Best beers you've ever had

Not to threadjack, but I'm not talking brand here? What are the best beers you ever had -- the setting, who were you with, what were you talking about...all that stuff.

Me first: Best beers I ever had were with guys I grew up with. Spring and summer of first year university. If the weather was nice, we'd grab a bucket of chicken, case of beer and four or five or six of us would go up to Vanier Park in Ottawa and play football and drink beer and get all philosophical and deep and solve life's problems and talk about the women we were screwing or would like to screw...great times.

Or it might have been the bunch I had one afternoon with a buddy of mine here that I don't see much any more. Started out as a couple of beer, got to seven or eight each, we wrote a goofy song on a napkin, some of which I can still remember. We married girls who were good friends, one week apart and he was MC at my wedding and I was MC at his.

 

Best beer I've ever had?

The next one.

 

Stout: Guinness, although smooth-as-silk Murphy's gets an honorable mention
Lager: Harp, although Stella and Pilsener Urquell are world-class
Bitter, Porter, Ale: hell I don't know, most of them are good stuff
Bud/Miller/Coors: fuck off.
Cheap beer: always thought Schlitz was the best out of the bottom-feeder class of shit beers that are less than $10 for a 12-pack. In Texas, Pearl in bottles used to be ridiculously cheap, and while I wouldn't get carried away and call it a good beer, it's easily more tasty than Bud/Miller/Coors horsepiss.

Best beer-drinking times: at the Albuquerque Dukes games with my Dad.

 

I thought I had had good beer before, then I got a Guiness from the tap in London and everything else, including Yuengling, fell to the wasteside.

 

I was goign to ask the same question. Finally got to a Friar Tuck today and didn't find it there either. Lil help, buckwheat.

 

My rookie friend, the best beer is *always* free beer.

Now I'll take a free beer, thanks. That's best.

 

Can't help you much. It used to be ONLY available on tap, and ONLY available west of the Rockies. Now, they sell it in bottles -- and in sixers at the grocery store -- but I'm not sure how widely available it is.

 

Best: Free
Second-best: Cold

 

Recently had Monty Python's Holy Grail Ale and loved it.
This delicious copper-colored brew has a hoppy finish but is quite drinkable. It is made by the Black Sheep Brewery in Yorkshire, England, and has been since 1999 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Monty Python, it states right on the bottle that this brew is "tempered over burning witches."

 

PBR. In a can.

 

Recent faves: Blue Moon and Sam Adams Cherry Wheat
All-time fave: Red Stripe