Your Top Ten Highest Rated Beers From 2015

Founders Breakfast Stout 4.65
Southern Charred 4.62
Mystic Conviction 4.59
Goose Island BCBS 4.56
Oskar Blues Ten FIDY 4.5
2015 W00tstout 4.5
Speedway Stout 4.49
FW Union Jack 4.46
Enjoy By Black 4.46
Arrogant Bastard 4.46

 

Mother Earth Four Seasons Of Mother Earth - Winter (2014)
Joseph James Barrel Smoker
Clown Shoes Photosphere Phil
Westbrook Mexican Coffee Cake
Bruery Melange No. 12
Highland Park Raised Eyebrows
Bruery Wineification III
Firestone Walker Parabajava
Bruery Black Tuesday - Port Barrel Aged
Bottle Logic Fundamental Observation

 

Other Half Mosaic: 4.96
Fathead's Hop Juju: 4.92
Other Half AGE: 4.83
Alchemist Heady: 4.82
Weinhenstephaner Hefe: 4.63 (never actually got around to rating it before, oddly enough)
Schlafly TIPA: 4.6
Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break: 4.54
Alpine Nelson: 4.53
Ballast Point Victory at Sea: 4.52
Weinhenstephaner Vitus: 4.49

 

Top 10:
Trappist Westvleteren 12 (XII)
Founders KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout)
Pliny The Elder
Bell's 30th Anniversary Ale
Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout
3 FloydsZombie Dust
3 Floyds Permanent Funeral
Revolution Unsessionable
New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red
Bell's Hopslam Ale

Bottom 10:
Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale
Pipeworks War Bird
Dogfish Head Higher Math
Pipeworks Citra Saison
Revolution Rosa Hibiscus Ale
Alpine Nelson
3 Floyds Arctic Panzer Wolf
Hailstorm Dominatrix Double IPA
Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin
New Holland The Carhartt Woodsman

 

Kuhnhenn Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
Brothers Craft Coconut Resolute
Jackie O's Bourbon Barrel Champion Ground
Funky Buddha Morning Wood
Funky Buddha Snowed In
Oskar Blues Barrel Aged Ten Fidy
3F Framboos 2014
Hanssens Oude Gueuze 1991
Toppling Goliath KBBS
Bourbon Barrel Mexican Cake

(in no particular order, just basing off of memory)

 

1)Westy 12
2)Side Project Merci
3)Alpine Pure Hoppiness
4)Crooked Stave Origins
5)Knee Deep Breaking Bud
6)Founders reDANKulous
7)AleSmith Vietnamese Coffee Speedway
8)Sierra Nevada Tumbler
9)Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous
10)Toppling Goliath Golden Nugget

I would love to revisit any of those again soon! Some were very hard to get or are no longer available.

 

CW 17
PtE
VR
BCBBW
Nightmare On Brett- Cherry
Project Pam
CBS
Supplication
Unsessionable
SoS

 

Pliny the Elder
CBS
Consecration
Supplication
Yazoo ETF Cherry Deux Rouges
Wulver
Rye Whiskey Old Rasputin
Bomb!
Canaster Zymatore Chardonnay Barrel Aged Scotch Ale
Rare Barrel Wise Guise

 

1: TG Assassin - 4.94
2: De Garde Broken Truck - 4.93
3: BA Abraxas - 4.9
4. BA Vietnamese Speedway - 4.89
5. HF Beyond Good and Evil - 4.87
6. Armand'4 Winter - 4.82
7. Anchorage Deal With the Devil - 4.8
8. SR-71 - 4.78
9. Bissell Brothers Swish - 4.76
10. Casey Brett Loves Citra - 4.76

Hell of a year. Hopefully '16 will be even better.

 

DB Hunahpu - by far!
Vanilla Rye
FB Wide Awake
Bourbon Coffee Cinnamon Abominable
Beer Geek Cocoa Shake
FW 18
Vanilla Abraxas
Guillemot Nebula
HF Double Galaxy
Deal with the Devil

 

Founders KBS 4.86

BCBCS 4.86

Hop Ranch 4.84

Grapefruit Sculpin 4.83

Pivo Pils 4.81

Parabola 4.81

Jai Alai 4.8

Fresh Squeezed 4.78

Funkwerks Saison 4.78

Big Bad Baptist 4.77

 

Everything that I got to try from treehouse this year

 

Goose Island OG Rare 4.94
Cigar City DB Huna 4.89
Perrin No Rules 4.87
Surly Todd the Axeman 4.86
Troegs Nimble Giant 4.78
Lone Pint Yellow Rose 4.71
Fitgers BA Edmund Fitzgerald (I forget what year this was but it was old) 4.69
Jackie O's BA Brick Kiln 4.68
Firestone Walker Parabola 4.68
Hill Farmstead Double Citra 4.66

Damn, I drank some good beers last year...

 

Toppling Goliath SR-71 4.9
Trappist Westvlereren XII 4.9
Founders CBS 4.86
CW Sixteen 4.83
Indeed Wooden Soul #2: Sour Blonde 4.71
Russian River Supplication 4.64
Toppling Goliath MoZee 4.63
Castle Danger Fresh Hop Mosaic 4.61
Toppling Goliath Nelson Schmelsson 4.6
Other Half Mosaic IPA 4.59
Maine Beer Co Lunch 4.57

Top 11, cause I wanted to include Lunch.

 

1) Side Project 2 Candles 4.96
2) Side Project Derivation #2 4.91
3) Side Project One Candle 4.91
4) Perennial BA Abraxas 4.91
5) Side Project Derivation #1 4.87
6) Goose Island Bourbon County Templeton Rye 4.85
7) Toppling Goliath Mornin Delight 4.85
8) Founders CBS 4.85
9) Perennial Coffee Abraxas 4.85
10) Perennial Maman EW 23yr Blue Label

2015 was a fun year.

 

CBS
Rare (2015)
Pugachev Royale
Pugachev's Cobra
Grey Monday
Swiss Cocoa (Deviate)
Headroom (Trillium)
Double Barrel Jesus
CW 17
Bell's 30th Anniversary

 

My top ten are:

Side Project Abricot du Fermier
Side Project Framboise du Fermier
Cycle Lost DOS
Alpine Chez Monus
18th Street Hunter Coconut
Drie Fonteinen Framboos
De Garde Beaucoup Violet
Hill Farmstead Gin Clara
Crooked Stave Petite Blueberry
Wakefield Dragonfruit Passionfruit Berliner Weiss

 

Tried a lot of great beer this year, these are my top 10 reviewed beers of the year, and likely my actual top 10 tries of the year as well as I did a good job of taking lots of notes in 2015.

1) Hill Farmstead Ann - 4.89
2) Freemont Barrel Aged Abominable: Coffee & Cinnamon - 4.80
3) Side Project Framoise du Fermier - 4.74
4) Side Project Saison du Fermier - 4.68
5) Hill Farmstead Flora (BBR) - 4.67
6) To Øl Liquid Confidential (Cognac) - 4.67
7) Sante Adairius Westly - 4.65
8) AleSmith Barrel Aged Speedway (Vietnamese) - 4.60
9) Pipeworks The Final Act - 4.58
10) Sante Adairius Nonna's Blend #8 - 4.58

 

Barrel Aged Neapolitan Milk Stout - Saugatuck Brewing Company - 4.85
Barrel Aged Wheelhouse - Four Fathers Brewing - 4.65
Founders Blushing Monk - Founders Brewing Company - 4.65
Christmas BOMB! - Prairie Artisan Ales - 4.63
Choklat Oranj - Southern Tier Brewing Company - 4.58
Berserker Winter Imperial Stout - North Peak Brewing Company - 4.55
The Creeker - Ithaca Beer Company - 4.55
Hunter Orange - 18th Street Brewery 4.53
Sloth Love Chunk - Four Fathers Brewing 4.53
Fatamorgana - Omnipollo - 4.51