Beers that blew your mind

Temptation
Zombie dust
Pliny
fou'foune
surly abraisive

 

I would have to say Lucifer, and duchesse de Bourgogne!

 

The first to blow my mind was Duvel, I know it's not cool, but I love Belgian golden ales.

 

The first thing that comes to mind is Jolly Pumpkin Bier De Mars. I still remember the first time I had it and the first sip simply amazed me.

 

Well, it was a reeeeeeally long time ago (fall of 1982) but I still remember it like it was yesterday; I picked up what looked like a special beer for a special occasion (and it definitely had a special price). It turns out that it was Aass Bock, and the first sip totally floored me- so rich, malty, almost chocolatey- like my favorite beers squared. Maybe any true Bock would've done it, but this was definitely the right beer at the right time; and it subsequently became the first beer that I would actively search for after that moment.

 

120 Minute
75 Minute
Hop Wallop
Nugget Nectar

 

Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock...still the most memorable beer I've ever tasted.

 

Ok, going off of the "holy shit that's good" theory...
Aventinus
La Chouffe
Paulaner's Salvator
St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout
Founders Backwoods Bastard, Curmudgeon, Porter & Breakfast Stout
Great Lakes Blackout Stout & Edmund Fitzgerald
Mad River's John Barleycorn 2010
Anchor's Old Foghorn
Weyerbacher's Old Heathen, Insanity & Blithering Idiot
Troeg's Troegenator & Nugget Nectar
Bell's any of the stouts Dbl Cream, Kalamazoo, Expedition. Two Hearted, Porter & Best Brown Ale in cask form
Left Hand's Milk Stout
North Coast's Old Rasputin & Scrimshaw
Oskar Blues Ten Fidy & Old Chub
Thristy Dog's Old Leghumper & Siberian Night
DFH's Chicory Stout
Cellar Rats Black Rat RIS
Jackie O's Dark Apparition
Grand Canyon's Starry Night Stout
Breckenridge's Agave Wheat

 

Heady Topper
Nitro Aphrodite
Fbs
Lunch
Mean Old Tom
HF Holger Danske
HF Genealogy of Morals

 

No the well traveled beer drinker here as some. But for a novice with limited access to good beer , here is a list of a few who really made me think about the way beer is made

Founders Breakfast Stout , and I'm not a stout lover
Hopslam
Bigfoot Barleywine
A dipa homebrew I made
Odell Isolation
and
Two Hearted ale

 

Rochefort 10
Pliny the Elder
Tart of Darkness
Love Buss
Little Sumpin Wild

But the original mind blower was Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout about 18 years ago.

 

I have been pleasantly surprised by many beers, but there are only a few that have really blown me away or far exceeded my expectations. Those being -

Lagunitas Sucks
Kuhnhenn's Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
Stone 15th Anniversary Black IPA
Founders Barrel Aged Sumatra Brown
Hair of the Dog Adam
Southern Tier Unearthly
FFF Zombie Dust
Dark Horse Bourbon Barrel Plead the 5th
Founders KBS (on tap)

 

Heady Topper
Breakfast Stout
Backwoods Bastard
Supplication/Beatification/Temptation
Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale
Zombie Dust
75 Minute IPA

 

10th Anniversary Ruination, CBS, Ivan, FW 16, Soft Dookie and Burton Baton.

 

Rochefort 10
Affligem Noel
Aventinus Eisbock
Val Dieu Brune
Pliny The Elder
Ten Fidy
SkullSplitter

 

To name a few...

FW Parabola
FW Abacus/Sucaba
FW DDBA
Hoppin' Frog BA Naked Evil
Hoppin' Frog D.O.R.I.S. the Destroyer
The Bruery Fruet
CCB Warmer Winter Winter Warmer
Great Divide BA Old Ruffian
Great Divide Yeti, Oak Aged Yeti, Espresso Oak Aged Yeti, & Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti
Dark Horse Plead the 5th
Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree
BCBS & BCBCR
Les Trois Mousquetaires Porter Baltique
Flying Dog Gonzo
Weyerbacher Insanity
Founders Imperial Stout
Founders Backwoods Bastard
Smuttynose Baltic Porter
AleSmith Speedway Stout
Brassiere Dieu du Ciel Peche Mortel
Avery Samael's Ale
Avery Mephistopheles Stout
Avery Rumpkin
Avery Uncle Jacob's Stout
He'Brew Sweet 16
MBC Zoe
Lagunitas Undercover Shutdown Ale
Lagunitas Imperial Red
Troegs Nugget Nectar
Stone Ruination & 10th Anniv. Ruination

 

Ten Fidy
Palo Santo
75 minute
The combination of Wake n Bake and Moo Hoo
BCBCS

Waiting to pick my brains up off the floor to try my 2 year old Parabola and one year Oak aged Espresso Yeti.

honorable mention - BCBS, FBS/FIS , flower power, sucks

 

Abrasive
Ninja v Unicorn

 

Pliny
Zombie Dust
Sculpin
Temptation - never thought I would like sours, now I am hooked.

 

+1 - Avery Mephistopheles Stout. Elegant perfection. I will never, ever forget the one time I had the opportunity to try it.