Beers from just 10 breweries - which do you choose?

In many cases, this is what I think also.

 

Alvinne changed breweries not too long ago. The old bottles were notorious for gushing, lot of them were in bad shape, sometimes minor infections etc. They started brewing beers that are less likely to gush (high ABV, things like that), improved a lot as brewers and started making more interesting beers. A lot of the recent stuff from the BA series is really good, it is still best to pick and choose. Like the BA Melchior ones are really impressive and some other stuff.

Hof ten Dormaal – the expensive stuff is mainly the BA ones. Those are not that good, overpriced & some downright terrible - some of the early ones are nice. The regular non-BA stuff is really good and should be more affordable. Wit Goud is for instance really interesting, unique and good. Also don't get Winter 13 - that one is not very good. Wit Goud, Donker, Blond and Amber are the way to go. If you want to try a BA one, original series nr. 4 & 3 are the best ones. The original one not the 2013 series.

 

Oh well, gushing and infections with them... I know. But what I didnt know is that they changed breweries. Still I have always thought, that Alvinne is intersting. It is good to hear, that they are improved and still brew those interesting beers. If I remember correct, I havent had any their BA beers yet. I defenetely pick up BA Melchior, if I will see it and maybe some other as well.

I have had Stillwaters Bronze Age. Maybe there is some similarities with Hof ten Dormaals own beers?

 

There should be similarities with Bronze Age since from what I hear Brian doesn’t really brew & same water, ingredients etc. The one I had was infected, it was a keg before the official release – haven’t had it since, I cannot really judge.

 

In no particular order except 1 and 10:
Russian River
Cantillon
Drie Fonteinen
Sierra Nevada
Founders
Deschutes
Cigar City
Cascade
Firestone Walker
Lost Abbey (or a few others, Lagunitas, Bells, Three Floyds, etc.)

 

Hill Farmstead
Lawson's finest
Girardin
Alchemist
Russian River
Dupont
Chouffe (for the chouffe houblon)
Orval
Petrus
Dunham's

 

Founders
Bell's
Three Floyds
Great Lakes
Surly
Half Acre
Stone
Lagunitas
Sierra Nevada
Victory or Green Flash

 

Stone
Firestone Walker
Alchemist
Founders
Cambridge Brewing Company
Maine Brewing Co
Deschutes
Lagunitas
Cigar City
Homebrew

 

In no particular order :

Stone
Boston Brewing Co (Sam Adams)
Founders
Lagunitas
Weihenstephaner
Alchemist
Spaten-Franziskaner Brau
Lowenbrau AG
Founders
Sierra Nevada

 

My Merica list looks like this....
Founders
Bells
Fremont
SN
FW
Three Floyds
Deschutes
HF
Surly
RR

 

Let's see...the following in order of can't live without.

1. Ballast Point - Sculpin and V @ S are probably my two most-consumed beers right now.
2. Founders - Every seasonal is good, and there's always a seasonal.
3. Firestone Walker - Best BA beers of all time.
4. Great Lakes - If a brewery could receive aggregate points for all of its components, GL would get the most from
me.
5. Southern Tier - Some of the most intense flavors out there.
6. Lagunitas - Consistently good brews, excellent lighter styles too.
7. Cantillon - What little I've tried (three or four kinds) speaks volumes of what I haven't.
8. Bells - Hopslam, Two Hearted, some of their limited stuff, and their tap room. It's what I grew up on.
9. Oskar Blues - Ten FIDY anyone?
10. Sierra Nevada - For Bigfoot and Celebration.

 

No particular order :

Dogfish Head
Stone
Rogue
Driftwood
Sierra Nevada
Oskar Blues
Russian River
Cigar City
Founders
Bells

 

Funky Buddha
Cigar City
Three Floyds
The Alchemist
Russian River
Hill Farmstead
7venth Sun
Dogfish Head
Goose Island
Alpine

 

Heller Trum
Sly Fox
Mystic
Bells
Abita
Russian River
Deschutes
Great Lakes
Two Roads
Hill Farmstead

 

Brouwerij Het Anker
Allagash
Goose island
Idle Hands
Night Shift
Mystic
Weihenstephaner
Russian river
Ommegang/chouffe
Weyerbacher

I vote for three excellent local breweries doing amazing beers in different styles almost went for BMC to get hooegaarden, leffe and blue moon for mindless guilt free drinking

 

FFF
Destihl
Half Acre
Revolution
Bell's
New Glarus
Surly
Pipeworks
Russian River
Boulevard

Holy Sh*t, that would be awesome.

 

Cantillon
Drie Fonteinen
Saint Bernardus
De Struise
Weihenstephan
Cigar City
Russian River
Hill Farmstead
Three Floyds
The Bruery

 

Great Lakes
Founders
Sierra Nevada
Victory
Dogfish head
Oskar blues
Troegs
Bells
Ottos (local)
Miller/Coors (I enjoy the high life occasionally)

 

1. Hill Farmstead
2. Founders
3. Hair of the Dog
4. Cigar City
5. The Bruery
6. Firestone Walker
7. Kuhnhenn
8. Three Floyds
9. Pipeworks
10. Surly

 

• Mahr's
• Kloster Andechs
• Great Divide
• Dry Dock
• Russian River
• Cigar City
• New Belgium
• New Glarus
• Goose Island
• Firestone Walker

All in no particular order.