What are the three best beers you've ever had?

I like beer, and tend to lump beer and ale all together as beer, so this answer may not be particularly scientific for aficionados. I went to college, I drank my share of beer from kegs. I think the freshness and out of doors did a lot for that kind of beer.

:) I don't really like Miller, Coors, Bud, etc. That are most often represented as beers to drink alone. I find I like beer a lot better when paired well with food.So over the last couple of years I've prowled the local liquor stores for medium-priced imported beers to see how they hold up to foods that I would drink beer with. When the beer has the complexity to complement the food, it makes a simple meal (pizza, tacos, steak, gyro, etc. ,) a real pleasure.

Of the German beers, I gravitate toward the Hefe-Weisse (Franziskaner, Paulaner, and Julius Echter) and a beer like Paulaner's Oktoberfest Marzen. I've tried and enjoyed others, but I have forgotten to soak the labels off to name them here (I'll have to run the test again, I guess! )

For many years the only dark beer that I really liked but was kind of hard to find was Negra Modelo (the adjective must agree with the subject, which is a cerveza, not Modelo.

Modelo is the brand, not the product. )

I like Negra Modelo paired with a strongly seasoned food or one that has a higher fat content (like a steak, or good sausage, etc. ) Smoked and grilled foods are also great with a strong dark beer. I know this is probably sacrilegious, but I think Guinness tastes like mud.

:-/ Here's a good video with simple comparisons from About. Com about matching food up with beer. http://video.about.com/beer/How-to-Pair-Food-and-Beer.htm Oh, that third beer?

For the time when I just want a beer on a hot day, I drink the uber-inexpensive Old Milwaukee. It's partly out of solidarity with some old friends who used to make a big bowl of popcorn and have cold beer handy and invite friends to sit on the porch to watch the stars in a national park where we worked.(Crew quarters are not treated like park campgrounds--beer is allowed!). Sometimes the pleasure of the good days is enough to keep you with an old friend like this.

And I like Old Milwaukee a lot better than no-taste Coors and such.(This beer is also cheap enough that it 's a great choice when setting up bowls of beer around the garden to trap snails that would eat my veggie garden!) I always try to get beer in glass bottles, whether the good German beers or the cheap American stuff. It just tastes better.

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Innis & Gunn. Scottish beer aged in oak whiskey barrels. McAuslan Apricot Wheat Ale.

Moosehead Beer.

It sounds like you like them dark and not too hoppy. My 3 favorite beers are trappist ales, nut brown ales, and oatmeal stouts. Definitely try all three types of Chimay (trappist ales), Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout, and my new favorite, Blackened Voodoo by the Dixie Brewing Co.

1 Guinness ( dark ) stout- smoothest, creamy head, no bitterness, #2 & 3: San Miguel ( dark ), Negro Modelo.

I'm not much for beer myself, so I look for less beer-like flavors. I do like Guinness, but I love it when it's combined half and half with Woodchuck Dark and Dry or Amber Cider (it's called a snake bite, I believe). Another fun combination is Lindeman's Framboise lambic beer combined with Young's Double Chocolate Stout (makes for a delicious chocolate raspberry stout flavor).

I'm definitely more into "beer" that doesn't actually taste like beer, but it sure tastes good! From the menu at International Tap House in St. Louis County, Missouri: "Lindemans Framboise (Vlezenbeek, Belgium): We like to call it a Chic Beer. The raspberry blast makes it seem feminine but the taste is truly trans-gender.

Don’t be afraid fellas, the fruity finish is nothing to be ashamed of drinking. This Belgian Lambic pours a beautiful rose color. It has a magnificent aroma with a delicate palate of raspberries.

Sparkling clean natural taste. ABV 4%.

I'm completely biased living in the Czech Republic, so a. ) Starobrno b. ) plzen and c.) Flathead Monster, from a mini-brew in Montana.

Though Stella and Hoegarten are also tops...

I love the dark beers, too, but my preferences are all over the landscape most of the time LOL. Narrowing it down to three is going to be tough.... Delirium Tremens - a Belgian strong pale ale. And it is hands down one of the best beers in the world, if not THE best.

Chimay - any of them, they're all incredible (I know, it's kind of cheating on the 3 beers). Probably the Chimay Grande Reserve (blue bottle) is my favorite Chimay, though. Framboise Lambic - Lindemann's is the only one we can get around here, but that's OK.

If you've never tried one of the wild ales, you should. It's a style that doesn't seem to have a middle ground - people seem to either love them or hate them. If you like sour stuff, this is it.

If you like sweet, not sour, I'll throw in a bonus beer. Young's Double Chocolate Stout. It's practically a dessert in a glass.

And in fact, it makes a great beer with a fruit dessert, especially fresh raspberries. Yum!

1 Saison Dupont (Belgium). The best example of what a Belgian Saison should be like. A professional brewer once told me that it is one of the few beers that he doesn't want to "tweak" at all.

I would have to agree. The color of straw, dry, somewhat bitter, and spicy. Great on a warm day.

#2 Otter Creek Russian Imperial Stout (Vermont). I was really impressed by this old world style stout. It was dark, thick, and chocolately.It was also 10%.

Share it with a friend (it came in a 22oz. Bottle). #3 JW Lees Harvest Ale (England).

Copper colored barleywine style ale that comes in vintages. Delicious aroma, malty, and strong. Great in small quantities and small glasses.

A must try for malty beer lovers. Whew, time for a beer.

Leffe - a belgian beer, is one of the better beers that I've had leffe.com/ San Miguel - a beer from the philippines, good stuff sanmiguelbeer.com.ph/ Caffrey's - an ale brewed by guiness I think. Also very good. I'm not much of a beer drinker either, but if i'm lcky to see any of these on the menu, then I buy!

1. Hogarden

2. Rickards White 3.

Stella Artois

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Being British, I am fond of traditional ales, however blonde stuff has started to become popular in the UK and even microbreweries, like Enville Ales, have begun launching new blonde beers. Here is one you might like (not just for the beer) Funny thing about this one, I used to know Mr Constantine-Cort, the eccentric gentleman who owns and personally runs this brewery, I even had a personal tour around the brewery and got to taste newly brewed beer, before it even went into the cask.

"A light blonde bitter delicately infused with essence of Cherry to produce a Belgian-style fruit flavoured beer.

The aroma and taste surpass expectation whilst the bitter finish is dry, hoppy and refreshing. As featured in the Express and Star, Cherry Blonde made its debut at the Dudley Winter Ales Fayre at Dudley’s Concert Hall" source: http://www.envilleales.com/news11-09.htm Then of course there is Theakstones Old Peculier, this wins the CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) award almost every year. It goes down easy, and knocks you down easier still.

Its not blonde, but boy is it easy to drink.

And finally, my own personal favorite, and it has been mentioned above, is Stella Artois, in my opinion the King of blonde beers. .

I love dark beers 1. Guinness 2. Kilkenny 3.

Dark Jever.

Don't know how it's perceived in its homeland, but any time I see Samuel Adams beer in my local off-licence here in Ireland, I have to take home a few bottles. Goes down real easy! URL1 Made a trip to Eastern Europe a few years ago and this was the only beer that I took the trouble to remember the name of .. .

A Polish beer called "Warka Strong"

Lastly for all you Guinness lovers, might I suggest an alternative, and even less bitter "porter" .. . Ask for Murphy's Irish Stout the next time! .

My three best beer tasted are: 1. Hayward 5000 2. Kingfisher 3.

Royal challenge.

My picks have to go to the following: 1) Warsteiner Dunkel - Warsteiner makes, in my opinion, the finest tasting beer that's made in Germany and imported to the U.S. I'm a fan of dark beers (I don't tend to drink any other kind of beer. Ever. ) so sometimes, like after I get home from a particularly stressful night at work, or when I have company or am playing a marathon session of Axis & Allies, a good Dunkel is just what the doctor ordered.

When it comes to a good German beer, why not go with the original? Dunkel is the great progenitor of a vast majority of German beers. I actually found a fascinating little history about Dunkel at http://www.germanbeerinstitute.com/Dunkel.html : "Dunkel — The World's First True Beer Style German Dunkel ("dark") beer is a deep-brown, mahogany, or sepia colored all-barley lager.It is soft and elegant, with a rich, mildly vanilla, nutty-sweet palate and a dry, rounded finish that is never harsh, toasty or acrid.

The beer is full-bodied, with a chewy texture and a firm, creamy, long-lasting head. Though it looks much like a British dark ale or Porter, unlike these brews, a Dunkel has a typicallly clean lager taste without any fruitiness at all, and next to no nose." Sorry to interrupt, but I just have to say that Warsteiner's particular dunkel really fits that description quite well.

That's exactly why I like it. Anyway, back to the history of Dunkel."Dunkel brewing has a long tradition in Germany, especially in Bavaria. At one time, all beers were somewhat dark, because primitive kilning techniques used for drying malted grain always left the malt slightly scorched.

Just like severely roasted coffee makes a very dark brew, so does dark malt make a dark beer. Dunkel was the first beer to be regulated by the Bavarian Beer Purity Law of 1516. It thus became Germany's first standardized lager beer style, the forerunner of virtually all major beer styles made in Germany today — except for the two barley-based ales from the Rheinland, Albier and Kölsch, and the wheat-based Bavarian ale, the Weissbier (Hefeweizen).

Other beer styles may be paler, stronger, or more hop-accented than the Dunkel, but they all evolved from it. Today Dunkel is still made primarily in Bavaria, but several breweries outside Bavaria make Dunkel beers, too. Among the most prominent Dunkel beers imported to the United States are Alt-Bayerisch Dunkel from the Ayinger Brewery, König Ludwig Dunkel from the Kaltenberg Brewery, and the Warsteiner Dunkel from Westfalia.

Dunkel, a Royal Brew Appropriately, the most popular Dunkel in Germany today is König Ludwig Dunkel ("King Ludwig's Dark"), the very brand that can trace its origins back, in an unbroken line, directly to the very first modern Dunkel ever made in the 16th century. König Ludwig Dunkel is made by the Kaltenberg Brewery, which happens to be owned by s Royal ghness Price Luitpold of Bavaria, a descendant of the author of the Bavarian Beer Purity Law of 1516, the Reinheitsgebot. Prince Luitpold is the current head of the House of Wittelsbach, which ruled Bavaria for more than seven centuries, from 1180 until 1918.

Its family members have been dukes, electors, kings, emperors, princes...and brewers! For centuries, the Wittelsbach bloodline has contributed to virtually every royal house of Europe. Whenever an important decision was to be made about the fate of Europe, chances are that a Wittelsbacher had his or her hand in it.

The Wittelsbach family's legacy in politics is enormous, but its contributionto the history of beer is unique and sheer endless.In addition to having authored the original Beer Purity Law of 1516—a version of which is still on the books in Germany today, making it the oldest food-safety law in the world—the Wittelsbachs built the Munich Hofbräuhaus, perhaps the world's most famous pub, which opened its doors in Munich in 1591. It was the public celebration, with 40,000 happy Bavarians in attendance, of a Wittelsbach wedding, on October 12, 1810, between Prince Ludwig I and Princess Therese of Sachsen-ldburghausen that was the first Munich Oktoberfest. Since then, the annual fall extravaganza in Munich has since become the biggest party in the world, attracting about seven million visitors from around the globe.

The current head of the House of Wittelsbach, HRH Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, has continued his family brewing tradition, though not its ruling tradition. Now that Germany is a constitutional democracy, the Wittelsbach's erstwhile powerful throne has become entirely ceremonial; the Wittelsbach's erstwhile powerful brewing empire, however, is still alive and kicking. The modern Prince of Bavaria has no intention of abandoning his family's centuries-old passion for beer-making.

Personally, Prince Luitpold is a university-trained brewmaster and a businessman. He owns a packaging brewery in the town of Fürstenfeldbrück and a beer garden and brewery at his ancestral Castle Kaltenberg, both near Munich. He also makes beer at his American-style brewpub, Kaltenberg Castle Brewery, at the bottom of a ski slope in Vail, Colorado, in the USA.

S beer styles are no surprise: He faithfully brews his family's traditional dark lager, called König Ludwig Dunkel, which his forbears helped to create half a millennium ago. He makes blonde lagers under the labels Kaltenberg Pils and Kaltenberg Hell. He also makes four varieties of Prinzregent Luitpold Weissbier, a beer style, over which his family once exercised a monopoly in Bavaria." 2) Maredsous 10 Belgian Abbey Ale - Ah, those crazy days when I was in college.

I used to while away some of my evenings, especially in the spring and autumn, at a little tavern called "The Knight's Cellar" which featured this fine, fine Ale. It also was the only place I have ever encountered Warsteiner Dunkel on tap (which I think is an idea I'd love to catch on around my area). But anyways, back to the Abbey Ale, it's got a kinda fruity and malty taste, and it foams more than just about any other beer I've ever seen.

It's remarkably smooth, doesn't leave too much of an aftertaste, and that last swig at the bottom of the bottle always seem to signal the beginning of my alcohol buzz. :p Maredsous is, quite simply, a taste of heaven, as far as beers go, and it's been developed over the course of a VERY long time (centuries) in the Chimay region of Belgium by monks who certainly knew how to brew a delicious Abbey Ale. I found a video about it on Youtube, and it turns out, according to the video, that a portion of the revenue from sales of Maredsous goes to help Africa. Delicious Abbey Ale AND a generous dollop of humanitarianism.

How can you go wrong with that? Check out the video embedded in this answer to see what I mean.3) Sadly, the first two items on my list are no longer available in this town in any form since the Knight's Cellar was bought by someone and changed into a completely different bar.Awww. :*( But luckily, good ol' number 3 is.

It's my old standby, Guinness Extra Stout, the best thing to ever happen to Irish brewing (and probably, along with delivery pizza, one of the best things to ever happen to American college students :p ). Guinness pours a beautiful head, which is very important in the aesthetics of a beer, and it's got a rich and vibrant flavor to it which only gets better and better with well-maintained aging. Try taking a case of those into a cellar that maintains a temperature of around 50 degrees Fahrenheit or so and forget about 'em for a few years.

You'll be glad you did. A well-aged Guinness Extra Stout is an explosion of taste to delight the taste buds and tantalize the nostrils. There are hints of several different fruits in Guiness Extra Stout, and it almost seemed to me as if there was a bit of a nutty taste to it too.

It's an exceptionally mellow brew, and quite the best, in my opinion, of the "tap" beers available in the United States, though bottled beer, whatever the brand or variety, will probably always be better than tap beer. For one thing, the metal of kegs flavors the beer, and I'd like to taste beer, not metal. Lol An honorable mention I'd like to name is "Hemp Ale".

I encountered a place that sold the stuff several years ago, but I haven't seen it in at least 5 - 7 years now. I don't know who brewed it, so I didn't include it in my top 3, but I do remember that it was an incredibly rich and thick brew. I had a pitcher of the stuff on my 21st birthday (among many, many, many other drinks).

Every time I drank it, I got in my mind the mental image of acorns, for some reason. Anyways, if you happen not to have experienced any of the beers on my list, you should probably say 1000 "Hail Mary's" and then get thee to thy yonder pub and try them, if you can. I highly suggest them all.

The one I just drank The one I'm drinking now and the one I'm about to drink.

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