BEER!!!

[DragonRose]

I have never been able to have more than a sip of beer.  Yuck yuck yuck. In fact, I've never had much luck with anything alcoholic. I end up being the anoying sober friend who takes your picture in a compromising pose after you've passed out. But I do like Mead.  Fermented honey, water and fruit.  Tasty tasty tasty. But mead is hard to come by, so I stay sober.

[Trapezoid]

Yeh, I don't like beer either. I prefer drinks that are pleasing to my sense of taste. If anything needs to tap directly into your brain and alter your perception just for you to enjoy it, I don't think it's worth it. Could I sell a big steaming jar of cat vomit if it gave people enough of a buzz?

[Archangel (aka SoupDragon)]

Guiness? Ick. Tastes like burned potatoes.
Normally I drink Stella, but after a few pints I tend to get sick of it. White wine, gin, or any kind of vodka mixers after that.

[Oliver]

Gin is also GREAT!!

[Darth Mandarb]

I like Rolling Rock, Corona, and good ol' Labatt Blue.


I've moved to FL in recent months and I'm having a hard time finding Labatt down here.  A lot of places don't even know what it is!!

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[Las Naranjas]

That reminds me that we meant to make a brew of Mead. The bloke we get our homebrew stuff odd is apparently a champion mead brewer.

[shbaz]

I detest beer. I guess it's an acquired taste, but it SMELLS gross, TASTES gross, and it gives heaps of people a beer gut.

Heh, if you read the link below in my sig, you'll find out that lowfat milk is more likely to give you a "beer gut" than beer. Usually that is just the attribute of a person who eats a lot and exercises rarely.

[D · Y · D · O]

My kind of topic!

I drink Oranjeboom (Dutch) most often. Hertog Jan (Dutch) at home. If possible I like Stella Artois (Belgian).

The best beer I ever drank was either Pilsner Urquell or Gambrinus (botch Czech), can't decide.

Brand (Dutch) beer gives me a headache right away, but the worst beers I ever had are Millers and Budweiser (American).

I might have had other memorable beers, but the problem with memorable beer is you can't recall anything the day after.

[LordHart]

Favourite beer would have to be Tooheys New. But I haven't had beer for a while, ever since a friends birthday party.

I mostly drink Bundy Rum & Cola these days, but will have almost any spirit. And once I get really drunk, I start doing the really stupid shots and stuff.

I've done a Tequila Suicide (you snort the salt, and squirt the lemon in your eye...), a Jellyfish (shotglass with Vodka and a capfull of Tobasco sauce) and one which my friends brother makes us at the local bar (he works there).

Another drink for when you just really have the need to get drunk when low on cash is the almighty Passion Pop. It's a really cheap cider/wine or something like that, it's about $4, in a bottle the size of a wine bottle, is 10% alcohol or something, and at first tastes pretty crap, though you get drunk quickly with it and it tastes better.

Whatever you do though, don't Skull it down, otherwise you will be VERY sick...

[Simple]

It's interesting to see how many people here don't enjoy the taste of beer.  I didn't used to, either.

In fact, if it weren't for my beloved CIDER, I would have spent my first 18 years sober!  

So if anyone here really can't stand beer but doesn't mind the taste of apple juice, give cider a go.  They also have pear flavor and stuch...but I can only vouch for the apple.

And you know how people will taste something new and then give it to you and say, "Here, you'll like this, you can hardly taste the alcohol..."?  And how it actually means, "here, this is only moderately horrible?"

Well, with cider, you really can't taste the alcohol.  And it has as much in it as a beer does...so you can blitz your gourd right along with everyone else.  

In conclusion, I like cider!

[Las Naranjas]

Nothing conjours up the world of mid adolescence quite like Passion Pop. I remember when it was $2 a bottle and it complemented teh goon that was the other perennial companion at parties thrown by cash strapped teenagers.

We once threw a graduation party for my brother on the train with passion pop. The guards came past and looked at us, said nothing and moved on. AS long as we cleaned up, I don't think they cared since we weren't going to harm anyone.


Train guards were always rock in my experience.

[Layabout]

If I were to buy beer at a nightclub, it would be coronas. I drink other beer like XXXX and VB at parties when it is 'complimentary'...

I remember being so very embarrassed when 2 of my 16 year old chick friends pursuaded me to purchase passion pop for them...

But Goon is good for getting maggoted really fast!

I despise Rum just so you all know...

[plasticman]

My favorite has to be Guiness.
I was told stout loses its taste with transport more than any other kind of beer. So the further you are from the brewery, the least good it tastes... My friend who went to Ireland confirmed that their brews taste quite different too.
So if I like it so much here, I wonder what it'd be in Dublin.

Other than that, I'll take a John Martin's whenever I'm in a pub that sells it.
Which reminds me, I still have to try Porters. But the only english pub I know doesn't sell english ale at all... wtf

I also like trappists on occasion, preferably Leffe.

As a kid I would always beg for my dad or his friends to give me the end of their beer bottles.
When we started drinking, alcopops weren't commercialised here yet, so we relied on beer and strong alcohol.
And whiskey-coke, just so we could fool the teachers...

[Meowster]

I don't drink. I extract water and nutrients from food which I eat. Such as strawberries.

[Layabout]

Maybe you should start. People who drink are generally more SOCIALBLE!

[DGMacphee]

DYDO: I love Oranjeboom, but I've only ever had it once!

It's a bastard to find here!

[edmundito]

I've moved to FL in recent months and I'm having a hard time finding Labatt down here.  A lot of places don't even know what it is!!

If you live near/in Miami, you may want to try Polar, imported from my home (Venezuela) I think it tastes a lot like Labatt...  and I like it Don't kill me if I'm wrong, though

I also like Samuel Adams, Killians' Irish Red... and Old Style because it's cheap and it's drinkable

[Duck]

AMERICAN BEER IS FOR PANSIES. CANADIAN BEER FOR THE WIN.

Ahem.

Being under the Age of Majority, I have obviously never ingested any beverages of an alcoholic nature, so as to comply completely with the law set down by my federal government that was put there for my benefit.





All right, vodka.

[evenwolf]

Shiner Bock
Dos Equis
Fat Tire
Heineken

I haven't enjoyed many american beers, myself. Miller Lite and Bud Lite (which seems to be what everyone drinks) have no character at all, pretty bland.

[Timosity]

Hehe, Passion pop and Goon, I think a cask of goon ends up cheaper, but if you're an alcoholic, the cheapest stuff you can get in the biggest bottles with the highest alcohol percentage are things like Sherry and Gin. Now you know why your grandmother is always happy.

Layabout, A Queenslander that doesn't like rum??

fair enough, I hate the stuff too, but I have a few mates that drink it like water, silly alcoholics.


I might write some of these beers down so if see them round I can try them out.