Mmmmmm, Beer. I'm a fan. It started with kegs of Natty light. It's blossoming with kegs from local microbreweries. I just started brewing with some friends. That tastes worse than anything, but its mine, goddamnit.

I like darker ales and tend to avoid super-hoppy stuff, though my appreciation for hoppy beer has grown somewhat, thanks to a taster batch from a brewery called Victory.

Favorite brands/breweries? I like Magic Hat a whole lot, Newcastle Brown Ale, Guinness, Yards' Love stout (local philadelphia brewery), and I'm a fan of Sam Adams' Cream Stout. Magic Hat #9 is my current fave in the cost/taste ratio department. It's a pale ale brewed with a hint of apricot! Sounds like bath soap, but tastes like awesome.

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Natty Light tastes like piss and is for college kids.

Newport Storm is awesome, though.

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I recently had Old Speckled Hen for the first time. A friend said it's an old man's beer, but I thought it was mild with a deep taste and no aftertaste. Unfortuantely, now I'm having problems finding any place that has it.

Otherwise, I'm all for the dark stuff.

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I was also a homebrewer when i was in my early 20's. I had gone to London for a semester and developed a taste for beer I couldn't afford when I got back, so I started making it.

I eventually got to the point where I was mashing grains and not using any extract at all. It was fun, but once I could afford to buy good beer and the micro-brew revolution took off, I could get what I wanted without all the clean-up. I still have all my equipment, but I haven't used it in nearly 10 years. Road trip to San Diego, Trip, and it's all yours to take back.

Big fan of Big Rock Grasshopper, as well as Alexander Keith's. Can withstand drinking Labatt Blue on occasion, as with MGD. Ultimate hater beers: Kokannee and Canadian, Labatt Lite, Miller Dry, and Coors Lite.

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Damn, where to start?

Marston's Golden Drop is about my all time favourite bottled beer, but I can also recommend London Pride and anything by Young's if you're into your imported English bottled ales, and are lucky enough to see anything from those breweries.

I remember liking some of the steam beers and Moosehead beer one North American brewery did. Honkers Ale is one I remember liking. There is a very good beer scene on the Pacific coast.

As for real ales, I haven't had a really good session beer on draft for a long time, but I'd have to go with London Pride again.

PS - Marston's also do a low carb beer called Resolution, which, for a "lite" beer, is pretty decent tasting.

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Uh I'm a mainstreamer high school kid soon to be college kid in 7 months, so last friday I just drank me some Coors lite, it all tastes the same to me: icky. But i like it

I've never seen Marston's here. OSH on draft is on nitro, which I don't like, and the bottled beer is always spoiled because the glass is clear (lets in UV rays and skunks the hops). I love Yards' beers. Victory Hop Devil is awesome. They also make a great barley wine and a great imperial stout, my two favorite styles. I think Victory is one of the 3 best brewpubs east of the Mississippi, the other two being Kalamazoo Brewing and McNeill's in Brattleboro, VT. TB-- ever been to Nodding Head in Philly? I'm going there this weekend.

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Victory's Hop Devil is one of my favorite beers. It's amazing that 20 years ago I hated beer more than anything and now it's one of my favorite flavors. Double weird.

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You can find London Pride here, but the bottles are usually on some bottom shelf, all covered in dust. It tastes much better out of the tap over there.

Finn, have you been to the Brooklyn Brewery? My friend wrote an article on the brewer and his new book on beer and food here.

Never been to Nodding Head. Where is it in Philly?

Yeah, Victory's Hop Devil was fantastic. I like Yards, though their IPA was too much for me to handle. It's great because it's fairly cheap around here and beats out a lot of the special gourmet stuff at the beer store. I will say that I have a big spot in my heart for Yuengling's Black and Tan. It's the first non-lite/ice/piss beer I ever had and still tastes great to me. Where is Victory's brewery?

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I was also a homebrewer when i was in my early 20's. I had gone to London for a semester and developed a taste for beer I couldn't afford when I got back, so I started making it.

I eventually got to the point where I was mashing grains and not using any extract at all. It was fun, but once I could afford to buy good beer and the micro-brew revolution took off, I could get what I wanted without all the clean-up. I still have all my equipment, but I haven't used it in nearly 10 years. Road trip to San Diego, Trip, and it's all yours to take back.

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I've never taken the tour. It's on my spring to-do list. This is an awesome place to get beer and talk beer. They're all about beer.

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Never been to Nodding Head. Where is it in Philly?
Where is Victory's brewery?

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Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout is possibly the best beer ever made. It's pretty expensive, but it comes in a large bottle and is all fancy-pants packaged, and it one of the best things to ever pass my lips.

I also like the selection of the local microbrewery, Sierra Nevada. I don't care much for the Crystal Wheat, but most of the other stuff from SN is decent enough. The IPA and unfiltered wheat are both great beers for decent prices.

I'll drink cheap "beer" if nothing else is available. I prefer better stuff, but I'm not a complete snob. I will absolutely not drink Budweiser (political issues), but Coors, Miller and Corona are okay when you're just hanging out with friends. I also love Guiness, no matter how commercial and well-known it may be.

Finally, light beer is a no-no for me. I'd rather drink a girlie beer like Smirnoff Ice than drink light beer. That crap tastes like seltzer that someone tossed a slice of bread into, shook it up, filtered out the pieces of bread, and served up what poured out.

Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout, on the other hand, will grab your tongue, pull it out of your mouth, and beat you with it. It's rich, nice smooth texture, and tastes quite decent even at slightly warm temperatures.

And if you want a beer (not talking about Malt Liquor here) that will kick your ass and take your name, try Piraat Ale. I believe it's somewhere around 13% alcohol. It also has a slight sweet/bitter dichotomy going on, so it's not for the inexperienced. I took a swig of it when I was still just drinking Guiness and Budweiser, and it kicked my ass.

And for the love of all things intoxicating, next time someone calls that soda-water shit "beer", smack them for me, please? If it's clear and fruity, it's not beer.

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You won't drink Bud because of it's politics and yet you will drink Coors?...

My wife got me a bottle of Sam Adams Utopias for xmas '03. That stuff was fantastic. It tops out at 25% alcohol and is as smooth as silk. Jim Koch is a fuckin' genius.

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I also like the selection of the local microbrewery, Sierra Nevada. I don't care much for the Crystal Wheat, but most of the other stuff from SN is decent enough. The IPA and unfiltered wheat are both great beers for decent prices.

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I've been to the Nodding Head once or twice and remembered that beer kills brain cells and helps keep us all just that much more complacent and stupid. So instead of drinking some of the "finer" beers they offer I merely ate their food.

Then I went back to my friend's place in Bryn Mawr and drank some PBR. I'm a hypocrite.

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You won't drink Bud because of it's politics and yet you will drink Coors?...

I think I might be uninformed. What are the political issues against Bud? Is it because it's the King of Beers and you don't support a monarchy?

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The only way I'll be able to enjoy Corona is with a lime. That means its not actually beer.

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You know, I see nothing wrong with a constitutional monarchy. I wouldn't mind it at all. Of course, I shouldn't have told my mother that...

Funny, I watched the election, yet I can't remember if Pete Coors won in Colorado or not.

Personally, I detest beer. It's gross, ooky, stinky, etc. However, I absolutely love making it. It's a mad scientist thing. My parents used to brew their own when I was growing up and end of last summer, I pulled my very own first batch out of the closet. Apparently it was very good cause when I mentioned I still had one more six pack left, people fought over it. It was an Irish stout. So dark that light couldn't be seen through it. The comments I received ranged from "as good as Guiness" to "better then Guiness" depending on what the beer preference was for the person. Even my dad (master homebrewer and wouldn't have spared my feelings if it sucked) said it was excellent.

Not that I'm bragging or anything.

My next batch is going to be a German stout, but I need to get bottles first. I've already decided not to recycle old bottles because I don't have the energy to clean the labels off. Especially with the foil labels. Blarg.

If I liked beer I could taste it for myself, but that would require liking it enough to let it enter the general area of my tastebuds.

What's a German stout?

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It's like an Irish stout except it takes seriously everything you said while you were in a drunken stupor and by the time you wake up, you own most of Europe.

I like the beer that explodes when you drink it.

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I had several bottles of homebrew stout explode in my car on a hot day once...now THAT was icky.