Your top 5 in 2015 so far.

I'm admittedly new to craft beer rating/tracking (established Jan 2015) so this is what I got so far.

1. BCBS Vanilla Rye (Goose Island): Blown away by flavors/aroma and drinkability for its ABV, one of my first BA stouts and still favorite
2. Pliny the Younger (RRB): had twice in 2015, which I guess means I'm lucky and waited <1 hour combined. Hair better than Elder IMO.
3. Omniprairie (Prairie Artisan/Omnipollo collaboration): Shocked how much I liked this, kept finding it, and each time had different experience, so much complexity of flavors for me.
4. Double Dobis (Cellarmaker): Had this first in April and it was probably #1 for year at that point but had it again in August and it either changed a little or my palate did or bit of both and while I still loved it, it dropped a peg.
5. Dinner (Maine)/Julius (Tree House) tie: I thought both of these were awesome, big aroma and tropical fruit flavor that improved/developed as they warmed.

Honorable mention: BCBS Coffee, Heady Topper, Victory at Sea, Alpine Nelson, Parabola

 

1. Really blown away by Ommegang's most recent Belgian Independence Day Trippel
2. Woot Stout- Stone
3. Jai Alai- cuz its awesome and I have to have an IPA on here to be cool. haha
4. Whiskey Barrel Aged J Marie- From River North Brewery
5. Parabola- Firestone Walker- Always the best

 

1. The Kernel - IPA Citra (My favorite brewery of the year so far. Bummed you can't find them in the states at all)
2. Other Half - Mosaic IPA (Best can release of the year, IMO)
3. Tired Hands - Alien Church (Best summer IPA of the year. Crazy melon flavors)
4. Grimm Artisanal Ales - Rainbow Dome (Second best brewery of the year)
5. Carton BOAT Beer (I probably drank this beer more than any other so far this year)

 

Weyerbacher- Sunday Morning Stout
Trillium- Green Street
Tree House- Double Shot
Foundation- Epiphany
Hardywood- Bourbon Sidamo Coffee Stout

 

1) Canadian Breakfast Stout
2) Tree House Good Morning
3) Trillium Galaxy Dry Hopped FPPA
4) Sip of Sunshine
5) Tree House Julius

 

Best 5 beers I never had 'til 2015...

BA Abraxas
Merci (Blend #1)
BOMB!
Permanent Funeral
Beer Geek Cocoa Shake

 

1. Heady Topper
2. Todd The Axeman
3. Masala Mama (Minneapolis Town Hall Brewing)
4. Scream IIPA (New Glarus)
5. F-5 IPA (Co-op Ale)

 

So far...
Gonna break mine up into out of state and in state (nothing rare here)

Favorite 5 out of state beers I've had this year that I tried for the first time (in no particular order)
- Bomb!
- Heady Topper
- Todd the Axeman
- 077XX
- Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout (2015)

Favorite 5 in state (Colorado) available on shelves that I tried for the first time this year (in no particular order)
- Espresso Oak Aged Yeti
- Origins
- Nightmare on Brett (Aged in Leopold Bros Whiskey Barrels)
- Hop Savant (Citra)
- Upslope Citra Pale Ale

AND...Avery sours were great too

My go to local summer session beer was Hall Brewing's Juicy Peach Blonde Ale

 

As someone who just got into craft brews this year let's see if i can just narrow it down to 5:
1. Julius by tree house because yea
2. Congress st by trillium because those Boston boys make a damn good ipa
3. Black gold by central waters there's a reason why they are known for there Barrel aging
4. 4 beans by sixpoint great great porter well done fellas
5. Jai alai a beer that tastes like summer in a can

 

Aside from really liking it, what did you think of this beer?

 

I tasted these for the first time in 2015:
Heady
Pliny The Elder
Epiphany
Bomb!
Bourbon Ginger Bread Stout

 

1. BCBCS '13 - First beer of the New Year
2. Kane Mexican Brunch
3. Captain Lawrence Trans-Atlantic Red
4. Grimm Teseract
5. Mikkeller Brian vs. George Calvados Aged

 

Victory At Sea
Val Dieu Grand Cru
Sierra Nevada Ovila Saison
Belhaven 90 Wee Heavy
Sierra Nevada Nooner Pilsner

 

Locust Reign
Palate Shifter
Sip of Sunshine
Enjoy By
Fuzzy Baby Ducks

 

De Garde Nectarine Premier
Cantillon Crianza Helena
Pugachev Royal
Derivation Blend 1
2006 La Folie

 

Kane A Night to End All Dawns
Maine Peeper Ale
2015 Parabola
Lost Abbey Track #10
Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout

 

The only negative I had was a little buttery (diacetyl?), but the addition of Citra and Nelson dry hops, along with the "iron like" flavors represented to me an awesome current or updated take on an ESB (a style I truly love but doesn't seem to get much attention). Your take? Cheers!

 

No order

Dinner- Maine Beer
The 87- Night Shift
Stoneface ipa- Stone face
Sophie- Goose Island
Mango- Clown Shoes

 

No particular order:

Heavy Seas Blackbeard's Breakfast
Glasstown Smith & Wood Foundry Ale
Clown Shoes Garden State Rhapsody
Founders Devil Dancer
Bell's Two Hearted Ale

 

Revolution Cafe Deth
Pipeworks Crimson Snapper
Surly Todd the Axeman
KBS
Dogfish Palo Santo Marron