Which five beer styles would you like to see at a brewery?

A good old fashioned west coast IPA
Maybe a nice brown ale
Something rye
A porter
Barleywine
And like someone above said.. a cask ESB

 

Czech pils
German Dopplebock
German Helles
West Coast IPA
American coffee stout preferably bourbon barrel aged

 

German Pilsner
Kolsch
Helles
American Blonde Ale
IPA

 

Bohemian / Czech Pilsner
Vienna Lager
American Pale Ale
West Coast IPA
English Barleywine

 

It’s funny, the five or so common styles (amber, pale, ipa, porter, stout) that I’d complain about seeing at every brewery 15-20 years ago are the ones I’m nostalgic about now.

if I had to pick today:
-Helles
-Rauch
-Hop forward amber rye
-Rotating UK beer (brown, dark mild, bitter, pale, Irish red, Scottish schilling)
-Rotating dark beer (stout, porter, Czech dark, Baltic, Schwarz)

 

Dark Mild
New England DIPA
West Coast DIPA
Saison
Irish Dry Stout

My brewery would make no money.

 

Mild
Best Mild
Strong Mild
Pale Mild
Old Ale

 

Pale and balanced
Pale and hoppy
Dark, malty, and light bodied
Dark and heavy
Funky/sour

 

Imperial Stout
Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
IPA (East Cost/new style (e.g., what Treehouse and Other Half make))
Belgian Triple
Belgian Quad

I'd be in heaven in this bar for a few hours until I passed out and was hungover for 2 days afterward.

 

Hmm. Very hard to keep it to five. These are the ones I always look for first when I'm on a brew quest but not necessarily in this order.

1. Belgian Abbey Quadruple or Strong Ale
2. Scotch Ale or Wee Heavy
3. Irish Red Ale
4. British Bitter or ESB
5. Traditional German Style Pilsner

I'd like to give English Barleywine an honorable mention.

 

Ditto this for my response!

 

Dark Belgian
Pale Belgian
Pilsner/Pub Ale
Porter/Stout
Wheat

 

Saison
Grissette
Brett saison
West coast ipa
Esb

 

After 30 years of going to every brewpub I can find, I've nailed it down to:

German pils
ESB
NEIPA
Porter
Rauchbier

Rotating seasonal: Hefe weizen, Belgian Golden Strong, Dopplebock or Barleywine.

With these 5 beers, I would always have something to keep me happy.

 

Damnit, you beat me to it. I was gonna go:

1. Hazy IPA
2. New England IPA
3. New England Double IPA
4. Hazy Triple IPA w/ Lactose
5. Triple Dry Hopped Double India Pale Hazy Ale

 

I’m surprised Hefeweizens aren’t better represented in these lists. Glad to see it included here.

 

In all seriousness:

1. IPA (any kind)
2. Sour (Kettle or Wild)
3. Stout (BA or non)
4. Lager (pale or dark)
5. Seasonal (Fall: Marzen/Winter: Winter Warmer/Spring: Altbier/Summer: Kolsch)

And, also in all seriousness, if I saw all these:

1. Old School Malty IPA
2. West Coast IPA
3. ME IPA
4. Belgian/White IPA
5. Black IPA

I'd be pleased as punch. I've seen a few more lately, but Black and Belgian IPAs seemed to be passe for several years and I love them

 

1. Hoppy pale lager (German or Italian pils)
2. Dark Lager (Czech dark, Schwarzbier or Dunkel)
3. American IPA (West Coast style or Northeast)
4. Imperial Stout
5. Saison

 

Pilsner
Kolsch
IPA
ESB
Stout

 

WC IPA
Saison
Rye IPA
Porter
Pilsner

 

1. a west coast ipa like Comrade's Superpower
2. a helles like Bierstadt Lagerhaus
3. a saison like Baere Brewing's
4. a milk stout like Left Hand's
5. a cask ESB like Hogshead's

I don't know a brewery that has matches for all of these, but fortunately I'm within a few miles of all except Left Hand, and I'm within a mile of 3 places that serve that milk stout on tap...

 

My answer was an easy one to come to:
Hefeweizen
Cream Ale
Brown Ale
Dopplebock
Wheat Ale made with fruit


Be safe out there everybody!

 

Pilsner
IPA
Barleywine
Stout
Hefeweizen

 

Good thread, @OfficerVZdiver !

After some deliberating, I decided my top 5 would include:

- Barleywine (preferably English, but I won't discriminate)
- Doppelbock
- Black IPA
- Quad/BSDA
- Imperial Red Ale

These are styles I would almost never pass up if offered- Cheers!

 

Pilsner
Alt
Mild
ESB
Porter

 

I'm not going to look back in this thread to verify this, but it sure seems like a whole lot of us put pilsner in our list, and it seems like frequently it's in the first position (if that means anything in this scenario). That's a lotta' love for that style which surprises me!

 

It seems like every year (for the past few years) some folks would predict that this year (2022, 2021, 2020,..) is the "Year of the Pilsner". It sure does seem that for the BA subset of the craft beer market there is appreciation for Pilsners but I wonder:

• From a beer volume perspective, are BAs purchasing Pilsners in volume or is it just a few 'vocal' folks here?
• How popular are Pilsners for the broader (i.e., non-BAs) craft beer market?

There is likely some market data out there but based upon product occupying shelf space at my local beer retailers it sure seems that beer types like hoppy beers (e.g., IPAs) and flavored beers (e.g., pastry Stouts) are quite popular.

I was at a local craft brewery last evening and I drank a Grüngeist Pilsner served via a Lukr side-pull faucet. This is the first time I have seen a locally brewed beer which featured Grüngeist (means Green Ghost in English) hops.

Cheers!

 

Lager/Kolsch/Pilsner, American Pale Ale, Hefeweizen, Imperial Stout, Flanders Red Ale should just about cover it.

 

•English best bitter
American Red ale
Australian stout
Scottish shilling
American blonde

which is bit different than most breweries around me:

NE IPA
Double NE IPA
Triple NE IPA
NE IPA but w/ a different hop bill
Barrel-aged turnip & asparagus sour w/cocoa nibs

 

Fun game — and original choices.

In my early years of exploring Belgian beer, I was always a winner b/c every brewery I was trying had a blond, a double, a triple, and a couple something else.

 

Is that a stout brewed by a brewery in Australia?

Or are you claiming there is a 'new' beer style of Australian Stout?

Cheers!

 

1) Saison
2) Export Stout
3) Dunkelweizen or Dunkelweizenbock
4) Dubbel or Tripel
5) Strong Pils

 

Not ISO!!!!!

 

OK, I should play based on current thinking...

gueuze
saison
bitter
American IPA
stout

aaaand I will still swing by the other nearby brewery with the proper pils

 

I would drink at your bar sir.
My personal selection would differ just a bit:
1- Imperial Red 8+% please
2- West Coast type IPA 7+% please and ty
3- Robust Porter - just make it chewy
4- RIS/ IMP IPA/ BW - It's my last 8oz. - they all work
5- Cask - Bitter/ Special Bitter/ Ruby Mild - but only if the brewer know what he/she is doing.

 

Small smart breweries should make a spreadsheet out of this thread and look at the statistical results. With a grain of salt of course because this is a pretty unique population here. Still might give some insights though.

 

That's a nice selection.

 

Ehh I doubt it. BA users are such a small portion of beer drinkers, they're better off sticking to what the masses will buy. They'll throw on the occasional fun thing for those who like something different