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#81
07-24-2004, 01:40 PM
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Re: Name three beers worth trying.
Well, if Anchor Steam is hard to get in your area, this may not be of any practical help but you should try anything made by Deschutes (Deschutes Brewery). Especially good are the Black Butte Porter and the Mirror Pond Pale Ale.
That's only two, but I'll recommend against the Gordon Biersch brews to make up for it. They're not bad, but nothing to mail-order home about. 
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#84
07-24-2004, 05:30 PM
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I don\'t know who said what, but here are the real answers.. :p
My beers worth trying are all on draught... as beer should be. As a result, you won't be able to go to the corner store to try all my beers, but life ain't always easy.
3. Pilsner Urquell on draught This you can get in American bars. In fact, you can get it at the Bellagio bar right next to the poker room if you are willing to cough up eight dollars. Or you can go to the Crown & Anchor on Trop near Maryland Pkwy. and pick it up for a more reasonable $3 a pint or so. It's better (and ridiculously cheap and plentiful to boot) in Bohemeia... but what isn't, really? It's the original Pilsner-style beer (made in Plzen which is somewhere in Kansas I think), and there is not a more crisp, pleasantly refreshing beer available. It is good from the bottle, but it seems to be a shade more bitter and a little too carbinated. The draught version is terrific. 2. Augustiner Hefeweitzen This is available at the Augustiner Biergarten in Munich. You may be able to get it somewhere else, but I sure as hell don't know where. I'm not a big hefeweitzen fan, but this beer is head and shoulders... it's a man among boys. It is what wheat was meant to be... it is the pinnacle of the wheat pecking order. Every wee grain aspires one day to be malted, worted, fermented into Augustiner hefeweitzen. It's a filling beer, but as long as you don't eat too much, it's cheap and perfectly acceptible in Munich to get totally blotto, which is a nice perk. 1. Grimbergen Tripel This you can get in assorted hamlets not the least of which is Brugge, Belgium (which is, itself, not at least a hamlet). This is beer unlike any you or any self-respecting, lederhosen-wearing, accordion-playing, polka-dancing, Teutonic caricature has ever tasted. It's the Haut-Brion Laffite-Rothschild St. Emilion of beers... the Jan Vermeer of beers... the Heather Locklear of beers. It rules. A complex array of every fruit and otherwise pleasant taste you could imagine, and 10% alcohol to boot! You have not truly had beer until you've had this one. I also like Heiniken.
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#89
07-26-2004, 02:26 AM
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Re: Name three beers worth trying.
I glanced through most of the thread.
Surprised nobody said anything about Carlsberg, it's not the best, but definitely worth trying. Also, someone mentioned Optimator by Spaten. I second that. Can't go wrong with Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Newcastle, or Guiness. Those are my regs. Guiness not so regular as it almost tastes too good, but it's not very alcoholic, also it's much much better on tap. If you like Guiness you've love Samual Smith's. Last night, I had this beer called Blue Moon. Harvey's in South Lake Tahoe is the only place I've seen it, but it was pretty good on tap. Oh yeah, its pretty hard to go wrong with any decent amber ale. And by the way, the best Mexican beer is not Pacifico, two words: Negro Modelo. And, Stella Artios is good but over-rated. If you're on a budget, hit up the good old King Cobra, though technically it is a malt liquor. The High Life is cheap and not too bad either.
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