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The kind with alcohol in it.

I'm not much of a beer connoisseur, I do like the seasonals from Sam Adams though. There was a pub/brewery in Johnson City, TN, The Sophisticated Otter, that had a late summer ale called Honey Blonde. I've tried to find a market variety that has a similar flavor, but to no avail.
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Big fan of wheat beers - anything hefeweizen.

If you want to try some delicious, delicious brews in the area, go check out Brewriver Gastropub on Riverside Drive down near Columbia Tusculum. Their brews are all great (try the River Water), the food is delicious, and the guy who runs it, Christian, is a riot.
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[quote name='Bartledoo' timestamp='1350588403' post='1172018']
The kind with alcohol in it.

I'm not much of a beer connoisseur, I do like the seasonals from Sam Adams though. There was a pub/brewery in Johnson City, TN, The Sophisticated Otter, that had a late summer ale called Honey Blonde. I've tried to find a market variety that has a similar flavor, but to no avail.
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I'm pretty sure Blue Moon makes one, and I believe Newcastle does too.
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I had Sam Adam's Summertime Ale before. Not being a big beer guy, that really tasted different (especially since I'm only accustomed to light beers). It was really filling.

Blue Moon with an orange is tolerable. If I drink beer, and it's definitely a rarity, I go Bud Light. I'm not drinking for taste, but to get lit.
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Dogfish Head
Samuel Adams
Hoegarden
Chimay
Just about anything from Germany or Belgium
There's a local brewer here called Tenaya Creek. They make the best brown ale I've ever had. Makes NewCastle taste like vinegar and goat urine.
Oh, and Boddingtons...
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Newcastle, afaik, only makes their brown ale. At least, that's all I've ever come across. Good stuff, but clear bottles are death on beer, so I usually get it on tap. They've started making mini-kegs of it though & they're awesome.

Great Lakes is pretty good, I like the Commodore Perry. I tend to go for ales.

Oatmeal Stout - Samuel Smith's makes the best one I've had from a bottle. They're not too hard to find. I like their Taddy Porter and seasonal Winter Welcome. They also make a couple of organic beers & a cider, if you're into that. Unfortunately they also use clear bottles for most of their stuff, so get it somewhere that seems to sell a lot of beer so it hasn't been on a shelf for months.

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My favorite right now would probably be Bell's 2-hearted from K-zoo, MI.
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[quote name='Tigris' timestamp='1350600005' post='1172090']
How can anyone drink beer for taste when Kool-Aid tastes so much better?

[b]Maybe we can start a coffee thread.[/b] Love that stuff.
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Worked my way through college the first time as a coffee roaster. That would be fun...
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Anything that's a Belgian quad.

Best I've ever had is Gouden Coralas Grand Cru of the Emporer (blue).

Most complex, and beautiful, taste I've ever experienced in a beer. The after-taste seemingly lasts forever and is nearly as good as the initial drink.

Chimay is a fantastic beer, and one I love, but this beats the pants off Chimay.

The awesome thing about quads is that you can age them and they get better (and more potent) with each year. The earliest I've had was from 2008, and I swear I had a religious experience while drinking it.

It's widely considered to be the second best beer in the world by people who are way too stuck up for me to ever talk to (the first is Westvleteren, which, to my knowledge, can only be purchased from the abbey itself, in person, and one other beer store a few miles from the abbey).

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I absolutely can not drink dark, thick beers. I saw a show where it says some people have a genetic abnormality, where they have more of the taste buds that recognize bitterness. I also can't eat dark chocolate, or drink coffee. I most definitely prefer Mich Ultra and other very lite beers. I don't really like Bud Light, or any Budweiser beers for that matter, but the Bud Light with Lime is ok.
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[quote name='PutWittyNameHere' timestamp='1350607934' post='1172111']
Anything that's a Belgian quad.

Best I've ever had is Gouden Coralas Grand Cru of the Emporer (blue).

Most complex, and beautiful, taste I've ever experienced in a beer. The after-taste seemingly lasts forever and is nearly as good as the initial drink.

Chimay is a fantastic beer, and one I love, but this beats the pants off Chimay.

The awesome thing about quads is that you can age them and they get better (and more potent) with each year. The earliest I've had was from 2008, and I swear I had a religious experience while drinking it.

It's widely considered to be the second best beer in the world by people who are way too stuck up for me to ever talk to (the first is Westvleteren, which, to my knowledge, can only be purchased from the abbey itself, in person, and one other beer store a few miles from the abbey).

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Try Gulden Draak. Pretty good.

I love beer, but go through phases of what kind of beers I like. Right now I am on an IPA kick. Raging Bitch, by Flying Dog, is a great Belgian style IPA.

From my other kicks, Dogfish Head, both the Indian Brown Ale and Raison D'Etre are great beers. Gulden Draak. Ommegang Brewery, near me, everything they make except for the wheat beer, I hate wheat beer. I know, so un-German of me and I'm very German.

There are tons more, just not coming to me right now.
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[quote name='steggyD' timestamp='1350621631' post='1172133']
Try Gulden Draak. Pretty good.

I love beer, but go through phases of what kind of beers I like. Right now I am on an IPA kick. Raging Bitch, by Flying Dog, is a great Belgian style IPA.

From my other kicks, Dogfish Head, both the Indian Brown Ale and Raison D'Etre are great beers. Gulden Draak. Ommegang Brewery, near me, everything they make except for the wheat beer, I hate wheat beer. I know, so un-German of me and I'm very German.

There are tons more, just not coming to me right now.
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Oh, I've definitely had Guldan Draak, it's certainly pretty far up the list. In fact, I accidentally got CRUSHED on it one night. The night started off innocently enough, and the Draak was going down like water...which ended up being a horrible thing. My friend later told me that I tried to sign my bill with the Batman symbol. Great, yet horrible night.

As for IPAs, I just can't do them. I can't stand anything that's overly hoppy. In fact, that's what usually keeps me from buying variety packs. They always end up throwing some IPA into the mix, and I don't want to pay full price for 3/4 of a case.

Some other belgian-styled beers on my short list:

Straffe Hendrick
21st Ammendment's Monk's Blood (how can you not like a beer with that awesome name?)
Anything else from Gouden Carolus (the Noel and Easter beers are particularly awesome)
Sly Fox Ichor (brewed near Philly, PA. It's sort of become my cheap alternative to Grand Cru of the Emporer)
Chimay
Westmalle
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When in Rome...

Augustiner
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/820/2560

Paulaner
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/124/388

Hacker-Pschorr
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/76/869

Hofbräu
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/4686/3062

Spaten
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/142/1944
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[quote name='CincyInDC' timestamp='1350676764' post='1172247']
When in Rome...

Augustiner
[url="http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/820/2560"]http://beeradvocate....rofile/820/2560[/url]

Paulaner
[url="http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/124/388"]http://beeradvocate....profile/124/388[/url]

Hacker-Pschorr
[url="http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/76/869"]http://beeradvocate..../profile/76/869[/url]

Hofbräu
[url="http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/4686/3062"]http://beeradvocate....ofile/4686/3062[/url]

Spaten
[url="http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/142/1944"]http://beeradvocate....rofile/142/1944[/url]
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I like Hacker-Pschorr and Hofbrau makes some good stuff. I'm really not a big fan of Paulaner or Spaten, though...and especially Spaten. Spaten is one of those beers that seems to appear at bars that want people to think they have a good selection, but really don't. And I always talk myself into getting one, and always end up regretting it. Drives me crazy.

But Hacker-Pschorr was on the top of my list for Hefes for a long, long time. It's definitely a great beer. Then, I don't know if I got sick of it, or what, but I eventually switched over to Frankinskaner and haven't really looked back.
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[quote name='PutWittyNameHere' timestamp='1350652219' post='1172155']
My friend later told me that I tried to sign my bill with the Batman symbol.[/quote]

LMAO. Classic.

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Also Tröegs > Yuengling. Their Nugget Nectar is awesome, unless you don't like hops of course.
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I love a good craft beer...

Chimay Blue (beer nirvana)
Ayinger- Celebrator Dopplebock (another MUST try)
Three Floyd's- Robert the Bruce, and Pride and Joy
Left Hand- Nitro Milk Stout
Great Lakes- Edmund Fitzgerald
Founder's- Porter
Thirsty Dog- Siberian Night Imperial Stout
New Belgium- 1554, Fat Tire, and Abbey ale
Various Sam Adams brews, love the seasonal stuff (especially the winter variety)

Anyone like pumpkin beers? Dogfish Head's Punkin ale is excellent, as is Souther Tier's Pumking, and Schlafly's Pumpkin ale...

I could go on and on about beer.
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When I was 19 and home from The Ohio State University for the Christmas Break, I had a buddy who's dad was the manager for Heidilberg Wharehouse up in Dayton. Well I had worked during the summer, and they said I could work while I was home for the holidays. Well they had this policy there, that any broken cases had a separate room, and if employees wanted to put their own cases together, we could get them dirt cheap. They had some seriously good high priced stuff. Well, me and my buddy George, the manager's son, put together some cases to buy. We got another worker in the warehouse to buy them for us because, well we were only 19. I can't remember all the stuff I had in the case but it was full of seasonal beer. Two of about every kind, Winterale, Oktberfest, you name it. On Christmas Eve me and my cousin went over to a buddy's to play cards and drink beer. I drank the whole case, and boy was that a bad mistake. Mixing all those beers made me sicker than a dog. Even though Christmas was at my place, the only time I came out of my bedroom was to get a little to eat, then straight back to my room. I really haven't had a great palate for micro-brews since then.
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