What Are Your Favorite "Balanced" beers?

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  1. dennis3951

    dennis3951 Initiate (0) Mar 6, 2008 New Jersey

    Anchor Steam and Anchor California Lager are both well balanced beers.
     
    #21 dennis3951, Nov 10, 2014
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  2. UrbanCaveman

    UrbanCaveman Pooh-Bah (1,866) Sep 30, 2014 Ohio
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    Well, this thread has beautifully illustrated to me how a beer like SN Tumbler comes to be discontinued in favor of a beer like SN Flipside.

    For balance, I'd say something like the Great Lakes Eliot Ness and Edmund Fitzgerald.
     
    #22 UrbanCaveman, Nov 10, 2014
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  3. bluehende

    bluehende Initiate (0) Dec 10, 2010 Delaware

    You can certainly have an unbalanced IPA....either too bitter or too sweet. So if you can have an unbalanced one you can certainly have a well balanced one. My idea that the balance is under the guise that it is an IPA. Every style would have a balance point that helps define the style.
     
    #23 bluehende, Nov 10, 2014
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  4. Srkolodn

    Srkolodn Savant (1,050) Dec 26, 2013 New York
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    Prove it!
     
    #24 Srkolodn, Nov 10, 2014
  5. BottleCaps80

    BottleCaps80 Initiate (0) Jan 12, 2013 Iowa

    pseudoSue.
     
    #25 BottleCaps80, Nov 10, 2014
  6. MisSigsFan

    MisSigsFan Initiate (0) Mar 2, 2013 California

    Pliny is super balanced. I would also say Sculpin and GF West Coast.
     
    #26 MisSigsFan, Nov 10, 2014
  7. Flashy

    Flashy Pooh-Bah (1,767) Oct 22, 2003 Vermont
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    "The average person has one breast and one testicle"
     
    #27 Flashy, Nov 10, 2014
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  8. HopsAholic79

    HopsAholic79 Initiate (0) Mar 31, 2014 California

    Pliny
    SNPA
    Nelson
    Lagunitas Sucks
    Sculpin
    Double Jack
    Zombie Dust
    Bells Two Hearted
     
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  9. beerded_drunk

    beerded_drunk Zealot (659) Aug 30, 2013 Pennsylvania

    Firstly there are tons of very well balanced beers that i like to enjoy regularly but for me, right now, I'm gonna have to say:
    Southern Tier 2X, inequity and un-earthly (just recently had these 3 and was pretty impressed)
    Alesmith ESB
    Founders All-day
    Troegs Hopback, nugget nectar
    Great Divide Oatmeal Yeti
    Ithica Rustic Harvest
    sierra Nevada Harvest and pale ale
    Yards Brawler, pale ale, extra special ale
    Dog Fish 60
    Viictory Moving Parts 1 & 2
     
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  10. rozzom

    rozzom Pooh-Bah (2,620) Jan 22, 2011 New York
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    So many beers being mentioned on here are not remotely balanced (for my tastes at least). Founders All Day is the epitome of how unbalanced a beer on the lower end of the ABV scale can be
     
    #30 rozzom, Nov 10, 2014
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  11. Ranbot

    Ranbot Pooh-Bah (2,463) Nov 27, 2006 Pennsylvania
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    Switchback Roasted Red Ale (review)
     
    #31 Ranbot, Nov 10, 2014
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  12. jbertsch

    jbertsch Pooh-Bah (2,874) Dec 14, 2008 Massachusetts
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    Sierra's vienna lager easily makes my best new beers of 2014 list.
     
    #32 jbertsch, Nov 10, 2014
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  13. dennis3951

    dennis3951 Initiate (0) Mar 6, 2008 New Jersey

    Try the Anchor. IPA it is both malty and hoppy.
     
    #33 dennis3951, Nov 10, 2014
  14. EnthusedAboutBeer

    EnthusedAboutBeer Pooh-Bah (1,889) May 13, 2013 New Jersey
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    Sweet Action
     
    #34 EnthusedAboutBeer, Nov 10, 2014
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  15. Comparison_Ford

    Comparison_Ford Maven (1,293) Apr 4, 2014 New York

    MBC MO and Another One.

    Hell...pretty much every beer MBC makes, really.
     
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  16. Mark-Leggett

    Mark-Leggett Pooh-Bah (2,317) Jul 30, 2014 Missouri
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    Bell's Two Hearted
    Lagunitas Little Sumpin Extra
     
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  17. StuartCarter

    StuartCarter Pundit (922) Apr 25, 2006 Alabama

    most of the beers named in this thread are far from being balanced. I have no way to understand how someone could consider Pliny "balanced" :flushed:
     
    #37 StuartCarter, Nov 10, 2014
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  18. dennis3951

    dennis3951 Initiate (0) Mar 6, 2008 New Jersey

    Because they have a flat head!
     
    #38 dennis3951, Nov 10, 2014
  19. UrbanCaveman

    UrbanCaveman Pooh-Bah (1,866) Sep 30, 2014 Ohio
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    I would imagine the same way in which I've heard beers wherein I can detect nothing but a barrage of hop flavors described as "malty messes", and been told before that if I enjoy malt, I should seek out aged IPAs. :astonished:
     
    #39 UrbanCaveman, Nov 10, 2014
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  20. buzzedup

    buzzedup Savant (1,218) Dec 21, 2006 Pennsylvania
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