Beers we take for granted

Couldn't agree more. I think they make one lager that I don't care for (I'm not a fan of lagers, in general), but just about everything else they offer makes me happy to drink. Easy to get, reasonably priced, and simply pretty good.

For my non-beer-geek friends, I suggest they try Sierra Nevada's offerings in whatever style for something different than what they're used to.

 

all great lakes and founders which is always on the self around here

 

All of the New Glarus fruit beer that everyone outside of WI is begging to try. I figure it will always be on the shelf.

 

My two would have to be Bell's Two Hearted and Edmund Fitzgerald Porter. I rarely buy it but every time that I buy it I am pleasantly surprised by how well balance it is and the presence of the floral nodes and citrus flavors from the hops. Edmund Fitzgerald I buy probably every six months and was the first beer to get me into craft beer. Every time I drink this one the malt combination reminds me of eating a toasted marshmallow from over a campfire, whats not to love about this beer?

 

I hate you

I got to try the Raspberry Tart recently and it was simply amazing.

 

JW Dundee Honey Brown. It's not very good most places, but when I lived in Rochester and got it just about straight from the brewery, it was very good. Creamy with a slight sweetness, but not a sticky sweetness. I could drink it all day, but didn't. It isn't one of my favorites, but this is about taking beers for granted, and man do I regret not drinking more of it when I was close to the source.

 

Comparing a pale ale to an IPA. Brilliant plan there.

 

It's widely regarded as an APA, irrespective of what Anchor calls it.

Brilliant plan....what a @$&

 

you need to read better. I said I DON'T NOT take it for granted. Besides its a silly question as 98% of these are.

 

It is listed as an IPA, including by the brewery and the BJCP.

As per Anchor's website:

Liberty Ale® was first brewed to celebrate the bicentennial of Paul Revere’s historic ride. As the first modern American IPA brewed after prohibition and the first modern American single-hop ale and dry-hopped ale, Anchor’s Liberty Ale® is the original craft brewed ale and the beer that started a revolution.

As per BJCP:

Commercial Examples: Bell’s Two-Hearted Ale, AleSmith IPA, Russian River Blind Pig IPA, Stone IPA, Three Floyds Alpha King, Great Divide Titan IPA, Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA, Victory Hop Devil, Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, Anderson Valley Hop Ottin’, Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA, Founder’s Centennial IPA, Anchor Liberty Ale, Harpoon IPA, Avery IPA


YOU may not agree with that assessment, but as it sits, it is an IPA. Deal with it.

 

There are still alot of good pilsner style beers out there that we overlook.

 

I made a point, to which you posted this:

Seems to me that I struck a nerve. Drink a beer, it'll be fine

Cheers.

 

Don't kill me but I take FFF Zombie dust for granted. I live three miles from the brewery so I can get it any time I want. In the same breath I would kill for Fresh Pliny or Heady. I guess the human condition wants what it can't get. Thats what makes the craft beer movement so exciting. The search for the next best thing. Until I find it I'll keep drinking!

 

If I lived within 3 miles of FFF, I would most likely be broke.

 

Standard old Allagash White. Every time I end up with one somewhere it's like Damn, why don't I have a kegerator full of it.

Agree with all the Lagunitas Lil SumpinSumpin props too, for sure, got to stop walking past it...

 

Every New Glarus beer BESIDES Moon Man (which I buy like it is going out of style). I could live off only what they release every season and be happy.... Why don't I?? Who knows!

 

You need to write better
If you don't not you do

 

Well, have you had Torpedo yet?

 

To answer the question, put me down for Torpedo also. Great beer at a great price.

 

That is true today, with the brewery under new ownership.

OTOH, from a Lew Bryson Malt Advocate interview with Liberty Ale's creator, Fritz Maytag:​