Your top 5 in 2015 so far.

Tropicalia once again, Stones 2.0, Finest Kind, Hop Nosh, Sweetwaters new one brown ale ​

 

Alpine Duet
Boulevard Bourbon Barrel Quad w Cherries
Other Half Nelson
SingleCut Billy Half Stack
Off Color Dinosmores

 

Forgot to add Green Flashes Soul Style IPA

 

Pliny the Elder (always a winner on tap)
Epic Big Bad Baptist
Funky Buddha Dees Nuts
Coop Territorial Reserve Barleywine
Cigar City Marshall Zukhov (another favorite I won't pass on draft)

 

In no order:

- Trillium, Double Dry Hopped Melcher St.
- deGarde, Imperial Apricot Bu
- Westbrook, Double Barrel Mexican Cake
- Captain Lawrence, Point Proven (Pilot Batch)
- Carton, Gilded Lily

 

For me it's been a big beer year, never really had top notch beer before this year, with the exception of some Maine Beer stuff. So my idea of what good beer is has changed so much this year.

1. Maine Beer Dinner, for me nothing before or since has come close to this. I had the April batch.
2. Crop Doubletyme, probably a surprise but just had last week and was really amazed by it.
3. Foley Brothers Pieces of Eight, had multiple times and some batches were better than others, the batch at the Vermont Brewer's festival was outstanding.
4. Fiddlehead Second Fiddle, different batches were inconsistent to me but there was one late March that really hit the spot and came out soooo fruity.
5. Tree House Curiosity Seventeen, the kind of beer I expected to be able to get going there the first time, didn't disappoint with this one.

 

In no particular order:

Bissell Brothers - Lux Rye Ale
The Bruery - So Happens It's Tuesday
Rare Barrell - Another Way
Gotlands Bryggeri - Witsby Brutal Bulldog IPA
Golden Road - Wolf Mother

And Pliny. As always.

 

My best of 2015, all new to me in no particular order...

Stickee Monkee
Brooklyn Hand & Seal
Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze
Prairie Gold
Raison D'Extra

Honorable Mention: Dark Horse Plead the 5th

(Mind you...I'm getting some 4Beans next week, and looking at these lists, it seems this could change.)

 

Lux really surprised me, didn't know anything about it until I had it... then instantly wished I had bought more.

 

I totally agree. It was a welcome surprise. I got one more in fridge.

 

No real order here...
1. Perrin No Rules!
2. Firestone Walker-Sticky Monkey
3. Community Beer Company- Barrel Aged Legion
4. Bruery- Sour in the Rye with Peaches
5. Livery- BBA Maillot Rouge

 

1. Parabola [2010 vintage] - (Firestone Walker)
2. All Green Everything (Other Half)
3. The Shape Of Hops To Come (Neshaminy Creek)
4. Oak Theory (Casey Brewing)
5. 4 Beans (Sixpoint)

Honorable Mention:Abyss, Big Bad Baptist (2015) and SingleCut Fullstack

 

Ale Smith- IPA
The Alchemist- Focal Banger
Burlington Beer Company- Its Complicated Being a Wizard
Burlington Beer Company- Chasing Rabbits
Maine Beer Company- Lunch

*Honorable Mention: Ballast Point- Grapefruit Sculpin (My favorite summer beer for sure)

 

It's been a great year. Most were enjoyed with a fellow BAer brentlepping

1. DB Huna
2. BCBS Vanilla Rye
3. Founders CBS
4. Triple Sunshine
5. Cantillon Fue Foune

 

1.) Black Note 2014

2.) Firestone Walker Parabola 2014

3.) Half Acre Vallejo- Probably my favorite IPA of the year, for sure.

4.) Bell's Expedition Stout 2013

5.) Wicked Weed Amorous- This was my first sour IPA and it blew my freakin' socks off. I love sours, and will try any I can find at least once. Being from Chicago, I don't think I will be seeing this one again any time soon, but I would trade the farm for a couple more of these.

 

In no certain order:

Bourbon County Vanilla Rye
Kern River Citra
A Deal with the Devil
Dark Lord--Cognac BA
Trillium (everything I've tried from them has been really good)

 

Top 5 non FW or Bourbon County beers:

Other Half Ipa's
Black Tuesday
Central Waters BBA barley wine
Mexican Cake
Big Bad Baptist

Honorable mentions (always on the shelf beers):

Peche Mortel
Grapefruit Sculpin
Victory At Sea
4Beans
Golden Monkey

 

1. Sunday Brunch
2. Todd the axe man
3. Peche Mortel
4. Morning Bell
5.Kane Head High / Alpine Duet

Honorable mentions go to, in no specific order,
Abrasive
Mexican Brunch
Zombie Dust
Kbs

 

First my Pop's and 90% of my Friend's List!
#1 Bud Light
#2 Miller Lite
#3 Coors Light
#4 Mich Ultra
#5 Heineken Light [for those special Occasions!]

and now my top 5 ["panther piss beers",as my dear old dad would say..hehe]
#1-Ballast Point's Sculpin
#2-Ballast Point's Grapefruit Sculpin
#-3-Ballat Points Victory at Sea
# 4 Brooklyn Breweries "Black Chocolate Stout"
# 5 Weihenstephaner "Kristall Weissbier"-must have Drank a swimming pool of this awesome Brew this Summer,totally refreshing on those super Hot and Humid Dog Days we had here -love this Brew! Cheers

 

Todd the Axeman
Dangerous Man Rum Barrel Imperial Coconut Milk Stout
Last Snow
Lift Bridge Barrel Aged Silhouette
Central Waters Seventeen