My favorite beer drinking scene in a movie is the roof beer drinking scene in “Shawshank Redemption”. After a long day’s work outside (I am a land surveyor). I enjoy coming home and drinking a “icy cold bohemian style beer” along with the other “jimmies”. “We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men… We were lords of all creation.”
I worked on a geological surveying crew for a couple of Summers in the northern California foothills (Mother Lode). The boss always brought Rainier for the end of the day. I seldom choked one down. Nasty stuff! After a day in the 100+ temps, I was happy to get home and jump in a cold shower.
A remote Montana stream all alone but with Morgan Freeman narrating
Great topic–as for films, I’ll have to think a bit more, but one of my real-life favorite drinking scenes is in winter, around the holidays, sitting at our kitchen table in the afternoon, with the low light coming through the window behind me, warming my shoulders as I drink, say, a porter, and look through seed catalogs for next year’s garden, one of my kids every so often be-bopping in to say something. I’m in heaven as long as this “scene” lasts, but soon enough responsibilities take over again…
Fight club. Before the first fight when Edward Norton needs a place to stay. They finish drinking on a curb.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
It’s really just one scene, but it lasts for about 12 seasons.
I honestly never really gave it that much thought. That’s a great scene and probably one of the few that portrays drinking as pleasurable and relaxing, as opposed to movies like the Hangover, Knocked Up, etc where people are just getting F’d up. Now that I think about it, I’m not sure how much I remember of movie/show characters drinking beer. Often seems to be wine or hard liquor (which is probably easier to fake with just colored water, apple juice/grape juice etc).
There was a story floating around about the fake beer brands that are in movies and TV. There’s one prop house that has made up several “brands” some that get used in multiple shows. They peel off labels of O’douls or some other NA beer and then apply new labels… so when characters open it on screen it has the right hiss and fizz (On shows like How I Met Your Mother they just crack open and drink out of the bottle). On the flip side of that, I remember seeing the Kirkland brand beer at Costco one time and cracking up because it was just silver cans that said “LITE BEER” and that’s it. Made me think of “this is what people drink on TV when they don’t want to pay for the rights to a real brand”.
I like when they drink and cook with craft beer on “The Kitchen”, a show on Food Network channel.
Cheers. I mean “Cheers,” the sitcom.
Diane comes in out of a Boston blizzard. How can you drink cold beer in this weather, she asks the guys.
Cliff launches into a dissertation on how the British, out in India in the days of the Raj, drank hot tea in the heat of the day, thereby equalizing their internal temperature with the environment and making it more comfortable…
Alright, asks Diane, so why do you drink cold beer in the Summer then?
Norm: “What else you gonna do with it?”
I’m an old timer and I can remember watching the Jackie Gleason show. In many of the shows, Gleason portrays a bar tender and each time he poured a glass of beer he would have to stick his fingers in the glass to keep it from roaming over. He was a very funny man.
Lord of the Rings Return of the King - Extended Edition. The drinking contest between Legolas and Gimli.
It comes in Pints?!? (Sorry I had to…)
I’m getting one.
My favorite scene is from the John Sayles movie, Brother from another Planet. Two alien detectives hunting down the fugitive alien go into a bar and order two beers – on the rocks.
Yeah, that one is pretty good too ;D
A friend of mine in the Falcons does some of this work - although he mostly makes fake tap handles and what not. My name is on a tap handle in Beer Fest at their home bar and another one of the tap handles is one of our mini-Falcons.
The Eiger Sanction with Kennedy and Eastwood. 
M.A.S.H. TV show had it’s share of beer/alcohol drinking scenes.
IIRC there was even a 4077 MASH beer.
The Beerfest in, Beerfest.
Shawshank is a great one. Even though I’m sure it was anything but craft beer, I love the Seinfeld scene where Kramer chugs a beer while hanging onto a cigarette in the corner of his mouth.