5 Favorite Beers by Region

I think Port Wipeout is outstanding as well.

 

Not a full on expansion, but just enough that they can send more bottles down my way in South Jersey. At least on a regular basis, just in limited amounts is fine. As long as there's a steady consistent supply that comes in and sells out and then repeats. That would be ideal.

 

Southeast:
Jai Alai
Hunahpu
Wake in bake
Westbrook gose
MBCP

 

NW

Hair of the Dog Cherry Adam from the Wood
Boneyard Hop Venom or RPM
Cascade Sang Noir or Sang Royale. Both great. Really, any sour from Cascade is world class
De Garde IWA (india wild ale - Gin barrels)
Hair of the Dog Blue Dot IPA

I could easily make a list of just Portland, or Just Bend.

 

I don't get the hype for that beer. One of the weakest BBA beers I've tried.

 

Southeast (year round)

CCB - Jai Alai
Highland - Oatmeal Porter
Foothills - Jade IPA (now seemingly available year round)
Olde Hickory - Imperial Stout
CCB - Maduro Brown

Southeast (seasonals/rarities)

Highland - Cold Mt.
Foothills - Sexual Chocolate
Olde Hickory/Duck Rabbit/Foothills - Olde Rabbits Foot
CCB - Hunahpu
Olde Hickory - Event Horizon

 

I will get in on this - from Ohio only:
Great Lakes - Edmund Fitzgerald
Great Lakes - Lake Erie Monster
Fat Heads - Head Hunter
Columbus Brewing - Columbus IPA
Brew Kettle - White Rajah

 

Midwest Breweies, tough to get specific beers
Surly
New Glarus
Toppling Goliath
Boulevard
Founders

 

Oh, I fully agree -- only reason I went with Mongo over Wipeout is that I think that The Pupil is a better single IPA....

 

from da norfeast

Kiwi Rising
Hoponius Union
Resin
Ipswich Oatmeal Stout
BBC Coffeehouse Porter

 

I'll stick with local brews to Hampton Roads, VA (within 1.5 hours)

Alewerks-Café Royale
Alewerks-Pumpkin Ale
Smartmouth-Rule G IPA
Hardywood Park-GBS and BA GBS
Hardywood Park-Bourbon DIPA

Soon to have Green Flash next year...which will make this list a bit harder.

 

Never had that one. I will have to look for it.

 

Michigan: (with a personal prefernce toward IPA's)

Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree IPA
Founder's Devil Dancer Triple IPA
Short's Goodnight Bodacious Double Black IPA
Bell's Hopslam Double IPA
Arcadia Ales Hopmouth Double IPA

Sneeking in should be Dark Horse - Plead the 5th - a game changer in the stout category.

Forgive me for not being a big fan of bourbon barrel aged. I drink them, but they are not at the top of my list.

 

I prefer Lake Erie Monster to the Alchemy Hour. I felt the Alchemy Hour had an almost "hard well water" flavor that overwhelmed the experience that I didn't find in the Lake Erie Monster

 

I like Carton just a bit more than Kane..... but it is so impressive to have two new great breweries in NJ

 

From a PNW perspective:
Fremont Old Bridge Rider
Georgetown Lovely Reida
Chuckanut Pils
Port Townsend Mabels Best
Cascade Vanilla Vlad

 

Midwest:
1. Bell's Hopslam
2. Goose Island BCBCS
3. Founders KBS
4. Jolly Pumpkin Sobrehumano Palena'Ole
5. Bell's Expedition Stout

 

Texas

Jester King Atrial Rubicite
Hops & Grain The One They Call Zoe
Freetail Anake
Karbach Bourbon Barrel Hellfighter (and variants)
Live Oak Old Treehugger

Honorable mentions: Austin Beerworks Heavy Machinery DIPA, Saint Arnold Endeavour, Jester King Viking Metal, Karbach Bodacious, anything Live Oak does, any Austin Beerworks IPAs and the Saint Arnold Bishops Barrel releases.

 

Midwest

FFF Arcitc Panzer Wolf
FFF Dreadnaught IPA
Founders Double Trouble
Revolution Double Fist
Pipeworks Ninja vs. Unicorn

Other favs are Zombie Dust, New Glarus Dancing Man Wheat, Half Acre Daisy Cutter, Founder's Red's Rye, and Revolution Anti Hero.

 

Midwest/Great Lakes, after roughly one minute's thought:

NG Enigma
KBS
Gumball Head
Surly Abrasive
Jolly Pumpkin Weizen Bam Biere

Just missed the cut:
Edmund Fitzgerald
CW Le Petite Mort
Lakefront 25th Anniversary Stout
Hopslam
Daisy Cutter