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Great White
Delirium Tremens
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Went to Ireland in March and I immediately fell in love with Guinness and Murphys Irish Stout. Since you like the chocolate-y brews, I highly recommend Murphy's. Thick, chocolate-y, with a creamy head...no homo.
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I was on a tight budget when I went there so I ended up drinking alot of Tuborg as well..still haven't found it here in the states though.
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Since I'm broke and in college it's usually Natty and Keystone.
 
Nice call from Bob to lead this thread off. Yeungling Black and Tan is a great beer for the price. I miss the hell out of it out here in Cali. When I was in Memphis on a vacation, all I drank was Yeungling. It goes well with barbequed pig.

Any Belgian beer with a high alcohol content and a cork in the top is a strong choice. Delirium Tremens and Delirium Nocturnum are the beers I give non-beer drinkers to switch them to the good side of the force.

I finally made it to Brewfest in Portland, Oregon this summer. 200 breweries submit their best small-batch beers, and the state of Oregon gets plastered on the shore between the Willamette River and their downtown. It was there, watching nekked chicks dive off some lucky butthole's boat into a river, that I grew to accept microbrews with fruit juice added during the brewing process.

Pyramid makes one with apricot, Lambic makes a bunch of fruity beers, I even downed one with coconut in it. Good stuff.

If I'm watching my pennies, I'm all about the PBR and Tecate from a can.
 
I actually work for a local liquor distribution company and I’ve def had my fair share good beers. Some of my personal favorites are: Ommegang Chocolate indulgence, Brooklyn local 1 & 2, orval, Any chimay. Ithica Flower Power is a great IPA. So is Rogue Yellow Snow (seasonal), and way to many more then i could mention. But all of the above are great if you’re looking for something off the beaten path
 
Nice call from Bob to lead this thread off. Yeungling Black and Tan is a great beer for the price. I miss the hell out of it out here in Cali. When I was in Memphis on a vacation, all I drank was Yeungling. It goes well with barbequed pig.

Any Belgian beer with a high alcohol content and a cork in the top is a strong choice. Delirium Tremens and Delirium Nocturnum are the beers I give non-beer drinkers to switch them to the good side of the force.

I finally made it to Brewfest in Portland, Oregon this summer. 200 breweries submit their best small-batch beers, and the state of Oregon gets plastered on the shore between the Willamette River and their downtown. It was there, watching nekked chicks dive off some lucky butthole's boat into a river, that I grew to accept microbrews with fruit juice added during the brewing process.

Pyramid makes one with apricot, Lambic makes a bunch of fruity beers, I even downed one with coconut in it. Good stuff.

If I'm watching my pennies, I'm all about the PBR and Tecate from a can.

Def agree w/ delerium. Although i like chimay better and they are pretty similar. Plus Chimay is a Trappiste beer (brewed by monks in a monestry for those who don't know). Pyrimid is most likely my favorite Apricot beer, Alot of people like Ithica's better but they don't use fresh apricots in their brewing and u can tell. My favorite lambics are lindemans framboise, peche, and kriek. Samual smith also just came out w/ organic lambics tha are good.

My favorite blacka dn tan would prolly be lindemans frambois and youngs double chocolate stout. and for all the ying ling lovers in ohio Straub special dark is teh closest thing you'll find to it flavor wise.
 
:puke: I honestly haven't drank that since my freshman year of college. It's like drinking cold cat piss.

Haha well when your underage...its the easiest to get.....I've been told.
 
Personally not a big fan of beer, but I do have a question for you guys? I've heard chocolate in a lot of beers and I wondered if it's really good. I heard eating chocolate changes the taste of beer so I didn't know if it's good or not.
 
Personally not a big fan of beer, but I do have a question for you guys? I've heard chocolate in a lot of beers and I wondered if it's really good. I heard eating chocolate changes the taste of beer so I didn't know if it's good or not.

Generally makes it smoother and covers the hoppiness of beer. If you don't like hops, chocolate smooths it out. Combo that with a nice thick stout, bock, or porter and it's a whole different world from the pilsner or lagers you've probably tried.

I'm not into Belgian beers, sorry boys. I try em, but I don't come back for more.

Best Irish: Smithwicks “Smitticks”
Best Mexican: Modelo Especial
Best Bock: Shiner
Best Stout: Great Lakes Barrel-Aged Blackout Stout
Best American Pale Ale: Firehouse
Best Kolsch: Goose Island Summertime
Best Dunkelweizen: Dark n Curvy
Best Cheap: Lonestar (I actually buy this stuff and smuggle it across state lines...pathetic)
Best Porter: Yeungling (Black and Tan is half this and half their pilsner - good stuff).
Best Hefeweizen: Sierra Nevada Kellerweis
 
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^ Woodchuck's a good choice, nugget.

But Bud Light or Natty? Um ...
 
Cleveland's beer snobs, which I admittedly am one of, are very lucky to have Great Lakes Brewery right here in town. All of their stuff is top-notch quality and for the most part very true (stylistically)to their origin. Every time I'm out of town and don't have access to not only great beer but FRESH great beer, I am reminded what an asset GLB is. We're spoiled here, and Great Lakes is easily my favorite "brand"; I can feel confidant when I order one that I'm going to get something great.

But there are tons of other good beers out there too. The key, though, when sampling a lot of these foreign or exotic beers from outside of the region is freshness. It might be great beer when it's bottled or intended to be sold, but a lot of these microbrews and exotics sit and sit because nobody knows about them or they are too expensive to move at a high volume. Just keep that in mind. A good place to try some great beers that you won't typically find is the Winking Lizard. They keep a stock of at about 150 different bottled beers, and have a lot of good beers on tap as well. Warehouse Beverage on Mayfield has a pretty good selection of sorta hard to find beers too, and Whole Foods has good microbrew selection as well.

Left Hand's Milt Stout is pretty good, a definitely a change of pace. And to the person wondering about chocolate, there's a pretty good double chocolate stout, it comes in a purple and orange can, but I forget the name. That's good.

Some of my non-Great-Lakes favorites right now:
-Sierra Nevada Kellerweiss
-Dead Guy's Ale
-North Coast Old Rasputin (Imperial Stout)
-Magic Hat #9

Favorite Great Lakes
-Grassroots Ale
-Dortmunder
-Elliot Ness
-Holy Moses (but no longer offered year-round, which is a shame as it was probably my personal favorite of their brews)
-Glockenspeil

If you actually like beer, once you get a taste for what's the good stuff and learn the different styles, you'll never drink want to drink bad beer again!
 

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