The beer page
After reading SwampYankee's recent thread on Holiday brews I have been inspired to make it as easy as possible to find a excellent want to get your drink on. This page is the best brews recommended by goodjers in various posts in the forums. Organization will have to come later but for now here is the good stuff. A seperate page will be constructed one day once enough hard liquor data is collected.
Bennard's tasting note: Unless it cannot be avoided, never, ever drink beer from a can or bottle. Always drink it from a glass.
Regular Brews
Abita Amber
Abita Andygator
Abita Turbodog
Alba Scots Pine Ale
Capital Brewery Brown Ale
Central Waters Mudpuppy Porter
Cisco Brewers Whales Tale Pale Ale
Delirium Nocturnum (a delightful Belgian Dark)
Deschutes Brewery. Their Black Butte Porter
Dominon Oak Barrel Stout
Fat Bastard Scotch Ale from Silver City.
Fat Tire by New Belgium Brewery in Ft. Collins, CO.
Magic Hat Blind Faith (IPA)
Magic Hat's Fat Angel
Moylan's Kilt Lifter Scotch Ale
Newcastle Brown Ale
New Belgium 1554
New Belgium Abbey Ale
New Belgium Trippel
Rogue's Dead Guy Ale
Sam Smith
Shiner Bock
Spotted Cow Ale
Summer Honey by the Big Sky Brewing Company in Missoula, MT.
Victory Hop Devil
Wolaver's Brown
Wolaver's Oatmeal Stout
Young's Double Chocolate Stout. One Lager Glass. Two Scoops of Vanilla Ice Cream.
Yuengling Lager
Rogue's Hazelnut Brown Ale
Winter Beers
Abbaye de Leffe (blonde or dark) (Belgium)
Anchor Christmas Ale
Anchor Our Special Ale
Anchor Porter
Bell's Winter White AleOtter Creek Alpine Ale
Boulevard Nutcracker*
Chimay rocks
Corsendonk Christmas Ale
Delirium Noel
Delirium Nocturnum (Belgium. Added by DrunkenSepliener)
Delirium Tremens (Belgium. Added by DrunkenSepliener)
Duvel rules (not good with food though imho)
Goose Island Christmas Ale
Hoegaarden Grand Cru
JubelAle by Deschutes Brewery
Leinie's Big Butt Doppelbock sounds right up your alley, very dark and heavy.
Moose Drool by the Big Sky Brewing Company in Missoula, MT.
New Belgium Two Below
Otter Creek Alpine Ale
Pete's Wicked Wanderlust
Pyramid Snowcap
Saint Arnold Christmas Ale
Sam Adams Old Fezziwhig's Ale*
Sam Smith's Winter Welcome (Brit)
Saranac's Caramel Porter
Saxer Three Finger Jack Frost
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale
Westmalle rolls
Winterhook by Redhook
Young's Winter Warmer (Brit)
Yon Rabbit's list of recommended Belgian brews:
Boon (any variety)
Cantillon (any variety)
De Dolle (any of them--Oerbier, Stille Nacht, Arabier, Bos Keun, Dulle Teve, Extra Export Stout)
De Koninck
Dikkenek
Duvel
Fantome
Gouden Carolus
Hercule
Kasteel
La Chouffe
Liefman's Goudenband
Oud Beersel (any variety)
Poperings Hommelbier
Rochefort (any)
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Roman Dobbelen Bruinen
Sezoens
Straffe Hendrik
Vapeur en Folie
Westmalle Trippel
Westvletern 12
Wets Gueuze
Witkap Stimulo
Zatte Bie
American IPAs
Avery IPA
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
Lagunitas IPA
Live Oak Liberation
Pyramid IPA
Rogue I2PA
Sierra Nevada India Pale Ale
Stone IPA
Two Hearted Ale
Trappist Ales
Corsendonk Brown
Chimay
Koenig's Hoeven (also sold under La Trappe)
Orval Trappist
Hefe-weizen & Weiss Bier
Avery White Rascal
Blue Moon
Paulaner Hefeweizen
Pyramid Hefeweizen
Shneider Ediel-Weiss
Spaten Fransiskaner
New Glarus Spotted Cow
Stouts
Breckenridge Oatmeal Stout
Boulevard Dry Stout
Guiness
Hair of the Dog's Fred (added by Fripper)
Mackeson XXX Stout
Rogue Chocolate Stout
Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout
Porters
Longboat Double Chocolate Porter (BC, Canada)
Elysian Brewing Company's Perseus Porter (Seattle, WA)
Asian Lagers
Kirin Ichiban
Sapporo
Tiger Beer
European Lagers
Harp
Spaten
Stella Artois
Warsteiner
European Pale Ale
Bass
Boddington's
Fuller's ESB
Monty Python's Holy Grail Ale
American Pale Ale
Diamond Bear Pale Ale
Deschutes Mirror Pond
Flying Dog Doggie Style Pale Ale
Goose Island Honkers Ale
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Red Hook ESB
Cool idea for a shopping list, but alphabetize that stuff!
I see Magic Hat Fat Angel on there, but Number 9 should be there too.
Miami, FLSeattle, WADisclaimer: I know nothing about beer. Hence the list so I can take it to the store.
edit: List is now sorted.
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Word! And they have some good ass burgers at their brewery/restaurant, too.
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Great idea Dr. Ghastly. Personally I'd add Rogue's Hazelnut Brown Ale. Then maybe Hair of the Dog's Fred.
Forgot Pete's Wicked Wanderlust under winter brews.
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For a nice winter Belgian strong ale, try Delirium Nocturnum and Delirium Tremens. Two of my very favorites.
Heh, leave it to Edwin to turn it into a long-ass list.
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Miami, FLSeattle, WAI thought Guiness was obvious. Even someone like me who knows that.
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I'd like to suggest Shoals Pale Ale and Smuttynose IPA of the Smuttynose Brewing Company
What about the noob 20 year olds who are trning 21 soon? Think of the children!
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Edwin, truly you are the king of lists. But you can't spell Sleipnir to save your life.
This is making me thirsty. Damn you.
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Yay, a beer list! I'd much rather be doing this than out, you know, exercising or something. Luckily for me, we got 12 inches of snow the other day that won't melt off until tomorrow, so no running for me!
Wow, where to start? How about with some of the good Belgian brews I can think of? Maybe I'll add some from other countries tomorrow...
Belgian brews I'd recommend (no particular order):
Orval Trappist
Westmalle Trippel
Westvletern 12
Rochefort (any)
Witkap Stimulo
Duvel
Rodenbach Grand Cru
De Dolle (any of them--Oerbier, Stille Nacht, Arabier, Bos Keun, Dulle Teve, Extra Export Stout)
De Koninck
La Chouffe
Oud Beersel (any variety)
Wets Gueuze
Cantillon (any variety)
Gouden Carolus
Straffe Hendrik
Kasteel
Roman Dobbelen Bruinen
Liefman's Goudenband
Boon (any variety)
Poperings Hommelbier
Zatte Bie
Vapeur en Folie
Dikkenek
Sezoens
Fantome
Hercule
I'm sure I forgot a bunch of them. Some of these can be pretty hard to find, but they've all been exported to the US at some point.
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Miami, FLSeattle, WAYon Rabbit, instead of posting you list here you can add it to the main page. DrunkenSepleiner wrote a quickie guide on how to do it a while ago.
Just throw the list you posted into with the main list above.
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I am a big fan of anything Samuel Adams, keep in mind that i'm a college student and mostly everyone drinks Bud Light, and Sam Adams tastes far and beyond better than anything anyone drinks around here.
Anyways, I enjoy thier Winter Lager, the old Fezziwig ale is good too, they have some Cranberry one that's kind of strange, not very fond of that one. But I LOVE Sam Adams' Octoberfest, got a whole bunch stocked up! so I am still enjoying that while my supplies last
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i'm pretty trashed and i think i thought i was posting on the threads about holiday beers but i suppose it is applicable here too, beer is great
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Miami, FLSeattle, WAAlmost two years without an update. We need new brew for Gears and Beers people.
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Damn, how did I miss this thread?
I'll add in my choices.
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I keep a ranked spreadsheet of all the beers I ever have more than once.
There are over 30 but I'll see if there are any on my list that aren't on here.
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Oh wait. The beer?
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I have to give a shout out to Storm King Stout by Victory Brewing Company. Delicious and heavy.
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Here is a great import as in the whole brewery was imported to Monterey...
English Ales
Of note are:
Ramsey's Fat Lip - my personal favorite
Black Prince Porter
Dragonslayer IPA
If you are in Silicon Valley, Trials Pub in San Jose serves these fine beverages. And yes, of course, you can only get these on tap.
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I do love me some tasty micro-brews but I always get tripped up on the different types and sub-genres. Sure, I can tell a stout from a weiss beer but IPA vs APA? Yikes.
Some great Wisconsin breweries:
New Glarus (home of the ever popular Spotted Cow)
Viking (in Dallas, WI)
South Shore (in Ashland)
Lake Louie (in Arena)
Furthermore (in Spring Green)
Plus nothing beats a $1 bottle of Rhinelander (brewed in Monroe at the Huber brewery) on a hot summer night.
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Oh man do I love Monroe.
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Another good brewery to visit in Wisconsin is Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee. It has possibly one of the best tours I have ever been on, mostly because they let you drink the beer right from the start. And if you go on a friday you can end it with a fish fry complete with polka band playing in the dining room.
And while your touring breweries in Milwaukee be sure to check out Sprecher Brewery. It isn't as fun a tour but they do have pretty good beer.
Anchor Breweries in San Francisco, CA has some excellent brews aside from their winter ales (and they're right up the street from me, too!). Aside from those already listed, they have Anchor Steam, Anchor Bock, Old Foghorn, Liberty Ale (my favorite), and Anchor Small. Check them out if you haven't already.
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I have in-lawish family that I've visited in Missoula, Montana. Big Sky Brewing Company's Moose Drool is one of the best beers I've ever had. However, their Summer Honey,which was not on your list, tops it. It's only available 6 months out of the year (April to September) and the locals tend to hoard it.
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Right now there is a three pack of ales from Otter Creek you may be able to find. All three were phenomenal - I was really taken aback. Can't find any reference to them on the website, but they are worth hunting down.