Must try list of Beers?

So at the end of Sept a LONG 12 month deployment will be over and the task of getting the pipeline full will begin. Kezzer needs built, and unpacking of all the "I really need this" stuff (said to fiancée and myself). Got a long list of HB from all the great people here that needs to be brewed up. Wedding to attend (my own) and Honeymoon to go on.

With it all going down in a 4 week timeframe what would be a good list of beers to get acquainted with?
Really want to try:
Heady Topper
Piney
Dragons Milk
Dirty Bastard
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What more do I need to add to the list?
I'll check out my local SPECS in TX and see what all I can find.

Check out all Prairie Artisan beers you find. They are a new brewery a that is making amazing stuff

There are also some classics to consider, if you aren't already familiar with them:

• Guinness Stout
• Pilsner Urquell
• Anchor Steam and Anchor Liberty Ale
• Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
• Sam Adams Boston Lager
• Bass Ale
• Newcastle Brown Ale
• Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout and Nut Brown Ale
• MacEwan's Scotch Ale
• Hacker-Pschorr Hefeweizen
• Spaten Premium (Helles), Dunkel, and Oktoberfest ur-Marzen (though you probably can't get the latter until Fall)
• Paulaner Salvator doppelbock (you're unlikely to find it at this time of year, though)
• DAB Original
• Chimay (all three of their styles, if you can swing it - be sure to decant, as they are all bottle conditioned)
• Saison Dupont
• Orval
• Duvel

I'm sure there are others that I've missed; if any come to me later, I'll add them.

I found two of the beers I'll list at Aldi's-
Monterrey-from Guatamala city,Guatamala,cervesa that isn't skunked
Wernesgruner pils,German pils that again isn't skunked in brown bottles with a crest surrounded by hop bines on the neck. Great to bottle hb in.
Chimay blue label-great trappist ale
Sierra Nevada pale ale,turbo
Paulaner Salvator doppel bock I love this one
Paulaner Hefeweissen
Sam Adam's Latitude 48 IPA
Franziskaner Weissebeir-very clean non-estery flavor
Hoppin' Frog's Turbo Shandy & Hoppin to Heaven IPA-from Akron,OH
Great Lakes Commodore Perry IPA
Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale-in cans no less
Left Hand Brewing's Milk stout & nitro stout-like iced coffee with that roasty stout thing on the back. Nitro stout adds chocolate like flavors to that.

unionrdr said:

I found two of the beers I'll list at Aldi's-
Monterrey-from Guatamala city,Guatamala,cervesa that isn't skunked
Wernesgruner pils,German pils that again isn't skunked in brown bottles with a crest surrounded by hop bines on the neck. Great to bottle hb in.

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These beers are good?! I've seen then before but never tried them, I'll have to check them out, thanks.

Yeah,I was surprised at the flavor when I drank the first ones from the 6'rs they have. My son told me the other day they were out of the Wernesgruner,but had this Finnish one. Haven't tried that yet. I liked the wernesgruner also for the cool bottles with the crest & hop bines on the neck. gotta get more of those. The Monterrey was a clear bottle. Coming from farther away then the Mexican cervesas was all the more amazing that they tasted better.

A short list from seek-a-brew

Ballast Point : Sculpin and dorado DIPA
Bear republic : racer 5
bouvevard : tank 7, unfiltered wheat
dechutes : black butte porter
dogfish : 60,90 minute
firestone walker : union jack, double jack
founders : breakfast stout, rubaeus
goose island : IPA, Lolita
great divide : hurcules, oak aged yeti
jester king : farmhouse ales
lagunitas : anything!!
left hand : milk stout nitro
new belgium : rampant ipa
ommegang: anything
oskar blues: ten fidy, old chub
pyramid: Dipa, apricot
shipyard : smashed blueberry
sixpoint : resin, 3 bean
sierra nevada : anything
southern tier : anything
stone : anything

I listed some of the year rounds for the brewerys that distribute to your area, check em all out!!

I vote for adding North Coast to that list.
Old Rasputin...Pranqster...Old Stock.

Lots of good beers on these list! Thank you all for the great feedback. Need to put together a shopping list for SWMBO.

Johnnyhitch1 said:

dechutes : black butte porter

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If you can get a hold of Black Butte XXV, it's fantastic.

This topic could go on forever...here is a list of the top of my head

Sierra Nevada- Pale Ale, Celebration, Ruthless Rye
3Floyds- Gumballhead, Dreadnaught, Zombiedust, Dark Lord
Troegs - Nugget Nectar, Hopback Amber
Alpine - Hoppy Birthday, Nelson, Pure Hoppiness, Duet, Exponential Hoppiness
Ballast Point - Sculpin
North Coast - Old Rasputin
Russian River - Pliny, Row 2 Hill 56, Supplication, Consecration, Sanctification,
Alesmith - IPA, Speedway Stout
Great Lakes - Elliot Ness, Edmund Fitzgerald, Black Out Stout
Magnolia - Kolsch
Green Flash - Palate Wrecker
Stone - Sublimely Self Righteous, Ruination, Levitation
Founders - Breakfast Stout, Porter
Shorts - Huma Lupa
Jolly Pumpkin- anything from artisinal ales
Heady Topper
Cigar City - Bolito, Cubano Espresso, Jai Alai, any Berliner Weiss
Cantilion - Any
Drie F- Any
Great Divide - any Yeti, Titan
Left Hand - Milk stout, fade to black
Avery, Hog Heaven, Maharaja, Ellies Brown, Out of Bounds Stout
Ska - Modus Hoparendi,
Ninkasi - Tricerahops
Fat Heads - Bumble Berry, Head Hunter, Sunshine Daydream
Port - Mongo, Wipeout IPA, Old Viscosity
Ithaca- Flower Power
Highland Gaelic- Mocha Stout


There are many more...but every beer on this list I would consider delicious. I dont throw that word around lightly.

Mongrel said:

If you can get a hold of Black Butte XXV, it's fantastic.

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Actually on its way to me in a trade right now!!

Cheers!

Johnnyhitch1 said:

Actually on its way to me in a trade right now!!

Cheers!

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I need to pick up a couple more bottles to age.

I was going to list a bunch of the "classics", but Schol-R-lea beat me to it. I will add Stone IPA and Arrogant Bastard, Gulden Draak, Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, Ayinger Celebrator, and pretty much all the Trappist ales.

Soooooo many good beers listed!


As many have said, Dales Pale Ale! Its a must!

drainbamage said:

I was going to list a bunch of the "classics", but Schol-R-lea beat me to it. I will add Stone IPA and Arrogant Bastard, Gulden Draak, Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, Ayinger Celebrator, and pretty much all the Trappist ales.

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Good call on the Celebrator, Not only my favorite doppel, but you get a free christmas tree ornament as well.

As for classics, I must chime in for Duchess De Bourgogne. Fantastic example of the style.

Why no Abyss people?

If you can trade for them (only sold on a special release basis here in Tampa Bay):

Cigar City Hunapu
Cycle Brewing RareDos

Both outstanding stouts! The breweries sell them for $20-25 a bomber, but they typically go for $60-80 a bottle on the beerhead market

Mongrel said:

If you can get a hold of Black Butte XXV, it's fantastic.

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I can get it all day right now z

Nectar Ales Black Xantus
Cigar City Jai Alai IPA
Trappistes Rochefort 10,8
Gavroche
Ballast Point Sculpin, Dorado
North Coast Old Rasputin
Dogfish 90 minute, Punkin
Dieu Du Ciel Route Des Epices, Peche Mortel
Weinstephaner Hefeweizen
Saint Arnolds Punpkinator, Divine Reserve
Against the Grain Bo and Luke Stout
Hops and Grain Alteration
Real Ale Hans Pils
Southern Star Pine Belt Pale Ale, Buried Hatchet Stout
Tetley's Bitter
Cain's Mild
Fuller's Porter
Belhaven Scottish Ale Nitro Can
Sierra Nevada Big Foot, Stout, Porter, Ruthless Rye
Stone Smoked Porter, Oaked Arrogant Bastard, Enjoy By IPA

These lists are great! Only aboout 30 days left and I can start enjoying these beers. I got SWMBO driving all over the great state of Texas. She has been working the phones of SPEC's putting some on hold until she can get them picked up. Hope after she says "I do" this keeps up!

Know only if I could get some Heady.........

+1 on the Cigar City Jai Alai IPA. It's really great.

hoppedup75 said:

These lists are great! Only aboout 30 days left and I can start enjoying these beers. I got SWMBO driving all over the great state of Texas. She has been working the phones of SPEC's putting some on hold until she can get them picked up. Hope after she says "I do" this keeps up!

Know only if I could get some Heady.........

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Haha it won't "keep up." You'll be told you drink too much or are a "beer nerd."