In Japan I have lager, because there is little else, and the lager is fairly decent.

Asahi SUPER DRY, pretty good tipple that, goes with the food too I reckon. 

My favorite is Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
(Ironically, made in California by the North Coast Brewing Co.).

It really has an interesting rich taste, and runs about 9%...

http://www.planetquake.com/pjw/grafix/rasputin.jpg 

everyone mix their vodka/whiskey with soda water, water and ice so it doesn't taste anything, they do this to bear too with lots of ice so all the taste is washed away :/ 

they do this to bear too

Poor bear. Do they do it to cybears? 

Summer Lightning is not a northern beer, it's brewed in Wiltshire ffs. It is very nice though.

It's almost as inaccurate to say that all good real ales are from the north of England, there's plenty of good beer to be found in Somerset, Gloucestershire, Suffolk -- even London! 

1.) Tequila is gross.
2.) Vodka is great, especially Absolut.
3.) Everclear is great too, in small quantities. Like Vodka, but less tasty and more powerful.
4.) Salud. 

Too bad Zwiffle has never had Guinness. Yet. I'll have to see what I can do about that. 

I had some Guinness Drought around Christmas. Y'know, beer's not all that great, at least the stuff I had, but Guinness kinda grew on me. I still prefer Vodka though. And lolicon. I MEAN WHO SAID THAT OMG. 

You just haven't had the right beer yet. There's beer, and then there's BEER, if you know what I mean. Don't listen to those people who tell you that Budweiser is good, or even real, beer. However, if you need to satisfy a sweet tooth while drinking, there's always hard cider. Wow, that stuff is nice. 

Is like saying food isn't good. There's a ridiculously wide range of beer tastes and types.

And yeah, hard cider is quite nice.

Tequila with Dr. Pepper is a pretty good combo. It's like the two tastes end up in a drunken embrace saying "Oh no, you're the greatest" over and over. 

 

heheh - offended southerner?

only thought summer / winter lightning was northern cos its the only place I ever drank / saw it.

And yeah there are some nice ales below the divide but there�s more in the north, though they�re not necessarily all nice.

Guinness is lovely stuff and used to be my drink of choice but after a few you find it hard to stand cos you�ve got a iron-rich bowling ball in your gut.

Hard cider is great stuff - went to a party last year of a mate of me dad�s who brews his own on his farm in big fukin kegs. He had two varieties, normal and clear. The normal was pretty strong but the clear stuff you had to drink in a shot glass cos otherwise it�d send you blind. 

Leffe Blonde is a so-called Belgian Abbey beer and since I discovered it (here in the UK), I look out for it in every pub I visit. I can't get enough of the stuff. If they do it on tap (which one of my locals does), it comes in a poncy custom glass (a bit like a wine glass) and at 6.6% it gets you in the party mood fairly quickly :}

I've noticed it popping up in quite a few pubs and bars in bottled form, and there's a darker variant, Leffe Brune, which I've only seen in supermarkets.

Very awesome and unique tasting beer. Highly recommended. 

Come on, if you're going to talk about beer, accuracy is important!

I'm grew up the east midlands, not a place good beer comes from...

(Ill, not drunk, and not happy about either).

Kinn: get ye to belgium and drink. 

Welcome to last millenium. Good choice though. 

Dunno - accuracy and beer tend to be �mpossible at the same time . . . 

of Guinness for New Year's Day. This New Year's I went about the neighborhoods seeing if anyone had any fireworks. When I got back, I found my house guests had wasted my Guinness on something called IRA Carbombs.

Sons of Bitches. 

got that U2 song in my head with all the Irish thematics going on up there 

This is the kind of beer I could make myself sick on and not regret it.

Hmm, that doesn't sound quite right. Very tasty beer, though. Sweet aroma, excellent malty goodness without the charred flavor of some darker brews. This is something I'll try to get some stocks of and keep for when it goes out of season. 

Ever tried Grimbergen? It is a Begian Beer that sounds similar to Sam Adams Double Bock: sweet and strong. It even comes in a triple bock!!! :o

Highly recommended. 

I don't remember seeing that in stores around here. I'll have a look next time I'm at my favorite beer shop, though. Thanks for the tip! 

I poured this beer almost 20 minutes ago and it still has a head on it.

/me continues to drink blissfully as the week's stresses fade away in a haze of Type O Negative and beautiful aromatic spices mixed with beer 

Get to work you bastard! I gotta keep these idiots thinking I'm working on that Wintery Map Pack while we build a secret mapping lair in the tundra called Poland. I mean... errr... GET TO WORK.

BTW: Cap'n Morgran Tattoo r4wks. 

I think I just had the best cherry-flavoured lambic in the universe. A proper lambic beer, but powerful cherry flavour. Fuck RTDs made of syrup and vodka! LAM-BIC! LAM-BIC!

Oh, my supplier: http://www.regionalwines.co.nz/

Hic! 

Finally worked out how to use the damn site. It was a Timmerman's Kriek, from Germany.