What's your go-to Beer?

[dumpy]

Please tell me you're joking?

Are you poking fun of the fact that someone needs to lighten it up from Newcastle?

Or that anyone would drink that over priced, over marketed swill known as Stella Artois? The stuff is Schlitz in a fancier bottle.

[Hugh Conway]

Are you poking fun of the fact that someone needs to lighten it up from Newcastle?

Or that anyone would drink that over priced, over marketed swill known as Stella Artois? The stuff is Schlitz in a fancier bottle.

it's switching up wife beating with wife beating.

[Tunco]

I'd expect nothing less.

[Helldawg]

Lotta poseurs and fags in this thread. Keep it up, I just cracked another Coors Light. I can taste the Rockies...

Oh, and thank god they put that blue cold meter at the bottom, I never would have known it was cold enough to drink without it!!

[Helldawg]

Are you poking fun of the fact that someone needs to lighten it up from Newcastle?

Or that anyone would drink that over priced, over marketed swill known as Stella Artois? The stuff is Schlitz in a fancier bottle.

Ah, let the snobbery begin! It too a while, but I knew you guys would deliver!

Kids barely capable of growing a moustache, telling us what beer is good, and what is shit. Priceless!

[The AD]

Are you poking fun of the fact that someone needs to lighten it up from Newcastle?

Or that anyone would drink that over priced, over marketed swill known as Stella Artois?

To each his or her own, but I think there are better local brews just about anywhere in the U.S. than Newcastle or Stella Artois. I try to support my local breweries rather than huge corporations like Heineken (Newkies) or Anheuser-Busch InBev (Stella).

[SterlingSpikeDancer]

My favs for summer Go-Tos are:
Odells St. Lupulins
Oskar Blues Old Chub or Dales Pale Ale
Lefthand's Porter

and a cold Coors Lt always tastes good when it's hot...or I think I may drink 12-24 of them in a day.

[gravitylover]

Keep it simple. Sam Adams Boston Lager.

[AdironRider]

The amount of Beer Smug in this thread is astounding. Sure I like all these funky local IPA's as well, but that shit isnt accessible. It usually involves me getting stoked that a store actually has it, then having a conversation with the counter guy about how sweet it is. Thats not a go-to beer.

Give me an ice cold Budweiser, in a bottle if you got it, but cans when going fishing/camping. I challenge you to find a place anywhere in the country where it isnt universally accessible, and honestly its the bar that I judge all beers by. Its better than bad, its good.

[Hugh Conway]

Budweiser is smug shitty beer

[AdironRider]

I would argue PBR is smug shitty beer these days.

[dumpy]

The amount of Beer Smug in this thread is astounding. Sure I like all these funky local IPA's as well, but that shit isnt accessible. It usually involves me getting stoked that a store actually has it, then having a conversation with the counter guy about how sweet it is. Thats not a go-to beer.

Give me an ice cold Budweiser, in a bottle if you got it, but cans when going fishing/camping. I challenge you to find a place anywhere in the country where it isnt universally accessible, and honestly its the bar that I judge all beers by. Its better than bad, its good.

You walk into a store, you buy beer. How is it different from one brand to the next? Maybe there are a few stores that will only have MBC, but most will usually have at least a few other brews. IME those tend to be either the "big micros" (SN, DFH,even SA, etc) or the local brews, not some obscure brewery from across the country.

I would argue PBR is smug shitty beer these days.

I would agree.

I may sometimes come off like a beer snob, I'm really not, I just enjoy many beers, including an occasional American Adjunct (macro swill piss). I was actually at a barbecue this weekend and the beer selection was Miller Light and Miller Light.
Another "beer snob" was with me at this party and we both agreed that Miller wouldn't have been our first choice, but god damn did it hit the spot on a hot day with food. Then the host busted out the JW Blue, seemed like an odd juxtaposition w/ the Miller light, but again god damn did it taste yummy.

[mdntski]

No one has preposed New England "Fat Tyre"?
When I was in CO i was led to believe its hooked to everyones veins at birth.

Have to say "Matilda Bay Brewery, Fat Yak" or "Mountain Goat, Steam Ale" are a must if anyone
heads down under.

[dumpy]

No one has preposed New England "Fat Tyre"?
When I was in CO i was led to believe its hooked to everyones veins at birth.

Epic, epic, epic post

[Hugh Conway]

PBR is douche beer. Bud is smug beer because most rednecks I've met it drink it to feel better than the other rednecks who drink "crappier" can beers

[Chainsaw_Willie]

Mirror Pond. Never buy it much as I always want to try something new. But if I had to have one beer for the rest of my life, Mirror Pond is my go-to.

This. For fuck's sake, this.

I'm usually happy with a cheap beer, and since I'm cheap anyway there's usually cheap beer in my fridge, like the Pabst tallboys I'm working on right now. Or Rainier tall boys.

But, when I want a good beer, and if I was shipwrecked on a desert island with a container ship full of beer, it would be Mirror Pond.

[The AD]

I guess people really love Mirror Pond. I've gotta say I can take it or leave it.

Anyone in Seattle should check out Fremont Brewing's beers. They've only recently starting bottling. Good stuff.

Sure I like all these funky local IPA's as well, but that shit isnt accessible

Not sure what it's like in your neck of the woods, but around here anyplace that sells beer is at least going to have a couple microbrews. Maybe not "funky local IPA's," but something like a Sierra Nevada or Deschutes, for example. If your poison is Mirror Pond you're not going to have a hard time finding it.

[Buzzworthy]

I can afford a $10-$15/week beer budget

Having trouble computing this term, Beer Budget.

When there is only a 12 pack or so left in the beer fridge, it is time for restocking.

Period.

[Altaholic]

For Chugging: PBR. For taste: I'll lean toward Deschutes Inversion IPA & Obisidian Stout, SRB Pako's IPA (now available in cans), Grand Teton Sweetgrass & Bitch Creek. Avery beers are now available in Jackson (Thank you JH Dist., now if you can get Stone Brewing in JH,...), they'll soon be in my beer beer fridge. lastly I love the draft brews from Thai Me Up in Jackson, I love Jeremy Tofte, the best brewer in JH.

[Dufforito]

Feeling Cheap: Coors, MGD, Tecate.

Feeling Rich: Dales Pale Ale, 90 Shilling, Skinny Dip in the summer.

[Woodsy]

the PonyBar
Schlitz in the can

[Helldawg]

No one has preposed New England "Fat Tyre"?
When I was in CO i was led to believe its hooked to everyones veins at birth.

Have to say "Matilda Bay Brewery, Fat Yak" or "Mountain Goat, Steam Ale" are a must if anyone
heads down under.

I'm almost equally surprised that I have seen little (or no?) mention of anything from Magic Hat! Sems to be quite a few Nor'eastahs here, whassup?? No love for #9??

[Conundrum]

When I think of go to beer, I'm thinking I'm in a town of 34 people, 14 dogs, and one convenient store in the middle of a desert. Chances are they have Budweiser, Keystone Light, Bud Light, Busch Lite, and Coors.

I choose Coors. A go to me isn't I can pick any beer in a store with a lot of beers. It's, hmmmm...I'm going to need two tall boys to go from point A to point B and I'm in the middle of fucking nowhere. What am I going to pick that I would never complain about. Yeah, sometimes I might get a burr under my saddle and go for a high flutin' micro...or I can remember that I take pride in America and still think M80s should be legal.

It's a god damned Banquet for christ sakes.

[lionelhutz]

In the summer in Philly it tends to be surface of the sun hot, with immense humidity so for me, my go to beer has to be light and drinkable. I prefer Yards Philly Pale Ale. Crisp with hints of citrus. Just an awesome summer beer.

If we go lower on the cost scale or I'm headed to the beach I'm going with PBR cans or Miller Lite

[schuss]

I'm almost equally surprised that I have seen little (or no?) mention of anything from Magic Hat! Sems to be quite a few Nor'eastahs here, whassup?? No love for #9??

It's good, but the fruity notes to it really prevent it from being a "go-to" beer. Lately I've been loving on the Dos Equis Amber, but PBR and High Life are my regular swill beers (for the record, I started drinking PBR when it was 9 bucks a thirty, and fucking hate the hipster nature for making it cost more).
As far as better beer for a go-to: Tuckermans Headwall.