Beer is great. If you can't connect with the previous statement, then I strongly urge you to do everything within your power to go out and start drinking some right now.

Whats your favourite and why? Any that you used to hate but now love and vice-versa?

I'm a Guiness guy myself, although if I'm having a meal like a nice curry or some sweet pizza then I find Cobra's a nice crisp lager to get the job done.

Hobgoblin

I think Beer is foul -_-
Unless it's in Shandy form.

I'll always be a Coors Light fan. It just goes down so easy. Any kind of Sleemans is good too. Sleemans Cream Ale, or Honey Brown.

curlycrouton:
Hobgoblin

I got a bottle of this for my 18th birthday :)

STELLA!

curlycrouton:
Hobgoblin

I think I love you curly.

Hobgoblin and Doom Bar for me. Mmmm...

Whobajube:
I'll always be a Coors Light fan. It just goes down so easy. Any kind of Sleemans is good too. Sleemans Cream Ale, or Honey Brown.

I can't say I've heard anything by the name of Sleemans. What country are you from? I'm from England but I can't say I've seen anything going by that name down South.

Also, I'll be very surprised if anyones had anything from the Ringwood Brewery (subtle clue as to where I live ;) It's a fairly small brewery with a large reputation, winning best bitter of England once I do believe.

http://www.ringwoodbrewery.co.uk/

Depends really.

If I'm feeling fancy out with some old friends or such I'll drink Stella. If I'm just out I'll get some of the local brew, usually a lager (Ontario: Creemore Springs Lager).

Grolsh is great but ONLY if it's in the "pop-top" bottle. I find that the regular bottle or cans taste like cardboard half-way through.

Where can I find this Hobgoblin beer everyone seems to love?

thecaptainof:

Sir Pysco Sexy:
I'm a Guiness guy myself, although if I'm having a meal like a nice curry or some sweet pizza then I find Cobra's a nice crisp lager to get the job done.

Oh aye. Nothing better than going along to Wetherspoons on a Thursday for curry night, nice bit of spice washed down with a Cobra, goes down a treat.

Hobgoblin is pretty damn good stuff, also Spitfire, though I don't think the latter is widely available outside of Kent/south London kinda area...

EDIT: There's a pub near where I used to live in Essex that has a good selection of Ringwood Brewery products... only had a couple myself, bloody good stuff I reckon.

!!! I think I'm in love with you !!! There's a few pubs in Ringwood that serve Spitfire. In the one I used to work at before I left for uni we had Landlord, Spitfire and 2 Ringwood Ales on tap. Escapists to Ringwood!! Woop. xD

Supernovajake:
Where can I find this Hobgoblin beer everyone seems to love?

English Supermarkets? Don't know how widely available it is. Only found it in single bottles though.

Supernovajake:
Where can I find this Hobgoblin beer everyone seems to love?

In a pub?

Guinness and Newcastle are my favorites, To me Guinness is like drinking a cookie while Newcastle tastes like chocolate.

Man I don't know how I forgot about Newcastle! I think I still have the label carefully folded up in my wallet from my last bottle. :D

thecaptainof:

Supernovajake:
Where can I find this Hobgoblin beer everyone seems to love?

Asda and Sainsbury's certainly stock it, at least around my way. Apart from that, any half decent off-license should be able to get hold of it.

Co-op also do it, and Morrisions.

I'd nip to Sainsbury's and get some 'Bitter and Twisted' as well though.

Theakston's Olde Peculiar is good but is hangover city.

My dad drinks Hobgoblin like water.

Me, im more of a cider man :D

thecaptainof:

Ranooth:
My dad drinks Hobgoblin like water.

Me, im more of a cider man :D

I... don't do cider. Me + the first night of the Reading Festival + a case of Strongbow = results I don't want to repeat. I'm not the biggest of guys, so 9 cans (that I remember) is a little bit excessive.

Tehe, it took me some time to like it, and normally about 7 cans of Strongbow made me go crazy, now i can drink it till the cows come home. (a point if you get the joke)

Cider = lovely but makes me so ill
Beer = its all good
However the best i've ever had has gotta be Ale from the Wooden Hand brewery in Cornwall, England

Nayone happens to live in Cornwall or going on holiday there, make sur you pick up a few bottles (Y)

thecaptainof:

Ranooth:
My dad drinks Hobgoblin like water.

Me, im more of a cider man :D

I... don't do cider. Me + the first night of the Reading Festival + a case of Strongbow = results I don't want to repeat. I'm not the biggest of guys, so 9 cans (that I remember) is a little bit excessive.

I was the same, except replace Strongbow with Stella and make that 9 into a 5 and we're probably around about the same level of wasted =) Being such a light-weight really does have it's downsides. At pubs it's not such a bad thing, you end up spending way less money for getting way more drunk. But at places like Reading fest, where booze doth floweth most plentifully, passing out like an hour after you pitch up your tent is a bit of an epic fail :))

I am a beer fan. I've tried many beers, and have many more to go. I am trying not to become a beer snob (much easier than with wine, which I have given up entirely), but I'm sad to say that some of the American mass-produced "label" beers really are lower quality by comparison. It's not necessarily a bad taste, just watery and less flavorful. I think beers like Budweiser are good for barbecues and even to put *on* the barbecue for flavor. I won't refuse to drink them, but I'll always prefer the better beers. And Americans are perfectly capable of making them. Most local microbreweries have something good to offer, and Samuel Adams provides a nice variety.

As far as foreign beers go, Europeans (specifically Germans) do it better than anyone in the world. Outside of Europe, Corona, LaBatt, and Fosters are pretty good; so are Asahi, Sapporo, Tsingtao, Harbin, and Singha for your Asian beers. Inside Europe, Smithwicks is a pretty good Irish brew (never liked Guinness), and Baltika is a good Eastern European brand. Heineken and Grolsch are good Dutch brews.

But nothing beats German beer. St. Pauli Girl, Becks, Warsteiner, Lowenbrau, and so many more. There is no finer liquid refreshment in all the world than German beer. Getting that first stein of Marzen on Octoberfest is better than opening presents at Christmas! :) I hope to one day go to the real Oktoberfest in Germany.

curlycrouton:
Hobgoblin

I liked their "Fiddler's Green" more, but "Hobgoblin" is far from bad.

A week ago I picked up a sampler pack from the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the government-run monopoly for most alcohol sales in the province) of 2 bottles each of 4 imported beers:

I tried some Innis & Guinn on recommendation of someone I know, and found it dreadfully NOT to my taste. (I think I described it as "honey thinned with horse piss" in a moment of shock.) Much too sweet for me, and the hops after-taste ends up more sour than bitter as a result. I don't regret trying it, but I don't see myself buying more.

More to my taste were the Polish and Latvian beers in the pack, but alas I don't recall their names. I still have the bottles at home and I'll look them up if anyone's interested.

In the "strange but interesting" category was a brew made by Trappist monks; a different flavour, one I find hard to describe but pleasant anyway. Or maybe that's the 7.5% alcohol content speaking... I've had wines with less kick.

Still, my heart belongs to Guinness and Sleeman's Cream Ale for regular drinking, and Stella Artois or Hoegaarten for special occasions.

-- Steve

Anton P. Nym:

curlycrouton:
Hobgoblin

Still, my heart belongs to Guinness and Sleeman's Cream Ale for regular drinking, and Stella Artois or Hoegaarten for special occasions.

-- Steve

I've heard only good things about Hoegaarten so when I picked up my first bottle I was really excited about experiencing a truley amazing beer, only to find something not to my taste (pretty much how the first beer of any new beer I try goes) anyway, I'm sure it was something down to me pouring it wrong, or storing it wrong. Sediment brews pack a nastey final kick I seem to find.

Hmmm.. I myself enjoy Coors Light, Heineken, Corona, and Budweiser.

I did a thread like this not too long ago. My current favorite is sam adams winter lager, its just so damn good. I just wish that it wasn't only a seasonal beer, and could get it the rest if the year.

stoid7:
I did a thread like this not too long ago. My current favorite is sam adams winter lager, its just so damn good. I just wish that it wasn't only a seasonal beer, and could get it the rest if the year.

Stock up man! Be that squirrel that did the stocking up over summer/autumn!

Sir Pysco Sexy:

stoid7:
I did a thread like this not too long ago. My current favorite is sam adams winter lager, its just so damn good. I just wish that it wasn't only a seasonal beer, and could get it the rest if the year.

Stock up man! Be that squirrel that did the stocking up over summer/autumn!

Beer doesn't store the way wine does. It doesn't get better with age, it deteriorates, that's why there is a "use by" date on bottles. I am considering trying to get the recipe to it and trying to brew my own though.

Most of my favorites are from local microbreweries, but one of my favorites is Leffe Blonde, which is from Belgium.

My favorite beer is probably the pumpkin ale that a local brewery/pub called Steamworks produces. Unfortunately, they only make it in October. A place called Granville Island Brewing also makes a Hefeweizen that is absolutely delicious, and their Pale Ale and Winter Ale are also great.

Guinness, Mariestads and Staropramen. Mmm BEER! Sweet sweet beer.

Sir Pysco Sexy:
Beer is great. If you can't connect with the previous statement, then I strongly urge you to do everything within your power to go out and start drinking some right now.

Whats your favourite and why? Any that you used to hate but now love and vice-versa?

I'm a Guiness guy myself, although if I'm having a meal like a nice curry or some sweet pizza then I find Cobra's a nice crisp lager to get the job done.

my freind we would get on well in person

Hmmm well I have to say...Red WKD..yep I said it, it tastes lovely, and im not much of a drinking person anyway