Favorite Brew

[adciv]

So, which Beer is your favorit? Personally, I go for Old Dominion Root myself.

[Negative Polarity]

There's an Oregon-based (micro)brewery called Rogue that makes a Chocolate Stout that is just heavenly. A very close second, for me, is fresh poured Guinness from a tap. Sweet, sweet candy.

[EvilElf]

There's an Oregon-based (micro)brewery called Rogue that makes a Chocolate Stout that is just heavenly.

Yes finally someone else who likes the Rogue brand! Shakespeare stout for me please.

[Seir]

Hoegaarden.

[EvilElf]

Hoegaarden.

that sounds like something fun to say at a bar
"I want a hoegaarden"

[The Cid]

Samuel Adams Boston Lager, followed closely by Allagash White and Newcastle

[JermCool]

I do miss New Zealand beer. Export Gold is made of pure win.

[Teranfirbt]

Rogue is good but expensive. God damn if I don't love Dead Guy though.
My typical favorite is Black Butte Porter, and since I'm from Portland, OR I have a great love for Pabst.

[Deacon]

You're joking about that last part, right?

[adciv]

No. He's not.

[Deacon]

Why would you link that? I know it exists. I just can't believe he'd like it. It's like saying you like KFC's macaroni and cheese. If you grew up under a trailer somewhere and never had anything better, maybe you just wouldn't know, but come on. The old Pearl brewery here in San Antonio made that PBR pisswater alongside Pearl and another brand or two and the generic "BEER" cans from back in the day. You know what the difference was between all of them? Just which label they slapped on it. Exact same beer from the exact same vats.

[Rorschach]

Pabst.

This beer sounds like it would be difficult to say if you'd had a few. Like what genius decided to name beers Peroni and Corona? The amount of times I've been asked for a 'bottla Coroni' on a loud and busy night and have opened the wrong one...
Fortunately, beer choosiness has never really caught on that much here, apart from the CAMRA tits. People drink what's there and like it. Too well we remember rationing.

[The Cid]

I'll admit that I prefer PBR to basically any other mass-produced vaguely yellow beer as well. Bud/Busch/Miller/Coors/Keystone Light, Bud/Busch/Miller/Coors...your college drinking party beers. I wouldn't prefer it to a real beer, however. I mostly liked it back in "the day" because of superstition: I felt I played Beirut better when PBR was involved. Maybe there was some secret ingredient, I figured, that helped me better throw a ping pong ball into a plastic cup.

Something that does bother me about Pabst however: it's become chic to drink PBR at a really nice restaurant. I've seen a number of these bistro-type trendy places feature PBR on tap alongside all their imports. Bartenders have described this to me as "ironic," (yes, because I need more irony in my diet), among other terms that have no business on somebody's menu or tap list. ("Let me guess, you offer Charles Shaw among your red wines too. How cute.")

If any of you are considering the restaurant business, find out how well "irony" works in your alcohol selection. Along with the usual expensive liquors, beers and wines, offer half-bottles of wine served in paper bags, malt liquor, Milwaukee's Best and the like. See how many people order a Brass Monkey at brunch instead of a Mimosa. I've had it--take money from stupid people who think you can drink irony. Sorry to go off on a tangent like that but there are just some things a man can't tolerate, dammit.

[ampersand]

Friends --- and I use the term very loosely --- of mine in Columbia swear by Schlitz, which taste as it is mispronounced. One of the guys even jerry-rigged an old 1952 Kenmore refrigerator to serve as his on-tap kegerrator for Schlitz beer. Fortunately, he's now about a two months away from graduating from pre-theology seminary and heading to Mexico for an intense semester of learning Spanish and Coronas. We don't know what to do with the refrigerator with a beer tap machine.

I've tasted enough beer to know that I'm more of a wine connoisseur anyway.

Edit: I also didn't know that Pabst made the Colt .45 tankers too.

Edit 2: What's a Portland guy like you liking a Milwaukee beer like Blue Ribbon anyway?

[Deacon]

We don't know what to do with the refrigerator with a beer tap machine.

Really? You need suggestions?