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Kam:
Just curious to see what people's favorite beers were.

I like Becks.

Newcastle is pretty awesome too.

What's yours?

mgz:
currently on a weyerbacher blithering idiot kick, although im not a big beer drinker

Kam:
Weyerbacher is pretty hardcore stuff. That's quite a kick you got going there!

datora:
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If it needs a fork, I'm probably all on that shit.  Guinness Stout was my fallback option for about 20 years; still love it.

Can't name any specific ones at the moment because I've not really been drinking since I came back to the States.  Drank a hell of a lot of unpronounceable beers from Denmark, Holland, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic (get a real Budweiser; absolutely nothing like the horse piss with that label in the States), etc. while I was in East Europe (2003 - 2010).  Much of the time I looked for anything with an alcohol content between ~5.5% and ~6.5% and most of them were outstanding; the over-7% (up to 9%!) tended to taste like they were spiked with (bad) vodka and left an equally nasty hangover.

It's not been easy drinking American beer since I've returned.  Not to say I'm a snob about it .. there are plenty of great ones, and I'm good with a Pale Ale or an Amber, so long as it's quality.  Most beer, if it's handled well and in a glass bottle, will do reasonably well.  But when I'm drinking it, I'm drinking it to enjoy the beer; that is essential.

I brewed my own for about ten years.  One of my favorites was a pilsner-ale hybrid I developed using a weiß yeast and honey in the ferment, then racked over ginger for a week and then honey again to prime the bottles.  Fantastic red-blonde with peppery bite.  Very refreshing chilled on a summer day.

The common denominator is that I tend to enjoy heavily (low acidity) hopped beer when it's lighter and chilled for summer, and darker brown & black beers with less hops closer to cellar temperature for the winter.  Some specialty spiced beers (such as cinnamon-clove-orange, or apple-cinnamon) for the holidays are a nice treat.

I admit to developing quite a taste for some framboise variants I could get from Holland, Belgium and France while I was in Europe.  THe ones I've had in the States were beyond stupid expensive and tasted like crap.  The raspberry flavor of the European ones was like picking fresh berries off the vine on a summer's day; the U.S. versions taste like chemical perfume.

Kam:
Man I am envious! I wish I could try beers in other countries. Our only exposure to other countries less known beers is through Bevmo and they're really expensive. One of these days man. One of these days!

Would love to be able to brew my own brews too. Sounds like a lot of fun. How'd you get into that?

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