Your Favorite beer, get passionate. Defend it. Explain why it does what it does for you...

I honestly don't have a favorite.

 

KBS. A perfect blend of coffee, chocolate, and bourbon. No further explaination is needed.

 

Parabola.

A beautiful sipping beer, complex flavors and a wonderful nose. Bourbon, coconut, vanilla, chocolate, dark fruits... just a masterpiece of a beer.

Also, I can't finish a bottle solo (nor would I want to) so every time I open one I get to share it with friends, many times people who've never previously enjoyed a Parabola. So it's also the perfect beer with which to be a beer advocate.

 

I'm seriously biased towards stouts.... I wanna say cherry rye or another one of those elegant brews, but honestly?

I think if I look at my go-to brews, it's 3 beans!
Why? because it is rich like a good coffee stout, but not so overwhelmingly dense that you can't drink it on a warm day. Probably because it has a light hop accent?
Love that beer.

(runner-up is Sucks! I love that grapefruit bomb!)

 

Schneider-Weisse Aventinus Eisbock. Every sip tastes just a little different. It's rich in aroma and flavor, excellent mouthfeel, delightful complexities as it changes temperature. I love the dark fruit flavors, the hints of brown sugar and molasses, the slightly vinous quality, and the alcohol warmth. It's hard for me to get ahold of, though, so it's a special occasion beer.

 

I clicked on this thread getting ready to give a defense of Pliny the Elder but you made a great start here already. The only thing I would disagree with is that you make it sound like there that much less flavour in Pliny the Elder compared to Heady Topper, Abrasive, Sucks, etc... I will disagree. Fresh Pliny absolutely holds its own- I always look forward to that massive, strong citrus scent that wafts out of the bottle when I open it. It smells fantastic and the hops contribute a ton of flavour to the beer! I think its as good as any DIPA out there. It all comes together extremely well with the 2-row malts. What it DOESN'T contribute is the gazillion IBUs and super long lingering aftertaste that beers like Heady and Abrasive do.. especially Abrasive. And that's what makes it more drinkable to me. I absolutely loved drinking this on consecutive days, and I don't have to mentally steel my palate to prepare to drink this beer.

 

Strawberry Abita. Go ahead and make fun, but there is no better everyday summer beer out there for me. I love Stouts, love IPAs, but dammit I could drink SA every day.

 

Admittedly, there are a lot of stouts and BA stouts that I've not yet gotten to try, those among them. To date, the best I've had is Parabola, and I was blown away the first time I tried it. I look forward to the next time a beer blows me away... hopefully again soon.

 

Rochefort 10.

Tons of dark fruits and caramel throughout the entire beer and probably the easiest drinking 11% beer I've ever had.

 

If Falstaff wuz still around, I could easily answer this question. Since it ain't, I probably gotta go w/ High Life.

 

Probably Torpedo. Very easy to find (looks like Kroger and Wal Mart don't carry it anymore, but I normally stick to my local, small business beer store, great people). Also it's everything I look for in an IPA. It's perfectly balanced and doesn't have too much malt that a lot of IPAs, particularly, IIPAs have, it's a little sessionable at 7.4% (I think), and every time I have one, I'm still amazed by the intense and wonderful hop flavor that it carries. This beer never gets old for me and I've had hundreds of them.

 

For the last four weeks the perfect beer was Double Trouble. Hoppy yet so refreshing. I found myself craving it all day and was drinking it pretty much every night. Sadly, now it is gone.

Hoptimum is now my new favorite.

 

KBS. Because, KBS.