Top Five Favorite

[DudelookingfortheCC]

Lets have a list of your top five favorite beers, with a photo if you'd like.

For fun

Mine:
1) Blue Moon
2) Coors Light
3) Bud Platinum
4) Corona
5) Budweiser

[Chadtuba]

Blue Moon
Leinenkugel Summer Shandy
Stella Artois
Shock Top
MGD

[bort]

Wait, there's a difference?



Joking aside, all of the mass-produced American crap is crap. Especially now, there are thousands of other American brands that have popped up, most of which are good, and many of which are excellent. Try as many different brands as you can, and pay attention more to the *style* of beer than the brand (IPA, stout, porter, lager, etc...). You'll start to notice what styles you like, and then experiment from there. Buying based only on brand names and bottle labels would be like buying a tuba over the internet...oh...wait...

For me, I prefer German bocks and lagers, and all varieties of ales. I'll try almost anything once, but fruity beer and lambics are not my thing. Also, *really* strong beers (like over 9%) aren't my favorites, though they are good to have around.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Old Style
Old Style
Old Style
Old Style
Old Style

Coming in at a distant 23rd place is Guinness...but only ON TAP when I'm in an Irish pub with a little extra $$$.

Sue me.

[Thomas Maurice Booth]

Fat Tire Amber Ale
Newcastle Brown Ale
Wagner Valley Sled Dog Doppelbock - http://www.wagnerbrewing.com/beers/standard.php" target="_blank
Saranac Pumpkin Ale
Labatt Blue Light

TMB

[bobbob0100]

DudelookingfortheCC, you aren't 21!!!

[bort]

DudelookingfortheCC, you aren't 21!!!

Well, that explains the list of favorites... "best available."

[TheHatTuba]

DudelookingfortheCC, you aren't 21!!!

Yikes! Looks like you could use a distraction. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitty:

[DudelookingfortheCC]

Well I rememeber a time when the drinking age was 18.

I'm not an alcoholic teen either, but instead of smoking and buying huntring rifles and shot guns, i'd rather sit down in front of a campfire and genuinely enjoy a nice beer.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Well I rememeber a time when the drinking age was 18.

I'm not an alcoholic teen either, but instead of smoking and buying huntring rifles and shot guns, i'd rather sit down in front of a campfire and genuinely enjoy a nice beer.

I'm curious...

Where is it that someone under 21 can remember a time when the drinking age was 18?

As to your second point, there's many other choices besides drinking and smoking/shooting guns. You're not really that stupid.

[Chuck Jackson]

Utica Club-no groans from my Upstate NY Brethren
Genny-Not "Soylent Creme". I remember when they had the three piece cans. They made GREAT potato cannons
Labatts Blue Light- Yum
Schlitz- The "Old" formula
Matt's- Let's see how many of you remember that brand, much less the popular Beer Balls
Miller- Any of their Lite products, to include my favorite High Life Lite

Chuck"who thinks 6 is a more apropos number to be dealing with on this topic"Jackson

[tclements]

MILLER HIGH LIFE!
Heiny
Fat tire
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Hefeweizen (followed with a shot of Jack!)

[Donn]

No particular five to report, but I'm with Bort, it would be a long list before I'd get to any of the great big breweries and their meager brews.

Just guessing at good stuff that might be more widely available ... Lagunitas seems to be on the large side of small-style breweries, and their stuff is always worth a try.

This one is pretty drinkable too -

[Tubajug]

I don't drink, so my answer would be....

ROOT beer!

Pretty much anything but Barqs Root Beer, or diet root beer (I can't stand diet soda...)

[iiipopes]

In most states, the drinking age is/was/always will be 21. In a few states, there used to be, or may still be, laws allowing 3.2% by weight beer to be purchased and consumed at 18, with conditions and restrictions.

Sorry it's Wiki, but it gives a starting point for discussion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-alcoho ... 83.2.25.29" target="_blank

[THE TUBA]

I'll give a list of 5 favorite NC beers from different breweries:

Old Town Brown-Natty Greene's Brewing Co (Greensboro, NC)
Wee Heavy Scotch Style Ale- The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery (Farmville, NC)
Tripel Overhead- Mother Earth Brewing (Kinston, NC)
Highland Oatmeal Porter- Highland Brewing (Asheville, NC)
Sexual Chocolate- Foothills Brewing Company (Winston-Salem, NC)

[circusboy]

I'll put in my two California faves:

Steelhead Stout
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

But I'm also rather fond of

Guiness
Sam Adams

And for sentimental reasons

Stroh's

. . . and just about anything from Germany or England.

[DudelookingfortheCC]

I'll give a list of 5 favorite NC beers from different breweries:

Old Town Brown-Natty Greene's Brewing Co (Greensboro, NC)
Wee Heavy Scotch Style Ale- The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery (Farmville, NC)
Tripel Overhead- Mother Earth Brewing (Kinston, NC)
Highland Oatmeal Porter- Highland Brewing (Asheville, NC)
Sexual Chocolate- Foothills Brewing Company (Winston-Salem, NC)

Sexual Chocolate... interesting.

I work at a winery/brewery here in the redlands, south FL. While I was throwing some bottles in the recycling bin I saw a beer bottle that said North Carolina Werewolf.

Ever heard of that?

[k001k47]

That 40 oz garbage. ah. . . to be a student with no money. I could have bought a lot of nice beer with money lost on a JimBow

[bearphonium]

How could I have missed this?

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Ninkasi Maid in the Shade
Oakshire Ill-Tempered Gnome
Rouge Dead Guy
Eel River Raven's Eye Stout

Although honorable mention goes to
Deschutes Twilight Ale
Sierra Nevada Tumbler
Hop Valley Double DD Blonde
Oakshire Line Dry Rye
Kona Longboard Lager