What's your old reliable?

Bella 2 hearted but anytime recently where I don’t know what I want I get Fuego by Tonewood

 

1968 or 2021, Truer words have never been spoken. When it comes down to it and it's one of those days you need a beer, any beer will do.

 

I'll add a vote for Jack's Abby here - Shipping Out of Boston has been my most recent "go to" when I just want a beer to drink. They have a few candidates in this category for me.

Specific beers are hard for me to pin down, but the "go to" breweries are Jack's Abby, Founders, and Allagash. Harpoon figures in there somewhere as well - they don't get much love these days, but I find their beers mainly enjoyable, consistent, and certainly priced right. Just had this conversation at home - those four breweries are always represented in our house.

 

Two Hearted is like that for me, don’t know what 2H is usually always under 30 days old.

 

Believe me, "everywhere" is relative.

 

Every store here, every gas station. Bells not available to you in NM?

 

I had a Miller High Life phase, in days of yore, not bad!

 

Guinness ... for Strength! (Soccer ball blasting the goalie into the net painting ftw!)

 

I turn to the locals for my old reliables. Dancing Gnome's Lustra and Brew Gentlemen's General Braddock's are dialed in, and always available. If I'm away from home SNPA is my standby.

 

New Mexico is kind of like Berlin in 1970-one small area(Albuquerque/Santa Fe) are flooded with good beer, the rest of us in small towns have diddley squat. I bet I could find Bells in Albuquerque, but down here we don't even get many of the excellent beers produced in Albuquerque and Santa Fe-Santa Fe Brewery is an exception, kind of-we can find several of their beers in most stores, but they are the exception. La Cumbre brews an excellent selection, all we can get is the IPA and their wheat. Marble is the same, out of their lineup we get the Red Ale, IPA and wit.

 

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, not only old-reliable but my #1 beer period.

 

not quite sure if i have an old reliable, however, it should be noted that your average Irish pub has an abysmal selection of beer, Guinness, Smithwicks, Carlsberg and Heineken are the four constants, pubs very seldom having many or any craft options, even from local breweries, especially outside of Dublin. of the aforementioned four, i guess Guinness is my old reliable, pint of plain is your only man and all that good stuff.

 

When they were making it on a regular basis, it was always Lagunitas Sucks. Today, thanks to regular distribution to the Nashville market, it's definitely 3Fs Zombie Dust.

 

Half acre daisy cutter pale ale

 

Depends on the mood.

Prairie Bomb! is my favorite shelf beer.

Arrogant Bastard is the beer that got me into craft beer.

Hamm's is my lawnmower beer.

 

I don't have any clear favorite. Must make up my mind

 

New Glarus Moon Man when back home. Still searching for that fridge staple up here in the last frontier

 

Dirty Bastard or Founders Breakfast Stout.

 

100%. it’s the GOAT. I’ve purchased four 18-packs of the pint cans in the last 3 months.

 

Warm weather: Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier, Union Old Pro Gose
Cold weather: SN Narwhal, Brooklyn BCS, NC Old Rasputin
Year round: New Glarus fruit beers - any and all