I know we talk about scotches and whiskeys and wines...but I am a beer guy. I love coming home from work and having a cold beer and a cigar and playing ball with my two Dogs Mack (english bully) and King (6 mo. Black lab)

What are some of your favorite beers?

Me:
- Yuenglinig
- Sweetwater 420 (From GA)
- DogFish
- IPA's

I like many of the heavier, and more flavorful types, but my favorites are Bavarian style double bocks and marzens.

Spaten Optimator and Marzen
Paulaner Salvator and Marzen
Ayinger Celebrator

Some of the regional micro breweries in the U.S. have some pretty good stuff too.

I prefer beer with my cigars also. I recently tried a couple of Belgium beers I thought were fantastic.

Chimay Red Ale

Chimay Grande Reserve “Bleu”

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Chimay Red Ale

Chimay Grande Reserve “Bleu”

I love belgium beers. Very Tasty.

There is a bar by my house that serves a lot of belgium beers, but you can only smoke cigarettes.

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Originally posted by Hawg:
I know we talk about scotches and whiskeys and wines...but I am a beer guy. I love coming home from work and having a cold beer and a cigar and playing ball with my two Dogs Mack (english bully) and King (6 mo. Black lab)

What are some of your favorite beers?

Me:
- Yuenglinig
- Sweetwater 420 (From GA)
- DogFish
- IPA's

This is just about a carbon copy of my evenings in the summer, dogs and all.

However, I can't get Yuengling in IN, so the in-laws from MD bring it when they come to town. Other than that, there is a brewery in town calld Oaken Barrel and their beers go great with cigars; pale ale, stout, red, seasonal wheat ales, hell, I'll relax with a Miller Lite if I have to.

But summer, cigars and beers really mean Dos Equis and Red Stripes for me!

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But summer, cigars and beers really mean Dos Equis and Red Stripes for me

Red Stripe and Dos Equis are also up there. Great Summer beer.

I am with you though. I will have a miller lite also.

Went to a party at my fiances Aunts house the other weekend.

They asked me what kind of beer I wanted

I said...Cold!

I'm a college student so I drink bud light, keystone light and busch light. teh cheapness.

For good beer ill drink Bass, Stella, Guiness, Murphys and some small brews sometimes.

Nothing wrong with the cheapness. I used to kill some PBR.

I am only 25, so I love cheap beer. Yuengling is pretty inexpensive

I'm not big on beer but in the summer when its hot nothing hits the spot like a cold Labatts Blue or Blue lite.

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in the summer when its hot nothing hits the spot like a cold Labatts Blue or Blue lite.

True that when its really hot the best beers IMO are the cheap "watery" ones like Busche lite or PBR, but they have to be brutally cold. I usually put them in the freezer for awhile.

Otherwise I really like belgium style, Blue Moon, Hoagaarden, Wienstephan (sp?) and Chimay if I want to splurge. Oh and lately I have been on a Boddingtons kick.

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Originally posted by bburnham17:

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in the summer when its hot nothing hits the spot like a cold Labatts Blue or Blue lite.

True that when its really hot the best beers IMO are the cheap "watery" ones like Busche lite or PBR, but they have to be brutally cold. I usually put them in the freezer for awhile.

No doubt.

One of my favourite film quotes:
"Heineken! F**k that sh*t! PABST BLUE RIBBON!"

Anybody remember who said it?

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Originally posted by AnRyan:
One of my favourite film quotes:
"Heineken! F**k that sh*t! PABST BLUE RIBBON!"

Anybody remember who said it?

Wasn't it Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet ?

Ah! Another David Lynch fan...

Try Aventinus Bock Beer. At 12% alcohol, and a dark rich flavor of a Guinness mixed with port, these 500 ml bottles will knock on your @ss.

Great with just about any robust cigar.

My 'go-to' beer is Molson Ice, but I also like Guinness alot.

Steve, that Aventinus Bock sounds right up my alley, I'll have to keep my eyes open for it.

I think really any beer is good as long as it is Ice Cold.

I do love Micro Brewerys because I feel like they try different things and make really good beer.

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Originally posted by flashman:

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Originally posted by AnRyan:
One of my favourite film quotes:
"Heineken! F**k that sh*t! PABST BLUE RIBBON!"

Anybody remember who said it?

Wasn't it Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet ?

Ah! Another David Lynch fan...

The very man. Frank booth/Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet. Great film.
Language warning..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snhiofL2Rh4

I'm such a geek I remember being very excited when I first got to try Pabst Blue Ribbon.
I calmed down a little after tasting it.
I had fun drinking it though.
Guinness fan myself.

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Originally posted by AnRyan:
I'm such a geek I remember being very excited when I first got to try Pabst Blue Ribbon.
I calmed down a little after tasting it.

I bet you did. I'd rather have some Isabella Rossellini myself...

Mmmmmm beer. There are so many beers that I like. I mostly just drink beer in the warmer months. There are not many of those where I live so I have to make up for lost time every year. My favorites are

Stella Artois
Red Stripe
Alexander Keith
Corona
Sleemans
Hoegaarden

Having lived for some time in the US I can say there is some really great stuff at microbreweries, while most of the US-made mainstream mass-produced stuff is not worth drinking. To me the worst is Bud - I do not think it can be called beer.
IMHO they make very good mass produced beer in Germany, Czech Rep., Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland. Heiniken, Lowenbrau, Staropramen, Holsten, Guiness to name a few.
But I somehow have had the luck of repeatedly finding superb beers of obscure brands and limited brewing in any country I visited. I can't even remember the brand names now...