The Mixed Six That Defines You

Or something for the field workers.

 

Ok, having reread the original post, I can see the point. Matching beer names/attributes to your own personality or life values. Fair enough. And it is a beer website. I suppose on a car site it might be " six cars in your garage that would define you". I was grabbed by the thread title which made it sound like you were defining yourself with beer. And I think we should all love and enjoy beer but notttake it so seriously that we "define" ourselves by it. It's only beer.

 

Sierra Nevada Torpedo
Founder's All Day IPA
Springhouse Braaaiins!!!
Troeg's Troegenator
Otto's Jolly Roger RIS
Stegmaier Porter

 

Huh... that defines me, you say? Not necessarily that I want to drink? OK...

- Michelob Ultra - because I want to be in better shape, but beer
- Kirin Namakuro - I love Japan and Japanese culture, and Namakuro has a bit of flavor to it while being Japanese
- Sam Cherry Wheat - for the times I'm great to be around briefly, but grate on you after a short while
- ATG The Brown Note - because, uh, I'm a very regular fellow?
- Sixpoint Bengali - I'm a tiger in the sack. Yeah. Totally.
- Sam Adams Utopia - because sometimes, God damn it, I'm worth spending an insane amount of money on to have a good time. I work hard. Once in a while, I want to be luxurious and totally opulent.

 

Founders Imperial Stout
Prairie Bomb!
Bell's Two-Hearted Ale
Duchess de Bourgogne
Jolly Pumpkin La Roja
Grizzly Peak Bear Paw Porter

Honorable mention to Backwoods Bastard, Tweak and Bourbon County Barleywine

 

Just six of these: http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/35229/139762/

 

Cambridge Brewing Flower Child
Maine Beer Lunch
Maine Beer Another One
Ballast Point Gruion
Founders Porter
Night Shift Awake Coffee Porter

Didn't include anything that's only available in 22 oz or more. If so there would be a lot of Trillium stuff.

 

Cambridge Brewing Flower Child
Maine Beer Lunch
Maine Beer Another One
Ballast Point Gruion
Founders Porter
Night Shift Awake Coffee Porter


Didn't include anything that is only available in 22oz or larger bottles. If so there would be a lot of Trillium stuff.

 

Enjoy By
Row 2/Hill 56
Saison Bernice
Imperial Coffee and Cigarettes
Born Yesterday
Bourbon County Stout

Imp. coffee and cigs isn't bottled yet, but whatever.

 

I love the hoppy stuff so I'll narrow it down to these 6:

1. Stone Ruination (the original)--this is the one that set me on this quest for every hoppy beer there is
2. CC Tropicalia--one of the 2 locals that's in my fridge most of the time
3. Orpheus Transmigration of Souls--the other one
4. Half Acre Daisy Cutter--maybe I didn't need to just be chasing IPA's and DIPA's
5. Zombie Dust/Pliny/Heady--I count these as (1), as they were the giants that I HAD to try. I can interchange them and they're probably the best beer in the fridge at the time. I don't think that I've had any of them in at the same time.
6. Carton 077XX--the beer that I've traded the most for. Probably my favorite beer. For now.

 

Great Lakes Blackout Stout
Fat Heads Sunshine Daydream
Lagunitas Sucks
Hefeweizen of some kind
Heady Topper
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald

 

Chimay White
North Coast Old Stock Ale
Bend Brewing Ching Ching
Bale Breaker Field 41
Deschutes Mirror Pond
New Glarus Raspberry Tart.

 

Sam Adams Boston lager, I'm fucking awesome but people tend to forget.
Enjoy by, my prime is ending and it's ending quick.
Terrapin wake n bake, self expainatory.
Founders all day, I can go all day I just have to take it a little slow.
Busch light, I'm cheap as hell.
Great divide hibernation ale, I sleep to much.

 

Boulevard Tank 7 - the easiest selection of the bunch. A unique and boundary-pushing beer and one that does the "hopped up saison" better than any I can think of. I like other hopped-up saisons. I love Tank 7. Can't wait for it to arrive in Michigan later this month and not have to ask my friends in the Kansas City area to include them as trade extras...

Tree House Julius - also a pretty easy selection. For a long time, I had a hard time declaring any IPA or DIPA my "favorite" in style. There were just too many that I really liked to single out just one. Julius changed that. I'm fairly certain it's my favorite within the style. Yes, it's a huge honking juice bomb, but what makes it so good, to me, is a subtle herbal undertone that complements the juiciness perfectly.

Goose Island Bourbon County Barleywine (non-2015 edition) - I didn't think I liked barleywines. Admittedly, I hadn't been exposed to many, and the one that remains my least favorite--Bigfoot--just turned me off from really exploring the style. BCBBW was randomly tapped at a local bottle shop/taproom one night in 2013 when I was just stopping in to grab a mixed six to take home. I saw it on the menu and ordered it because Bourbon County. When it came to me, I almost stopped the bartender to ask if the menu was wrong--I had ordered a barleywine, not a stout. But not wanting to sound stupid, I decided the Emperor did, indeed, have clothes on. I took a drink and immediately realized that I had received the right thing and that I needed to try a lot more barleywines. Especially barrel-aged ones. I realize it's not typical of the style, but it was my gateway barleywine, and now there are many I love.

Cantillon Kriek - There aren't a lot of sours that come in 12 oz bottles, so this one and it's small-format 375 ml bottles got the nod as the stand-in for all the amazing Belgian sours that I've loved over my lifespan as a beer drinker. Consider it a placeholder for my two favorite sours of all time: Fou' Foune and Hommage. Plus, the color makes it look like you're drinking melted-down cinnamon candies.

Orval - Everyone needs a little weird in their life. Orval is mine. So versatile and a standard bearer for beer as a living beverage. It's classic, yet innovative. And it's always available.

Founders Imperial Stout - no mix six would be complete without a bottle of motor oil to stick to your bones and warm you up through the cold winter. This is the stout that imparts what a non-barrel aged stout is capable of. Roasty and charred, slightly sweet, smooth and robust. It might be Founders best beer that doesn't have a fancy acronym (even though it does have a fancy acronym).

 

Drie Oude Kriek- because I'm OK
Drie Oude Geuze- because I'm O.G
Trillium FPPA- reminds me of where I grew up
FBS- reminds me of my favorite meal time
Hoegaarden- reminds me of where I started
Clown shoes muffin top -reminds me of what I got after I started.

 

Tree House Alter Ego - or whatever IPA they can that week. I'd say any Trillium IPA could be in this slot too.

Guinness - Go to when no good craft is available, consumed MANY in my 20/30's and I guess in my 40's too.

Corona Light - Beach/Boat/Summer Beer.

Long Trail Ale - The beer that got me into craft and still a nice solid go to.

Jack's Abbey Hopponious Union - Go to local IPL that is fresh everywhere near me and the best craft option at my local.

Sam Winter - Sentimental a beer I enjoy each year with my Dad.

These may not be my 6 favorite beers but I can gaurentee that anyone close to me would know to order one of these for me or bring them to my house if they are visiting.

 

Curmudgeon - It's what I am.
Arrogant Bastard - It's what I am.
Surly Coffee Bender - It's what I am in the morning.
Mikkeller Beer Geek (any) - It's what I am.
Even More Jesus - It's what I need.
DFH Sixty-One - I'm a wine guy.
Bodhi - I'm from Columbus.

I know that's seven, but Bodhi doesn't come in bottles yet. (AFAIK, anyway.) Besides, my patented honeycomb-shaped seven-pack will hold them all when that day comes.

 

Cantillion st lamvinus
Grimm tesseract
Trillium double dry hop sleeper street
Abraxas
Good morning
Westbrook goose

 

Jackie O's Dark Apparition (I think I relate it to my skin color since I'm a darker filipino kinda guy)
Pliny the Elder (I'm old balls now so my nephew goes to me with questions on DIPA's)
Mikkeller Brunch Weasel (I love brunch and I love coffee stouts)
Fat Head's Hop Juju (I'm all about hops and I always thing good juju is helpful)
Modern Times Monster's Park (Both regular and variants just knock me out of the park)
Weihenstephaner Dunkel (Classic! Enough said)