The Ultimate 8 Taps for Your Bar

Not being from your area I have no Idea of availability, but I'd agree with your top 4, I think I'd put Great Lakes and Founders as the seasonal options/limited releases, Bell's with Two Hearted considering it's reputation, and then do some other big name stout like Ten-fidy or Yeti.

 

Two Hearted
Kellerweis
Founders porter
Obsidian Stout
Prima Pils
90 minute
Old Chub
SNPA

 

From a sales standpoint, I'm not sure if these are the best choices. From a personal view, these are my top 8:

Firestone Walker Pivo Pils
Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Unibroue La Fin Du Monde
Alpine Beer Co. Nelson
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Rochefort 10
AleSmith BBA Speedway Stout

If you can't pick something from that list, I'm sorry, you're just not in the mood for a beer.

 

I can understand why an individual bar owner might want to sell "craft" beer exclusively and realize it is entirely possible to succeed in many markets with such plan, but you really don't understand why any bar sells the 4 best-selling beers in the country, which together - out of thousands of available brands - account for 40% of the entire US beer market?

 

1) Osset Brewery's Silver King (light bitter)
2) Fuller's HSB (brown bitter)
3) Fuller's ESB
4) Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier
5) Old Chimney's Good King Henry RIS
6) Buffy's Mild (dark mild)
7) Schneider Weisse Tap 5
8) Weird Beard The Duke of Dank (AIPA)

 

Good list but if I was the customer I would want revolving taps. If the same 8 beers are on for months with no new options I would get bored with it and probably wouldn't return but if I had to make an 8 tap list it would be:
1.SNPA
2.DFH Indian Brown
3.DFH 90 minute
4.two Hearted
5.ten Fidy
6.Founders breakfast stout
7.SN Nooner
8.Founders Porter

 

In no particular order:

1). SNPA
2). NG Moon Man
3). Deschuetes Black Butte
4). Firestone Pivo
5). New Belgium Abbey
6). Bells Two-Hearted
7). Lakefront East Side Dark
8). New Holland Dragon's Milk

 

Hmmm...

Revolution Fist City Pale Ale
Pipeworks Ninja vs. Unicorn
Deschutes Fresh Squeezed/Fatheads Headhunter (can't decide!)
Weihenstephaner Hefe
Pilsner Urquel
GLBC Edmund Fitzgerald
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
Rotating tap featuring Almanac Farmers Reserve Sours

 

Founders Seasonal
Dragon's Milk
PseudoSue
TwoHearted
Todd the Axeman
Sierra Nevada Torpedo
Rotate Ale Asylum
Yuengling

 

For Houston Texas...

1) Saint Arnold 5'OClock Pils
2) Live Oak Hefe
3) Lone Pint Yellow Rose
4) (512) Pecan Porter
5) Karbach Sympathy for the Lager
6) Brash Cortado
7) Hops and Grain A Pale Mosaic
8) Southern Star Buried Hatchet Stout

All Houston and Austin area breweries, and there could be much more (I did not include anything from Real Ale). I would be perfectly happy with that tap list all year round though.

 

(1) Carton Brewing Regular Coffee
(2) Fremont Brewing Dark Star
(3) Kane Brew ANTEAD
(4) Tired Hands Milkshake
(5) Maine Beer Co Weez
(6) Conclave Brewing Gravitational Waves
(7) Trillium IPA (Really mostly any are great)
(8) Mispillion River Holy Crap or Not Today Satan

 

Shouldn't you have included "the top five beers from the top five states if you could only drink one beer in a can for the rest of your life on a desert island after mowing the lawn for your wedding"?

 

NJ/PA brews:

1) Kane - Overhead
2) Magnify - Its-Dam-Cool Porter
3) Tired Hands - Hop Hands
4) Carton - Café Y Churro
5) Forgotten Boardwalk - Pocket Trick
6) Kane - ANTEAD Coconut
7) Carton - Brunch.Dinner.Grub
8) Weyerbacher - Insanity

 

I'm with you. I like new and variety. This is tenfold if I am going out and purchasing a beer at a bar. I rarely buy a pour of something I can just get anywhere and easily. If a place has 8 stale taps, then I'm not coming back.

The local craft place here changes their taplist at 11 everyday, and I look everyday to see what's new.

 

1. Pseudo sue
2. Deschutes fresh squeezed
3. Funkwerks saison, or tropic king they are both great
4. Tall grass buffalo sweat
5. Great divide hibernation in the winter, collette or lasso in the spring and summer. I know hibernation is seasonal, but I would rotate it in.
6. Great divide yeti, hard to come up with year round imperial stouts.
7. Weihenstephaner hefeweizen
8. For you spotted cow, for everyone else sam Adams Boston lager.

 

Easy.

1. FFF Dreadnaught
2. FFF Dreadnaught
3. FFF Dreadnaught
4. FFF Dreadnaught
5. FFF Dreadnaught
6. FFF Dreadnaught
7. FFF Dreadnaught
8. FFF Dreadnaught

 

1. Columbus Brewing Company Bodhi IPA
2. Deschutes Black Butte Porter
3. Victory Prima Pils
4. Three Floyds Zombie Dust
5. Founders Breakfast Stout
6. Jester King Das Uberkind (Saison Vielle)
7. Surly Coffee Bender
8. Maine Beer Company Zoe (Amber ale)

I'm kinda sad I didn't get a Cigar City beer on the list 'cause I really like them...but limited to only eight choices...this is what I came up with.

 

This list is mostly readily available in many areas.
1. Hacker-Pschorr Munchen Gold
2. Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier
3. Bell's Amber Ale
4. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
5. Stone IPA
6. Neumarkter Lammsbrau Dunkel
7. Founder's Porter
8. Young's Oatmeal Stout
Alternates: Smuttynose Finest Kind IPA and Robust Porter; Einbecker Schwarzbier; Guinness Stout; Fuller's London Pride, ESB, and 1845; and any number of DFH choices.

 

Ask the reps which brands sell.