your favourite beer?

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Pretty-much all of the Belgian Trappist beers, which are easy for me as I'm in the Mosel Valley, close to the Belgian and Luxembourg borders, where I stock up. Also like heiferweissen (wheat beer) and Alt (pale ale) here in Germany. Spoilt for choice really!
Usually have a single malt chaser with them - particularly Talisker.

I always thought Alt Bier was the German dark beer, if my (somewhat limited) memory serves correctly. I remember having it in a tall glass in a bar in Gutersloh with strawberries in the bottom, and a long handled spoon to scoop them out with - luvvvvverly! Curiously filling though (looks puzzled).
The favourite beer out there for us lot (RAF) was Warsteiner - "wobbly" as it got nicknamed. Not like the crap we get in bottles here, proper non-chemically-abused stuff    What I can remember of the Wobbly Brewery Trip is.............er, nothing  :lol

And on a detachment to Kaufbeuren, we did our best to drink the local breweries dry - mostly Weiz(ss?)enbier - this was pale in colour, strong, with sediment that you had to let settle to the bottom after pouring.
And whilst there, a Dutch F16 pilot (said he was anyway, and I was too pissed to argue  :lol  ) introduced us to a very wicked way of drinking Vodka. Take one tall, slim glass. FILL with vodka. Place a slice of lemon on top. Put a teaspoonful of sugar, and a teaspoonful of instant coffee on the lemon slice. Fold the lemon slice and eat, then down the vodka in one!!!  :eek
The idea was that the sugar took the bitterness out of the lemon, the lemon meant you wouldn't taste the vodka, and the coffee enabled you to keep going all night! HEALTH WARNING - I DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU TRY THIS AT HOME!!!  :rollin

One other nasty little poison comes to mind (apart from weissenkorn etc) from my time out there: Kummerling. Served in tiny miniatures bottles - you hold the neck of the bottle between your teeth and throw your head back - and the Kummerling burns like foc all the way down!

Funnily enough, I didn't achieve a great deal in Germany  :\