5 Favorite Beers from Your State

AtG Bo and Luke (Regular or Cofee Variation)
AtG 70k
AtG Citra Ass Down
West 6th IPA
Ei8htball K-Hole

 

If you like IPA's, you definitely need to check out 2nd Shift and Alpha Brewing Definitely my top two of the area, and not only for IPA's. 2nd Shift's LSD is one of my favorite stouts, and Alpha's American barleywine is one of the best I've ever had.

Urban Chestnut's "Reverence" series/lagers are decent IMO, and Charleville's BBA Wee Heavy is great, but for the most part, they both put out a lot of forgettable (to me) stuff. Haven't had any Piney River.

 

Citra Ninja
BCBS
BCBS Coffee
Anti Hero
Zombie Dust (yes I know it's Munster but it's Chicago for all intense and purposes!!)

 

1. Unobtanium - Straight to Ale
2. Illudium - Straight to Ale
3. Snake Handler Double IPA - Good People
4. Paw Paw's peach wheat - Back Forty
5. Monkeynaught - Straight to Ale

And barely missing the top 5 is Gorillanaut - Straight to Ale.

 

Evil Twin Even More Jesus
Evil Twin Double Barrel Jesus
Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break (bourbon barrel aged too)
COAST BBA Blackbeerd
COAST Old Nuptial
Westbrook Gose
Westbrook Siberian Black Magic Panther (AB and BB)

more than 5 but...

 

Toppling Goliath PseudoSue
Toppling Goliath Zeelander
Toppling Goliath SoSus
Toppling Goliath King Sue
Peacetree No Coast

 

As of today, I'll update this to:

1. Midnight Sun's Arctic Devil
2. Alaskan Brewing Co.'s Jalapeno Imperial IPA
3. Baranof's Mc Black IPA
4. Anchorage's Bitter Monk
5. Kenai River's Sunken Island IPA

 

Without picking any of the beers that would be on many lists from California, (Firestone, Russian River, Stone, Sierra Nevada)...

1. Eel River - Raven's Eye Imperial Stout
2. Mission - Dark Seas Bourbon Barrel Aged
3. Drakes - Denogonizer
4. Mad River - John Barleycorn Barleywine
5. Marin - Old Dipsea Barrel Aged Barleywine

I feel this is a more interesting 5 than if I included the All Stars...

 

OH--- IO!!!

1. CBC Bodhi - no question
2. Fat Heads Head Hunter
3. Rockmill Farmhouse Saison
4. Rockmill Dubbel
5. CBC IPA (slightly biased)

 

Cant do it...I tried! PA just has too many good breweries.

 

Technically my state is New Hampshire but honestly their is no good NH beer, sorry Blue Lobster. I consider Maine my state.

1. Maine Beer Co. - Another One
2. Bissell Brothers - The Substance
3. Maine Beer Co. - Lunch
4. Maine Beer Co. - Mo
5. Rising Tide - Calcutta Cutter
6. Maine Beer Co. - Peeper
7. Marshall Wharf - Ace Hole
8. Marshall Wharf - Can't Dog
9. Allagash - Hugh Malone
10. Rising Tide - Ishmael

 

1) New England Brewing- Imperial Stout Trooper
2) Two Roads- Rye 95
3) Two Roads- Worker's Comp
4) City Steam- The Naughty Nurse
5) Thimble Island- Coffee Stout

 

Stoneface Brewing - Stoneface IPA
Portsmouth Brewery - Kate the Great (RIP)
Smuttynose - S'muttonator
Smuttynose - Robust Porter
Smuttynose - Durty

 

At this point...how's this for variety?

Pretty Things- Our Finest Regards Barleywine (Honorable mention Babytree Quad)
Berkshire Brewing Company- Coffeehouse Porter (Nitro preferred)
Jack's Abby- Coffee/Vanilla Framminghammers (Baltic Porters)
Element- Red Giant Imperial Red
Slumbrew- Flagraiser IPA

In the future (I imagine)

Trillium- Something delicious, maybe 2?
Tree House Brewing- Something delicious, maybe 2?
Clown Shoes- Some of the tasty dark stuff I haven't tried yet

 

Connecticut:

1. New England Brewing Gandhi Bot
2. New England Brewing Imperial Stout Trooper
3. New England Brewing Gold Stock
4. Hooker Liberator
5. Firefly Toasted Oat

 

Foothills Seeing double
Wicked Weed Freak of Nature
Foothills Sexual Chocolate
Foothills BA peoples porter
Wicked Weed French Toast Stout

-but ANYTHING WW produces is phenomenal

 

Pennsylvania
1) hop ranch
2) dirtwolf
3) kilty pleasure
4) Nugget nectar
5) Joe coffee porter

Still new to craft, so I'm sure this will change. Honorable mention to fegleys insidious and hopsolutely, spring house big gruesome, and Neshaminy creek Leon

 

Calabama. I would say Enjoy By, Sucks, Sculpin, Double Jack, and Celebration Ale, but they're all extremely well known and exhaustively reviewed. So I'll go with my next tier:

- Dust Bowl Brewing Galaxy Pale Ale
- Dust Bowl Brewing Son of Wrath
- Ballast Point Big Eye IPA
- Green Flash Imperial IPA
- Anderson Valley Hop Ottin'

 

Even though ST, Captain Lawrence, & Peekskill make some awesome brews everyone has been listing them and I don't want to sound like a broken record. So here are some other beers that I dig that don't get enough attention.

Blind Bat - Vlad the Inhaler
Horseheads Brewing - Newtown Brown
Newburgh Brewing - The Newburgh Conspiracy
Port Jeff - Porter
Rockaway Brewing - Black Gold Stout

Honorable mentions:
Bridge & Tunnel Brewing - Ol Gilmartin Milk and Oatmeal Stout
Keegan - Mother Pucker
Butternuts - Moo Thunder Stout

** Out on Long Island and in the 5 boroughs there will be an explosion of new breweries coming soon. Who knows this list might completely change.... or not.

 

reserve imperial IPA-captain lawrence
resin-sixpoint
three philosopher's-ommegang
hennepin-ommegang
the crisp-sixpoint

honorable mentions for unique and tasty experiences:
frost monster-captain lawrence
coney island lager-shmaltz brewey