...but I absolutely cannot stand to drink IPA. They all taste like someone who can't make beer made them.
Give me a good pilsner any day. Of course, you'll very rarely see a craft pilsner because the equipment to make one is hella expensive - for one thing, you have to ferment it twice and both of them have to be done in the cold. (The people who invented pilsner beer did it in caves.)
This one is a bit hard to find, but Czechvar is an exceptional pilsner. This beer is also the subject of a major trademark dispute: It is made in the town of Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, and has been for centuries. In most of the world, this product has the brand "Budweiser Budvar" on its label. As you may know, an American brewery decided to make a beer similar (though much, much less tasty - the stuff made in the CR has no rice in it, which the US-made brew does) to Budweiser Budvar, and they call theirs Budweiser. The two breweries sat down and carved up the world into territories; any country that sold Czech Budweiser wouldn't sell American Budweiser and vice versa. This worked well until InBev bought Anheuser-Busch and decided to sell their Budweiser worldwide. Back to the bargaining table. Now, in the nations that originally sold American Budweiser the Czech product is called "Czechvar" and in the nations that sold Czech Budweiser the American product is called "Bud." St. Pauli Girl is another favorite. Heineken is excellent if it's canned - the green bottles they use let the beer inside get skunky.
For American-made beers, I do truly love Samuel Adams and...believe it or not, DRAFT Budweiser. It's got to be draft. Packaged Budweiser's problem is 100 percent how people handle it before it gets to you. You know the stuff is extremely light in color. Well...the lighter in color beer is, the more delicate it is. You walk into a store and there's this huge wall of Bud 12-packs sitting there out of the refrigerator. Guess what kids: Budweiser must be handled like milk if you don't want it to spoil, and stacking it up into the shape of an American flag before Flag Day and leaving it that way until Labor Day is a sure way to fuck it up. Draft beer is handled cold its entire life. Go to a bar. Order a draft Bud. You won't believe it's the same beer.
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