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   “The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.” - Jeff Cooper
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   – To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth

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   My thoughts EXACTLY, bhpdrew! My thoughts exactly.

   -Jason

   unclearthur on high nicotine blends:
   A few will leave you wandering around wondering who you are .

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   Without listing my favorite beers which nobody is really interested in anyhow, I'll just say;

   I love good beer,...from Heileman’s Old Style at a Cubs game to a Chimay Bleue and most everything in between. I absolutely LOVE the stuff.

   As long as it ain't skunky, brewed by Coors, or made from some kind of @*&^ing fruit,…I will probably like it.

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   OK, now I have to chime in, but all the beers listed are pretty good, but after spending 23 + years back and forth in Germany I consider myself a beer Conesour and there are many great beers out in the world, most from Germany so, for you beer lovers out there, here are a few you need to try and find and taste, then tell me what a real beer taste like. You guys have listed a few good german beers but those are the run of the mill imports to the US.
   If you can find these try them you will like them, "Sam I am" (oh sorry wrong story)
   Try these:

   Köstritzer, very dark and smokey beer (great with a good pipe) brewed in the former East Germany an dstill has its old brewing traditions.

   Jever, a real Pils (no "er") good bitter taste. One of my favorites.

   Mönchshof Pils or Schwarz Pils, good bitter taste and flavor that is undescribable, brewed to this day by monks in a monestary.

   Diebles Alt Bier, translates into "Old Beer" nothing Old about it just great flavor.

   Krombacher Pils, good flavor and good taste.

   Radeberger Pilsner very tasty.

   That's just a few of the ones I enjoyed daily

   Let me know what you think if you can find them.

   Yuri

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   Hurra Durra Tequila

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   big fan of Guinness, and Stella Artois !!!ohhh yea!!!

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   none for me, way too much work to do. I'll be done with all of my finals/projects in a good 12 hrs or so. I'm gonna stop in the campus bar for one of their half assed black and tans as soon as i'm done.

   then guiness extra stout and some espresso vodka.

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   pstlpkr:
   Mouse beer is actually a long lost historical style up here in Canada being revived by craft brewers to great critical acclaim. The texture takes awhile to get used to, but the flavour can't be beat! Bob and Doug were well ahead of the curve...

   With that said, I'm not that bold and if I was a brewer I'd have to employ tamer ingredients. I'll stick to barley over animal matter any day. On a serious note, I'm considering going back to school to enter the field in the next couple years. We'll see!

   As long as it ain't skunky, brewed by Coors, or made from some kind of @*&^ing fruit,…I will probably like it.

   Amen, Tommy... I don't have time for anything that's watered down, cut with corn or rice to lessen flavour, or bottled in green or clear glass - everything else is fair game. It's definitely my favourite form of drink, alcoholic or otherwise.

   Yuri, the only one of those I ever had was Radeburger - I thought it was an alright pils. There are very few imported beers in my province. NL Liquor Search - Sort by Beer It's sad.

   As for Guinness, I will always have a soft spot for it because it was my earliest introduction to the world beyond light lager. Stouts and porters - I haven't had many but they are my favourites. I like them warmer than they usually serve it on tap, however...

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    samuel adams winter lager.
    

    smokin my homemade rustic pipe. don`t get any better.

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    The little cigar bar I go to has 24 beers on tap. I've been there four times in two weeks. 23 beers left to go. One must be thorough with this sort of thing.

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    The best beer I've ever had came on a recent trip to Columbia, Missouri.
    It was from a Belgian brewer named Kasteel and the beer was called Donker. Absolutely awesome, 11% alcohol, and even my wife liked it.

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    Ah, delicious beer.

    Some of my favorites in no particular order:

    Guiness
    Yuengling
    Sam Adams (All Types)
    Leinenkugel (All Types)

    Those are it for the major beer companies that I find at my local grocery store.

    I'm actually really in to micro-breweries and I usually go to this local mom and pop store where they have tons of random beers imported from all over the US and Canada. I find that the stuff there is way better than anything you get at the chain stores, although they do come at a premium..

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    Wow.. hate to add to an old post... but basically for me beer sucks... whiskey rocks!!!!

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    Our local brewer , Sand Creek, makes some FINE beers. I like the Oscar's Oatmeal Stout the best!

    If at first you don't succeed you are running about average.

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    My new favorite beers are in the Dogfish Head family. I have had about 27 different beers they make and they are all quality. They are a bit on the high price side but they have an average of 7.5 for alcohol content and they are a craft brew. I like giving the smaller companies my business. These are my current favorites that they have in stores.
    90 minute IPA
    Indian Brown Ale
    Midas Touch
    Punkin Ale

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    I just drank my second last Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout, previously mentioned as my favourite beer of all time One left!

    I wish I could get Dogfish Head up here, Surfmac... I've been following them for a long time, I've read some of Sam Calagione's books and have read the reviews of all his beers - unfortunately I've never been able to try any. Some day I will make a trip down to their brewpub in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and fill my boots. Their brewery is the epitome of good beer based on their ethics and attitude alone. Their philosophy reminds me I should be working on my next batch of homebrew and making my beer better!

    Watch Brewmasters yet? It's a decent show; it's nice to watch their operation in full swing and the creative processes behind it all, even if orchestrated for TV.

    Bowhatchie, whiskey would be nowhere without beer; it's basically distilled beer! I know what you mean though, I can respect that opinion. I find spirits to be an assault on the senses and too easy to ride into oblivion but I have found enjoyment in a glass or two along the line. I would like to stay in Bourbon country and taste myself silly sometime. If I was to reach for a casual drink though it'd be a whiskey sour or a gin and tonic.

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    Definitely Guinness.

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    whiskey rocks!!!!

    
    

    My favorite beer (or, more accurately, the beer I'm most likely to select from the beer menu) is the beer I haven't had yet. I'm fortunate enough to live near a place like Capital Ale House, with a 21 page beer menu. I love trying new beers.

    The only beers I won't drink are those made in California that are not by Stone Brewing or Sierra Nevada. Those are the only two breweries that stood up for Prop 19, when the rest of them were against it. Fortunately, their beers are delicious, so I don't mind sending money their way. The rest of them can go drown in their wort.

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    @sparroa

    I went to their brewpub last October and did a tour of the factory. It was a really cool experience. I also was able to pick up a couple of cases of Punkin Ale which is damn near impossible to get.
    I have watched Brewmasters and think they did a really nice job with it.

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    There are a couple of good micro-breweries here in Missouri -- Boulevard in Kansas City and Schafly in St. Louis.
    Both offer a nice variety, from light to dark.
    While I sometimes opt for a full-bodied lager, my most frequent choice is a pale ale.

    Of the national brands, my top 3 are Rolling Rock, Sam Adams Boston Lager and Michelob (Amber Bock).

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    mmm...oatmeal stout.

    Apparently Unclearthur is adept at making people hunger for more than new pipes.

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    Another vote for Guinness, Becks, any imported beer that's on sale.

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    At the minute my ale tastes, specally when I can sit down with a cool bottle and a pipe would be Summer Lightning, Guinness, Wychwoods hobgoblin or goliath ales, old speckled hen. As for lagers, I'd reccomend Tsingtao, Lech, Becks, Carlsberg Continental... then theres ciders, in which case Rekorderlig, Green Goblin, Westons cloudy scrumpy, St. Helier blueberry... I'm not even going to get into what I smoke as accompaniment.

    

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    Sadly I do not like any beer or wine, I always wished that I had acquired a taste for either or both.

    Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight

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    BEER! I love this beer. Even though it's a wheat beer it is really sweet. Not girly fuity. Just has a nice smooth finish and a sweet apricot aftertaste. Mmmmmm.

    

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    A wonderful topic. I always enjoy my Stout's, Lagers, Porters. Guinness is always in my fridge, however lately, for the season, I've filled my fridge with holiday beers. A few that are great this time of year in my opinion are

    Mill Street Coffee Porter, (made in Toronto, Ontario)
    Samuel Adams Black and Brew, Winter Lager, and Old Fezziwig's.
    Youngs Double Chocolate Stout

    There are many more, but these are great.

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    I can enjoy all quality brews, but I love hoppy beers. I find myself going for Sierra Nevada Torpedo often as it is easy to find in most places. I also really like Bells Hopslam, Youngs Double Chocolate Stout, and of course the beers I brew.

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    Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti is at the top of my list. Actually, anything from them is good. Other breweries that I think can pretty much do no wrong: Dogfishhead (someone mentioned Midas Touch earlier, that is an amazing brew there (hooray for grapes and saffron)), Real Ale, Ommageng, Stone, Avery, Unibroue, and Flying Dog. With a few exceptions you'd be hard pressed to find a bad beer from any of those breweries in my experience. There are too many amazing beers out there to really narrow it down though I attempted to do a beer/tobacco pairing last month but found that the tobacco coats the mouth too much and really just detracts from the beer's flavor, which made me sad. Just have to alternate between the pipe and the pint to easily solve that problem though

    No, my name is spelled 'Luxury Yacht' but it's actually pronounced 'Throatwobbler Mangrove'.

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    I just drink the domestic stuff. My favorite is Sam Adams Octoberfest.

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    Any darker beer...Ale or Lager

    so many to try

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    As a Belgian there is a serious lack of Belgian beers mentioned in this thread

    "The fact is, squire, the moment a man takes to a pipe, he becomes a philosopher. It's the poor man's friend; it calms the mind, soothes the temper, and makes a man patient under difficulties. It has made more good men, good husbands, kind masters, indulgent fathers, than any other blessed thing on this universal earth."
    -"Sam Slick, the clockmaker" aka T.C.Haliburton

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    I agree with unclearthur ... Stouts !

    But my beers of choice are Blackhawk Stout (there will be some under my Christmas tree I hear, actually), Samuel Adams Cream Stout, Fat Tire and Mothership Wit.

    But if I want to pay less than $10 a six pack, Henry Weinhardt's Blue Boar Pale Ale or Bud Light Lime are nice.

    I concur about Pyramid's Apricot Ale ... it manages to do "sweet" and "ale" together well.

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    I like German beer. I typically ask about imports on tap in a bar or restaurant. All too often the waitress/bar tender says "Shiner Bock". I just shake my head and go yeah, Shiner. Shiner Bock is brewed in Shiner, Texas, sometimes less than 200 miles from the bar where I'm drinking. Once, since I'd already been proviked into being an A-Hole that day I told the lady, "Well by Import, I meant something brewed OUTSIDE Texas. Outside the country would be even better. Ever heard of Europe?" She said they didn't have anything from there, so I ordered a Heineken.

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    I prefer Sam Adams Boston Lager for the evening. Shiner Bock October Fest when it's in season as well as Sam Adams October fest. Arrogant bastard, when I can find it. Then when I'm feeling brave Urthel unfiltered Ale. Mainly I'm a big Sam Adams beer drinker.

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    Guiness, Harp, Bass, Stella Artois, Chimay, Sam Adams Chocolate Bock to name only but a few. I've also had some pretty amazing micro and home brews that knocked my socks off.

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    Beer!?!?? Hmm, I seem to remember having some thoughts about that topic...

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    Yuengling, National Bohemian, Blue Moon, Guiness, Bass

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    I'm enjoying some Samuel Adams Holiday Porter right now, great beer, perfect for this time of year.

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    About to open one of my own home brews. A Stout made with soy beans it is called Soy What stout...cheers!

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