Your Favorite Beer

ha ha, and even the sign is a little tippy.  

Agree on the hopslam.  Very smooth for an imperial.  Hard to finger favorite but for sixers I'll list north coast's brother thelonious, three sheeps' cashmere hammer, 3 floyd's arctic panzer wolf.  Too many one off taps to remember.

I like anything that is very hoppy and strong.  

Right now my top 3 favorites are VooDoo Ranger 8 hop IPA (made by Fat Tire I think)

The second favorite is a local IPA that is called Rheingeist Truth.  It has an IBU of 94

Lagunitas IPA is also a go to for me

Mine is Spotted Cow from New Glarus Brewing

Free.  Comes in a variety of flavors, can't beat the price.

The Heckler posted:

I like anything that is very hoppy and strong.  

Right now my top 3 favorites are VooDoo Ranger 8 hop IPA (made by Fat Tire I think)

The second favorite is a local IPA that is called Rheingeist Truth.  It has an IBU of 94

Lagunitas IPA is also a go to for me

 

Both Fat Tire and VooDoo are brewed by New Belgium Brewery.   I am currently drinking beers from Full Sail Brewery, they have quite the lineup and here at least about a buck or so cheaper per six pack.

I have a rotation. I stay away from the heavily hopped stuffed on a regular basis with only an occasional IPA. Most of it's too "piney" for me. Always have Leinie's Original on hand. Have also really come to like Summits's Dakota Soul. 

IPA lovers have to try this:

Had a couple of Breckinridge Vanilla Porters on tap last night....a good winter beer.  Not in a bottle tho.....it misses something when bottled.   I like their Agave Wheat and Amber Ale in cans for camping, fishing, lawn mowing etc.  

Free and Cold or Free and Cold Light.

I'm not picky.

Surly Furious and Two Hearted Ale. 

Surly does some good ones.

To DAVEGA - do you get Ozark Brewing out there?  They do a really good cream stout that is perfect with bbq.

Also forgot Great Lakes Nosferatu, an imperial red ale.

For those that like Two Hearted.....treat yourself to some Three Floyds Zombie Dust...another excellent APA. Sculpin by Ballast Point is another good one for the hop lovers. 

Being it's cold outside, been enjoying some dark stuff lately. Here's a really good one:

Summit Sega IPA is definitely up there for me.

Crow Peak 11 hr IPA Ale.

Probably like the Crow Peak a little better.

I like different beers for different seasons.  For those that are available at all times, Leinie's Sunset Wheat is my favorite.  

During the winter season, I really enjoy some of the Christmas Ales, particularly Great Lakes Christmas Ale, and also Thirsty Dog's 12 Dogs of Christmas.

I'm not an IPA guy, they all seem one note and I am not a fan of that note.  

Bells does make outstanding beer, this is one of my favorites 

Also from Michigan is another of my favorites (and also one of my favorite breweries to visit.  

Last stout for me would be Oreo Speedwagon.  I love this stuff

Favorite Wheat

On tap, this Helles is outstanding

When I am back in Wisconsin, I do like Golden Booty from Lake Louie

and Polish Moon from MKE

I've left out outstanding breweries like Deschutes in Portland, Pulpit Rock in Decorah, and Spotted Cow is still a favorite of mine.   I'm sure I will think of more as the day passes.

As for free, some beers just taste like shit, but if you like it, you like it.  Life is to short for people to tell you what to drink.  

Except Busch light is swill.  

I agree most IPA's are all trying to bludgeon you with hops.  But there are a select few that transcend it.  Hopslam was one of the first to do that.  Now there are a lot of imitators and derivatives, too many to have tried.  

Kwak's a good Belgian that will knock you out.

My wife and I have made a good hobby of traveling around and trying local breweries wherever we go.  One fun thing we have in common anyway.  We use the Untappd app to log and rate beers, but mostly just to remind us of what we have tried.  She recently hit 1,000 unique beers.  I'm still a ways behind her in unique, but easily have her beat in overall quantity. 

Bong, we've been to Pulpit Rock, also Toppling Goliath.  Liked their stuff quite a bit.  Also have visited PIVO in Calmar.

I'm mostly a pilsner/lager  guy, but I have come around to trying some IPAs, mostly since so many places make a lot of them and I run out of beers to try.  But not my preferred style.  I also liked some Scotch and brown ales and a good stout now and then.

My most recent favorite is Toil and Trubbel, a Belgian dubbel from a local place in Rochester, MN called Little Thistle.  Really tasty.  But if I am going to indulge and hit party/tailgate mode, I stick with Miller 64 since the low carbs don't play havoc with my diabetes.  I can whoop it up a bit without taking too much of a toll.

mrtundra posted:

Mine is Spotted Cow from New Glarus Brewing

Going with this one too. I also really really like their Wisconsin Belgian Red.   Glad they bottle it in 12 oz now instead of the large quart size. 

I've had some more time to reflect, can't believe I forgot a Pearl Necklace

Is that liquid tar?

No

I'm not saying you need to have a Dirty Blonde before the Pearl Necklace, but it doesn't hurt

I thought you were talking about miss skully, now i'm getting thirtsy 

Beer Chang.

My goal in life now is to find a bottle of Oreo Speedwagon.

DH13 posted:

Surly does some good ones.

To DAVEGA - do you get Ozark Brewing out there?  They do a really good cream stout that is perfect with bbq.

Also forgot Great Lakes Nosferatu, an imperial red ale.

I'll have to look for it..Love Porters....and stouts

naterpack posted:

My fave.

My second fave.

And in third place...

I find this to be an outstanding lager

This is one of my favorite day drinkers

I usually go with lagers or occasionally a red or brown ale.  Don’t care for hoppy, fruity or citrusy beer.  Usually drink Sam Adams lager, Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold, Kona, Brooklyn,  Newcastle Brown and Sam Adams Octoberfest when available.  

How could I forget about the marzen's?  

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A we are approaching spring I am awaiting the usual and new Bocks to hit the shelves.   Any day now.

Im a traditionalist . Like everyone I have favorites but love to try them all.

Bock in the spring

Lagers, Pilsners, Helles  in the late spring, summer and early fall

Octoberfests, Red, Brown, and  original ales in the fall.

Stout, Porter in the winter

Throw in a few PA's and IPA's here and there and I'm good to go.

El-Ka-Bong posted:

How could I forget about the marzen's?  

Best

Awesome beer!  I went to Octoberfest in Munich about 10 years ago and I spent my time in the Hacker-Pshchorr beer garden.  Good times and I managed to drink 4 of the big mugs of it.

The beer refreshing!

We drank that in college, we could get warm cases for a buck cheaper.  We'd buy it warm, throw it in the fridge and start drinking the warm stuff.

The motto was "if it ain't room temperature, it ain't Hamms".

Good times.