Europe or America, who makes the best beerz? - Page 3

**SageTree** · 11-06-2009, 02:06 PM

Victory Hop Devil is pretty good. I like the Golden Monkey from them as well.

Willie D · 11-06-2009, 02:09 PM

that really is a tough question, at first I picked Europe but then I started to remember some American brews that are absolutely sensational..

but some of my favorite are:

my absolute favorite ale, you Scottish bastards got it right on this one

probably my favorite IPA

probably my favorite lager

and last but not least my favorite from the Boston Brewing Company, winter seasonal ale

edit- the only ale in the trappist style I have tried was the Ommegang, which is actually an American ale styled after the Belgian abbey ales..

Honestly, I was disappointed, didn't like a single thing about it. maybe the real trappist ales are better but I would not buy this stuff ever again.

**SageTree** · 11-06-2009, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by Willie D

Schwing!

Willie D · 11-06-2009, 02:25 PM

yeah that stuff is out of control good

**kitch** · 11-06-2009, 02:29 PM

it def WILL ruin any beer you drink after it.

Willie D · 11-06-2009, 02:34 PM

lol nice touch

**SageTree** · 11-06-2009, 02:39 PM

^^for sure, so you'd better have another one of the same

farmergiles · 11-06-2009, 03:10 PM

So many good beers in Europe.

Hambleton Ales FTW.

Mydriasis · 11-06-2009, 03:19 PM

Oh fuck burning river!!!!
Willie isn't great lakes amazing? I feel bad for people who have never had great lakes.

Only benefit having moved out to PA beer-wise is the yeungling black and tan. It's pretty much guinness 'light' lol and affordable too.

I had some good cheap microbrew called knights head, which had a nice pale ale.

Sam adams fezzlewig is like christmas cookies in a bottle it's pretty dank haha.

Willie D · 11-06-2009, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by Mydriasis

Oh fuck burning river!!!!
Willie isn't great lakes amazing? I feel bad for people who have never had great lakes.

Only benefit having moved out to PA beer-wise is the yeungling black and tan. It's pretty much guinness 'light' lol and affordable too.

I had some good cheap microbrew called knights head, which had a nice pale ale.

Sam adams fezzlewig is like christmas cookies in a bottle it's pretty dank haha.

yeah great lakes is the shiz

**kitch** · 11-06-2009, 04:49 PM

anyone tried any of the Sam Adams super-heady brews? me and a friend w4r3z split a millenium a couple years back. Was incredible, as it oughtta have been at $100/bottle

Lloydy · 11-06-2009, 05:09 PM

to be fair, i dont have a fucking clue. as long as it tastes alright and does the business im not bothered

**kitch** · 11-06-2009, 05:12 PM

lot more honest than most europeans.

I feel like the prollem with european beer is that people are like 'oh the abbeys and holland and ireland have it down, why bother making something new' where as americans are like 'ya see how much hops those guys in Florida got in? let's see if we can DOUBLE it. Therefore we always end up with new heady beerz

Lloydy · 11-06-2009, 05:17 PM

if its cold and yellow...

**kitch** · 11-06-2009, 05:19 PM

yellow beer is for when you're broke.

which I am

so I am drinking THE MOFUKING CHAMPAGNE OF BEERZ bitches

Lloydy · 11-06-2009, 05:22 PM

im afraid im a cider man when it comes to pale beverages, cheap and nice!

**kitch** · 11-06-2009, 05:24 PM

<3 cider, woodchuck is my standard but Bar Harbor is my favourite.

Hooked · 11-06-2009, 07:27 PM

No love for New Belgium on here as far as I've seen. I've been drinking Fat Tire almost since it debuted. A fucking standard I'll drink, anytime. And pretty much everything else they put out is amazing. Some of it is absolutely incredible.

And y'all don't know shit about O'Dell, either. Also based in Ft. Collins. 90 Shilling is their standard, Easy Street Wheat is probably my favorite bier to drink if it's draught. They came out with St. Lupulin came out this year, try that shit on for hops (it's in the fucking name, for shit's sake).

We got Avery, we got Ska, we got Breckenridge and Boulder Beer and Flying Dog and of course the Wynkoop, oldest microbrewery in the state. Shit, we've been CANNING microbrews for three years now. Pack that shit in, pack it out, take it on a boat or keep it cold as fuck in the stream whilst flyfishing for trout. That's how we do here in CO. Declared to be the "Napa/Sonoma/Alexander/Russian River Valley" of craft brewing. There's a reason the Great American Beef Festival and dozens of other national competitions for craft brewing go on HERE. Because we have well over a hundred of them operating within our borders.

American craft brewing for the fucking win, there shouldn't really be a discussion. Rogue, Stone, Full Sail, Pyramid and a few others for my West Coast favorites, especially since I went to school on that coast and drank 'em fresh, especially that Arrogant. I think I've had fresher Stone than anyone on here save a few. at 7-11. on Sunday (oh, Cali). Boulevard is a lovely KC brewer. God, there's shit-tons in the West, and in the NE, and can't even get started because I've only had a small sampling, and they keep popping up everywhere.

And I drink Red Hook products, too. I've drank Coors craft attempts since they began, and they are not as good since they sold out to the Canucks. And Budweiser is owned by InBev, which is a Belgian company, you stupid fucks...

**SageTree** · 11-06-2009, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by kitchkinet

yellow beer is for when you're broke.

ouch. Sierra Nevada is pretty cheap, and has a hint of dankness in it, especially their celebration ale.

al-Mu'akhkhir · 11-06-2009, 11:51 PM

lloydy actually has it right though I don't buy anything more than rickards if i'm getting drunk, the microbreweries are for the times when I actually want to nurse something.