Beers that blew your mind

Breakfast Stout
Nugget Nectar
Maine Peeper Ale
Kane Head High IPA
Flower Power
Dieu du Ciel Aphrodisiaque
Founders Harvest Ale
Sculpin IPA
Belhaven Scottish Stout

 

Main one was Jacobins Rouge
Also Zombie Dust and Stone Ruination 10th Anniversary

 

BCBS
Alpine Nelson
Surley Abrasive
Bells Hopslam
PTY
FW Abacus
Cantillon Gueze
Kern River Citra
Zombie Dust
Lagunitas Sucks
Sublimely self righteous

Love Craft Brew!!!

 

Raison d'Extra, very different from anything I had tried before.

 

I've never been a huge fan of porters. Just not really my thing I guess, but when I tried Ballast Point's Victory At Sea......Awesome....
Still the only porter I like so far though.

 

RR Consecration Batch 001
BCBCS
BBA Human Blockhead
Ruination 10th
BP Indra Kunidra
Deschutes The Abyss
Parabola

 

Pliny
Founders Breakfast Stout
Fullers 1845
Chimay Blue
Falstaff, St. Louis-era

 

fbs on tap

 

The first beer that ever blew my mind was Supplication. It totally changed my perception about the possibilities of what beer can be. And it was delicious too.

 

Cherry Rye
Zombie Dust
Cigar City Leon
Founder Imperial Stout
Heady
2009 BCBS
Great Lakes BA Blackout
Red Thunder
Lil Sumpin Sumpin


These are just a few...there have been more.

 

Bourbon County (thanks Nicks 6217 !)
Mikkeller BA George
Cantillon Fou Foune
Westy Special 6 (Red Cap)
Cantillon Mamouche
De Struise Earthmonk
Surly Abrasive

 

Beers that blew my mind, in the past week or so...
Goose Island Big John Imperial Stout
Victory Oak Horizontal @Victory Brewing
Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale
Victory Hop Devil NITRO ( I will no longer be drinking Hop Devil non Nitro )
Starr Hill The Gift / The Love

 

The Abyss
Westy Blonde
Anchorage Anadromous (Black Sour at AK beer fest; coming soon to bottles)

 

Beyond trying some beers that I actually liked, I think the first ones I was blown away by would by Celebrator and Fat Tire.

 

Heady Topper
CBS
Backwoods Bastard
BCBS
BCBCS
Black Tuesday
Sucks
Undercover Shutdown Ale

 

BCBS blew my mind the first time I had and it still does.
KH is another one that Im sure has blown the minds of many of us.

 

Most of the posts here seem to be top shelf brews, almost in a way " bragging" that they had them. A brief look at some of the posts and I noticed one guy listed a ton of beers including CBS. Well ok but you look at his ratings and he rates it 4.74. Thats not mind blowing lol!

Well I am done with my rant, Pliny The Elder was mind blowing for me simply because it lived up to it's hype. Additionally Heady Topper was right there also.

 

It's not actually my favorite DIPA, but I will never forget the first time I tried a Heady Topper. My sister in law brought a few on vacation with us 2 years ago. At the first sip, I thought, "Holy smokes, how do you get that much hop flavor and aroma to stick around through the brewing/canning process." Whether you like it or not, it's an impressive feat.

 

Kuhnhenn DRIPA. I was floored by how good this beer was. And each time I have it, I swear it gets better and better. I wish it were available to more people, it's highly underappreciated!

Some other lesser mentioned beers that really surprised me with how good they were:

Founders Imperial Stout
Marshal Zhukov's Imperial Stout
St. Bernardus Prior 8 (very underrated IMO, sitting in that shadow of the Abt 12)
Ten FIDY