Beer

[!on]

My beer of choice is Newcastle. I think it is simply the tastiest beer ever. The problem is, around here, it's somewhat hard to find. It's absolutely best out of a keg (the canned Newcastle is horrible and the bottles aren't much better), but restaraunts don't like to offer it because it is expensive, so they have to put a hefty price tag on it, thus not many people buy it.

It seems only half the UK sell it. I would try the lesser known stuff but I don't have time guessing their names. So I put drinks into three main groups; Guiness (too dark & sour), Carling, etc (dish water), & Newcastle Brown Ale. A bit like Goldilocks & the three beers .

I have walked out of pubs that have no Newcastle

 

[breadnatty08]

We just passed Sunday sales in the last 6 months. We have something like a 12% max alcohol content for beer....yet we can buy golden grain 190 proof liquor.

That always confused me. Alabama just "popped their cap" so to speak by raising their max abv. on beers but can sell any liquor under the sun.
Some states' laws on alcohol sales just don't make any sense.

 

[atljatl]

That always confused me. Alabama just "popped their cap" so to speak by raising their max abv. on beers but can sell any liquor under the sun.
Some states' laws on alcohol sales just don't make any sense.

Politicians are inexplicable. It makes me want to shoot something or drink something.

 

[mpw]

...Strongbow
English Dry Cider
about $9.00/ 6 pk can (pint)
Best hard cider. Better on tap!

Really? Not that there's anything 'wrong' with it, but compared to a almost endless list of alternatives available in any super market in the UK; Magners, Bulmers, Westons, Rekorderlig, Aspalls, even Stella Artois etc. etc. Strongbow is Walmart's sparkling wine to their Pol Roger Champagne!

 

[atljatl]

Just pulled this from the skinny drummer at xda:

Im never that broke, though.

 

[breadnatty08]

Wow, I was going through my cellar and found a bottle of Bell's Third Coast Old Ale. Looked up the batch number on their site and it was bottled in......2005!!
Wonder how well it's held up?

 

[atljatl]

Wow, I was going through my cellar and found a bottle of Bell's Third Coast Old Ale. Looked up the batch number on their site and it was bottled in......2005!!
Wonder how well it's held up?

Lets hear about it?

 

[Hadron]

Just opened a bottle of Old Tom - figured that was worth resurrecting this thread for :beer:

 

[olbriar]

Reading about old beers made me meander to my utility room and .. sure enough on the top shelf and quite dusty are four Coors bottles shaped like baseball bats.
I have no idea how old these bottles are and I'm not going to attempt to consume the beer. I hope they are collectible because I'm certain the beer it way beyond it's shelf life

Might as well tell one more old beer story. When they first came out with ring pull tops I bought a six pack that had five ring tops and one that takes a church key. I put the oddball in my fridge door. I think it now resides in it's third fridge door. It sits next to the mustard and has for decades. I bet it's cold by now.

 

[cwhatever]

now this to me this a great beer. i like hot stuff. it is cave creek chili beer and has a chili peper in every beer.

 

[Gmash]

Chili beer? Sounds...interesting.

 

[cwhatever]

Chili beer? Sounds...interesting.

It is really great not really a beer that you want to sit and keep drinkin 1 after another after another. what is definitely a every now and then beer.

 

[Epicurean]

Zeigenbach: About $4 for a pint of draft (no idea about bottle/case price)
Only brewed/distributed in Texas
It's actually a Budweiser product that they produced because they were losing sales to Shiner

It's a dark amber with a light taste like a lager. Definitely the best Budweiser product I've ever tried. Wish they'd "export" it.

 

[atljatl]

It's a shame that this thread needs a bump

 

[poriggity]

I drink cheap.. Usually PBR or Keystone light.. Mostly because I am on a budget.
Scott

 

[mendoozer666]

PBR here!! That's my brand, bro!

 

[ocnbrze]

It's a shame that this thread needs a bump

well thanx for the bump. i did not see this thread before.

soooooo.......my love of all time is NewCastle. Best beer ever!!!!!!!

in college my entire room's ceiling was covered with NewCastle bottle caps. it looked really cool....but that took a lot of drinking to accomplish that

 

[atljatl]

Newcastle and pbr are both classics. Here in the south, we drink alot of pbr (feel free to insert your favorite southern /redneck joke now)
Edit:
Ocn, I miss the hitchhiker's guide avatar

 

[ocnbrze]

Newcastle and pbr are both classics. Here in the south, we drink alot of pbr (feel free to insert your favorite southern /redneck joke now)
Edit:
Ocn, I miss the hitchhiker's guide avatar

NewCastle and PBR? the two should not be in the same breath.

and as far as the avatar goes......someday i'll change back. i'm digging being Marvin at the moment i love my huge head:smokingsomb:

 

[atljatl]

Rare vos from ommegang brewery
A belgian amber ale
Tried this at a bar on draft the other night and it was really good. I looked for it at a store also and it's slightly pricey... Only sold in a 4 pack (I hate the pretentiousness of that)
But if u can find it, I definitely recommend it.

 

[tube517]

Any of you guys on the Untappd app?

 

[breadnatty08]

Rare VOS is a great beer, as is almost everything from Ommegang. My old next door neighbor (sadly moved) is the rep for Duvel Moortgat (owners of Ommegang). He'd hook me up with beer all the time. And got a great couple glasses from him for Ommegedon (one of their sour beers).
If you're looking for a similar style that's slightly cheaper, Leffe Blonde or Brune are solid choices.

 

[atljatl]

Any of you guys on the Untappd app?

No but I'm gonna check bit out

Rare VOS is a great beer, as is almost everything from Ommegang. My old next door neighbor (sadly moved) is the rep for Duvel Moortgat (owners of Ommegang). He'd hook me up with beer all the time. And got a great couple glasses from him for Ommegedon (one of their sour beers).
If you're looking for a similar style that's slightly cheaper, Leffe Blonde or Brune are solid choices.

Always looking for cheap/cheaper and good. Thanks!

 

[TgeekB]

Weihenstephaner hefe weissbier. From the oldest brewery in the world, almost 1000 years old, in Germany. Tastes of bread and bananas. Nothing like it.

 

[TgeekB]

Rare VOS is a great beer, as is almost everything from Ommegang. My old next door neighbor (sadly moved) is the rep for Duvel Moortgat (owners of Ommegang). He'd hook me up with beer all the time. And got a great couple glasses from him for Ommegedon (one of their sour beers).
If you're looking for a similar style that's slightly cheaper, Leffe Blonde or Brune are solid choices.

Ommegang makes some excellent beers. I'm partial to their abbey ale.