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Juice said:
This is always a good off season topic. I have been in the beer business for over 20 years. It has been a career and hobby of mine forever. I am always curious as to what other people enjoy. What is your favorite beer, and what is the beer you normally use to enjoy?
Asking my favorite beer is like asking me what my favorite Beatle album is but here goes...
Favorites - Pike Place Heirloom Amber, Alaskan Amber, New Belgium's Two Below
Go To Guys - Original Coors, Pabst, New Belgium's Fat Tire
You and Stu (RamFan503) should have plenty to discuss.
I'm not really into beer so much anymore. When I was younger I'd funnel it 3 or 4 at a time, so it didn't really matter what it was, as long as I could get them in me within 10 seconds. lol. I really did like Fosters Lager on tap though - ice cold. Coors was pretty good too, and so are some of the Sam Adams brews.
Huh? Not sure to what you refer.
If you want my opinion though, there is this little brewery in Oregon that puts out some amazing ales. They are a brewery called
Twisted Snout Brewery just off the coast in the town of Toledo. They also happen to be located in the same building as this great BBQ restaurant that
Fodor's Travel Guides called the best BBQ in the Pacific Northwest.
Their
Twisted Snout IPA is my favorite. Great malt backbone, with copious amounts of hops. Their
Honey Oatmeal Porker is amazing as well. Nice, rich, and creamy with an oat silkiness and a little residual sweetness from the honey. Yum. Of course it I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the
Red Headed Step Hog or the Wilbur's White Wheat. Then there is the
Dayle Earnhog, and of course the
Raspberry Squeal. For light beers, give me the
Gateway Golden. Named that because it is the gateway to microbrews. Feed a little Gateway to those domestic beer drinkers and suddenly they become hooked on craft beers.
Alright - enough shameless plugs. Besides, this is getting hard to look at as I type.
Some of my favorites that the outstanding brewery known as
Twisted Snout Brewery doesn't brew are:
Deschutes Brewery - Inversion IPA
Boneyard - RPM IPA
Deschutes - Black Butte Porter
Watneys - Red Barrel
Paulaner - Hefeweizen
Guiness - Draft in a can
And my favorite 3 - 4 in a funnel beer (just for Paul) is Rainier.