comish, a pro tip: Left Hand Milk Stout makes great beer floats with the right ice cream or gelato.
Dave B - my path into liking beer at all led straight through Belgium. Literally. I moved to England just a couple weeks after turning 21, and because of the crap beer we all drank in college I thought the only beer I liked the taste of was Blue Moon. A class trip to the Netherlands and Belgium introduced me to Hoegaarden, De Koninck, La Trappe Wit, and Chimay Blue, and I've never been the same.
A Belgian quadruple (Rochefort 10) is still my #1 favorite beer ever. Although I was pretty hammered by the time I started drinking it, so there's that...
