Under appreciated/under produced beer styles

You might be pleasantly surprised by Captain Lawrence's Captain's Kolsch, it's a very good take on the style and stands up to repeat drinking.

Lancaster's is a distant second these days.

 

We need a good craft version of a malt liquor.

 

Kolsch

 

Beers that are 4% abv or less. Preferably in the form of Irish Dry Stouts, English bitters and English milds.

Second to that, Munich Helles. From American breweries at my local liquor store there's Stoudt's Gold and occassionally Victory Lager. Step it up American brewers, it's an INCREDIBLY drinkable style. If people love Bud Light they'll go from "6 to midnight" over a great Munich Helles.

 

These styles have been mentioned already but:

Gose - I had one by Cigar City called Arschgeweih (German for "ass antlers") and it was quite good but I want to see other interpretations of the style.
Braggot - Had Weyerbacher XVI and thought it was great. More breweries need to try this.
Sahti - The only true representation I've had is Nogne's and it was dynamite. Dogfish's attempt is tasty but has too much chai to be considered a real Sahti.

 

If I understand correctly, those things can become bottle bombs, which might explain why few make it across the pond.

 

For sure, black IPAs. And more year long big stouts.

 

Zwik and English brown mild

 

milk stouts!

 

Exactly.
Honestly, due to freshness alone, Wisconsin is usually better than Germany.
Even evening for that, Wisconsin gives Germany a run for the money on several brews.

I LOVE Wisconsin, hahah

 

Brett IPA's

 

Kolsch, Dortmunder, Most Bocks, Berliner-Weisse, Dunkel, English Mild, ESB, Farmhouse Saison (starting to get a lil more attention but still) Pilsner, Uber Pils, Alt, gose, Helles, Marzen (until fall when, no one calls them that) If its german and its a fall/late summer seasonal its just Oktoberfest right???

Not to mention...

BA Kolsch, BA Dortmunder, BA wiese/Ur/Doppel/Mai/Hells/Ies Bocks, BA Berliner-wiesse, BA Dunkel, BA ESB, BA Saison, BA Pils, BA... you get it the idea.

and the dry hopped variants of each... and wine barrel variants...

 

We only seem to get Minhaus "craft" beers and Miller macro beers in Maryland. Sorry, but Wisconsin needs to step up better beer distribution to my state as those 2 exports from Cheesehead World aren't doing your state any justice at all where I live. I'll take your word for it though, I haven't sampled the others you've mentioned.

 

I wish more breweries would do Biere de Mars as their spring seasonal.

 

They used to be. Until Kirby left a couple of years ago. Since then their beers just haven't been the same - I heard they were adding corn into the mash. But now they're getting the guy who brewed the Leine's Big Eddy series, which is awesome. And Kirby is opening his own new brewery, which is double awesome.

 

Central Waters Oktoberfest from last year was the best one of this style I've ever had, including German imports.

 

Kolsh
Rauchbier- on that note, I had a chance to try Crown Breaker at the DFH brewpub last week. A rauch/gose hybrid born of the Sam C./Alstrom Bros collaboration. Unique and delicious!

 

I'd like to see somebody make a (chocolate) raspberry imperial stout. Or a butterscotch bourbon barrel stout (along the lines of maple syrup bourbon barrel).

 

Saw the thread title and immediately thought of this style and this exact brew. The kid working at West Lakeview Liquor talked me into a bottle when I was in Chicago last month and it didn't disappoint.