Best Non-Home Brewed Beer

[BrewWench]

In no particular order:

Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale
Great Lakes Eliot Ness
Hoegaarden Original
Schneider-Weiss Hefeweizen
Flying Dog Snake Dog IPA
Flying Dog In Heat Wheat
New Belgium 1554
Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar
Flying Dog Colorado Saison
Lindeman's Kriek

 

[azrednex]

1) newcastle
2) pilsner urquell
3) anything (except wheats) from red hook
4) anything (except wheats) from stone
5) anything (except wheats) from deschutes

Wheat beers suck !!

 

[BrewWench]

1) newcastle
2) pilsner urquell
3) anything (except wheats) from red hook
4) anything (except wheats) from stone
5) anything (except wheats) from deschutes

Wheat beers suck !!

Oh yeah? YOU suck.

 

[SourHopHead]

In no particular order:

Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Yuengling Lager
Victory's Golden Monkey
Victory's HopDevil Ale
Guinness
Arrogant Bastard Ale
Stone IPA
Avery's New World Porter
Grolsch
Stella Artois

 

[Cugel]

In no particular order...

Draught Guinness
Duvel
Chimay blue
Sam Smith Porter
Sam Smith Oatmeal stout
Red Hook's Longhammer IPA
DFH's 60 minute IPA
Harpoon IPA
Sam Adams Boston lager
Pilsner Urquel
Paulaner hefeweizen

and (not beer, but close) Bulmers Cider

 

[GreenwoodRover]

My List:
In no particular Order:
1. Draught Guinness
2. St. Pauli Girl
3. Old Man Brews: Hamms/Blatz/Old Style/Schlitz
4. Sierra Nevada PA and SummerFest
5. Samuel Smith Oat Stout and Nut Brown
6. Spaten Family of Beer
7. Modelo Negra
8. Sam Adams Honey Porter
9. Goose Island Honkers Ale and SummerAle
10. Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat and Creamy Dark

Worst Beer Ever:
HoneyMoon (I think it tastes like carbonated cough drops)

 

[Weizenheimer]

hate to say it but my roommate brought some home, fruity pebbles, two cups in the secondary

I couldn't agree more. I didn't like it a bit. Now their Honey Weis is a great brew

 

[Weizenheimer]

My list in no particular order
1. Behive (bristol brewery, Colo Springs)
2. Fat Tire
3. Bass
4. Warsteiner Dunkel
5. Pacifico
6. Honey Weis (liney)
7. Newcastle
8. Highland Gaelic (Asheville, NC)
9. Taj Mahal (found at Indian restaurants)
10. Great Sex Honey (Gore Range brewery, Edwards, CO)

 

[graphicgeek80]

In the order they pop into my head.

1 Saranac Amber
2 Saranac Pomegranate Wheat
3 Sam Adams Boston Lager
4 Brewery Ommegang, Ommegang Abbey Ale
5 Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale
6 Wagner Valley Dockside Amber
7 Labatt (my hunting camp drinker)
8 Magic Hat #9
9 Yuengling
10 Lake Placid Ubu Ale

I'll try anything once, and I am not that particular when it comes to drinking stuff that I didn't brew. I just never think about a brew as much as when I make it, unless it's really good.

 

[Bob]

In no particular order:

1. Yuengling Lord Chesterfield Ale
2. Ommegang Hennepin
3. La Fin du Monde
4. Piddlebrook Bitter*
5. Adnams Fisherman (alas, now no more)
6. Shepherd Neame Spitfire
7. Old Peculier
8. Weyerbacher Blanche
9. Mild Ale - The Ship Inn, Milford, NJ
10. Fuller's London Pride

Okay, if pressed, Spitfire can go straight to the top! Yummy!

Cheers,

Bob

P.S. Can you tell I'm an Anglophile?

(*) - Piddlebrook Bitter is the house ale of a delightful village pub called The Rainbow, in Allesley, a suburb of Coventry. Do give it a visit if ever you find yourself in the area. Click here for an image of The Rainbow; click here for a nice site with images of Allesley.

 

[BrewBrain]

These are the ones off the top of my head. I'm sure if I went back through my notes I may have a slightly different list. In no particular order:

Firestone Walker Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale
Ballast Point Calico Amber
Boont Amber Ale
Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA
Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye
North Coast Brewing Red Seal Ale
Spanish Peaks Black Dog Ale
Stone IPA
Stone Arrogant Bastard

 

[timgman]

sam adams boston lager is rad.

 

[BrewBrain]

I have to admit, for some reason I'm surprised by the number of Sam Adams Boston Lager responses in this thread.

I'm not arguing against SABL, btw. I like 'em too

 

[tdavisii]

In no peticular order

Fat tire
New belguim brewery Trippel
La Fin du Monde
Stella artois
Maudite

 

[timgman]

I have to admit, for some reason I'm surprised by the number of Sam Adams Boston Lager responses in this thread.

I'm not arguing against SABL, btw. I like 'em too

Right ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BrewWench]

I'm glad I'm not the only Stella drinker here! A lot of people consider that Euro-BMC but I think it's pretty good.

Plus they usually serve it to you in that pretty stemmed glass.

I must also add Goose Island Matilda (droooool.....) to my list.

 

[Clonefarmer]

1) Dogfish Head, 90 min IPA
2) Dogfish Head, 60 min IPA
3) Paper City Brewing Co, Riley's Irish Stout
4) Berkshire Brewing Co, Hefeweizen
5) Sierra Nevada, Pale Ale
6) Wild Goose, Porter
7) Magic Hat, Ravel
8) Rogue, Mocha Porter
9) Berkshire Brewing Co, Steel Rail Pale ale
10) Hoegaarden, Hoegaarden witbier


Honorable mention) Pabst Blue Ribbon :rockin:

 

[Bigrig]

My tops:
1) Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale (fall 2007 version) - unbelievable fresh hop taste and aroma
2) St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout - very unique mouthfeel similar to Mackeson XXX
3) Avery IPA - This is a fantastic IPA, but I had a dry-hopped version of this at the Avery Brewery tasting room in Boulder, CO and it was out of this world
4) Dogfish Head 90-minute IPA - Extreme hops balanced by malt like no other I have tasted.
5) Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock - A malt lover's dream along with a goat trinket bonus!
6) Ayinger Octoberfest Marzen - A great representation of this style, and it has a cool miniature painting on the bottlecap!
7) Oskar Blues Old Chub Scotch Ale - Canned beer at its best. The dash of smoked malt gives this one a phenomenal complexity without overpowering smokiness.
8) Olfabrikken Porter - Even the $8 price-tag for a 14 ounce bottle cannot keep me from revisiting this beer. By far the best porter I have had.
9) Avery The Kaiser Imperial Oktoberfest - a unique style captured in a unique way. Usually benefits from some aging.
10) Rogue Dead Guy Ale - I always come back to this one for a complex, balanced semi-session type ale

These are just a few of my favorites. Of course a lot of the previously mentioned candidates are stellar - Samuel Adams Boston Lager, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Anchor Steam, Pilsner Urquell, etc. And despite my taste for the finer ales and lagers, I can still throroughly enjoy some of the more traditional lighter fare such as Bud (Select is particularly tolerable), Michelob Amber Bock, etc.

 

[kbrewer1]

I generally drink anything Sam Adams, Troegs, or DFH. My friends and I anxiously await the Sam Adams Winter Classics Mix every year. I drink other stuff as well, but when I buying in bulk for my friends, I go with consistent (and a little bit more known) brews.

 

[adrock]

1. Guinness Draught
2. Smithwick's
3. Old Speckled Hen
4. Christian Moerlein's OTR (pale ale, don't know if it's available everywhere)
5. Dead Guy Ale
6. Bell's
7. Stella
8. Jack's Pumpkin Ale (I know it's made by AB, and probably not a great beer, but I love the taste of nutmeg; sue me!)

Gotta add one to the list, right near the top.......La Fin Du Monde is some delicious stuff, and at 9% alcohol, "It'll get you drunk!"

 

[BrewWench]

Actually, I think Jack's Pumpkin ale is the best pumpkin ale. I've had every other that I can get my hands on (it's one of my favorite styles) and Jack's is still the best.

Well, our homebrewed one was pretty great too - maybe even better.