>You might try finding a bar/restaurant with its own micro-brewery. Some of them make some pretty good dark.

There was one around here, and they had a couple of good dark ones, but before I learned how to find the place again, they went out of business :)

>For myself, since there's nothing like that around me (Atlanta has some, but that's 50+ miles away), I generally stick with...yep, you guessed it Bud. The imports are just too expensive (give the amount of beer I drink< g >).

There was a good ad for one of the cognacs back home "drink little, drink good". We usually keep up with a dozen of these tiny bottles a month - but then it has to be someting really good. In the beginning I tried a few regular brands, and soon learned to stay away from them. De gustibus non est disputandum, of course.