any beer drinkers out there?

[Skud]

Just having one of these http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/664/73, Young's Double Chocolate Stout, and I must say that it is quite pleasing after a ten hour day, report time 5:45 A.M. I've always loved Young's Oatmeal Stout, which comes and goes at liquor stores way over here in Wisconsin, so I tried this one...I only got one bottle, in case I didn't like it, but am wishing I'd gotten more. Seeing that a great percentage of me is of German descent, I find it a little strange that most of the beers I like best come from England! But I'm not snobbish and will pretty much down anything one is willing to buy for me!

[DougBob]

I don't drink like I use to but I definitely like a good beer now and then. Mostly when I go on business travel.

I LOVED the beer in Germany when I went over there a couple years ago.

Lately about the only thing I've been drinking is Anheuser Busch's Wild Blue, blueberry lager. Ever since they were bought out by inBev they have done some pretty good changes in their products. They just came out with a new Golden Wheat this week I'm going to have to try and see if they tried styling it after Hefferveisen. Should be interesting.

[Trooper110]

I love a good beer with a meal, or for kicking back with to relax. I don't really drink like I used to, but a good beer is always nice. I like a lot of the microbreweries around here....Troegs, Victory, Magic Hat, love the Young's that you mentioned Skud. Can't get enough Guinness, lol. If it's a good tasting beer, and not weak piss like Coors, Bud, etc I usually like it. Although I'm not super fond of IPAs.

[Duke{CLR}]

Oatmeal stout is one of my favorites and before we moved into our current small home I was brewing a seasonal brew for every season every fall was Stout time and winter was a Scottish Wee Heavy (%9.3 ABV). If you are at all interested in beer read Designing great beers. http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Grea.../dp/0937381500. It has a bit of history on each beer and some details on how to brew them.

I love to try out the local flavors when I have time on my layovers. I had one from the Greta Lakes brewing company last week in Columbus. Tomorrow I will be in BNA so I will post what I come up with.

[Skud]

I'd love to go to Germany, DougBob, and try some of the beers. I've had a great many German imports, and am quite fond of many...I do like stouts and porters best, though, and many of those I've found have been English, or Irish and such, as Trooper mentions (Guiness is one of the few stouts that many bars carried around here (and therefore I drank), before the micro brew explosion).

I also like to try different American microbrews, as Duke mentions...though I don't travel so much. There are a few good breweries in Madison, Duke, if you ever stop by. Also a really good porter that's brewed in Wisconsin is Lake Louie's "Tommy Porter" http://www.lakelouie.com/lakelouie2008_002.htm...they have it on tap at a bar on the east side, and it is very good...also another bar called the Great Dane has a few stouts and porters they brew....Mmmmm, beer!

[Colonel_Tighlon]

At a local bar they mix the chocolate stout with some kind of banana beer. Not really my thing though.

My favorite beer that isn't too hard to find would be Smithwicks.

[mapes]

I prefer a Newcastle although I'll drink any stout as well. It's kinda cool you brought this up. My wife is a member of this wine tasting room here in Santa Cruz. This place only sells wines made locally. Anyways we were in there the other day I notice one of the Wineries made a limited run of Beer. Called Rorie's Ale. It's a quadruple ale aged in barrels with cherries added. I have no idea if its good. Hmmm maybe I'll open it tonight

Holly crap it's 10.2 alcohol by volume

[Skud]

I prefer a Newcastle although I'll drink any stout as well. It's kinda cool you brought this up. My wife is a member of this wine tasting room here in Santa Cruz. This place only sells wines made locally. Anyways we were in there the other day I notice one of the Wineries made a limited run of Beer. Called Rorie's Ale. It's a quadruple ale aged in barrels with cherries added. I have no idea if its good. Hmmm maybe I'll open it tonight

Holly crap it's 10.2 alcohol by volume

Lol. I had one on the weekend I went to that Lemans race that had an alcohol content around there. I can't remember the brand...it was an English ale, I believe. My brother's made a few different beers (@Duke too), I don't recall if he's ever added cherry, but he has made pumpkin and spruce beers...I wasn't too fond of them. He got me a kit for a porter one year which we made and that was pooty good, though.

I also like Newcastle, Mapes, but it's like the one beer that seems to give me headaches the next day. Love the flavor, though.

[Apache Warrior]

They have beer tasting clubs too Mapes.
A good beer is wonderful. A bad beer isn't worth using as a diuretic.
Apache

[Duke{CLR}]

Skud I'll be sure to give you a call if I ever get a MSN layover.

[Skud]

Skud I'll be sure to give you a call if I ever get a MSN layover.

Cool, Duke! If u let me now in advance (five days) I could be sure to maybe have time.

[Colonel_Tighlon]

Newcastle is a great standby for me. It disappoints me that Newcastle is as readily available in the rest of the world as Bud Light is America. I wish I could show up at the occasional kegger and be treated to free Newcastle instead of the usual piss water!

[Jed_Clampet]

I love a good beer with a meal, or for kicking back with to relax. I don't really drink like I used to, but a good beer is always nice.....

Glad I found this thread! Same here, I love a frosty beer after working in the yard mowing or whatever. I keep a big mug in the freezer that holds 2 bottles and break it out maybe 2 times a week....Friday if it's pizza and any other day the food would go good with one. I never got in the habit getting a 6 or 12 pack just for Friday night.

My mother's Grandparent's were from Germany and she has 'Yingling' as a maiden name. That's a good beer by the way! I like the seasonal Sam Adams and Corona too.

[GeneralSnake]

I enjoy this beer. I dont drink too much(not legal yet), and when I do it is usually the cheap beer because young people are cheap and broke. But sometimes we will splurge and get something fancier.
this wheat beer is very smooth and tasty.

Anyone like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale?

[Skud]

I enjoy this beer. I dont drink too much(not legal yet), and when I do it is usually the cheap beer because young people are cheap and broke. But sometimes we will splurge and get something fancier.
this wheat beer is very smooth and tasty.

Anyone like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale?

I used to love that particular Hacker Pschorr (no, Phan, not that kind of hacker!), but, well, sometimes when one overdoes a love one gets a bit tired of them.

I'm not a big pale ale fan, though. I prefer the maltier beers to the hoppier ones. A good friend of mine loves IPAs, but isn't as fond of the stouts and porters: we've help to support makers of each over the years.