Your state's own six-pack!

Yeah I thought about having two double IPAs and no lagers. I dig prima pils and trauger pils a lot but I really think the beers I mentioned really are more special.

 

Founder Breakfast Stout (Stout)
Bells Two Hearted (IPA)
Shorts Freedom of 79 (Specialty IPA)
Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza (Sour/Belgian)
Founders Porter (Porter)
Oddsides Citra Pale Ale (Pale Ale)

 

Georgia:

Orpheus Atalanta tart saison
Orpheus Transmigration double IPA
Monday Night Drafty Kilt scotch ale
Creature Comforts Tropicalia IPA
Sweetwater Happy Ending imperial stout
Wild Heaven White Blackbird saison

 

Utah -
Epic BBB
Red Rock Elephino
Red Rock Paardebloem
Red Rock Frolich Pils
Epic Utah Sage Saison

 

Hmm. Dunno where to start with Illinois.


Lagunitas Brown Shugga
Pipeworks War Bird
Ale Syndicate Richie
Temperance Restless Years
Revolution Eugene
Off Color Apex Predator
Oh, hey. That's six!
yay....

 

New Hampshire

Stoneface- RIS
Stoneface- IPA
White Birch- Berliner Weisse
Smuttynose- Baltic Porter
Garrison City- Citra (pale ale)
Throwback- Dippity Do (brown ale)

 

The Land of Lincoln:

Half Acre Daisy Cutter
Goose Island BCBS
Pipeworks Ninja vs. Unicorn
Off-Color Dino S'mores
Metropolitan Afterburner
Spiteful Goddman Pigeon Porter

 

NC

Pernicious - Wicked Weed
Freak of Nature - Wicked Weed
Event Horizen - Olde Hickory
Donut Skillet - Burial
Hubris - Lynnwood Brewing
Hop Drop N Roll - NODA

 

There have been so many good craft lagers - especially pilsners - made in PA, though, it seems like a big hole to not have any represented. Kaiser, Pikeland, Stoudt's, Sunshine, any of Victory's...

 

No limited releases or tap only is going to leave out one of the best 2 breweries in the state for me in Jackie O's, and arguably the state's best beer in Bodhi. I can make a pretty good 6 of year rounds and seasonals though.

With diversity in mind:
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
Fat Heads Hop Ju Ju DIPA
The Brew Kettle White Rajah American IPA
Maumee Bay Total Eclipse Breakfast Stout American Double/Imperial
Fat Heads Bonehead Imperial Red
Thirsty Dog Wulver Scotch Ale/Wee Heavy (Due to price point it is available year round, but I would consider it a seasonal technically)

 

for the record, I probably buy more Prima Pils in the course of a year than all my six-pack picks combined.

 

Pennsylvania

A mix a 6 that I would enjoy drinking:

Sly Fox Oktoberfest
Stoudts Pils
Victory DirtWolf
Troegs Nugget Nectar
Yards Brawler
Straub Hefeweizen

Cheers!

 

Massachusetts...

Trillium Congress St.
Trillium Fort Point Pale Ale
Trillium Pot & Kettle
Treehouse That's What She Said
Treehouse Julius
Treehouse Eureka w/citra

 

Ohio:

Brew Kettle White Rajah
Hoof Hearted South of Eleven
Jackie O's BB Black Maple Porter
Jackie O's BB Dark Apparition
Great Lakes Blackout Stout
Rivertown Lambic

 

PA

weyerbacher- insanity
victory- dirtwolf
sly fox- ichor
neshaminy creek- shape of hops to come
spring house- the astounding she-monster
victory- moonglow

 

Texas

Oasis, Texas Brewing Company- Meta Modern session ipa
Real Ale Brewing Company- Hans' Pils german style pilsner
Community Beer Company- Public Ale esb
The Lone Pint Brewery- Yellow Rose SMaSH ipa
Lakewood Brewing Company- Temptress imperial milk stout
Jester King- Atrial Rubicite

 

So, I decided to make two lists focusing on opposite ends of the ABV spectrum. Figured this would be more interesting than reading "two hearted" and "founders porter" for the umpteenth time. These aren't necessarily the 6 best beers in each category, but I tried to cover a range of styles and breweries.

Lowish ABV:
Short's Local's Lager (4%)
Jolly Pumpkin Bam Biere (4.5%)
New Holland The Poet (5.2%)
Founders Mosaic Promise (5.5%)
Odd Side Citra Pale Ale (5.75%)
Bell's Best Brown (5.8%)

High ABV:
New Holland Black Tulip (9%)
Odd Side El Dankarino (10%)
Bell's Third Coast Old Ale (10.2%)
Dark Horse Plead the 5th (11%)
Arbor Fig Jam (11.5%)
Founders Backwoods Bastard (11.6%)

 

Top six beers from New York:

Sixpoint Hi-Res
Sixpoint Resin
Sixpoint 4 Beans
Sixpoint The Crisp
Ithaca Flower Power
Three Heads The Kind IPA

 

It's a challenge finding six different bottled/canned WV beers on any given day.

 

Connecticut:

New England Sea Hag
New England Gandhi Bot
Black Hog Ginga Ninja
Stony Creek Big Cranky
Lawson's Sip Of Sunshine (pint cans brewed @ 2Roads)
Evil Twin Citra Sunshine Slacker (pint cans brewed @ 2Roads)