Let's Talk Beer

[PhilDernerJr]

Before I get more into beer, I'm posting this because I am sitting here working on the site while trying Sam Adams Brown Ale, and I'm blown away. I've never had such a smooth yet flavorful ale. This beer is quickly in my top 5 all time. I highly recommend you folks try it.

So, what kind of beer to you folks like?

My favorites are as follows:

1) Bitburger - I first had it in Germany and I lose my mind when I have it States-side. It's a good "out" beer when you're hanging with friends. Just enough kick.

2) Yuengling - Oldest Brewery in PA (not Asian), and it's something that my family smuggled up by the car-load to NY for years before they sold it up here.

3) Pilsner Urquell - Another one I started liking while in Germany, and much more common when hanging at bars in Astoria.Although it gives me headaches often.

4) Sam Adams Blackberry Witbier - the only fruit beer I enjoy, probably because it still has some kick to counter the mary.

5) Sam Adams Brown Ale - Read above. Dizang, dis stuf is gud.

Though I have my beer tastes, like any classy guy I rarely would turn down any brand, except for Blue Moon and Hoegaarden. I simply cannot stomach them. I feel that once you start putting an orange into a beer, you've crossed gender lines.

Kids, don't get too excited! Drink responsibly and wait until 21! (A message from NYCAviation.com :borat: )

[Gerard]

>Though I have my beer tastes, like any classy guy I rarely would turn down any brand, except for Blue Moon and Hoegaarden. I simply cannot stomach them. I feel that once you start putting an orange into a beer, you've crossed gender lines.<

How about limes? I like a little lime in my Corona but I think the Miller and Bud lime beers are overdone. After the second one it
starts to skeeve me out.
My tastes are somewhat seasonal. Coronas and Sam Adams Summer Ale in....the summer. Dark beers and stouts in the winter
seasons.
I love amber beers/ales and last night had dinner at Heartland Brewery http://www.heartlandbrewery.com/ and love their
Red Rooster Ale. Two of them and a pint of Stout for dessert made a nice evening.
My mainstay and favorite and one I have been drinking for years is the High Life....Miller High Life!!! Love this lager and have been
drinking it since I started drinking beer. It is Millers oldest beer, brewed since 1903.

[PhilDernerJr]

Limes get borderline at times. Sometimes I'm not in the mood for drinking, ad when I'm literally thirsty, I might go for a Corona, because you add a lime and it tastes like juice. I had to say that Bud Lime doesn't taste bad, but it's like a refreshing drink and I don't really consider it a beer in my own mind.

I'm going to check out some heartland stuff.

[moose135]

My mainstay and favorite and one I have been drinking for years is the High Life....Miller High Life!!! Love this lager and have been drinking it since I started drinking beer.

Same here! It was my first favorite beer, and I still drink it when I can find it - unfortunately, too many places only serve MGD or Lite.

I'm also a big fan of Yuengling - been on the brewery tour a couple of times, really an interesting place to visit. And I like trying out the various blends of Sam Adams as they show up. One old favorite, that I haven't seen around in ages is Moosehead - like that would be a surprise, right?

[emshighway]

I was in Astoria and saw a poster for the largest Beer Garden in New York. It is on 35 Ave and 36 St. Didn't catch the name but that's where I grew up!! Wish it was there then but we did/do have The Bohemiam Hall.

Anyone been to this place? The poster said 18 beers on tap.

[cancidas]

when i'm at home:
Zywiec or Lech
NewCastle
Guinness
Pacifico
Brooklyn Lager (brewed in my neighborhood)

when i go down to Mug's i prefer these:
Bluepoint Rastafar Rye
Chelsea Sunset Red
Long Trail Brewmaster's Double IPA

and so many more that i can't remember.

more of mugs' draft beers here: http://www.mugsalehouse.com/draftbeerlineup.html

[Matt Molnar]

I was in Astoria and saw a poster for the largest Beer Garden in New York. It is on 35 Ave and 36 St. Didn't catch the name but that's where I grew up!! Wish it was there then but we did/do have The Bohemiam Hall.

Anyone been to this place? The poster said 18 beers on tap.

It's called Studio Square, I've been there a few times and have officially written it off. It's a great space and the beer is good, but the crowd is much, much different from the Bohemian garden and not in a good way. Bohemian seems to have added a lot of new beer selections since the new place opened, they might have 18 now also.

[mirrodie]

Sam Adams Blackberry

berries but no oranges????? you fruit ;)

I'm going to check out some heartland stuff.

That is always a great place to spend the day. We the train in, do lunch there and just have a bit of everything there. IIRC there was a Chocolate Doppelganger in the winter season. Deep and complex.

In no order,
Grolsch, Stella Artois, Heineken, Budvar, Leffe(an insane beer).

[emshighway]

I was in Astoria and saw a poster for the largest Beer Garden in New York. It is on 35 Ave and 36 St. Didn't catch the name but that's where I grew up!! Wish it was there then but we did/do have The Bohemiam Hall.

Anyone been to this place? The poster said 18 beers on tap.

It's called Studio Square, I've been there a few times and have officially written it off. It's a great space and the beer is good, but the crowd is much, much different from the Bohemian garden and not in a good way. Bohemian seems to have added a lot of new beer selections since the new place opened, they might have 18 now also.

Is it across the street from Kaufman? As a kid we would hang out in the old building and the studios. That whole neighborhood changed.

Been to Bohemian way too many times over the years but probably not in the last 12 years. Many early mornings at EMS parties. They redid it? I guess they had to, the hall was old and the garden area saw way too many parties.

[Matt Molnar]

Is it across the street from Kaufman? As a kid we would hang out in the old building and the studios. That whole neighborhood changed.

Been to Bohemian way too many times over the years but probably not in the last 12 years. Many early mornings at EMS parties. They redid it? I guess they had to, the hall was old and the garden area saw way too many parties.

It's down the block from Kaufman. The entrance is through the ground floor of a building that I suspect used to be part of the studios...maybe it still is, but it seems like they gut renovated it because it looks brand new. The outdoor part is basically a big lot behind the building that they prettied up, maybe it was a parking lot or storage lot before.

And they didn't redo Bohemian, they just added beer. :)

[T-Bird76]

I don't have any favorite in an order but I prefer the following.

1. Blue Point, brewed on Long Island, 4 miles from my house. Very refreshing with a full body taste.

2. Sam Adams Cherry wheat, fantastic flavor, robust with a crisp texture.

3. Brooklyn Brewery, I agree with Matt simply a fantastic beer and IMO one of the best I've tasted.

4. Stella Artois, great tasting, smooth, and a beer that is very flexible, meaning you can drink it in a nice lounge and not look like a classless tard or on a patio deck on Fire Island in a T-shirt.

5. Blue Moon, unique flavor and a good 4 season beer.

6. John Harvard Ale house, another Long Island beer house that offers a variety of flavors all very good and consistent.

7. Nastro Azzurro by Peroni Italian brew, the Italian brew is vastly different then the U.S version, very strong yet smooth (much like my Italian brethren) with a distinctive sharp taste to it.

8. Alaskan Summer Ale, its brewed with natural spring water from Alaska and has to be the most robust yet cleanest tasting beer I've had.

[PhilDernerJr]

I was at Studio Square with Gotham, and I share the same feelings. Chances for a fight are high there, due to the level of idiots.

It's a beer garden, yet you see chicks showing up in dresses and guidos making appearances in full Ed Hardy-ware. They miss the point of this place. Some of it is probably due to the fact that it's a few doors down from a serious grease bar though.

I like the more rugged Bohemian Garden. Studio Square's outdoor area is a way-too-neat cobblestone, where was Bohemian Hall is cement and gravel and dirt. Studio is too pretty.

[cancidas]

on my way from the Williamsburg Bridge i was reminded about Biergarten. anyone been there? it's on Berry St and North 1st in williamsburg. i've passed it a few times and even at 2 in the morning it's busy on weekend nights.

[emshighway]

And they didn't redo Bohemian, they just added beer. :)

That's just fine 8)

Oh, and my favorite beer? ICE COLD!!!!!

[Gerard]

>Same here! It was my first favorite beer, and I still drink it when I can find it - unfortunately, too many places only serve MGD or Lite.<

Yeah very hard to find on draft in a bar. Happily the Shop Rite in my town has six packs of bottles at a very nice price.

><I'm also a big fan of Yuengling - been on the brewery tour a couple of times, really an interesting place to visit.<

Good beer. Was at a family reunion in eastern Pa. two summers ago and they had a keg of the lager.

< And I like trying out the various blends of Sam Adams as they show up. <

LOVE any Sam Adams!!!