First beer you brewed?
My first favorite beer was kokanee. I drank cases of that stuff back in the day.
My first homebrew was a six malt amber ale from AHS.
First beer I ever brewed was an English Bitter. I had always wanted to try brewing, as far back as college. However, when I mentioned this to a friend of mine (who happened to be a chemistry major), his response was, "you'll have to learn a lot of organic chemistry." Well, organic had been the biggest bane of engineering majors in the school, and I knew I'd never make it through that class, so I abandoned my brewing hopes.
But, I had lived in Germany for a couple years and knew what good beer tasted like. About a decade or more later, I was in Georgia with a friend of mine who happened to be a lawyer and a homebrewer. We're sitting in his living room drinking a fine homebrewed honey brown when he says, "Chris, as much as you enjoy good beer, you should learn to brew your own.". Well, I told him I would love to, but that I didn't understand organic chemistry that well. He got a really funny look on his face and responded, "Hell, I don't know nuthin' 'bout no organic chemistry, but you come over t'the house Sunday and I'll teach you to brew beer."
Well, I did, and he did, and I've been brewing ever since.
My first ever Homebrew was a Colonial Honey Porter, made from a recipe in Stephen Snyder's "Brewmaster's Bible". It turned out really good, considering I had only a vague idea of what I was doing (Cooling the wort was a long experience, no secondary fermentation, etc) The only problem was that the last few pints got a bit "chewy" as there was no secondary fermentation. 
My favorite commercial brew is, hands down, Guinness. There are other beers that I enjoy more at certain times, but Guinness is one that I can keep coming back to & drinking. I just need to get off my ass & buy a Nitro kit so I can approximate the recipe at home
Joshua wrote:
What was your first favorite beer (commercial or homebrew)?
What was the first beer you brewed, and how did it turn out?
First FAVORITE beer? Toss up between McMenamins Ruby (raspberry) and Widmer Hefeweizen.
First beer I brewed? Coopers Wheat Beer kit. Turned out alright but I didn't like the flavor.
I did 2 kits, was unhappy with both, switched to extract and did roughly a dozen batches before going to all grain.
Hello All....
Well the first beer I ever brewed was... you guessed it.... "Hempen Ale" from the famous recipe now posted on BYO! My friends think its great, and a judge I know even liked it....
I told him it had cannabis seeds in it and he replied..."What! Only seeds?" and I told him yes and It's legal so don't worry mon! ... ;-)
Go check it out on BYO....
You know what they say....
"Your first is always the best!"
Happy brewin to all and to all a good light!
i've spent a good portion of my life trying to keep cannibis seeds out of things, why would i put them in my beer?
anyhoo...
first beer i brewed was a extract only brown ale kit from william's brewery. it was super easy and turned out great.
my favorite beer ever? wow that's tough. i can't pick just one. the beer i drink the most of these days is shiner bock.
My first successful brew was a raspberry wheat that was a big hit with my friends even though it was not quite my type of beer. The batch before that scared me when I looked at it to rack it to the secondary. It was probably fine, but I threw it out anyway. It wasn't until my second batch that I decided to finish it despite my fears. My favorite beer when I started drinking was anything cheap. After I could actaully afford anything worth tasting it changed to Guiness and now I'm leaning more towards IPAs in general.
My first favorite beer was Stroh's, the beer of my father and uncle. I still drink it.
My first homebrew was from a recipe given to my wife from the guy at the homebrew store where she bought a homebrew setup for my 40th birthday. Somebody along the way got something wrong: 3 pounds of DME, an ounce of hops and a packet of dry yeast in a 40 minute boil can't possibly make decent beer. Can it? It didn't for me. It was yellow, flat and fairly tasteless. Nothing like a Stroh's.
I have to say my favorite commercial beer was J.W. Dundees Honey Brown. I really didnt care for beer alot when I was younger and it was the only one I could really drink.
My first homebrew that I made was a english brown ale kit thet turned out ok but not great my second brew was far better.
My first brew was a Pale Ale in a Mr. Beer. Tasted like salt water, couldn't even finish it, and I was in college!