Nostalgic beer

good ole Sierra Nevada Pale. I remember the hoppy aroma and the color.

 

High Life

 

Anchor Steam

 

he only one's I'm nostalgic about are one's I can't go back to. New Amsterdam Amber Lager every beer from Heavyweight and others.

 

The Abyss.

 

I just bought a bunch of bocks, and doubles with those names....I also love the taddy porter, even if some call them bland....

 

My two favourite beers of over 50 years ago , Shipstones mild and bitter ,remain among my favourites today. They are now brewed in a tiny brewery but by the last head brewer of Shipstones. That's despite all that's become available in the beer world over the last few years , although I welcome the extra variety I regard it as well as rather than instead of good old fashioned brewing.The bitter is 3.9% so I can drink it all day,it's incredibly dry and intensely bitter but once I get through that the malt comes through and every pint tastes better than the one before.

The mild is incredibly tasty for its 3.4% and is a joy both to look at and to sup

 

Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar

 

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Celebration, and Bigfoot. Some of my early "good beers" that all stood way out to me. The hoppiness of SNPA tasted so much cleaner than macro AALs, not to mention just having a stronger flavor and better body. My first Celebration reminded me of my first SNPA, just delicious clean hop flavor. Bigfoot showed me beer can be very complex and savory.

Arrogant Bastard is another. (IMO) Perfect every day beer with a very present and drinkable flavor.

Bell's Two Hearted once craft started really taking off around here. So bright and floral.

 

Rhomberg from Dubuque, around 1987.

 

Agreed on the early Sierra. Does anybody remember Bigfoot at 11.2%, or am I imagining things?

 

Lowenbrau, Red Cap Ale, National Premium, Ballantine IPA, Anchor Steam, Ringnes, Young's Oatmeal Stout and Ramrod, Rogue Shakespeare Stout, Duvel, Dupont Saison, Shepherd Neame Bishop's Finger, and some excellent memories with Beck's Dark. This is a fun game!

 

SN torpedo

it woke me up from beers that were lacking in something i couldnt quite put my finger on.

then i realized what i had been looking for.....

it was flavor

 

SN Stout, and I just picked some up recently because I started to get the feeling that is has been too long. I hope it's always with us; I used to buy it by the case, but don't see too much of it around lately.

 

Shiner Bock and Real Ale's Firemman's #4

 

Genesee Cream Ale--my first (well underage) beer.

Labatt's Blue--What I usually drank in my early 20s.

Guinness Stout--My "gateway beer" to things other than fizzy yellow lagers.

Theakston's Old Peculier--First "craft" beer.

 

Same here.

 

SA Cream Stout , still remember having my first one around a camp fire at deer camp years ago

 

Anchor Steam, Henry Weinhards Private Reserve,

 

SNPA, Blue Moon, Guinness. I don't exactly come back to them (maybe sometimes with SNPA) but they certainly nostalgic