Best Micro Brew

[whoptbird]

Local Bristol's Beehive Honey Wheat and Winter Warlock Oatmeal Stout. Regional (still local for me) Breckenridge's Oatmeal Stout and Trademark Pale Ale.

 

[ronjer]

a bunch of brew compounds of the Mc Menamin bros. who make some damn fine ales. Portland and Seattle area. Fun places to go and stay a weekend , too. They are online and if anyone wants a fun Drink and Dine night or two out, I'd check them out. If nothing else, their web site is fun to check out and scope out their properties and little mini bars and such.

Prost!

 

[ArcaneXor]

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Celebration Ale & Bigfoot are all excellent. I also really like the Brooklyn Lager when served just above freezing.

 

[blacklab]

Russian River, solid. Lagunitas, solid. The Frank Zappa ales are very nice.

But for my money, Deschutes Brewery across the board. Not the production stuff(which is great), but the small run stuff on tap out here in Oregon is silly good.

 

[Willy Boner]

Yeah, here in good old OREGON we have a lot of great micro-breweries to choose, like a kid in a candy shop! I have not had any brew from Deshutes that was not VERY good, Rogue, the same. McMenimans has a lot of different places they brew, so some are better than others. All in all I can't decide which is actually best besides the next one I'm in pursuit of!!!!

 

[LazyPBar]

Anything from Deschutes(sp) out of Oregon

Amen!

my brothers, a couple friends and i went on an oregon microbrew tour for our friends bachelor party. gotta say deschutes was the best overall. their quadruple bourbon beer, cant remember exact name, was absolutely awesome. they wouldn't let us buy a growler due to the high AC mirror pond is hands down my favorite beer. the other breweries we hit were widmer bros., pyramind, (both of which have awesome hefe's), bridgeport, and then fearless brewery in estacada. awesome place. we even squeezed in a rafting trip! :rockin:

Not sure if these are micro enough, but:

Mendocino Brewing Company White Hawk IPA
Victory Prima Pils

For brew pub stuff, I love the Jake's Ale at Jake's, 23rd and 7th ave, NYC.

i am originally from ukiah where the mendocino brewing company is. blue heron and red tail ale are pretty tasty as well.

 

[humann_brewing]

Russian River, solid. Lagunitas, solid. The Frank Zappa ales are very nice.

But for my money, Deschutes Brewery across the board. Not the production stuff(which is great), but the small run stuff on tap out here in Oregon is silly good.

Yes, you suck for living in Portland, surrounded by all that great beer, I have 1, count that one place I can go and buy Jubelale and it is ridiculously expensive too.

Russian River is the shiznit too!

 

[RogueVassar]

I also love Bristol's Winter Warlock. I have a ton of their pint glasses from when I lived in Colorado Springs. Downtown Colorado Springs had a restaurant called Il Vicino that made a Scotch Ale that was amazing (anyone know if the place is still around?).

DFH's 60 & 90 are great (I think I actually prefer the 60) and Founder's Red Rye Ale

 

[khiddy]

Bridgeport IPA
Deschutes' Mirror Pond Pale Ale
Anchor Old Foghorn Barleywine

 

[Effington]

I'm a huge fan of Stone Arrogant Bastard, Troegs Mad Elf, almost anything from Unibrou, Founders Breakfast Stout and Victory Storm King.

 

[thebamaking]

Sweetwater IPA is a very delicious balanced ipa, especially when it is really fresh. Good People's Snakehandler's Double IPA is another good one but it is from a super micro brewery in birmingham if you can find it you should give it a try.

 

[sgrcltpunk]

st george: golden ale and lager are my faves
legends: nut brown is fantastic
troegs: troegenator

 

[Neurot]

I like Diamond Knot's Industrial IPA.

 

[mixmasterob]

anything from oskar blues. their imperial stout is phenomenal as is dale's pale. their imperial ipa is hard to beat as well.

 

[MistyMountainHops]

I couldnt pick 1 favorite beer, but I could pick a brewery: New Belgium. Oddly enough, not one of their beers would be my all-time favorite (although Fat Tire and 2* Below are good beers), but they are just so consistant as a whole - for all their styles.

 

[Kaner]

Favorite would have to be Capital Breweries Island Wheat Ale. The wheat that they use is grown on my buddies land in Washington Island, WI. Since I've seen the wheat that they use being harvested while we're up relaxing and drinking beer at his place is probably why I'm a little partial to it (plus I've always loved wheat beer).

 

[JuanKenobi]

Threads like this make me so jealous of anyone who has access to Russian River, New Belgium and Bells. Of the three, the only beers I've sampled are Fat Tire and Oberon. Fat Tire on draft in Vegas and Oberon at Phish's IT festivale when I met some guys from MI who would only trade me for one after I produced ID proving that my first name is, in fact, Oberon. I was luckily able to later procure 2 cases when a friend took a road trip home to MI.

*END HIJACK*

At the moment:
DFH Burton Baton
Dale's Pale Ale
Anchor Steam
Long Trail Hibernator
Troeg's Dreamweaver

Offshore Ale (local brew pub) Hop Goddess and Barleywine

 

[wonderbread23]

My Personal Favorites (with a bit of NW bias):

Russian River - My favorite brewery
Consecration
Damnation
Temptation
Pliney the Elder (and Younger)
Blind Pig
Plus a stout who's name is escaping me that they don't bottle...simply amazing.

Lagunitas
Maximus DIPA
Brown Sugga
Lil Sumptin Extra

Deschutes
Black Butte Porter
The Abyss...holy crap it's good
Mirror Pond PA

Elysian
The Great Pumpkin
Immortal IPA

Firestone Walker
DBA is amazing... the imperial version is f'n insane. Same thing for their IPA/DIPA

I'm not a huge fan of Widmer in general, but their Drifter APA is pretty tasty.

 

[DavidSteel]

1. Southern Tier Imperial Pumpking (96.5/100)
2. Black Boss Porter (96/100)
3. Founders Breakfast Stout (95/100)
4. Three Floyds Dreadnaught (94/100)
5. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald (94/100)
6. Southern Tier Choklat Imperial Stout (93/100)
7. Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale (92/100)
8. Bell's Third Coast Old Ale (91/100)
9. Unibroue La Fin Du Monde (91/100)
10. Weihenstephaner Hefe (90/100)
11. Old Rasputin (88/100)
12. Buffalo Bills Oatmeal Blueberry Stout (88/100)
13. Pranqster Malt (88/100)
14. Unibroue Maudite (88/100)
15. Rogue Chocolate Stout (87/100)
16. Unibroue Trois Pistoles (87/100)
17. Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar (87/100)
18. Unibroue Don De Dieu (87/100)

Worth Mention:
Ten Pin Porter
Franziskaner Hefe-Weisse Dunkel
Dogfish head 90 minute
Weihenstephaner Hefe Original/Korbinian
Young's Double Chocolate Stout (Can)

 

[strohs]

5. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald (94/100)

Absolutely a great beer. In general I am big Great Lakes fan :rockin:

 

[Newbeerguy]

Absolutely a great beer. In general I am big Great Lakes fan :rockin:

+1 on that. I especially like Elliot Ness Amber Lager and their Christmas Ale.

 

[gs10]

Russian River-Pliny
Green Flash-IIPA
Ninkasi-Tricerhops/Total Domination IPA

 

[triangulum33]

Too big a question.

The best microbrewery whose wares I've had the pleasure of sampling is Russian River. Pliny the Elder is the best IPA I've had, and Damnation is a pretty freakin' phenomenal example of a Belgian golden strong ale. Their brett-fermented blonde ale, whose name is escaping me, is another beer in my all-time top 10.

We stopped at Russian River on a beer tour (Bear Republic, RR, Lagunitas, Moylands, Marin).
They had several beers on tap including Pliny Elder & Younger that were simply the best beer I ever had. Fantastic.

Grew up in Chico and drank/ate at Sierra Nevada frequently from early '90's. Great place.

 

[KYB]

Three Floyds Dark Lord Imperial Stout. Best beer I have ever had (09 version). Amazing.

 

[Airborneguy]

Brown's in Troy New York. Oatmeal Stout. Best beer I've ever tasted. Close second would be Mother's Milk from Keegan's Ales, Kingston, New York.

 

[Tonedef131]

Canadian Breakfast stout - Best stout I have ever had, maybe best beer.
Prima Pils - Could drink this all day every day till I am dead.
Blind Pig - Vinnie knows how to work those hops.
NG Enigma - The best sour beer ever made.
JP La Parcela - Super interesting, my favorite fall seasonal.
Really anything by Deschutes, they might make the most consistently clean and balanced beer in the entire country.

 

[the_bird]

anything from oskar blues. their imperial stout is phenomenal as is dale's pale. their imperial ipa is hard to beat as well.

You know, I'd never seen Dale's Pale Ale around here until we went out for pizza last night and they had it on draft. Been one of those beers that I've been really wanting to try... and boy, it didn't disappoint. I could drink those all night!

 

[whodatgeauxbrew]

I may be a bit biased because I am from Louisiana, but I think the best microbrewery is Abita in Abita Springs, LA. If you have never had any of their beer before, I would suggest having an Abita Amber, Turbodog, or Purple Haze. The Abita flavor is so unique.

 

[the_bird]

I just bought a sixer of the Abita Amber a week or so ago - very nice beer, although I'm not sure I really found it to be unique. Really nice beer, maybe a little lighter in body than I was expecting for an amber ale, but I'll definately buy it again.

 

[Galapagos9]

Lagunitas - Hairy Eye Ball
Rogue - Dead Guy Ale
North Coast - Acme Ale
Bear Republic - Racer 5
21st Amendment - Smoked Porter