Hitochino Nest White Ale is an amazing witbier as well. Read more

I realize this outs me as one of those thoughtless savages who drinks beer at least partially for its intoxicating affects Read more

Higher alcohol beers generally require more grain than low alcohol beers. I've noticed the local brewery charges about a dollar more per six pack for 7.5% DIPA compared to their 5% Helles. I kinda doubt that price actually correlates to their production costs, but it does make sense that the higher alcohol beer (with… Read more

Hamm’s was my beer of choice during my early college years, for certain. The minifridge in my dorm room was pretty much just for holding a 12 pack of Hamm’s. I liked the stuff so much that, way back when companies hadn’t quite figured out how to promote themselves online, I owned hammsbeer.com for a while. Never did… Read more

I feel the same way about regionals, and actually like Naragansett quite a bit, but Rheingold is one of the few beers out there I may actually turn down (looking at you, Heineken...) Read more

Keystone Light. Drank that swill all through college, so the nostalgia factor is quite high. Also factor in that it is basically Coors Light without the blue mountains and you have yourself a nice, hydrating, all-day drinkin’ beer for golf or river tubing or hosting a cookout or whatever else. And because it tastes… Read more

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The Hamm’s Bear was one of the icons of my childhood. ( a long time ago). Every bar had a Hamms (“From the land of the sky blue waters”) ad somewhere and it always had the bear. Many of the bars where I grew up in N Wis were on the water and quite a few had the bear floating in an inner tube, hat on, beer in one hand… Read more

I love this article Will. I drink a lot of these beers when I see them mainly because they remind me of what my dad drank growing up. Olympia and High Life are my main goto beers in this category. Read more

National Bohemian seems to be the new Pabst. Some jerks gamed our local paper’s beer bracket with it. It’s classic regional swill. I wouldn’t be surprised if Natty Bo caused more Baltimore riots Read more

Just a damn shame al the regional breweries are gone now, it was fun going to a different city and discovering a different local favorite. Growing up in Texas I was a Pearl guy and you were either a Pearl or a Lone Star guy (and nobody drank Shiner!) When I was in the Navy I discovered Piels and Schmidts in Philly,… Read more

Schlitz...being in Chicago, it's pretty easy to get at most bars...cheaply. Also PBR...brings me back to days in my late teens fishing with my Grandpa...I was underage, and he was sick, so he wanted to have a few with me whenever we'd go fishing because he knew he wasn't going to make it to go to the bars legally with… Read more

High Life was always a solid choice when the cash was low. It was the right balance between sweet and the outright sweat in a Beast can. However, my friends and I wrecked a fair amount of King Cobra, Mickeys, and OE. We had a roommate that was a manager of a Costco liquor and could order anything we wanted, so we got… Read more

In a dark time in my life, I used to hang out in this bar deep within Mormon Idaho that had Hamm’s for $1 a can. A lifesaver.
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Right when I turned 21 I would get a 24 pack of Hamm’s for 13.99. My broke friends would come over, ask for a beer, I’d point them to my fully stocked mini fridge, and they would open it and go “oh. never mind.” Damn straight, “never mind.” Get your own beer then. I have no problem with Hamm’s. There’s a good hipster… Read more

I live in an area of Brooklyn where getting a growler filled in your corner beer supermarket / artisanal cheese dispensary is as normal as stopping by the 5-and-Dime for a half gallon of milk in other parts of the country. I didn’t like growlers at first, mainly because of the decline in taste quality in a short… Read more

And by a few, I mean 3 tops. Read more

I agree but I’ve never had a growler filled with beer last for more than a few hours, so the whole ruination thing doesn’t count for me. Read more

Four abject fallacies in the title and first line of the article...impressive! Read more

Right after I read this, I see on Twitter that my awesome local bottle shop (Which Craft) has just acquired the means to start doing growler fills. Read more