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Favorite commercial beer? Just for fun!

Discussion in 'General Homebrew Discussion' started by NordeastBrewer77, May 27, 2011.

 

  1. #41
    phenry

    Well-Known Member

    Posted May 31, 2011
    In no particular order:

    Schlafly AIPA
    Sweetwater IPA
    Bell's Two Hearted
    New Belgium Ranger
    Rogue Yellow Snow IPA
    Odell Myrcenary DIPA

    I love hops. I'm actually trying to move on from buying just IPAs, but I'm finding it pretty hard to do.
     
  2. #42
    mhm

    Member

    Posted May 31, 2011
    Bear Republic Racer 5
    Russian River Brewing Blind Pig
    Russian River Brewing Pliny
    21st Amendment Bitter American
    Sierra Nevada Torpedo
    Mammoth Mountain Brewing IPA 395 (when i can find it...)
    Chimay Red, Blue or White
    Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
     
  3. #43
    ETCS

    Well-Known Member

    Posted May 31, 2011
    When I was in HS, it was "The Beast" Milwaukee's Best, because it was 7 dollars for a case!!! It still cost us 20 to my friends brother to buy it for us. Memories!!!
     
  4. #44
    Caucasian

    Well-Known Member

    Posted May 31, 2011
    Yuenling is the preffered swill around here. I like most of long trails offerings, guinness, chimay, dos equis, and sam adams seasonals. I'm very jealous of california's beer drinkers.
     
  5. #45
    Beezy

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 1, 2011
    Where are you at? Yuengling country is PA, there is as many beer options here as anywhere imo.
     
  6. #46
    edgeofblade

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 1, 2011
    I'll throw down a Widmer Drop Top at the drop of a hat. Easy drinking and "craft" enough for me.
     
  7. #47
    edgeofblade

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 1, 2011
    Oh dear god. That stuff is criminal. The first "rare" brew I've had, and I'm so glad.
     
  8. #48
    techyakker

    Member

    Posted Jun 1, 2011
    Hacker-Pschorr Hefe Weisse, what got me started on "good" beer many many years ago.
    Founders Dirty Bastard and Imperial Stout
    DFH India Brown Ale
    Ten Fidy
    Hoegaarden, when the weather is HOT!!
    Yeti Imperial Stout
    Chimay Red and Blue
    Production drinking is Coors [email protected] 33 degrees, pulled from the bottom of a cooler, filled with ice and water, where your arm and hand hurt from the cold
    :mug: :mug: :mug: :mug: :mug: :mug: :mug:
     
  9. #49
    SkiSoloII

    Splitting the beer atom since 1996

    Posted Jun 1, 2011
    SN Celebration Ale and Porter, Surly Furious and Smoke, Red Hook ESB.
     
  10. #50
    NotTechnicallyLegal

    Active Member

    Posted Jun 1, 2011
    Unibroue La Fin Du Monde, Avery the Reverend, Great Divide DIPA, Good People DIPA, Yellowhammer Hoppleganger
     
  11. #51
    HB92649

    Member

    Posted Jun 1, 2011
    Killian's Irish Red
    Firestone Velvet Merlin
    Leine's Red
    Abita Amber

    Hot afternoon of yard work:
    Lienenkugel's Summer Shandy
    Good Old Miller Lite
     
  12. #52
    logan3825

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 1, 2011
    All that love for Hefe and you left our Dancing Man from nearby New Glarus.
     
  13. #53
    NordeastBrewer77

    NBA Playa  

    Posted Jun 2, 2011
    So I've been really digging this years Southern Hemi Harvest from SN. Tasty tasty beer!!!
     
  14. #54
    joeirvine

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 2, 2011
    Guinness, Guinness, and more Guinness. Can with the widget or on tap are the only ways. Had some right at St. James Gate in Dublin... Amazing. Wish I remembered the trip.
     
  15. #55
    Hex

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 2, 2011
    St. Bernardus abt. 12,
    Westmalle Tripel,
    Georg Schneider's Wiesen Edel-Weisse,
    Pizza Port Wipe Out IPA
    Caldera IPA (can)
    Ballast Point Sculpin IIPA
    Russian River Pliny the Elder IIPA
    Lindeman's Cuvee Rene Gueuze
     
  16. #56
    dallasdb

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 2, 2011
    When I'm feeling cheap, Bud heavy baby!

    I also go with Miller Lite if I'm cheap and want a Lite beer. Miller Lite has the most flavor or all light beers.

    Dan's Pale Ale is a staple when I'm not being frugal or I try something I've never had before.
     
  17. #57
    erikhild59

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 2, 2011
    At the moment Sierra Nevada Summerfest, can't get enough of the stuff..SNPA is my go to beer otherwise.
     
  18. #58
    MonkHeDo

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 2, 2011
    St. Peter's Golden Ale and English Ale, Sweetwater's Georgia Brown Ale, Sweetwater's IPA, Sam Adams Black Lager, Sam Adams Honey Porter, Leffe's Belgian Ale, Chimay Red, Sweetwater's Festive Ale, DFH Indian Brown Ale.
     
  19. #59
    sjjn

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 2, 2011
    If I could have only one beer. Saison Dupont.
     
  20. #60
    Raider-11

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2011
    Yuengling= Lager, Black & Tan, and Lord Chesterfield Ale
    Smithwicks= Irish Ale
    Franziskaner= Hefe Weisse
    Brewerie= Hopness Monster
     
  21. #61
    TwoGunz

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2011
    Rochefort 10 is my baby. Ommegang Three Philosophers, Abbey ale, and Hennepin are my less expensive Belgian replacements. Then lots of misc stuff to hold me over when my homebrew is gone: lately Brooklyns, Harpoon Belgian Pale
     
  22. #62
    Raider-11

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2011
    You like Dos Equis but think Yuengling is swill, they teast pretty much the same, you must be getting skunky Yuengling to call it swill but to me Sam Adams is swill, to each his own
     
  23. #63
    Stevo2569

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2011
    Yuengling AMBER LAGER(not the regular crap)
    Sam Boston and some seasonals. (not swill)
     
  24. #64
    944play

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2011
    This.

    Oh, and Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Charlie, Fred, & Ken's Bock.
     
  25. #65
    Rockape66

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 3, 2011
    Great Divide's "Collette." Saison/Farmhouse Ale...Yummy!!!:mug:
     
  26. #66
    NordeastBrewer77

    NBA Playa  

    Posted Jul 21, 2011
    After asking a local liquor store to stock one of my old favorites, and that store doing the city of Mpls a great favor, I have to add Well's Bombardier to my list of faves. Bombardier's one [email protected] fine bitter, IMO.

    And oh yeah, shameless bump! :ban:
     
  27. #67
    HH60gunner

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jul 22, 2011
    Lagunitas IPA
    Stone IPA
    Rogue Chipotle Ale
    Left Hand Brewery Milk Stout.....


    aaahhh...... I can't just choose one.
     
  28. #68
    MONKandTUCK

    Active Member

    Posted Jul 22, 2011
    LOL... just goes to show... different strokes for different folks!

    Of all those beers listed I have had but one. Of those beers, I have been very displeased with all but one... Raging Bitch!

    I love that beer. It pulls off the balance between classic IPA and funky Belgian Ale yeast. It's not a beer I can drink all night, but it's a beer I can't go long without! :mug:
     
  29. #69
    MONKandTUCK

    Active Member

    Posted Jul 22, 2011
    Those are two pretty near-perfect beers. Two of my favorites of all time. There are tons of beers that I know I have loved over the past 6 years of enjoying craft brews, but those are two that actually stick out.

    As for go-to beers, regularly accessible to me: Sam Smith Russian Imperial Stout, Torpedo IPA, Rogue Oatmeal Stout, Fuller's Porter, and Philadelphia Pale Ale.
     
  30. #70
    nrock74

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jul 22, 2011
    The Sixth Glass, Hopslam, Boulevards Unfiltered Wheat, Two Hearted Ale, Peacetree's Double IPA and Imperial Stout.:mug:
     
  31. #71
    Mongrel

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jul 22, 2011
    Caldera Ashland Amber, Rogue Mocha Porter, Full Sail Session Black, Deschutes Red Chair, and Three Creeks Firestorm Red (they're bottling now, but this one is only on tap).
     
  32. #72
    corkybstewart

    Well-Known Member  

    Posted Jul 22, 2011
    My favorite is Rochefort 10. What I have most often would be either Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or Deschutes Mirror Pond. Strange choices since I prefer darker beers like the Belgian darks, stouts and porters but there are very few commercial ones available here.
     
  33. #73
    mordecai251

    Member

    Posted Jul 22, 2011
    being from cleveland, i must say most of the great lakes catalog you cannot go wrong with ESPECIALLY blackout stout/holy moses.

    aside from great lakes i really like kentucky ale, anchor steam, old rasputin, piraat ale, and ofcourse the timeless classic... PBR.
     
  34. #74
    Bold

    Active Member

    Posted Jul 22, 2011
    Anything from Schlafly Brewing here in the STL, Shock Top, Liene's, Blue Moon, Miller Lite(raised on)...

    College: the Beast, Stag, anything cold & cheap...ha
     
  35. #75
    JohnTheBrewist

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jul 22, 2011
    When I could get it, nothing beat Kloster Andechs Helles.

    Otherwise in no particular order:

    Spaten Helles & Optimator
    Alaskan Alt
    Hangar 24 Columbus IPA
    Moose Drool
    Paulaner Weissbier
     
  36. #76
    unionrdr

    Homebrewer, author & air gun shooter  

    Posted Jul 22, 2011
    The Paulaner Hefe is good,as is the Franziskaner weissbier. We also like the Paulaner Salvator doppel bock,DFH 90minIIPA,Sn's as well. In a pinch,Stroh's is good,it tastes like it has Willamette in it. Yesterday,after running to the LHBS,& a few other places,we sat down outside in the shade with Lienenkugel's Summer shandy on ice (it was over 100F with heat index),with shots of vodka. Not to mention,pit bbq'd brats. My son even threw in some steaks. Gube stoff,baby!
     
  37. #77
    Taypo

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jul 22, 2011
    Just about any Shiner, Real Ale's Devil's Advocate (Seasonal Belgian Trippel), Magic Hat (it would be nice to get something OTHER than #9 and the occasional 6 of Circus Boy in DFW), Paulaner/Franziskaner Hefe's
     
  38. #78
    jimmayhugh

    Turgid Member  

    Posted Jul 22, 2011
    Pliny the Elder, Bell's Two Hearted Ale, Firestone Walker Parabola, Ballast Point Sculpin IPA & Sea Monster Stout, Firestone Walker Velvet Merlin, Anything by Alpine Ale, Fuller's Vintage Ale, Trader Joe's Vintage Ale, just about everything from Lagunitas and the list goes on and on. :mug:
     
  39. #79
    AudaciousAlechemist

    Active Member

    Posted Jul 24, 2011
    Omg- WELLS BOMBARDIER! I feel like I need to try Pliny The Elder though..:mug:
     
  40. #80
    NordeastBrewer77

    NBA Playa  

    Posted Jul 24, 2011
    Oh man, I wish we could get Pliny here!!! Maybe one day.....:tank:
     
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