One brewery to rule them all.

Being a fan of the maltier and roastier side, Founders would do me just fine. Scotch Ale - Check, Porter - Check, Barrel Aged - Check, Stouts of all kinds - Check, tasty enough IPAs for when I'm in the mood for hops - Check. I haven't been able to get into sours, so I could deal without 'em.

Local - Olde Hickory, for many of the same reasons above, without quite the same breadth of styles.

 

I'll join the Three Floyds crowd here. I've tried about a dozen of their beers and they've ranged from good to absolutely incredible and have included everything from DIPAs to pale ales to porters to rye beers to Belgian and marzen styles. If Founders made lagers I might go with them, but they don't so I'll give FFF the nod.

 

Odell Brewing Co!!

 

Obvious answer for me is Victory.

Victory Lager, Prima Pils, HopDevil, Hop Wallop, Storm King, Golden Monkey, Festbier, Sunrise Weisse, Moonglow Weizenbock, Uncle Teddy's Bitter, St. Victorious, V-12, Baltic Thunder, Whirlwind Wit, Headwaters, St. Boisterous, Dark Intrigue, Otto, Ranch DIPA, Otto in Oak, Red Thunder, Old Horizontal, Oak Horizontal, not to mention the enormous amount of experimentation they do with Pilsners and unique IPAs...yeah, I think I could live on these.

 

Hill Farmstead.
Don't even have to think twice about that.

 

Sierra Nevada.

 

That is tough and if I had access to a lot of the beers back East and in the Midwest I would probably go with one of those since I am not an avowed hophead though I do drink hoppy beers and enjoy some of the better ones. Based on what's available and affordable I would have to go with Sierra Nevada even though I'm not sure if they have a sessionable lager in their lineup.

 

Victory or Jolly Pumpkin

 

BRUX is a Brett beer but not 'sour'.

I would have to go with Firestone Walker especially now with the sours I recently tried from them.

One that is quickly winning me over is Crooked Stave. Their quality and unique beers have nowhere to go but up

 

Sierra Nevada.

 

New Glarus. They mostly make session brews which is nice and they have enough variety's that rotate you don't get bored easily. Sometimes they do repeats one to many times but that's not as much their fault as it is the jag offs that waste a thumbprint/seasonal beer slot by voting for the same beers all the time.

 

I 2nd that. A nice wide range of styles and very solid on creativity and quality. Just wish we got WC distribution.

 

Can't forget the amazing one-offs!!

 

Living in PA, I haven't yet come across any of the Russian River products. The one CA brewery which does have a presence out here though is Green Flash. If forced to, I could easily go for a long time alternating between the West Coast IPA and the Double Stout, with diversions into Palate Wrecker and some of the others every once in a while.

 

Southern Tier makes excellent beer. Still a huge fan of Unearthly IIPA.

 

Deschutes for me. Their year-round six pack beers are all great (and run across a variety of styles), their seasonal releases are excellent, and then they kill it with their reserve series barrel-aged beers. Plus both brewpubs have plenty of cool draft-only exclusives.

Firestone Walker, Bell's, Sierra Nevada, and Founders would be runners-up.

 

I have to say Hill Farmstead, unless in this nightmare world you have imagined the brewery has to stay where it is and maintain its current distribution. Then I am going Jackie O's.

 

Firestone walker. Parabola for the rest of my life would not be a bad thing.

 

I would have to go with FFF all day everyday. Too many great beers that I absolutely love in no particular order Zombie Dust, Alpha King, Gumball Head, Darklord, BA Darklord, Behemoth, BA Behemouth, Dreadnaught, Apocalypse Cow, Moloko etc etc

 

Yeah I left accessibility out of the equation, which is why I also chose HF. But if that's supposed to be part of our consideration, HF is the last brewery I'd pick and would instead go with something like Stone.