Your state's own six-pack!

Another Indiana:

3F Zombie Dust
Triton French Toast
Burn Em Brewing Coconoats
Sun King Osiris
Upland Wheat
Bare Hands Mail Order Bride

Personal Opinion of course!

 

Triton French Toast limited so I'll put 18th Street Moonwalk

 

What do you mean by "they are pretty much whales"?

 

Another one for MN (no growlers, different styles)

Surly Todd the Axeman
Indeed Daytripper
Bauhaus Stargrazer
Bent Paddle 14 Deg ESB
Steel Toe Lunker
Schell's Bock

 

South Carolina:
Coast Brewing- Boy King Double IPA
Holy City- Pluff Mud Porter
Palmetto Brewing- Expresso Porter
Edmunds Oast-Peanut Butter and Jelly
Thomas Creek- Coffee Oatmeal Stout

 

Agreed - I believe Jerseys breweries are mostly underrated. Kane and Carton are both well known and rightfully so ( Kane's Deep Rooted is amazing ) but Magnify is a up n comer, River Horse, Flying Fish and Forgotten BW make some very tasty brews while Crickethill and Rinn Duin aren't as well known but also make some stellar suds. My last choice was very tough and Forgotten almost had 2 in my sixer, What the Butler Saw was in the running right up to the end.

 

Rhode Island:
Grey Sail - Captain's Daughter
Grey Sail - Flying Jenny
Foolproof - king of the yahd
Foolproof - Robust Porter
Revival - Double Black
Foolproof - La Ferme Urbaine


Unfortunately, the best beers aren't bottled/canned yet.

 

Revival Burnsider Pale Ale
Grey Sail Captains Daughter DIPA
Trinity IPA
Proclamation Keraterra
Foolproof Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter
Proclamation Harper 1 Oak aged Sour Apricot
Rather than present just my favorites I tried to do a representation of different and interesting style produced in the state.
Which is what I would want if a friend gave me a sixer from their state.

 

Michigan -

Bell's Two Hearted
Founders Porter
Short's Freedom of '78
Oddside Hipster Brunch Stout
Brewery Vivant Imperial Saison
Saugatuck Neopolitan Stout

 

For IL, mine would include:
(some bombers included)

Goose Island BCBS
Two Brothers Cane & Ebel
Off Color Dino S'mores
Half Acre Daisy Cutter
Pipeworks Sure Bet
Pipeworks Raspberry Truffle Abduction

 

California:

Russian River Blind Pig
Lagunitas IPA
North Coast Brewing Old Rasputin
Beachwood Citraholic
Anchor Steam
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

 

This is a really solid list for Maryland you have there. Here's mine:

Union Double Duckpin (DIPA)
Flying Dog Counter Culture (says Amber ale but I think its more a brown ale myself)
Monocacy Riot Rye (Rye IPA)
Brewer's Art Beazly (formerly the Ozzy beer) Belgian Strong Pale Ale (Bros gave it a 100, so it has to be great).
Heavy Seas - Loose Cannon (IPA)
Burley Oak - Sorry Chicky (Dry Hopped Sour)

Not sure if allowed based on criteria, but Brewer's Alley in Frederick MD makes a "keg only" Oatmeal Stout that has been in their regular lineup year-round for the last 10+ years that is world class. Been served in many restaurants around Frederick MD and of course at the brew pub. Not sure if that disqualifies it. Rumor has it they are finally going to bottle it though.

 

Virginia

Devil’s Backbone – Wood Aged Kilt Flasher
Devil’s Backbone - Schwartz Bier
Lickinghole Creek – Vanilla Virginia Black Bear
Lickinghole Creek - Nuclear Nugget Imperial Honey IPA
Port City – Porter
Strangeways Brewing - Freeze Ray

Many good suggestions in previous posts. I can't believe I left DB's Vienna Lager off the list. My recommended six pack might be very different if Mad Fox, Old Ox and Adroit Theory were bottling all of their beers. One thing is obvious, this exercise makes me better appreciate how much better Virginia beer is these days.

 

Only five beers in that six pack. Not going to Kentucky anytime soon.

 

Texas

Deep Ellum IPA
Rahr Iron Thistle scotch ale
Real Ale Brewing Sisyphus Barleywine
Hops and Grains The One They Call Zoe pale lager
Saint Arnolds Winter Stout
and.........

.........Shiner Bock

 

I've brought this MD mix 6 a few times back for friends in WI. This was made knowing that Flying Dog distros to WI and I wanted them to try stuff they can't get

Union - Double Duckpin (IIPA)

Union - Anthem (Cream Ale)

Heavy Seas - Deep Six (Porter)

Evolution - Rise Up Stout

Brewers Art - Beazley (Belgian Strong Pale Ale)

Brewers Art - Resurrection (Dubbel)

 

MA: (all of these breweries have awesome offerings, don't slay me for the choices)

Tree House Julius
Trillium Congress Street
Jack's Abbey BA Framinghammer
Night Shift Mainer Weiss
WormTown Be Hoppy
Tree House Good Morning

 

California

Firestone Walker Parabola
Russian River Pliny the Elder
Ballast Point Sculpin
The Lost Abbey Serpent's Stout
Ballast Point Victory at Sea Imperial Porter
Russian River Supplication

 

Iowa:
Toppling Goliath Light Speed Pale Ale
Peace Tree Hop Wrangler
John's Grocery Generation White
Great River 483 Pale Ale
New American Independence Pale Ale
Millstream Back Road Stout