Top 5 best beers in your opinion.

splashthecash

I saw the thread listing the top 5 worst beers and got wondering if everyone is giving out about nearly every beer....what is left that people think is nice?

I'm no beer snob, personally I'll drink pretty much anything (except a couple which were mentioned, dutch, hollandia, sol) but I do have a few that I think are really nice

Tiger (probably my favourite beer!)
Singha
Heineken
Corona

What else should I be adding to my list??

Bluefoam

Heineken
Budweiser
Royal Dutch
Dutch Gold
Bavaria

Fbjm

Bluefoam wrote: »

Heineken
Budweiser
Royal Dutch
Dutch Gold
Bavaria

Dutch gold is ROTTEN (no offence) but I have to agree with Bavaria, and obviously corona. The rest of the list for me would always be made up of ciders (bulmers kopparberg etc)

The Orb

Nastro Azzuro
Budvar
Pilsner Urquell
Staropramen
Heineken

saintsaltynuts

Guinness
Beamish
Paulaner
Boddingtons
Bulmers(Pint Bottle).

Dahtac

Probably not my favourite beers of all time (that would be too easy and very biased), but five beers that really impressed me and booted expectations out the door, in no particular order:

Titan IPA
Sierra Nevada Stout
Brooklyn Lager
Bruges Zot Blond (big fan of the doppel as well)
Der HirschBrau's Doppel Hirsch

Brian CivilEng

My current beers of choice. Can't say five best beers as that changes regularly:

O'Hara's Leann Follain
O'Hara's IPA
Dungarvan Black Rock
Brew Dog Punk IPA
Sierra Nevada Torpedo

Stout and hoppy pale ales, man I am one boring beer geek.

dutch1

Right Im gonna say:

1. Guinness- I must say the overall quality has improved in pubs over the last few years. There is nothing better to get drunk on then good good Guinness
2. Duvel - Looks like a medicine bottle but love the 8% kick off it, not reccomended to drink it after drinking a different beer before it.
3. Heineken-Gives me whopper hang-over headaches but its my no.1 lager.
4. Peroni- Nice bottle of beer.
My no. 5 is a bottle from Molloys but cant remember its feckin name!

Losty Dublin

Bluefoam wrote: »

Heineken
Budweiser
Royal Dutch
Dutch Gold
Bavaria

Wrong thread, man; this is the one you actually should have posted in.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056281822

youcancallmeal

Cider is not a beer!!!

TheWarrior

abitofacomedian wrote: »

My current beers of choice. Can't say five best beers as that changes regularly:

O'Hara's Leann Follain
O'Hara's IPA
Dungarvan Black Rock
Brew Dog Punk IPA
Sierra Nevada Torpedo

Stout and hoppy pale ales, man I am one boring beer geek.

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Great Selection & agree 100% I could have posted that myself - might have swapped Adnams innovation with the Dungarvan Black rock though.

Grayditch

Belfast Blonde
Tiger
Cobra
Asahi
Corona


Anything by that Brew Dog company makes me gag.

Technocentral

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Wrong thread, man; this is the one you actually should have posted in.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056281822

I agree. How many great beers from around the word have people on here who say Heiniken and Bavaria are the best they have ever tasted really tried? Btw if not drinking muck like budweiser, coors and dutch gold makes one a snob well then I'm a total snob and proud of it, what's the point in been on a forum like this just to say how much you love bland industrial beer anyway? It would be like going on a classic cars forum to say how great a 1997 fiat punto is.

My top 5:
Galway Hooker
Dark Arts porter
O Haras Leann Follain
Fullers 1845
Hook Norton 12 days
Wrassers xxx
Fullers 1845

VW 1

Top 5 beers of choice at the moment (not in a particular order) are

Wrasslers XXX
Brooklyn Lager
Sierra Nevada Torpedo
O'Hara's Leann Follain
Astro Nazzuri (sp?)

macgrub

1: Erdingner Weissbier
2: Guinness
3: Grolsch **
4: Hoegaarden
5: Schofferhofer Hefeweizen (only in Aldi)


** (however, when applicable: Miller High Life)

TheWarrior

Technocentral wrote: »

I agree. How many great beers from around the word have people on here who say Heiniken and Bavaria are the best they have ever tasted really tried? Btw if not drinking muck like budweiser, coors and dutch gold makes one a snob well then I'm a total snob and proud of it, what's the point in been on a forum like this just to say how much you love bland industrial beer anyway? It would be like going on a classic cars forum to say how great a 1997 fiat punto is.

My top 5:
Galway Hooker
Dark Arts porter
O Haras Leann Follain
Fullers 1845
Hook Norton 12 days
Wrassers xxx
Fullers 1845

Nice selection too - but its your top 7 really

cynch

1 mcgraths irish red
2 o haras irish red
3 fursty ferrett
4 theakson xb
5 frankenheimer alt

Losty Dublin

Technocentral wrote: »

I agree. How many great beers from around the word have people on here who say Heiniken and Bavaria are the best they have ever tasted really tried? Btw if not drinking muck like budweiser, coors and dutch gold makes one a snob well then I'm a total snob and proud of it, what's the point in been on a forum like this just to say how much you love bland industrial beer anyway? It would be like going on a classic cars forum to say how great a 1997 fiat punto is.

My top 5:
Galway Hooker
Dark Arts porter
O Haras Leann Follain
Fullers 1845
Hook Norton 12 days
Wrassers xxx
Fullers 1845

Thanks for that, man It's too easy to say you like those beers; I love the car analogy as well.

FTR, five of my favourite brews are as follows....

Wrasslers, by a country mile the best draught stout out there.
Cains Formidable. It's a beer that doesn't try to do a lot in what it is yet it works on so many levels, possibly as it has so little to disguise it's class.
Thwaites Liberation. Found this beer in November; think Mcardles perfected and your there.
James Boags. A Tasmanian lager that works on so many levels and is genuinely light, fruity and refreshing.
Old Engine Oil. Treat with respect, it's lethal in heavy doses

Fbjm

youcancallme>al wrote: »

Cider is not a beer!!!

Ok fine.

1. Corona
2. Miller
3. Bavaria
4. Tiger Beer
5. Heineken

Happy? :P

I must admit though, I've had quite a lot more heino than any other beer in the past few months, they don't have any other beer at the heineken cup (especially not at premium level). Dear god I am NEVER going to the podium again though, it feels more like a business meeting than a rugby match

Technocentral

TheWarrior wrote: »

Nice selection too - but its your top 7 really

True! I got a bit overexcited at how tasty they are and forgot to stop.

ondeball

1. Oranjeboom
2. Pilsner Urquell
3. Tsingtao
4. Grolsch
5. Sol.

theboss80

1. Budweiser
2. Miller
3. Carlsberg Export
4. Heineken
5. Castlemaine XXXX (original recipe tried in the brewery in Oz)

Frank Black

In no particular order

Cobra
Duvel
Tsingtao
Estrella Damm
Heineken

iambrazil

at the moment anyway...

Harvest Pale (available on cask all over Nottingham. Champion Beer of Britain 2010. The bottle is contract brewed as far as I know and it really doesn't do this beer justice)

Galway Hooker
Helvick Gold
O'Hara's IPA
O'Hara's Leann Follain

I need to get back to trying more foreign beers...

Geuze

Most brands of geuze
Guinness Extra Stout
Helvick Gold
Galway Hooker PA
Weihenstephaner WB

hamsterboy

1. Galway Hooker
2. Youngs Waggle Dance
3. Curim Wheat Beer
4. Hoegaarden
5. Franziskaner

slayerking

My current top 5 Irish beers... hhmmm...

1. Galway Hooker (A beer I always come back to)
2. Metalman Windjammer
3. Wrasslers XXXX
4. Clothworthy Dobbin
5. O'Hara's IPA

Changes a little bit every now and again!

Mossin

1. Yuengling Lager [http://www.yuengling.com/over21/over21.php?referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yuengling.com%2F]
2. Schloss Eggenberg [http://www.schloss-eggenberg.at/en/index.html]
3. Guinness
4. Palm Amber Beer [http://www.palm.be/en/palm.php]
5. McArdles Ale

This was a lot tougher to decide than I'd originally thought.

Palm's Amber Ale is without doubt one of the nicest beers I've ever had in my life, and I'd recommend it to everyone!

Mo14

Dogfish head 90 Minute IPA
O'Hara's Leann Follain
Porterhouse Celebration Stout
Chimay Blue
Duvel

I think.. it changes often.

DBCyc

Hmmm so hard to choose...my favourites over the past year are:

Cantillon Kriek Bio
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
De Dolle Dulle Teve
Brew Dog-Mikkleller I Hardcore You
Trouble Brewing Dark Arts

This list could change every week!

Sea Devils

In no order

Fanziskaner
Krombacher
Sierra Nevada Torpedo
Brooklyn Lager
Galway Hooker

D1976

Sam Adams Boston Lager

McArdles (bottles only)

Guinness

Brahma

Coors Extra Gold

Black Sheep

A bottle of Aspalls draught last night. Very dry, very light ... I mean both of those in a good way.

Technocentral

Black Sheep wrote: »

A bottle of Aspalls draught last night. Very dry, very light ... I mean both of those in a good way.

I see its on draught in Porterhouse Tempe bar must try it next time I'm in.

BeerNut

Technocentral wrote: »

I see its on draught in Porterhouse Tempe bar

Also in The Bull & Castle, L. Mulligan Grocer and Against the Grain.

old hippy

Currently it's (in no particular order)

Peroni
Sapporo
Red Stripe
San Miguel
Badger's Golden Glory

KJ

BeerNut wrote: »

Also in The Bull & Castle, L. Mulligan Grocer and Against the Grain.

I found it tasted a lot nicer in Against The Grain than it did in the Porterhouse (Trinity college one)

upforit101

in no particular order:

Augustiner Helles
Saigon - where can you get this in Ireland?
Peroni (red label)
Porterhouse Plain
Galway Bay lager

Rigor Mortis

Honeydew
Deuchars
Caledonian 80
ESB
Warsteiner

the beer revolu

Only 5??
OK, I'll try.

Orval
Dogfish head 90' IPA
Hommelbier
Any Odell's beer
Bitch Please

Nope, can't stop there..

Metalman Windjammer
Sierra Nevada Torpedo
Flying Dog Raging Bitch
Rochefort 8
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Leifman's Guldenband
Trouble Dark Arts
Great Divide Titan
Westmalle Triple
Westmalle Dubbel
Brewdog Zeitgeist
5 AM saint
Hardcore IPA
Adnam's Innovation (when it was good)
Duchess De Bourgonne
Schneiderweiss Original
Aventinus
Eisbock

I could go on and on and on but these sprang to mind - in no particular order.

Raekwon

The Orb wrote: »

Nastro Azzuro
Budvar
Pilsner Urquell
Staropramen
Heineken

Czech beer FTW!

I also like the very under rated Slovak beer Zlatý Bažant (which is brewed by Heineken).

faceman

Wow tough one to answer. But anyway in no particular order:

Tsingtao - nice easy taste. Hot weather beer IMO

Tusker - hard to get in Ireland. Has a slightly sweeter taste. Love it

Heineken - bland but my usual tipple in a run of the mill pub

Estrella - my favourite Spanish beer.

Peroni - I like it when I'm in the mood for it!

_blank_

my favourite beers are

monteith's black
fuller's honeydew
inns & gunn
pint bottle of guinness
o'hara's stout

Diabhal Beag

1) Tiger Beer
2) Heineken
3) Budweiser
4) Miller
5) Guiness.

Not exactly a worldly expert on beers.

willow tree

oh peroni, peroni,peroni (reminds me of being in italy)
corona,
tyskie,
erdinger,
kronebourg (reminds me of being in france, havent found it here though)


havent drank in over a year (as ive a 3month old) and wasnt missing it but this list and the sun, bringing it all back...hmm beer:cool:

fonecrusher1

Ok here goes. This is kind of difficult. So many good beers....

1. Chimay Trappiste - the stuff is just tip top.
2. Weihenstephan dark wheat - superb in every way.
3. Franziskaner - its simple & delicious. A classic wheat beer.
4. Zywiec - I always enjoy this stuff.
5. Leffe Blonde - not hugely popular amongst the beer guru's but i like it a lot.

Others that deserve a mention... Lech, Duvel, Weihenstephan wheat beer, Erdinger dunkel dark, Tyskie, Tennents*




*only joking...:o

Curry Addict

my favs are

Augusteiner helles
Leffe blond
Leffe triple
delerium tremens
erdinger

Schism

Changes all the time for me, at the moment it's probably something like :

1. Brooklyn Lager
2. Brewdog 5am Saint
3. Chimay Blue
4. Coopers Pale Ale
5. Blue Moon

Also an honourable mention to Brewdog Tokyo, it'd be in there if it wasn't so damned expensive!

Molloys Clondalkin

Keep going guys Im taking notes on what to order in now

my 5 in no order
Leffe Blonde
Sam adams
Goldstar
Brooklyn pennant
Coopers vintage and pale
Yumm yumm

themandan6611

in no particular order :


Franziskaner
Goose Island IPA (my fav)
La Chouffe
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Duvel

SomeDose

Ok, I've picked 5 current favourites each from different categories:

Rochefort 8
Fuller's ESB or 1845
Pilsner Urquell
Aventinus
Brewdog Hardcore IPA

Likely to change as my experience broadens...