What's your favorite beer style?

[JohnOfSheffield]

Over here Guinness in a can is FAR better than the bottle, they are not even the same beers IMO.

Try comparing something like Dos Equis in a can vs bottle. You'll never be able to tell the difference, unless the bottles have started to go bad... which happens sometimes.

Really? I didn't even know extra stout was delivered in anything but a glass bottle?

 

[Crusty]

Really? I didn't even know extra stout was delivered in anything but a glass bottle?

The cans are Guinness 'Draught' w/ a nitrogen canister at the bottom that pops when you open the top. Far superior to bottled varieties of Guinness IMO.

 

[zerocool84]

I don't like beer way too heavy. I don't want to get full on beer. Heaviest I like to go is Newcastle but that's not my favorite beer.

 

[foghorn67]

Pilsners, marzens, and lagers.
However, porters and stouts from craft brewers will never be turned down by me.
Once in a while, ales get my attention.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

The cans are Guinness 'Draught' w/ a nitrogen canister at the bottom that pops when you open the top. Far superior to bottled varieties of Guinness IMO.

That's not extra stout.

I wouldn't drink that.

 

[duragezic]

Well by quantity of what I drink, it's some kind of lager, usually Yuengling. If I'm being cheap I'll get Miller High Life or PBR.

I like a Hefeweisen a lot though. Most of the regular stores by me don't carry more than like one kind. Last time I was looking for one, the only thing I found that looked like it was Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier. I figured since I couldn't pronounce the name it had to be intense and German. Anyway it's great stuff, and for once I bought a beer that RateBeer.com likes. It got 99th percentile!

I like Ales, Pilsner, Amber/Red... pretty much everything except the real stern stout beers that taste like coffee. Some Pale Ale and IPA is good, but it's not something I drink a lot of. Don't care for the real dark ones. Not that they're terrible just they're usually so expensive I want to spend my money on something I know I'll enjoy lots.

 

[Crusty]

That's not extra stout.

I wouldn't drink that.

Then how do you do your 'taste tests'....? You said you only drink Guinness...

 

[Avalon]

For everyone asking for more poll options...sorry :O

It only let me put 10. Mmm, marzen. Forgot about that.

 

[n7]

Ale
Amber/Red
Belgian

But i'll try pretty much anything other than really dark beers, which i dislike.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Porters & Stouts in the cooler months.

Lagers & Ales in the warmer months.

 

[anxi80]

IPA's. In fact I've been on a strong Black IPA kick lately.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Then how do you do your 'taste tests'....? You said you only drink Guinness...

Well taste tests are of course because in ENGLAND you can get canned extra stout in cans.

I was very unclear throughout the discussion, reading back on it, and never told you that and i never told you that proper Guiness is always extra stout either.

you have learned something today, now thank me and go away...

 

[KillerCharlie]

IPAs are probably the most popular local brew in the northwest, but I don't like all of them. It really depends on the actual beer itself, to me.

 

[sjwaste]

The cans are Guinness 'Draught' w/ a nitrogen canister at the bottom that pops when you open the top. Far superior to bottled varieties of Guinness IMO.

They have a bottled variety of draught too, complete with nitrogen charge. Bottled isn't always the extra stout.

 

[monkey333]

Scotch.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Scotch.

Tape

 

[Fingolfin269]

Porters and Stouts... pretty much equally. But I love them all. Even Natty Lite.

 

[xanis]

Stout/porter by far. Nothing like a nice pint of Guinness or better yet, one of the many delicious microbrews floating around at the local beer store.

 

[xSauronx]

Stout/porter by far. Nothing like a nice pint of Guinness or better yet, one of the many delicious microbrews floating around at the local beer store.

look at my list, ive had a couple of good PA beers. have a stoudts if you havent tried their anything at all yet. should be good.

 

[vi edit]

Anyhow, The most basic breakdown is this Malted Barley = Porter Unmalted, Roasted Barley = Stout

Yeh, there's not a lot of difference at the the very basic formula of porter vs. stout. A stout just gets a little bit darker and a touch more dry/earthy/bitter (although I don't like that term) from the darker, roasted grains used. A porter when held up to light should let some light pass through, but not a lot. A stout should be fully opaque.

From there, stouts just took on a life of their own with craft brewers I think mostly because of the name..stout just sounds much more manly than porter. Imperial stout. Chocolate stout. Oatmeal stout. Ect. Stout just had a better marketability.

Much like IPA's and the hop wars that continue with them. It just got a niche and brewers ran with them for name appeal.

As for answering the question...in the summer give me a traditional wheat beer and in the winter a stout of any variety and I'm happy as a clam.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Yeh, there's not a lot of difference at the the very basic formula of porter vs. stout. A stout just gets a little bit darker and a touch more dry/earthy/bitter (although I don't like that term) from the darker, roasted grains used. A porter when held up to light should let some light pass through, but not a lot. A stout should be fully opaque.

From there, stouts just took on a life of their own with craft brewers I think mostly because of the name..stout just sounds much more manly than porter. Imperial stout. Chocolate stout. Oatmeal stout. Ect. Stout just had a better marketability.

Much like IPA's and the hop wars that continue with them. It just got a niche and brewers ran with them for name appeal.

As for answering the question...in the summer give me a traditional wheat beer and in the winter a stout of any variety and I'm happy as a clam.

So basically a Pilsner to quench the thirst in summer and a stout in fall to revive it?

 

[Joseph F]

I forgot to ask before but where's the option for Colt 45?

 

[vi edit]

So basically a Pilsner to quench the thirst in summer and a stout in fall to revive it?

Uh no. A pilsner is a filtered lager variant. Lagers taste like dirty, fermented ass, especially when warmed up too fast in a hot and muggy summer.

A traditional wheat uses, well, wheat, is unfiltered, and tastes like something that was actually meant to be consumed.

 

[ElFenix]

Yeh, there's not a lot of difference at the the very basic formula of porter vs. stout. A stout just gets a little bit darker and a touch more dry/earthy/bitter (although I don't like that term) from the darker, roasted grains used. A porter when held up to light should let some light pass through, but not a lot. A stout should be fully opaque.

From there, stouts just took on a life of their own with craft brewers I think mostly because of the name..stout just sounds much more manly than porter. Imperial stout. Chocolate stout. Oatmeal stout. Ect. Stout just had a better marketability.

Much like IPA's and the hop wars that continue with them. It just got a niche and brewers ran with them for name appeal.

As for answering the question...in the summer give me a traditional wheat beer and in the winter a stout of any variety and I'm happy as a clam.

if you want to be pedantic a stout is any high alcohol content beer.

lagers are more difficult to brew than ales. i suppose that's why there's so many ales on the market.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Uh no. A pilsner is a filtered lager variant. Lagers taste like dirty, fermented ass, especially when warmed up too fast in a hot and muggy summer.

A traditional wheat uses, well, wheat, is unfiltered, and tastes like something that was actually meant to be consumed.

You do realise that a wheat is a proper Pilsner and that a Pilsner was available 700 years before anyone knew what the fuck a lager was?

I like a Pilsener in the summer, and a stout in the rain, preferably a REAL stout, like Guinness extra stout, not that shit that passaes as a stout in our now not so hot former colony.