Whats your Favourite Beer?

Blisterman

Mines Fosters. After a year of 75p a can, I love this stuff. And it's €3 a pint in loads of places here now. It's great.
What's everyone here's?

Pepe LeFrits

1664!

moshpit77

Usually drinking out it's Heineken or Stella

At home at the moment it's Miller bottles or Carlsberg bottles, my local offie is doing a special on Carlsberg 10 bottles for €11.49 so how bad!

I've tried Fosters but didn't really like it.

Dimitri

Its miller when i'm drinking out but stella out of a can. Not a lover of fosters but during the college year it does save a few pennys. Also like Murphys from time to time, i tried beamish there recently because its only €3 a pint but didn't like it at all.

nesf

Schneiderweisse Dunkle (sp?) is my favourite tbh.

Personally I prefer the ale side of the beer spectrum.

The Sweeper

Stella out of a can. Fatbastardtastically good.

However, a night on the stella leaves me with an icepick hangover (feels like someone's inserted an icepick in the top of my skull and is trying to poke my eyeball out with it).

steveland?

I get a serious amount of stick over this in work but a nice pint of Bud does me...

nesf

steveland? wrote:

I get a serious amount of stick over this in work but a nice pint of Bud does me...

Do you find Bud is very tempermental?

All the bud drinkers I know complain about the fact that the quality varies hugely pub to pub.

steveland?

nesf wrote:

Do you find Bud is very tempermental?

All the bud drinkers I know complain about the fact that the quality varies hugely pub to pub.

I do indeed, best pint I've had in a while was a pub I used to work in... they've just gotten in T-Bar taps so it's cooled all the way to the tap...

One thing I find about Bud is it tastes cack when it's not in a Bud glass... I like all my beers in the correct glasses...

Third_Echelon

Erdinger (and pretty much all German beers, weiss, krystal, dunkel etc)
Heineken
Corona
Kronenberg
Bulmers

They would usually be my weapon of choice... I also drink other beers, but these would be the main ones.

steveland?

Actually I'd like to change my choice to Corona with a lime... genius drink

nesf

steveland? wrote:

I do indeed, best pint I've had in a while was a pub I used to work in... they've just gotten in T-Bar taps so it's cooled all the way to the tap...

One thing I find about Bud is it tastes cack when it's not in a Bud glass... I like all my beers in the correct glasses...

Agreed, I've seen Murphy's served in a Bud glass! :eek:


Personally, in a dodgy pub I just switch to the whiskey for the night. Very difficult to **** up pouring a shot of whiskey. I'm sure it's possible though.

steveland?

Yeh I go onto the JD and cokes if I'm getting sick of pints...

I have nights when I can drink 10 or 12 pints without feeling sick but then there's nights when I have 4 pints and start kinda gagging when I drink them...

Heh, speaking of the glasses, I remember days when there'd be a match on in Croke Park and we'd be mobbed... it'd be mad so we had to use whatever glass came to hand first... Guinness in a Carlsberg glass... it just doesn't work...

angeldelight

I don't really like beer. The one I dislike the least though is Heineken.

If someone was insisting I was having a pint of something I'd choose bulmers & blackcurrant.

bang_bang_rosie

I love beer, most beers.
Miller on most nights out (bottles only) and corona with lime yum.

Guinness on a cold day or a relaxing pint in pub.

Holsten pils/satz if i'm feelin fat/guilty (apparantly it has less calories)

At home lager only and whatever is going really (cheap)

Stella gives me a vicious hangover too.

Drag00n79

Bottled: Löwenbräu and I'm also partial to Erdinger and Franziskaner Weißbier.
Draught: I haven't seen any of the Munich beers (Löwenbräu, Paulaner, Erdinger, Augustiner etc.) on tap here, so I'll go with Guinness.
I try to avoid cans as much as possible.

dahamsta

Fosters, Heineken and Budweiser are piss. Headache in a can.

Rebel Red's my fave, followed by Erdinger. If I can't get them, I'll drink Carlsberg. If I can't get Carlsberg I'll drink Heineken, and I'll get a shítty hangover in the morning. Way worse than the one I have now.

adam

KdjaCL

Freezing cold pint bottle of bulmers with no ice.....lovely.

Aldi cans of taurus Cider **** me im addicted to that .

kdjac

Creamy Goodness

over here it would be

miller
corona

but whilst i was in prague in the summer their own czech beer was so nice.

pilsner urquell

and it was cheap at about €1 a pint.

dudara

I know that it's not beer, but ice cold bottles of bulmers light are lovely.

I also like Corona with lime. Very delish

Viscosity

Living in Wexford, the choices of what to have on draught are fairly limited. I'd prob have Carlsberg because Smithwicks is gone unpredictable. I've tried Castlemaine XXXX recenly from a can and its grand, 6 cans for €8. My favourite overall, availability permitting, would be Spaten or Erdinger.

Dr. Dre

Carlsberg export.

paconnors

Here's my 3 cents (pints)

Miller., Coors Light, Stella Artois

Jivin Turkey

Warsteiner bottles, only e1 in O'Briens.

Sometimes Bavaria cans, or Fosters pints in my local. They have had cheap Fosters for about ten years now. Used to have Fosters dollars and all. So its so popular in there they are turning over a couple of kegs a night Id say. Lovely stuff.

Stella and 1664 give me thumping hangovers. The only beers Ive got headaches after.

Wouldn't touch Bud unless I was desperate, really desperate. Come to think of it though thats happened a few times.

Funkstard

ATM a nice cold Bud, but I'm not really one for trying different beers yet.

I've heard alot of the German beer doesn't give you as bad a hangover because there's alot less chemicals in them? Is this true?

Zaph

Staropramen - the greatest Czech beer available in this country (I had one even nicer in Prague called Gambrinus, but you can't get it here).

Others I have enjoyed include:

Biddy Blonde - from the Biddy Early brewery in Inagh, Co. Clare
Curim - brewed by the Carlow Brewing Company
Budvar - Czech Republic
Kwak - Belgium
Oyster Stout - the Porterhouse
Anchor Steam Beer - USA. If anyone can tell me if this is available in Dublin I'd very much appreciate it.
Spaten - Germany

BAm MArgera

Weiss

Cake Fiend

Guinness in a pub, any good pilsner from the offy (favourites being Deveneys in Rathmines, Redmonds in Ranelagh. Examples include Warsteiner, Staropramen, Spaten, Bitburger (got hooked on this in Germany) and one that starts with a K that I can't remember the name of.

Kobie

Nah, the Irish know feck all about beer. The choices we get in pubs are pityful. If you want a beer, get on a plane and find yourself a bottle of:

Girardin Gueuze 1882 Black Label

Now, that's a beer.



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happygoose

Corona with a lime

Guinness

Budvar

Sarky

I don't have a firm favourite, really, I'm always trying new beers whenever I can. Currently, my favourite is probably Paulaner Weissbier. It's a bit like Erdinger, only not so fizzy and a bit fruitier.

Last night I had a go at Weltenburger, both the pils and wiessbier. I didn't find the weissbier very inspiring, but the pils was excellent, and I'll certainly be getting more of it.

DundalkDuffman

330 ml bottles of Carlsberg Export. Sharp taste, icy cold. Beautiful.

The Bollox

I used to be a big fan of Bud, but lately it tasts like ****, now I'm on the Heineken, great stuff

Zaph

Marts wrote:

I used to be a big fan of Bud, but lately it tasts like ****

Lately it tastes like ****? I was under the impression that it has always tasted like ****.

Tobias Greeshman

Corona extra with the lime is lovely
Heinekein is just my drink of choice when Im out, lovely....
Satzenbrau is actually quite nice too, only drank it outta cans, tasty beer @5.5% Mmmmm!!
Stella is quite nice too...

JungleBunny

Bitburger - stright from the tap *drools*

Blub2k4

Cremo wrote:

over here it would be

miller
corona

but whilst i was in prague in the summer their own czech beer was so nice.

pilsner urquell

and it was cheap at about €1 a pint.

Oddbins do this stuff and they have it pretty cheap too.

Blub2k4

silas wrote:

Corona extra with the lime is lovely

I find the lime is essential to keeping the flies out of the beer, just like in Mexico :rolleyes:

Bateman

Proper Stella for me, although I do frequently lower my standards and get completely pissed on the Interbrew stuff...

Crash

Erdinger if they have it.

Heineken's the best of the rest for me if they dont.

generally anytime i'm in a pub and find a beer i havent tried on tap before (a few places are getting in warsteiner and 1664 taps lately) i'll go for one

shoutman

nicest beer i ever had was on a train going from berlin to amsterdam during the summer, i have no idea what the name of it is but it was on a german train and if anyone has any ideas what it might be please tell me, i know it was a german beer anyway

normally what i drink at home is bud, but miller is probably my favourite, i dont like to drink it though cause its supposed to be real bad for you, all artificial and ****.

Ravage1616

Mine would have to be a pint of smithwicks!! Love the stuff! wouldn't really be a fan of larger but will drink it!

Galvo

Favourite - Red Biddy draught
2nd - Aventinus draught/bottle

Speaking of Red Biddy, was in Biddy Early Brewery last week and they have a new beer to celebrate 10th birthday. 750ml with champagne cork, foil etc - looks the part. I think there will be a different "vintage" beer each year, but the first one is a honey beer and it's damn good (may replace Red Biddy above!). I had never had a honey beer before but it has a lovely smooth texture (I hate too much fizz anyway) and it is not too sweet, which I was afraid of.

bringitdown

A good, cool pint of Guiness is hard to beat.
Love a nice Corona and lime at BBQ's and such.
DBC's Revolution Red is nice too.

Other holiday favourites:
Red Back (WA, Oz)
Cusquena Malt - Black Malty beer from Peru, cannot get it here at all but my good god if it isn't the perfect combo of pep and alchohol. Taste is unlike anything I can describe, the effect - similar!

fade2black

Baltika.

Budvar.

Occom.

Stella.

And while in Spain...7% of pure ass kicking Voll Damm

fischerspooner

The best beer you can get on tap on ireland is Warsteiner. Karma on Fishamble st. in Dublin does a mean pint of it for nur 3.90!!! When I buy cans I buy Becks usually, or Holsten pils. Paulaner Weissbier on tap is the most refreshing I've ever tasted. Augustiner is probably the best lager I've ever drank, but they don't export it out of Munich. Anyone who says bud/corona/fosters etc. really doesn't have a clue about beer and should get out more! Germany is to beer/lager like Ireland is to stout. The rest are just imitations.

Badabing

Miller Lite when i'm in the states, i've tried everywhere in Dublin for it but no joy.

bullrunner

michelob or michelob lite...or even bud ice........ahh. .the memories

snorlax

Miller

dmck2886

Carlsberg.

Blub2k4

Badabing wrote:

Miller Lite when i'm in the states, i've tried everywhere in Dublin for it but no joy.

Yeah in Ireland you dont ask for Miller Light, just tell them you want a pint of tap water, you'll never know the difference.