The Mixed Six That Defines You

Captains Daughter by Grey Sail - Hometown
Founders Breakfast Stout - Breakfast
Red Oak Lager - College Town
Aventinus - Introduced me to good beer
Narragansett - 16oz of summer 2012

Thats my holiday 5 pack

 

Mackeson XXX Stout - broke the chains from the dominance of college keg beer in the early 1990s
Bass Ale - beer of choice from grad school through the 1st decade of my career
Dale's Pale Ale - great hops in a can after a day of racing in Annapolis and every regatta site from Key West to Marblehead
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA - a mutual love of a beer from my home state brought my Boston-based fiancee and I together
Evil Twin Citra Sunshine Slacker- my favorite canned beach/sailing beer
Hill Farmstead Society & Solitude #4 - my favorite beer...."Double Citra meets Double Galaxxy" (close 2nd: HF Abner)

 

I was gonna suggest 12 oz bottles only (or cans of standard radius) but see a lot of people already put that limitation on themselves. Minus 10 points for anyone who chose stuff that wouldn't fit in their cardboard carrier!

For me it would be pretty pedestrian... nothing rare or super expensive. Just great and easily obtainable brews.

Weihenstephaner Hefe
GLBC Edmund Fitz
Anderson Valley Oatmeal Stout
SNPA (or torpedo... love both)
DFH Indian Brown Ale
Anchor California Lager

Wanted to put in a Stone Smoked Porter but I've never seen it in anything but a bomber.

 

Ayinger Celebrator
Stone Enjoy By
Weihenstephaner Dunkelweizen
Founders Imperial Stout
Founders Porter
Unibroue La Fin du Monde

Can I have another sixer for the other hand?

 

pliny the elder (russian river)
creme brulee (southern tier)
nitro belgian white (sam adams)
zombie dust (three floyds)
koko brown (kona)
cappuccino stout (Lagunitas)

 

I put too much thought into this, I went with autobiographical:

1. Arrogant Bastard OR Ruination - these two opened my eyes to US craft
2. Celebrator - tried and true classic, my first window into a true german style. It blew me away then and blows me away now
3. KBS - first beer I geeked out over and ran after like an idiot, and admittedly still chase
4. RR Consecration - set the bar for me by which all sours are measured
5. Hi Res - I stumbled on this knowing nothing about it and feel like it's one beer I truly advocate for now - I absolutely love it
6. Something I've never had before - I always want to try something new. I can't remember the last time I bought beer and bought only things I've had before

 

More of a reminiscent 6 pack but they all have a special place in my heart

1) Budweiser - First beer I ever drank (right before leaving for college)
2) SN Pale Ale - First hoppy beer I had ever tried, it turned me into a monster
3) Heady Topper/Pro Pig Citra Pale Ale - First beers I ever drank on my first ever beer road trip to VT with SWMBO
4) Bell's Two Hearted - Lived in Arlington, VA for a year. Absoletly loved the weather down there and it reminds me of drinking on rooftop bars with so many good friends
5) Trillium Galaxy Dry Hopped Fort Point Pale Ale - My first job was located right next door to Trillium in Boston. I was running there every Friday and buying fresh bottles
6) Trillium Pot & Kettle - First dark beer (Porter or Stout) I really fell in love with.

 

1. SN Celebration
2. New Belgium Abbey
3. Lumberyard Red Ale
4. Paulaner Oktoberfest-Marzen
5. SN Torpedo
6. New Belgium Rampant

 

Struise Pannepot (or HOTD Adam) - opened my eyes to what beer could be.
Westvleteren 12 - subtle with great depth and a monastic twist (like me). one of my overall faves.
Old Horizontal - my first barley wine, suitable for cellaring; two concepts unknown to me when I started crafting. also local.
Double Barrel Hunahpu - maybe my favorite beer from my most sampled style. also a tribute to a few excellent FL traders who sent me a ton of crazy stuff I would have had a hard time trading for.
Lagunitas Born Yesterday - I was certainly not born yesterday as I'm pushing 60. needed something hoppy and sessionable. also a nod to my hippie roots and my avatar. Keep on trucking!
Tired Hands Pineal - glad they canned this so I could include here. my most rated brewery and it's the pineal gland.

 

Switchback ale - Classic Vermonter
Hill Farmstead George - Slightly nutty but still complex
Trillium Congress St. - Bright yet cloudy
FBS - Incomplete without breakfast
BP Even Keel - Self explanatory
Burlington Beer Folk Metal

 

Coors Light - Beer I lost my virginity to
Sam Adams Boston Lager - Craft beer I lost my virginity to
The Alchemist Heady Topper - First beer I ever had that lived up to the hype
Russian River Temptation - Favorite American wild ale of all time
Duvel - Amazing
Recent bottle of homebrew - just because.

 

Wow very hard choice.

Stone Enjoy By Unfiltered, because I like it dirty.
Lawson's Triple Play IPA, probably the single best IPA I have had.
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti, gorgeous, with an amazing body, and rich.
Great Divide Old Ruffian, my all time favorite Barleywine.
Avery Tweak, because nobody does huge beers like them.
Fiddle Head Second Fiddle, because a rare perfect 5 DIPA.

Few that was difficult! Now I need a beer and am still 45 minutes from getting out of work.

 

Thomas Hardy's Ale
Spaten Franziskaner
Unibroue La Fin Du Monde
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Whitbread Pale Ale
Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Urbock

 

Arcadia Imperial Stout
Thomas Hardy's (1997 is nice)
Scotty Karate
Abaye Des Rocs Grand Cru
Bells Expedition Stout
Founders Porter

Cheers

 

Pliny the Elder. Reminds me of home and my first big time beer hunt.
Zombie Dust. Probably my favorite beer.
KBS. An amazing stout that will warm you up.
Heady. Started my love for northeast hops and I worked hard to get my first one.
SoS. An amazing beer.
King Julius. NE hops and thick OJ bombs are quickly becoming my favorite style.