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My favorite brewer is Modern Times - but you won't see it unless you live in Southern California. Although they do now have a location in Portland.

White Ales - Avery White Rascal, Saint Archer White, Alaskan White. Saisons - Boulevard Tank 7, Goose Island Sofie, Funkwerks Saison Porters - love Founders. Stouts - Any of the Founders breakfast stouts (regular, KBS, CBS). Angel City White Nite (white stout). Old Rasputin is decent. Modern Times' Black House is my favorite. IPAs - Bells Two Hearted, Deschutes Fresh Squeezed, Founders All Day. I really like the session IPAs like the All day or Golden Road's Wolf Pup. Lots of various good German beers - Spaten, Paulaner (love the Salvator Doppelbock), Hacker-Pschorr, Hofbrau.

I'd start here - a lot of these will be available at your local liquor store or even grocery store.

 

Don't look at single beers. Try to taste from different craft breweries from all over the places, different regions, states, countries whatever. Expand on the tastes and weirdness, after few years you'll only want not the ones you have never tried but the tastes you never tried.

 

This. It's the best way to figure out what you like and don't like.

That being said: Big fan of IPAs. Cigar City Jai Alai (this is my favorite beer), Lagunitas, Goose Island, New Belgium Voodoo Ranger or Juicy Haze Landshark is my second favorite Harpoon UFO White > Blue Moon Pacifico w/ a lime is my go to Mexican beer Peroni There are 5-6 local breweries in my area so I drink their stuff a lot Michelob Ultra if I plan on drinking a lot of beer

 

not a big IPA guy but Goose Island is fuckin great

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Because I plan on heavily imbibing later, my favorites in no particular order: Heineken, Bud Light, Montauk Watermelon Ale (yup), Pacifico, Amstel Light (stfu), 21st Amendment Blood Orange, Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale, Corona, Guinness, Goose Island IPA, Birra Moretti, and last but not least Peroni

 

My favorites are Elysian Space Dust (expensive though $13 for a six pack), Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and New England 's Heady Topper IPA. Arguably, Heady Topper is supposed to be one of the best IPA made and rated highly. Sorry, a little biased for the U.S.A. International beers are great too.

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When I feel like pretending to be a recent grad, Busch light

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Dogfish is quality but pretty expensive. I love their selection of beer though.

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Grew up and live in Mass, so I get great access to good beer. Some of my favorites (you can google what they are):

Treehouse: Haze/Julius/King Julius/"I have promises to keep"/Doppleganger

Nightshift: Whirlpool/Santilli/One hop this time Citra/Nite Lite is pretty good too

BLDG8: The IPA

Lawsons: Sip of Sunshine

Alchemist: Heady

Trillium: Congress St/DDH Fort Point/DDH Melcher/Summer St/Literally any of their sours

Exhibit A: Cats Meow/Hair Raiser

Lamplighter: Rabbit/Apollo

Deciduous: Antonym/some sour they make that I can't remember exactly

Mystic: Danger Danger!/Voltage

These places are all fantastic, and continue to put out great new stuff as they each form an identity of their own. People really make a haul to get beers from some of these places. At some of these breweries I have run into several people who drove from Virginia, PA, Ohio, and Canada just to buy a ton of beer at all the different breweries. Dropping thousands on beer. Shits wild. I really do love it because it's genuinely helping Western MA and some lesser areas near Boston get some much needed attention.

Not a fan of Aeronaut brewing. Very overrated. Fuck their beer and somerville. Also fuck Pabst. Shit sucks. Take bud over you any day. I also love bud (light, heavy, plats), natty, corona, rolling rock, old style, yuengling, Harpoon (rip wannamango where tf you at homie???) and pretty much any stout, especially those by Left Hand. I'll add to this if I remember more.

Dayman?
 

Hahaha yeah.

I also lived there for a bit in the shittiest house ever. Didn't mind it too bad even though the rent kinda sucked. Worst part was the Somerville parking people tho. I would get tickets for literally being slightly parked on the street in front of my own fucking driveway, and then when I would appeal it they'd just be like "nah".

Dayman?
 

Porters and stouts - I love dark beers.

Great Lakes Brewing Company's Edmund Fitzgerald Porter is pretty great.

 

I second Blue Moon. Belgian Whites are really smooth and aren't particularly bitter. I like the orange flavor.

Be aware that when it's left in the fridge for a while it gets more bitter, and yeast coagulates inside the bottle. I mention this because a while ago my "beer connaisseur" roommate threw out my perfectly good beer because he thought there was mold in the bottle.

 

I heard with Blue-Moon, the orange slice was just a presentation thing, I might be wrong but this is what I heard. I like Blue-Moon by the way.

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I pretty sure that they put orange peel into the beer when they make it, and then they just filter it out when it's bottled. The flavor is definitely in there. You can never go wrong with it.

 

Milwaukee's Best Ice. According to Wikipedia, it is sometimes referred to as "the beast."

Apparently in 2016 they raised the ABV from 5.9% to 6.9%, and then a year later had to knock it back down to 5.9% because it was too successful and their other product lines were suffering [citation needed].

 

Irish, English and German heritage so in the words of Larry Bird, "I like my beer." Also Boston based.

For IPAs - Fiddlehead (Vermont) as of late, Lagunitas is good too. Lagers - Second above with Nite Lite from Night Shift. Hard to find on Taps, ironically they had it at that Tasty Burger at Back Bay station. I also like Weihenstephaner (they do my favorite Oktoberfest). Stout - Guinness is head and shoulders above all. Will never forget my first sip of beer at the Guinness factory. I was 10. Left Hand Brewing (Colorado) does do a good nitro milk stout as a distant second though.

I like the Sam Adams seasonals as well. Sam Summer when it is fresh from a tap is enjoyable. If I am day drinking all day will go budlight. I can do a thousand now.

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I've visited this beer factory in China. Was pretty good.

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interestingly, here in Asia, Pabst Blue Ribbon (aka room-temperature sewer water from the US) has successfully rebranded itself as a top-shelf high-end gift item.

It is advertised in in-flight magazines, in golf and yachting magazines, and is served in champagne flutes by business suit-wearing servers at investor conferences.

Pabst Blue Ribbon. For the ambassador's occasion.

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Arrogant Bastard Ale

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