Top 5 Beers +One

5 top, eh?

Trillium Peach Soak
Side Project Bleuet du Fermier
Maine Beer Co. Dinner
Tree House Green
Trillium/Evil Twin Dusk Trill Dawn

Beer that got me into craft was Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat

 

1) Bourbon County Coffee (2013 was favorite)
2) New Glarus R&D Wild Peach
3) TH King Julius
4) BCS Prop 2014 (and 2013, hard to decide)
5) 4 Hands Madagascar

Great Lakes Elliot Ness opened the door :-)

 

1.) Alchemist Heady Topper
2.) Tired Hands Alien Church
3.) Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout
4.) Three Floyd's Zombie Dust
5.) Hill Farmstead Florence

Victory Golden Monkey got me into craft 2-3 years ago. Sadly, I don't think I would enjoy one now as I used too.

 

BCBCS 2014
Trillium DDH Melcher Street
Fundamental Observation
BC Rare
DB Huna

Plus Green Flash WCIPA unleashed the inner hophead in me.

 

Thus far:
1) Prairie Artisan Ales- BOMB!
2) Surly- Todd The Axe Man
3) Founders- Sumatra Brown
4) Weihenstehaner- Korbinian
5) Lagunitas- Hop Stoopid

+1 Chimay Grande Reserve
Edit: Whoops...beer that got me into craft beer....Sam's variety 12 packs. 10+ years ago people were like, "You making that BIG money now, drinking that spendy shit!"

 

1. Founders-KBS
2. Prairie Artisan Ales-Apple Brandy Noir
3. Roughtail Ales-Everything Rhymes With Orange
4. New Holland-Dragon's Milk (Reserve Triple Mash)
5. Mother's Brewing Co.-MILF

My plus 1 definitely goes to Founder's Imperial Stout. That beer never
let's me down!

 

1. Mornin delight
2. Okay I'm cheating here to keep the list interesting, king sue, pseudosue and ddh Citra pseudosue tied.
3. Caffe Americano
4. Palo santo Marron
5. BA speedway
Honorable mention 120 minute
The beer that got me into craft was boulevard unfiltered wheat.
Left hand milk stout was the beer that got me into stouts.

 

Love Palo Santo! For a relatively easy to snag beer, it's top tier.

 

I think the best way to answer this one is by listing the 5 beers I would choose if limited to only drinking 5 beers the rest of my life. Not necessarily my 5 highest rated beers.

Prairie Standard
Marble Pilsner
Odell St. Lupulin
Epic Big Bad Baptist
Funkwerks Deceit

The beer that got me into craft....Anchor Steam.

 

These lists are always tough. I will diversify and list 5 top beers for me, all different styles:

SARA Saison Bernice
Alchemist Heady Topper
Clown Shoes Breakfast Exorcism
Russian River Beatification
Fieldwork Bad Conduct

Beer that got me into craft was Arrogant Bastard. Still a good one!

 

I make that 10. Even by BA standards that's pushing it

 

I'm aware, I thought it be a boring list if 3 of the 5 were pseudosue, a sue variant and essentially an amped up pseudosue, king sue.
It's tough to get it to 5.

 

Top 5:
1. Trillium Scaled way up
2. Bell's Expedition Stout
3. Bell's Black Note
4. Heady Topper
5. Russian River Consecration

Beer that got me into it: Bell's Two Hearted

I think I could have just those 6 forever.

 

That's tough to do. I'll go with:

KBS
Backwoods Bastard
Black Note
Pirate Bomb
Grapefruit Sculpin

The one(s) that got me started were:
Tank 7
Brooklyn Local 1
Sweetwater Blue

 

It really is tough to narrow this list to 5, but here it goes...

1. King Sue-TG
2. Pliny the Elder-Russian River
3. Bourbon County Brand Stout-Goose Island
4. Barrel Aged Bomb-Prairie
5. Rose de Gambrinus- Cantillon and Zombie Dust-FFF

The beer that got me into craft was left hand milk stout. As far as what really started to expand my palate-that would be brew dog paradox isle of Arran. First beer that truly "blew my mind" at the time

 

I should also qualify this by saying I have never had any of the big NE beers (trillium, tree houses hill farmstead, etc etc)

 

I love it, unfortunately I don't live in their distro. I pick it up when I travel and can't always find it fresh. Right now I have a few in the cellar but none newer than 1 1/2 years and a few 3 year old bottles. luckily it's great at all points I've had it, hard to beat it fresh - a year or so old though.

 

1. Toss up Between Heady and Focal
2. KBS
3. Troegs Cultivator
4. Saison Dupont
5. Maine Beer Lunch

+1 Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Circa 2003-2004 not even 21 yet ; ). Such a damn good beer.

 

My fav five are relatively easy to get by the case and I always have at least two (currently three) on hand:

Founders Breakfast Stout
Sierra Nevada Narwhal
Aecht Schlenkerla Marzen
Victory HopDevil
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald

And the starter: Sam Adams Boston Lager. "What's that weird taste?" "Them's hops." "WTF are hops?" and so on. After that, no more Iron City or Schmidt's.