5 Favorite Beers from Your State

I Second the Boy King (have a growler in the fridge for tomorrow night!) and the Citrus Ninja (perfect IPA + grapefruit...don't know how they make a beer so perfect) Mexican Cake is definitely up there as well. I also love the unique flavor of one claw (and the art, can't be beat). I guess we don't have much selection as a state, but the Lowcountry is exploding as a beer oasis in the South. Westbrook and COAST especially rock!

 

Kane Head High
Kane A Night to End all Dawns
Carton 077xx
Flying Fish Exit 16
Carton Boat

We actually have a very good selection of hoppy beers here in NJ. Just missing the list was Carton's Shipwreck Porter and Kane's Head High.

 

South Carolina

Probably in this order, but the Espresso Porter is the only year-long availability and I am a hop-head.

Citrus Ninja Exchange DIPA - Westbrook
Boy King DIPA - COAST
Blackbeerd Imperial Stout - COAST
Mexican Cake - Westbrook
Espresso Porter - Palmetto

Honorable mention: Palmetto Pale Ale - something about this on a 90F+ day on Isle of Palms just hits the spot.

 

1. Societe Brewing The Roustabout
2. AleSmith IPA
3. Drake's Hopocalyse Black Label
4. AleSmith BBA Kopi Luwak Speedway Stout
5. Firestone Walker Parabola

 

I moved not to long ago to California from Indiana so I guess I will do both. In no particular order.

For Indiana I am going to leave out FFF. It's just not fair.

Daredevil Rip Cord
Sun King Grapefruit Jungle
Flat 12 Majestic Emu (Walkabout aged in mead barrels)
Sun King Bitchin' Camaro
Brugge Brasserie Harvey
(I never got to try any of the legendary Upland sours...)

California. I just moved here so I haven't had a whole ton, yet. This was pretty much impossible. Pliny got left out on purpose.

Stone Double Bastard w/dark toasted oak
RR Supplication
FW Parabola
Bruery Batch 1000 Bryeian
Beachwood Mocha Machine

 

Lone Pint- Pioneer Yellow Rose (IPA)
Southern Star- Buried Hatchet (Imperial Stout)
Deep Ellum IPA
Hops and Grain- The One They Call Zoe (Pale Lager)
Saint Arnold- Endeavor (DIPA)


Honorable Mention:

Southern Star- Valkyrie (DIPA)
Southern Star- Pine Belt (Pale Ale)
Real Ale- Full Moon (Pale Rye Ale)
Karbach- Hopadillo (IPA)
Lone Pint- Neighbor of the Beast (IPA)
Lone Pint- Tornado Shark (Strong Ale)
Lone Pint- Lily & Seamus (Pale Wheat Ale)

 

Squatters 529 Oud Bruin
Uinta Labyrinth Black Ale
RedRock Paardebloem
Wasatch Ghostrider White IPA
Uinta Wyld Pale Ale

 

Limiting the list to beers actually bottled or canned and semi-regularly available (this knocks out the Allagash Coolship series, etc.). In no fixed order:
Allagash Odyssey
Allagash Interlude
Marshall Wharf Cant Dog
Marshall Wharf Ace Hole
Maine Beer Co Lunch or Zoe (tie)

 

Great Lakes - Edmund Fitzgerald
Jackie O's - Chomolungma
Maumee Bay - Amarillo Brillo
Maumee Bay - Total Eclipse
Brew Kettle - White Rajah

 

It really is an amazing beer and I wish they brewed it more often and bottled it. They are supposed to have another batch here really soon but sometimes they don't allow growler fills on it since it sells out so quick. If this was available year round, I would be one happy man!

 

Right on. You most likely got some not-so-fresh Maharaja. Try it fresh next release

 

From Virginia (no order)

Midnight Brewery-Christmas Ale
Hardywood-Hoplar
Hardywood-Bourbon DIPA
Hardywood-Bourbon Cru
Center of the Universe-The Richard

 

Was just able to pick up a bottle. My "beer guy" at TW had one saved for me. Thanks tho

 

Strangeways - (fruited variant) Word!
Alewerks - Bourbon Barrel Porter
Alewerks - Cafe Royale
Extra Billys - Citra Ass Down
Hardywood Park - 2011 Gingerbread

 

Surly Abrasive
Surly Furious
Summit Saga
Schells Pils
Indeed Midnight Ryder

 

In Iowa it's all about Toppling Goliath (in order)

1. Mornin'Delight
2. Kentucky Brunch
3. ZeeLander
4. Sosus
5. pseudoSue

Yep, had to leave Assassin out of the mix.

 

Rhode Island is brutal:

Revival Double Black IPA
Ravenous Coffee Milk Stout
Revival Juliet Imperial Stout
Revival Imperial Octoberfest
Narragansett Porter

It drops off REAL quick on this list.

 

The Alchemist - Heady Topper
Lawson's Finest Liquids - Double Sunshine IPA
Lawson's Finest Liquids - Chinooker'd IPA
Hill Farmstead Brewery - Ephraim
Fiddlehead Brewing Company - Fiddlehead IPA

 

haha I have all 3 of those Founders beers in my fridge right now. Great selections.

 

DFH Burton Baton
DFH Immort Ale
DFH 90 Minute IPA
DFH Palo Santo Marron
DFH American Beauty

Hooray Delaware