Your favorite top five beers?

[EricSS]

Hmmm

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

 

[Andrikos]

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

 

[Xpertskir]

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.

 

[Unusmundus]

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.

 

[WesleyBrewViking]

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

 

[MNRon]

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.

 

[PastorofMuppets]

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

 

[gibrigg]

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

 

[Wimnyco]

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

 

[TNTgill]

Victory Helios
Hoegaarden
Kellerweis
DFH 90 min
Victory Hop Wallop

 

[prf2009a]

Surly bender
Surly abrasive
Summit EPA
Hopslam
Boston lager

 

[kttx740]

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

 

[tripplehazzard]

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!

 

[MachineShopBrewing]

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!

Where are you from?

 

[homebrewdad]

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


Duvel
Chimay Grande Reserve
Hobgoblin
Samuel Adams Octoberfest
Leffe Blonde

 

[Caveman3141]

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

 

[LakesideBrewing]

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

You know what, I'm listing 6:

Tank 7

 

[Battles4Seattle]

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

 

[oceans11_gt]

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

 

[fatnoah]

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

 

[pdxal]

Saison DuPont
Schneider+Sons Aventinus
Ola Dubh (especially from calvados casks)
Hair of the Dog Fred from the Wood
Westmalle Tripel

Lots more that are up there but aren't available widely so nobody would have tried them for comparison.
Honorable mentions: Logsdon Seizoen Bretta, Deschutes Mirror Pond, Upright 7, Scaldis Noel, St Bernardus Noel, Chimay Grande Reserve, Rodenbach Grand Cru.

 

[unionrdr]

Kinda hard to nail down,but I'll give it a shot...
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Oskar Blue's Dale's Pale Ale
Little King's Cream Ale
Left hand Brewing's Milk/Nitro Stout (tie here)
Sam Adam's Winter Lager (a dark wheat bock with a little Stroh's bock flavor in it)
Honourable mentions-
Thirsty Dog's Cerberus (Belgian Trippel style)
Lienenkugel's Snowdrift Vanila Porter
Franziskaner Weissbier
Harpoon Winter Warmer
DFH 90 minute IPA
Great Lakes Brewing Commadore Perry IPA
And a few more I'm trying to remember

 

[Djuhnk]

Shiner bock

Rogue Dead guy

Sand creek brewing- lil ja's Sasquatch stout

Summit- great northern porter

Leinenkeugel- fireside nut brown

 

[MrOrange]

#1 Tilquin Gueuze
#2 Ommegang Grand Cru Rouge 2008
#3 Cantillon Gueuze
#4 Jolly Pumpkin Bam Noire
#5 North Coast Old Rasputin (Nitro Tap)

 

[jrstacey]

Hard to pick a top 5 but here are 5 of my current favourites.

Paulaner Oktoberfest Bier
Half Pints Humulus Ludicrous
Half Pints Little Scrapper
Unibroue Terrible
Tree Brewing HopHead IPA

and as a side note one of swmbo favourite beers is Tree Brewing's Thirsty Beaver

 

[inhousebrew]

I really like that there have been at least a few people that have taken the word favorite to heart and openly admitted some possibly contentious beers. I saw Rolling Rock once, Bud Light twice (which almost made my list) and Far Tire with an admission that it isn't the best/most tastiest beer in the world. Guiness is another one that is clearly "better" than those three but is so readily available that it is boring to pick. Almost like saying Zeppelin four is the best Zeppelin album.

Lots of good brew listed here. And a lot of justification that this is not an easy list to make.

 

[zmanzorro]

I like to pick a little from each style:

Stone: Arrogant/Lukcy/Double Bastard (Strong Ale)
Dogfish Head: ******* Brew (Imperial Stout + Honey Ale)
Rodenbach: Grand Cru (Sour)
Deep Ellum: Wealth and Taste (Belgian)
Peticolas: Velvet Hammer (Imperial Red)

 

[Patro]

It'll probably change by next week, but as it stands today:
Devil's Backbone Vienna Lager
Hofbrau Dunkel
Lagunitas Lucky 13.alt
Magic Hat HEX Ourtoberfest
Kostritzer Schwarzbier

 

[Bulls Beers]

Augustiner Helles
Weihenstephan Original
U flecku
Andechs
Sam Adams Oktoberfest. It was pretty good this year.

 

[lotbfan]

Sierra nevada cask aged ovila
Deschutes abyss 2009
Deschutes dissident 2010
The commons bourbon little brother 2012
Russian River Compunction 2011