Favorite Beer?

[Bryan SD2]

Originally Posted by Swampy79

Currently having a love affair with Wisconsin beers

New Glarus Fat Squirrel, Leinenkugel red lager or creamy dark for dinners/ single beer for the evening.

Leinenkugel original for everything else: working in the garage, cutting grass, fishing, etc...

Since I live in Mississippi right now and can't get any of this local, once I run out of my mass stock of original I usually supplement with coors light until I can make another summer vacation run back up to WI.

Stop in Indiana... you can get it at any big grocery store.  Play golf a few days, drink the Leinies, re-stock, and drive home.

Have you had the Leinies - Summer Shandy?

[Swampy79]

Not yet but I'll make sure I try it next week when I get to Hayward, you're the third person to ask if I've had it so I'm assuming its definitely worth a try.  The worst part is that you can find their Berry and Honey Weiss (My least favorite Leinie's) in a few grocery stores here  but they won't stock anything else.

edit* changed honey wheat to honey weiss

[Gioguy21]

Guiness.

[XMScott]

Defiant - Local Brew

Dog Fish Head

[Bryan SD2]

Dog Fish Head make the Apricot Pale Ale iirc.

It was fantastic.

re: the Leinie's Summer Shandy.  It packs a bit of a lemon whallop.  Not overt or over the top, but it is part of the label and the packaging for a reason.  That said, it's rather mainstream and very drinkable to me.  If' you're a Coors Lite guy, and a Miller Low Life draft is a big reach, forget it.

But then you would not be this deep into this thread then would you?

[Inebriated]

George Killian's Irish Red. Can drink two with a steak or 12 during a Panthers' game...

Good all around beer, IMO. Not the best lager out there, but one of my favorite's.

[keb]

Blue Moon Summer Honey Wheat

[imtomtomim]

Ommegang Abbey Ale is what I've been pulling recently.  Have always liked Blue Moon and I'll get a Black and Blue once in a while at the bar.

[Swampy79]

Originally Posted by Bryan SD2

re: the Leinie's Summer Shandy.  It packs a bit of a lemon whallop.  Not overt or over the top, but it is part of the label and the packaging for a reason.  That said, it's rather mainstream and very drinkable to me.  If' you're a Coors Lite guy, and a Miller Low Life draft is a big reach, forget it.

But then you would not be this deep into this thread then would you?

nope I sure wouldn't. I will be stretched out on a dock in northern wisconsin this coming friday, hopefully consuming my first summer shandy.  If it's not to my tastes then i'll cross it off the list and then break out a leinie red.

[darkhunter139]

Originally Posted by Bryan SD2

Dog Fish Head make the Apricot Pale Ale iirc.

It was fantastic.

re: the Leinie's Summer Shandy.  It packs a bit of a lemon whallop.  Not overt or over the top, but it is part of the label and the packaging for a reason.  That said, it's rather mainstream and very drinkable to me.  If' you're a Coors Lite guy, and a Miller Low Life draft is a big reach, forget it.

But then you would not be this deep into this thread then would you?

DFH Aprihops was awesome stuff, I like it better then 90 minute honestly.  They should just brew that one year round!

[BigAl5150]

Shameless self-promotion

http://thesandtrap.com/groups/show/30/beer-snobs

For the record, almost anything by New Glarus gets my vote.

[aleski]

Budvar dark lager (tap)

Budvar lager (tap)

VB (bottle)

Asahi Super Dry (bottle)

Kirin Classic (bottle)

Hitachino Nest Beer XH (bottle)

Hitachino Nest Beer White Ale (bottle)

[glock35ipsc]

Kalik Gold (Bahamas)

[Bryan SD2]

For those of you who are midwesterners.... a few buddies of mine run this site, blog often and have ears to the ground all over the midwest re: good craft beer.   They have man subscribers from around the country.

http://hoosierbeergeek.blogspot.com/

[Callahan14]

An ice cold Bud Light.

[XMScott]

My new favorite (for right now) - Blue Point Summer Ale

Deeeeeeeeeeelish

[colnago1331]

Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale is oh so tasty......

http://www.kentuckyale.com/beer/Pages/KentuckyBourbonBarrelAle.aspx

[CrunchEasy]

Lagunitas CENSORED or anything Lagunitas really esp their seasonals like the Undercover Investigation Shutdown ale.  Oh man is it tasty.