What is your favorite beer?

Question

I love "Moosehead"

Answer 1

Guinness or New Castle Brown Ale

Answer 2

Miller Genuine Draft

Answer 3

McMenamin's Hammerhead Ale. McM's is a local (Portland, OR) string of brewpubs that make and serve their own beer, with decent food and fun environment. (They tend to take interesting old buildings, renovate them, and use them for their restaurants as well as making bed-and-breakfasts out of some of them.) They typically have a dozen or so varieties of beer and ale brewed in their own facilities, from light-yellow "lawnmower beer" to chewy black stout and porter. They also have seasonal ales that keep the variety factor strong, but it's the rare brew indeed that doesn't make me wish I'd just had a pint of Hammerhead.

Hammerhead is a medium-amber ale, darker than an India Pale but very hoppy, with great malt balance and a citrus-peel bitterness that makes it a fantastic all-around drink. Bitter enough to be refreshing on a hot afternoon, full-bodied enough to be satisfying on a cold winter's evening, and complex enough in flavor that it gets better as it comes up to drinking temperature... And getting it fresh from the brewer means that it's really tough for even a first-rate bottled beer to compete. Beer really IS like bread or sushi -- it's best when it's freshest.

There are a TON of microbreweries here in the Pacific Northwest that make really good products. Bridgeport's IPA is very nice, and available in bottles throughout Oregon, Washington, northern California and Idaho; the Rogue and Deschutes breweries also make some fine products, and I will happily order Mirror Pond Pale if it's offered on tap, as is often the case near home.

If I had to pick a bottled beer available in finer stores everywhere... Samuel Smith's Nut-brown Ale gets the nod. Unless you can get Fuller's ESB on draught, but the closest place I know of to get that is the Black Sheep in Ashland, Oregon, and that's about a four-hour drive.

Coors, Bud, Miller, Pabst and the like do have their place, though -- at the annual Pig Roast. We always spend the afternoon playing fizzball. To do this, you take an aluminum baseball bat and stand out in an empty field. Fizzball is basically slow-pitch softball, but with the object NOT being to strike the batter out. The pitcher WANTS the batter to connect, and when he does, there's an EXPLOSION of foam as the bat rips the can in half. The goal is to play for style, not distance -- though one of the best recent hits resulted when one of the players swatted a can over the neighbor's fence, whereupon it erupted (after landing!) in a huge white geyser. A thing of beauty...

Answer 4

Coors Lite Or Bud Select

Answer 5

Newcastle Brown Ale.

Answer 6

If you live outside of southern Wisconsin you have probably never heard of this but there is a microbrewery/restaurant in Madison called "The Great Dane" that occasionally puts out a dark beer called "Barrister Brown" that is great.

Answer 7

Miller Lite!

Answer 8

Found a beer in the southwest called Fat Tire. It's from a micro brewery in Colo. I wish I could find it here in Florida.

Answer 9

Tire Bite by Flying Dog

Answer 10

St. Pollygirls or Becks is very good. But at almost $8 a six pack
its not my regular beer.