***Official Beer Thread***

[vegas1369]

I am on a stout kick. I mainly have stuck to Guinness or Murphy's throughout my life, but am now trying to taste every stout out there. This is what is sitting in my fridge now. Holy shit is this stuff good...



Not sure if I can ever really enjoy a Guinness again after tasting this.

I can drink Guinness but it's watered down shit compared to any English stout from Samuel Smith.

It seems Guinness is almost like the Budweiser of stouts. It's good and serves its purpose, but compared to the stuff the smaller brewery's are putting out it's pretty close to shit.

[BeerAndPoker]

I can drink Guinness but it's watered down shit compared to any English stout from Samuel Smith.

It seems Guinness is almost like the Budweiser of stouts. It's good and serves its purpose, but compared to the stuff the smaller brewery's are putting out it's pretty close to shit.

Yeah, the Founders Breakfast Stout that I have a picture of a few posts back is a great beer if you ever run across that try it. It's seasonal so it's probably out most places now but man that beer is an incredible Stout and packs a good 8.3%.

[vegas1369]

Awesome. And damn, 8.3 is very high for a stout for sure. I will be searching this out ASAP. Thanks! Any other recommendations?

[BeerAndPoker]

For Stout's?

[vegas1369]

[badguy23]

Drink 2 of these bad boys and you wont see straight..



Representing from the NCAA Rail Thread.

Fck that Chocolate beer shit get some mini hershey bars chug half a 40 throw the melted chocolate in same shit 1/4 the price.

[BeerAndPoker]

Drink 2 of these bad boys and you wont see straight..



Representing from the NCAA Rail Thread.

Fck that Chocolate beer shit get some mini hershey bars chug half a 40 throw the melted chocolate in same shit 1/4 the price.

LOL, not even close to do that their is a lot more that goes into the beer then some chocolate . As for some cheap ass 40's (and back in the day I drank my share of that) I'll at least pay the quarter more for these over the Old-E even though both are top choices of niggas.

[unchainedghost]

King cobra is the choicest of malt liquor.

[JMM]

Drink 2 of these bad boys and you wont see straight..



Representing from the NCAA Rail Thread.

Fck that Chocolate beer shit get some mini hershey bars chug half a 40 throw the melted chocolate in same shit 1/4 the price.

LOL, not even close to do that their is a lot more that goes into the beer then some chocolate . As for some cheap ass 40's (and back in the day I drank my share of that) I'll at least pay the quarter more for these over the Old-E even though both are top choices of niggas.

Used to drink the shit out of Mickeys "grenades."

Drank my share of Old E, too.

[DirtyErnie]

Been on Hacker Pschorr kick for past few weeks. But, usually my go to is Spotted Cow from New Glarus Brewing. Fuckin Tasty. Fuck it all beer is good.

[donkeykilla]

This is my favorite now. It looks like a energy drink but is is far from that. Anything from Surly is good. Only downside is the 11.99 price tag for 4x pints.

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/13014/28203

[unchainedghost]

Just bought a couple bottles of Schneider Weisse Wiesen-edel Weisse. Really solid German beer for 5$ a bottle

[DirtyErnie]

Grabbed a Pint and half bottle of the Samuel Adams New World Tripel. Very smooth and grabbed a nice buzz start after the first. Following it up with a bowl of Agent Orange and a 6'r of Konig Ludwig.

[BeerAndPoker]

I'm sure it's been posted early in this thread but the seasonal release of this came out today:

[PuTTY]

[4Dragons]

For those seeking a Guinness replacement:



I went to DragonMead last night and had a Sin Eater. Think of a dark malted Belgian Trippel.

[DRK Star]

This is my favorite now. It looks like a energy drink but is is far from that. Anything from Surly is good. Only downside is the 11.99 price tag for 4x pints.

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/13014/28203

this just showed up in Chicago two weeks ago. Got some in the fridge. Great stuff.

[tony bagadonuts]

36 Cheap American Beers, Ranked

http://deadspin.com/36-cheap-america...nked-638820035



I realize you're going to spend Independence Day happily drinking whatever cold adult beverage you're served, because you're polite and you're an alcoholic. And I trust you'll have a fine old time no matter what you drink. But that doesn't mean America's shitbrews are all the same. The list below breaks down 36 of them, from worst to least-worst.

36. Keystone. This is the worst beer currently sold on American soil. It sits behind chilled glass in a convenience-store fridge like a dumb rebuke to the explosion of American beer variety all around it. In 1978 there were 89 breweries in the U.S.; today there are more than 2,400, and most of the new ones are better than most of the old ones. In 2013 craft beer is no longer the exclusive domain of West Coast weirdos and psychotic woodsmen. These fine days you can score Samuel Adams or Sierra Nevada at the least ambitious of convenience stores and Dogfish Head 90 Minute on the least reliable of trains. And then there is Keystone, which first appeared to the world in 1989, in Chico, Calif., home of the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. Keystone separates itself from the rest of the crap pack by augmenting the typical stale/sour flavor profile with notes of brown bananas and green armpits. Keystone is worse than Heineken and murder.

35. Bud Light Lime. When Anheuser-Busch spit this one out a few years ago it seemed like a pretty good idea, as terrible ideas go. The world never needs more flavors of Bud Light, but the popularity of the otherwise worthless Corona proves that folks love to limen up their beers. Barroom fruit is repulsive—ever think about where your lime's been before it lands in your drink? Nowhere nice—so if Bud Light Lime were any good at all, it would be a little leap forward. But alas, the alleged lime flavoring in no way resembles people food. Bud Light Lime tastes like green Froot Loops soaked in thigh sweat.

34. Genesee Cream Ale. Man, do I want to like Genny Cream. Man, do I not like Genny Cream. I'm a sucker for old-timey regional budget brew, but this is awfully rough stuff. It doesn't even have the dignity to go down swinging with a signature blend of gross flavors, a la Keystone. Genny Cream is just the archetypal stale cardboard crud-juice.

33. Rolling Rock. Smells like three fat guys in a two-man tent.

32. Beer 30. Bonus points for the purple can. No points for anything else.

31. Miller High Life. This is what the bartenders and cool people in my neighborhood drink, and god bless them, I wish I could too. The bottle! The name! The "Champagne of Beers" tagline! But it's just too accidentally sour.

30. Schlitz. I loved Schlitz until a few years ago, when they made a big fuss about reintroducing the "Classic 60s Formula," which tastes yeasty and sweet, like an infected donut.

29. National Bohemian. As one of the few Americans who's never seen The Wire or flashed my tits at the Preakness, I'm largely shut out of the Baltimore conversation, but I HAVE had a Natty Bo, which qualifies me to say, Sure, I get it, hometown pride is nice sometimes. But you do know there are other beers, right?

28. Game Day Ice Ale. Not as bad as 7-Eleven's private label ice beer could be, but still: Do Juggalos have their own special beer? Because if not, I nominate this to be the special Juggalo beer.

27. Miller Genuine Draft. Tastes like the brown ends of corn silk, plus lemon.

26. Bud Light. Tastes like printer paper and often gives the impression of unfreshness, which is alarming given the high turnover. There's a very good chance you and Bud Light will join forces at some point over the holiday weekend, and that's all well and good, but please don't take it into the bathroom with you. I used to clean bar bathrooms, and an overwhelming majority of the bottles left in the john at the end of the night were Bud Light. Bud Light dudes are afraid of leaving their beer unattended, as if they have reason to worry about the fate of unattended beers. I suppose there's something apt about these beers ending the night on top of a urinal. It's like a little story about the nitrogen cycle.

25. Yuengling. Why are people so into Yuengling? It's quite popular among the Pennsylvania ex-pat community, which is odd given that the beer sucks and Pennsylvanians don't strike me as an excessively prideful or self-important lot.

24. Busch Light. This is for the sort of person who buys tube socks at the bus stop. Like on the one hand, all right, good job holding it together enough to get some brand-new socks on your feet. But then on the other hand, I can't help but point out that if you'd been a little more rigorous in planning your day, you wouldn't be buying socks at the bus stop.

23. Natural Ice. The soggy cardboard sensation fades after the first several cans, turning Natty Ice into a serviceable alternative to sobriety.

22. Stroh's. The royal blue Stroh's can is truly majestic, but the beer itself is disconcertingly greasy. It doesn't taste like much one way or the other, but it's marred by a rubbery slickness that leaves your tongue feeling like third-day deli ham.

21. Natural Light. I drank a lot of this in high school. Do high school kids still drink cheap beer, or is it all the lemonade alcopop bullshit for the lightweights and Four Loko (and the myriad Loko-alikes) for the bad kids? Or worse yet, is it all reefer and pills? I sucked at being a teenager, but I feel like I had the "drinking cheap beer by a fire in the woods" part down cold. If they've changed that step of the program I'll have nothing useful to offer my hypothetical future teens.

20. Milwaukee's Best. It's easy to mock the Beast, but it's all I drank in college and I turned out.

19. Busch. Aw, come on, Busch isn't so bad. Let's say you're a stepdad, probably named Ron, and you're a Bud man. Good living—until your Jet Ski needs a new fuel pump and you're fresh out of Jet Ski fuel-pump cash. You think you're fucked, but then you realize you can just step it down to Busch for a few weeks and bang, back in the lake. Now who's too cool for Busch?

18. Keystone Light. Well I'll be damned if this isn't a marked improvement over regular Keystone. The rotting fruit and flesh are stripped away to leave a regular, boring light beer that's a viable option if you're looking to drink your way into Speedo shape one beer at a time.

17. Old Milwaukee. This was the first beer I ever hated, but that was back in my stupid youth, when I expected more out of life. Turns out Old Milwaukee is plenty good enough for the likes of me.

16. Iron City. Weird that Mr. Rogers and Mr. Roethlisberger represent the same city.

15. Simpler Times. This is Trader Joe's house lager. It's all right.

14. Name Tag. This is also Trader Joe's house lager.

13. Budweiser.

12. Coors Light. Is Ice Cube broke? Seems unlikely, but it's the only acceptable excuse for those shameful ads wherein the baddest rapper of my childhood loses an argument to a fucking beer bottle. I had a Coors Light last week, though, and it's better than I remembered. If you base your beer choices on the CEO's politics—and I suppose you might as well—then you probably have an opinion on Head Pete in Charge's staunch conservatism, as well as the company's scummy labor history. Okie doke.

11. Medalla Light. Puerto Rican beer is American beer, buster. I drank a hundred million of these on my honeymoon and I suggest you do the same.

10. Schaefer. When I was a very young buck, the Patriots played in Schaefer Stadium. Now the stadium's better and so is the team, but I experience a rare wave of nostalgia when I think of the bygone era when the stadium was named for America's oldest lager and the tight ends didn't kill people.

9. Olympia. This one smells a little bit like the produce section of a carpeted grocery store, but it goes down pretty smooth otherwise.

8. Lone Star. Shit, I wish I had a big, brash opinion about this one, but it's the most middle-of-the-road thing ever to come out of Oklahoma's southern sister. It's good in certain applications, such as when it's a thousand degrees out or you're trying to avoid Corona and margarita slushies at a license-plates-on-the-wall restaurant.

7. Rainier. This is on the sweet side of mediocre, but it's a bright, clean kind of sugar that tells soothing lies about freshness and purity.

6. Miller Lite. My dad drank most of the world's stock of Miller Lite before his untimely passing, but you can still get your grubby mitts on a can or two if you know the right people and wait in the right lines. A lot of suckers say it tastes like nothing, but I say it tastes like Barney Miller and Little League.

5. Pabst Blue Ribbon. It took me a few years to come around on PBR, probably because I was the sort of dipshit who worried about what message my beer was sending. Now that I'm liberated from such petty concerns, I can tell the world, "Hey, look at me spend $14 to get all-day drunk on clean, nondescript beer that tastes like Budweiser is supposed to."

4. Utica Club. This has a fair bit going on, flavor-wise, which is risky business. Less is usually much more in this price category, but UC is the rare cheapie that pulls off its dangerous ambition. This Central New Yorker's unique vegetal maltiness is much better than the phrase "unique vegetal maltiness" suggests. I'll never write their marketing copy, but I'll always drink their beer.

3. Coors. You don't see much yellow-canned original Coors Banquet Beer in Boston, which is a small shame, since it's a half-step better than its direct competitors. See above regarding Nazis and unions and what not.

2. Narragansett. This resurrected New England legend was prominently featured in Jaws, then went away for a couple decades, and is now prominently featured in my refrigerator.

1. Grain Belt Premium. I always think of Minnesota as a secretly sexy place, and not just because of Kent Hrbek and Al Franken. Maybe it's all the trout and music and Lutherans. Toss in a smooth, creamy, and dreamy local budget brew like Grain Belt and it's a wonder Minnesota hasn't seceded to form its own naked blond utopia. Grain Belt Premium is America's finest cheap beer.

Will Gordon loves life and tolerates dissent. He lives in Cambridge, Mass., and has visited all of the other New England states if you don't count Vermont. Find him on Twitter @WillGordonAgain.

[BeerAndPoker]

BUMP!

Don't knock it till you try it is a motto I live by with beer.

I never would have got this on it's own but purchased one of them Blue Moon Variety Packs the other day and a few of these were included in the 12 pack. This beer is actually quite delicious.

[DirtyB]

BUMP!

Don't knock it till you try it is a motto I live by with beer.

I never would have got this on it's own but purchased one of them Blue Moon Variety Packs the other day and a few of these were included in the 12 pack. This beer is actually quite delicious.

Damn. I like Blue Moon, and I like Horchata. I might have to try that shit. Thanks.