Beer Wednesday: Our benchmarks

These beers are all at least OK and possibly good depending on your tastes and preferences. If you care about any of our other posts regarding beer, such as the Ballast Point - Victory at Sea or the Stone Ruination IPA, then you have surely tried some of these beers as you have explored the spectrum to identify your beer tastes. If you consider yourself a beer drinker, but don't care about those posts and have never tried any of the above beers, then you surely drink weak macro brews whose only purpose is to deliver alcohol from an aluminum can to your blood stream. We'll give these a 10 on the chugability scale and a 1 on the taste scale. It would be an insult to good beer to even consider rating these on any other scale.

As for the beers pictured...a few initial thoughts before opening it up to the floor for multiple opinions. (If there is any defining characteristic here at FIWK, it's multiple opinions.)

-Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is my go to beer in a restaurant without a great beer selection. Decent hops and taste as reflected in its 5.6% ABV. For me, the hoppier the better and in the absence of an IPA, this does just fine.
-Hefeweizen, both Widmer and Pyramid, is my other go to if I'm in a different mood. Unfiltered wheat beers provide a great taste unlike most ales or lagers. Wheats tend to be fairly sweet and many times you will see breweries add a fruit flavor to a wheat beer, such as Sam Adam Cherry Wheat.

What is your go to beer?

-Killian's Irish Red is the standard red to which all other reds are compared. A good solid beer with few weaknesses (so liked by many) but without any component that stands out.
-Foster's must be accompanied by an Australian accent when drinking it at a party.
-Newcastle is the standard nut brown ale. A favorite of several people I know is a VERY smooth drink to go along with a great taste, which many times seems paradoxical when drinking beer. Beers tend to be smooth (easy to drink) or have a lot of flavor and complexity. Newcastle solves the paradox.
-Red Stripe...Hooray Beer! This is the attitude you need to enjoy this fun Jamaican beer.
-Guinness is the standard of standards. Every time someone tries a new stout or porter, they immediately compare it to Guinness. Pretty high on the chugability scale which is important for Irish Car Bombs. Very smooth and flavorful, it also has a widget at the bottom that helps the carbonation and the beautiful head. Seriously, who can't have fun with a beer that has a widget at the bottom?
-Heineken is what a lager is supposed to taste like. Doesn't "lager" just sound like a Dutch word?
-Corona was the only beer served at our wedding because while it is no one favorite beer, no one won't drink Corona, especially when you have the limes to go with them. When you're in Vegas and the only beers they have are Bud, Coors, Miller and Corona, you go with the Corona because it will be easy to drink, have a nice sweet and light flavor to it and you can finish it before the cocktail waitress comes around again.
-Bass is to the ale, like Heineken is the the lager...sort of. It's an ale that is never going to confuse you and make you think it's something else. It's a normal ale in a world where, in general (IMO) ales tend to be better than lagers.