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Old 02-15-2006, 06:26 PM
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I was going to call this "The Beer Thread," but I figured some annoying purist type would declare discussion of ales, lagers, stouts, and malt liquors off limits since they're not technically "beer." I would like to leave all of those on the table, so to speak, as well as any other subclass of brewed alcoholic bevvies that I forgot to mention.

I mainly drink ales, year-round. My best friend told me that "You don't drink ales in the summer, dumbass, you drink pilsners." But while I don't hate all pilsners, to me they're the booby prize for when a good ale isn't available.

For quite a while, my favorite was Bass Ale. Recently, however, it seems like Bass just isn't flavorful enough anymore. I've been getting the Belgian Brewing Co.'s Fat Tire Ale off and on, and while I like it, it's a little hoppier than I prefer. I favor the malty ones over the hoppy ones, and too much of a tangy, citrusy taste tends to ruin it for me.

My all-time favorite was Devil Mountain Five-Malt Ale, a local concoction from a brewery that has, apparently, closed up shop. :deepsigh: It had such wonderful hints of scotch and who knows what else, and I miss it terribly. I especially miss the opportunity to announce my bathroom breaks as "Gotta send the Devil back to the Mountain."

I like stouts and porters (ah, there's one I forgot, see?), but I have to be in the mood for them. Sometimes they're too filling, even for a scrawny, bottomless pit like myself.

So before I blather further, what do y'all like?
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Old 02-15-2006, 06:28 PM
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I quite like this one but only drink beer very occasionally.
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Old 02-15-2006, 06:46 PM
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Newcastle Brown Ale (Newkie Brown) is my all around favorite. We have a microbrew here in town, called Red Oak, that makes good beer, but I don't think I could drink it all the time.

Here in NC, they just legalized the high alcohol content beers, does anyone know anything about these? Are there any good ones.
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Old 02-15-2006, 07:00 PM
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To show you how froo-froo I am, I like Woodchuck. The Amber is my favorite.
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Old 02-15-2006, 07:03 PM
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Woodchuck Amber is one of the best things ever in the history of things.

Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout is the only stout I like. Otherwise, I'm an ale and lager girl. There was a local ale in Maine called Geary's which I drank in fairly large quantities when my parents lived up there.
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Old 02-15-2006, 07:13 PM
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I don't know anything about hard ciders, is it apple cider? If so, is it sweet?
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Well, here I sit in Beervana aka "Beertopia", and I'm not really a beer/ale drinker. Friends tell me that the local area has more brew pubs per 1,000 residents than any other community in North America. We are replete with independent brewers, some of them producing ales and beers of some renown.

When I do have an ale, and I prefer ales to beer, I have a Bridgeport Blue Heron Amber Ale. I have two, and I'll be asleep within a half hour. On rare occasions, I'll have a stout, in which case, I try to make it a Mackeson's.

This is why I stick to stuff like Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch Whiskey, Black Bush Irish Whiskey and Bombay Sapphire Gin.

I'm not much of a cider fan, but the best I've ever had was the local product of southern England, known as "scrumpy". I had my taste in Salisbury. Is was draft at the pub below my B&B. I had two. They weren't particularly sweet (not as sweet as most carbonated sodas) and they went down real smooth. I was plastered for the rest of the evening and awoke the next morning with one of the worst hangovers I've ever experienced. I'm told the stuff will make the imbiber do things they wouldn't do under the influence of other alcoholic beverages, but I didn't want to press my luck.
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I don't know anything about hard ciders, is it apple cider? If so, is it sweet?
Yes on both, although there is a range, of course. They aren't coke sweet, but they sure ain't bitter. The Amber has more body and less sweetness than the regular, imo. Woodchuck also makes a pear cider which I don't like very much.
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Old 02-15-2006, 08:12 PM
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How the hell did I manage to start this thread in Lifestyle? I just spent a rather confused minute trying to figure out why it disappeared from the Food & Drink forum, before realizing I'd dropped it here. :doh:
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Old 02-15-2006, 08:19 PM
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I don't know anything about hard ciders, is it apple cider? If so, is it sweet?
Yes on both, although there is a range, of course. They aren't coke sweet, but they sure ain't bitter. The Amber has more body and less sweetness than the regular, imo. Woodchuck also makes a pear cider which I don't like very much.
Hmmm... I'm not much of one for any sweetness with my alcohol.

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How the hell did I manage to start this thread in Lifestyle? I just spent a rather confused minute trying to figure out why it disappeared from the Food & Drink forum, before realizing I'd dropped it here. :doh:
Put down the pint, man. You're too far gone already.

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Hmmm... I'm not much of one for any sweetness with my alcohol.
Nothing wrong with diversifying, donchaknow. Libations should be like stock portfolios. ;)
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Old 02-15-2006, 08:57 PM
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Put down the pint, man. You're too far gone already.
Don't I wish. This is turning out to be a shitty day at work, and this company really needs to revise its zero-tolerance policy toward boozing on the job.
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Old 02-16-2006, 01:28 AM
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To show you how froo-froo I am, I like Woodchuck. The Amber is my favorite.
My long lost, separated-at-birth brother! :bigglomp:

Just don't ever buy the pear flavored. Very nasty. :yuck:

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Woodchuck also makes a pear cider which I don't like very much.
Oops. I didn't notice the pear monstrosity had already been warned about.
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Newcastle Brown Ale (Newkie Brown) is my all around favorite.
I'll second that. :tapbeer:
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I'll second that. :tapbeer:
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My defaults are Bridgeport IPA and Red Hook ESB. Which is stupid, because there are so many great local breweries around here. They're cheap and good, though.

From local breweries, I really really like something from Tommyknocker that I think is the Pick Axe Pale. Damn. Now I have to go and drink all their kinds of beer again to remember. I also really like the St. Charles Extra Special Bitter from Wynkoop.
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My defaults are Bridgeport IPA and Red Hook ESB. Which is stupid, because there are so many great local breweries around here. They're cheap and good, though.

From local breweries, I really really like something from Tommyknocker that I think is the Pick Axe Pale. Damn. Now I have to go and drink all their kinds of beer again to remember. I also really like the St. Charles Extra Special Bitter from Wynkoop.
Intriguing. I like the sound of Pick Axe Pale. There is one ale I buy to have on hand for my drinking buddies. It's an okay brew, but nothin' to write home about. I buy it for the name: Moose Drool Ale. It'a outta Montana.
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Bleh, beer. Cocktails, please.
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Intriguing. I like the sound of Pick Axe Pale. There is one ale I buy to have on hand for my drinking buddies. It's an okay brew, but nothin' to write home about. I buy it for the name: Moose Drool Ale. It'a outta Montana.
I'll have to try to remember harder, or else just go back and try all their beers again. I was splitting a sampler not long ago with my bro and his girlfriend, and there was something that was just ridiculously good. I'm about 74% sure it was the Pick Axe, anyway.

Now I have to go back so I can find out what it is.

I'm just all selfless and altruistic that way.
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Beer* :D Unfortunately we don't get beer** here :sadcheer:

* I apply the word to everything you list

** Nothing worth mentioning
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My genes are Bavarian, Irish and English. Do you think I might like beer? Hell, yes! I love beer. Pilsners and lagers, mostly.

My dad used to homebrew when I was a kid, and he gave the 'bug' to most of our neighbours. One night, we woke to the sound of bottles exploding, and dad laughed and laughed at the thought of our hapless neighbour's ale exploding away throughout the night. Poor Cyril couldn't brew to save himself, dad reckoned. Anyway, the following morning, dad wanders in to the laundry to check up on his babies, and every single bottle had burst. Glass was stuck in the walls and ceiling and beer flowed throughout the laudry and kitchen. Nelson and Mr. Evans (a German Shepherd and Corgi, respectively) were both pretty hammered, having lapped up whatever they could from the floor half the night. A couple of real righteous party animals, those two!

Cyril's beer was real good that year. :D
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Hello boozehounds.
I love bitter things. Bitter for example. Stouts aswell. I like stuff like Guinness, Murphys and so on. I love Marsdens Pedigree and Hydes bitter. I'm not into lagers like Fosters or Castlemaine or Stella though I do like some Spanish beers.
I currently have a bottle of Brooklyn Beer in the fridge.
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You can drink it now - it's gone midday! :didi:
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I currently have a bottle of Brooklyn Beer in the fridge.
You can drink it now - it's gone midday! :didi:
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I love it when I get called in to work a night shift (11pm-7am) because I can have a beer after work, and it feels especially naughty because it's well before midday. :D
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