Beer Drinkers Challenge

[Wingspan]

That's what I was wondering...if the recipe's are the same. If so...i agree with Demon's assessment of the IPA and Belgium Wheat, i forget what the King of Prussia names were

[Father Demon]

I think I found the secret to completing this challenge.

Business trips and breweries.  I had 17 different types of beer in 3 days, mostly on the company dime.

72. Flying Dog Snake Dog IPA - A
73. Flying Dog Old Scratch Amber Ale - B+
74. Flying Dog In-Heat Wheat Hefeweizen - A
75. Flying Dog Double Dog Double Pale Ale - B+
76. Sundance Amber Ale - B-
77. PassTime Pale Ale - D

I visited the Flying Dog Brewery in Denver before heading to the airport, drank the beers and grabbed a T-Shirt.  I like the FD beers, and wasn't disappointed with their fresh off the tap beers.  They are actually served in the neighboring bar, named Blake Street Tavern.  I wish I had the Scottish Porter, but I had to drive and figured 4 was enough.  The nachos are huge.  The Sundance and PassTime were in the airport bar, and weren't cold enough and too much money.

Going through this exercise, I think IPA is overtaking wheat beers as my favorite style.  I just can't get enough of a really good, very hoppy beer.  Still love the wheats, but IPA's are where it's at.

[Tomahawk]

I'm far too late to "win" this competition, but I'll do my best not to come in last.

1. Habrin - never heard of it before the other night. Chinese people make a decent beer.
2. Tsingtao - Part Deux of my yellow fever. Decent beer, but I prefered the Habrin
3. Phuket - Cheaper than Budweiser at my favorite watering hole in Chicago, and the waitresses get all pissy when you pronounce it phonetically. Good times.
4. Tucher - my favorite German wheat beer
5. Spaten - my second favorite German wheat beer
6. Paulaner - another good German wheat beer
7. Erdinger - try the aforementioned first
8. Wittekerke
9. Carlsberg
10. Dos Equis
11. Sol - love this Mexican beer
12. Sam Adams Summer Ale - one of the better summer ales
13. Grolsch Summer Ale - my favorite summer ale
14. Budweiser - because sometimes you have to start drinking at nine and the morning and must still be functional at 2:00 AM
15. Miller Lite - because  sometimes you drink them out of Budweiser
16. Blue Moon
17. Pabst Blue Ribbon
18. Old Style - for some reason Chicagoans love this stuff

[Beermonkey]

I think I found the secret to completing this challenge.

Business trips and breweries.  I had 17 different types of beer in 3 days, mostly on the company dime.

I was in Chicago for 2 days this week for work & thought I'd make up some ground on you. Looks like you were busy too. There's a dull ache were I think my liver is.

Looks like I also wasn't the only one to go to a Rock Bottom either. I really like their dry-rub ribs, beer & for some reason, girls always hit on me there. It apparently was guy night, so I didn't hang out too long. I really enjoyed one of their seasonal IPAs - American Dream   IPA. They're Rooftop Pilsner tasted like it was made by roof top rain run off, so I wasn't too impressed.

By far, the best beers I had, were at a pub called The Map Room. I started out with 3 Floyds Alpha King, which kicked my ass. If this beer was a woman, I have it's ankles pinned behind it's head. I followed it up with 3 Floyds Dreadnaught & their pricey X Anniversary Ale, which if it was a woman, I'd take it to Panera Bread for lunch, then shopping at Pottery Barn (I'm it's bitch).

34) Mother Hubbard's Porter
35) Goose Island Honkers
36) Goose Island 312
37) Pilsner Urquell
38) Rock Bottom- American Dream IPA
39) Rock Bottom - Rooftop Pilsner
40) Harborside Lager
41) Mad Hatter
42) Lefthand Brewing - Milk Stout
43) 3 Floyds - Alpha King
44) 3 Floyds- Dreadnaught
45) 3 Floyds X Anniversary Ale
46) Sierra Nevada
47) Dogfish Head 60-minute IPA
48) Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome

[rjs246]

Dear god. So I drink a lot, but its basically the same shtein day in and day out. The variety of brews that you two subject yourselves to is kind of remarkable. My insides would call it farging quits if I was doing that shtein.

[Father Demon]

Beermonkey - I'm a big fan of Goose Island.  If I get to Chicago, I'm drinking a lot of their shtein.  Plus, the dry rub ribs at Rock Bottom are very good.

rjs - I'll take that as a compliment.  In my unremarkably dull life, this works for me.  So I run with it.  Oh, and it's in the name of science.

[Father Demon]

It's been a helluva week.  23 different beers since Tuesday.  I think I'm taking the night off tonight.  I'm almost certain to have liver failure by the weekend.

Poker night:
78. Red Hook Long Hammer IPA. I'm an IPA guy now, and this didn't disappoint.
79. Red Hook Blonde. Tasty at first, but then turns pretty bland.
80. Red Hook Sunrye. Not bad. The rye is a good taste.
81. Red Hook ESB. Good for sipping, but didn't fit with the rest of the beers.
82. Breckenridge Remarkable Vanilla Stout. These must be very tricky, because some are really too sweet, and some too stout.  This was a good beer.  I need to get into some more of the Breckenridge beers.
83. Kona Brewing Fire Rock Pale Ale. A great, if not the best, Pale Ale I've had in quite some time.

On another note, I'll be brewing a batch of IPA in the next weekend or so with my brewer friends.  I can't wait to drink it down.

[phattymatty]

do you keep a little notepad with you or just remember ever single beer that you drink?  i hope it's a notepad. 

i had 4 tanqueray and tonics after work, and have no idea what kind of beer i was drinking afterwards.  but there were several. 

[ice grillin you]

gin and tonic mmmmm

[Father Demon]

Usually memory.  If I stay with one brewer at a time, I can go on their web site when I'm sober and pick out the beers I had.  If it's something off the wall (like that crap at the airport), I make a note somewhere to remember later.  I've probably missed a few because I don't take notes, but I'm still drinking so it's good.

[Seabiscuit36]

I'm down in Az and went down to the ASU campus last night.  Drank at this bar called 4 Peaks Brewery.  They had this banging beer called Kiltlifter a Scottish style beer, and got their 8th street brew which was kind of fruity but 5% alcohol

[rjs246]

1. Miller Lite: tastes great, not filling, got me drunk.
2. Pabst Blue Ribbon: the local pub just switched from Miller Lite to PBR so I'll be drinking much more of this going forward. Consistent. Inoffensive. Produces no hangover. HUMONGOUS mud butt the following day.
3. Sierra Nevada India Pale Ale: It's farging India Nevada India Pale Ale. You've had it. It's tasty. Nothing to write home about.
4. Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat: Crap. A light wheat beer that could have been acceptable except for the second rate blueberry taste and Lysol aftertaste.
5. Victory Prima Pils: Completely drinkable but really just tastes like Miller Lite. Mild, delicious but more expensive than Miller Lite so no reason to ever buy it.
6. Victory Golden Monkey: 9.5% alcohol. And you can taste it. It almost tastes like a good Belgian beer, but the extra alcohol adds a little bit of a barley wine taste to it. Wouldn't drink more than one or two at a clip for taste. For drunk would drink several.
7. Duvel: If you like Belgian beer, this is one of several that should be part of your standard fare. Light, delicious and easily drinkable but with plenty of flavor.
8. Harpoon IPA: Honestly, most IPAs taste the same to me. They aren't my favorite and I don't like drinking a lot of them at once, but a couple at a time is just about right.
9. Redhook ESB: I don't even know what ESB stands for, but it's $2 a bottle at my bar. So it gets the tonsil treatment.
10. Sam Adams Summer Ale: So Sam Adams beers have a lot of flavor, which makes them enjoyable to drink with a meal and less enjoyable to drink en mass. Anyway, most of the Sam Seasonal flavors are shtein, but Sam Summer is pretty drinkable.
11. Red Stripe. The further removed from my college days I get, the less I like Lagers. (Miller Lite and the other light nonsense shtein that I jokingly tout as fantastic don't count. They're basically alcoholic water.)
12. Dos Equis Special Lager. Meh.
13. Heineken. Crap crap crap skunked crap
14. Sam Adams Boston Lager. Lots of flavor. I would never marathon drink with the stuff but one or two at a time is about right.
15. Bud Light. Awful.
16. Miller High Life. Slightly better.
17. Amstel Light. Delicious.
18. I forgot that I drank something called Moonshot 69 last night. It's caffeinated and TERRIBLE.
19. Redhook Blonde. Meh. Redhook is pretty meh all around.
20. Radeberger. My friend has been pimping this shtein to me for weeks so I tried it. I was completely in the bag when I got it, but it tasted like open ass.
21. Guinness. It took me almost a month to have one of these. I'm ashamed of myself.
22. Yeungling. I never thought it would happen, but I don't really like Yeungling anymore. It's starting to taste a little skunky to me and it always gives me awful hangovers and poopbabies. Having said that I drank about 12 of them last night.
23. Anchor Steam. Mmmmm, Anchor Steam.
24. Magic Hat Mystery Beer. Had some bite. Pretty good actually.
25. Magic Hat Circus Boy Heffeviesteneinfrefneru v. Delicious.
26. Smithwick's. An old favorite.
27. Bard's Tale. I'm ashamed of myself for even accepting the offer to drink this shtein. Awful
28. Stella Artois. People love this. I think it is less offensive than most 'green bottle beer' but still rather gross.
29. Miller High Life Lite. Hahahahaahahahaha. It literally tastes like nothing. Slightly carbonated water. Far less offensive than I expected and basically a replica of Miller Lite. Will buy it if I see it and it costs less than Lite.
30. Genny Light
31. JW Dundee's Pale Ale
32. JW Dundee's Honey Brown
33. JW Dundee's Amber Lager
34. Budweiser (heavy). Some flavor, not good. Lots of explosive gas the following day, very good.
35. Blue Moon. Tasty. Kind of a lame copy of real Belgian beer.
36. Sixpoint Summer Ale. The keg was warm as shtein but it would have tasted funky even ice cold. Blecht.

[Phanatic]

Went to Trail Head Brewing company in St. Charles MO this past Saturday.
Tried a few beers.

Red Amber Ale - Outstanding beer and it was the hair of the dog I needed on Saturday.
Trailblazer Blonde Ale - Another outstanding choice that put me in that awesomly buzzed happy place you get the day after hardcore drinking.

[Seabiscuit36]

Some other beers from AZ..

Fat Tire on tapReally good beer, really horrible hangover after 12
Widmer HefeweizenAbsolute deliciousness
Grolsh, i went to the supermarket, saw some Grolsh and figured why not.  Always better than Heineken

[Diomedes]

I'm polishing off a big bottle of St. Bernardus Tripel

I think Belgian Ales are my favorite beers.