Mix a Six - Lagers from your State

A six pack of growlers from High Point Ramstein:

Golden
Amber
Pilsner
Imperial Pilsner
And 2 of the Octoberfest

 

Iowa
Millstream Schildbrau
Toppling Goliath Dorothy
Lost Duck Black Duck Lager
Third Base Czech Your Head Pils
Worth Brewing Vienna Lager
Millstream German Pilsner

 

Where's our Wisconsin contingent? I don't live in the Dairy State, so I don't want to step on toes, but Capital? Sprecher? Lake Front? New Glarus?

Lemme hear ya!

 

Steveh, I was composing my list when you asked about Wisconin:

Two Women, Edel Pils, Naked, Staghorn (if it is Oktoberfest time), basically, any lagers from New Glarus that are available are often part of my mix 6 purchases. Sometime they'll have a lager in their Thumbprint series, which is always worth trying. Of course, they won't all be available at once.

Another that I've put in my mixes over the last year or so is O'So Brewing's Memory Lane, a very nice pilsner, IMO.

To these, I might add a few from Capital Brewing, depending on availability and the mood I am in. I really fell in love with their maibock a few summers back. They have a good doppelbock, too.

Another malty lager worth a try, if that's your mindset, is Lakefront's Riverwest. I used to really like red lagers, and this was a favorite. Nowadays, I'm more into more balanced, golden malts, with a whiff of noble hops. Which brings me back to Two Women and Edel Pils....

I've left out a few, I'm sure.

And if none of these are too your likeing, my state also offers a certain triple-hopped lager you might enjoy.

 

Solid, list but I'll weak slightly:

Sly Fox Pikeland Pils
Stoudt's Gold
Stoudt's Smooth Hoperator
Troegs Troeganator
Victory Prima Pils
Voodoo Pilzilla

 

CT:
NEBCO Elm City Pils
Two Roads Ol Factory Pils
Two Roads Henry's Farm Doppelbock
Thomas Hooker Doppelbock
Thomas Hooker Octoberfest
There ive simultaneously listed the best and only lagers from the state

 

Anchor Steam
Anchor California Lager
SN Summerfest
Lagunitas PILS

That's all I can muster. I need to try a few more. Firestone's Pivo Pils should be sixers soon.

 

I'll second the Stein beer -- this was one of my first ever micros back in the late '80s, early '90s, and I still go back to it now and again.

 

Great Lakes Eliot Ness x2
Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold x2
Great Lakes Oktoberfest x2

 

Michigan:
Any 6 different beers from Wolverine. Nothing else.

 

Smuttynose Baltic Porter ...... x6

 

Victory Prima Pils
Victory Festbier (better than their V Lager, but not as well known)
Troegs Troegenator
Troegs Sunshine Pils
Yuengling Lager (can't ignore a classic)
Philadelphia Brewing Company's Kenzinger

 

Sly Fox - Pikeland Pils
Troegs - Sunshine Pils
Victory - Prima Pils
Stouds - Smooth Hoperator
Sly Fox - Octoberfest
Stouds Gold

 

Here in Charlotte, NC, it's tough to not just rattle off six beers from The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery -- but I'll try.

North Carolina

Duck-Rabbit Baltic Porter
Foothills Torch Pilsner
Mother Earth Dark Cloud
OMB Dunkel
OMB Captain Jack
OMB Mecktoberfest

 

Narragansett always counts.

 

It's not a Rhode Island beer. They have a "headquarters" here and they do some of their brewing at Trinity in Providence, but their main presence is outside of the state.

 

PA

Victory Prima Pils
Troeg's Troegnator
Stegmaier Oktoberfest
Stegmaier Amber Lager
Troeg's Sunshine Pils
and hell, let's throw in a Yuengling for posterity.

 

Saint Arnold - Oktoberfest x3
Rahr and Sons - Ugly Pug x3

Fuck Shiner Bock.

 

Well, a mix a six-pack means packaged beers. There are a number of draft only lagers I would put on my list but for packaged beers:

· Victory St. Victorious Doppelbock
· Sly Fox Pikeland Pils
· Sly Fox Oktoberfest
· Sly Fox Golden Munich Helles
· Victory Prima Pils
· Troegs Sunshine Pils

This year’s Victory St. Victorious was OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers!