First "Good Beer" Experience!

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  1. DarthVorador

    DarthVorador Initiate (0) Dec 7, 2014 Pennsylvania

    What was your first "good" beer, & was it a profound experience.
    Mine was Weyerbacher Autumnfest way back in my partying days, the late '90s. I had a hippie buddy who I would party with on occasion, and he picked up a case before I came over. He was a BIG Weyerbacher fan & all I knew up to that point was BMC shit. I Thought I didn't like beer till that day, but when I took my first sip I said "wow, if this is what good beer tastes like, I'm a fan!" & I have been ever since! :grinning:
     
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  2. Rosinante

    Rosinante Initiate (0) Feb 26, 2014 Massachusetts

    Pete's Wicked Ale
     
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  3. wesbray

    wesbray Initiate (0) Feb 29, 2012 Canada (AB)

    Cask Fullers London Pride.
     
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  4. TonyLema1

    TonyLema1 Pooh-Bah (2,890) Nov 19, 2008 South Carolina
    Pooh-Bah

    John Courage Bitter in a pub near Oxford...1982
     
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  5. Doctor_Bogenbroom

    Doctor_Bogenbroom Initiate (0) Nov 2, 2014 Pennsylvania

    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (grad school in Iowa City) at an old place called the Mill (which got hit by a tornado in 2006, but that's another story), I had a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale on tap for the first time, and I was in beer heaven.
     
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  6. BiffBiffster

    BiffBiffster Devotee (337) Sep 8, 2014 Virginia

    As I neared Damascus on my journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around me.
     
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  7. cjgiant

    cjgiant Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,584) Jul 13, 2013 District of Columbia
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    Although I always was willing to pay extra for a better beer, a lot if that was the "better BMC" stuff (like Killians) or imports (Molson), which are far from what I like now. Pete's Wicked I recall, but didn't appreciate SNPA then (still not a huge fan of THAT beer, but definitely appreciate the brewery now). A bit of a late bloomer (but in an area that didn't have that local place doing it right - Old Dominion probably the closest), I'd have to say having beers at the DFH brewpub nearby was the straw, although places like Sweetwater Tavern get an assist.
     
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  8. Spify

    Spify Initiate (0) Oct 22, 2014 Indiana

    Drinking a Samuel Adams Harvest collection 12 pack with my Dad on a chilly October night.
     
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  9. warrendietrich2001

    warrendietrich2001 Pooh-Bah (1,692) Feb 13, 2013 Nevada
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    Was canoeing on the Russian River in college normally bought Coors but decided to mix it up and buy Sierra Nevada. It was my first real day of drinking a craft beer. Changed my life.
     
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  10. imamutant

    imamutant Initiate (0) Apr 6, 2014 Texas

    Not my first good beer experience, but trying La Vie En Rose on cask the first time I went to Jester King was like a revelation.
     
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  11. EricLiPuma

    EricLiPuma Initiate (0) Nov 12, 2014 New Jersey

    Many wouldn't consider it "Good" but for me it was a classic Guinness.
     
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  12. IPAandGreenChile

    IPAandGreenChile Initiate (0) Jun 25, 2014 Colorado

    In college I worked at a liquor store. Before that I was strictly a Budweiser man. I tried some farmhouse ale with my manager and that's all it took. I got into Belgians and IPAs first. Then all hell broke loose.
     
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  13. Monkeyknife

    Monkeyknife Grand Pooh-Bah (5,873) Jan 8, 2007 Missouri
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    Living in Chicago and having a Goose Island Pale Ale in 1991.
     
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  14. Nctide

    Nctide Initiate (0) Oct 3, 2014 Indiana

    Pete's wicked ale on tap in 1996
     
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  15. janky

    janky Initiate (0) Dec 9, 2013 Washington

    Hair of the Dog, Doggie Claws barleywine.

    I had never drank anything outside of malt liquor/corona/bud prior to that. Friend of mine took me to this fancy hipster bar up north, with what seemed like hundreds of beers on tap. I had no idea wtf I was looking at.
    So I just chose the one with the highest ABV.

    I've been in love with barleywine and craft beer ever since :slight_smile:
     
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  16. WreckedPalate

    WreckedPalate Initiate (0) Aug 14, 2013 Wisconsin

    Hopalicious from Ale Asylum in Madison WI, each time I've had it since, it's been the same consistent wonderful beer.
     
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  17. JuicesFlowing

    JuicesFlowing Initiate (0) Jul 5, 2009 Kansas

    Guinness on tap in Dublin, circa 2008. It really is better there.
     
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  18. Jeph222

    Jeph222 Initiate (0) Oct 23, 2014 Pennsylvania

    Hoegaarden, many moons ago. Wheat beers were my gateway. Still remember the experience.
     
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  19. TheIPAHunter

    TheIPAHunter Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,026) Aug 12, 2007 California
    Mod Team Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    Good beer is subjective. I recall having a St. Ides before a Public Enemy concert and that was a next level malt liquor maneuver.
     
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  20. Jeph222

    Jeph222 Initiate (0) Oct 23, 2014 Pennsylvania

    Yeeeaaaaaahhhhhhh. Booooooyyyyy!
     
    #20 Jeph222, Jan 31, 2015
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