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lochinvar

Lifer
Oct 22, 2013
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Foggy: Thanks for reminding me, I completely forgot about the Dusseldorfers. Uerige Alt and Uerige Alt Sticke are great and pretty easy to get, of course it only makes it over in bottles, but my favorite is Fuchschen....and of course totally unavailable to me.

 

escioe

Part of the Furniture Now
Oct 31, 2013
702
4
Rob71 and I seem to be on the same page here.
Here are five beers I love that are more or less widely available, depending on where you live.
Bell's Expedition Stout, an imperial stout

Hair of the Dog's Adam, which is this weird smoked barleywine sort of thing.

Rochefort 10, my favorite of the Belgian quads, even over the elusive Westvleteren 12

Sierra Nevada's Bigfoot, a barleywine

Deschutes's Obsidian Stout, which is a really easy-drinking stout, $8/6, widely available, and the only beer less than 9% or so on this list
Other favorites available in various places around the US:

Alaskan's Barleywine and Smoked Porter

Bell's Third Coast Old Ale, Hopslam, and Two-Hearted Ale

Cantillon's Classic Gueuze

Dark Horse's Tres Blueberry Stout, Plead the 5th Imperial Stout, and Double Crooked Tree IPA

Deschutes' The Abyss, Mirror Mirror, and Not the Stoic

Founders' Imperial Stout and Backwoods Bastard

Great Lakes Brewing's Edmund Fitzgerald Porter

Half Acre's Daisy Cutter Pale Ale

Hanssens' Oude Gueuze

Lagunitas' Sucks

New Belgium's La Terroir

St. Bernardus' Abt 12

The Alchemists' Heady Topper

Three Floyds' Zombie Dust and Arctic Panzer Wolf

Victory Brewing's Old Horizontal
Also, there are plenty of breweries within 60 miles of me, and for your everyday porters, IPAs, reds, those are my go-tos. My favorite locals, in case anyone is in west Montana, are Blackfoot River's Single Malt IPA, Bitterroot Brewing's Red Dread, Bayern Brewing's Doppelbock, and whatever is new on tap at Draught Works.
Life's too short to drink shitty beer, unless it's summer, you're floating down a river, and the shitty beer in question is a PBR pounder.

 

irish

Lifer
Aug 12, 2011
1,121
6
Texas
Guess I'm a full blown Redneck . Never heard of 90% of the beers listed so far . Here is my simple list .
Miller lite

Keystone

Coors

Bud lite

PBR

Corona

Shiner Boch

Old Milwaukee

Natural lite

Michelobe lite

 

ithelouniverse

Part of the Furniture Now
Dec 30, 2013
513
0
West Texas
No order
St. Arnold's weedwacker

PBR in a bottle. HAS to be a bottle.

MGD

Bellhaven

Woodchuck 806

Angry Orchard cinnful Apple

Dogfish head 90-minute IPA

Dogfish head Midas touch

St. Arnold pumpkinator. Seasonal.

Fat tire

 

eightywon

Part of the Furniture Now
Apr 4, 2014
563
0
Good lists. Haven't noticed anyone mentioning Delirium Tremens or Russian River's Pliny the Younger.

 

escioe

Part of the Furniture Now
Oct 31, 2013
702
4
Haven't had the pleasure of trying Pliny the Younger, since it's a tap-only exceedingly limited brew at Russian River and a very few bars around the country.
Pliny the Elder is great, but there are other beers in the double IPA genre I like just as well, like Three Floyds' Arctic Panzer Wolf or Bell's Hopslam.

 

daimyo

Lifer
May 15, 2014
1,459
4
#1 Anchor Brewing Company - Liberty Ale

No question here, the most perfectly balanced beer I've ever had

#2 Hacker-Pschorr - Hubertus Mai Bock

#3 Brasserie St. Feuillien - St. Feuillien Saison

#4 Berliner Kindl Brauerei - Berliner Kindle Weisse

Served traditionally with woodruff syrup, don't knock it till you've tried it

#5 Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu - Optimator Doppelbock

#6 Ballast Point Brewery - Yellow Tail Pale Ale

Actually a Kölsch

#7 Stone Brewing Company - Arrogant Bastard Ale

#8 Whitbread PLC - Mackeson Triple XXX Stout

#9 Brouwerij Westmalle - Westmalle Trappist Tripel

#10 Alaskan Brewing Company - Annual Smoked Porter

 

layinpipe

Lifer
Feb 28, 2014
1,025
12
The gf and i just got back from historic Williamsburg. We went to the outlets up there bc she had to take some stuff back and visited Alewerks brewery nearby on the way back. They have some killer brews and we did the sampler flight of everything they had on tap; delicious. I also bought a tall boy deuce of their Rapadou Porter which i cannot wait to try later tonight. It's a hefty 9% ABV, which is right up my alley as i like my beers plenty strong. We are lucky to live in an area with tons of small craft breweries. Not to mention, Stone is building a new brewery in Richmond in the next year or so, which is a hop, skip and a jump from us.

 

beefeater33

Lifer
Apr 14, 2014
4,235
6,716
Central Ohio
Not to mention, Stone is building a new brewery in Richmond in the next year or so, which is a hop, skip and a jump from us.

Hey Corey-- I'm SOOOOOOO jealous of you guys getting the Stone brewery!! I'm in Columbus, and we were in the running..........oh well(BIG sigh........).

I visited Stone out in California a few years ago, and man it is Phenomenal! Great Tour, excellent gardens/grounds, and a bar/restaurant to die for.

Maybe its for the best though, I could see myself becoming a Stone Lush if it was right next door! LOL!!

 

escioe

Part of the Furniture Now
Oct 31, 2013
702
4
Layinpipe: Aleworks is an amazing brewery. Their Cafe Royale Stout is godly.

 

warren

Lifer
Sep 13, 2013
12,335
18,489
Foothills of the Chugach Range, AK
trailboss: When did you first experience rat piss? Is it an acquired taste? Domestic? Or, imported? How do you get the little critters to hold still so you can fill a glass? Surely you don't drink it right from the rat? Does it take two guys? I mean, I know you guys are tough down there but . . . golly . . . that seems like a lot of effort just for a drink.

 

ocpsdan

Can't Leave
May 7, 2012
411
3
Michigan
In no specific order...
Founder's Centennial IPA

Saugatuck Brewing Co. Singapore IPA

Bell's Two Hearted Ale (IPA)

Founder's Dirty Bastard

New Holland Brewing Co. Paleooza

New Holland Brewing Co. Carhartt

Busch

Coors Light

Bell's Oberon

Sam Adam's Boston Lager

 

daimyo

Lifer
May 15, 2014
1,459
4
I almost put down Berliner Kindl Pils in my top ten

I fell in love with the stuff at a German bar along with Gammel Dansk. They are a great brewery but you don't see them much here in America.
For those that don't know, Berliner Weisse is a sour, low alcohol wheat beer that is traditionally mixed with a bit of woodruff or later raspberry syrup not to make it sweet but to balance the sour. Ideally you can taste both the sweet and sour but they should not fight and neither should be dominant.

 

beefeater33

Lifer
Apr 14, 2014
4,235
6,716
Central Ohio
What the heck is woodruff?

Its a plant-- a sweet smelling one. I planted some beneath some pine trees on my property and its taking over. It smells good when cut, very sweet. I believe the Germans use it to flavor "May wine".

 

daimyo

Lifer
May 15, 2014
1,459
4
^Yup

From the description it's not something I would normally like but boy would I have been wrong. Even if it sounds bad, I strongly suggest trying it if you get the chance. The beer isn't bad on its own either, as long as you don't mind sour.
Yes, Guinness does taste different in different places around the world.

They brew it in regions breweries and though close, they all use slightly different recipes. I was even told at one brewer they use a small amount of salt water but I was never able to determine the validity of that statement but its source was quite knowledgeable.

 
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