which beer should I get?

[Skunkwourk]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
hoegaarden

FTW, right after Hef

 

[sjwaste]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: sjwaste

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: sjwaste
Steel Reserve pounders.

Gravity brewed for perfection!!!!!!!!

I'm glad somebody knew the slogan. It might be a little better than "Brace for the smooth taste"

smooth taste? I'd compare it to rhino afterbirth.

Do they bottle that now?

Seriously, a cold 40 doesn't offend me too much. Hurricane, Colt 45, OE, all drinkable if cold. Now, a Steel Reserve, that has to be, like, almost frozen, and the part down by where you're holding it is never drinkable

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: BW86

Originally posted by: MrChad
I'm a big fan of Samuel Adams Summer Ale.

I'll for this this also, just a damn good beer IMO.

 

[Uppsala9496]

From Indiana.......
You might be able to get some Goose Island. They make a few decent beers. Honkers Ale is not bad and they make some nice IPA's if you are into it.

If you want to stick with the mass brews, Sam Adam's Boston Lager is nice.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: sjwaste

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: sjwaste

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: sjwaste
Steel Reserve pounders.

Gravity brewed for perfection!!!!!!!!

I'm glad somebody knew the slogan. It might be a little better than "Brace for the smooth taste"

smooth taste? I'd compare it to rhino afterbirth.

Do they bottle that now?

Seriously, a cold 40 doesn't offend me too much. Hurricane, Colt 45, OE, all drinkable if cold. Now, a Steel Reserve, that has to be, like, almost frozen, and the part down by where you're holding it is never drinkable

lol this is why you just slam/funnel them

i remember being in college and peopel would always ask "Gravity brewed for perfection... WTF does that even mean"??

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Uppsala9496
From Indiana.......
You might be able to get some Goose Island. They make a few decent beers. Honkers Ale is not bad and they make some nice IPA's if you are into it.

If you want to stick with the mass brews, Sam Adam's Boston Lager is nice.

The 312 wheat is excellent. Most of their other stuff is too hoppy for me(other than the Oatmeal stout).

As you can see...I'm a wheat junkie. In fact I'm brewing my first wheat ale this weekend to have it ready for the dog days of summer in July.

 

[BurnItDwn]

When I see the word Indiana there are two things that come to mind, heap fireworks and Three Floyd's Brewery based out of Hammond.

Three Floyds has quite a selection of excellent brews. I've only had a few of them, so I'll post what I've tried ...
Alpha King Ale, Great Pale Ale
Robert the Bruce, Awesome Scottish Ale
Gumballhead Ale, This beer is frickin awesome. One of my very favorite wheat beers. It's kinda tame, perfect for summer!

They also have one called Alpha Kong that I want to try. It's supposed to be in the style similar to belgian quads.

I'll also recommend Goose Island. They are a decent sized brewery based out of Chicago. Most of their beers don't strike me as being amazing or totally awesome, butt they are all still good, and around here, they only cost about $6 or $7 for a 6 pack of bottles, which IMO, is not bad at all.

If you want to go with an import, Hoegaarden seems to be widely available at most of the Jewel grocery stores in the Chicago area, might be available around your part too. I'd say its considered to be more of a chick beer because it is a bit on the sweet side and it has very subtle hops, however, it's a great beer to be enjoyed. (or the cheaper American made alternative, Blue Moon (not my thing, but the GF loves it), or if you can find it, Mothership Whit by New Belgium brewery is decent (better than blue moon IMO, not quite as good as Hoegaarden.) Budweiser makes a white beer too, I forget what it's called but it has pictures of oranges on the packaging. It's rather weak in flavor, but the flavor is good. My GF really loves it, but I think it tastes kinda like weak orange juice.

One other mention, if you like Dark beer, Rogue Chocolate Stout is to die for, you may have trouble finding it, but of the people I know that have tried it, they generally either place it in their top 5 list of favorite beers, or the loathe it with absolute hatred. And if you can find it, Nogne 0 Imperial Stout is fvcking awesome.

Around where I live, there's an awesome store called DiCarlo Fine Wine and Spirits, they have a frickin awesome selection and great prices (usually cheaper than Binnys and Sams Club. Binnys is a Chicago area regional chain with about 20 giant liquor stores.)

One other mention, if you can't find any of these beers at the grocery store, is there a World Market near you? They usually have a nice selection of brews on hand.

:beer: Enjoy! :beer:

 

[paulxcook]

No World Market that I know of. I've actually heard Goose Island and Three Floyds are good stuff, I may look up their websites to see if I can find a place around me that sells them.

 

[Lola]

Two that are BEYOND wonderful for summer: Summer Shandy and Landshark. Fan-freakin-tastic.

 

[UnbalancedCheckbook]

Being in Indiana, you're not far away from Bell's brewing up in Kalamazoo, MI. They make some extraordinary stuff. Pretty much all their ales are available year round so I doubt you'll have much trouble finding them. Great, great stuff.

 

[AntiFreze]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
When I see the word Indiana there are two things that come to mind, heap fireworks and Three Floyd's Brewery based out of Hammond.

Three Floyds has quite a selection of excellent brews. I've only had a few of them, so I'll post what I've tried ...
Alpha King Ale, Great Pale Ale
Robert the Bruce, Awesome Scottish Ale
Gumballhead Ale, This beer is frickin awesome. One of my very favorite wheat beers. It's kinda tame, perfect for summer!

They also have one called Alpha Kong that I want to try. It's supposed to be in the style similar to belgian quads.

I'll also recommend Goose Island. They are a decent sized brewery based out of Chicago. Most of their beers don't strike me as being amazing or totally awesome, butt they are all still good, and around here, they only cost about $6 or $7 for a 6 pack of bottles, which IMO, is not bad at all.

If you want to go with an import, Hoegaarden seems to be widely available at most of the Jewel grocery stores in the Chicago area, might be available around your part too. I'd say its considered to be more of a chick beer because it is a bit on the sweet side and it has very subtle hops, however, it's a great beer to be enjoyed. (or the cheaper American made alternative, Blue Moon (not my thing, but the GF loves it), or if you can find it, Mothership Whit by New Belgium brewery is decent (better than blue moon IMO, not quite as good as Hoegaarden.) Budweiser makes a white beer too, I forget what it's called but it has pictures of oranges on the packaging. It's rather weak in flavor, but the flavor is good. My GF really loves it, but I think it tastes kinda like weak orange juice.

One other mention, if you like Dark beer, Rogue Chocolate Stout is to die for, you may have trouble finding it, but of the people I know that have tried it, they generally either place it in their top 5 list of favorite beers, or the loathe it with absolute hatred. And if you can find it, Nogne 0 Imperial Stout is fvcking awesome.

Around where I live, there's an awesome store called DiCarlo Fine Wine and Spirits, they have a frickin awesome selection and great prices (usually cheaper than Binnys and Sams Club. Binnys is a Chicago area regional chain with about 20 giant liquor stores.)

One other mention, if you can't find any of these beers at the grocery store, is there a World Market near you? They usually have a nice selection of brews on hand.

:beer: Enjoy! :beer:

ATTENTION: Listen to this man ^

I grew up in Griffith, IN (right next to hammond). I have been to over 50 microbreweries. Three Floyd's is #1 in my book. They have the best beers in the country IMO (and yes, I've had dogfish head, flying dog, Stone, Rogue, AleSmith, Bells, etc.)

If you don't live in the northern part of Indiana, look for Upland Beer (from Bloomington, IN). There beers aren't as bold as Three Floyd's but they are very well polished. One of the best wheat's I've had. There chocolate stout and dragonfly IPA are also good choices from there.

I was just talking to some friends and they said the weather has sucked lately, but should be nice for the weekend... but it's the midwest so who the hell knows. Hooegarden is a good choice if its hot out. Might want to go with Porters or a Stout if it's cold/rainy out though.

If you can make it to an actual liquor store you should check out Rogue's Hazelnut Brown. It's a very good beer.

But to recap without making this an essay - buy Three Floyd's.


And to BurnItDwn:

Try dreadnaught, it's there IPA, only available in bombers. It's an excellent beer. Alpha Kong is a good beer, but very very potent It's 15%.

Skip Pride and Joy because it's a bit mild. But if you ever get your hands on a Dark Lord... give it to me sells out on release day. I've had the beer twice because my fiance's family are investors.

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26/7520

Beer advocate rates it as the #3 Beer in the World.

 

[Turin39789]

I'm guessing you're on the north end of the state, if I'm wrong, you need to make a trip to the New Albanian Brewery/Rich-O's. Just don't order Corona, I think they cost like $7 and it's another $2.50 if you insist on a lime.

http://www.newalbanian.com/litefree.html


Otherwise, go to a big box liqour store near you.

Rogue and Stone are my breweries to go to for large nice bottles, as well as Unibroue, makers of Le Fin du Monde and Terrible.

BBC(Bluegrass Brewing Company) makes some good ones if they carry them in your part of indiana, but otherwise just walk down the nice beer row and pick something out. newcastle, sierra nevada, mcewans, guiness, harp, bass, theres that new st something in the funny bottles that is ok but kinda flat, and now i have to go back to work.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
High Life and forget about it. Don't go all crazy with nice beers. Move on.

horrible advice. life's too short for crappy beer.

Your short list should include anything from Pyramid, Bridgeport, Widmer, Full Sail, or Rogue. These are all northwest breweries, but I imagine you could find them anywhere if you do a little looking. If you can't then you could always get something from Henry's as they have a wider distribution. Just stay away from their hefeweizen, as I found it too be quite disgusting (although I might just be spoiled on Widmer).

Edit: My favorites-

Widmer Hefeweizen
Bridgeport Blue Heron Pale
Pyramid Summer Ale (for something lighter)
Full Sail Pale
Full Sail IPA (very hoppy and yummy!)

Life's too short for queer beers and for hunting them down.

Guys like you are funny when you come into a great local bar, hear great music and then almost cry when you list off 12 beers and none are even in a bottle there.

I am sure secretly Stella is on your short list too like all these other geeks.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: AntiFreze
And to BurnItDwn:

Try dreadnaught, it's there IPA, only available in bombers. It's an excellent beer. Alpha Kong is a good beer, but very very potent It's 15%.

Skip Pride and Joy because it's a bit mild. But if you ever get your hands on a Dark Lord... give it to me sells out on release day. I've had the beer twice because my fiance's family are investors.

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26/7520

Beer advocate rates it as the #3 Beer in the World.

I'll be sure to try the Dreadnaught if I ever see it. I'm mostly a big fan of Belgian quads, but I very much enjoy a good stout, porter, or barleywine. IPA's are good too, but most of my favorites tend to be less hoppy.

As far as Dark Lord is concerned, I doubt I'll ever have a chance to try it, but I at least do have access to many other Imperial Stouts where I live

 

[JakwoW]

Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve. The taste never gets old for me.

But as long as it isn't Coors, I'm happy.

 

[Gothgar]

Fat Tire ftw

 

[Hammerhead]

Land Shark Island Style Lager!

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: MrChad
I'm a big fan of Samuel Adams Summer Ale.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

FTMFW

 

[Trogdor91]

I see all the Sam Adams Summer Ale, and since you are in Indiana, I'll mention something similar, Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
High Life and forget about it. Don't go all crazy with nice beers. Move on.

horrible advice. life's too short for crappy beer.

Your short list should include anything from Pyramid, Bridgeport, Widmer, Full Sail, or Rogue. These are all northwest breweries, but I imagine you could find them anywhere if you do a little looking. If you can't then you could always get something from Henry's as they have a wider distribution. Just stay away from their hefeweizen, as I found it too be quite disgusting (although I might just be spoiled on Widmer).

Edit: My favorites-

Widmer Hefeweizen
Bridgeport Blue Heron Pale
Pyramid Summer Ale (for something lighter)
Full Sail Pale
Full Sail IPA (very hoppy and yummy!)

Life's too short for queer beers and for hunting them down.

Guys like you are funny when you come into a great local bar, hear great music and then almost cry when you list off 12 beers and none are even in a bottle there.

I am sure secretly Stella is on your short list too like all these other geeks.

Well put Alkemyst. A part of knowing good beers is knowing when they fit the occassion. Just like wine, good beer is only necessary at certain times. You won't catch me with an Okocim Fire or Old Engine Oil at a BBQ.

Enjoy a beer that you can find at a grocery store for Memorial Day. No harm done, we won't tell your beer geeks at the indi bar dainthomas. Get the "its cool to know cool beers" montra out of your head. Its pretty played out.

OP - Newcastle sounds great man.

 

[summit]

Paps Blue Ribbon.

 

[zinfamous]

If you like Newcastle, you'll like Fat Tire. It's smoother. New Belgium's summer brew, Skinny Dip, is also quite tasty. but if you're limited to grocery store selection, an din a crappy state, then you may not have that option.

A good flal back for me has always been Sierra Nevada. You can find their stuff just about anywhere.

Red Hook too. used to be my favorite brewer, years ago, but it seems they have fallen off a bit. Still good, and relatively cheap.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
High Life and forget about it. Don't go all crazy with nice beers. Move on.

horrible advice. life's too short for crappy beer.

Your short list should include anything from Pyramid, Bridgeport, Widmer, Full Sail, or Rogue. These are all northwest breweries, but I imagine you could find them anywhere if you do a little looking. If you can't then you could always get something from Henry's as they have a wider distribution. Just stay away from their hefeweizen, as I found it too be quite disgusting (although I might just be spoiled on Widmer).

Edit: My favorites-

Widmer Hefeweizen
Bridgeport Blue Heron Pale
Pyramid Summer Ale (for something lighter)
Full Sail Pale
Full Sail IPA (very hoppy and yummy!)

Life's too short for queer beers and for hunting them down.

Guys like you are funny when you come into a great local bar, hear great music and then almost cry when you list off 12 beers and none are even in a bottle there.

I am sure secretly Stella is on your short list too like all these other geeks.

Well put Alkemyst. A part of knowing good beers is knowing when they fit the occassion. Just like wine, good beer is only necessary at certain times. You won't catch me with an Okocim Fire or Old Engine Oil at a BBQ.

Enjoy a beer that you can find at a grocery store for Memorial Day. No harm done, we won't tell your beer geeks at the indi bar dainthomas. Get the "its cool to know cool beers" montra out of your head. Its pretty played out.

OP - Newcastle sounds great man.

ridiculous. you people have no sense of taste. if you're plan is simply to get piss drunk, then go for natty lite. it seems to be all you're worth, fellas.

 

[murphy55d]

young's double chocolate stout.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
High Life and forget about it. Don't go all crazy with nice beers. Move on.

horrible advice. life's too short for crappy beer.

Your short list should include anything from Pyramid, Bridgeport, Widmer, Full Sail, or Rogue. These are all northwest breweries, but I imagine you could find them anywhere if you do a little looking. If you can't then you could always get something from Henry's as they have a wider distribution. Just stay away from their hefeweizen, as I found it too be quite disgusting (although I might just be spoiled on Widmer).

Edit: My favorites-

Widmer Hefeweizen
Bridgeport Blue Heron Pale
Pyramid Summer Ale (for something lighter)
Full Sail Pale
Full Sail IPA (very hoppy and yummy!)

Life's too short for queer beers and for hunting them down.

Guys like you are funny when you come into a great local bar, hear great music and then almost cry when you list off 12 beers and none are even in a bottle there.

I am sure secretly Stella is on your short list too like all these other geeks.

Well put Alkemyst. A part of knowing good beers is knowing when they fit the occassion. Just like wine, good beer is only necessary at certain times. You won't catch me with an Okocim Fire or Old Engine Oil at a BBQ.

Enjoy a beer that you can find at a grocery store for Memorial Day. No harm done, we won't tell your beer geeks at the indi bar dainthomas. Get the "its cool to know cool beers" montra out of your head. Its pretty played out.

OP - Newcastle sounds great man.

ridiculous. you people have no sense of taste. if you're plan is simply to get piss drunk, then go for natty lite. it seems to be all you're worth, fellas.

I bet you drink beer with a pinky up, don't you?

Did you just read what I wrote and then punch yourself in the face? I hope so, because it would merit a decent excuse for such an ignorant reply. Why do these arguments happen every time beer is mentioned?

There's nothing wrong with some Popov every once and a while. There's nothing wrong with some Yellow Tail every once and a while. There's nothing wrong with a Stella or a Newcastle every once and a while.

4 nights a week I'm at a small local bar with a Hofbrau Maibach or Hobgoblin in my hand, but if the occassion deems otherwise I'm drinking whatever fits the bill. I suggest you re-apply for your man card at your nearest DMV, get your head out of your ass, and enjoy a beer with friends.

Originally posted by: murphy55d
young's double chocolate stout.

He said grocery store. But good call, that's a good one.