So, what do you guys think of our list? Top 50 MD Beers This is MD: Flying Dog - 11 DuClaw - 9 Stillwater - 8 Evolution - 7 Heavy Seas - 4 Burley Oak - 4 The Brewer's Art - 2 Monocacy - 2 Union - 1 Pratt St. - 1 Tuppers' (?) - 1 p.s. I've never heard of Tuppers'. They weren't even at MD Brewer's Harvest and that has most of the small breweries in MD.
I have tried 22 beers on the list and feels it lines up pretty well to what I have enjoyed. Definitely gives me some beers to look out for. Surprised Nouveau Rouge didn't make the list.
Damn you and your good question. Give me a second. Does that include hunting for them or just at a stop at one of the better beer stores in the state?
Yeah, I saw your thread asking about MD beers. This is what is available from the list (to my knowledge): Flying Dog - 11 (Truth, Citra [out now], Bloodline, Galaxy [possibly still around], Gonzo, Kujo) DuClaw - 9 (Oak Aged Blackjack Stout [hunt?], Cocoa & Cocoa Vanilla Retrib. [hunt], Retribution, Colossus [not ranked!?]) Stillwater - 8 (None? The labels blend together for me. Also, most are the BA versions and older ones of his. Hunt) Evolution - 7 (Migrations [hunt], Lot 3, Lot 6, Rise Up) Heavy Seas - 4 (Siren Noire [maybe, also there is a duplicate on the list], Loose Cannon Hop3) Burley Oak - 4 (draft only and brewery only release) The Brewer's Art - 2 (You can still get an old Ozzy can [AKA Beazly] and the Peppercorn Tripel) Monocacy - 2 (Riot Rye and Brewtus [probably both, but I don't look out for them]) Union - 1 (they aren't canning Double Duckpin yet, not until mid-November) Pratt St. - 1 (draft-only I believe) Tuppers' (?) - 1 (never heard of them, but it is bottled) Oh yeah, DuClaw has their BA Devil's Milk on the list 3 times. Once in Jack Daniel's barrels, the bomber release of BA DM, and then the last winter six-pack release where they gave it a name, Hell on Wood. None are available now, except perhaps Hell on Wood at stores with slow-moving product. I might actually have to look around for some. You can find most of that stuff on the list still, but it would take a while to hunt down and you'd have to go to a lot of stores that are tucked away outside the city. They are scattered around. The old Duclaw bombers, the Menagerie series, the Stillwaters and the IPAs (depends on what single hops FD wants to do next year though) are gone for good. Stillwater's saisons just blend together for me. His GGW is out of this world though, but that is in no small part due to the base beer that is Westbrook's Gose.
Union double duckpin is one of my favorites, burley oak will be breaking more on to this list, 1 top 250 now!
Yikes. This is a weak list. Pales in comparison to other states, that's for sure. That said, as long as those Double Duckpin cans make it out my way, I don't care about the other 49 on the list.
He's not an old hand like you smakawhat. That being said, what's going on these days with Tuppers hop pocket? If memory serves, the owner of the recipe (Bob Tupper?) was trying to find a brewery that would allow him to make his beer again (Fordham maybe?), and for a while, I remember seeing the beer on tap again at Max's, and (I think) at various liquor stores in Baltimore as well. However, the last couple of years I was living in Baltimore (2011 and 2012), it seems to have dropped off the map again, and I assume is no longer being brewed (again). That being said, the fact the beer still makes Maryland's top 50 list is further support for Deutschesbier's comment that this is a pretty weak list. Tupper's hop pocket was a great beer, but it's hey day was what? 10 years ago now? Seems kind of sad that a beer that has been completely unavailable, or at least pretty limited, over the past 10 years, still makes the top 50 list. (sure was an incredibly fine beer though, there's no doubt about that)
Apparently, the entire list has changed. A lot of the duplicates are gone and there are a ton of different beers up there. @John_M or @Todd any idea what happened? Were the conditions for ranking altered?
This happened: http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/retiring-limited-brewed-once-beers.221819/ Note that the lists are realtime, and with the above update they'll be shifting around a lot more.
Hi- New here but not new to Beer or Maryland. I thought Burley Oak faired well, they are kinda small and was happy to see them place multiple beers on the list. That Evo Winter Migration was amazing, I think that was 3 or 4. I was sad to see that no beer from Eastern Shore Made it. I guess I am partial as that is somewhat local, but the MD list does not fail well against some other local states. And of course Flying Dog had many well placed list, as they should have.
I really want to try some of the burley oak funk saison, I have high hopes for that, the BA Berliner was very nice
