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FAVORITE BEER (high-end/low-end)?

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It's always nice to go out (or stay in) and relax with a high-quality brew, but sometimes budget restrictions (or too many thirsty free-loaders) causes one to lower their sights somewhat.

What's your favorite premium/minimum beer?

I go "high" with Guinness whenever possible and "low" with Mickey's Big Mouth (can't get MBM over here, so I drink a semi-disgusting brew called Karlsquelle (4.8%) -- it costs @ $.38 a can, USD-equivalent, and is available from the Aldi supermarket chain, in 18-packs). It's slightly-metallic taste has the added benefit of keeping all but the most unrepentant moochers at bay.
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Guinness or Abita Turbodog on the top end (oh yeah), Miller High Life or PBR on the low end. Given that today is tax day, I think I'll be drinking a lot of PBR for a good while...
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peetie44 wrote:It's always nice to go out (or stay in) and relax with a high-quality brew, but sometimes budget restrictions (or too many thirsty free-loaders) causes one to lower their sights somewhat.

What's your favorite premium/minimum beer?

I go "high" with Guinness whenever possible and "low" with Mickey's Big Mouth (can't get MBM over here, so I drink a semi-disgusting brew called Karlsquarlle -- it costs @ $.38 a can, USD, and is available from the Aldi supermarket chain, in 18-packs). It's slightly-metallic taste has the added benefit of keeping all but the most unrepentant moochers at bay.
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I rather enjoyed that as a teen,when it was still available in Aldi around here.
It's long gone.Nowadays they only sell their beer in plastic bottles.
So it's no alternative to guinnes,weizen or alt.
When I had little money I used to drink Oettinger,the cheapest and best selling beer in germany.
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compass wrote: Image


I rather enjoyed that as a teen,when it was still available in Aldi around here.
It's long gone.
compass,

The species of Kq I drink is in a red can. I like to drink a couple of Jupilers and then downgrade to the Kq, as it is rather abrupt tasting to a fresh palate.
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This is the best selling beer here
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Bell's Amber or Third Coast is hard to beat, Milwaulkee's Best Ice 22oz. gives a good kick for a buck.

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Troegs Hopback Amber or Victory's Prima Pils when the times are good and PBR, Natty Boh, Strohs, or Yuengling when I'm strapped for cash.
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High end:

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Low, whatever is cheapest.

High, something dark and bitter with high abv. Porters, stouts, barley wines and the like.
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Low end, Yeungling anywhere its on tap, which is most places here. I find it mighty tasty for something priced between a Bud Light and a Heineken. Drinking beer always seems to wind up involving tequila though. I rationalize it as minimizing beer belly. Maybe thrown in a "favorite shot and beer combo?" Beer brings shots, always. I get less drunk on a diet of highballs.

I wouldn't call Guinness high end compared to the outlandish shit my beer connoisseur friend digs up, but its as rich a beer as I bother with. Jameson pretty much becomes a requirement at that point, although they give you dirty looks as if to say 'drop that in your glass and you're outta here buddy'

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Atlantic Canadian perspective: Moose Dry until i get tired of it and then i switch to Molson Dry, there is no high or low end, just that. Domestic beer is all the same price here, and every month a specific case is on sale, but usually its light beer. The government is the only one who sels booze here.

Always out of glass bottles, i can't stand drinking out of a can or a beer out of a can.

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dascott wrote:Low end, Yeungling anywhere its on tap, which is most places here. I find it mighty tasty for something priced between a Bud Light and a Heineken. Drinking beer always seems to wind up involving tequila though. I rationalize it as minimizing beer belly. Maybe thrown in a "favorite shot and beer combo?" Beer brings shots, always. I get less drunk on a diet of highballs.

I wouldn't call Guinness high end compared to the outlandish shit my beer connoisseur friend digs up, but its as rich a beer as I bother with. Jameson pretty much becomes a requirement at that point, although they give you dirty looks as if to say 'drop that in your glass and you're outta here buddy'
dascott,

I like the way you think!

However, mention to your friend, that, when all the yuppie-A$$, flavor-of-the-month, honey-amber-dark, special-reserve-bock, throaty, sweety, fruity shit has gone where it invariably goes...

...there will ALWAYS be Guinness.
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Natty Ice on the low end. Can't beat 5.9% ABV



too many on the high end to pick just one.

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Highest End: Saku Porter. The only place I've ever seen it is at The Brickskellar in Washington, DC. It's Estonian, don't you know. (Epor: You ever drink Saku?)

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Saku Porter is good stuff, one of the best porters I've had. Tume by the same brewery is also good, if you like sweet beers.
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