What's Your Favorite Beer/Ale?

[itself]

Ok, so I'm not too ladylike! I love wine, but geez, there is nothing like a good ale. I am from Boston, the home to Sam Adams. But my favorites are:

Newcastle Ale
Boddingtons Ale
Negro Modelo
Mothership Wit (and it's organic!)

And I admit it, I drink one ale a day. Keeps the doctor away! So what is your favorite one?

Lisa

[lunacycles]

Dale's Pale Ale. Seriously delicious, even though it is in a can. Plus it's from my homeland.

Wolaver's India Pale Ale: that's what I am sipping on right now. Organic. Makes me feel better about consumption of alcohol. Sort of light for an India Pale Ale. Hoppy, but not over the top.

I love beer. I try to love wine...but, truth is, I love beer, and my belly is starting to show this.

[rubywagon]

I love:

Rogue Dead Guy Ale
Saranac Caramel Porter
Modelo Negro
Wasatch Brewery Bristlecone

I love all beer though. I really do.

[itself]

It's a love afair, I swear. And you just have to love some of the crazy names they put to these ales.

Lisa

[tulip]

Dogfish Head 60-Minute IPA
Anything from Belgium (especially the Lambics!)

[itself]

Tulip, right on. Framboise Lambic, that's a fun one. Great around new years as it tastes like a bubbly raspberry champagne!

Lisa

[rubywagon]

Mmmm. I had a Squatters Belgian Style Ale with my dinner tonight. I think beer might be my favorite thing in the world. I am not kidding.

[IFjane]

Fat Tire Amber Ale - and no one distributes it in these parts. I have to have it "imported" from SC. There just happens to be a case (minus one beer) in my fridge right now. By New Belgium Brewing Co. in Ft. Collins, CO - they are wonderful supporters of cycling events, too.

Second: a local brew, Star Hill Amber Ale, from Charlottesville, VA. Good stuff.

[TsPoet]

Kolsch, but I've never had the real German stuff, I like the home grown Ice Harbor Kolsch and will hopefully try the other someday.
and now I'm going to try a Lambic, which I'd never even heard of, sometime soon.

[OakLeaf]

Probably what I liked the best is the low-alcohol Heineken you get in the Netherlands. They don't import it into the USA. Probably the same stuff people drank for breakfast 1,000 years ago.

[KnottedYet]

Red Bridge (sorghum)
2nd choice: Bard's Tale (also sorghum)

Giving up real beer was the final step and biggest loss with my advancing celiac disease.

(The irony is that for decades I handmade tons of bread and I homebrewed fantastic beers... sigh)

[Bike Chick]

New Glarus Brewing Co. Spotted Cow Ale and Capital Island Brewery Island Wheat Ale---both can only be bought in Wisconsin

Wine's ok but I drink it like beer---not good. Beer's always my first choice

[gnat23]

New Belgium Winter Solstice (back, finally!)
Rogue Dead Guy Ale or Brutal Bitter
Russian River Pliny the Elder
Lagunitas IPA
Aventinus
Dachutes Mirror Pond or Twilight
Samuel Adams Summer Ale
Sierra Nevada Estate (must. stock. up.)
Lost Coast Raspberry Brown

I've really been into seasonals lately. Seem like a fun way to spend the year.

-- gnat! (Mmmm. Beer.)

[Grog]

Black Butte Porter by Deschutes Brewery (Bend, Oregon).

[ASammy1]

Rogue Dead Guy
Newcastle
and
BELL'S OBERON! It's my fave and it's only made April-Oct. It's hard to find outside of the midwest.

Oh, and when I'm feeling really girly, I love Pyramid Apricot Ale, like drinking candy!