Most influential beers of all time

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  1. Bitterbill

    Bitterbill Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,772) Sep 14, 2002 Wyoming
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    Do you ever remember seeing this canned beer?

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    I had it sometime in the 90s. It wasn't very good.
     
  2. teal

    teal Initiate (0) May 3, 2012 Wisconsin

    Yes it was at Point. I guess it depends on what one considers a "brewery". When I looked at OB's site they said "2002 Oskar Blues becomes the first US craft brewery to can its own beer with our flagship Dale's Pale Ale"

    Chief Oshkosh Red Lager was Mid-Coast's beer, designed by Jeff Fulbright while at Seibel and then brewed at Point with the brew master there, John Zappa - just so happens he didn't own the canning line or building.

    Is the brewery the building or the company/people? I leave that for the reader to decide.

    I, personally, don't care much if a brewery, as the company, contract brews their beers so long as they don't tout certain things in their advertising. "We're the only brewery at the start of the Brule River, fresh from Lake Superior, our water is the purest around" and then to find them contract brewing with tap water from/in Detroit or something. That bothers me.

    If I jump the Grand Canyon on a rented motorcycle - I still jumped the Grand Canyon and I doubt people would be as impressed with guy #2 doing it but holding up the pink slip and saying it's different because he owns that Kawasaki.

    Contract or not - I've not found a craft brewery putting it into cans before Mid-Coast but I admit, I'm really just starting to get into the history of different breweries. I've found this part of the hobby/lifestyle VERY fascinating. Regional breweries of the old days are amazing.
     
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  3. jesskidden

    jesskidden Grand Pooh-Bah (3,071) Aug 10, 2005 New Jersey
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    Nah, never saw it but I remember hearing about it. That one was a Heileman/Blitz Weinhard-brewed product, right?
     
  4. Bitterbill

    Bitterbill Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,772) Sep 14, 2002 Wyoming
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  5. devlishdamsel

    devlishdamsel Initiate (0) Aug 1, 2009 Washington

    Something about this beer reminds me of the movie wayne's world
     
  6. Dcor

    Dcor Initiate (0) Aug 27, 2012 Florida

    Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada...many peoples first step toward craft and specialty beers.
     
  7. PatKorn

    PatKorn Zealot (685) Aug 30, 2007 Hawaii

    It's so cool that we can condense 6000 years of brewing into a top 20 list(cue eye roll).
     
  8. wiscokid920

    wiscokid920 Initiate (0) Apr 27, 2011 Wisconsin

    Shout out to Anchor Steam! Maybe not the most influential "Beer" but the brewery sure did a hell of a job for the American Micro seen!
     
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  9. slim2043

    slim2043 Initiate (0) Jul 23, 2012 Connecticut

    My vote would be for Budweiser. If there wasn't "standard crap" there would be no need for the craft beer movement.
     
  10. jRocco2021

    jRocco2021 Savant (1,071) Mar 13, 2010 Wisconsin

    The most influential beers are the ones where the taste of it influence's you to have another.
     
  11. ThirstyFace

    ThirstyFace Initiate (0) Jan 11, 2013 New York

    Didn't Ruination jump start that style?
     
  12. keithmurray

    keithmurray Pooh-Bah (2,943) Oct 7, 2009 Connecticut
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    Do some of you BA's even know how to read?
     
  13. Holmes698

    Holmes698 Initiate (0) Mar 7, 2009 Pennsylvania

    Bell's Two Hearted Ale, Victory Storm King, Troegs Nugget Nectar were my first real craft beers. However, Mackeson's, Fuller's ESB and Guiness were my gateway beers.
     
  14. Ricelikesbeer

    Ricelikesbeer Maven (1,389) Nov 29, 2006 Colorado
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    Yes I think Courage belongs as well. I also think Guinness could certainly be added, because of the effect it has had especially on the BMC crowd. Everyone I know who wants to point out something different than fizzy yellow lager mentions guinness. I'm sure it has been the gateway beer for thousands of craft beer drinkers.
     
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  15. jmw

    jmw Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2009 North Carolina

    Apparently not. The thread now has nothing to do with history or broad influence world-wide, it has degraded into "the beer that got my buddy and me into the American craft scene". It always goes this way. There is nothing worth noting other than the last 20 years of a single country's explorations.
     
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  16. joeebbs

    joeebbs Initiate (0) Apr 29, 2009 Pennsylvania

    With everyone here talking about Such-n-Such Brewery kicking off "craft beer" in America please remember those styles were just "beer" in Europe for many years and still are.
     
  17. Domingo

    Domingo Grand Pooh-Bah (4,206) Apr 23, 2005 Colorado
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    Great list. I'm sure we might all have items we might tweak, but I can't really argue with anything on there.
     
  18. Damian

    Damian Pooh-Bah (2,424) Jun 1, 2006 Massachusetts
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    Actually, it was Vinny's Inaugural Ale at Blind Pig Brewing (now known as Blind Pig IPA) that is regarded as the first double IPA.
     
  19. ilikebeer03

    ilikebeer03 Pooh-Bah (2,262) Oct 17, 2012 Texas
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    The first barrel aged beer.
     
  20. Bitterbill

    Bitterbill Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,772) Sep 14, 2002 Wyoming
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    As Ron said "It's there, just under a different name: Barclay Perkins Russian Imperial Stout." I was pleased to read that.
     
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