Ale and Lager

I love to go to a bar and drink fine beers. Sometimes I'll go the PBR/Rainier/Oly route, but I prefer a deeply flavored ale or lager.

Lately I have been splitting my time between these two juxtaposed beer styles. Pale ales on the ale side and dark lagers on the latter. Fish Tales Brewing,Wild Salmon Organic Pale Ale, was a great choice to represent the ales. Nice and dry with a palpable minerality. Cascade hops that were not over-employed, for a crisp citric effect. The hops and minerality were proportioned well to the good, pale malt body. Henry Weinhard's Special Dark Lager has been giving no quarter on the Lager side. I know that they are owned by Miller now, but....Strohs owned them before and this is good cheap beer. Plus, Miller is not as bad as Coors, or Bud...c'mon. Tons of roasty flavor out of this beer. Almost as malty as a porter, but with a tighter finish.