I like darker beers, Porters and Stouts. At the Pelican Brewery in Cannon Beach OR, they had a limited special brew, a Stout brewed and aged in bourbon barrels that was tasty as heck. At Immersion Brewing in Bend Or, they had a similar but done in whiskey barrels, also delicious.

Our favorite regular beer currently is Pelican's Tsunami Export Stout. We always bring a case or 2 home, and we go often enough that if we run out, it's not for very long. At one time they offered it Nitro at the brewery. They stopped offering it because something about the nitro temperature kept ruining their tap heads.

My step daughter is a nanny over on the Island for a couple that own a brewery/ restaurant in the old island firehouse. They make a watermelon wheat that is one of the finest I’ve ever had, every time we go over to visit her, we stop and get a few beers and dinner there. I’ve had a lot of different beers over the years but their beer always leaves fond memories of being able to see Syd and a great experience of a boat trip, golf cart ride to downtown and lots of fun.

“Dave’s Electric Beer” in Tucson AZ many years ago. Was told to have one before they were all gone - Dave was headed to prison for trafficking in cocaine. I used to try local beers wherever I went when I was on the road.

My most memorable beer has to be Colt 45. Took 2 sips, threw up immeditely. So memorable that I know never to touch that shit again!!

Most liked? I'm pretty easy there, if I can't see through it, I'll drink it.

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Don't know as I have a "best", but the most surprising was Budweiser served in Budapest, Hungary. It was nothing like domestic Bud, and quite good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...eiser_Budvar_Brewery

Budweiser Budvar and the American Budweiser have had legal battles for many years. American Budweiser is sold as "Bud" in Europe. The Czech version is sold in the United States as Czechvar.

For me two beers come to mind. I had friends who went to college in Vienna. Brought back three beers and insisted we drink them two weeks from the time he got back. He wanted them to cool and settle down from the trip in his luggage. It was early 80's so you could get away with that. Zipfer Urtyp was the best of the three. And, Coors Winterfest 1986. That year they really did it right. Never the same after that year.

One hot summer in 1984 (I was 14) I was visiting my Pop-Pop in Mayo Fla. (it’s in north Florida and there’s nothing there-the middle of nowhere)

Pop-pop had use kids out picking veggies (probably from someone else’s fields) and it was unbearably hot and humid, sweat just running off us.

When we were done we were putting the veggies in paper sacks in the back of his station wagon and he pulled out an ice cold Miller High Life out of the cooler and handed each of us (me and my 2 brothers) a cold one.

I still remember how good it was and haven’t had one as cold or as good since then.

Most memorable beer- when I was a kid, maybe 16 or 17 yo, I was skateboarding with friends in the hot sun and an older acquaintance of one of them drove up in a cool Chevy. After talking for a bit, he opened his trunk and it had a really nice cooler in it filled with ice cold beers. I tried a Pilsner Urquell for the first time and was blown away, I had only sampled Coors and Michelob prior. My first import, and a damned fine one. Every now and then, when I can find it, I buy a six pack of that beer.

Kloster Kreuzberg Dunkel fresh from the tap at the Monastery. Its really hard to pick a memorable beer when you grow up in Franconia but it was a good one.

Alesmith Speedway Stout. The taste is amazing. One pint is all I need.

Most memorable, a Farson's Shandy having lunch at an outdoor cafe across from St. John's Cathedral in Malta. By far the best hot afternoon beer I've ever had.

My wife and I used to brew our own beer several years ago. One of the most memorable was a porter we brewed.
We brewed on Easter Sunday.
It was what we would called a big beer, the final ABV was over 10%. It was classified as a Baltic Porter. We liked it so much we brewed it several times.

Several members of our local brew club convinced us to enter it in some local home brew competitions. Surprisingly enough it won two Gold medals and a Silver medal.

One of the competitions it won a Gold in was a qualifier for a national competition called the Master Champion of armature Brewers (MCAB).
So we sent in our entry in as a Porter.

As time went on my wife and I forgot all about it and figured we did not win anything. We even forgot when the judging was suppose to take place.

One night my wife is on the computer and our club president sends her a message on Facebook congratulating us on our Gold medal win.
My wife responded back, Gold medal for what. He said you won the porter division at MCAB, we were dumbfounded.

Over the years we had won several local competitions with other beers but the Baltic Porter was the most memorable.

Probably my last bottle of my first ever batch of homebrew back in '97.

It was a basic pale ale extract recipe and I went through it pretty fast but set aside one bottle that I stored in the fridge for an extra month. I took it to a small gathering and shared it w/ a few people who couldn't believe it was homebrew.

I guess it was a moment where possibilities were realized.

"Give a man a 12-pack, he'll waste a day. Teach a man to homebrew, he'll waste a lifetime."

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Most memorable beer you ever had?

Beer 33. When I was a kid, still in Viet Nam, my father often played cards and drank beer with his friends. When they took a break, my brothers and I sneaked in, took a sip of the beer and tried on the smoke. To me, they are the most disgusting crap. Glad I turned out to not be a drinker or smoker. Lol.

An Oatmeal Stout from Brewmasters steakhouse in Kenosha Wi.
And
Beamish Irish Stout in Cork Ir.

2 of the best beers I have ever had.

Munich, Germany circa 1993

My Army barracks roommate and I got on a train to Munich then went outside the station and I told a taxi driver “take me to a beer garden, where the locals go, I don’t want to go to some tourist trap”.

He drove for a little while, and took us to this beautiful little beer garden next to a lake. We sat at a table and drank those liter size “Mass” mugs of beer. I chugged my first one pretty quickly, then started to stand up to go get another one and was like “WHOAAAAA….I gotta sit back down a minute here!”

It was some light straw-colored German lager, nothing special really but overall I’d say that was the best beer I’d ever drank.

Very rare I get to have it, but I absolutely love St.Bernardus Christmas Ale. One of the best beers I have ever had.

A Duvel on a chilly night in a bistro in Amsterdam.

Prior to that I thought Michelob was a premium beer.

Most memorable beer was a pitcher of Michelob at a great pizza spot on my first date with my wife of many years now.

Great date! Great beer at the time! Great wife!

Late July '78. Base theater, Great Lakes, IL. Bumped into a guy from my basic training unit several months earlier. The hot movie offering at the time was "Grease". We decided to go. Shipmate was determined to get a six pack of Olympia into the show with us; he did!

The first beer(s) I had are what I remember best on short notice.
Split a sixer of Strohs with my best friend on a camp-out. We were fifteen, and neither of us could be mistaken for burly, so we were sloshed in short order.