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What's the best beer you ever tasted?

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I had this beer once called Skullspliter Ale, it was a great carmel malt ale brewed in the Orkney Isles. Soooo good but almost impossible to find.

On the whole though I think my favorite brewery might be the Left Hand.
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Ooh, that's a real toughie...I've had about 300 different beers in my time...and Skull Splitter is damn good, there's a store near me that sells the stuff.

But if I had to pick for a best overall beer - sorry Guinness, but it goes to Young's Luxury Double Chocolate Stout. It's the smoothest, creamiest beer I've ever seen. Incredible. And yes, it does taste like chocolate.
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Yeah I've had some of those Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout was tasty and about 8% alcohol.
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Post by moriarty »

Never had skullsplitter, gotta find it. Youngs is ok, a bit to filling though. I could live on Chimay, that shit always hits the spot.
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Post by Combat Rock »

I HONESTLY, really do love hamms and blatz. But the best is what I call fat drunk monk - I think Fransenkanner or something. The one with the monk and the gold label. Hmmmmmm.
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Post by VodkaHero »

Guiness would be #1 for me, it's all I'd drink if it didn't cost so much. I'm going to have to represent Canada for my #2 pick, Sleeman's Honey Brown.
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Post by tragoedus »

Cheers to the Sleeman, ts'what I'm drinking right now. Best beer I've ever had though is Belle Vue Kriek from Belgium. Fin du Monde from Quebec is also nice.
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A fresh Beemish served to me in Ireland at a tiny pub near the wharf.

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Post by Pinky »

Anderson Valley's "Poleko Gold" is a medium to high hopped pale ale (somewhere short of an IPA, but in that direction). What a beer, hops and malt are balanced beautifully. This beer is rich and full bodied without being heavy. Poleko Gold embodies what it means to be a craft beer; Poleko Gold is a beer brewer's beer. When Anderson Valley was still relatively small Poleko Gold was unfiltered. I could buy bottles of Poleko Gold at the local grocery store which had yeast sediment at the bottom of the bottle!

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I love me some Bodingtons but my buddy Gopher brews a stout which has yet to be named that is utterly fantastic. Good full flavour with a sweet, slightly chocolaty/coffee finish about fourty five seconds after the pull. Really good shit. I can't believe numbers one and three are home brews (he has a california ale that's number 3).

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Cheers to all fine home breweries. The best commercial I've had, has to go to Black Chocolate Stout from Brooklyn. I hear there's some fine micro brews on the north-west coast, but for the east and what I know this is it.
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The one in my hand.

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Post by Riss »

nice call!
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Post by Uncle Sal »

Old #38, great stout, cool steam train on the label too... train beers... bratwurst, beers, trains, bratwurst, beers beers beers.... new favorite is a bert grant porter.... no train though, maritime theme on the tap... which hand is holding the favorite? oh, the humanity...
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Post by Watson BlackBeard »

the best beer is free beer. Skull Splitter is good, personally I like Old Milwaukee.....
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