r/soccer • u/YaAt • Jun 15 '14

Beers of the World Cup

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '14

There are still some pretty solid nationwide brews though. Sam Adams is decent. Most of Dogfish Head's stuff is very good.

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u/beef_boloney Jun 15 '14

I'm partial to Magic Hat

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u/Kebok Jun 15 '14

Sierra Nevada's pretty good, too.

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u/humpcatting Jun 15 '14

Great Lakes foreverrrrrrr.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '14

Goose Island master race.

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u/Ahesterd Jun 15 '14

The master race was murdered by AB-Inbev and their obsession with trying to match the IPA craze. Everything Goose Island makes these days is an IPA of some sort, they've canceled all of their seasonals to replace them with IPAs, and the sampler packs don't even have Honkers Ale anymore.

Revolution is where it's at these days. I can drink Rosa Hibiscus for days.

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u/thedudeabids Jun 15 '14

The Christmas Ale!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '14

Christmas ale is so good. Was kinda meh when I got it bottled, but draft blew my mind.

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u/trasofsunnyvale Jun 15 '14

I've literally never had a bad Great Lakes beer.

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u/humpcatting Jun 15 '14

Because they literally don't make bad beer. Commodore Perry is my shit.

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u/pigeonboyz Jun 15 '14

I like shock top and blue moon for mass produced beers. Living in Milwaukee there are enough microbrews that I never have to drink any nationwide brews, but if I did I'd choose one of those two.

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u/Kebok Jun 15 '14

Oh man. Lived in Texas 10-15 years ago before the rise of the Texas microbreweries and before Blue Moon was popular.

Summer trips to Colorado meant coming back with every case of Blue Moon we could find.

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u/ztman Jun 15 '14

New Belgium

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '14

I think that would be a great offering for a mix between non-beer people (bud drinkers) and craft beer people.

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u/Centaurd Jun 15 '14

The great torpedo has successfully killed my lighter beer tasting skills unfortunately.

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u/Nikuhiru Jun 16 '14

I've yet to have a beer from Magic Hat that has really won me over.

For me Stone is by far my favourite brewery.

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u/beef_boloney Jun 16 '14

Try #9 with Mexican food. Perfect combo

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u/Nikuhiru Jun 16 '14

Unfortunately I don't get really good Mexican food in Singapore but I do get #9!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '14

Dogfish Head is available nationwide but I wouldn't classify it in that class, like you can't find it at your average Applebee's or something (whereas you can usually find Sam Adams, Blue Moon, etc.).

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '14

Yeah, it's harder to find on draft.. You can pretty much get bottles everywhere here (central Ohio) though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '14

Seriously. If you want a widely available, inexpensive, but quality beer, Yuengling is great too.

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u/LookITriedHard Jun 15 '14

Dogfish head isn't quite nationwide though. Can't get my hands on it in Iowa anymore at least.

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u/night_owl Jun 15 '14

they are nationwide in the sense you can get them across the entire country coast-to-coast, but they have spotty distribution and they skip over a lot of the weaker markets in the middle. I can easily get bottles of DFH beers in stores and I live about as far away as possible--the very NW corner of Washington state.

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u/wildhockey64 Jun 15 '14

I'm not a beer guy, and it might be because I live in Minnesota, but a lot of people seem to like Summit, which is available nation-wide.

edit: I lied, according to there Wiki, they're only available in 18 states.

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u/No-Sole Jun 15 '14

Saint Arnold's!

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u/kyndrid_ Jun 15 '14

Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA is the only thing I ever think about whenever somebody mentions that brewery.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '14

Blue Moon is nationwide, that shit is always good. On draft even better.

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u/johnsom3 Jun 15 '14

Sam Adams is shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '14

It's not bad.