anyone here indulge in the sacred brew????

[seanw]

beer, that is!! :beer:

what is the favorite? wondering if its regional or if a lot of cyclists prefer the generic lites?

me, i like many that are hoppy such as magic hat ipa or smutty nose ipa and nugget nectar from troegs. i guess hoppy beers are best for my taste buds. but, i do like a lite beer such as miller lite.

i am wondering if other roadies drink beer on a regular basis. i know mtn bikers are asscociated with beer drinking, but i both road and mtn ride.

it does not matter what you ride, its IF you ride. (goes for motorcycling, too)

cheers,
sean

[Bruce]

Drink it? I brew it! Make what I want, drink what I make. Does not get any better. Four beers on tap, the perfect beverage after a long ride (and Endurox immediately after the ride).

Bruce

[dave thompson]

Dang! From the title I thought this was a thread on either Limoncello or Tequila.

I can't tell you how disappointed I am. :D

[SimonC]

Living in England, I've got a thing going for real ale. I'm also a big fan of the Belgian stuff - especially the Trippels and Abbey ales.

Oh, and a real eye-opener the other weekend was Innis & Gunn - oak aged beer! A great bridge between an English and a Belgian beer.

[Fixed]

chimay bro last nite ouch my head
cheers

[Kevan]

and it's breakfast time!

Brewed locally and mighty fine:

http://www.captainlawrencebrewing.com/beer_list.html

Captain's Reserve

[CNY rider]

and it's breakfast time!

Brewed locally and mighty fine:

http://www.captainlawrencebrewing.com/beer_list.html

Captain's Reserve


They don't call it the breakfast of champions for nothing!

[BSteele]

Mmmmm... Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA... :beer:

[jchasse]

I hate beer. :cool:

...my fridge...

[goonster]

Brewed an "American Mild with Mint" on Saturday. :beer:

Yes, that's weird. No, it won't last long.

After my last batch, and my little trip to Brittany, I'm also really excited about cider and perry. Only problem is it takes eighteen months to taste really good.

Other beer news: Victory is releasing their Baltic Porter on Oct. 15. Beer with beans! Beer fans in SE PA will owe it to themselves to check it out.

[Dekonick]

I LOVE victory - hopdevil is a personal favorite (the pils is one of the few pils I enjoy outside of Belgium)

Aside from a few local micro's, I'll stick with Belgian ale :)

[ashwa64]

Belgian beer is where it's at!

Great to see Westmalle (although I'm Triple man, myslef) in your fridge. Certainly one of my favorite beers in the world.

[PaMtbRider]

I better type this fast so my Weyerbacher Merry Monks Belgian style golden Ale doesn,t get warm. :beer:

[CNY rider]

Start thinking about a trip to upstate NY next September.

We're talking serious dirt road riding and immediate access to the Ommegang brewery.

Details to come. Stay tuned.

[inGobwetrust]

Try this one if you can find it:

http://www.nakedlionbrewing.com/

http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2007/07/02/story8.html


I grew up next door to the guy who brews it. He was a brew master for both Anheuser Busch and Coors and now makes his own product as a labor of love.

[Matt Barkley]

Orval (Belgium Trappist) makes my No.1

I did have some good Rogue Puffin brew the other week. Free range water is one of the ingredients... :beer:-matt

[SimonC]

Not so hot on the Orval myself. I really like St Bernadus Prior 8 though - to be honest I prefer my Belgian brews a little treacley....

Those of you in the US can look away now, but I got some good stuff from the supermarket this evening - four-bottle packs of Meantime (http://www.meantimebrewing.com/) for £2 / $4 each - Rasberry, Cologne Lager and Whitbeer. Mmmm

[Alexi]

Miller High life, it is the champagne of beers. I like it so cold it's slushy

PBR and Hank Williams, still reminds me of my Da

besides that Brooklyn lager/Summer is about as much "flavor" as I like

[Kevan]

called a growler?

I'm ready for your the wise-acre responses.

[FlaRider]

I am looking for recommendations for a good American Brown Ale. Thanks.

[Kevan]

I am looking for recommendations for a good American Brown Ale. Thanks.

W/o a doubt one of the best suds that side of the Mississip'.

Fat Tire too is pert near perfect

[Tom]

"“Rushing the growler” was a term used for taking an aluminum pail to the pub to fill, a chore often done by children. Basically, a small valve on the pail would emit the gases after the beer was poured, giving off a shrieking, or growling sound."

Another, more lame idea, is that if the kid spilled the beer dad would growl.

I see no valves here, but this, my friends, is the original twelve pack.

[Bud]

Fat Tire is pretty good- I quite like it. But it's not a Brown Ale...

I like various Belgian trippels and also hoppy IPA's. My go-to brew is Dale's Pale Ale. I'm working on a homebrew clone of it now, though I don't think I'll be able to get the alcohol % as high as I'd like.

[bcm119]

I am looking for recommendations for a good American Brown Ale. Thanks.
Dogfish Head's Indian Brown ale is tasty; if you can find Brooklyn Brown on tap it makes a nice session beer, but the bottled version (contract brewed) is just okay.

[Bart001]

In my quest to lose weight (well, lose fat) I've pretty much given up on beer. I can't remember the last time I had one.

I've cut way back on alcohol consumption in general (not that I ever was much of a drinker). I do enjoy wine, and might have a glass or two per week, but that's about it these days :(

Next week I'll be in Munich and I'll not totally refrain.

[goonster]

Dogfish Head's Indian Brown ale is tasty;

I was just going to bring this one up. On the "downside", at 7% alc/vol it is not exactly as quaffable as one might expect of a brown ale.

A very good session brown ale is Troegs' Rugged Trail. In fact, I need to go up the road one of these days and get a sixtel of this.

[davids]

Some of my consistent favorite:

Just about anything from Ipswitch (http://www.mercurybrewing.com/IPS.html).
Just about everything from Samuel Smith (http://www.merchantduvin.com/pages/5_breweries/samsmith.html).
Fuller's (http://www.fullers.co.uk/frames.phtml) also makes a wide variety of great beers.
Sam Adams Lager (this is my standby, as it's available just about everywhere, is always good and, hey, it's brewed in my backyard!)

Dogfish Head makes some good IPAs, but please keep the Raison D'Etre away from me. Please.

I am not a fan of Belgian beer. If I want to drink wine, I'll drink wine.

Nor am I a fan of mainstream American beers. If I want to drink a watery, freezing, tasteless beverage, I'll have some icewater.

[Alexi]

Nor am I a fan of mainstream American beers. If I want to drink a watery, freezing, tasteless beverage, I'll have some icewater

but it won't get you drunk enough to decide that biking over the manhat. bridge in the nude (or swimming in the charles) is a good idea

[davids]

but it won't get you drunk enough to decide that biking over the manhat. bridge in the nude (or swimming in the charles) is a good idea
Yeah, but too much will still kill you. That's good enough for me.

http://tshc.fsu.edu/he/Alcohol_Drugs/images/alcohol2.gif

[BarryBrown]

Brooklyn makes a fine Brown Ale.

My personal faves are Anchor Steam from San Fran, Dogfishhead made locally in Rehoboth Beach Delaware, and Blue Moon for a white beer. I would love to have a half and half right now, Guiness and Harp.

[ti_boi]

I hate beer. :cool:

...my fridge...


This is the dude I want to move into my neighborhood.

OK my favorites in no particular order are:


Magic Hat #9, Hacker Pschorr Weisse, & König Pilsener, Bass Ale, Guiness Stout,

I heard this site is a good beer place:

http://www.briansbelly.com/beerbelly/caffreysirishale.shtml


I like my beer like I like my women.....blonde and german...........oh yeah.

:beer: :beer: :beer:

[bozman]

Yuengling Lager when I am back east.

Steamworks Steam Engine Lager when I am at home.

Fischer Amber for a change of pace.

[jemoryl]

I am looking for recommendations for a good American Brown Ale. Thanks.

Smuttynose Brown Dog is nice (even if it breaks my rule about not drinking beer with "dog" in the name). Big fan of their IPAs also.

[BHL]

For me, it's hard to beat Berkshire Brewery's 'River Ale'. Their Porters and Stouts are nice too.
http://www.berkshirebrewingcompany.com/home.html

[Bobbo]

http://www.jwdundees.com

sponsors my team (http://www.interlakescycling.com)

[lemonlaug]

repping Bell's? Oberon is a definite fave. Quite a bit more subtle than most American beers, which tend to kick you in the teeth with hops or some other flavor.

New Holland Brewing Co. also in Michigan, makes a great stout called The Poet

[Rapid Tourist]

Chimay is my favorite

Anything from Dogfishhead is great, particularly the Raisin D'Etre and Chicory Brew.

Sam Adams Octoberfest on draft when I feel like slumming it.

[shinomaster]

Check the archives... :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

[Your_Friend!]

Friends!


A Very _Wise_ Little Bird

Once Told Me:

Beer! It Takes The _S_

Out Of Fast!


Love,
Y_F!

[FATBOY]

I like alot of the tasty suds that the Full Sail guys create, their IPA's are great, the Amber rock's, their Barley Wine is actually palletable and, as if that was not enough, they support a good sized stage race! WOW. Can you imagine another brewer that does not support NASCAR? Wait! I can. Sierra Nevada does that too! My goodness, it is like they were meant to be, bikes and brews aaahhhhhhh sooo gooood! Cheers folks. Ride responsibly! :beer:

[Elefantino]

When I lived in California, my brother-in-law and I began to brew our own. We went to a discount store and bought 20 cases (!) of some cr*ppy Polish beer at $4 a case, only for the heavy brown glass bottles.

We brewed stout and pale ale. The stout was killer. We made labels ("Pat & Mike's® Sonoma Stout" … motto: "Made with the finest ingredients we could afford") and were actually asked by a distributor friend of my father-in-laws to go retail. We didn't.

Now, many years later, I can no longer drink beer. (Or any alkie.) But I remember those brewing days fondly.

[Kevan]

but at least they got Saint Arnold.

http://www.saintarnold.com/

good shhtuff.

[Russell]

Miller High Life
Advertised as the "champagne of beers", but that's much too frou-frou. I like "carbonated butter." Miller High Life is big slabs of deer meat on a toasted roll. It's dirty fingernails scooping out pumpkin pie. It makes even the most sterile suburbanite feel like a Teamster. It's outstanding.

Rating: Extremely outstanding.

from http://www.blacktable.com/beerrun030123.htm

[ti_boi]

Miller High Life
Advertised as the "champagne of beers", but that's much too frou-frou. I like "carbonated butter." Miller High Life is big slabs of deer meat on a toasted roll. It's dirty fingernails scooping out pumpkin pie. It makes even the most sterile suburbanite feel like a Teamster. It's outstanding.

Rating: Extremely outstanding.

from http://www.blacktable.com/beerrun030123.htm


Uh.....sure......and it goes great with Bologna sandwiches. :rolleyes:

[harlond]

I'm not from the midwest, but I really like Bell's Oberon and especially their Kalamazoo Stout. Also Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout when it's available (still got 2 bottles), Fuller's London Porter, Aventinus Doppelbock Wheat (I think that's the name) are some of my favorites right now.

[Kevan]

over the last ten years the American beer market has woken up and we are finally seeing more and more quality suds showing up with excellent flavor, hopefully teaching the king a thing or two. Can't say (cuz I don't know) if I've tried any of their sudsidiaries [sic] that make their own statement. I generally avoid AB and Miller.

Anyway, beer enjoyment, including the expansion of old world imports, has never been bitter [again sic].

I'm just saying.

[BURCH]

Man....is there a beer that I don't like?

It is probable easier for me to name the ones I dislike...
Coors light
Any beer that has a berry flavor to it.
All of those whacky flavored beers by Sam Adams.

Used to drink Rolling Rock every once and a while as it was brewed where I grew up, but AB bought the company and shut down the brewery. Not breweed in Old Latrobe anymore. Sam Adams bought the Latrobe brewery. Rolling Rock is being brewed somewhere at AB.

[Jeff N.]

Check out "The Opioionated Beer Page" at tobp.com and see what he has to say about Corona, et.al. The guy's hilarious! Jeff N.

[Peter B]

Anderson Valley Brewing Co.'s Hop Ottin' IPA (http://www.avbc.com/beers/ipa.html).

"Hop Ottin' bites like a can-kicky bluetail." :beer:

[tch]

Moose Drool.

[goonster]

Rolling Rock is being brewed somewhere at AB.

Newark, NJ

[BoulderGeek]

I loved France, but I am so happy to be able to drink real beer again (in Colorado) without having to pay $8 a pint. I enjoyed Leffe Blonde and Duvel, however this summer, completely without moderation.

Back to the Avery IPA, Mtn Sun, and Il Vicino Wet Mountain IPA.

Bud, we need to go for a ride and have a pint!

[DarrenCT]

mmmmmmmmmmmm

http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/9614/iparw0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[DarrenCT]

also...

http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/8829/smuttyxu4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Jeff N.]

mmmmmmmmmmmm

http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/9614/iparw0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)Absolutely. Wonderful stuff. They're just up the road. Jeff N.

[kestrel]

My personal favorite is Cold Beer.

I spent a year in sunny southeast Asia back in the late 60's, and the few beers I had were hot, old and flat, so Cold Beer is my favorite for the last 40 years.

[seanw]

mmmmmmm. love that smutty nose ipa!!!

cheers everyone! :beer:

and happy riding,
sean

[Kevan]

mmmmmmmmmmmm

http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/9614/iparw0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Honestly Darren, we gotta meet. We're cut from the same cloth.

Hey, you doing the Golden Apple this Sunday?

[Russell]

Uh.....sure......and it goes great with Bologna sandwiches. :rolleyes:
Fried bologna sandwiches and short women with thick ankles.

[Jeff N.]

In my quest to lose weight (well, lose fat) I've pretty much given up on beer. I can't remember the last time I had one.

I've cut way back on alcohol consumption in general (not that I ever was much of a drinker). I do enjoy wine, and might have a glass or two per week, but that's about it these days :(

Next week I'll be in Munich and I'll not totally refrain.I envy you. I've always fantasized about going to Munich and hitting the beerhalls and just quaffing that great German brew from those huge steins, the Ompah bands playing, the whole program. Enjoy! Jeff N.

[JohnS]

McEwen's Scottish Ale. Nuff said... :beer:

[jemoryl]

Newark, NJ

Yup. It's the Newark water that makes it special.

[FlaRider]

Dogfish Head's Indian Brown ale is tasty; if you can find Brooklyn Brown on tap it makes a nice session beer, but the bottled version (contract brewed) is just okay.

Picked up some Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale the other night based on your recommendation. It's outstanding! Thanks!

[ashwa64]

badass brew...
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y120/ashwa64/DSC00566.jpg

[RIHans]

I like to sample beers from all over. My latest regional fav is something the Mid-West drinkers may know, Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat (Chippewa Falls, WI).
There is a local beer-centric spirits shop that I support that sells Spanish Peaks Brewing, Black Dog Ale, Boseman Montana.

My question Dave, Ever tried this one? Thumbs up?


Thanks in advance,
Hans