What are your favorite beer styles?

I can think of a handful of BAs who will chime in shortly saying yes to lager styles as their favorites. Schwarzbiers, helles lagers are up there for me. But my very top fav's are IPAs and perhaps a classic porter.

As a side regarding ciders, I want to try more. I just wish I knew of a resource that could give me more information on different types and qualities in ciders. I'm not sure I could even tell a good cider from a bad one, other than I'd prefer one on the dry side and not too sweet.

 

1. Belgian strong ales (light or dark)
2. Triples
3. Imp. Stouts or Maibocks

 

My favorites are:

Saison
American Wilds
Tripel
Belgian Golden Strong
Imperial IPA
Imperial Stout
Flanders Red
and Belgian Dark Strong Ales

 

American Adjunct Lagers.

Kidding - depends on the season. Currently stouts. Summer will be pilsners.

 

Rauchbiers and Helles are way up there with me, but I'm also quite fond of American IIPAs.

 

Saisons and Lambics

 

Right now my favorites are:
Belgian Tripels
Belgian Strong Golden/Pale Ales
IPA's
Saisons
Sours
However, these are all subject to change at a moment's notice

 

Well amber and red are basically the same thing and a hoppy red is basically a darker IPA, and an imperial is basically just a more robust single, so an imperial/double IPA is basically an amber.

So yeah, I like ambers.

 

Pale Ale
IPA
DIPA
Imperial Red

Porter
Most Stout styles
ESB

Belgian Strong Ale, Saison, Flanders, Gueuze

Most sours except Faro

 

Favorite Lager Styles
1. German Pilsner
2. Vienna Lager
3. Munich Helles

Favorite Ale Styles
1. American Pale Ale
2. Kolsch
3. Altbier

 

I think the styles are skewed that way because of the abundance of those styles. Wit would be one of my favorite styles if I could find more good ones around.

1. Sours/Wilds
2. Stouts/Porters
3. Saison

 

Even though it's not very easy for me to get: Gueuze! But since I can't get those very often: stouts, saisons, barleywine, and IPA.

 

A fresh gravity-style ("ungespundetes") kellerbier is something amazing. For me it's a toss up between that and a doppelbock. I love huge-ass stouts aged in barrels, too.

 

Bavarian wheats. Big banana esters!!

 

The beer styles section of the BA website lists 104 styles.

What are your favorites? I limited myself to ten favorites, although I could have gone higher.

American Barleywine
American DIPA
Russian Imperial Stout
Tripel
Belgian Strong Pale Ale
Quadrupel
Old Ale
Oatmeal Stout
Hefeweizen
Czech Pilsener

 

Octoberfests and Grisette cause thats what I have in the beer fridge!

 

We have similar taste, GSS:

RIS
American Imperial Stout
English Barleywine
Oatmeal Stout
Quad
Old Ale
Saison
DIPA

 

IPAs, Stouts, Pale Ales, Sours and Goses.................

 

IPA's and most of their incarnations: DIPA, TIPA, adjuncts added etc.
Stouts - Oatmeal, RIS, Barrel aged...Just love a roasty and chocolatey stout plus there are so many things you can add to them that allow the flavors to play off of one another.
Saisons - Starting to really grow on me as a style, but not one I want to have and then mix with other styles at all; doesn't sit well with me.

I will try almost anything once or twice or more, but I have found that Barleywines, whether American or English, just don't do it for me at all.