At the end of the day, what's your brew?

Gary_in_Indiana · Aug 4, 2004

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If I'm going out with a gal friend after I generally just drink iced tea with a meal. If I head home by myself it's tea again. If I'm going out with the boys it's usually Coors Light. I'm not much of a drinker any more, really.

Once in a great, great while that Coors will taste especially good and I'll make an evening of it drinking by the pitcher. On a night like that I just grab my cell phone and call the flatbed rollback. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I get home safely and my truck is there when I wake up in the morning. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Ozarker · Aug 4, 2004

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For me it is either Raspberry Iced Tea or Perrier.

sassafraspete · Aug 4, 2004

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sassafras tea anyone?

sassafraspete

AMP762 · Aug 5, 2004

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Well since you asked, if I'm not drinking tea at the end of the day I like about three fingers of stump run with cool water by the side /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Good for what ails you /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

GerardC · Aug 5, 2004

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Fresh brewed coffee for me. I'm now sober for 34 months and 5 days /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif. G

Birdhunter1 · Aug 5, 2004

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The first two years of college it was Natural Light or Keystone cause it was cheap. part of second year was Corona, third, fourth and fifth year it was Coors Lights. I don't drink much but I still rank my Coors Lights (pronounced Curs by the end of a good night) as #1, I like Killians Irish red, some mexican dark beer I had one night in a restaraunt that I can't pronounce, I had my first pabst not long ago, I had a second one shortlky after that, Budweiser's and Bud Light is what I had in high school ( a truly overrated beer), same goes for Miller Lite, Sam Adams is ok but I never really cared for it, Nat. Light and Keystones bring back to many memories. Anybody ever try a beer called Hamms. I'm sorry if you did, yuk.

CtRick · Aug 5, 2004

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Back when I was in high school it was Busch and tequila. In college (in the early 90's)it was pretty much anything, although my friends and I were very fond of Liebotschaner Cream Ale. We used to drive to Sturbridge Mass to buy it because it was cheap. We used to laugh about how we drank such an unknown brew just cause it was eight dollars for a case of glass bottle pints (which made us feel real classy). Imagine my surprise when it went on to win the Gold Medal in both 1994 and 1995, at the Great American Beer Festival, and a Bronze Medal in the 2000 World Beer Cup. We were just ahead of the times /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif! Now when I drink, it is straight VO with a ginger ale chaser.
Rick

fivestring · Aug 5, 2004

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IC LIGHT 

Bill, it's getting harder and harder to find it here!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

shvl73 · Aug 5, 2004

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A cold Bud does just fine for me, but only at the end of the day & not every day. Not like it used to be but, I used to be 25lbs. lighter as well. Now I buy the 35 count cases of water & try to get used to the less taste - less filling idea.

Bird · Aug 5, 2004

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You guys have sure named a lot of brews I've never seen, and in many cases, never heard of. I'd never tasted the Sam Adams until a couple of months ago when friends from Pennsylvania were here in their motorhome and had it. I liked it, but haven't even looked to see if it's available here.

Chuck52 · Aug 5, 2004

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Once, while sitting through a particularly dull seminar, I started a paper going around the audience asking the grad students to list all the beers they had sampled. Since we had a number of foreign students, the list got really long and included quite a few beers I had never heard of, but what was really surprising was that a fella from rural Wisconsin named about ten different local brews from there, beers that never got out of their counties of production, probably, and this was back in the 70's, before the growth of microbreweries.

As to my own favorites, there's a local brewpub that used to be way up there on my scale, but the brewmeister left for greener pastures and the new guy has no imagination. I like really bitter IPA's, and I understand that is not "normal", but the brewpub used to make an "Anerican" style IPA that hit the spot. Now they stick with the "British" style, which is just your basic bitter. My own brews tend toward IPA styles, but usually include a lot of wheat in the mix. I started doing that after having a Red Hook Hefeweisen I particularly enjoyed. I liked it so much I cultured the yeast from a six-pack and used it for years to brew with. The culture finally died on me....my fault. It may not have been the actual brewing yeast for the Hefeweisen anyway, but perhaps a yeast added to the bottles after brewing, though it made me soime good brews.

I'll drink any of the light beers during hot weather....they have less taste than bottled water and are probably more pure, and usually cheaper. For taste, the Boulevard beers out of KC are OK. Red Hook IPA is almost bitter enough. I've worked my way through most of the locally available micro brews without finding one that has earned my loyalty.

Speaking of lists....has anyone been to Paradise Alley in Jax Beach? They list several hundred beers on their menu.

Chuck

hennydamule · Aug 5, 2004

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( ( an ice cold Corona will just slide right down )

Different tastes for different folks; Corona, to me, is the worst tasting beer I ever tasted. But since I seldom drink beer anymore, I switched from Bud to Natural Light when I do buy beer. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )

Bird,
How right you are my friend, 'cuz I feel the very same way about Natty Light. Bad college nights with that stuff /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

hennydamule · Aug 5, 2004

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[ Loved the Miss Reingold contest every December... )

My father-in-law's father was a brewer for Rheingold, so they're, of course, huge fans. Actually, I like the Rheingold that's around now, very crisp and dry. My father-in-law says his first love was one of the Rheingold girls, in fact, if you go to their website, they have them all posted, so he showed me his favorites and the ones that he got to meet.

Molerj · Aug 5, 2004

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Funny how my taste buds changed. I started with Pabst, then Millers, now striclty Busch, altho I do like Corona, but I'm too cheap to buy much of it.

slowrev · Aug 5, 2004

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Mtn Dew.
I only drink alk a few times a year, and then for the effect not the taste /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

EastTexFrank · Aug 5, 2004

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Coming in from a hard, hot day .... Gatorade, diet soda or plain ol' water. After that I will probably have a cool one. These days it is usually Shiner Bock but I will drink MGD in a pinch. I was brought up drinking European dark beers and still love them, all of them, but they are a bit pricey these days for casual drinking. I haven't brewed my own for quite a few years. That was a lot of fun. I used to love experimenting. Maybe I need to start again. I think I've still got all my equipment stored down in the basement somewhere.

tc35dforme · Aug 5, 2004

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New Castle Nut Brown English when I want a light(er) beer and Murphy's Irish Stout when I'm ready to relax.

Put me in the water instead of Corona pile /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif !!!

tc35dforme · Aug 5, 2004

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 I'm now sober for 34 months and 5 days 

Gerard...if I could... I'd shake your hand and pat your back with encouragement. I've been through several tough periods with friends and family and have been very conscious of the need to moderate / abstain.

My friends laugh when I go to buy a case of beer for the 'summer'. I get by with 1 or 2 beers a week and can't remember the last time I was drunk....wait maybe that's a problem /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif.

Good Luck and grab a Moxie /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

BB_TX · Aug 5, 2004

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Nothing beats a cold tall glass of freshly brewed ice tea on a hot day. But I have been known to drink a few Dos Equis also. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

hennydamule · Aug 5, 2004

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I was hoping to see if maybe there was a trend by region, but I guess it's just the old saying, "to each there own".

I really like hearing about the more obscure brews! I've done a couple of "world tours" at bars, 100 different brews from different countries, etc. I can't believe there was a Xingu reference!!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif That was one of the beers that I really enjoyed during the "tours". It's smooth, dark, malty, and just seems to roll down the throat... Man! I'm getting really thirsty! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Great input all, and thanks.