This thread will be for any beer drinking conversation. Post your favorite micro-brews, local brews, or macro brews. Anything beer is cool here.

IPA is king!

Guinness and Boddingtons shall always reign supreme.

I'll start by listing these sites as good places to look up beers, beer bars etc.

www.beeradvocate.com
www.ratebeer.com

I'm a huge beer snob, along with my buddy and I we have a spread sheet tracking beers we've tried over the past year or so. It's up to around 220 beers so far, it's missing a lot we've tried as it only covers stuff we've bought in stores and is missing a lot of good beers we've had on tap as we hit some good beer bars once a week or more. Nerdy for sure, but keeps us from forgetting we tried something and didn't like it, as well as being a good thing to skim through before heading to the liquor store.

Below are a bunch of my favorites from the list. I won't give details on the styles etc. as curious folks can look them up on the above sites. They're just listed alphabetcially since I'm just grabbing them from the spreadsheet.

Allagash Dubbel Ale
Aventinus- Wheat Doppelbock
Avery 14'er ESB
Beamish Draught Irish Stout (Can)
Belhaven Wee Heavy
Clipper City Hang Ten Weizen Dopplebock
Corsendonk- Abbey Brown Ale
Cuvee de Noel Belgian Speical Ale
Deleirum Nocturnum
Delerium Tremens
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale
Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine
Harpoon IPA
Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout
Lagunitas Imperial Stout
Lagunitas Lumpy Gravy
Mc Chouffe Aritsanal Belgian Brown Ale
North Coast Old Stock Ale
North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
Oskar Blue's Ten Fidy Imperial Stout
Podge Imperial Stout
Rogue Chocolate Stout
Rogue Dead Guy Ale
Rouge Double Dead Guy Ale
Rogue Dry Hopped St. Rogue Red Ale
Rogue Mocha Porter
Rogue MoM Hefeweizen
Rogue Shakespeare Stout
Sam Adams Cream Stout
Sam Adams Double Bock
Sam Adams Summer Ale
Samuel Adams Hallertau Imperial Pilsner
Samuel Adams Pale Ale
Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout
Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale
Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout
Samuel Smiths Taddy Porter
Sierra Nevada Anniversary Ale
Southampton Abbot 12
Southern Tier Back Burner Imperial Barly Wine Style Ale
Southern Tier Imperial Choklat Stout
Southern Tier Imperial Oatmeal Stout
Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale
Stone Double Bastard Ale
Stone Imperial Russian Stout
Stone IPA
Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine Style Ale
Stone Ruination IPA
Stone Smoked Porter
Tetley's English Ale (can)
The Czar Imperial Stout
Troegs Troegenator Doublebock Beer
Troegs Hopback Amber
Troegs Nugget Nector
Unibroue Maudite
Urthel Hibernus Quentum tripel ale
Urthel Samaranth Quadrium Ale
Urthel Vlamese Bock
Westmalle Trappist Ale Dubbel
Weyerbacher Blither Idiot
Young's Double Chocolate Stout (can)
Young's Oatmeal Stout

I'm one of those loser college kids you see drinking Keystones and other cheap stuff every weekend.

I like beer.

Pabst is a decent cheap beer if you ever get tired of the Natty/Busch/Keystone Trinity.

Anyone like the new Budweiser American Ale? I think it's decent. You can tell they made it with Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada in mind.

Originally Posted by depascal22 Anyone like the new Budweiser American Ale?

I had it on tap after the tour at the Anheiser Busch Brewery in St. Louis last week. I didn't care for it. Just tasted too watery and bland to me. Better than Budweiser for sure, but not much.

But again, I really dig strong "big" beers like Imperial Stouts, double IPAs etc. so those types of more bland beer styles just aren't my cup of tea.

Yeah. A stout is good after a long day's work. Feels like a meal in your glass. For some reason, Guiness doesn't do it for me though.


EDIT -- dmaul, are you from St. Louis? I went to high school on the east side of the river.

I like Guinness but don't drink it often anymore as I'd rather pick up a good imperial stout over it.

Not a fan of Bells dmaul? They brew good stuff.

I've had just a handful from your list but may print it out for my next run to the place that stocks a ton of singles. Just had my first Troegs Hopback Amber a few days ago.

Ever had Moose Drool? I finally had it on a trip out west a few weeks ago and it's a fantastic brown.

I second your recommendation of Rogue Dead Guy Ale, dmaul. I haven't had it in a while but I'd love to track it down. That's the only problem with the South Side of Indy. All the good brewpubs are on the North Side or down in Bloomington.

I'd also recommend Hitachino Nest if you're into Japanese imports that aren't Sapporo, Sapporo, or Sapporo.

Flat Tire and Alaskan Amber. Mmmmmmm.

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A family friend brews his own beer. That stuff is straight up amazing.

Any thing Shiner is off the chain. And I also agree with the IPA guy. Have you tried the Brooklyn IPA? Don't forget about Newcastle

Originally Posted by wubb Not a fan of Bells dmaul? They brew good stuff.

Never heard of them. Just checked their site and they don't have any distributors in Maryland. They do in DC and VA, so I'll keep an eye out for them next time I go beer shopping down that way since I live in the MD, DC suburbs.

Originally Posted by DarkSageRK A family friend brews his own beer. That stuff is straight up amazing.

I've been dying to try it out, but I'm just so busy lately that I don't have the time to put in the time to learn homebrewing right now.

My dad makes his own beer, its really good. Better than most stuff in stores.

Water!

Originally Posted by dmaul1114 Never heard of them. Just checked their site and they don't have any distributors in Maryland. They do in DC and VA, so I'll keep an eye out for them next time I go beer shopping down that way since I live in the MD, DC suburbs.

I'd suggest their Two Hearted Ale.