Beers from just 10 breweries - which do you choose?

1. Cigar City
2. 7venth Sun
3. Hill Farmstead
4. Three Floyds
5. J. Wakefield
6. New Belgium
7. Sweetwater
8. Dogfish Head
9. Great Divide
10. Swamphead

 

Stone
Victory
Yards
Sierra Nevada
Oskar Blues
SixPoint
Flying Fish
Boston Beer
Lagunitas
Troegs

 

I'll see your 10 breweries and raise you 10 beers (one beer per brewery).

1. Bell's- Two Hearted
2. Allagash- White
3. Oxbow- FPA
4. Alchemist- Heady
5. Firestone Walker- Sucaba
6. Founder's- Porter
7. GI- BCBCRS
8. Cantillon- Lou Pepe Gueuze
9. Lagunitas- SUCKS
10. Hanssens- Oude Kriek

 

As long as availability is not an issue... (in no particular order)

Hill Farmstead
Berkshire Brewing
Great Lakes
New England
Founders
Ommegang
Sixpoint
Yards
Rochefort
Samuel Smith's

 

These 9 are easy picks:

Surly
Founders
Ommegang
Allagash
Odell
Russian River
Bell's
Firestone Walker
Dogfish Head

Can't decide if the 10th should be Three Floyds, New Glarus, or Jolly Pumpkin.

 

If I could just have Loons all the time that would be alright for me

 

smuttynose
fantome
alpine
.....
.....



I'm good.

 

1. AB-Inbev
2. AB-Inbev
3. AB-Inbev
4. AB-Inbev
5. AB-Inbev
6. Whoever makes Busch Light
7. AB-Inbev
8. AB-Inbev
9. AB-Inbev
10. AB-Inbev

 

De Molen
To Öl
Nogne
Cantillon
Mikkeller
Anchorage
Jolly Pumpkin
Hoppin Frog
Evil Twin
Hill Farmstead

 

1. Dogfish Head
2. Stone
3. Bells
4. Founders
5. Oskar Blues
6. Southern Tier
7. Great Divide
8. Sierra Nevada
9. Thomas Creek (Homer )
10. Toss up between Mikkeller & Evil Twin.

 

1. sixpoint
2.ommegang
3.great lakes
4.troegs
5. victory
6.southern tier
7. sierra nevada
8. oskar blues
9. dogfish head
10. firestone walker

No particular order. =)

 

in no particular order

1. Cantillon
2. 3 Fonteinen
3. De Struise
4. DogFish Head
5. Brasserie Dupont
6. Sint Sixtus
7. De Dolle
8. De Musketeers
9. Rochefort
10. Het Anker

 

In absolutely random order:

Cantillon
Mikkeller
3 Fonteinen
Orval
Hanssens
Struise
CCB
Hair of the Dog
Thornbridge
Russian River

 

Question for two writers above.

Are there really good small or less known belgian breweries?

Every beer geek are really familiar with those you mentioned, but are the other which should seek?

 

Alchemist
Bells
Cantillon
Cigar City
Founders
Hill Farmstead
Ommegang
Toppling Goliath
Russian River
Unibroue

 

there are probably a lot of less known belgian breweries but they all do the same mediocre stuff. I dont care that their tripel or blond or dark beer tastes a very little bit different then others so I dont really care to try them out

I would love that our breweries would be more experimental instead of making the same traditional stuff over and over again. so i don't really have any recommendations.

 

- Troegs
- DuClaw
- Founders
- Three Floyd's
- Oskar Blues
- Lagunitas
- Bear Republic
- Rogue
- Green Flash
- Cigar City

 

I think the following breweries are worth checking out, hope that some of the names are new to you.

Dochter van de Korenaar, De La Senne, De Ranke, Hof ten Dormaal, La Caracole, Alvinne (only new bottles), Hobbybrouwerij Het Nest, Viven, Troubadour, Brugs Bierinstituut, Brasserie du Lion à Plume, Brouwerij De Leyerth, Brasserie à Vapeur (they are like Fantome if you are into that), Brasserie de l’Abbaye des Rocs, Brasserie St-Feuillien, Brasserie de Jandrain-Jandrenouille, Den Triest, Brasserie Sainte Hélène, Brasserie de Blaugies, etc.

 

New England Brewing Co.
Stone
Rodenbach
Founders
Oskar Blues
Green Flash
Russian River
Hill Farmstead
Lagunitas
Deep Ellum

 

Heh, actually most of them are not. But some are!

Why only Alvinnes new bottles?

These are not: Dochter van der Korenaar, De La Senne, La Caracole (just actually drank Nostradamus yesterday, havent tried other), Alvinne, Viven, Troubadour, Des Rocks, St Feuillien, Jandrain Jandranouille (only tried V). Then I had one Vapeur (saison) on my cellar, but I havent had it yet.

Rest of I havent had any.

Since all those are pretty good breweries, I should probably try also those others. I have sometimes seen some Hof ten Dormaal beers, but I have never buy any. If I remember correct, they are quite pricey.