Im from between DC and baltimore, so i dont quite have the whole Ohioan thing going for me... just saying :chuckles:
but to me yueingling totally blows the cheap bears like Bud out of the water, and for basically the same price. However like I said my favorite is black and tan, which obviously has a much different taste.
Additionally it sucks for me because a bunch of you guys mention local brew beers to the area of Cleveland (like great lakes). But unless i really looked for it and went to a huge liquor store I couldnt probably find it, its almost impossible jut to run down to the local store and pick it up. However baltimore does have a bunch of local brews around here (clipper city brewery comes to mind) that are fantastic but chances are its not offered in ohio. Almost all of their beers are 8%+ and they make one called holy sheet which is 10%, damn that one is fun.
and i have to come clean.. i LOVE WOODCHUCK. :runs: its the "beer" that really got me into beer. my school bar had it and they use to run deals on it, plus on top of that my friend was a bar tender so I could generally sit around all night and get them for what turned out to be about a dollar a drink.
I rarely drink the ciders, but my favorite is Strongbow.
Yea, you probably won't find any Great Lakes out there in Maryland. I think I've had something from Clipper City before, I can't think what the heck it was. Most of their beers are that high an alcohol content eh? That's REALLY high, those are straight dangerous! Except for a few circumstances, beer gets tough to drink REALLY fast once you get to those kinds of ABV percentages, for me at least.
The only Yuengling I've had was their "classic" lager. I had it at a bar where pretty much all the beers were roughly the same price. If it really is that much cheaper than Budweiser at like, a store, then I could see it having more "value."
Any Chicago beer folks on here? The Goose Island stuff in general is pretty decent, but I think they are at least a bit overrated. I'm wondering what other breweries are out there in Chi-town....
Oh, and I remembered another bar/restaurant that does have good beers...the Brew House (or Haus? Something like that) in I think Strongsville. They have like 30 beers on tap, mostly pretty "advanced" heavy beers, but they also brew their own beers which they serve for reasonable prices. Unless you are pretty devoted to beer or feeling particularly adventurous, probably stick to their house brews, which they do in several styles. But what makes the place great is on Tuesdays they have (or at least did have) awesome pulled-pork sandwiches with fries and coleslaw for 5 bucks, just make sure to ask for extra bbq sauce.
And this may make some beer-snobs scoff, but even I will seek out the plebeian beers once in a while. I've been known to mix things up with (gasp) Budweiser or Molson Ice (double gasp!) on occasion. Maybe it's nostaglia, from when I was little younger, I don't really know. Despite all this talk of premium beers, sometimes those two just hit the spot for me...there's such a thing as comfort food, so I guess those are my two comfort beers. No, I wouldn't describe freakin' Molson Ice or Budweiser as "good beer," just more of a guilty pleasure that it pains me to actually admit.