Quote:Original post by Sneftel
Goddamn you Europeans with your tasty beer. Anyone wanna trade me for a Bud Light?

Swap you a dog turd in a plastic bag. Limited time offer, though - that's one heck of a generous deal.

Quote:Original post by Sneftel
Goddamn you Europeans with your tasty beer. Anyone wanna trade me for a Bud Light?

We have good beer here, just not macrobrewed. The only macrobrewed beer I like is Sam Adams.

I am not sure I would enjoy many ales anymore. I dont like beer with sweet flavors usually. I used to, but just one beer managed to make me hate sweet flavors. It was a Tommyknockers beer based on maple syrup [sick]. I can still imagine the taste. It was one of 2 beers that was too nasty to finish drinking. The other one was guiness in a bottle. The stuff on tap is great, but the bottled stuff is just terrible. Not nearly as bad as the maple crap though.

I am not sure how to describe beer, but perhaps I drink mostly dry beer with strong hops. I think.

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Quote:Original post by Sneftel
Goddamn you Europeans with your tasty beer. Anyone wanna trade me for a Bud Light?

We have good beer here, just not macrobrewed. The only macrobrewed beer I like is Sam Adams.

I am not sure I would enjoy many ales anymore. I dont like beer with sweet flavors usually. I used to, but just one beer managed to make me hate sweet flavors. It was a Tommyknockers beer based on maple syrup [sick]. I can still imagine the taste. It was one of 2 beers that was too nasty to finish drinking. The other one was guiness in a bottle. The stuff on tap is great, but the bottled stuff is just terrible. Not nearly as bad as the maple crap though.

I am not sure how to describe beer, but perhaps I drink mostly dry beer with strong hops. I think.

Sweet beer? Good God. No thanks, I'm a pretty much exclusive ale drinker (I occasionally have a pint of cold lager if it's really hot), and I'll never drink a sweet pint. I've only come across a few particularly sweet beers, and those are all 7+ %Abv.

While I too have tried - and been generally unimpressed with - honey beers and the like, I do have a certain fondness for Belgian fruit beers.

Quote:erhaps we can just share some photos of what beers we're drinking (that we'd recommend)

Yay - an excuse to see what quality my new camera phone is:



Sadly I'm not drinking these right now, I drank them weekend before last [grin] Doubt anyone outside the UK will know of Threshers, but they've usually got good deals on 4-for-£5 with decent beers. Thus £10 for the above photo.

From the left...

Wadworth's 6X - was local down in Hampshire where I lived/worked last year. Not an amazingly distinctive beer, but an all-round pleasing drink.

Marston's Burton Bitter - Again, nothing hugely special in my book

Adnams' The Bitter (used to be branded SSB I think) - one of my all time favourites. Went on holiday to Southwold last year (where its brewed) and spent the vast majority of the time drinking the various Adnams'. Good times. From the bottle its good, but nothing on the quality you'll get at a decent local.

Shepherd Neame's Spitfire - Another good all-rounder, whilst I enjoy it I find its fairly hit-or-miss with other people. Got a bit of the marmite effect it seems.

Badger's First Gold - A new one to me (well, as of last weekend - I've since polished off another 3 bottles of the stuff). Extremely nice - my new current favourite.

Fursty Ferret - Gotta love the story about the name (Ferrets drinking beer... whatever next [oh]) and its a decent pint as well.

Your turn(s) [smile]

Jack

While I don't have a picture of it, I would have to say that my favourite beer would be Alexander Keith's.

Though I will say that I enjoy a good dark beer. I always keep a couple Guiness in the fridge.