Your top 5 favorite beers?

I have lots of favorite 5s. Today's is:
Spaten Lager- Nostalgic favorite- Would be Lowenbrau if still available
SNPA
Foothills Jade
Neumarkter Lammsbrau Dunkel
Smuttynose Robust Porter

Aventinus
Tripel Karmeleit
Lagunitas IPA-Nostalgic favorite
Shepherd Neame Bishop's Finger
Cascade Blueberry

I could do this for a while!

 

MBC Dinner
Duvel
Founders Double Trouble
MBC Lunch
GI BCS

 

No order.

Founders KBS
Prairie Bomb!
Avery Tweak
Pliny the Elder
Goose Island BCBS

Tough to narrow to 5. But I think if those were available on the shelf they would all end up in the cart every time.

 

How about 10, but by category?

Lambic:
A&T (3 Fonteinen)

Stouts:
2 Candles (Side Project)
Masterpiece Eclipse Pappy (Fifty Fifty)
SR-71 (Toppling Goliath)
Marshmallow Handjee (3 Floyds)

Saison:
Oude Fermier b1 (SP)
Tete de Cuvée (SP)

BW:
Royal Oil (Bull & Bush)

IPA:
DDH Melcher Street (Trillium)
Doppelganger (Treehouse)

 

Good call on the Royal Oil. Top shelf incredible BW.

 

Looking back over my reviews I have a few clustered at the top. In no particular order:
Founders CBS
Founders KBS
Bells Black Note
Shorts BB Evil Urges
Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier Dunkel

I have a lot of 4.5s that would get an honorable mention.

 

Good to see 515 mentioned, OJ is excellent, also pairs great with wings. Have you had any of their other beers? Passe is probably my favorite from them.

 

It's been a year and a half since I last posted here.
Mornin delight
Ddh citrus pseudosue
Madhouse carpe diem, it's a bourbon barrel maple breakfast stout
Barrel aged speedway
Tied Java cask and focal banger
Honorable mention
High westified and powder keg fruitful Union.

 

Very fun to come back to a thread almost 2 years later. My updated top 5:

1. Never Never Again Again (Gose)
2. Mornin' Delight 2015 (Imperial Stout)
3. Bourbon Barrel Oro Negro (Imperial Stout)
4. Bourbon Barrel Dark Apparition w/ Nuts (Imperial Stout)
5. Prop 14 (Imperial Stout)

Too many honorable mentions to list.

 

Top 5....here we go...

BCBS
BBA Biscotti Break
B&B Royal Oil
SA Weird and Gilly
FW Parabola

Off the top of my head.

 

Hilarious. Someone responded to this 2015 thread and I find the evolution of my taste interesting. My response from from 2015 above. Today it would be:

1. Alien church
2. Edward
3. Parabola
4. 2016 unfiltered born yesterday
5. Grassman.

 

1. Prairie Pirate Bomb
   
2. BA Fidy
3. BCBS
4. Prairie Coffee Noir
   
5. KBS

This is not necessarily how my scores read, since these were scored on different days and at different points in my craft experience. I looked at them and then considered which I preferred over the others. Real tough to limit to top 5, so the next ones are;

• Prairie BA Bomb
• Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier
• Summit Dark Infusion
• Prairie Pe-Kan
• Abyss
• BA Darkness
• Central Waters Cassian Sunset

A stout heavy list!

 

1. Fuzzy
2. DFPF
3. Juice Machine
4. Coffee Abraxas
5. Imperial Stone Bu

 

I might've replied to this a couple years ago but, oh well. Don't feel like digging around for that, and things change

So currently.....

Rochefort 8
Weihenstephaner Hefe
The Abyss
Firestone Walker Union Jack (whenever I can actually find it fresh)
Orval

I guess, I always feel like I'm leaving a lot out that should be in there. I usually throw Duvel in but I had some Rochefort 8 for the first time in a couple years ago the other night and I was in beer heaven. The balance they achieved with that beer is astounding. So...Duvel got bumped out....this time


Another runner up would be Samichlaus. Nothing quite like it and I'm not often in the mood but when I am and it's got a bit of age on it that beer is untouchable.

 

In no order and liable to change on any given day.

Epic Big Bad Baptist
Firestone Walker Parabola
Funkwerks Saison
Prairie Standard
Marble Pilsner

 

Miller
Miller lite
Miller Genuine draft
Miller high life
Alesmith Speedway Stout

 

I guess it depends on how you define "favorite". Is it the best beers I've had and the ones I would drink if I could get them regularly? Or is it the stuff I actually get on a regular basis? Two very different lists.

"best"...

1) French Vanilla Militia
2) Vanilla Rye
3) Morning Wood
4) King Sue
5) Pretty close between Prop 13, Parabola and Fundamental Observation (yes, I'm a vanilla *****)

Obviously those are very difficult to get for the most part.

Most regular rotation in my fridge...

1) Zombie Dust
2) Whatever Pipeworks IPA bomber is fresh
3) Founders Imperial Stout (seasonal, but easy to restock)

After that, it's a mix of pale ales where I go in spurts (Ninja vs Unicorn, Lizard King, Navaja most regularly, Todd the Axeman if I can get it less than a month old, plus whatever is at Mikerphone now that they are open).

If we ever regularly get Toppling Goliath bombers in Illinois, those will move way up.

 

Favorite (not necessarily best) beers of the moment (which, unsurprisingly, is made up of beers I've enjoyed recently):

SN Bigfoot
Ommegang Abbey
Melvin 2X4 DIPA
Odell IPA
Pliny the Elder

 

Tree House Haze
Grimm Rainbow Dome
Singlecut Weird and Gilly
Other Half All Citra Everything
Trillium Galaxy FPPA

Honerable mentions: Grimm Telekinesis, Alcehmist Focal Banger, Westbrook Gose, Lagunitas Born Yesterday, plus some other TH and Singlecut IPAs

 

Rochefort 10
Konig pilsener
fresh Jester King Atrial Rubicite
Bitburger pilsener
Rochefort 6

(free form off the top of my noggin ... left out stouts, Sixpoint Jammer my favorite gose, all the other kickass Jester King beers and everything from Prairie Artisan, Jolly Pumpkin and Schlenkerla)