Favorite brews?

[EddieWalker]

Originally Posted by mjarrels

San Maguel... About 20 cents a bottle in the Philippines!

mark

In the 80's, I spent 16 months at the Embassy in Jakarta Indonesia as a Marine Guard and discovered San Maguel beer. Most of the local beers were full of formaldahyde (spelling?) for a preservative that would give you a really nasty headache. San Miguel either didn't have as much in it, or had a different method to preserve their beer. Either way, it was one of my favorites. The best part was when I'd go to Bali for a long weekend. The kids would come up to you on the beech and ask what you wanted. They'd be about 8 to ten years old. I'd tell them a San Miguel and off they would run, just to come back with an ice cold, unopend beer. I forget what I paid for them, but .20 cents sounds about right for the price!!!!

Currently, I live in East Texas, where it's hot and humid out in summer. I like the lighter beers right now. Coors is my current favorite, but it changes. I was really enjoying Miller for some reason last year, but this year it tasted funny.

When it's cooler out, I like darker beers. Guiness is always my favorite then, but most of the Sam Adams beers and stout beers are good then too. I just don't enjoy them when it's hot out.

My drinking has gone way down over the years. A case of beer can easily last me two months, sometimes longer. I do enjoy having a beer or two while mowing my fields. Not trails, that takes too much effort on my part, but when just going back and forth, cutting grass, I enjoy them the most.

Eddie

[jeffinsgf]

Like Harry Carey (before his defection to the enemy), I'm a Cards fan and a Bud man!

St. Pauli Girl is great, too. Corona is all right. A few micro-brews are OK, but most have an odd taste to me.

You just can't beat an ice cold Bud.

But, I will agree that free and cold trumps most everything.

[Tdog]

Easy - - it's Turbodog by Abita Brewing Co., Abita Springs, La. That's about 20 miles to my south. Also the source of my TBN name, Tdog.
Mostly drink bourbon these days though - - Maker's Mark. And a little gin on hot days - - Bombay Saphire. For both the latter, just mix with crushed ice.

Jack

[NewToy]

I had some friends that work at the AB plant in Jax, FL. They used to give the employees 2 cases of beer a month (maybe they still do) and the vast majority of guys took the Busch beer over all of them. Their brewmaster preferred it as well. I like it better than Bud and it's alot cheaper. Every now and then a Yuengling Black & Tan will get the party going.

John

[Fiero guy]

For a bunch of ol tractor folks, we seem to have pretty distinquished tastes when it comes to adult beverages!!

Tho I have a huge amt of experience with San Maguel, I dare not publicly comment much further on that brand. Suffice it to say, I drank most of mine off Magsaysay Blvd during "cultural" exchanges with the local indigenous female population.


For Eddie Walker:
Semper FI!!!
USMC 69-72

[RobertN]

My own homebrews. I tend towards brown ales, Stouts, and Porters. I made a Rasberry Imperial Stout, that takes the cake...

Commercial brews, well, Sierra Nevada's various offerings. They were the first small brewery to really do well.

Right now, I have a cold Newcastle Brown Ale. Otherwise, again I lean towards Porters etc.

The local brewery, Placerville Brewing Company, has a real nice vanilla stout...

[RancherSam]

I agree, quite a variety for tractor guys, but then again, we're no ordinary tractor guys

RobertN, good call on the Sierra Nevada and NewCastle Brown Ale. For stouts I also like Young's Double Chocolate Stout, Rogue Chocolate Stout, and Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout. Also good is Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron.

[Blagadan]

I'm surprised none of you guys mentioned apple cider as a favourite brew? Maybe its a european thing but apple cider is synonymous with summer, harvest, and all things "country summertime" here.
I gotta have access to cider if the sun is shining and I am working outside. Bulmers Cider being the most popular (labelled as Magners in some countries). Ahhh, Pint glass of cider with ice on a hot summers day... Reminds me of drawing silage as a teenager. Taking a lunch break, all the machines parked up in the middle of the field and we all digging in to cold cuts and fresh baked bread off the back of a pick up. Lashings of cider to go around... Darn it i can still smell it now...

[JimWalch]

Beer is like women! Their all good, just some better than others.

[RavensRoost]

I used to pretty much only drink Budweiser but for the past 3 years or so my beer of choice is Moosehead (Canada).

RavensRoost