Friday Fun: What's your favourite beer/drink

Bernabe Theodore Costales III

@Maarten Cautreels I was introduced to beer on a trip to Belgium about a decade ago! (I assume you've been to the Kulminator in Antwerp?) My favorite beers are the Belgian stouts: Westvleteren, Troubadour Stout, De Struise Pannepot. I also like the geuze sour beers! But nothing hoppy.

Maarten Cautreels_1ztcqi

Yes the Kulminator is very famous. They have a beer bible instead of a beer card

Troubadour definitely is on my list of favourite brewers as well! If you're ever visiting Belgium again, let me know! I'd be happy to introduce to some more beer ^^

I actually like Japanese beers on tap - I recently discovered a place in Austin that has Kirin Ichiban on tap, and I was a happy clam.

That said, I think my favorite beer might be a root beer float. Sprecher's does a wonderful root beer suitable for a float!

I have been there twice, so I'm familiar with the beer bible! But I will take you up on that invitation. I think we may be going back next summer (our home base will be the Netherlands, where my family lives, but we always make time to go to Belgium!)

Andy Heinzer

Ayinger Urweisse - I think it might be my favorite right now just because I have it so rarely. But it's really tasty. I have found wheat beers to have this strange complexity in favor and this one is no exception.

Bridget_822i4b

My favorite beer is Dogfish Head, 60 minute IPA (My parents live pretty close to the HQs in Delaware).

Prost, everyone!

I wasn't a big fan of beers initially, but the first beer that converted me was Manny's Pale Ale (Georgetown Brewing) - it's still one of my favorites! My recent favorite is Medusa's Game Face (Bare Bottle) - a red IPA with the hops aroma but not the bitterness.

Josh Steckler

I have, more than once, made the trip from the Boston area to Stowe, Vermont to get Heady Topper and other beers from The Alchemist. But living in New England, there's so many local breweries, I have three within a 10 minute drive of my house. Shout out to Jack's Abby.

Thomas Schlegel

Great - let's meet in Bruges - it's soooo nice there 😄

I've been there two years ago.

Thomas Schlegel

Franziskaner Weißbier. It's a Bavarian beer, quite sweet. I don't like beer that is too dry or malty. Or too dark, or whatever. I'm very choosy when it comes to beer

Prost!

Andy Heinzer

Good choice. I was lucky enough to have the 120minute once in my life. It came in small glass, and it was unexpectedly strong.

Andy Heinzer

Dass es gut. That it a good one too.

Danny Zuccaro_bzdg9s

Lately I've been enjoying a local wheat - Muskoka Summerweis wheat. Sadly it is seasonal and not always easily found.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Hard to name a "favourite", I like a lot of stuff, and what I like to drink varies by mood and what's available.

I have a really good real-ale pub with a 12 tap rotation 100 yards away, a coffee and tea importer 150 yards off, a good brewery with an "1833" beer a mile away, a taste for gin, an ex-employer who has his own vineyard , and a brother-in-law who *really* knows wine well. I've got a wide range.

But if you insist on a single favourite, it's a proper English answer. Tea ( Specifically, Nilgiri on this page )

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

@Maarten Cautreels Let's meet in Belgium for beer week:)

I hope after I can say my favourite beer!)

Maarten Cautreels_1ztcqi

Haven't had one from Dogfish yet but I've read many good things about their beers!

Domagoj Zecevic

I can not tell i have favorite beer. I like to try small almost home made beers.

Where i live in Germany there is brewary with restorant, and they brew own beer. I like that.

And in Croatia (where i come from) there iz Zmajsko Pivo (in translation Dragon's Beer).

poornima kirubakaran

My favorite is Bira 'Imagined in India'. Here, we get seasonal fruit beer in breweries, which is always special.

That's dedication to Heady Topper! It sounds kind of like the elusive Pliney the Younger.

When it comes to beer, it's good to have standards!

Dragon's Beer! I want to try this.

Bridget_822i4b

Whoooa @Andy Heinzer good thing you only had a small glass! 120 can hit hard. @Maarten Cautreels let me know when you get around to it

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

It sounds like it would go well with a Dragon Slayer quest!

Jack Brickey

My favorite is general my next... ;-)

There is nothing wrong w/ a good Duff beer either! DOH!

JanR

I have no favorite beer: Different occasions, seasons, food demand for different beers. I would go for a light citrus tasting beer in summer, but just now (Snowing outside in Germany) I just opened a Schneider Aventinus Eisbock, strong malty tasty with lots of rpm...

Jack Brickey

Nice! I need you to take me to the Coach and Horses badly. When I spent a bit of time in the UK I would go the the Crown @ Bray. Loved this place!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Jack, if you ever head UK-wards, yell. We can find better places, probably.

@JanR Germany! Well, you'll have to join our Belgian beer meetup, then! 😃

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Billy Cravens

I prefer Belgian quads or double IPAs.

JanR

Belgian monastery’s beers are outstanding, but hard to get over here. A friend invited me to a Belgian beer tasting & brought some bottles of a beer one can only buy directly at the monastery. Delicious! But I skip on Belgian beers with fruit taste 😜

Veil Brewing in Richmond, VA has a new-England style IPA called Master Master Shredder Shredder. It's amazing. The master brewer studied under the team that brews Headdy Topper from Vermont, considered to be one of the finest beers made.

If you can find Kirin that is made in Japan, it tastes nicer than the Kirin made here, IMO. My favorite Japanese brewery is Hitachino Nest. They are more of a craft brewer. If you find your way to the SF office, you can go to their restaurant and enjoy wagyu paired with their beers. Also keep your eye out for Ebisu (may be spelled Yebisu.) That's generally regarded as Japan's top lager beer.

Domagoj Zecevic

Guys that open Dragon's Brewary (Zmajska Pivovara) are IT guys, who decided not to work in IT more, rather to brew beer...

How can it go wrong

I'm not a huge beer fan by any means, but I try a new one from time to time. I tend to lean towards what my dad calls "fake beer"... ciders and mike's hard lemonades. Any suggestions?

You might try some sour beers. There are a lot of different styles and varying levels of tartness. I prefer the "funky" ones, myself. Many are just tart without funkiness, though. Most are generally not very bitter, due to the fermentation process, as well. It's sort of the wine drinker's beer.

I like this one, personally

@Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]we have one bottle of this left at our house....

#TFTI !!! Nice. I did a vertical of 2014, 2015 and 2016 last year and it was pretty amazing to see the difference between the years.

@[deleted]Is Headdy Topper a hoppy beer?

... Okay I might have to try Master Master Shredder Shredder just for the name.

I'll have to ask someone to pick a few sour beers out for me over the weekend then.

hearsay

Dos Equis Amber

Jonny Adams

Really hard to pick just one beer so please indulge me as I choose beers starting locally and ending globally.

Dallas/Fort Worth - Though there are a lot of good breweries in this area, my favorite brew is the Billy Jenkins (Bock) from Wild Acre in Fort Worth
Texas - Ziegenbock
Domestic (US) - The Maharaja from Avery Brewing Co.
Worldwide - Spaten Optimator from Spaten-Franziskaner

Don't get me started on favorite whisky/whiskey.

Thomas Schlegel

There's a beer called Ziegenbock in Texas? That's funny, Ziegenbock is German for Billy Goat :-)

Jack Brickey

Yep! Texas' roots are firmly set from German settlers so you see lots of German influence: architecture, sausages, smoked meats and of course beer!

Omar Herrera

My favorite beer Corona.

Cheers

Jonny Adams

Loads of German heritage in Texas.

The town of Fredericksburg was founded by German immigrants and during the holiday season the town lights a large Christmas Pyramid that was shipped over from Germany.

You will also find a lot of German influence in Tejano music which is popular with Hispanics in Texas.

Anthony Stonehouse

After many tastings while traveling through Belgium my favourite Trappist beer is Achel Bruin.

It's hard to find (and expensive) in Australia, so my top 3 locally brewed beers are:

Feral Hop Hog
Pirate Life Pale Ale
Grifter Pale Ale

Jay_izxrm9

Hahn Ultra Crisp or if I want to go dark Monteiths Black Beer....