My preference is usually for beers with roasted malts. Dark brown ales, stouts and porters. My go-to beer is Guinness Extra Stout because it's the only thing consistently available locally. When I can get my hands on them, some of my favorites are Dogfish Head's Raison D'Etre and Indian Brown Ale as well as Sierra Nevada Tumbler Brown Ale.

I haven't gotten into the hard stuff in a long time, but my favorite used to be Woodford Reserve.