The Best Beer For...........

[contender buff]

Is disgusting and shouldn’t even be called beer.


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Miller lite because it tastes great

 

[etmo]

Kind of an idea, or suggestion thread on beer, and what are some good suggestions or your favorite beer with certain foods. A good beer, or the right beer can compliment a meal quite well.

What y'all got?

You can go any way that works for you. Modern crafts beers are often made free from the old-school baggage that (eg) wine carries, the commandment that the drink should "complement" the meal. Many modern craft beers are perfectly happy having the meal complement them, and can easily be the star of the show.

But if you're looking to go old-school, and have the beer complement the meal, there's nothing wrong with that, and there are many generalities which are good starting points, from which you can start and find out where you agree and where you disagree. Experimenting is half the fun.

Since it's summer, I avoid big stouts and porters, and tend towards IPAs, hefes, lagers and sours. Start by trying IPAs with the spiciest dishes you make, and adjust from there. If you like sours, you can do the classic sweet-and-sour and try BBQ (with sweet sauce) or any sweet dish, or you'll probably agree that sours do a great job with spicy foods as well (but whether or not that's your thing is a totally different story).

If you're doing something with citrus (orange chicken, for example) also consider an IPA, but helles and hefes do really well, too. That's a great time to bring both types of beer, and do an A-B test to find out what you prefer.

Try a lighter beer, like a lager or a weiss/wit, with your favorite pizza. If it's not enough, ratchet up on the beer volume until you find your happy place. Go all the way to a big sour if you want, and if your pizza can survive the onslaught.

With a lighter meal, like a chef salad, start with a full-bodied beer, like a big helles, to fill the space left by the lighter salad, and adjust from there.

These are kinda normal approaches, but nothing is wrong in the world of modern craft beer. If you like baltic porter and Captain Crunch, more power to ya.

 

[BuzzinSATX]

Miller lite because it tastes great View attachment 260552

Less Filling!

 

[Vaquero]

Huh?


Ninjered

 

[Axxe55]

Huh?


Ninjered

You don't remember the old miller Lite commercials where two guys are arguing the best thing about Miller Lite?

One guys says, "Tastes great."

The other guy answers back, "Less filling."

 

[BuzzinSATX]

Yall keep forgetting the best beer is cold and free. Goes well with anything.

I’ve drank beer in a lot of places on this rock. The only beers I’ll generally pass on are IPA’s and Mexican beers.

I buy a lot of different beers depending on my mood. But I could go the rest of my life just drinking Miller High Life, Coors, Busch, Bud, Lone Star, or any of their light versions and Id be happy.

 

[Vaquero]

You don't remember the old miller Lite commercials where two guys are arguing the best thing about Miller Lite?

One guys says, "Tastes great."

The other guy answers back, "Less filling."

I responded to post #22.
Buzzy posted while I was typing.
Thus, I was ninjerd. IE, I wasn't responding to buzzy.

 

[BuzzinSATX]

Huh?


Ninjered

 

[Axxe55]

I responded to post #22.
Buzzy posted while I was typing.
Thus, I was ninjerd. IE, I wasn't responding to buzzy.

Okay. Headquarters, disregard my previous transmission!

 

[Glenn B]

As much as Texans may contradict me for it, I will advise not to drink Shiner Bock with any food. Shiner is, in my opinion, a good beer only for the uninitiated - again that's in my opinion. Then again, I come from a place where beers, biers and ales from around the world, as well as foods likewise, were readily available in GREAT quantity & variety.

I think one of the bet biers, that I find for dining, is Spaten lager and say that after having drank at least 100 (probably many more, like 200) different beers, biers & ales. There are many others that go well with one type of food or another but Spaten lager goes well with many different types of food. It is strong enough not to lose its flavor when eating even strong tasting foods, it does not have too strong of a beer taste to ruin the taste of most foods and it is not too weak to be considered as the wrong selection as is a beer like Shiner Bock.

With all due respect, folks who say a beer is excellent in taste based upon things like it being a local brew and pretty much nothing more truly miss out on the diversity of excellent brew flavors that are available. Mind you, I am not some libturd who wants to celebrate diversity as far as politics go, I much prefer celebrating unity (despite diversity) when it comes to politics or nationality, but when it comes to beers, biers and ales - if you think Budwiper, Spoors or Whiner Crock are truly excellent - you are less than a connoisseur of what really are excellent brews and are missing out on a lot of great tasting brews.

 

[baboon]

Estrella made a beer that was suppose to pair well with any food. It was a collaboration with top chefs Europe. I can't remember the name of it, but remember drinking them.

 

[Texas45]

Is disgusting and shouldn’t even be called beer.


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Add Bud light and Coors light
And any other beer with lite or light in the name.

There is a Shiner for every meal
Sometimes even breakfast!
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[Fishkiller]

I like a pale ale with my chili. I use a beer wit OJ and soy sauce to marinate chicken. Odd but it is good

 

[BuzzinSATX]

As much as Texans may contradict me for it, I will advise not to drink Shiner Bock with any food. Shiner is, in my opinion, a good beer only for the uninitiated - again that's in my opinion. Then again, I come from a place where beers, biers and ales from around the world, as well as foods likewise, were readily available in GREAT quantity & variety.

I think one of the bet biers, that I find for dining, is Spaten lager and say that after having drank at least 100 (probably many more, like 200) different beers, biers & ales. There are many others that go well with one type of food or another but Spaten lager goes well with many different types of food. It is strong enough not to lose its flavor when eating even strong tasting foods, it does not have too strong of a beer taste to ruin the taste of most foods and it is not too weak to be considered as the wrong selection as is a beer like Shiner Bock.

With all due respect, folks who say a beer is excellent in taste based upon things like it being a local brew and pretty much nothing more truly miss out on the diversity of excellent brew flavors that are available. Mind you, I am not some libturd who wants to celebrate diversity as far as politics go, I much prefer celebrating unity (despite diversity) when it comes to politics or nationality, but when it comes to beers, biers and ales - if you think Budwiper, Spoors or Whiner Crock are truly excellent - you are less than a connoisseur of what really are excellent brews and are missing out on a lot of great tasting brews.

You, Sir, are a beer snob. It is a pathetic thing to be.

I acknowledge that there are excellent fine brews throughout this world...brews made in small batches by master brewers, from the finest ingredients, with the utmost care, that are outstanding.

But I also know for a FACT that countless good times, great conversations, fun adventures, and fond memories were made when good men and women gathered together in fellowship, enjoying the common, mass produced, and universally enjoyed American beers you like to disparage as somehow being unfit for consumption.

Sounds like Liberal judgement to me.

 

[Axxe55]

You, Sir, are a beer snob. It is a pathetic thing to be.

I acknowledge that there are excellent fine brews throughout this world...brews made in small batches by master brewers, from the finest ingredients, with the utmost care, that are outstanding.

But I also know for a FACT that countless good times, great conversations, fun adventures, and fond memories were made when good men and women gathered together in fellowship, enjoying the common, mass produced, and universally enjoyed American beers you like to disparage as somehow being unfit for consumption.

Sounds like Liberal judgement to me.

Exactly Buzz. I'd rather drink cheap beer hanging out with friends, than sitting around drinking the most expensive beer with snobs, born with a stick up their arse.

One of my fondest memories of many years ago, about a year before my grandfather passed away, we had been down here at the farm working all day in the sun building new fences, and we got back o my grandparents that evening, and it was my father, my grandparents and my brother and I, and we were enjoying the summer evening, sitting on the back porch, and it was the first beer my brother and I had. It was Schiltz beer! But for my brother and I, that was probably one of the best beers we ever had.

That was the last summer that my grandfather still felt and acted normally before the cancer took him down later on.

 

[Hoji]

Miller lite.

Not beer. That is sex in a kayak. It’s fucking close to water

 

[baboon]

You, Sir, are a beer snob. It is a pathetic thing to be.

I acknowledge that there are excellent fine brews throughout this world...brews made in small batches by master brewers, from the finest ingredients, with the utmost care, that are outstanding.

But I also know for a FACT that countless good times, great conversations, fun adventures, and fond memories were made when good men and women gathered together in fellowship, enjoying the common, mass produced, and universally enjoyed American beers you like to disparage as somehow being unfit for consumption.

Sounds like Liberal judgement to me.

Beer has been called liquid bread for ages with good reason. Mass produced beers for the common man have been around since beer had become a salable commodity. Bread & Circuses I believe started with the Romans.

 

[baboon]

Not beer. That is sex in a kayak. It’s fucking close to water

Careful lots of South Africans enjoy it with Biltong! Who the phuc am I kidding they drink Castle who owns of Miller.

 

[Hoji]

Careful lots of South Africans enjoy it with Biltong! Who the phuc am I kidding they drink Castle who owns of Miller.

Give you three guesses where I first heard that statement.

 

[Glenn B]

You, Sir, are a beer snob. It is a pathetic thing to be.

I acknowledge that there are excellent fine brews throughout this world...brews made in small batches by master brewers, from the finest ingredients, with the utmost care, that are outstanding.

But I also know for a FACT that countless good times, great conversations, fun adventures, and fond memories were made when good men and women gathered together in fellowship, enjoying the common, mass produced, and universally enjoyed American beers you like to disparage as somehow being unfit for consumption.

Sounds like Liberal judgement to me.

I love American beers, the ones that by my taste are the good ones. You can like what you likle, I am not trying to prevent that. You can also give your opinion as you did just do but why the personal attack?

As for excellent American beers & ales: Ommegang is a fine example of a truly excellent ale, any of their varieties. So is Yuengling a good beer in my opinion. Then there are also the many American IPAs that are fine ales. Spoors, Budwiper, Whiner Crock (and I only made up one of those names, the other two have been in use for decades to describe those dreadful excuses for 'good' beers). Those and several others amount to sex in a canoe . The similarity is that those American beers and sex in a canoe are both f---ing close to water . That was a joke that I overheard, being told by a Lufthansa pilot to his flight attendants, and he was telling it very loudly for my benefit when I was about to perform Customs stops on their flight's passengers years ago).

While I have drunk all of them, and even have imbibed Blatz beer by the case, and enjoyed them all atn the time either due to the good company I was in at the time or just because it was all I could afford, I probably would not turn any of them down if that was what was being offered to me in a social situation. In FACT, I'd accept ay one of them and drink them with gusto (to be social and to be polite, friendly and to be just the opposite of snobbish). Yet, I do not like them as much as the finer American brews - most from smaller breweries.

In your mind, it seems, me preferring one beer or ale over another, outright avoiding others when I can, and freely discussing my dislikes and my likes, as I choose to discuss them, amounts to me being a beer snob instead of me being allowed to enjoy what I prefer and tell others about it. Mind you, I do not believe myself at all superior due to my personal tastes but I do have personal tastes and I do not hesitate to share those with others. Maybe you should try some of thoise I mentioned and you then may discover some truly excellent tasting brews; of course though, you may think them not to your liking but you will never know unless you try them and compare them to those I mentioned and others. For you to get personal though (if you were serious and judging by the rest of your reply you seem serious) and to call me a disparaging term is less than respectful and evidently shows a you have a feeling of superiority by way of what you wrote to put me down. So tell me again - who is the snob? Just to be perfectly clear: If I am a beer snob in your, or other folk's, estimation, then so be it as long as I get to enjoy what I like instead of what I consider to be the cheap, low alcohol, mass produced, less good tasting swill that you evidently enjoy. That's just my opinion of those beers, with all due respect to your tastes, you are free to enjoy whatever you enjoy and to tell the world about it just as I have done.

Drink on but don't drive, handle firearms or operate anything that could do harm when boozed up.

All the best,
GB