Craft beer fans: What are your favorite beers?

[Guest BrewGuy]

Hey friends - as a craft beer nerd, I’m occasionally (often? 😬) fueling the creative writing process these days by dipping into the ol’ beer cellar. Tonight’s selection is a strong farmhouse style ale from St. Louis called Tank 7. It’s amazing, even though I usually like to go for darker stuff, like stouts. 
 

How about y’all? 

[DanteSparda45]

I like a lot of beers, but I'm kinda fond of Guinness.

[Guest BrewGuy]

Can’t go wrong. Love that stuff. Regular Guinness is awesome, and the Extra, Foreign Extra, and Milk Stout (made at the new place in Baltimore) are pretty dammed good, too. 

[cdmacdm]

I love dunkels.  Franziskaner Hefe Weisse dunkel is my favorite beer. 

[Guest BrewGuy]

Another solid one...dunkels are amazing. Franziskaner kicks ass. 

[Tastic1]

There is a local craft brewery here that makes crazy beers. A favourite was their Weis Beer, modelled after the ice cream bar. Crazy, its vanilla, raspberry, creamy madness. 

[Guest BrewGuy]

That sounds awesome. I’d love to see Australia to begin with, but I’d love to see the craft beer scene down there (realizing that “there” covers a lot of different territory). 

[Nortiz1035]

Treehouse and other half brewing are the shit!

[Guest BrewGuy]

Oh man...I’ve heard good stuff about their unfiltered IPAs. Haven’t been up to New England in quite some time, and even then I wasn’t that close to Massachusetts (hutting up Allagash and Shipyard in Maine was great though). Going to have to give those guys a look. 
 

For the hoppy stuff, I’m partial to Dogfish Head and Victory (plus I’m biased toward Philly area brews to begin with). But Treehouse is on the list...Other Half I don’t know of, but I’ll have to check them out on Beeradvocate. 

[collegeguy2514]

I don't know if I'd consider myself a "craft beer" person, but I like stuff other than the typical bluh lights.  Currently drinking a Shiner Bock, but I have been known to drink Abita Amber, Dos Equis, Yuengling, and a few others.  Even a PBR now and then. 

There's a local brewery that has an Irish Pale Ale I sampled a while back that was great. 

[extra_m13]

beer is a fantastsic drink. personally , do not know if it is craft but i feel compelled to participate in this thread. i love becks, stella, pacifico, pilsner, you should be ok drinking those. 

[Guest BrewGuy]

Más cerveza, this time as recovery after a 10 mile run/aid to make yard work suck less. 

[DanteSparda45]

Nice! Haven't had any beer today, even though we had a small crawfish boil with the family. Might have a glass of Wild Turkey 101 later, though

[Guest BrewGuy]

@DanteSparda45 Wild Turkey is also a damn good use of grains. Right on, man. Sounds like good eating, too 👍 

[Tastic1]

On 4/10/2020 at 10:42 PM, PizzaGuide said:

That sounds awesome. I’d love to see Australia to begin with, but I’d love to see the craft beer scene down there (realizing that “there” covers a lot of different territory). 

There is indeed alot of territory down here, much of it wild and empty. We Australians drink alot of beer/ booze here.  While personally I no longer get blind drunk like when I was younger, I still enjoy an occasional beer. The brewery I was talking about has several beers north of 8% that you can buy by the pint.

[ShoeshineBoy]

I am a bit sick of the IPA trend, but the Fiddlehead one from Vermont is excellent.  They do a great job of brewing all of the residual sugar out of the beer.  I try to find quality, dry lagers, but they are difficult to find.  Credit where credit is due, Samuel Adams makes a great Octoberfest, which I just picked up yesterday.

[Hirsch von Bork]

I think Orval is my favourite, even though I am not much into Belgian Beers

[ShoeshineBoy]

6 minutes ago, das Hirschlein said:

I think Orval is my favourite, even though I am not much into Belgian Beers

I have had that, but it was a very long time ago.  Is that one tart/vinegary?  I might be thinking of another Trappist beer.

[Hirsch von Bork]

4 minutes ago, ShoeshineBoy said:

I have had that, but it was a very long time ago.  Is that one tart/vinegary?  I might be thinking of another Trappist beer.

This one. Not very sure how to describe how it tastes, but I like it.

[ShoeshineBoy]

I just had Zero Gravity's Oktoberfest.  Good grief.  It's fantastic.  Zero Gravity is out of Vermont, and I doubt they distribute outside of the northeast, but find it, buy it, drink it, love it.  Even the can was pretty.  I had a hard time throwing it in recycling.