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What should my first beer be?

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bangarangmules
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NSG I'll be 21 this April and I've never drank any alcohol before, what would you guys suggest for my first drink? Looking for something not too shitty, but I mean if you guys think I should start off low, by all means let me know. Suggestions? And post up what your first beer or drink was.
Mar 7 2011 11:44PM
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GILLSKI
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im not to sure what sam adams ive hads theres too damn many.  But I love hoppy beer when im not partying
Mar 8 2011 12:17PM
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Travapple.
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yessir, so good.
Mar 8 2011 12:23PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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fuck no Sam Adams isn't hoppy.

you want hoppy?

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Mar 8 2011 12:33PM
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NWPA
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Get a 40 of steel reserve. You won't be disappointed
Mar 8 2011 12:42PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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Blue Point Toasted Lager, one of the best all around good and easy drinking beers I've ever had. Lagers are a good beer to start on anyway.
Mar 8 2011 12:50PM
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vauban08
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Haha, ok, then take me. I'm European, I'm one of the type "I've been to America". *g*
And while I love the country, the people, the food, the sports.......making BEER, together with pronouncing french words, is precisely what the Americans SUCK at. :D

So GBURNZ, just try to get hold of a beer from continental Europe (not England, for god's sake!) except Heineken and Becks (no, no, no!) and be happy!

Popular brands that you might get hold of in a big supermarket: Warsteiner, Paulaner (Hefeweizen), Augustiner, Löwenbräu, Erdinger (Hefeweizen), Edelweiss (Hefeweizen), Tuborg, Carlsberg.
Mar 8 2011 1:18PM
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HermioneGranger
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This. But, if you can get your hands on one... You would have to know someone who has stashed a few away for the year... Deschutes Abyss.
Mar 8 2011 1:22PM
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Sallabillz
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rofll if you live under a bridge and like the taste of piss
Mar 8 2011 1:32PM
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fujarome
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yea I agree with all that. You definitely have to sample around to be able to appreciate what you're drinking. Don't just dive headfirst into the best stuff, because odds are, you won't think its good.

Boston Lager is good...but not hoppy.
Mar 8 2011 1:33PM
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Anathema
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damn son, that's like all we drink here. i swear, nova scotia is like little scotland. good shit for shure
Mar 8 2011 1:36PM
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Indoobly
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The ultimate park bench drink. 11.5%...
Mar 8 2011 1:39PM
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corona
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By german flavour you mean tasteless right? Cause germany has that purity law about not being allowed to have more than i think 4 ingredients in beer, including water as one them. It means they all taste the same and aren't that great unless you happen upon a really good unique beer. But in all honesty, go get a bottle of whiskey and take shots till you're smashed. stay classy.
Mar 8 2011 1:44PM
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vauban08
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It's called "beer" for a reason. What's the point in calling something beer if you can mix in whatever you want?
Mar 8 2011 1:48PM
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steezeeepolizeee
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Yep big rock is mighty fucking tastey.


Don't get bud light....what the fuck that is some of the worst beer you can buy
Mar 8 2011 1:52PM
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brennanmidwest
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Way too bitter for me, and I tend to like most IPAs. Try Dales Pale Ale. or almost any wheat beer from a like a craft brewer are usually pretty light and easy to drink.
Mar 8 2011 1:55PM
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CluckaChuck
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Second this.
Mar 8 2011 2:06PM
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Tha_Wizard
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Mar 8 2011 2:08PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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Mar 8 2011 2:11PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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Sorry for the dub post but Fat Tire is also really good, so is Yingling
Mar 8 2011 2:12PM
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Raz.
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FINALLY!!!! i expected this to be the first post!!!
Mar 8 2011 2:18PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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yuengling actually if that's what you were going for. Staple of the keystone state for sure. Order a plain old "Lager" pretty much anywhere in the keystone state and that's what you'll get. With that said it's not bad for a cheap beer.
Mar 8 2011 2:21PM
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tydan
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third this
Mar 8 2011 2:21PM
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hoodratz47
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wow....... gtfo
the only constant is water. theres are countless hop. grain(malt) and yeast varieties.

they taste amazing.. you have no idea.. what so ever, i bet you had a becks and concluded that German beers taste like that.

to the OP. go to a Tap room. and try some beers out.. get a taster plate... i doubt at first you are going to enjoy hopped up beers... but then again.. over malted beers suck as well. taste and enjoy and props on making it to 21!


and also.. i have a case of OG 4loko if you want some.. holla


Mar 8 2011 2:25PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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Yeah Im from CO so thats why I cant spell it lol. My buddy from PA raves about the beer though. Its hard to find in CO
Mar 8 2011 2:26PM
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BenWhit
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get some fuckin peroni.
Mar 8 2011 2:29PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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haha it's really not all that great, maybe the black and tan. Just a standard lager pretty much. Tell you're buddy rolling rock is better and watch him laugh.

Pretty sure they don't distribute out west or even far to the north or south.
Mar 8 2011 2:30PM
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Funkadelic
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Always blue moon. I always buy cheap stuff for myself because I can't afford anything remotely nice, but if I'm with my dad and he's buying I go blue moon every time.
Mar 8 2011 2:33PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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Yea that guy has no idea what he's talking about. Germany is the king country of beer. My personal favorite beer from germany is a pilsner called Licher.... So god dam good.
Mar 8 2011 2:38PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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Dude if you like blue moon try some other whites. Harpoon ufo is great, as is circus boy from magic hat.

For real fun if your near the magic hat brewery, get a growler of nine and one of circus boy, then mix the two in a glass. mmmmmm circus 9.
Mar 8 2011 2:39PM
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corona
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Awwweh, someone's a little butthurt over them thinking their german heritage is being insulted. Go try a belgian beer then come back to me. That's what a real beer should taste like. Full of all sorts of flavour and excitement. You can have a million types of flour, but brownies are going to taste only so good if you have a limit of 3 other ingredients. Doesn't matter what quality they are. Just in general, german beer is a lot more bland and has much more likelyhood of tasting the same to each. And if quoting doesn't work again then this is for hoodratz47
Mar 8 2011 2:42PM
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Nathn
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Mar 8 2011 2:45PM
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Elg
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Go with something dutch if its your first beer ever. easy to like.
Mar 8 2011 2:45PM
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SkierX
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Wait wait wait...

How have I never tried this?!?! It sounds FANTASTIC.
Mar 8 2011 2:46PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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Your completely wrong about German beer. Go to Germany, drink every night for twelve straight days and you will leave with a love for German beer.
Mar 8 2011 2:46PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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These are the things that happen when you get drunk and have 8 growlers of magic hat hahaha. try it, you won't be disappointed.
Mar 8 2011 2:50PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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you're so full of it. Comparing different flours to different kinds of hops??? really?? that's like saying all strains of weed taste the same cause it's just one type of plant.

Also geographically speaking, bitching between german or belgian beer is like saying PA and NY beer are completely different. Not really dude.
Mar 8 2011 2:56PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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Hahhahahaha - this is one of the most ignorant posts I've read in a while. Congratulations.

You've obviously never brewed any beer if you think all hops are the same and it doesn't matter what quality they are.
Mar 8 2011 3:10PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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Yeah, it's too hoppy for all but the heartiest beer drinkers. Never had a Dales, but I've yet to find a beer that I don't like. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that.

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Mar 8 2011 3:17PM
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Mike-O
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My two favorites:

Kilkenny
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Hoegaarden (with a lemon)
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Mar 8 2011 3:30PM
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panojibber
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I have fond memories of Olde English from my first night of blackout drunkenness ever.
Mar 8 2011 3:33PM
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Kimbo~Slice
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Has to be stella artois! in england we call it wife-beater.

hope it hasn't been said already!
Mar 8 2011 3:35PM
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Steezy_IN_KC
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This is such a great beer, but to play it safe. I would just drink Bud Light. OR even Corona very light beers. Keep in mind not many people like the bitter taste of beer their first time. its an acquired taste. Just take it slow and enjoy your night my friend.
Mar 8 2011 3:37PM
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ImNotARacist
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Bud light?! YUCK Drink a High life at least. If you're worried about taste by some cheapstone and get drunk off of water.
Mar 8 2011 3:40PM
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hoodratz47
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beer from Belgium is great... ... i love lambic... the idea on how they get yeast in to the beer is so contradictory to how you brew beer normally... i mean. having a barn full of wort and then opening the doors and letting the natural yeast.. come in and start up camp..... amazing. but you already know that cause your the king of beers right. im sorry. to get caught up on an E fight . but you called me out. and your obvious ignorance to the good beers of Bavaria and the lagers of Bohemia. shows that you had some trappest ale and you got all fucking giddy and you dont know your shit at all.

and it does not matter.. cause the best beer in the fucking world is brewing the the state of OREGON!
and the rest of Cascadia is good to boot as well.




come at me bro!
Mar 8 2011 3:52PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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East coast US beer > West coast US beer ;)
Mar 8 2011 3:55PM
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hoodratz47
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um NO

old german is good beer,,, and that harpoon IPA aint bad.....
Mar 8 2011 4:05PM
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CAPITA-DEVOURS
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for your first go for the good shit, stay away from like coors and budd
Mar 8 2011 4:08PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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Colorado beer > is better than east coast beer. (Specifically fort collins brewed beer). New Belgium anyone?
Mar 8 2011 5:43PM
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corona
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Don't recall saying hops didn't make a difference. I do recall trying to get across that no matter what amazing variety of hops you have, you just won't be able to make the best beer if you're legally not allowed to have more than 4 ingredients. Water, hops, yeast, and most likely a sort of grain. That is why german beer will never be the best in the world. And also why a large quantity of it tastes very similar. If you give a hundred bakers only 4 ingredients to bake a cake, there's only so much they can do with it and in the end most of those cakes are going to taste damn similar. I realize tasteless really isn't the right word, but the taste of german beers just isn't nearly as diverse as say english beers as they can legally only put in 4 things. It's a purity law they have. Their beer is still pretty damn amazing, but could be a million times better were they allowed to add extra of whatever the hell they like for flavour. And yes, yes i have brewed beer. And have made wine and moonshine. I'd say i know at least a tiny bit more than nothing about it.
Mar 8 2011 5:54PM
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cab509
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question? What kind of foods do you like?




also, lets be real, if this really is your first beer, they are all going to taste interesting to you and maybe not the best. AND if you're out with your friends, you'll be doing shots anyways so beers won't matter.
Mar 8 2011 6:01PM
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