Ok what's your favorite beer to drink in the morning? As a refresher, as emergency medication, as the start of a most fantastic day?

I'd have to say Newcastle is a great breakfast beer, sweet and wholesome, easy on the guts, and stays alcoholic even in milk! Greene King IPA is also delish and comes for about $2 per tallboy. Of course, by the time I wake up after a mad party all that's left is Beast Ice.

First thing in the morning, if I'm feeling dirty and desperate, I go for the cheap shit. PBR, Bud, etc.

But for self-medication, a "red beer" is perfect in the morning. A really light lager-style, like Coors, with tomato juice and salt around the rim of the glass.

If for some reason I'm ready to drink quality beer right out of the bed, a Sierra Nevada Pilsner or a Magic Hat Circus Boy hefeweizen hit the spot.

Whatever's cold!

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Drinkable and easy on the stomach, with an alcohol content suitable for hangover maintenance. Or just whatever is left from the night before.

Of course, I've only ever done this a handful of times.

I would guess cheap ice beer and high-gravity malt liquor wouldn't work.

Ty Webb wrote:
But for self-medication, a "red beer" is perfect in the morning. A really light lager-style, like Coors, with tomato juice and salt around the rim of the glass.

A red beer can be a very good thing indeed, though I've only had beer in morning on tour, so it was usually whatever was laying around or thrusted into my hand.

Breakfast beer...so dirty

Oh, I did spend a Sunday moring drinking Miller High Life Light mixed with tomato juice while carving pumpkins with friends. Game One of the 2004 World Series had been the night before and I drank to the brink of not being able to follow, remember much of, or appreciate the Red Sox win. I kept ordering huge numbers of the raw shrimp they keep on ice behind the bar, offering them to friends, then ultimately eating them all myself. I think I ate like $40 worth of ala carte shrimps. Which was probably why I felt like A the next morning. I was with friends and obligated to drink, and this concoction was okay.

It's so gross to drink beer in the morning when you still have the shitty beer tartar taste left over in your mouth from the night before.

Hair of the dog that bit ya? On occasion...okay...I'd sooner smoke a bowl and kill the hangover.

But you know...Newcastle does sound fucking satisfying in a breakfast beer context. What a wild card beer in my life...I'll see it on the shelf, and I'll usually pass over it for a surer, more reliable bet.

I think I'll buy some Newcastle tonight. Thank you, Boom-product placement-bats!

As much as I like alcoholic beverages, in all their infinite varieties, drinking in the morning, for me, is a bad bad thing.

It's one place I just don't go.

Waffle factor only if you've pulled an all-nighter, and it hasn't yet ended.

As if you can get Greene King in the states. That stuff is brewed in the little town where I live, I didn't think it would have such wide distibution. Guiness is my breakfast beverage.