my new love :)

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Pisgah Ale..

If you're ever near western NC....come get you one :)

I don't drink much any more, but when i played blackjack, or sat out by the pool, i used to l.o.v.e. Miller high life in the bottle. :blush:

My local is a very affordable brew house. They have about 60 beer on tap every day. I love pale ales that are crisp, malt beers rather than hoppy ones, and I love a very well done fruit beer. There's a Belgian strawberry one that is amazing but its 7% so it can kick you in the head. Also a nice kiwi strawberry one from Sweden.
I love the dark smooth, malt, vanilla ales too.

OMG the strawberry lime one is the best thing I've ever tasted!!! Add a shot of good tequila to it (like patron) and its booze of the gods.

I can definitely enjoy a good Tripel.

A Portland Maine brewed beer.

Allagash White....

Our interpretation of a traditional Belgian wheat beer. Brewed with a generous portion of wheat and spiced with coriander and Curacao orange peel, this beer is fruity, refreshing and slightly cloudy in appearance.

So so so good.

"Roll out the barrel and
lend me your ear
I Like Beer!
It makes me a jolly good fellow
I Like Beer!
It helps me unwind and
some times it makes me feel mellow"... Tom T Hall

My fave summer beers right now are Steam Works pale ale and
Okanagan Spring pale ale

In the winter I like IPAs

Pretty good list, but I dunno how I feel about legitimate startups competing with the likes of Dogfish Head, New Belgium and O'Dells.

http://www.thedailymeal.com/50-best-...weries-america

Finals for the day are done, time for a Colorado Kölsch

The two brands I have grown to love this year after trying many of their beers is 21st Amendment and 3rd Wave Brewery Company. Usually I only like 1 or 2 beers from a brewer, but I really like many of them from both of these companies.

It ain't summer without it...
 

Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan.....yummm ~s

I want to try a shandy .. Any suggestions?

Leinenkugel's makes a Summer Shandy that's okay. It's a definite lager/lemonade mix. Way back when before they bottled it, I only ever had shandies in bars overseas... so, now days, if I'm gonna ruin my beer...:sunglass: I prefer a shandy or Radler that's mixed with something along the lines of 7up or Sprite.

I keep hoping 3rd Wave Brewing will turn out to be a group of radical ecofeminists... not so much!

i'm not a beer drinker.... or not normally... but have aquired a tasted for Apples' Ale... and fireball whiskey... lol

Make your own. Take a crisp lager, a stronger one and add anywhere from two ounces (shandy top) to 1/3 of the pint of sparking lemon pop. That's how it's done in the pubs.

Or you can squeeze half a lemon in your beer.

That's it, you order the beer you want and say "shandy top" or "shandy"

I always had a Stella shandy top in the summer.

http://www.drinksupermarket.com/medi...500ml_temp.jpg

It's suppose to be a refreshing, light, easy to drink, less alcohol option. So don't mix with microbrew ales or anything. Pick a halfway decent middle of the road lager. I personally love shandy when it's hot out.

Until I looked up their name to see if it was Third Wave or 3rd Wave SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS THREAD, I completely believed it was a feminism thing.

Maybe because the first time I had it I was in a lesbian pub at a homo beach which is near the brewery? The beer I was ordering was called "1st Wave" and they told me the name of the brewer was "3rd wave". What was I supposed to think?

Disappointing, for sure.

Sooo, back to beer. My current favorite of 3rd Wave is 1st Wave (an IPA), on tap.

My favorite 21st Amendment is "Back in Black", which is a Black IPA. Their beers come in cans...the best way to bottle a beer! Cans are for sure making a come back for that reason.

My three favorite were in the top ten: Lagunitas, Bells and Russian River.

Lots of new ones out there. I gotta make a road trip to Michigan soon.