LIFE LIST UPDATE: No. 684 - Try 100 different types of beer

There’s nothing wrong with a grown man enjoying a beer every once in a while, and I have to admit that I enjoy drinking one occasionally. I realized a number of years ago that not all beers are the same, and that some beers are better than others. Several years ago, I even started keeping a list of all the different beers that I’d sampled and on Sunday I finally wrote down the 100th beer that I’d tasted, which allowed me to scratch another item off my "life list."

Keep in mind that it took nearly two decades to compile this list, and I don’t advocate that anyone drink alcohol. However, if you do, don’t be an idiot. Drink responsibly and only in moderation and never drink and drive. The late Dr. Carl Martens of Monroeville once told me that the average man can drink two beers a day without it having any negative impact on their health, so follow his advice and limit your beer intake to two or fewer a day.

Without further ado, here are all the different beers that I’ve sampled since I started keeping an official list.

1. Abita Purple Haze
2. Abita Restoration Pale Ale
3. Back Forty Beer Co. Naked Pig Pale Ale
4. Back Forty Beer Co. Truck Stop Honey Brown Ale
5. Bailey’s Blonde Ale

6. Beck’s Dark
7. Beck’s Sapphire
8. Bud Light
9. Bud Light Golden Wheat
10. Bud Light Platinum

11. Bud Premium Ice Lager
12. Budweiser Original
13. Budweiser Black Crown
14. Budweiser Bourbon Cask Lager, Project 12 Batch No. 23185
15. Budweiser Deep Amber Lager, Project 12 Batch No. 91406

16. Budweiser Deep Golden Pilsner, Project 12 Batch No. 63118
17. Busch Beer Classic
18. Busch Light
19. Cable Car Small Batch Lager Beer
20. Carta Blanca Cerveza

21. Coastal Fog Amber Ale
22. Coastal Fog IPA
23. Coors Lite
24. Corona Extra
25. Corona Light Beer

26. Cottrell: Old Yankee Ale
27. Dos Equis Ambar
28. Dos Equis Lager Especial
29. Fairhope Brewing Co. Painted Black IPA
30. Foothills Brewing Carolina Blonde Cream Ale

31. Foothills Brewing Cottonwood Endo India Pale Ale
32. Franziskaner Naturtrub Premium Hefe-Weissbier
33. Geary’s Hampshire Special
34. Geary’s Summer Ale
35. George Killian’s Irish Red Premium Lager

36. Goose Island 312 Urban Wheat Ale
37. Guinness Black Lager
38. Guinness Draught
39. Guinness Extra Stout
40. Heinekin

41. Honey Moon Summer Ale
42. Ice House
43. Keystone Ice
44. Keystone Light
45. Landshark Lager

46. Laughing Skull Amber Ale
47. Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy
48. Lowenbrau Original
49. Michelob AMBERBOCK Dark Lager
50. Michelob Light Beer

51. Michelob Original Lager
52. Michelob ULTRA
53. Mickey O’Doul’s
54. Miller Genuine Draft
55. Miller High Life

56. Miller High Life Light
57. Miller Lite
58. Miller Milwaukee’s Best Light Beer
59. Miller Milwaukee’s Best Premium Beer
60. Modelo Especial Cerveza

61. Moosehead Lager
62. Mystic Bridge IPA
63. Natural Ice – Anheuser Busch
64. Natural Light – Anheuser Busch
65. Newcastle Brown Ale

66. Old Milwaukee
67. Pabst Blue Ribbon
68. Pacifico Clara – Mexico Via Pacifico
69. Pennsylvania Brewing Co. Kaiser Pils
70. Pennsylvania Brewing Co. Overlook IPA

71. Red Brick Blonde
72. Red Stripe Imported Jamaican Lager
73. Rock Light Premium Lager Beer
74. Rolling Rock Extra Pale
75. Samuel Adams Boston Lager

76. Samuel Adams Octoberfest
77. Samuel Adams Summer Ale
78. Schlitz
79. Shock Top Belgian White Wheat Ale
80. Shock Top Raspberry Wheat Belgian Style Wheat Ale

81. Sierra Nevada
82. Singha Premium Import Lager Beer
83. Stella Artois
84. St. Pauli Girl Special Dark
85. Sweet Water 420 Extra Pale Ale

86. Tecate
87. Third Shift Amber Lager
88. Tommyknocker Butthead Dopplebach Lager
89. Tommyknocker Jack Whacker Wheat Ale
90. Tommyknocker Maple Nut Brown Ale

91. Tommyknocker Ornery Amber Lager
92. Tommyknocker Pick Axe Pale Ale
93. Tommyknocker Tundra Beary
94. Uinta Brewing Co.’s King’s Peak Porter
95. Uinta Brewing Co.’s Solstice Kolsch Style Ale

96. Virgin Islands Island Summer Ale
97. Virgin Islands Liquid Sunshine Belgian-Style Ale
98. Whale’s Tale Pale Ale: Cisco Brewers, Nantucket
99. Yuengling Original Black and Tan
100. Yuengling Traditional Lager

In the end, how many different types of beers have you sampled? How many of those mentioned above have you had? Which is your personal favorite? Let us know in the comments section below.