Beers from just 10 breweries - which do you choose?

No particular order, of course.

Dogfish Head
Lagunitas
Stone
Southern Tier
Goose Island
The North Brewery
Great Divide
Victory
Troegs
Great Lakes

Pretty standard fare, plus a great local place. I'm not lucky enough to live in an area where I can easily find (or find at all) the super-hyped brands, but I think I could live just fine with my list.

 

If I were forced to limit at 10 - I'd quit drinking all but my own beer in time. I'd pick 10, get sick of nothing changing over time, and just brew stuff that I've never tried before.

 

I don't know if I already posted on this thread and I don't feel like checking so I'm just gonna go for it:

Cigar City
Firestone Walker
Three Floyds
Funky Buddha
Green Flash
The Bruery
Allagash
Brasserie Dupont
Stone
Russian River

Almost made the cut: Bell's, Saint Somewhere, Maine Beer Co.

 

Allagash
Avery
Bell
Dark Horse
Founders
Lost Abbey
New Belgium
Ommegang
Victory
Weyerbacher

In case it's not obvious, the list is alphabetical and if you can figure out the trend, it would change if I were to make the list global. I actually had a hard time filling out the last 4, with New Belgium and Dark Horse being the last two off the bubble. Jack's Abby was probably the last castoff--might have been The Alchemist, but I just can't justify a one-horse town inclusion, even if it's some horse.

 

In no particular order:

Stone
Lagunitas
Founders
Jack's Abby
Wormtown
Backlash
Tree House
Ballast Point
Weihenstephaner
Sixpoint

 

1.Hill Farmstead
2.Lawsons
3.The Alchemist
4.Russian River
5.Firestone Walker
6.Alpine
7.Alesmith
8.Goose Island
9.FFF
10.Cigar City

i choose those with confidence. god bless ahmurican craft beer!

 

Damn that's almost too difficult to do seeing I have a list of 250 breweries from around the world I usually don't stray away from lol. But I guess my 10 faves of that 250 are as follows. More difficult than one would think.

1. Three Floyds
2. Founders
3. Russian River
4. Westvleteren
5. Hill Farmstead
6. Het Anker
7. Stone
8. Fantome
9. St. Bernardus
10. Bells
Hon. Men. Harviestoun, Alesmith, Great Lakes, great divide, SN, DFH, Rochefort, G.Schneider, Weihenstephaner

 

Cantillon
3F
Block 15
New Glarus
Boulevard
Russian River
Founders
Commons
Cascade
Deschutes

 

Surly
TG
Founders
3F
New Glarus
Ithaca
Bells
Alchemist
Firestone
Hoppin' Frog

 

1 Sierra Nevada
2 Allagash
3 Stone
4 Founders
5 Russian River
6 The Bruery
7 Westmalle
8 Dogfish Head
9 Cantillon
10 My Homebrew : )

 

Hill Farmstead
Drie
Russian River
Dupont
Cigar City
Anchorage
Lawson's
The Bruery
Cantillon
Allagash

 

1. Sierra Nevada
2. Stone
3. Russian River
4. Bear Republic
5. Anchor
6. Deschutes
7. Lagunitas
8. Alesmith
9. Moonlight
10. Alpine

Just missing the cut: Firestone Walker, Green Flash, Ballast Point, Dogfish Head, The Bruery, Sante Adairius, Praire Artisan Ales, and Logsdon Farmhouse Ales.

 

1. Budweiser
2. Mickeys
3. Zima
4. Colt 45
5. Dos Equis
6. Coors
7. King Cobra
8. Crazy Horse
9. Duff
10. Meister Brau

 

Odell
Surly
Founders
Sierra Nevada
Steel Toe
Indeed
Lagunitas
Toppling Goliath
Dark Horse
Boulevard

Goodbye Hopslam (tear). And Red Chair. And Daisy Cutter... and so many others. But I can get by with these ten.

 

Founders
Sierra Nevada
Stone
Three Floyds
Dark Horse
Great Divide
Two Brothers
Bell's
Avery
Sixpoint

 

In no particular order:

Lagunitas
Bear Republic
Russian River
Sierra Nevada
Bells
Cigar City
Deschutes
Southern Tier
Stone
Great Divide
Southern Star (local favorite)
Lone Pint (another local favorite)

OK, that's 12...so sue me. It's hard to limit it to just 10.

These are just breweries who's products I've tasted. If I'd had the opportunity to try beers from Three Floyds, Founders, Surly, Firestone Walker, New Glarus or Hill Farmstead, to name a few, I'm sure the list would look quite different.

 

New Glarus
Prairie Artisan Ales
Toppling Goliath

Russian River
Bell's
Stone

Pipeworks
Three Floyds
Lagunitas
Lost Abbey

3 tiers, but I love 'em all.

 

Upright (dark sours, saisons, stouts)
Tired Hands (IPAs, saisons, dark sours)
Cantillon (fruit sours)
3F (geuze)
Victory (pilsners, Helios saison)
Jolly Pumpkin (sours)
Alesmith (stouts and IPAs)


everything else has something that can easily replace it even Russian River and Hill Farmstead. Tired Hands can make their saisons and IPAs plus better dark sours. For Russian River, Upright and Tired Hands make better dark sours and for the RR IPAs I'd be happy to replace those with Tired Hands and Alesmith.

 

In no particular order (and subject to change :

• Nøgne Ø
• Haandbryggeriet
• De Struise
• Rochefort
• 3 F
• Mikkeller
• BrewDog
• Lost Abbey
• Green Flash
• Founders

 

1- Surly
2- Founders
3- Odell
4- Samuel Smith
5- Bell's
6- New Holland
7- Deschutes
8- Cigar City
9- Lagunitas
10- New Glarus