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Any beer I haven't had before.
But if I'm in a place that has a couple dozen of the regulars I'll go with

Rogue Dead Guy
Deschutes Black Butte Porter
Sam Adams
Bridgeport IPA
Alaskan Amber
 
The pride of Reading PA

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I'm not a beer snob. I'll crack a PBR or a Coors Light anytime.

However, I love -- flipping love -- a really good beer.

Favs (in no particular order)
Eff'n anything Sweetwater makes
Shiner Bock
Old Speckled Hen
Whitbread Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada Summerfest (just started drinking this about a month ago ... highly recommend)
Everything I've had from the Back Forty Beer Co. has been good. I like their Truck Stop Honey over their Naked Pig.
I'm currently drinking a Point Nude Beach Summer Wheat, and it's pretty damn strong.

Here's the odd thing, though. I've been craving the **** out red wine lately. And I've never really been a wine drinker. However, I hate to drink wine by myself b/c I always feel the need to finish a bottle, and the girl I'm dating (first girl ever that's been this way) isn't big on wine. And hates red, which is the only thing I like.
 
Very few beers don't taste good to me. Two I like that haven't been mentioned here yet are Sapporo from Japan and Singha from Thailand.
 
Molson Ice
Labatt Blue
Rolling Rock
Milwaukee's Best (well, I was in college at the time :))
 
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Widmer Hef. It's terrific.

Regular Coors. Loved it in my 20s, when you could rarely get it, and it still tastes great and you can drink a lot of it.

And the best beers I ever had in my entire life were three ice-cold Miller High Lifes in the old clear bottles while riding to Fargo on I-94 on a hot summer night, or the Coors my wife and I share while driving over the Snowies from Saratoga to our cabin.

That said, anytime anyone offers me I beer I'll gladly drink it, unless it looks like Valvoline.
 
Pyramid Apricot Ale
Stella
Hacker Pschorr Weiss
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Leinie's Red
Blue Moon
Amstel Light
Heineken
 
***gaarden
Stoudts American Pale Ale
All of the Ommegangs, especially the Hennepin
 
I hate the glass ***gaarden comes in. I feel like a drunk holding that.

Found an Austrian beer called Stiegl. It's really good.
Heineken (but not light, it's disgusting)
Pilsner Urquell
Bud lite
 
Sierra Nevada
Any of the Dogfish Head offerings
Guinness (sandwich in a glass), although what's imported pales in comparison to what's poured in Ireland.
 
Pretty much anything wheat/white, with a lot of lagers rolled in. Some of my faves:

Yuengling (duh)
Blue Moon
Shock Top
Paulaner Hefeweizen
Harpoon Raspberry UFO
Hooker Blonde (God, how I miss Hooker)
Hooker Watermelon Ale
Sweaty Betty Blonde
Legend Lager
Starr Hill Hefeweizen
Abita Purple Haze
 
Fat Tire
Anchor Steam
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
New Glarus - Spotted Cow and Stone Soup are both great.
Sweetwater 420
Leffe Blonde
 
Bristol Insider said:
Guinness (sandwich in a glass), although what's imported pales in comparison to what's poured in Ireland.

Steinlager Pur is the same way, BI. The export Steinlager isn't bad, but the Pur is divine.
 
Shifty Squid said:
Stuff I can regularly get:
Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout
Samuel Adams Imperial White
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
Founders Red Rye
Dieu Du Ciel Aphrodite
Dieu Du Ciel Peche Mortel
Founders Cerise
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Russian Imperial Stout
North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
Trappists Rochefort 10
Bell's Hopslam
St. Bernardus Abt 12

Seasonals/Otherwise sporadically available:
Founders Breakfast Stout
Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
Paulaner Oktoberfest

Rare:
Trappist Westvleteren 12
Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout

How are the KBS and Canadian Breakfast Stout? Can't get the latter, and the only place that carries the former sells it for like $13 per 12-ounce bottle.

St. Bernardus ABT 12 is my go-to right now. My best friend and her boyfriend turned me onto Belgians fairly recently, with Gulden Draak. I searched out a Belgian to introduce to them, and the beer guy at the beer place in town came up with that. So ****ing good.

Other favorites:

Southern Tier Pumking
Southern Tier ... well, pretty much all their stouts (Chocolate is best, followed by Mokha, Oat and Jahva, with Creme Brulee a once a year thing).
Stone Russian Imperial Stout
Dogfish Head Midas Touch
Dogfish Head Theobroma
Oskar Blues Ten Fiddy Stout
Oskar Blues Gordon Ale Double IPA
Terrapin Wake 'n Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout

I'll think of others
 
Bell's Batch 6000 is Biervana for me, especially the Barrel-Aged version poured by Larry Bell himself from a 3L bottle at the 09 Great Taste of the Midwest.

Goose Island Sofie
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout (especially with about two years' age on it)
Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee Stout
Surly Two
Surly Smoke
Surly Darkness
Surly Bitter Brewer
New Glarus Moon Man
New Glarus Raspberry Tart
Jolly Pumpkin Bier de Mars (this year's batch was tremendous)
Jolly Pumpkin Weizen Bam
Founders Black Biscuit
Short's 5th Anniversary Blood Orange Wheatwine
Short's Bourbon Wizard
Short's Hangin' Frank
Short's The Woodmaster
Capital Autumnal Fire
Ballast Point Sculpin
Russian River Consecration
Russian River Blind Pig
Russian River Pliny the Elder
Cascade Cuvee de Jonguelier
New Belgium Eric's Ale
Bell's Hopslam
Bell's Wild One
Bell's Two Hearted Ale
Deschutes The Abyss (just had an 07 last month, absolutely stunning beer)
Three Floyds Dreadnaught
Town Hall Masala Mama IPA
The Lost Abbey Cuvee de Tomme
Fantome Saison
Boulevard Saison-Brett

Off the top of my head...
 

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