Beer Epiphany Moments

One of my epiphany moments was with Two Brothers' Cane & Ebel. It's an amazing brew and it made me realize how enormously important mouthfeel can be in a beer. The taste is solid, but it's the feel of that beer that really puts it into a class of its own.

Another was a 2007 Bigfoot which proved to me that aging can be greatly beneficial to beer.

 

Old Raspy (that was my gateway beer into the stout world)
Arctic Panzer Wolf
Alesmith IPA
GF West Coast IPA
Parabola
Zombie Dust
Hop Venom
SN 30th anniversary Jack and Kens Barleywine

 

Orval

 

I literally had one of these today and was going to post the same thread. Mine was from Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald. We just got Great Lakes in our area and EF blew me away.

Also, other ZOMG moments were:
Pliny the Elder
Heady Topper
SN Celebration
SN Bigfoot
Racer 5
Founders Breakfast Stout
Stone 10th Anniversary Ruination
Westy 12
SN 30th (all of them)
New Glarus Barleywine
New Glarus Moon Man
Founders CBS

 

Bell's Bourbon Barrel Batch 9,000
Midnight Sun Berserker
Rare
King Henry
Heady Topper
KBS
Bell's Bourbon Barrel Cherry Stout
Zombie Dust
FFF Live A Rich Life
AB Huna
Black Note
BBPt5
JP La Roja Grand Reserve
Short's Bourbon Barrel Black Cherry Porter

 

There have been many, but here are the beers that made me really excited:

Buckeye Brewing Amarillo IPA - The Summer of 2007, this solid yet unspectacular brewery had this gem on the whole season. It was maybe the single best IPA I've ever had, and I have had many. Unfortunately the brewer can't find enough Amarillo to brew this again(or so I have been told).

Cantillon Bourgogne Lambic - Best beer I have ever had.

Iron Hill Oak Aged Old Tom - Happened to be in Wilmington when this was tapped and it was a spectacular and interesting beer. I have never had anything quite like it. Anybody remember this beer?

 

My most recent beer epiphany was when I organized my cellar the other night. I need to get drinking ASAP.

 

Daisy Cutter - changed my conceptions of APAs/IPAs and now I can't get enough of those styles!
St. Bernardus Prior 8
Zombie Dust
Dreadnaught
BCBS
Breakfast Stout

 

Schlenkerla Maerzen. First epiphany (I thought) was the shock of the liquid bacon taste in a beer. But the true epiphany was after I made it to #4, when the base Maerzen emerged and I realized that the genius of this beer doesn't lie in its immediate, bold flavors, but rather in its underlying subtle, balanced, nuanced characteristics.

 

Dundee Porter - Not the greatest beer but it was my first Porter and starter of my love for dark sweet beers.

I have had tons of being amazed moments by how good something was but that first taste of porter and the realization on what I had missed out on up to that point will always be a little moment I will remember.

 

Basically every time I tried a new Founders beer. (Except for their Pale Ale)

 

Terrapin Hopsecutioner. One of the first IPAs I ever had. Made me realize I'm a hophead. Along those lines, DFH 120 as well.

 

Drinking Odell IPA changed my life, it's always a solid one to go back to and helped me realize my passion for craft beer.

 

Parabola
Chimay white
Lagunitas Sucks
Schlenkerla Weizen
Aventinus
Celebrator
Triple Karmeliet

 

My 1st Hopslam was my 1st god damn.

PTE
Heady
KBS

 

Ft: king henry ISO: 2013 Burton Sherlock blackjack sound good to you?

 

Even before Samuel Adams Triple Bock hit my lips, I knew that my parents had lied. There were monsters in this world. I also knew what I had to do. Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

GAME OVER MAN. GAME OVER.

 

Hop Wallop
Dreadnaught
FBS