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I’ve hated beer all my life until I drank Warsteiner and loved it. I now realize it is not beer I hate but cheap beer like Natty Ice. So now I begin my beer education, and continue it untill I am satisfied that I have explored all that beer has to offer. I bought a gimicky thing at Sam’s club called “beers of America”, and will be sampling all eight tonight. I will report back with my likes and dislikes.

I need people to recommend their favorite beers based on my taste profile

I love warsteiner, honey brown, estalla artois, duval, and boulevard wheat. For cheep beers I like MGD and Bud Select. Although I always prefer shots and vodka to the bloated feeling for drinking beer.

I hate Sam Adams, Guinness, Natty, and Miller Chill.

What are you favorite beers, and what beers do you hate, what do you recommend based on what I do and do not like.

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My Top 10 Favorite Beers:

1.) Beamish Stout
2.) Leinenkugel’s Creamy Dark
3.) Newcastle Brown Ale
4.) Guinness Draught
5.) Konig Ludwig Dunkel
6.) Samuel Adams Black Lager
7.) Molsen Canadien Lager
8.) Shiner Bock
9.) Negra Modelo
10.) Fat Tire Amber Ale

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Can those be found in run of the mill supermarkets?

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It depends on what state you live in, but I would be very surprised if you couldn’t find at least five of my selections. Here is the order (in my opinion) you’d be likely to find them.

1.) Samuel Adams
2.) Guinness
3.) Molsen
4.) NewCastle
5.) Shiner
6.) Negra Modelo
7.) Leinenkugel’s
8.) Beamish
9.) Fat Tire
10.) Konig Ludwig

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Some places around here(missouri) still don’t sell alcohol on sunday. Although this is a college town, and while I don’t remember seeing many of those, if they can be found in supermarkets they will be found here.

I’ve tried sam adams, don’t remember what kind, but I instantly spit it out and gasped for air. Pretty much the same for Guinness, although I do like Irish car bombs.

thanks for the suggestions.

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Yeah, I used to live in MO, and other than Leinenkugel’s and Konig Ludwig, you should be able to find all of those.

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Since I can only ever afford cheap beer, I enjoy Miller Genuine Draft, and hard cider.

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Two-Three of the beers on my list are only a dollar or two more to the six-pack than MGD.

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Terrapin india brown ale, sweetwater ipa, and rouge ale, newcastle, bass, sierra nevada, anchor steam blue moon etc…

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These are the 3 most priciest/trendiest beers in the UK right now - they are still affordable though, and I’ve been told they taste great! Highly recommended!

Japanese:

Italian:

Spanish:

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That peroni is pretty good. Corona is like cheap mexican beer here. I prefer my beer to be dark and bitter and warm.

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The Peroni ads are pretty steamy: just like the Lavazza coffee ads - those frisky Italians 8-[

Corona is cheap where you are? :astonished: it’s pretty pricey here…

Asahi is the must-drink beer de jour here, otherwise you are a nobody if you do not sup from it’s hallowed minimalist-labeled brown bottle!

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Yeah, Corona is almost universally cheap in the U.S.A.

The majority of us consider it garbage. Any beer that needs a fruit to make it tolerable, yuck!

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I’ve heard that Stella Artois is cheap beer in U.K., where as here it is one of the most expensive beers I’ve come across. If this is true we’d be happy to trade you corona for Stella.

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I don’t know about other places, but Stella is one of the more expensive brews here.

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Stella is pretty much mid-range, price-wise - it used to have an advertising tag-line of “reassuringly expensive”, but that seems to have dropped by the wayside of late. It ain’t called “wife beater” for nothing, either… To be honest, there are more interesting lagers fairly widely available nowadays, such as Staropramen, Bitburger, Peroni and even the Artois brewery’s own Peeterman. There’s nowt wrong with a San Miguel, either.

On the Weissbier front, I’m quite partial to either Erdinger or Franziskaner.

Proper beer, though, all good Englishmen know, is a question of ale, and that’s as much about the hostelry as it is the beer. There are so many great ales to be had on the Sceptred Isle it’s impossible to list them all, but here are my favourite of the widely available:

Timothy Taylor Landlord

Wells Bombardier

Marston’s Pedigree

Black Sheep Bitter

Deuchars IPA

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www.beeradvocate.com

That will help edumacate you. I could throw a lot of stuff, but I won’t.

Instead, I’ll throw two:

  1. Weihenstephaner Korbinian

  2. Cantillion 1900 Grand Cru

Both have national distribution. You can get them if you ask/look hard enough. Do it, they will change your life.

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:laughing:

Yet it is seen as a trendy brew here, along with Asahi and Peroni - go figure… :confusion-shrug:

Sounds like costs are exponential to export prices - Corona is pricey here as it’s shipped from across the Atalntic (I thought it was Spanish, ha) but not for the U.S. / Stella Artois is cheap here as the shipping distance is minimal, but not for the U.S.: therefore a trade would not be do-able, sorry! 8-[

Enjoy the Corona :evilfun:

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these days, I mostly drink hefewiesen’s. Widermer hefewiesen’s to be exact.
I love dunkel (dark) hefe’s but they are hard to find in the U.S.
I have traveled a 1000 miles to drink beer, great american beer festival.

my list is
anchor x-mas beer
chimay
widmer hefeweizen
pyramid hefeweizen
fat tire

Actually almost any Belgian beer is good.
Guinness

Kropotkin

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Cool, we agree on Guinness and Fat Tire. I don’t think I has any other of the specific brews that you just said. Do you like anything else from my Top 10 list? (See above)