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Pale Ale: Firestone Walker Pale Ale
IPA: Bear Republic Racer 5
American Amber: Need to revisit many favorites and try to narrow the field
Porter: Alaskan Smoked Porter
Stout: Too small a sample size
Wheat: whatever Beerpastor is drinking
 
Pale Ale: Sierra Nevada
IPA: DFH 60
American Amber: Ithaca Cascazilla
Porter: Duck Rabbit
Stout: Flying Bison Blackbird Oatmeal Stout
Wheat: Mine

I know most people on here probably haven't heard of a lot of those, but aren't your own little regional breweries sometimes better than the big dogs?
 
Pale Ale: Carolina Brewing Company Pale Ale
IPA: Highlands Kashmir
American Amber: Red Hook ESB? Don't drink a lot of ambers, but I'll have to go find more now!
Porter: Duck Rabbit Baltic Porter
Stout: Sweetwater Tavern (VA) Giddyup Coffee Stout
Wheat: Pyramid Imperial Hefeweizen

Maybe it's because the local beers are all fresh...
 
Pale Ale: SNPA or Shelter Pale
IPA: Hop Devil
American Amber: Troegs Hop Back Amber
Porter: Alaskan Smoked Porter
Stout: Beamish
Wheat: Not a huge wheat fan, the Shiner dunkel was not bad.
 
Nut Brown: South Shore Brewery, Ashland, WI

American Amber: Mortimer's Ale, Rowland's Calumet Brewery, Chilton, WI

Bock: mine

Belgian Abbey: Brewery Ommegang, Coopersown, NY

Kolsch: Edwort's Bee Cave Kolsch...... Goose Island is a close 2nd

Wee heavy: McEwen's
 
pale ale= Bass
IPA.= Breckenridge 471
Porter= Breckenridge Vanilla Porter
Belgian= rochefort 8
Bock= Bernie Brewer's.
Marzen= St. Arnold's.
Wheat = Rahr and sons summer wheat.
 
sause said:
IPA: Mojo - Boulder Brewing
Stout: Brew Pastors Russian Unothodox Imperial Stout; Guinness Foreign Extra Stout
Pilsner: Trumer Pils
Kolsch: Reissdorf
Porter: Utenos
Scottish Ale: Dirty Bastard
Belgian Triple: Chimay Cinq Cent

Bernie is your bock the one I had at the Brewers game?



Yeah, but I only had the one bottle and I think you only had a sip or two.
 
I'm gonna go ahead and leave out my own...

Pale Ale: Humboldt Pale Nectar
IPA: Humboldt IPA Nectar / DFH 90 Minute
Porter: Avery New World Porter / Flying Dog Imperial Porter
Stout: Stoudt Fat Dog / Avery Czar
Amber: Rogue St. Rogue Dry Hopped Red Ale
Brown: Old Richmond Brown
Pilsner: Eggenberg Natur Trub
Hefe: Brooklyner Weisse
Quadrupel: Ommegang Three Philosophers
Tripel: Brooklyn Local 1 / De Glazen Toren
Dubbel: Westmalle
Belgian Dark: Gouden Carolus Cuvee Van de Kaiser (Grand Cru of the Emperor)
Witbier: De Glazen Toren Dubbel Wit
Oktoberfest/Marzen: Legend
Geuze: Hanssens
Kreik: Hanssens
Trappist: Rochefort 10
Bock/Doppelbock: Ettaler Curator
Wheat Doppelbock: Schneider Aventinus
Holiday Ale: Avery Jubilation
Pumpkin Beer: DFH Punkin
Barleywine: JW Lees
Saison: Fantome
British Ale: Fuller's 1845
Eisbock: Schneider Aventinus Eisbock
Scottish / Irish Ale: Belhaven
Smoked: Schlenkerla Marzen

Enough for now...
 
I don't have a lot of hands down favorites but some current standouts would be:

Pale Ale: Oskar Blues Dales Pale Ale
IPA: RR Pliny the Elder, Stone IPA
American Amber: Troegs hopback (when you get a good fresh one)
Porter: Fullers London Porter on draught
Stout: Mikkeller, Bells Expedition, Bells Double Cream, Great Lakes Blackout
Wheat: FFF Gumballhead


Pitting my beers against commercial examples is a bit unfair since I tailor my recipes to yield exactly what I want.....to date, none of the commercial brewers have bothered to ask me what I want ;)
 
Robust Porter: Smuttynose Robust Porter
Brown Porter: Fuller's London Porter
Hefeweizen: Weihenstephaner
APA: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Dry Stout: Beamish
ESB: Fuller's ESB
Standard American Lager: Miller High Life
German Pilsner: Eggenberg Hopfenkoenig
Oktoberfest: Paulaner Oktoberfest
Schwarzbier: Köstritzer
Doppelbock: Paulaner Salvator
American Brown Ale: Legend Brewing Co. Brown Ale

and just to be silly:
Flanders Red: any brand of balsamic vinegar will do
 
These are the ones that I am pretty set on:
APA: Sierra Nevada
IPA: Sweetwater
IIPA: Pliny the Elder
Hefeweizen: Ayinger (on tap)
American Wheat: Abita
English brown: none (everything I have had recently has been crap)

Wow, I thought I would have definitive answers for more styles. I need to start buying more beer.
 
My must have list.

IPA: New Glarus Hop Hearty
Cream Ale: New Glarus Spotted Cow
Pilsner: Pilsner Urquell (when you can get a fresh import)
Nut Brown: New Glarus Fat Squirrel
American Dark Lager: Shiner Bock (can only drink it when I visit friends in texas)
Hefe: Weihenstephaner
Octoberfest: Lakefront brewery Art Kumbaleks Focktoberfest
 
Porter: SS Taddy/ Rogue Mocha Porter/Harpoon smoked porter
Stout: Guiness extra stout/ Young's Oatmeal
Octoberfest: Ayinger Oktoberfest Marzen
IPA: Brooklynn Brewery East IPA/DFH 60min
Pale: Rogue Dead Guy Ale
Brown: DFH IBA
Scottish: Broughton Black Douglas
 
IPA: Goose Island Harvest Ale. Just incredible.
Hefe: Weiheinstephan
Wit: Wieckse Wit
Brown: Newcastle
Stout: Sam Smith's Oatmeal
Belgian: Chimay Red

But over all, best of all styles: MINE.
 
Adding to mine:
Porter: Baltika Porter
Helles: Spatan (all I have had and I really liked it)
 
6 years later!!! WOOT!!!

Pale Ale: Zombie Dust
IPA: Alpine Nelson
Imperial IPA: Fresh Pliny or Heady
American Amber: Maine Beer's ZOE
Porter: Black Butte
Stout: Deschutes Obsidian
Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout: KBS
Brown: Port's Board Meeting
Kolsch: Reissdorf
American Wild: Anything by Cascade Brewing
Lambic: Anything by Cantillon
Pumpkin Ale: Anything by Elysian
Quad: Westvleteren 12
Tripel: Achel Extra Blond
Saison: Fantome
Wee Heavy: Backwoods Bastard
Marzen: Ayinger
Munich Helles: Augustiner
Rauchbier: Anything by Aecht Schlenkerla
German Pils: Anything by Victory
Kristalweizen: Weihenstephaner
Weizenbock: Schneider-Brooklyner
 
Pale Ale- Dales
IPA- Pliny, though I love Ruination
Stout- Sam Smiff's Oatmeal, a perfect beer
Porter- Stone Smoked is my personal favorite
Brown- Maduro
Cali Lager- Linden Street People's Common is my current favorite
Belgian Triple- Current is Golden Monkey

I'm sure there are plenty others. Firestone Wild Turkey Stout makes me fap.
 
Off of what I've actually had

Pale Ale - Carton Boat Beer
IPA - Ballast Point Sculpin
IIPA - Stone Enjoy By (but Hop Wallop is a close second)
Amber/Red - Nugget Nectar
Porter - Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald
Stout - Rogue Chocolate Stout
Imperial Stout - Founders KBS
Barleywine - Rogue Old Crustacean
Rye - Founders Red Rye PA
Strong Ale - Double Bastard
Belgian Pale - Ommegang Rare Vos
Belgian Strong Dark - Rochefort 8
Belgian Strong Pale - Duvel
Quad - St. Bernardus Abt 12
Tripel - Allegash Curieux
Dubbel - Ommegang (Abbey Ale)
Saison - Brooklyn Sorachi Ace
Weizenbock - Victory Moonglow
Wee Heavy - Old Chub
American Amber/Red Lager - Brooklyn Lager
American Imperial Pilsner - Heavy Seas Small Craft Warning
Czech Pilsner - Lagunitas PILS
Dopplebock - Troegenator
Eisbock - Ramstein Winter Wheat
German Pils - Victory Prima Pils
Maibock - Dead Guy
Oktoberfest - Victory Festbier.
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That which is dead may never die...

Amber ale is now solidly Ballast Point Calico, though other than the bottles a friend of mine found about a month ago, I can no longer get it where I live. Sale of the brewery better not kill their beer quality or I'll have to start brewing again:)

However, a solid option turned up on tap - Rich Mahogany from Altimont Beer Works. If I find out they bottle, I'll have to cut back on vegetable calories.

IPA is now Green Flash IIPA. I love Pliny The Elder, but if forced to choose, I'll take citrus over pine. Any specialty IPA from Sierra Nevada plays well.

Got a box of beers as a gift - one of those club beer of the month things that ship beers you can't get in your region. The rest of the country should start just paying me to box beers from the west coast and ship IMO:p
 
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