Your state's own six-pack!

Idaho:
Laughing Dog Alpha Dog Imperial IPA
Selkirk Abbey 10
Woodland Empire Big Sticky Red
Payette 12 Gauge Imperial Stout (Barrel Aged)
Grand Teton Double Vision Doppelbock
Sockeye Dagger Falls IPA

tried not to repeat any styles either

 

Rhode Island:

Proclamation-Derivative w/ Galaxy
Grey Sail- Captain's Daughter
Grey Sail-Pour Judgment
Revival- White Electric Coffee Stout
Foolproof- Raincloud Porter
Proclamation- Harper Sours

Tilted Barn is brewery fills only, otherwise they would've occupied two spots on here with Raffi and Chosen One.

 

Illinois
Pipeworks Ninja vs. Unicorn
Revolution Anti-Hero
Brickstone APA
Spiteful IPA
Off Color Apex Predator
Penrose Fractal

It's tough to find a variety of beers that aren't hop-influenced and available year-round in cans/bottles. This is personally what I'd throw together.

If I wasn't going off a personal preference, I think this is the sixer that would most represent Illinois, based on it's influence and popularity in the Illinois craft scene.

Half Acre Daisy Cutter
Small Town Brewing Not Your Fathers Root Beer
Revolution Anti-Hero
Goose Island 312
Metropolitan Flywheel
Two Brothers Domaine DuPage

 

Another Minnesota:

Indeed - Let it Roll IPA
Surly - Todd the Axe Man (would say darkness but trying to stick to the rules)
Summit - Oatmeal Stout
Fulton - the Libertine
Northgate - Parapet ESB
Bent Paddle - Cold Press Black Ale

 

This is hard. I'm going to go with some classic brews. I am assuming these have to be available in 12oz format, and not limited/special release beers.

Colorado:
Odell IPA
Telluride Face Down Brown Ale
Left Hand Milk Stout (non-nitro)
Bristol Laughing Lab Scotch Ale
Funkwerks Deceit (Belgian)
Oskar Blues Dales Pale Ale

Or if you wanted to go BIGGER

Odell Myrcenary Double IPA
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti
Oscar Blues TenFidy
Left Hand Fade to Black Vol 1

can't choose.. so many choices... ahhhh

 

I'll go with the "anything goes" line-up

Casey Cut Balaton Cherry
Dry Dock Bligh's Barleywine
Comrade Superdamp
Oskar Blues Barrel Aged Ten Fidy
Bull & Bush ESB
Trinity Saison Man

 

Ohio:

Fatheads Head Hunter IPA
Thirsty Dog Wulver
Hoppin' Frog BORIS RIS
Great Lakes BC Eddy Fitz porter
Hoof Hearted Blabe / South of 11
Mad Tree Galaxy High

 

Limiting myself to 12 oz "craft" offerings you can buy in a store, going for a degree of variety, no duplicate breweries, and ignoring contract beers brewed out of state:

Southern Tier - Old Man
Brooklyn - Black Chocolate Stout
Ommegang - Fleur de Houblon
Ithaca - Flower Power
Greenport - Black Duck Porter
Newburgh - Cream Ale

 

Texas:

Live Oak Hefe - although not available in bottles/cans, still available year round and in growlers.
Community Mosaic
Lakewood Temptress
Saint Arnolds Endeavor
Deep Ellum IPA
Lone Pint Yellow Rose

 

Florida:
1. CCB -Jai Alai
2. Coppertail - Unholy
3. Funky Buddha - Last Snow
4. Cycle - Crank
5. CCB- Marshal Zhukov
6. Coppertail- Night Swim

 

Illinois
- Half Acre Daisy Cutter
- Goose Island 312
- Off Color Gose
- Pipeworks Abduction
- Revolution Fist City
- Pipeworks NvsU

 

based on my ratings for Pennsylvania:

Victory Old Horizontal
Victory Yakima Glory
Weyerbacher Unfiltered Double Simcoe
Victory Deep Cocoa
Troegs Hop Knife
Sly Fox Incubus, to mix it up a bit

 

Illinois

Off Color Apex Predator Farmhouse Ale
Revolution Citra-Hero IPA
Revolution Fist City Pale Ale
Two Brothers Cane & Ebel Rye Ale
Metropolitan Magnetron Scharwzbier
Goose Island BCBS

 

Indiana:
Sunking Fistful of Hops Green
Black Acre Saucy Intruder
Three Floyds Zombie Dust
Chilly Water Built to Last Pilsner
Scarlet Lane Dorian Stout
Wooden Bear Hoppy Bear IPA

 

Washington:

Bale Breaker Field 41 (APA)
Reuben's Crikey (IPA)
Walking Man Homo Erectus (DIPA)
Sound Monk's Indiscretion (Belgian Pale Ale)
Fremont Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Star (Imperial Stout)
Black Raven Old Birdbrain (Barleywine)

My rules: six different breweries, six different styles. All beers that are regularly released, and have long track records, although most are not year-round. One brewery from outside the usual orbit of greater Seattle area. And all beers that I would happily be marooned with on a desert island.

Apologies to Holy Mountain, but even though their beers are bottled, they are pretty much whales.

 

I imagine Colorado, California and Michigan would be impossible to narrow down.

He said bombers were in play, just as long as they weren't one-offs.

 

Virginia

Devil's Backbone Vienna Lager
Hardywood Gingerbread Stout
Alewerks Pumpkin Ale
St. George Porter
Legend Brown Ale
Wild Wolf Honey Blonde Ale

 

Wow, love this. This one I thought on awhile. I would want to show the wide variety of great brews available here in Jersey. So - from New Jersey - my sixer would include.
Kane - Deep Rooted
Carton - 077xx
Magnify - 30 Hours
Kane - Sunday Brunch
Forgotten BW - Morro Castle Smoked Porter
Crickethill - Jersey Summer Ale

 

Minnesota:
- Surly Furious
- Dangerous Man Chocolate Milk Stout Crowler
- August Schell's Firebrick
- Steel Toe Size 7
- Lake Superior Kayak Kolsch
- Boom Island Brimstone Tripel

 

Todd = taproom only/seasonal :\