What's your beer style journey?

Interesting post.

1. Wheat/White bears
2. Browns
3. German Lagers (Marzen, Bock, ect.)
4. IPA's
5. Porters Stouts
6. Belgian Darks, DIPAs, RIS. IPAs
I still like all these styles but this is how my favorites/preferences have evolved. I also still love a good pumpkin ale.

 

1. German wheats and bocks.
2. Strong ales, pumpkin ales, browns and porters.
3. DIPAs and barleywines.
4. Saisons,IPAs, more barleywines, big stouts,
5. More saisons, sours, pilsners, clean IPAs.

My taste now pretty much goes with the season. Saisons and light IPAs in the heat, DIPAs, barleywines, stouts and porters as it cools down. The only style I can't get into is Quads and Belgian strong darks. There's a sweet medicinal flavor that I can't get around. Oh well. Maybe one day.

 

Don't know that I've so much obsessed over any style, but my tastes have definitely changed. I used to hate witbier and now it's one of my favorite styles. I've always like hefe's and wheat beers and bocks. IPAs remain a once-in-a-while thing. Stouts used to be that, but they've started to grow on me in the last year after I first tried Mayflower's Winter Oatmeal Stout.

I still wonder about the witbier thing sometimes since I can't pinpoint what might have changed my mind or when. I mean, I really could not stand them.

 

IPAs IPAs & IPAs...Don't get me wrong I love Browns, Stouts, Porters, etc...but if I'm in any stage it's IPAs

 

1. american wheat. boulevard & odell come to mind.
2. porters/stouts, shortly followed by imperial stouts. basically anything dark. guinness, sierra nevada, rogue mocha, then moving to old rasputin and the like...
3. strong belgians. ommegang/unibroue to start, then moving on to st bernardus.
4. ipa's. i still remember the first time i had picked up a 6 pack of an IPA and drain poured 5 of them because i thought it was so disgusting. this was probably in my porters/stouts phase. i don't really remember what the game changing beer was for me either, it's just like everything hoppy clicked.
5. saisons. already enjoyed hennepin but then more became available in my area...i definitely probably would have appreciated these earlier if they were more abundant. it's still the first style i will generally suggest to someone who does not usually drink good beer if they are interested.
6. sours. like ipa's, still remember the first time i had one - la folie - and was pretty much grossed out. i cannot get enough of them now and while still not my absolute fave style, it is the most exciting to me simply because i haven't had as many as other styles.

 

1. Oktoberfest beers and Winter Warmers (really got into craft beer through fall and winter seasonal beers)
2. Stouts and Porters (still a favorite style of mine)
3. IPA's and eventually DIPA's (still very much in this stage and have been for a long time)
4. Hefeweizens and Witbiers (got really into refreshing summer wheat beers last summer)
5. Tripels and Saisons (Love belgian style beers, but much more partial to golden belgian ales than darker ones)

 

I gotcha..I'm still new in the game so I guess I haven't had the chance to encounter different phases, sours in particular. But to love one style and call everything else "ale" is pretty naive. If anything, dabbling outside of IPAs makes me appreciate other styles even more.

 

1. Sam Adams Boston lager
2. Sam Adams variety
3. Browns and ambers
4. Stouts porters
5. Pale sales (hoppy)
Then I started home brew...
6. Ipa, DIpa
7. Imp. Stouts
8. Barrel anything, barley wine, wilds, IBA
Now I really like a light crisp hoppy beer say an APA

 

1) BMC
2) Sam Adams Boston Lager
3) Sam Adams Boston Ale
4) Hobgoblin/Fuller's ESB/anything British
5) IPAs
6) Pale Belgian
7) Hefeweizen/other German styles
8) Dark Belgian
9) ticking everything on the shelf

 

BMC
Belgian Witbier/Hefeweizen
Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Quads
Belgian Strong Pale Ale
Dopplebocks
Saison
Barleywine
RIS
American Pale Ale
American Amber / Red Ale
IPA, IIPA DIPA (couldn't stand at first and now can't get enough of) [feel terrible that I drain poured a SN Northern Hemisphere Wet Hop Ale, can't wait to try it again]

Open to trying any and all beer styles - I like BEER!

 

Pete's Winter Wicked Ale
Redhook ESB
Anchor Steam
Ambers
Pale Ales
IPAs
DIPAs
Imperial Stouts
Winter Ales
Stouts
Scotch Ales/Wee Heavy
Barrel-aged Anything...

 

Very interesting to see the progression of others. For me, it's been:

1. Flavored Ales (e.g., Rogue Hazlenut, Abita Purple Haze)
2. Belgian Dubbel/Tripel/Quads
3. IPAs
4. IIPAs--moar hopz!!!
5. Rye Beers
6. Imperial Stouts
7. Wild/Sour Ales
8. ??? Really digging on Altbier, Berliner Weiss, Gose, etc. Obscure styles FTW!

 

BMC
Pete's/New Castle
Sam Adams
IPAs
IIPAs
Stouts
IPAs
Sours

 

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St Bernardus Abt