Good shit Maynard!! Thought this place could use a beer thread I've never been into, or even understood the whole fru fru beer/microbrewery craze. More of a Coors Lite kinda guy. To me......Beer's beer, and all those niche' ones were for the same stuck up snob yuppie wannabes who order $5 coffees at Starbucks. As George Carlin said......The more complicated the coffee order, the bigger the asshole!! That being said.......When I went over to PA/NY 2 months ago for the big XX meat, the guys "persuaded" me to drink copius amounts of the local favorite, Yuengling. Pretty good stuff. Went out with another friend last month, and decided to have a Sam Adams Octoberfest with him when he ordered one. Pretty good as well. In fact, went to buy some for the house a few days later, and that stuff must be like QVC......When it's gone, it's GONE!! There was still a week left in October, and the couple 6 packs I'd seen a few days earlier when I decided to try Cherry Wheat & Harvest Moon instead, were vanished by the time I went back. So I've tried some others since then. Sam Adams Cream Stout....Kinda strong/bitter. Didn't taste the carmel & stuff like they claimed. Did really like the Cherry Wheat though. The Harvest Moon was OK as well. Budweiser American Ale was OK, but I kept having this suspicion while I was drinking it, that if I had a regular 'ol Bud alongside it......I may not be able to tell the difference Had an Amber Bock & local microbrew the barmaid said was "tastetastic & her favorite" with a rasberry taste, up at Myle's Pizza in Bowling Green last weekend. The Bock was pretty good. Rasberry......Not so much Anyways......Went to the store tonight with the intention of finally trying Sam Adams Winter Ale, that I keep putting off for others that catch my eye when I get to the beer aisle. Well....Guess what? The Leinenkugel's caught my eye this time. Kept debating, but decided I see the Winter Ale everywhere, so I'd give the 'Kugel "Winter Seasonal" the nod this time Glad I did.....Me LIKEY!! Very smooth, and has kind of a hazlenut aftertaste to it, which may sound kind of crazy in a beer.....but I dig it So there 'ya go. My $.02 & ramblings about my recent forays into the top shelf beer culture. I guess I'm one of "those assholes" now. Oh wait.....Some people think I always have been!!