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YOUR GATE WAY BEERS?
General Beer Discussion by MMMMBEER
What three beers made you switch from drinking marco swill to seeking out the very best in craft beer? My three aren’t really micro or craft beers but they did open my eye’s to beers that weren’t just pale lagers. 1. Guinness Draught 2. Hoegaarden Original White Ale 3. Unibroue La Fin du Monde
13 years ago
SUDSMCDUFF
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Castle Lager Red Stripe Fat Tire Shiner Hefeweizen SNPA and a rather influential one but i'll never touch again, Newcastle
SLOWRUNNER77
84439
i gots ta add Lost Coast...8-ball started me down the stout path pretty early on, and Raspberry Brown turned myself, a couple other guys, and several future wives, onto dark beers!
quote: Originally posted by slowrunner77
late 1990's...Pyramid. Then St Stans (a local micro where i went to college)...i think i had my first ipa there. then Optimator, leading me to dicover the Almighty Celebrator! Then early favorites that i still love...Deschutes, North Coast specially Rasputin & Old Stock)
EAGLEFAN538
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Yup, a few similar, probably the closest to this specific question: http://beerpal.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3683 It was the altbiers of Northern Germany that did it for me. Plain old got me into beer, as I didn't dig any of the macro stuff I had up until then, not even the Bavarian beers I was exposed to. Back in the US the earliest ones I liked were Sammy and Yueng. Then it was Anchor, Boddingtons, and Guinness before I started getting into Belgians and all sorts of stuff from there.
quote: Originally posted by Phishpond417
I feel like there's a few different versions of this topic floating around the site.
I was consistant with Copperhead going back 4 years.
quote: Originally posted by eaglefan538 Yup, a few similar, probably the closest to this specific question: http://beerpal.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3683 It was the altbiers of Northern Germany that did it for me. Plain old got me into beer, as I didn't dig any of the macro stuff I had up until then, not even the Bavarian beers I was exposed to. Back in the US the earliest ones I liked were Sammy and Yueng. Then it was Anchor, Boddingtons, and Guinness before I started getting into Belgians and all sorts of stuff from there.
quote: quote: Originally posted by Phishpond417
I feel like there's a few different versions of this topic floating around the site.
here is my old answer... I can definitely pinpoint the fateful day to the exact moment when the first (of many) Stone Arrogant Bastard hit my tongue. While that is very much true, the first beer that really told me that there was more out there in the world of beer was Pete's Wicked Ale, which I can remember buying in the mid-nineties because it was delicious and guaranteed not to be drunk by any one else. I didn't really start seeking out alternatives to macro beers until I moved to CA and discovered Redhook ESB and Stone AB, as mentioned above.
yes, yes, and yes.......[:)] Pete's Wicked (original recipe) was some good gateway stuff man.
quote: Originally posted by jlozier
here is my old answer... the first beer that really told me that there was more out there in the world of beer was Pete's Wicked Ale, which I can remember buying in the mid-nineties because it was delicious and guaranteed not to be drunk by any one else.
THOMASSOVA4
22077
Guinness; Boddington's; Smuttynose IPA Finest Kind; and Czech Rebel. All four are instrumental beers in making me the guy who willingly paid out the ass and just drank a BrewDog Royal Virility Performance IPA.
SLOWRUNNER77
84439
I don't really want to know if it was good for you...but i can't. resist. asking. so...was it? [;)]
quote: Originally posted by thomassova4
Guinness; Boddington's; Smuttynose IPA Finest Kind; and Czech Rebel. All four are instrumental beers in making me the guy who willingly paid out the ass and just drank a BrewDog Royal Virility Performance IPA.