What's your favorite beer style?

[jswillbrewforbeer]

Hard to pick one but Belgian Dark Strong ale is definitely on the desert island beer list.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

a good pale ale does it for me, i feel they have kind of been lost in the shuffle a little. troegs pale ale was one of my favs for a long time.

I can still drink a cold Bud on a hot day. I don't do IPAs. For me, the hops need to be in balance with the malt and by definition an IPA does not do that. Oh well. By this time in my life I have probably drank around 1,000 or more different beers. Has anyone ever heard of San Miguel from the Phillipines? I used to love the San Miguel Dark. Also Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout is delicious and complex.

i never heard of san miguel until a couple months ago, one of the guys brought it to a homebrew meeting to share. i remember liking it but was only a sampler.

 

[coonmanx]

a good pale ale does it for me, i feel they have kind of been lost in the shuffle a little. troegs pale ale was one of my favs for a long time.

i never heard of san miguel until a couple months ago, one of the guys brought it to a homebrew meeting to share. i remember liking it but was only a sampler.

Indeed a good pale ale is excellent.

 

[ReaperOnefour]

San Miguel is also a good beer, but hard to find.

 

[CascadesBrewer]

a good pale ale does it for me, i feel they have kind of been lost in the shuffle a little. troegs pale ale was one of my favs for a long time.

I am a massive fan of a moderately hopped 5% to 5.5% American Pale Ale. When I am at a taproom, I tend to gravitate toward the 8% IPA or the 10% Stout, but at home on tap I look for a beer that goes well with dinner and does not knock me out. In addition to a Pale Ale, an easy drinking 4.5% Porter and a 6.5% IPA would round out my top beer list. (I am trying to brew more Belgians lately, so maybe I will have to expand the list soon.)

 

[Hanglow]

Draught, if I could only have one style ever again would be a (relatively) well hopped, well conditioned bitter, served about 10c.

Bottled beer I think Orval. Great fresh or aged, always different, usually great.

 

[coonmanx]

I once drank what if I can remember correctly was a 12% beer that not only used local wild hops but some wild yeast as well, along with some apples. It was good but I could only drink one and when I got to the auto parts store to buy something I realized that I had left my credit card at the brewery. LOL. One reason I tend to stay away from anything that is too damn strong. I like having a few beers and not getting laid out....

 

[coonmanx]

One local microbrewery had a Peach Cream Ale at only 5 IBUs. I thought to myself, that is not really beer anymore. I do quite a few fruit beers and I don't try to change the underlying beer. The beer should stand on its own and you should want to drink it regardless of whether it has fruit in it or not. That sounded more like a wine coooler than beer. LOL. They also had a huge hole in their lineup around the 30 IBU level or so. Everything was below 20 IBUs or over 40 or 50 IBUs. I was not very impressed at all.

One of the crazy things about being an experienced homebrewer is that when you go out to a local brewery you want to critique everything you drink. I have been to about three lately and would only return to one of them. One of them seemed to only have brews at around 6% or higher. They were OK but not carbonated properly. Also we tried a few of their fruit beers but I suspect there were using only fruit flavor and not real fruit. I was very disappointed with those beers. Nothing special at all. My fruit beers would blow them out of the water.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

I am a massive fan of a moderately hopped 5% to 5.5% American Pale Ale. When I am at a taproom, I tend to gravitate toward the 8% IPA or the 10% Stout, but at home on tap I look for a beer that goes well with dinner and does not knock me out. In addition to a Pale Ale, an easy drinking 4.5% Porter and a 6.5% IPA would round out my top beer list. (I am trying to brew more Belgians lately, so maybe I will have to expand the list soon.)

i really enjoy brewing belgians, actually i had to pick a favorite style to brew it would probably be belgians. so many options to play with.

 

[ReaperOnefour]

I wish I was drinking a beer now.

 

[ReaperOnefour]

I'm thinking about brewing a orange wheat beer next brew day. With spring & then summer coming up, i thought it would nice.

 

[AJinJacksonville]

I alternate...but I keep returning back to brown ales. I just kegged a brown with toasted coconut added in the boil...and man...it is a good sipper year-round.

 

[ReaperOnefour]

Toasted coconut? That sound good. I like to add a little chocolate to my brown ale.

 

[DeanRIowa]

Märzen, Berliner Weiße, and Kölsch

 

[ReaperOnefour]

A kolsch is a ale version of a pilsner right?

 

[AJinJacksonville]

Toasted coconut? That sound good. I like to add a little chocolate to my brown ale.

I get the chocolate flavor from the malt, and then I toast about two pounds of unsweetened coconut in the oven...throw it in a muslin bag...and then add it with about 15 minutes left in the boil. A nice, subtle coconut scent/taste on the back end. Not as coconut forward as Kona's brown, but I like it. No problems with head or retention...I think I'm going to go pour myself one now...haha.

 

[ReaperOnefour]

Lol. Cool. Enjoy brother. The last time I brewed a brown ale was a while ago. It was a one gallon batch. I could be wrong, but I think I added 4oz. (it may have been 3. I don't remember. ) Of unsweetened coca powder at flame out. It came out pretty good.

 

[wsmith1625]

I love a good IPA. I'm constantly sampling new offerings. The style I can drink every day and never get tired of us a good Pale Ale. They have the right balance of malt and hops to enjoy no matter my mood. Dale's Pale Ale and Yards are both good.

Back in the day my favorite beer was Goose Island Honkers Ale. It was an English Ale and they killed it because it wasn't as popular as the IPA. Kills me because that was my favorite beer and favorite brewery, but they got bought out by Anheuser Busch and have never been the same.

It's on my list to brew my own Honkers Ale, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

 

[Dog House Brew]

You're right. It is stone. My mistake.

I just saw their Enjoy By 4/20. I almost bought it.

 

[ReaperOnefour]

Ever since I started home brewing I've really been getting into IPA's. This mosaic IPA I'm sipping on is really good. I have a Sierra Nevada pale ale clone( my favorite store bought beer) that I brew from time to time. I also have a citra smash recipe, that is one of my favorites too. Enjoy by 4/20? I haven't seen that one yet.

 

[philjohnwilliams]

My favourite style of beer is homebrewed.

 

[ReaperOnefour]

That's true too.

 

[dnr]

New Castle is a good beer too. You know I never use to like hoppy beers, until I started home brewing. I use to drink Budweiser all the time. (Sorry beer gods, forgive me I didn't know what I was doing.) Now I can't stand Budweiser.

Newcastle was recently turned over to Lagunitas. I'm told it's a slightly updated recipe.

 

[dnr]

West Coast IPA

I miss the hell out of Green Flash over in New England.

 

[ReaperOnefour]

New Castle got turned over? Huh, I didn't know that. Green flash? Never seen that beer out here. Is it pretty good?

 

[dnr]

New Castle got turned over? Huh, I didn't know that. Green flash? Never seen that beer out here. Is it pretty good?

The reimagined Newcastle Brown Ale is a smooth, crisp, slightly roasty and hoppier beer, that’s not too bitter, not too sweet, and altogether uncommon. Brewed with Centennial and Chinook hops and available in the U.S., the Lagunitas-brewed Newcastle Brown Ale will hit shelves and delight lips in March 2019.

Lots of places in Sunnydale sell Green Flash.

 

[cfrazier77]

German Fest beer for me please

 

[ReaperOnefour]

Gonna check out the green flash beer. What is fest beer?

 

[Chorgey]

Gonna check out the green flash beer. What is fest beer?

Fest beer is most likely Festbier, which (if I'm not mistaken) served at Munich's Oktoberfest.

Cheers!

 

[dnr]

Gonna check out the green flash beer. What is fest beer?

Palate Wrecker was amazing.
If anyone can recommend a beer that's similar and available on the East Coast...?