Favorite beers

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ocean82

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Beer is a gift to mankind. It's time to celebrate it.

What's your favorite style?

What's your favorite drinking beer? That is what beer is your go to beer for a session of drinking?

What's your all time favorite special occasion beer?

My favorite styles have to be Belgian ales and hefeweissens. My cheap go to is Yuengling or Franziskaner Dunkelweiss if my wallet is fat that day. My all time favorite is either Gulden Draak or Chimay Blue.
 
Henry's..... Oregon made.... the all time best beer I have tasted.....

Miller High Life and Milwaukee's Best.....  Guess I just like American stuff...
 
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Chimay Grand Reserve(Blue) is an excellent beer. I shared a Triple Karmeliet at the NC Gathering Saturday. Even the Bud Light crowd liked it. IPAs are my favorite style. I like Porters, Stouts, Hefes, Brown Ale, some Belgians. Don't like Gueze too much. Too sour for me.
 
I've been brewing for quite a while and right now on tap have a super hoppy double IPA, a German-style hefeweizen, a Vienna lager and a coffee stout.My favorites are probably hoppy IPAs, but I really enjoy a good stout of hefe too. And a crisp lager after a day of yard work (or while manning the smoker on a warm day).
 
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I like IPA style beers. Over the top hoppy and full bodied. Used to be a stout drinker, but I guess my tastes have changed. Dogfish head 60 minute is one of my favorites, though I need to remember to take it easy on it. I tried the 90 a couple times and paid the price the next day. Redhook and Sierra Nevada have a couple really nice not too expensive choices as well. The Longhammer and Torpedo varieties are probably my favorites, though the ESB is an old stand by.

Of course, if I'm REALLY on a budget and/or just "drinking for sport" Natural Light or Coors Light fit the bill quite nicely and are generally "morning after friendly". Yeah, I'm getting old, I need to think not only about the taste, but the next day as well.
 
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I'm a BJCP sanctioned Beer Judge, so I often get this question, and my immediate answer is always the same: 

"My favorite beer is the one in my hand". 
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If I had to pick a single style as my favorite, I'd say Flanders Red.  Rodenbach Grand Cru is probably my favorite beer of all time.

As far as go-to beers, I'm a big fan of American IPAs and American Pale Ales, as well as Oatmeal or American Stouts.

Generally, I don't go for the biggest, most alcoholic beers, like Russian Imperial Stouts or Barleywines, though I'll enjoy them once in a while.

During the summer time, one of my favorites is Deschute's Twilight Ale, a very hoppy Blonde Ale that's sort of a cross between a blonde ale and an American Pale Ale.

My favorite lager style is probably a Helles (such as Augusteiner Brau Helles) or a Dortmunder, though I'm pretty partial to Marzen/Oktoberfest, too.

I like to drink the phenolic beers like Weizens and Belgian Strong Ales, but I'm very sensitive to the phenolics in them and they overwhelm my palate after a full pint, so

I can never judge them in a competition.
 
Harpoon IPA is my one and only ... when a restaurant doesn't have it Sam Adams Boston lager will do .. if not that then a bass ale .. If I am out of state a Sierra Nevada will do ... When I was in the Portland Oregon Airport I really enjoyed the PDX Porter ..
 
Quick Cheap Buzz...Steel Reserve 211 24 oz. Cans.

Go To...Yuengling Lager or Black and Tan.

Got a couple of Bucks...Warsteiner or Killian's Irish Red.

Nostalgic Favs...1st Beer age 8, Stegmaier Gold Medal, First Beer with Dad age 10, Pabst Bock,  Holidays Past, Coors Winterfest aka Christmas Beer.

Latest Find...Chimay Blue.
 
Cold beer.. and it doesn't have to be cold. 

I just started brewing my own beer this year.  This has opened a door to an amazing world, close to the BBQ world I already live in.  I brewed an American pale ale and also a Pilsner.

I am going to have to say that IPAs are always on the top of my list.  Dogfish head seems to do a really good job with the 90 min.  I had a 120min a while back.. pretty darn good.  All day drinking I would go with Corona light or Yingling light.

We just had another brewery open in Richmond VA.  Hardywood park craft brewery.  They are doing some really good stuff.  They have a Belgian single that is just great and the Gingerbread Stout scored a 100 with BeerAdvocate magazine.  If that means anything to anyone. 

"Don't worry, have a homebrew"
 
Harpoon IPA is my one and only ... when a restaurant doesn't have it Sam Adams Boston lager will do .. if not that then a bass ale .. If I am out of state a Sierra Nevada will do ... When I was in the Portland Oregon Airport I really enjoyed the PDX Porter ..
Harpoon IPA is awesome!! I'd forgotten about that one earlier. Knew the Doyle brothers many years ago. I remember hearing that Richard had started a brewery. We all thought he was crazy :) I saw the IPA in a local store a few years ago and it's been in the rotation since. Tried a couple of the others and thoroughly enjoyed them as well.
 
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