5 Favorite Beers from Your State

Five from my favourite province ; )

Driftwood - Singularity , Naughty Hildegard ESB , Sartori Harvest IPA ,
Phillip's - Longboat Chocolate Porter
Swan's - Caffe Fantastico DSP

 

Hard to name specific beers but I will name breweries:

Brooklyn Brewery
Sixpoint
Ithaca
Barrier Brewing
Captain Lawrence

 

Amending my previous post:

(Pennsylvania)
Victory DirtWolf
Victory Baltic Thunder
Weyerbacher Insanity
Weyerbacher Camelopardalis
Yuengling Summer Wheat

 

1. Miller Lite
2. Miller Lite
3. Miller Lite
4. Miller Lite
5. Miller Lite

Haha just kidding..such a brutal beer. I'm still relatively new to appreciating craft beer and trying to hit more WI breweries as time goes on, but:

1. Elf's Lament-Milwaukee Brewing Co.
2. Chop Session IPA (I hate IPAs but this mango flavored one blew me away)--Badger State Brewing Co.
3. Polish Moon-Milwaukee Brewing Co.
4. Vanishing Vanilla Stout-Stone Arch
5. Winnebago Wheat--Fox River Brewing Co.

 

New Glarus Dancing Man Wheat
New Glarus Wild Sour Ale
Tyranena Devil made me do it
Oso Indonesian Coffee Train
Tyranena Sheep Shagger

So many honorable mentions... CW PM, Serindipity, Raspberry Tart, Lake Louie Reserve Scotch Ale, CW Brewhouse Coffee, Lakefront Brandy Barrel aged Pumpkin

 

Can't do just five. Here are two top 5s:

IPAs
Wormtown Be Hoppy
Mayflower Spring Hop Ale (drinks like an IPA)
Cambridge Brewing Company Spring Training
Newburyport Green Head
Pretty Things Meadowlark

Non-IPAs
Mayflower Winter Oatmeal Stout
Battle Road 1775 Tavern Ale
BBC Steel Rail
Beerworks Curley's Irish Stout
Night Shift Taza Stout

 

NoDa Hop, Drop, n Roll
Mash House Raspberry Porter
Fullsteam Fearrington Winter Coffee Pecan Porter
Bull City Clay St. English PA
Steel String Rubber Room

 

Texas:

Jester King - Aurelian Lure
Four Corners - El Chingón IPA
512 Brewing - WBA Double Pecan Porter
Jester King - Viking Metal
Real Ale - Benedictum

 

Bell's Two Hearted
Founders Double Trouble
Short's Huma Lupa Liscious
Dark Horse Crooked Tree
Founders Centennial

 

Hardywood - Sidamo Coffee Stout
Parkway - Get Bent IPA
Devils Backbone - Schwartzbier
Port City - Porter
Hardywood - Great Return IPA

 

I'm only going to count ones that I can easily buy year round...
I'm sure I'm missing some good ones, but here is my short list:

Shorts Huma Lupa Licious
Arcadia Hop Mouth
Arbor Ypsi Gypsi
Bells Kalamazoo Stout
Atwater Vanilla Java Porter

 

Add to the Texas list. Saint Arnold Boiler Room (Berliner Weisse Stye). I can't get enough of this since it has been released a few weeks ago.

 

My current NY faves in no particular order:

• Peekskill Amazeballs
• Peekskill Eastern Standard
• Other Half Green Diamonds
• Other Half Hop Showers
• Barrier Money

 

FFF Zombie Dust (sorry, but FFF is Indiana, even if it is part of the Chicago metro area)
FFF Alpha King
FFF Pride & Joy
Black Swan Maple Oat Ale
Upland Bad Elmer's Porter

Honorable mention to Upland's entire sour program, but I've yet to try my two lambics in the cellar yet, so I cannot pick them yet.

 

• Peekskill Amazeballs
• Peekskill Eastern Standard
• Peekskill Higher Standard
• Peekskill Vaporizer
• Sixpoint Hi-Res/Southern Tier 2XONE tie

Peekskill pretty much stole the NY show for me the past few years.

 

Michigan (not including limited/special release beers):
Jolly Pumpkin - La Roja
Founder's - Breakfast Stout
Kuhnhenn - DRIPA
Bell's - Oarsman Ale
Dark Horse- Perkulator Coffee Doppelbock

 

This is almost impossible for me to do, but here it goes:

Top 5
Alchemist Heady Topper
Lawson's Double Sunshine
Hill Farmstead Edward
Hill Farmstead Excursions #1
Otter Creek/Lawsons Double Dose Collaboration

Honorable Mentions
Alchemist Focal Banger
Grassroots Legitimacy

We're way to spoiled up here!

 

Logsdon - Peche n Brett
Block 15 - Sticky Hands IPA
HotD - Adam from the Wood
Abyss
Mother of all Storms

 

Virginia:

Three Brothers Brewing - Resolute (10mo Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout)
Three Brothers Brewing - Savage Blond (Rum barrel aged, Brett-infused, Belgian style golden strong)
Champion Brewing - Face-eater Gose
Hardywood - Bourbon GBS (Gingerbread Stout)
Alewerks - Bourbon Barrel Porter

*Three Brothers Brewing - Virginia Wild Experiment - Not readily available yet, but a delicious, almost still, sour ale aged in Chardonnay barrels with wild Virginia yeasts/bacteria.

Honorable Mention:

Lickinghole Creek - Enlightened Despot
Alewerks - Café Royale
Hardywood - Bourbon Sidamo
Devils Backbone - Berlinerweiss
Three Brothers Brewing - Rum Barrel aged dubbel

 

I'm going to choose 5 favorites that are all different styles. In no particular order:

Alligator Brewing Pineapple Basil Saison
Cigar City's Hunahpu's Imperial Stout
Swamp Head Scaienhops Imperial Red Ale
Swamp Head Stumpknocker Pale Ale
Cigar City's Jai Alai IPA