Your favorite top five beers?

1) heady topper

2) Ithaca flower power

3) westy 12

4) bockor cuvée des jackobins rouge

5) founders breakfast stout

North Coast Old Rasputin RIS
Lagunitas Hop Stoopid IIPA
Left Coast Hop Juice IIPA
(512) Brewing Double Pecan Porter
(512) Brewing IPA

Those are my favorite commercial beers if we are including homebrew I would add in my CitraFest Oktoberfest IPA hybrid and bump hop stoopid off my list.

Well this actually changes by the day. There are about 120 Honorable Mentions that I want to add but thinking off the top of my head:

1. Three Floyd's - Zombiedust
2. Highland Brewing - Gaelic Ale
3. Stone - Ruination IPA
4. Bells - Oberon
5. Surly - Furious

Troegs nugget nectar
Victory yakima glory
21A back in black
Cigar city jai alai
Neshaminy creek neshaminator.

No particular order here, all awesome beers.

Sublimely self righteous- stone
Left hand milk stout
New Belgium Belgo
Corona with lime....... yeah....
black butte porter

Delirium tremens.
Flemish sour.
New Belgium 1554.
Yeti
Gran Crüe

I think that covers it!!!

O'Dell's Mountain Standard Reserve

Deschutes Inversion IPA

New Belgium Snow Day

Alaskan Anchor Steam

O'Dell's Mercenary IIPA

Spaten Premium Lager
Hacker Pschorr Weisse
Corona/Lime
Newcastle Brown Ale
Bud Light......I do consume quite a bit of this

Picking 5 beers regardless of style is nearly impossible.

But what the hell

Sculpin IPA
Rogue Double Dead Guy
Westvleteren 12
Firestone Walker Double Jack
Victory Hop Wallop.

In no particular order..
Westy 12
Odell Wooden Elephant
Funkwerks Chardonnay barrel aged blonde
DFH WWS
Odell Friek
Edit: Goose Island Bourbon County Stout Coffee belongs on here somewhere..


I'm honestly probably missing one or two as I am terrible with names at times.

Too many to count...

Lately & Commercially it has been:

Maine Brewing Co. Zoe
Maine Brewing Co. Mo
Cascade Brewing Vlad the Imp Aler
Cisco Lady of the Woods
RR Supplication

Always look forward to Founders KBS as well. Westy 12 and Pliny the Elder are a given. And I see a lot of Stone Ruination responses here... but the limited 10th anniversary version of this beer was way more awesome.

Currently my top 5 are:

Flying Dog - Raging ***** Belgian IPA
Victory - Hop Devil
My homebrewed - Citra/Cascade Pale Ale
Dominion - Oak Barrel Stout
Sockeye - Triple Pi Belgian Triple (only in Boise, ID)

Currently...in no particular order

Russian River Temptation
Bell's Two Hearted
Boulevard Tank 7
Firestone Walker Parabola
Pilsner Urquell

I could subsist for a while on those 5

man, that´s one of the toughest questions anyone´s ever asked me... they constantly change, but of the top of my head: mmm...
Stone enjoy by IPA
Firestone Wookey Jack
Alpine Duet-Russian river Blind pig (tie)
Logsdon Seizon Bretta
Founders Breakfast stout
Green Flash Hop Head red

Two weeks ago I had the best imperial stout in my life: Cigar City Marshal Zhukov

Allagash Dubbel
North Coast PranQster
Anderson Valley Heelch O Hops
Dogfish IPA
Lagunitas Censored

the_trout said:

Southern Tier - Unearthly
Stone - Arrogant Bastard
Great Lakes - Nosferatu
Bear Republic - Racer 5
Sierra Nevada - Celebration

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Hmm...my list is very similar to yours. I'd just replace the Bear Republic Racer 5 with Firestone Walker Double Jack and resort them a little.

#1 Stone Arrogant Bastard (or Double Bastard)
#2 Firestone Walker Double Jack
#3 Sierra Nevada Celebration
#4 Great Lakes Nosferatu
#5 Southern Tier Unearthly

Gouden Carolus Cuvee van de Keizer Blauw
St. Bernardus Abt 12
Harriet Brewing Chardonnay barrel aged Divine Oculust
Boom Island Brewing Yule
Avery Maharaja

1. Boulevard - tank 7 farmhouse ale
2. Lagunitias- maximus ipa
3. Lagunitias - cappuccino stout
4. New Belgium - triple
5. Boulevard - the sixth glass

Bells porter
Bells Kalamazoo stout
Pliny the elder (really not that great and dosent live up to the hype but supper balanced)
Bourbon county
Cantillion gueuze

Mikeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel
Empyrean Mango IPA
Ayinger Celebrator
Deschutes Red Chair
Southern Tier Pumpking

Hmmm

Lagunitas_ WTF
RR_ pliney the elder
Lost abbeys _ Red Poppy
Lost Abbeys _ Angel Share
Ballast Points _ Victory at Sea

Rodenbach Grand Cru - my all time favorite
Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout - This is the one that started my brewing insanity. The one. The Original. Nothing like open fermentation on Yorkshire square stones.
Alesmith Speadway Stout - amazing beer
Delirium Tremens - Are you sure they put 8% ABV in there?
Lagunitas IPA - Simple and simply awesome

Alpine Duet
3Floyds Gumballhead
Founders Porter
Ballast Point Sculpin
Surly Furious


Its a better question that favorite beer, but its still kind of a bogus question. I enjoyed answering it though.

1#St.Bernardus abt 12
2#Brewdog Hardcore IPA
3#Brooklyn Local 1
4#Rogue Chocolate Stout
5#Granite Brewery's Old Cardinal Abbey ale (local microbrewed)

Though my tastes tend to fluctuate from time to time.

Really tough one. Currently the ones at the top of my list would include:

Phillips Brewing Company - Amnesiac IIPA
Unibroue - Don de Dieu Triple Wheat Ale (and nearly anything else from Unibroue)
Tree Brewing - Cutthroat Pale Ale WCPA
Brooklyn Brewery - Black Chocolate Stout RIS
Mt. Begbie Brewery - Bob's Your Dunkel Dunkelweizen

As with all, my list tends to change with mood and what I'm drinking lately. Three always on the list:
Anderson Valley - Hop Ottin
Guinness draught
Newcastle

Others rotate more...I'll go with these two right now:
Founders - Old Curmudgeon
Odell - St Lupulin

Newcastle is the ultimate anytime session beer, if stranded on an island with only one beer that would be the choice. With that said, the others add lots of flavor to life. Frankly, I'll grab some of my homebrews (like the one I'm drinking) over any of these often.

1. Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout
2. Spaten Optimator
3. Rochfort 6
4. pumpkin porter from a small local brewery called Bier Brewery
5. Boston lager

Firestone Bin31
Sierra Nevada Pale
Bell's Two Hearted
Guinness (w NoX)

First post...good place to start.

Summit Extra Pale ale
Odell's 5 barrel
New Glarus Moon Man
Capital Brewery Wisconsin Amber
Golden City Imperial IPA

Honorable Mention: Miller High Life

Victory Helios
Hoegaarden
Kellerweis
DFH 90 min
Victory Hop Wallop

Surly bender
Surly abrasive
Summit EPA
Hopslam
Boston lager

5. Sierra Nevada
4. Dog Fish 90 Min IPA
3. Leffe Brune
2. Chimay - Red Label
1. Dog Fish 120 Min IPA

What a shame.. I'm seeing a lot of beers here I have never seen in the Midwest. I know some microbreweries only supply their tri-state area. I can't wait till more brews Come here. All the more reason to travel I think!

tripplehazzard said:

What a shame.. I'm seeing a lot of beers here I have never seen in the Midwest. I know some microbreweries only supply their tri-state area. I can't wait till more brews Come here. All the more reason to travel I think!

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Where are you from?

Ouch. Tougher than I would have thought. Here's a shot:


Duvel
Chimay Grande Reserve
Hobgoblin
Samuel Adams Octoberfest
Leffe Blonde

This is a really difficult question since I could certainly list off beers I didn't like, but there's so many I do like that it's difficult to choose...But, I reckon if I had to choose only 5 beers to drink for the rest of eternity they'd be:

Stone Arrogant Bastard
Sierra Nevada Torpedo
Yazoo Sue smoked porter (made by a Nashville brewery)
Blackhorse Coalminer's Stout (made by a Clarksville, TN brewpub)
Schneider Aventinus

LaFinDuMonde said:

Heady Topper
La Fin Du Monde
Unibroue Terrible
Celebration Ale
Chimay Cinq Cents

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You know what, I'm listing 6:

Tank 7

Sierra Nevada - Celebration
Spartan - Optimator
Session - Fest
Deschutes - NW Red Chair
Sierra Nevada - Torpedo

Central Waters- Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
Central Waters- Bourbon Barrel Stout
Founders- Breakfast Stout
Founders- Dirty Bastard
Goose Island- Nut Brown Ale

I am sure this will be totally different in 2 months. In no particular order:

Bourbon county stout - goose island
Old Chub - Oskar blues
Very mad cow - revolution
Old fashioned ale - greenbush
Tripel - Westmalle