Top 3 & Bottom 3 Favorite Styles

I have a hard time understanding the point to Black IPAs as well. I just picked up some Lagunitas Nighttime (which gets excellent reviews). And while it is a tasty beer, my mouth and brain kept thinking..."oh, there's the hoppiness" and a second or two later..."oh, there's the roastiness."

It was like someone just mixed an IPA and porter in a glass and served it to me. I didn't really experience anything unique...just a combination of two styles of beer I like. And I don't necessarily think the flavor profiles of each blend or compliment each other all that well. This has been the case with all black IPAs I've had, not just Nighttime.

I don't know if black IPAs are in my bottom three styles, but I'm still at a loss to describe them accurately.

 

Top:
Stouts/Porters
Saison/Farmhouse
Sours
IPA/DIPA

Bottom:
Barleywines
Lagers
Pumpking beers( specifically Pumkin Peach Ale)

 

Favorite
(D)IPAs
Saisons
Pilsner (german or czech)

Bottom (adjuncts withheld)
Scotch Ale
Witbier
Pumpkin Ale

 

TOP (tough to limit to 3):
IPA/DIPA
Tripel
Stout

BOTTOM (tought to come up with a 3rd)
Sours
Ambers/Reds
American Wheat

 

Top:
IPA/DIPA
Barleywine
Stout

Bottom:
Wheat
Pilsner
Tripel

 

Well, this is a somewhat subjective topic, given that there seems to be continual experimentation within styles. That being said, if I were forced to rank favored and least favored styles, it'd look something like this.

Favorites
1.) Bocks (Eis-, doppel-, and plain ol' bock)
2.) Dubbel/quad/BSDA (all technically synonyms)
3.) Toss-up between sours and yeasty wheat beers

Least Favorite
1.) Anything hop-forward. I can't do those. Especially IPA, DIPA, and anything else that has PA in the name.
2.) English mild ales. I have only ever had these as imports in bottles, and I mainly get a flavor out of them I describe as "dirty sock". These may actually be fantastic fresh from a cask, and should I ever get to try that, I will revisit this opinion.
3.) AAL

 

I love how "Sours" is a style, now, and none of you have had a Gruit.

 

How is DIPA the best, and Black IPA the worst?! That makes no sense.

 

Whoa there horsey, who's this " None of you" guy that you speak of????

 

Top 3:
BA English barleywine
BA stout
fruited wild ales

Bottom 3:
IPAs (grouping them all together)
Brown ales
Coffee stouts

 

Top 3
1. Imperial Stout
2. English Barleywine
3. Quadruple

Bottom
3. Anything sour
2. Gose
3. Black IPA

 

Top 3:
IPA/IIPA
BA Stout
Sours

Bottom 3:
Porters
Barleywine
Wheat Wine

 

Top 3:
Rauchbier
Wheatwine
RIS

Bottom 3:
Irish red
English IPA
American Pale Ale

 

1. Stouts
2. Porters
3. IPA(DIPA)

Bottom 3 is everything else.

 

Top 3:
1. IPA
2. IPA
3. IPA

 

To oversimplify:
Top:
Imperial stout
APA/IPA/DIPA
Saison

Bottom:
Gruit
AAL
Light Lager


AWA gets an honorable mention in my top, and gruit nearly made the Bottom list twice.

 

Top:
American IPA
German Hefeweizen
Belgian Dubbel

Bottom:
Old Ale
Berliner Weisse
Having trouble filling out the last one... does fruit beer count?

 

Top: English barleywine, imperial stout, Belgian quadrupel
Bottom: Wheatwine, light lager, wheat beer


Basically I don't like wheat or corn getting into my beers, though other crazy additives seem to be fine...

 

At the top:

• Russian Imperial Stout
• Wee Heavy
• Märzen

On the bottom:

• Gose
• American Adjunct Lager
• Light Lager

A lot of other styles I haven't tried yet, and a few I can't (anything with grapefruit in it, i.e. Radlers.)

 

Top 3
American IPA/IIPA
Imperial Stouts
Pale Ales

Bottom 3
Saisons/Farmhouse Ales
Pilsners
Hefeweizen (I actually enjoy the taste of some Hefeweizen beers but I've found out through trial and error that something in wheat/rye beer gives me extreme explosive diarrhea, thus I avoid them at all costs)

I don't even consider light lagers as beer so I won't even mention it on my lists.