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.