Favorite beer

That about sums it up.

 

Gotta agree with Flip and Expendable. However, if I were to a ranking system of a sort it'd go a lil like this:

Stella
Red Stripe
PBR
Miller Lite

 

1. Pacifico (I LOVE this beer)
2. Steinlager Pur (available only in New Zealand)
3. Labatt's Blue (overheard on my honeymoon by Mrs. Birdscribe... "This is beautiful. Budweiser and Coors are IMPORTS!")
4. Portland Honey Beer
5. Pilsner Urquell

What all these have in common is I can drink more than two and not get that full, bloated feeling that I started getting after I turned 35. Plus, all of them just taste good.

Unlike most of the planet, I HATE virtually all Belgian beers. Stella makes me gag and I had this beer, Sezoens, at my college pizza/beer hangout that was so disgusting, I poured it into a planter. The only Belgian beer that hasn't triggered my gag reflex is Duvel.

 

On Draft:

Heineken Draft
Stella Artois Draft
Delerium Tremens Draft
Brooklyn Lager Draft
Dortmunder Draft

In bottles:

Sam Adams Double Bock
Grolsch
Rolling Rock
Pilsner Urquel
Sam Adams Boston Lager

 

Stuff I can regularly get:
Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout
Samuel Adams Imperial White
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
Founders Red Rye
Dieu Du Ciel Aphrodite
Dieu Du Ciel Peche Mortel
Founders Cerise
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Russian Imperial Stout
North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
Trappists Rochefort 10
Bell's Hopslam
St. Bernardus Abt 12

Seasonals/Otherwise sporadically available:
Founders Breakfast Stout
Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
Paulaner Oktoberfest

Rare:
Trappist Westvleteren 12
Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout

 

I miss living in Michigan where Oberon was everywhere. Oberon draft with a slice of orange, holy crap that's good. Nursing a Post Road Pumpkin Ale at the moment. Deee-licious. Props to the Brooklyn beers ... haven't had a bad one. Cheap stuff? The High Life reigns supreme. Plain ole Budweiser ain't bad either. Time for AA?

 

Boulevard Wheat
Highlife
Boulevard Pale Ale
Blue Mountain Kolsch

 

Any beer I haven't had before.
But if I'm in a place that has a couple dozen of the regulars I'll go with

Rogue Dead Guy
Deschutes Black Butte Porter
Sam Adams
Bridgeport IPA
Alaskan Amber

 

The pride of Reading PA

 

I'm not a beer snob. I'll crack a PBR or a Coors Light anytime.

However, I love -- flipping love -- a really good beer.

Favs (in no particular order)
Eff'n anything Sweetwater makes
Shiner Bock
Old Speckled Hen
Whitbread Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada Summerfest (just started drinking this about a month ago ... highly recommend)
Everything I've had from the Back Forty Beer Co. has been good. I like their Truck Stop Honey over their Naked Pig.
I'm currently drinking a Point Nude Beach Summer Wheat, and it's pretty damn strong.

Here's the odd thing, though. I've been craving the shit out red wine lately. And I've never really been a wine drinker. However, I hate to drink wine by myself b/c I always feel the need to finish a bottle, and the girl I'm dating (first girl ever that's been this way) isn't big on wine. And hates red, which is the only thing I like.

 

Very few beers don't taste good to me. Two I like that haven't been mentioned here yet are Sapporo from Japan and Singha from Thailand.