A little OT as I prefer a Scotch on Friday nights, but last Sunday and Tuesday nights, it was pints of Guinnes North Star in Dublin. Monday night was "plain old," draft Guinnes in Carrick on Shannon. (Helped a lot with an otherwise brutal trip! )
Badger's Golden Champion
Fullers London Pride (or ESB if you can find it outside London)
Houston Ale - small brewery a bit from Glasgow - recommended if you can find it.
Spitfire - very heavily hopped which is how beers ought to be.
Malheur Chocolate Brut is my all-time favoite, but it's expensive and hard to find. Any of the major Belgian abbey-style beers, or some of the better craft-brewed US Belgian style beers would be pretty high on my list. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and Redhook IPA are great every day beers.
Guiness, Sam Adams Octoberfest, Rude Frog especially the old lables where the frog flips the bird :nana: Victoria Bitter is good too.
I like dark beers then ales and may or may not drink standard commercial beer like fizzy water.
I got into a heated discussion once with a vodka and gin drinker about beer. He tried to tell me that all beer was the same as it was all made out of the exact same ingredients from brand to brand. I can't drink Bud as one of the components the nearest brewery uses causes an allergic skin rash reaction. He had no explanation for that.
All beer definately isn't the same, I don't know how he got that idea. Some folks can handle Buttwiper and some can't. I like it okay, Michelob is good too.