love the Speshy B. I'm the only person I know who can down a can of the stuff. :cool:

[Dr Mindbender]

Get your brew out:
http://hywelsbiglog.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/image33-csb-can.jpg

If you drink that regularly you probably live on a park bench.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Get your brew out:
snip

I swear that shit smells like nail polish remover when you first open it.

[Dr Mindbender]

I swear that shit smells like nail polish remover when you first open it.

thats probably one of the ingredients. :lol:

[Jazzratt]

Fucking love the Speshy B. I'm the only person I know who can down a can of the stuff. :cool:

Can't properly down stuff from a can, but I think I could give you a run for your money downing it from a glass.

[Mujer Libre]

Holgate's 'Temptress' chocolate porter. Couldn't find good pics. It's bitter chocolate and beer. Yum.

[An archist]

Holgate's 'Temptress' chocolate porter. Couldn't find good pics. It's bitter chocolate and beer. Yum.
Chocolate and beer?
I'm intrigued.

[Mujer Libre]

Chocolate and beer?
I'm intrigued.
It's a porter with a hint of bitter chocolate. It's a good winter beer.

[Jazzratt]

There's a place a few counties over from me that does a honey stout. That's amazing, it tastes a bit like honey on toast but more bitter and alcoholic.

Choclate porter intrigues...

Also, NoX:


I swear that shit smells like nail polish remover when you first open it.

The aim of drinking spesh is to forget most things, the most important of which is the smell/taste of special brew.

[Killfacer]

Chocolate porter sounds fucking vile what are you on about?

Bloody hell Jazzratt, Special Brew? Tramp drink.

[Jazzratt]

Chocolate porter sounds fucking vile what are you on about?

You have no taste in booze.


Bloody hell Jazzratt, Special Brew? Tramp drink.

It kicks the shit out of this:
http://www.portman-group.org.uk/assets/images/Kestrel-SuperStrength.jpg
Which I suspect got its name from the presence of dead kestrels floating in the brewing vat.

[Pogue]

Fucking love the Speshy B. I'm the only person I know who can down a can of the stuff. :cool:

Oh my god. We are so fucking on for the Anarchist bookfair.

[Pogue]

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3920/londonn.jpg (http://img199.imageshack.us/i/londonn.jpg/)

[nuisance]

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3920/londonn.jpg (http://img199.imageshack.us/i/londonn.jpg/)
That's one of the worst drinks ever. Fucking hate ale.

[Pogue]

That's one of the worst drinks ever. Fucking hate ale.

All I can say is you better hope we don't meet in a dark corner of the bookfair incase I get squadist on you boy.

[nuisance]

All I can say is you better hope we don't meet in a dark corner of the bookfair incase I get squadist on you boy.
You squadists sure are vile beings!

[Pogue]

You squadists sure are vile beings!

Its part of the macho image and blind desire to 'meet up with a bunch of your mates and kick thie shit out of some nazis'. You just have to accept me as what I am.

[nuisance]

Its part of the macho image and blind desire to 'meet up with a bunch of your mates and kick thie shit out of some nazis'. You just have to accept me as what I am.
I hope you show them right wing scum what skinhead really means. Whether they're skins or not.

[Pogue]

I hope you show them right wing scum what skinhead really means. Whether they're skins or not.

I'll show them what it means to be from south london. I'll show you too.

[nuisance]

I'll show them what it means to be from south london. I'll show you too.
Brilliant.

[Pogue]

this is going to be a good day

[Killfacer]

Jazzratt : You have no taste in booze.

Says the person who thinks chocolate piss can even be considered booze.

Anyway, the worst drinks are white ciders:

http://johnnyvoid.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/whitecider11.jpg

TRAMPS AHOY!!!!!!!

[Jazzratt]

Says the person who thinks chocolate piss can even be considered booze.

You've never had a porter in your life, have you?


Anyway, the worst drinks are white ciders:

http://johnnyvoid.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/whitecider11.jpg

TRAMPS AHOY!!!!!!!

Oh get in the white ace. You're quite right, I don't think there has ever been a fouler concotion than white ciders.

[Killfacer]

You've never had a porter in your life, have you?


My twatty mate bought some a while ago. It tasted like someone shitting down my gullet. I'm not dumb enough to spend my money on something i don't like.

[Pogue]

one word

SCRUMPY!

[nuisance]

Diamond white is abit of alright ;)

[Killfacer]

one word

SCRUMPY!

A lot of scrumpy is undeniably rank but alot of it is really flavoursome and tasty.

[Pogue]

A lot of scrumpy is undeniably rank but alot of it is really flavoursome and tasty.

yeh the thing with scrumpy is its such a fine line between quality and utter shit

[Wanted Man]

I don't know about chocolate porter, but I had milk stout a few times, which was :drool: It's also great for stout pancakes.

http://www.greensbeverages.com/beer/lefthandmilkstout.gif

Oh yeah, and I enjoyed this on my last vacation:

http://www.beer-pages.com/stories/news/images/belhaven.jpg

This is a fucking good Belgian beer:

http://www.beer-pages.com/stories/news/images/tk.jpg

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Says the person who thinks chocolate piss can even be considered booze.

Let me guess, you don't like Baileys either? Personally I love the stuff. Cherry liqeuer too. I know it's not very masculine unlike beer or lager (although I do enjoy those), but as Jazzy can attest I've been known to leave my masculinity at home. :laugh:


Anyway, the worst drinks are white ciders:

http://johnnyvoid.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/whitecider11.jpg

TRAMPS AHOY!!!!!!!

Oh my word, White Ace. Last time I drunk that I was squatting. I find it goes down a lot easier than Tennant's or Special Brew, but it still makes my head ache.

[Killfacer]

Let me guess, you don't like Baileys either? Personally I love the stuff. Cherry liqeuer too. I know it's not very masculine unlike beer or lager (although I do enjoy those), but as Jazzy can attest I've been known to leave my masculinity at home. :laugh:


Baileys is the juice of the devil. It's so sickly. :scared:



Oh my word, White Ace. Last time I drunk that I was squatting. I find it goes down a lot easier than Tennant's or Special Brew, but it still makes my head ache


I've steered clear of it ever since i saw a tramp's shelter with several empty cans of White Ace, some fortified wine and some methylated spirit. There was a sick stain on the floor aswell.

Plus the packaging is just fucking crap.

[Pogue]

I used to like baileys when i was 14, i used to think i was cool sipping it from a wine galss whilst playing counter strike

how very, very wrong i was...

[Dr Mindbender]

tia maria makes fucking awesome cocktails.

[Mujer Libre]

I'd just like to add that chocolate beer isn't sweet, you silly, silly people. It's the bitterness of the chocolate that you taste... No sweetness at all.

[Leo]

My favorite beers:

http://danthemantrivia.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/magic-hat.jpg

Magic Hat. I tried various different types of their beer in the US. It was all awesome.

http://chicago.agrino.org/images/cafes/mythos_beer_350_bg.jpg

Mythos, it's a Greek beer which I really find really tasty.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aM_jnsEFxtQ/RxiiiZ8l2rI/AAAAAAAABgI/MmmN9CTfSmw/s400/efes_pilsen_bira_t%C3%BCrkiye.jpg

Efes, it's the beer I usually drink - not that there are that many options where I live anyway - but I am really quite fond of it.

[Jazzratt]

I'd just like to add that chocolate beer isn't sweet, you silly, silly people. It's the bitterness of the chocolate that you taste... No sweetness at all.

I imagine a sweet chocolate taste would ruin a porter anyway.

Leo:
Efes is astoundingly popular around here (although probably not as much as where you are for obvious reasons). I'm quite the fan.

[Eat the Rich]

Rickard's Red is the most widely consumed Red beer in Canada. Rightly so.


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2005/2045342964_21b21d327a.jpg?v=0

When I don't have money I drink Vieux (old) Montreal, which is a really shitty beer that tastes like piss and puke, but it's only 9$ a pitcher (1 L) in the pub I go to.

[Pogue]

i am suprised the thread didn't end when I said London pride? what more is there to discuss?

[Killfacer]

i am suprised the thread didn't end when I said London pride? what more is there to discuss?

http://thegazz.com/gblogs/beerstoyou/files/2008/08/sl_plus_glass.jpg

thought by many to be the best pint in England.

[Rjevan]

My favourtie ones:
North German "Jever" pils in the famous green bottles and as Bavarian of course "our" wheat beers "Paulaner" and "Franziskaner".
And Cider is also great! :D
http://www.austrianbeer.co.uk/images/jever.jpghttp://lieblingsbier.lima-city.de/Biertest/Paulaner.jpghttp://liquiddiets.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/260px-franziskaner_weisse_169_ozglass.jpg

So there's only one thing left to say: cheers!
http://gott-welt.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/papst.jpghttp://www.moritzrabe.de/Stoiber.jpg-for-web.jpg

[Mindtoaster]

Any Chimay fans in the house?

http://www.beerstore.com.au/beerstore/uploads/beerImages/Chimay_Red_Premiere_L.jpg

Red is the only Chimay brew I've had more then once, but I thought it was pretty good

[An archist]

Any Chimay fans in the house?

http://www.beerstore.com.au/beerstore/uploads/beerImages/Chimay_Red_Premiere_L.jpg

Red is the only Chimay brew I've had more then once, but I thought it was pretty good

I'm more a fan of the blue one, but yeah, chimay is pretty good.

[Panda Tse Tung]

JUPILER!!!!!!!!!!!!
JUUUUUUUUUPIIIIIIILEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

All that needed to be said, other possibility's include:

Hertog Jan, Maes & Bavaria (one of the phew good dutch beers).

[An archist]

JUPILER!!!!!!!!!!!!
JUUUUUUUUUPIIIIIIILEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

All that needed to be said, other possibility's include:

Stella, Duvel

Fixed that for you

[Pavlov's House Party]

Alexander Keiths India Pale Ale and Zywiec:)

[Jazzratt]

Has anyone tried Eiken Artois before?
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm295/thebrewclub/eiken-artois.jpg

I'm usually unimpressed by the drinks from the "family artois" (as their advertising had it) but this was exceptional. Not exceptionally good as far as most beers go, it doesn't stack up to my favourites or anything but I found it to be quite drinkable and it didn't have the claggy aftertaste I associate with its sister beer Stella Artois.

[JazzRemington]

I'm partial to Dragon's Milk Ale or anything by Flying Dog. The only problem with Dragon's Milk is that it comes in such huge damn bottles, and I feel I have to drink it all at once because it'll go flat if I don't finish it. Right now I'm drinking Red Strip, but only because the bottles remind me of medicine bottles. But in general, I like dark ale.

[Azraelscross]

Oh yeah, there are also some great Dutch beers, usually from smaller breweries. Try to get your hands on, among others:


(Christoffel Blond, a really fucking good and unfiltered pils)

last time i had a Christoffel beer i nicknamed it Christ Awful. wasn't the blond though.

as for beers i like. dark heavy beers like Naramata Nut Brown Ale, but i have been known to enjoy a good light Irish cream ale, Rickard's Red or a Keiths red

don't have many beers under my belt though. so after more experimentation i'll find more i like

[mumba miss]

capitalism has tools to make us conform, alcohol is definately one of them

[Mujer Libre]

I tried something called Abbey Ale from Western Aus last night. Delicious.

http://beeradvocate.com/im/beers/40607.jpg

[rednordman]

Didnt realise that there was so many real ale fans on this forum. Hopbacks Summer Lightning is indeed ace, but i prefer Oakhams JHB. Thats zesty sweet hops for you! Never had a drink like it, absolutly fantastic.

[Jazzratt]

Didnt realise that there was so many real ale fans on this forum.

Seriously. If anyone mentions beer it's like CAMRA's online division has arrived.

On that note:

It's nearly that time of year when my locals will start stocking this particular delight:
http://www.beerbarrels2u.co.uk/ContentManagement/eShop-Product-Images/1169logo-harveys-xxxx-old-ale.gif
It's a rich, dark ale perfect for winter which had a damn good year in 2007 (last year, however, was far less fantastic). If you ever find yourself in a Harvey's pub and see this on tap give it a go, you'll thank me (unless, again, it was like last years batch upon which opinions are more divided).

If you don't fancy trekking out down here for that though, there are bottled examples of some of the brewery's finest. Including this, a particular favourite:
http://www.thedrinkshop.com/images/products/main/4518/4518.jpg
Harvey's Tom Paine Ale. Another heavy one with a rich and complex flavour. Available to buy online if you do that kind of thing and also found stocked in some unusual offliscences (I believe I found a bottle in Northern Wales).

</advert for Harvey's brewery> :p

[Wanted Man]

last time i had a Christoffel beer i nicknamed it Christ Awful. wasn't the blond though.

:lol: I don't know about the other ones. Well, except the bock, which is awesome.


Seriously. If anyone mentions beer it's like CAMRA's online division has arrived.

Someone from the CPB once told me that CAMRA is so full of communists that it's basically a front organisation. :lol: No idea if it's true, probably not, but it's funny. And it's also a story that I tell whenever beer in general, real ale, or CAMRA in particular come up on Revleft. How sad.

[rednordman]

Someone from the CPB once told me that CAMRA is so full of communists that it's basically a front organisation. :lol: No idea if it's true, probably not, but it's funny. And it's also a story that I tell whenever beer in general, real ale, or CAMRA in particular come up on Revleft. How sad.According to Wiki, Roger Prodz is/was a communist. He is a bit of a front man for CAMRA.

@Jazzratt: :lol:!I have to say that i didnt expect there to be so much interest, but nothing beats a good real ale. Especially, if is done (served) well. Even more funny, Im actually a member of CAMRA:blushing:.

[Wanted Man]

If I could, I'd move to the UK, purely for the ability to drink real ale every day.

[rednordman]

If I could, I'd move to the UK, purely for the ability to drink real ale every day.I will say that there are some pubs in the UK which are very very good for real ale. My recommendations are Coopers Tavern in Burton (midlands), because i live in that town. Its amazing how they make standard real ales taste miles better than anywhere else. There are obviously better pubs elsewhere though.