Your Favorite Overlooked Beer Styles

[geackdailey]

So what are your favorite beers to drink that you cannot or rarely can find commercially? Or just can't find good ones.
Maybe recipes also?
Mine:
1) IPA (just kidding)
1 for real) brown ale
2) American Lager
3) American Ale

 

[avshockey311]

Farmhouse/Saison Can't find many of them where I am from.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

So what are your favorite beers to drink that you cannot or rarely can find commercially? Or just can't find good ones.
Maybe recipes also?
Mine:
1) IPA (just kidding)
1 for real) brown ale
2) American Lager
3) American Ale

I think Budweiser has 2 and 3 covered.

 

[randyisrad]

Copper ales!
Can't find them in the store, not can I find a good recipe

 

[html034]

Berliner Weisse, drinkin' one right now that I picked up in Berlin, but I don't know where else to find one.

 

[sp1365]

English Mild

My only wish is to find some bar/brewpub that has one on cask sometime in my life.

 

[straightshot]

Red ales, would like to see more of em.

 

[hopvine]

Baltic Porter

 

[mclane2003]

bourbon stouts

Been seeing them a little more often but not too much.

 

[Steelers77]

I second the Berliner Weiss, and more specifically the woodruff syrup that goes with it. That is a mother to find!

 

[geackdailey]

What's a berlin stout.
Time for some recipes I think.

 

[geackdailey]

Not to be nitpicky but, Budweiser is neither good nor an ale.

 

[Edcculus]

I wish there were more commercially available berlinerweiss beers too. What a nice light refreshing beer. I really like all sours, but the rest have their own niche following.

 

[beowulf]

Old ale / strong english ale.......I will SO miss my Fuller's 1845 when the last case is gone. Good thing I have a clone recipe ready to go

 

[MarsColonist]

Baltic Porter
Common (besides Anchor)
Saison
Biere de Garde

 

[jdp]

Common (besides Anchor)

Thats funny, I was just going to post Anchor Steam.

 

[Slasher]

Alt, Kolsch, and a Good Doppelbock!

 

[Daddymem]

Altbier, not many good ones out there.

 

[Austin_]

Altbier, not many good ones out there.

I agree. Not many out there, and if there are, they ain't around these parts.

I'll also add dunkelweisen. I had my first one in the Secret Santa swap and I can't seem to find any for sale around here.

 

[Slasher]

I'll also add dunkelweisen. I had my first one in the Secret Santa swap and I can't seem to find any for sale around here.

I am finding Franziskaner dunkel at my lil beer store... mighty tasty in my opinion... not cheap, but cheaper than many of the Good west coast beers...

 

[Shonuff]

Southern English Brown

 

[DRoyLenz]

Not to be nitpicky but, Budweiser is neither good nor an ale.

He was referring to Budweiser's American Ale. It's actually a pretty good beer, for BMC, IMHO.

I'd like to see more Barleywines available on the shelf. Also, I tried Schneider and Sohn's Aventinus, and loved it. I'd love to see more Wheat Dopplebock's like that as well.

 

[bosco_NJ]

Commercially scarce:
Alt
Roggenbier
Biere De Mars
Faro

 

[sp1365]

Dunkelwiezen is a good one. I have not had a good one since I left Germany.

 

[StoutattheDevil]

1. Dortmunder
2.mild ales

 

[beerjunky828]

What is a faro??

Brown Ales
Scottish Ales

 

[bosco_NJ]

What is a faro??

faro is basically a lambic blended with sugar (could be brown sugar, molasses, candi sugar, etc), making it sweeter than a lambic.

 

[gxm]

I vote for:
Roggenbier
Helles Bock
Alt

 

[gratus fermentatio]

1: Doppelbock
2: Scotch Ale
3: Sweet Stout
4: Real Bavarian Edeldunkel

Numbers 1, 2 & 3 are tough to come by here, but every once in a while I can get my hands on one or another. The edeldunkel is IMPOSSIBLE to get here.

 

[NYCBrewGuy]

For those who are missing Alt. Southampton Publick House makes a pretty tasty one - probably tough to get outside of the NY area though.

1- Gueuze Lambic (really have to go out of your way to find it. Lindemann's sweet fruity lambics are omnipresent though... go figure). Even on these boards, Flanders red and other sours get more attention.

That's it for me. Benefit of living in NYC is I can find pretty much anything on tap at one of the better bars in town. From English cask ales to Oktoberfest sized mugs of <insert unpronouncable German name here>. Of course, the price to pay is living in a cramped overpriced apartment where I can barely fit my one BetterBottle and a few cases of beer...