The only beer I ever found that I really did like was Samuel Smith Pale Ale. Alas, I've never found it anywhere since in over 20 years.
I would drink a good stout flat. In fact they are often much less carbonated than other beers. mm...... haven't had that, but have had quite a few chocolate stouts. And coffee stouts. And.. If you can try that Rasputin one I linked which is from the US I recommend it RoJo!
I've tried it. We had it on tap at my bar once. Honestly, I wasn't a huge fan. I like stouts, but imperial stouts tend to be a little strong for me.
It wowed me with its pine note. Have yet to find a too strong stout, though I have my mild ones I enjoy with food and not as food. This NZ stout was my all time favorite.. http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22618/71248/?ba=danieelol A work of art. Their less pricey/limited stout is good too.
I have gotten so snobby regarding beer since I started working at the brewery. Honestly, given all the options out there, I would almost always drink one of the beers that we make versus any others. That said, I did recently enjoy some Pumpking, which is an imperial pumpkin ale from Southern Tier Brewing Company. It's very hard to get a hold of because they don't make that much, and it's only around for short time in the early fall.
I've never had pumpkin ale (we don't have pumpkin as a flavour here the way they do in the US) but I've had chestnut ale. I will try anything. The other day I was out and there was only one beer on the beer list I hadn't tried so I had to have that It was Quilmes from Argentina. Godawful but I still enjoyed trying something I hadn't. I had this stout the other day, also from the US: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/anderson-valley-barney-flats-oatmeal-stout/334/ That was much less kick ass than the Rasputin, sweeter and milder. Nice.
This is our top-selling beer. It's an oatmeal coffee stout. We just started bottling it last year, and it's definitely not available overseas...but maybe one day! http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/bent-river-uncommon-stout/28500/
You should upload a photo! We have a beer garden here that has a whole fridge of ever changing stouts from around the world, as well as a huge range that are always on the menu. That's the menu.. http://www.beerdeluxe.com.au/images/pdf/fedsquarebeerbible.pdf But the ever changing choices are great. They get all kinds of stouts in. Other than working my way through the Trappist offerings I've pretty much stuck to stout exploration, though it has been winter. So does your brewery ship all over the US? Aus is in the middle of a CIDER REVOLUTION. Which I cannot abide.. I've tried, I've asked for the driest, least sweet cider. I've asked experts if there's a stout of ciders.. it's all awful to me. I enjoy maybe a sip, can't imagine drinking a whole bottle of it. Except I did once with a particular cheese because I got it into my head it would be perfect which it was. Cider is everywhere here, blech.
Our brewery literally just started bottling its beer about 11 months ago. As of now, we only ship throughout Illinois, Iowa, and parts of Wisconsin. We opened a brand new facility last spring, and we've already maxed out our brewing capacity.
We will never run out of beers to try. Even if we drank three different ones a day! btw I keep reading this thread title as "Three bears a day.."
Never found a stout I like. Rather like liquifying a brick and drinking it. Enjoy a nice strong IPA though.
There's nothing quite like a good porter. Fuller's London Porter is fantastic. Samuel Adams' Honey Porter, when they brewed it, was top-notch. Highland's Oatmeal Porter is exceptional.
I like beer. Three a day will be too much for me, but I can see one beer being more healthy than not. That's one of the reason I prefer stout to other beers. One time I had a licorice stout from a small brewery here in Italy. It was great.
Well, yeah. But I included a link so you're free to read the rest. Of course scientists aren't going to say massive consumption of alcohol is good for you (although there are studies that suggest that even those who drink heavily live longer than teetotalers). So, yeah, the disclaimer is to not drink more than 5 units in one day and to try to drink every day as opposed to just on the weekend.
Any health benefit in an alcoholic beverage can be found better in its non alcoholic variant. A cup of cocoa has more antioxidants than the famed wine. Also, beer is very caloric, and beer drinkers never smell very good, and I would think there's a good amount of water retention you would accumulate with three beers a day... daily drinkers seem to have bloaty red faces, broken blood vessels, and all that charming stuff... also kills all the good bacteria in gut for a good few hours. I suppose it's a good relaxant in moderation (the other side of the coin being depressant), but you can get that through yoga, meditation, and all kinds of other activities that will keep you in a good state of well being without the other risky side effects associated with alcohol consumption.
I read through to see what they mean by "a beer", the only reference to a specific measure is a 330cl bottle. But I think 3 of those would take you a bit over 3 units, which they say is the recommended daily limit for men. Meanwhile your average brit skimming this might think WAHAY 3 PINTS which is waaaay over the limit.
In the United States at least, "one beer" is considered to be 12 fluid ounces (the size of the average bottle).
Yeah...antioxidants don't even do us any good anyway, apparently! Despite seeming to have a plausible mechanism for health benefits, the most recent conclusions I've read are that there is just no evidence at all of a health benefit from consuming more antioxidants, and what's more, the free-radicals that anti-oxidants kill actually play an important roll in our bodies! I think this is one of the more reasonable hypotheses for the health benefits of alcohol: stress kills, alcohol relieves stress.