I voted for beer, as, to quote an old professor of mine, “I prefer my alcohol to be fermented, rather than distilled.” However, one must be sure to steer quite clear of our American mass-produced horse piss and stick with craft-brewed actual beer!

For specifics, one simply cannot best the divine beers that those Trappist monks produce…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappist_beer