YOUR Perfect Beer(s)

Founder's Russian Imperial Stout.

So good, every time, so good.

 

Haven't found one yet.

 

Here's my perfect 5's. Still lots of brewers and beers I need to check off the bucket list.


Edward
Hill Farmstead Brewery
La Fin Du Monde
Unibroue
Savage Blonde
Three Brothers Brewing
Resolute Bourbon Barrel Russian Imperial Stout
Three Brothers Brewing
Russian Imperial Stout
Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout
Goose Island Beer Co.
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Brouwerij Rodenbach N.V.
Flanders Red Ale
Heady Topper
The Alchemist
American Double / Imperial IPA8
Bob's Roggenbier
Barley and Hops Grill & Microbrewery
Hefeweizen
Phenomenology Of Spirit (2013)
Hill Farmstead Brewery
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Hopslam Ale
Bell's Brewery, Inc.
American Double / Imperial IPA
Allagash Merveilleux
Allagash Brewing Company
American Wild Ale
Founders KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout)
Founders Brewing Company
American Double / Imperial
AleSmith Speedway Stout
AleSmith Brewing Company
Sauvin Pale Ale
Hill Farmstead Brewery

 

I didn't score these perfect 5's (well at least the Jai Alai I did) but they are just great beers!
HF Abner
CCB Jai Alai
Founders KBS with a couple of years on it
FBS
Sacuony Creek Hop Suplex
Lagunitas Hop Stoopid

 

I know I'll leave some out, but here are some highlights that I can recall today:

• 2012 Mother of all Storms we drank with about 8 months age on it. Probably the best BW I've had
• 2008 Bourbon County, on several occasions
• Beer Geek Vanilla Shake Bourbon Edition I drank after a 2008 Bourbon County that blind sided me.
  
• My first Abrasive...and the hundred (or more) I've since had after - that beer is magical to me
• Pit stop at Town Hall Brewery, and they had a beer called Royal PIA. Holy Crap was that good!
• Zombie Dust that was 3 days old (yes, freshness matters on this one)
• My first (and only) Beatification
• Getting a pour of Morning Delight last year at Darkness Day, followed by 2 more from some very generous people
• Black Note - on tap, on several occasions
• My first BBPt5 blew me away
  
• My first Permanent Funeral (again, freshness matters on this one)

Now I'm just rambling.
But I could easily double the size of this list, I'm sure.

 

New Glarus Two Women Lager
New Glarus Laughing Fox Kristalweizen
Shorts Snow Wheat Hefeweizen
New Belgium La Folie Flanders Oud Bruin
Griffin Claw Red Rock Flanders Red Ale
Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree IPA
Bell's Kalamazoo Stout
Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout

 

BCBCS
Atrial Rubicite
Saint Lamvinus
Fou Foune
3F Golden Blend
Founders Porter (seems out of place next to these beers, but it's perfect.)

 

Here's what comes to my mind
Toppling Goliath:
Pseudosue
King Sue
Zeelander
2013 Naughty Temple
Sosus

Goose Island:
BCBCS
Prop
Nuthulu
Rare

HF:
Abner
Double Citra
Edward
Excursions
Arthur

New England Gandhi Bot
Prairie Bomb
Maine Dinner
Three Floyds Permanent Funeral
18th Street Deal with the Devil
Kern River Double Citra
Lawson's Double Sunshine
Central Waters Sixteen
Cigar City/An Boi Good Morning Mekong
Lone Pint Yellow Rose

 

These guys-


as well as these-


...and a little of this-


and maybe this, if I'm in a forgiving mood about the appearance -

 

Ditto the Aecht Shlenkerla.

My first thought upon reading this....a bottle of 14 day old Weinstephaner Original. The was perfection.

 

Stone Enjoy By, Weihenstephaner Hefe, BCBBW, La Fin Du Monde, Sam Smith Oatmeal

 

Wow- how did you get that Weihenstephaner so fresh?

 

Jai Alai, founder's kbs, Arrogant Bastard

 

ba abraxas
saison du fermier
bcbcs
proprietors
permanent funeral
king sue
supplication
vanilla bean dark lord
square grouper

 

Sweetwater 420
Sweetwater IPA
Founders Breakfast Stout
Monday Night Drafty Kilt
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
New Belgium IPA
Jailhouse Breakout Stout

 

It will take a while to think of 5, but I do know that if I ever get to home-brewing, my end goal is to re-create Devil Mountain Railroad's Five Malt Ale. It was deep copper, nicely sweet without being sugary, and was just my favourite beer ever.

Alas, this brewery has gone by the wayside, and it has been a long while since I tasted it. I only have my memories of what it tasted like.

 

Rodenbach Grand Cru
Drie Fonteinen Oude Kriek
Boulevard Saison-Brett
Founders Centennial
Two Hearted
Founders IRS and Breakfast Stout
Honorable Mention-Prairie Bomb! and Eliza5beth

 

Aecht Shlenkerla Rauchbier
Orval
Rochefort 10
Founders Porter
2007 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Vintage

 

Tyranena Who's Your Daddy? and BA Abraxas.

 

Off the top of my head:

Heady Topper
Double Sunshine
Raspberry Tart
BCBCS
Westbrook Gose
Mexican Cake
Melange No. 3
KBS
FBS
BBA Imperial Biscotti Break
Cuvee Des Jacobins Rouge
Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen
Stone Collab. Mint Chocolate Imperial Stout
Hair of the Dog Adam
Sucaba
Parabola
Victory At Sea

^these are beers I'm stoked to have EVERY time I have them, or would be if I could ever get them again. When I drink them I ruminate how there's such a wide divide between these and other's of the same or similar style. All of these are fully deserving of the "world-class" designation. Though it appears BA'ers disagree with me on the Mint Chocolate stout... the gall of the dissenters!