Kalen,
I'm no stranger to darker beers, but I've come to re-appreciate the pilsner; in many ways, a clean, crisp and flavorful pilsner (not Bud or Miller) is the hardest beer to make--the darker beers will more easily mask imperfections. Lots of German, Czech and other continental folks view pilsner as the higest expression of beer and I can't say they're wrong (although, at certain times, nothing beats a Guinness).