What was your first craft beer?

Victory hopdevil

 

Summit EPA sounds right, but that was some time ago...

 

I swear this thread has been posted before ... I don't know, probably Fat Tire or Sam Adams which I no longer consider craft?

 

Probably something from Allegheny Brewery here in Pittsburgh, Penn Pilsner or Penn Dark. If Samuel Smith counts, right around that time I remember drinking their Imperial Stout at a bar in Homestead PA, called Chiodos. Ahead of its time in many ways, but they always had a cooler full of imports. That beer was a head turner, and the rest is history. RIP to that bar and to its owner Joe Chiodo, a great guy to be sure.

 

Saranac mixed case and Pets Wicked at least 20 years ago.

 

Ballantine XXX Ale on draught at McGovern's in Newark NJ in January 1973

 

Fitgers in Duluth MN. I had a peach ale. I was too dumb to know what I was experiencing but I thought that this was really cool- they make their own beer! It was a decade later that I truly discovered and understood (somewhat) "craft beer". Now I home brew and actively seek out out different styles and breweries.

 

The usual Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or New Belgium Fat Tire after golf at some golf course. I don't remember which came first.

 

Blue moon?

 

Goose Island Brewery back in 1991. Tried a handful of their beers and my eyes were opened.

 

My first U.S. Craft beers in 1987 or so were Anchor Liberty Ale, SN Pale Ale and Leinenkugels

 

Hefeweizen at the Schlafly Tap Room with some Rarebit. It's their warm goat cheese dip, toast rounds. 1995, in the shadow of the beer god, St Louis MO. I've never went back to regular beer after that experience.

 

Dogfish head 60 minute IPA.

Didn't even know what IPA meant at the time.

 

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

 

Mackeson XXX Stout. Mind blown.

 

I don't remember for sure but it was probably Fat Tire

 

probably Shiner Bock...if that counts as "craft"

 

Sam Adams, Pete's Wicked Winter Brew or a Rhino Chaser. Then I took off many years until a couple years ago

 

SA Boston Lager or Magic Hat #9

 

Pete's Wicked Ale - late '80s- early 90s.