An interesting read, and not too long:
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My favorite beer before my surgery was #1 - Yuengling.
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I just went to search, and the website says celebrating 26 years. For transparency, I drink almost no beer. If I am having a cold beer on a hot day, I probably have a New Belgium Trippel. Currently I am cellaring a bunch of barrel aged beer and barley wine from central waters, a few from Bourbon county barrel aged from Goose Island as well. I get to enjoy those in another 4 years.
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Honestly, I'm not a beer drinker/fan, but when I get it to keep in the garage fridge, or have one on occasion, it's Yuengling.Comment
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I don’t have a favorite. The older I get, the more I accept things for what they are. Pilsners are pilsners, lagers are lagers, ales are ales, etc. I figure a brew tastes the way the brewer wants it to, and I celebrate the nuances.Comment
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I prefer tap beer and although #1 Yuengling is a favorite, you rarely see it on tap here. So the beer I tend to drink the most is #3. Good old PBR. I grew up drinking it, still love it, and it’s on tap everywhere here.Comment
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Since the Fort Worth plant opened a few years ago Yuengling has been my daily driver followed by Shiner Bock and Samuel Adams Boston Lager.
For craft beer my local brewery, Neches Brewing Co., is my second home; made even sweeter with the opening of Redbird BBQ next door. I've asked the owner if I could set up a bed in the back corner
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My favorite beer is made by Weihenstephan Brewery, Bavaria, Germany They are 984 years old. I'm sitting here this afternoon sipping on some Festbier while the Tri-tip is getting ready for the grill.
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Schells Brewery New Ulm MN since 1860. They are 65 miles from me.
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Founded in 1997, Oskar Blues brewery in Colorado. Dales Pale Ale is my favorite beer.Comment
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I just turned 59 yesterday, and produce most of my own beer. A link to my current tap list is in my signature to the left...
Anchor Porter and Anchor Steam were the two beers that really introduced me to what was possible with beer, back in the late 80's. After that I was on a quest for better beer other than "megaswill" i.e. traditional "American lager". That ultimately led me into home brewing, as at the time, you simply could not find much good craft beer here in Alabama. I would bring back a number of 6 packs of good beer every time I went back home to visit the folks in Georgia, but that didn't last long.
Thinking of "megaswill" i.e. "What most folks call beer" here in the US, it tends to be a very lightly hopped "standard American lager" or a "Light American Lager". On a whim, I decided to try and make one of those this year, and crafted a beer recipe that was low on flavor/body (by using rice in place of some of the barley) and light on hops (just a touch!), and darned if it didn't turn out to be drinkable, and so much better than the Bud/Miller/Coors/PBR that purport to be that style of beer. Even my wife, who hates craft beer for the most part, agreed. It was just clean, with no off flavors or bitterness, and something I will do again. The down side was that it took a couple of months of lagering and tied up one of the garage fridges for a while.
Anyway, back to craft beer. Anchor was my favorite as well, and I'll keep brewing porters and a steam beer in their honor, and HOPE that someone buys the name and resurrects the brewery. Last I heard, Chobani (yogurt) bought the brewery with plans to reopen it.Comment
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Con't Anchor announced about 1 year before they closed that they were focusing on marketing ONLY in California, and not distributing to other states.
I feel like Anchor failed not because of their beer, but because of poor sales, marketing and distribution. Basically, mismanagement on the sales and finance side. Some of that may very well have been due to the political climate of San Francisco, and the high costs to operate a business in California. -
jfmorris the way I understand it is that when Sapporo bought it, they didn't understand that it was actually steam brewed and they had intended to let it fail then convert the brewery to brew their beer in CA which obviously didn't happen so they still let it fail but tried to regain profits along the way. Hopefully yogurt man restores it to it's glory, I miss my Christmas beers!
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Pabst Blue Ribbon - Wikipedia
Pabst Blue Ribbon, commonly abbreviated PBR, is an American lager beer sold by Pabst Brewing Company, established in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1844 and currently based in San Antonio, Texas. Originally called Best Select, and then Pabst Select, the current name comes from the blue ribbons tied around the bottle's neck between 1882 and 1916.
PBR and BBQ go together.
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My favorite American brewery is only 13 years old. https://www.portcitybrewing.com/
I'm generally not a fan of IPAs, but Port City's Essential Pale Ale is just dangerous. Way too easy to drink way too much of it. The rest of their offerings are really good, too. Their winter seasonal Metro Red might be the best red ale I've had since I worked for a microbrewery in Ireland 25 years ago.Comment
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Well, Samuel Smith has been around since 1758…just one year longer than Guinness. I enjoy both of their beers.
For something “closer to home” these days…it’s a toss between Left Handed Brewing (1993) and New Holland (1997) but I’m open to others…especially more of the dark varieties. Not much of a “yellow” beer drinker.Comment
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I join Skip in recommending August Schell's Brewery in New Ulm. https://www.schellsbrewery.com/our-story/
Great history, and they give awesome tours. After the tour, they take you to the tap room and you get to sample everything. How they survived prohibition is cool to hear about. They also host live music and other events.
New Ulm is a fun town to visit. Lots of festivals, many based on the German heritage in the area. For sure worth a visit for any one travelling anywhere close to New Ulm.Comment
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