[jimmydean]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('linlithgowoil', 'm')y favourite lager is Scottish Tennent's Lager. Currently, i can procure 24 500ml cans for £9.99 on a special deal - which works out at 41.6ish pence a can - this is DIRT cheap. If you buy the cans separately, they are around 90 pence each.

The Lager is a fine pilsner type lager with a 4% alcohol content. It is fizzy, but not overly so, has a nice golden hue and is very refreshing. It is FAR superior to, say, budweiser lager.

I also enjoy german lager - any type of pilsner will do - its all very good, though it is usually pretty strong and i always end up with a pretty bad hangover the next day.

I dont like ales or foamy beers, they just arent right - it feels like you are having a meal when you are drinking them, they are that thick and rich. The refreshing taste of pilsner is where its at.

Incidentally, i dont know whether anyone has heard of Buckfast Tonic Wine. This is a fortified wine that is drank by young underage drinkers in scotland. Its made by monks in england. It still costs around £4.50, and has cost this since i was around 14 years old - there has been zero inflation on that particular product.

However, i notice that beer has come up in price - When i was 14/15 years old, you could get 4 cans of tennents super for around £4 or less. Now, each can costs about £1.30, so its now about £5.20 for 4 cans - thats a 30% inflation increase.

[Kingcoal]

Pre-oil people drank more intoxicants than us. Life was hard, painful and oftentimes boring. Liquor was rationed to sailors, workmen, etc. If we have a hard time post peak, alcohol will become very popular and might resume being used as a currency.

[Roop]

Support your local microbrewery. There's a great place in Louisville down the street from me called Cumberland Brews. Kind of a hippy hangout but they brew all of their beers on site. You can get a refillable half gallon growler for $8.00. I just polished off a pale ale growler from them, it sure helps to take the edge off of Peak Oil.

[aldente]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('0mar', 'R')eal men drink hard liquor.

[The_Virginian]

Nice dog and pony show. looks like an Arabian horse, just what I'm into. good lung power, eats less, master of endurance races.

There is a German proverb:

In Wine there is wisdom

In Beer their is strength.

In water there is Bacteria.

(Now where did I hear that?)


As for the hard stuff...yah I enjoy a good Scotch wiskey and even Finladia vodka... but as Albente pointed out maybe the excercise is not to get stone cold drunk...

Of course the non-diluted wine from Judea will knock your socks off, so please add a little water like comercial wineries.

[Bedevere]

Steam Whistle Pilsner. Man this stuff is going to turn me into an alcoholic. If it is available where you are then I suggest you pick some up...

Your picks?

[ReeceARK1]

Anything I make myself If I don't have any ready to drink then I like: Moose Drool, Albita, McMenamin's Terminator Stout. Life is Beer!

[eric_b]

Never met a beer I didn't like. Err, I don't care for light, watered down beer.

These days there's so many different craft brews to choose from. By and large they're
all good.

I like dark beer. Bell's stuff is good. Heavy, heavy fuel. I like the Bell's Porter.
Some of the stuff from the Redhook (?) brewery is good, reasonably priced.
Guiness out of those weird cans is good.

Best cheap ghetto beer, IMO, is Red Dog. < $3.00 six pack.

[MD]

anything at all from a fresh tapped keg

[lateStarter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', 'a')nything at all from a fresh tapped keg

[Hawkcreek]

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[I_Like_Plants]

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is always good and you can get it everywhere here.

Purists swirl that last bit around in the bottle before gulping it so they can drink that silt on the bottom.

[rogerhb]

alas Beer suffers from heavy tax and duties which various widely from country to country so does not give a good indicator on the things you listed as wanting to measure.

A common index is the "McDonalds Big Mac" index, however more useful would be milk and bread.

[hanrahan]

The only "practical" solution to PO that I can think of is to buy up the cheap wine on offer now. Good red cleanskins A$5-6 and there's a glut of bulk wine.

I have no intention of going out sober

[pea-jay]

mmmmm beeeeeer.

My favorite...
full body beer - Guiness Draft
pilsner - Pilsner Urquell
all purpose mass produced beer - Coors Original

My least favoriteHeinekin
Old Milwaukee
the watered down crap that pizza hut sells
$5 dollar beer at pro sporting events.

[Grimnir]

For now (and maybe forever, if the peak oil stuff comes to pass soon), the best beer for me is the one that costs the least! Unfortunately, beer prices are inflating along with most other groceries. The one I have long referred to simply as "two-dollar beer" now costs $2.50 (for 6). Doesn't roll off the tongue nearly as well.

[VinceG]

Leffe Blond, Leffe Triple, Grimbergen -> Special beer from Belgium with a high alcohol percentage (7-9%)

Amstel, Grolsch -> Excellent beer from the Netherlands, 5% alcohol with an average price (about 10 euro's for 24 bottles)

Schultenbrau -> One of the cheapest beers around (30cts for a 0,5 liter can), terrific quality though!

[The_Virginian]

Staropramen dark.

Sapporo Reserve.

Kaiserdom (bavaria)

Redhook ESB.

Redhook IDPA.

Becks Dark.

Checz (real) Budwieser.

Bass ale.

Grolsh.
and the beat goes on... too many good beers to say "this is the best"


Worst beers

Any American "Light"/water beer

Budwieser USA

[DomusAlbion]

Guiness Draft

Is there any better?

[johnmarkos]

I'm partial to anything from Anchor Brewing Company, right here on Potrero Hill in the city of San Francisco, California. I'm particularly fond of their porter.