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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4305449, member: 71"] I don't believe I have. Over the years I have tried various craft brews and IPA's (which I personally believe has reached an arms race as to how heavily hopped they can get them) but I always return to (true) Bavarian lagers and Bohemian pilsners (Spaten tops the list but I am also a fan of Paulaner, Pilsner Urquell and Czechvar, [B][I]the real budweiser[/I][/B]). When it comes to beers my attitude primarily is "if it aint broke, don't fix it" and in places like Munich and Prague, the perfected it centuries ago. For the purposes of full transparency; when I was in my mid-late 20's (mid to late 1980's) there were a couple spots in Manhattan that I frequented that each had beer menus with more than 500 beers in their selections. I vowed that each beer I would order would be one that I had never tried. With what I have sampled at those two spots, an inordinate amount of business travelling during the 1980's & 1990', a bit of international travelling over the past decade and a decent number of craft brews it would not be an exaggeration to claim that I have tried nearly 1,000 different beers (and ales) in my lifetime but I would still choose a Spaten over anything if given the choice. Maybe I'm a bit too set in my ways but I'm not sure that I would be a fan of a beer that isn't translucent. I also don't see the attraction that some have to sours or the overly hoppy IPA's that end up being so bitter that it becomes a struggle to drink them. That said, everyone is allowed their tastes and opinions. [/QUOTE]

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