Best Non-Home Brewed Beer

Ok, i'm sure this has been done before but i want to hear what all of you like to drink (other than your own creations).

My top 10 are as followed no particular order.
1) Lowenbrau
2) Harpoon Brewery (yeah basically everything they make i like)
3) Harpoon UFO (i know i said i liked them all but this one requires special recognition)
4) Smithwicks (I hate guinness but smithwicks i like)
5) Old Speckled Hen
6) Sams Adams Octoberfest
7) Sams Adamn hefeweizen
8) Czechvar
9) Red Stripe (just becuase their commercials are funny "It's Beer, Horray Beer")
10) Blue Moon (as a good cheap beer, probally as cheap as i get beer wise)

I could do a top worst beer too, but the list would got to long so i just name a few
Great Lakes brewery
Swill producers aka Bud, coor, miller, corona, heineken etc
Guinness
Sam Adams Scotch Ale (tastes like blu cheese)

I could name a lot more but just thinking of these beers make me sick to my stomach

So lets hear what you guys like

1)Samuel Adams Boston Lager
2)Bells Two Hearted Ale
3)Anchor Steam
4)Bells Oberon
5)Guiness Draught
6)Killians Irish Red
7)Sleemans Cream Ale
8)SmithWicks
9)Sleemans Steam
10)St.Pauli Girl

1. Old Nick's Barleywine Style Ale (Young's)
2. St. Pauli Girl (tastes like Beck's or Grolsch, but with better scenery)
3. Grolsch (tastes like Beck's or St. Pauli Girl, but with a bottle I can use)
4. Oregon Trail (Corvallis, Ore.) Brown Ale
5. Dick's Beer (Centralia, WA) Imperial Stout
6. Terminal Gravity IPA
7. Most other IPAs
8. Murphy's
9. Old Peculier
10. Pilsner Urquell

On the topic of becks,Grolsch,St Pauli Girl does anyone like the Anheuser Busch World Select?

1. Sam Adams Pale
2. SA Boston Lager
3. Victoria Bitter
4. Bass Ale
5. Blue Moon
6. Kilkenny's
7. Paulander
8. Asahi super dry
9. Wailua Wheat
10. SA Old Fezziwigs Ale

1 Abita Turbodog
2 New Belgian Two Below
3 Sammy As Boston Lager
4 Sierra Nevada Porter
5 Young's Oatmeal Stout
6 St. Pauli Girl Special Dark
7 Sierra Nevada Stout
8 Sammy As Cream Stout
9 Lawnmower
10 Shiner Amber

in no particular order
Rouge arrogant bastard tastes like i brewed it myself
Grolsch, the original light beer
Newcastle brown, out of an unbroken 12 pack please!
Sam Adams original lager, makes one believe in mass marketed beer again
blue heron or IPA from bridgeport
almost any beer from Deschutes
samuel smith taddy porter
and, as a surprise to me, a few of the 'all malt' specialty beers from AB/michelob

many of the others mentioned are not available to me in Oregon, we have too many excellent local brewers, or i might have to revise the list

1. Dead Guy Ale
2. Widmar Hefe
3. O'Dell's 90 Schilling
4. Deschuttes Mirror Pond Pale
5. Paulaner Oktoberfest
6. Brekenridge Brewery's Avalanche
7. O'Dell's Easy Street Wheat
8. New Belgium's 1554
9. Bass
10. Blue Moon

1. Widmer Broken Halo
2. Mirror Pond Deschutes
3. Fat Tire Deschutes
4. Guinness Draught
5. Mac and Jacks African Amber
6. SA Boston Lager
7. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
8. Widmer Drop Top
9. Widmer Hef
10. Shiner Hef

I don't drink any crap, so my favorite is usually the beer in my glass.

I am however partial to:
Mcneill's
Lagunitas
Stone
Ommegang
Sierra Nevada
Almost anything imported by Duvel Moortgat.

1) Alesmith - IPA/XPA
2) Stone - Anniversary/Ruination
3) Anderson Valley - IPA/Amber
4) North Coast - Scrimshaw/Old Rasputin
5) Sam Smith - Taddy Porter/Oatmeal Stout
6) Avery - Maharaja/Kaiser
7) Sierra Nevada - Harvest 2007/Pale
8) Belhaven - Wee Heavy
9) Victory - Storm King
10) Sam Adams - Honey Porter

1. Laughing Dog Brewery's Sweet Stout
2. Northern Lights Blueberry Cream
3. Sam Adams Cream Stout
4. Lost Coast Brewery's Raspberry Brown
5. Kona Brewing Co. Pipline Porter
6. Deschutes Brewery's Buzzsaw Brown
7. Scuttlebutts 10 below ale
8. Spanish Peaks Honey Raspberry
9. Laughing Dog Brewery's Huckleberry Cream
10. Hob Goblin

off the top of my head in no particular order:

Franziskaner Hefe-Weisse Dunkel (and Hell)
Paulaner Hefe-Weizen
Unibroue Terrible (Maudite, 16, 15, Trois Pistoles, La Fin Du Monde, etc.)
Kostriker Schwarzbier
Anchor Steam
Firestone Double-Barrel Ale

gotta get back to work or this list would get MUCH longer i don't even think i could list all the hefeweizen's i've tried and loved.

1. Schneider Weisse Hefeweizen
2. Samuel Smith's The Famous Taddy Porter
3. Old Engine Oil
4. Einbecker Schwarzbier
5. Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock
6. Duvel
7. Trappistes Rochefort 8
8. Bad Elf
9. Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome Ale
10. Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout

cant believe no one has mentioned anything from flying dog. Old scratch is one of the best IPAs IMHO.

Redskins838892 said:

cant believe no one has mentioned anything from flying dog. Old scratch is one of the best IPAs IMHO.

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Old Scratch is an Amber Lager. Snake Dog is their IPA, which I love!

Can't really give a top ten, but I tend to feel that breweries are quite consistent...I like Great Divide, Ommegang, Victory, and lots and lots of Belgians. Mmmmmmmm, belgians (Westmalle, Rochefort, Maredsous....)

Redskins838892 said:

cant believe no one has mentioned anything from flying dog. Old scratch is one of the best IPAs IMHO.

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i tried the gonzo imperial porter yesterday. it was quite tasty.

I stand corrected. Yup, snake dog is the one.

My favorite I've had so far:
B.O.R.I.S. the Crusher - Hoppin Frog Brewery

Other favs:
Young's Double Chocolate Stout
Westmalle dubble
Avery Fourteen

Overall favorite brewery:
Great Lakes - lots of great beers and I havn't had one I don't like

Craig

PseudoChef said:

Old Scratch is an Amber Lager. Snake Dog is their IPA, which I love!

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both beers are fantastic, so far the only one of their beers that I thought was less than excellent is the Tire Bite Golden Ale ( Kolsch )

In addition to those, I'm pretty found of Sweetwater "Georgia Brown" Ale and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

Limfjordsporter (my all time favorite) 7,9% alc extremely well balanced http://www.thisted-bryghus.dk/sortiment/oel/
All Chimays
Nostradamus from http://www.brasserie-caracole.be/
Oude Geuze Boon
Erdinger weissbier
Most Brooklyn brews
Guiness
Kilkenny
New Belgium Fat Tire
Hoegarden
Murphys DCS
O'Haras Celtic Stout

Cheers
Jakob

Chimay
Trader Joe's Vintage Ale 2006
Sam Adams Octoberfest

and of course
Bud
Miller
Coors

No particular order...

Great Lakes Burning River
Great Lakes Edmond Fitzgerald Porter
Fat Tire Amber Ale
Magic Hat #9
Hoegarden, good beer and great name!
Guinness
Stella Artois
Rogue Dead Guy Ale

No Real Order:

All Chimays
Westmalle Tripple
Frankizaner (Spelling?/) Weissbier
Schofferhoffer Weissbier
Beamish Draught
Guinness Foreign Export
Hoegarden
Fullers ESB ----Drink of the God's
Bishops Finger
Broughtons Double Ale
Galway Hooker

Weihenstephaner Original
Guinness(only on tap here in Boston and Ireland)
Erdinger Octoberfest
Reissdorf Kolsch
Hofbrau
Stella Artois
Paulaner
Spaten

First that came to mind was Paulaner Hefe.

Hard to believe how many people listed a sam adams beer in their top ten. Not a Sam Adams hater, I like them, just suprised so many love them.


A few of my favorites off the top of my head:
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Troegs Amber Ale
Rouge Dead Guy Ale
Otter Creek Stove Pipe Porter
The Chimay's
Smithwicks (on tap baby)
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale
Anchor Steam Liberty Ale

1. South Shore Brewery Rhodes Scholar Stout.
2. Great Dane Crop Circle wheat
3. Ale asylum Scottish Ale
4. Guiness Stout (dont care for the draught)
5. Grays Black and Tan (no longer in production AFAIK)
6. Berghoff Solstice Wit
7. Capital Brewery Island Wheat
8. New Glarus Spotted Cow
9. Sam Adams Octoberfest
10. Tyranena blackhawk Porter

These may fluctuate depending on the time of year....




Look closely at the back of this sign......LOL

1. Dogfish Head 60min IPA
2. Newcastle
3. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
4. Goose Island Honkers Ale
5. Guinness on tap in Dublin
6. Pilsner Urquell
7. Boulevard Pale Ale
8. Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat
9. Summit Extra Pale Ale
10. Bass in the bottle

Dogfish Head is first by a mile.

jzal8 said:

Hard to believe how many people listed a sam adams beer in their top ten. Not a Sam Adams hater, I like them, just suprised so many love them.

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IMO Sam Adams is the best beer for the size of the brewery. Sierra Nevada is about equal in quality but I think Sam Adams is a lot bigger.

1. Rodenbach Grand Cru
2. Dutchesse de Bourgogne
3. LakeFront ESB
4. Trumer Pils
5. Cantilon Gueuze
6. Rodenbach
7. Chimay Clinq Cents
8. Kostritzer
9. Sprecher IIPA
10. Capital Blonde DoppelBock

I only buy a few commercial beers... rarely ever...

Unibroue Trois Pistoles
Unibroue La Fun Du Monde
Unibroue La Terrible
Unibroue Blanche De Chambly
Chimay Red
Chimey Triple
Hacker-Schorr Weisse Dark
Kulmbacher Brauerei AG EKU28
Sam Adams Black Lager
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

This is by no means a be-all, end-all lis for me and beer. I usually think the beer in my glass is my favorite, but here it goes . . . .

No particular order . . .

Orval
JP Bam Biere
Bells Expedition Stout
Bells Hopslam
Troegs Hopback (one of my go-to beers)
Otto's DD IIPA
Green Flash West Coast IPA
Bells Two Hearted (one of my go-to beers)
Corsendonk Abbey Brown
DFH 90 min

*Insert anything from Stone*

This was a really hard question to answer. As I try more beers, I like more beers. My go-to's are mentioned above.

Cheers,

IPA
2 Hearted Ale - Bells
Loose Cannon - Heavy Seas/Clipper City
Celebration Ale - Sierrra Nevada


Stouts
BORIS The Crusher - Hoppin Frog
Kalamazoo Stout - Bells
Expedition Stout - Bells
Cream Stout - Sam Adams
Old Poet - New Holland


Doppelbock
Celebrator - Ayinger


Porter
Edmund Fitzgerald - Great Lakes


Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada

Chimay
Orval
Dogfish head 90 ipa
Youngs oatmeal stout
Magic Hat 9
to name a few
Would loveto get my hands on some ommegang but is it worth a 2 hr drive

my favs...1) Bass Ale, 2) Newcastle Brown, 3) Sam Adams (most varieties), 4) Cooper's Oatmeal Stout

We get very weird varieties in Nebr - to the point where many Colorado breweries drive their product through us to deliver them to much more trendy states.

So here's my best approximation.

- Rogue Mocha Porter
- Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar
- New Glarus Yokel
- New Glarus Spotted Cow
- Guinness Extra Stout
- Warsteiner Dunkel
- New Belgium 1554 Enlightened Black Ale
- New Belgium 2 Below
- Pyramid Apricot Weizen
- Wychwood Hobgoblin
- Great Divide St. Bridgett's Porter
- Great Divide Denver Pale Ale
- Boulder Beer Co Singletrack Copper Ale
- Left Hand Milk Stout
and although it's awfully girly of me,
- Blue Moon's "Rising Moon" with the kaffir lime leaves in it.

But not regular Blue Moon. I'll pass on that. I'd kill for some Oskar Blues though.

I live within 75 minutes of 80 breweries, rather hard to chose. If I had to settle on two brews, it would probably be Pelican's Doryman's Dark and Golden Valley's APA. Next two would be Hop Rod Rye and GVB's Angus Springs Brown.

6 for now! I just like beer!

1 Guinness Draught
2 Troegs Hopback
3 Troegs Rugged Nut Brown ale
4 Young's Double Chocolate Stout
5 Dogfish Head 60min IPA (or 90)
6 New Glarus IPA

I would have to go with Harpoon IPA at the top of my list. I think that's about as good as it gets for mass produced commercial beer. I like most stuff put out by sierra nevada and rogue and victory, oh and I've been on a Belgian ale kick lately. I love me some Duvel. Anybody ever try Urthel Hopit?.....But it always goes back to that one little question. Would I rather try this (fill in blank), or just have an IPA instead?