What was your first craft beer?

Long Trail's Blackberry Wheat before they sold out and started making it year round, when it was a summer seasonal with fresh blackberries. A noticeable decline in quality along with the choice to make it year-round.

 

Sam Adams Octoberfest.

 

Blanche de Chambly from Unibroue....stumbled on it at a Food World in Cottondale, AL in 2007

 

Maybe I don't remember well, but I guess my first real craft beer was Brewdog Jack Hammer.

 

probably sam adams cherry wheat in the early 90s. this was one of my dad's go-to beers. he let me have sips all the time and eventually just gave me a whole bottle. i liked it much better than the buds and other crap that people had let me sip before. he still thinks highly of it today and got all excited recently when they had it on tap at a restaurant we went to.

also around that time, i think otter creek had just started up and someone bought a variety pack for a yankee swap gift. we took a few sips out of each one and drain poured them all. i specifically remember us both hating the stovepipe porter. i was like 10-12 at the time so my taste in beer has changed since then.

 

SABL sometime in the late 80's. We're SNPA and Anchor Steam distributed on the east coast then? I don't recall if I ever had Pete's. I know I had Brooklyn Lager in 1992.

First really hoppy beer was probably Bell's Two Hearted, sometime in the mid to late 2000's.