The Ultimate 8 Taps for Your Bar

Very hard to dislike your choice!

 

Jacks Abby House Lager is a great beer... Some people can appreciate lagers, they aren't entry-level beers.

 

1 - Founders Breakfast Stout
2 - Oskar Blues Ten Fidy
3 - Bells Two Hearted
4 - Stone Enjoy By
5 - Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen
6 - Sam Adams Boston Lager
7 - Fullers London Porter
8 - Samuel Smith's Strawberry Ale

This was a lot harder than I thought It'd be, so many good beers left off.

 

1) Lagunitas Rotating Seasonal (Or an ever-aging Brown Shugga if I cant rotate)
2) Pilsner Urquell
3) SNPA
4) Uinta Hop Nosh
5) Arrogant Bastard
6) Boulder Shake
7) North Coast Old Rasputin
8) Rochefort 10

 

My 8
Zombie Dust
Pipeworks ninja vs unicorn
Pollyanna lexical gap
Bells Oberon
Gumballhead
Odd sides Citra pale ale
Ballast point grapefruit sculpin
Deschuttes fresh squeezed

 

I like this game, so here we go:
1. Troegs Perpetual
2. Founders All Day IPA
3. Sierra Nevada Torpedo
4. Crystal Ball Coconut Porter
5. Victory Dirt Wolf
6. PBR
7. Lancaster Double Chocolate Milk Stout
8. New Belgium Fat Tire

 

I'll assume my distributor takes care of me and no more than 1 per brewery, tyr my best to mix styles...


1) Victory Prima Pils
2) Founders Porter (Breakfest stout in autuem though)
3) 3 Floyds Zombie Dust
4) Platform Speed Merchant (Or Brew Kettle White Rajah)
5) Bells Expedition (We get a keg of Blacknote too)
6) St. Bernardus Abt 12
5) Fat Heads Seasonal/Rotating l (Trailhead, Hopstalker, Spooky Tooth, Holly Jolly)
6) Stone Seasonal/Rotating (IPA, Enjoy By, IRS, Xocoveza)

5 and 6 could really go with (ALMOST) any of their brews but those 4 being my top choices
Also. the rule was 8, but the last two 'Seasonal/Rotating's would be rotated occasionally with Jackie O's, Alesmith, Ballast Point and Sierra Nevada at any given point.

 

For what is available here:

1) Pale Ale: Proclamation - Derivative (whichever hop variant available)
2) DIPA: Grey Sail - Captain's Daughter
3) Hefe: Paulaner - Hefeweizen
4) Bock: Narragansett - Bock
5) Scotch Ale: Founders - Backwoods Bastard/Dirty Bastard
6) Brown Ale: Black Hog - Granola Brown
7) Saison: Boulevard - Tank 7
8) Stout: Ipswich - Oatmeal Stout

 

For year round availability, these would keep me coming back.

Pivo Pilsner
Ten Fidy
Prairie Bomb
Julius
Psuedo Sue
Stone Enjoy By
Chimay Blue
Moose Drool

 

I too have been thinking abut getting into the tavern business. I always felt a rotating list is best. Really no house beers just things I believe would be appreciated. Keep it exciting.

 

1) Duvel
2) Weihenstephaner Hefe
3) FW DDBA
4) Anchor Steam
5) Aecht Schlenkerla Marzen
6) North Coast Old Rasputin
7) Duchesse De Bourgogne
8) Victory Dirtwolf

 

Weihenstaphaner Hefeweizen
SN summerfest
Delirium tremens
STB ABT 12
Anderson Valley Gose
SN Pale Ale
Maine beer company king Titus
Heady topper

Just missed: founders imperial stout, tank 7, and HF Edward

 

1) Allagash Tripel
2) Trillium Fort Point Pale Ale
3) Founders Breakfast Stout
4) Smuttynose Old Brown Dog
5) Oskar Blues Ten Fidy
6) Weiheinstephaner Original
7) Jacks Abby Hoponious Union
8) Guiness

 

If i could have any beer year round...

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Spellbound Porter
Sixpoint Jammer
Shock Top. (yes, im serious) maybe Hoegaarden
Sly Fox Helles
Weihenstephaner Hefe
Brooklyn Lager
Green Flash Soul Style.

A bit of everything. Nothing too strong or too bitter all flavorfu enough and can go well with food or not.

 

The ultimate 8 taps already exist. Any given 8 as a subset of those available at City Beer, Caps & Taps, Good Karma, Trappist, or Trappist provisions (Bay Area) at any given time is a better selection than anything I could come up with.

 

• Alpine Nelson
• Pure Hoppiness
• Jackie O's Oro Negro
• Gumballhead
• FFF Cimmerian Sabertooth
• Sixpoint Jammer
• Speedway Stout
• Alesmith IPA

 

Trillium DDH Fort Pointe
Founders KBS
Jack's Abby Excess
Tired Hands Alien Church
Oscar Blues Death by Coconut
Burial Massacre of the Innocents
Pizzaboy Murren River
Lagunitas Born Yesterday

 

oh man, this is tougher than I thought. I'm not super experienced with beers as many people on here, but here we go:
1) Heady Topper
2) Miller Lite (palette cleanser)
3) Arrogant Bastard
4) Old Rasputin
5) Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
6) a rye IPA, something like Rye One On
7) Sam Smith Oatmeal Stout
8) Nugget Nectar

 

Although never achievable, this is what I'd end up with. Kind of a homer with a ton of Ohio brews, but I'm biased. Fun idea though.

1. Triple Digit Chickow! (Brown ale)
2. Lagunitas A little Sumpin' Extra! (Hop Heads)
3. Four Strings Vanilla Porter (Porter)
4. Yellow Springs Zoetic (Pale Ale)
5. Rotating Hoof Hearted tap (Why the Hell not)
6. Great Divide Oatmeal Yeti (Stout)
7. Blank Slate Opera Cream Stout (Super underrated Cincinnati beer)
8. Hoppin' Frog BA Naked Evil BBW (Barleywine, because DUH!)

 

This sounds like a fun list...I'll play along. However my bar would focus on ~easily sourced, Belgian-inspired beers:
1) Duvel Single (Duvel Moortgat) 6.8% ABV
2) Black (Allagash) 7.5% ABV
3) Exit 4 (Flying Fish) 9.5% ABV
4) Hennepin (Ommegang) 7.2% ABV
5) Blanche De Chambly (Unibroue) 5.0% ABV
6) Grand Cru (Rodenbach) 6.0% ABV
->6ALT) Cuvee Rene (Lindemans) 5.5% ABV
7) Premiere/Red (Chimay) 7.0% ABV
8) Raging Bitch (Flying Dog) 8.3% ABV

IMO, a well-rounded, full-flavored profile with patrons being able to commandeer themselves home safely.