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If you guys like dark beer but have trouble with Guiness you should try Spaten Optimator. Good dark flavor, but not as heavy. And for you pale drinkers lookin' for change try a Paulaner Heife-weisen, or Oberdorfer. Both are great wheat biers.
as for me:

Guiness
Spaten Optimator
Warsteiner
Warsteiner Dunkel
Paulaner
Fosters
Red Stripe

Mackeson XXX stout
The darker the better. there are sooo many good stouts out there. I just can't go back to a lighter beer. I do like Anderson Valley's IPA though. I guess I just like my beer as a meal.

Gretchen - If you get a chance try Bitters (it's a type of beer like 'stout' or 'bock') It's a lot more common in the UK, but some microbreweries in the US make it. It isn't bitter - more like stout but different in a good way. (This goes for anyone who likes darker ales - don't be scared off by the name 'bitters' - give it a try!)

The scary thing is that 'Bud' is getting more popular in Brittan! (They can't call it 'Budwiser' because the real Budwiser from Budvar, Czech Republic is sold there) So many great beers available there, and people are wandering around with cans of Bud! Blech!

I've really enjoyed some beers, but I haven't had one that had the complexity of good red wine. I know that sounds like 'wine B.S.', but good wines really are compicated and taste different from sip to sip. One sip and you get berry flavors, another and you get black pepper, or whatever is there in the wine. I've gotten a little of that from beer, but not as much.

Fat Tire
Killians
Any thing brewed at Hofbrauhaus in Newport

I just think that drinking beer is so pretentious. I never drink alone. So its all about the company. Not the beer. All that microbrewery crap is just that. If you were sitting around the fire and some one offered you a PBR and you didn't have a beer. Would you turn it down? I mean come on. It's all just pomp and circumstance!
Beer is social. Is anything what I'm trying to say coming across, or am I sounding like a jackass?

You mean I shouldn't drink alone...but George Thorogood pulled it off.

Tom I have had Bitters, over in England in fact. It is pretty good. I like a good chocolatey stout. Room temp ta boot! I just prefer them dark. I drank enough swill in college, I have paid my dues. Wine is my social beverage of choice. Ask my girl Lynne

I tend to agree with dirt a little here When I was a kid PBR was the comercial monster that Bud is now. All of those old labels where founded by european imigrees with beer making skills. Maybe the recipes have been tinkered with since then . I guess they might have tried marketing a beer for the masses rather than getting too specialized. Most of them had differant brews that they were forced to phase out. One of my favorite persons grew up in a noted beer making family in Lancaster Pa. Great stories and the histories tweaked a bit more appreciation out of each drink of even the Weidemans and Hudys. Go for a taste,cause alot of our imports are someone elses generic monster too. One of my favorites ( which I can't find here anymore) is Brain's traditional Welsh ale. Founded in the early 1600's just a couple of years before my family came from the same area. So maybe it's a tradition! I need a source . DO YOU HAVE ANY BRAINS?

what does everyone have against pbr!?!?!?!?!? i drink it all the time when i'm feeling rich. it's just an aqquired taste, kinda like horse piss.

Mmmmmmm, horse piss... eeeyew!

I like whatever's on sale.

If I could pick it would be Bass Ale on tap. Sometimes I like a black & tan (2/3 Bass with 1/3 Guiness sitting on top in the glass).

But if you're going to bring the keg, I'm not going to bitch about what's in it... unless it's horse piss or some other non-beer stuff.

The best beer I've ever had was called "Biere des Druides." It was 12F in a French supermarket. It came in a stainless steel, 12oz bottle with a ceramic and real cork stopper. The beer itself was the most perfect yellow lager you can imagine and the bubbles were so fine they seemed to hang in the beer like the bubbles of the finest champagne. The taste was of the absolutely most perfect lager imaginable. The best character of the beer was thrown into sharp relief with the prime flavors dancing lightly on the tongue. The finish was one of complete refreshment. Yeah. It was really good.

My dad had one. He said it reminded him of the way beer (probably PBR) tasted when he was young.

If you can find a microbrewery that does a Pilsner, go get it. A fresh Pilsner (really fresh) is the epitome of blond beer.

God I love beer.