10 Beers for 10 Years game

Hmm... stuff that's regularly available to me, more or less?

1 - Exhibit 'A' Danko Rye IPA
2 - Trillium Congress St. IPA
3 - Jack's Abby Framinghammer
4 - Lost Nation Gose
5 - Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout
6 - St. Bernardus Abt. 12
7 - Duchesse de Bourgogne
8 - Night Shift Whirlpool
9 - Jack's Abby House Lager (considered Urban Chestnut Zwickel, but it's more available)
10 - Allagash White

 

1 - duvel
2 - chimay tripel
3 - sierra nevada torpedo
4 - fuller's london porter
5 - mikkeller draft bear
6 - paulaner salvator
7 - stone ipa
8 - trappistes rochefort 10
9 - orval
10 - westmalle tripel

 

In no particular order:
1. Guinness
2. Pilsner Urquell
3. SNPA
4. Orval
5. Schneider Weisse
6. 3F Oude Gueuze
7. Pre-Florida Pseudo Sue
8. Sam Smith's Old Brewery Pale Ale (cask)
9. Cantillon Lou Pepe Kriek
10. Supplication

 

Epic Big Bad Baptist
Firestone Walker Parabola
Founders Breakfast Stout
Founders KBS
Founders Backwoods Bastard
Lakewood Bourbon Barrel Temptress
Sam Smiths Taddy Porter

 

Off the top of my head, all stuff I'd be perfectly content with, and nothing terribly hard to get. Hops, malt, oak, funk, darks, lights, and sessions.

1 Jolly Pumpkin Bam Biere
2 Bell's Two Hearted
3 Pilsner Urquell
4 3Floyds Cimmerian Sabertooth Berzerker
5 Traquair House Ale
6 Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald
7 Alchemist Focal Banger
8 Firestone Walker DBA
9 Orval
10 Weihenstephaner Vitus

 

So, these are all beers I love that are available mostly year round in Utah...I didn't include anything from my cellar.

Epic Big Bad Baptist
La Fin Du Monde
Moab Brewing Scotch Ale
Epic Smoked and Oaked
Uinta Cockeyed Cooper Barrel Aged Barley Wine
Epic Brainless IPA
Anderson Valley Brother David's Triple
Old Chub
Wasatch Devastator Double Bock
Unibroue Terrible

 

1. Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen
2. Weihenstephaner vitus
3. Weihenstephaner dunkel Hefe
4. St bernardus triple
5. Chimay red
6. Hofbrau original
7. Paulaner Oktoberfest wiesn
8. Schlafly pumpkin ale
9. Sam Adams Oktoberfest
10. Founders breakfast stout

 

I'll give myself a bit of variety and insure overlapping availability.

Not in order of preference for the most part.

1. DDH Congress St.
2. Heady Topper
3. Second Fiddle
4. Hill Farmstead Double Galaxy
5. Everett
6. Dorothy
7. Peche Mortel
8. Luscious
9. Arthur
10. BA Dorothy

I wanted one BA Hill Farmstead brew, hard to choose one because you can never be sure what would be available at what level.

 

Strongly taking availability into consideration as well as affordability and also favoring year-round beers (why limit yourself with seasonals?)
1. Jack’s Abby Hoponius Union
2. Jack’s Abby House Lager
3. Oskar Blues Mama Little Yella pils
4. Ipswich Oatmeal Stout
5. Alesmith Speedway
6. Hennepin
7. Mahr’s U
8. Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen
9. Pannepot
10. Exhibit A Hair Raiser DIPA

 

Tripel Karmeliet
Schneider Aventinus Weizen-Eisbock
Great Divide Hibernation
North Coast Old Rasputin
La Cumbre Malpais Stout
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Breakside IPA
Melvin Hubert Pale Ale
Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier
Prima Pils

I narrowed my list almost entirely to year-round available beers (exception is the Hibernation, but I can find that pretty easily for 6 months straight here in Colorado and it ages well).

I found it difficult to try to balance higher ABV beers for cool winter months with lower ABV stuff that I could sip on all year. So in the end, I tried to select really "drinkable" high ABV stuff that I can still find myself enjoying even in warm winter months. It still hurts to live without a Quad/BDSA, DIPA, traditional Doppelbock, dark lager, helles, or witbier but those are the breaks.

 

Orval
St. Bernardus 12
Chimay Grande Reserve
Westmalle Dubbel
Westmalle Tripel
Weihenstephaner hefeweisse
Rochefort 10
Petrus aged red
Founders All Day IPA
My own homebrewed pumkin quad

 

Based on availability, and in no particular order other than the order in which they came to mind:
1. Spaten Hell
2. Augustiner Edelstoff
3. Pilsner Urquell
4. Schlenkerla Maerzen
5. Karmeliet Tripel
6. Duvel
7. Hofbraeu Oktoberfest
8. Sierra Nevada Torped (the best American IPA I have decent access to)
9. White Dog Tall Dark Stranger (dry stout)
10. Pustertaler Freiheit Spezialbier

 

I don't want to play this game. It doesn't sound like fun at all. Oh sure the first month would be but isn't variety one of the best aspects of the beer world we now live in.

 

Availability kills my consideration for treehouse, as does unpredictability of rotating beers.
I've become increasingly frustrated with Trillium. I would consider putting something like FPPA on my list but I till have to travel a bit to get it, so doesn't cut it for me.

 

Yuenling
Great lakes chillwave
Duvel
Ommegang hennepin
Stone IRS
Bear republic racer 5
Russian River beatification
Cadillac mountain stout
Founders backwoods bastard
Troegs mad elf