Beer Thread

My wife is REALLY into these new micro breweries and a huge fan of IPA’s (India Pale Ales). I am not and think most of them taste like an ashtray smells.

For an everyday beer, my fallback is and probably always will be Miller Lite. Also am a fan of Michelob Light (NOT ULTRA), but it’s a little hard to find most places. Standard Coors (not Light) also works.

My heavier favs include Heineken (regular & light), Stella Artois and anything LaBatt’s (Blue, Blue Light, Blue Light Lime) and Warsteiner Oktoberfest (only available a month or so each year).

While in Hawaii, we discovered both Primo and Kona (Longboard Lager & Big Wave are my two favs). A bit more potent due to their use of rice rather than barley, but very tasty.

Lastly and pretty much limited to their island origins, Kalik from the Bahamas and Balashi from Aruba are highly recommended.

Kalik, according to locals contains cocaine in small amounts and their gold label a higher content.

Not sure how true that is, but last time in Nassau I had a few too many and we almost missed our ship departure because we couldn’t tell which one was ours.

And my wife, who is heavily allergic to all codine products broke out everywhere and pretty much had to stay in our cabin the rest of the cruise.

One other thing - we HIGHLY prefer draft beer over cans or bottles.

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We were in one of the local shops, each with a gold label double deuce and the sales lady commented something to the effect of “crazy white boys drinking the gold”, then winking & laughing.

I can honestly say I’ve NEVER been so effed up on a few beers as I was that day nor since. I also believe it is why it is not available or imported to the continental US.

It used to be available down here in Florida, but this year we haven’t even seen the blue label, let alone the gold.

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I either read or heard from someone that the people of Belgium (where it originated) consider Stella as “swill”. Not sure why or what their others choices are there, but I found it amusing.

I’ve been a fan since it first showed up over here and I prefer the draft, although I usually have to wait for the inch plus head to go down that most bars around here insist on.

Once that happens, I have it topped off and enjoy. Never had it out of bottles or cans but have friends that advise it’s not quite as good that way. But as I said, I prefer draft over the others every day of the week.

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Totally agree with you about the beer lines. Luckily, the haunts we usually hit that have Stella on draft (Red Robin & Outback) both do an excellent job with their taps and lines. Never gotten a bad one at either & both serve it icy so that last drink is as cold as the first.

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That is TOO funny! I actually had a few decent convos with the guy from time to time. But mostly, he was a total douche.

There was a Millers Ale House in Destin, FL this year which we hit a few weeks ago. GREAT burgers. They had my fav Kona (Longboard) on tap, so I had to have a couple of those. The wife drank every local IPA she could try down there. Only one or two she didn’t really care for.

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