Sam Adams is good beer. The brewery is right between the football (soccer) stadium and my favourite Cigar bar, AND it's got a tap room!
I can't honestly say I've got a favourite beer. I like IPA, pale ale, brown ale, stout, English bitter, German Hefeweissen, Belgian Trappist ales; it just depends where I am and what's on offer.
When we were youngsters at university, we'd drink all sorts of lager. Carlsberg, Heineken, Stella, Harp, etc. I tried some for the first time in ages when I was back in the UK, and thought it was really horrible!! I actually tipped a can of Heineken down the drain. My tastes must have changed.
I do NOT enjoy these excessively hoppy ales they're playing with these days, nor do I like beer brewed with fruit, spices, nuts or herbs. Yuk.