Your Top 10 Beers

Although there are a ton of beers I would put on my "list", I feel the beer community gets too caught up in rankings/ratings. We are all love to drink great beer, and that's what it should be about. There is far too much competition in craft these days to say that 10 beers are better than any other. Many of the "big dogs" have been caught up to. Good beer is good beer, crack one open and enjoy yourself. Cheers!

 

1. FBS
2. Oak Aged Pumking
3. BCBS
4. Azazel (a chocolate mint stout from a Central PA brewpub/pizza shop called Al's of Hampden)
5. KBS
6. Black Note
7. DFH 90
8. Nugget Nectar
9. Ranch R DIPA (a test batch by Victory)
10. ST Choklat

Full disclosure: I have not sampled any of the beers ranked 1-10 in the Top 250 but I have sampled four of the beers ranked 1-10 in the Beers of Fame (BCBS, FBS, Hopslam and St Bernardus Abt 12).

 

Cascade Bourbonic Plague
Tripel Van De Garre
Permanent Funeral
Abner
RR Damnation Batch 23
RR Temptation
Weihenstephaner Hef
Saison-Brett
Side Project Saison De Rouge
Anchorage Time Waits For No One

Honorable mentions: Duck Duck Gooze, Zombie Dust, BC Prop.

 

In no particular order.....

AleSmith Speedway Stout
Sucks
Founders Red Rye
Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock
Two Hearted
Sam Smiths Oatmeal Stout
Sixpoint Sensi Harvest
Firestone Walker Double Jack
Columbus IPA
Deschutes Fresh Squeezed

Now this is without trying any of the top ten as of yet.

 

Off the top of my head in no particular order:

1. Ballast Point Victory at Sea
2. Alpine Nelson
3. Other Half All Green Everything
4. Other Half Green Diamonds
5. Peekskill Higher Standard
6. Stone Xocoveza
7. Trillium Fort Point Pale Ale
8. Trillium Congress Street
9. Pliny the Elder
10. Peekskill Shotgun Willie

 

Big Sound BBA
El Cid
BCBR
BCVR
Rare DOS
DCB DOS
PumpKYn
Sucre
Mocha Wednesday
Curmudgeon's Better Half

 

Top 10 beers (my reviews)

1. Duvel Tripel Hop- 5 - +19% rdev Its retired but would be in the top 5 overall for Belgian IPAs on this site with a 4.2 rAvg
2. Southampton Imperial Russian Stout- 4.97 +17.8% rdev #43 on top Russian Imperial Stout list
2. Alesmith BA Speedway- 4.97 +10% #17 on top American Imperial Stouts #55 on top 250
4. Duvel- 4.9 +15.3% rdev #1 BSPA #50 on Beers of Fame
4. De Proef Signature Les Deux Brasseurs Ale (w/Jason Perkins)- 4.9 +18.1% rdev. retired- would be in top 10 BSPAs with rAvg of 4.15. I really wish they cut the Tomme Arthur collaboration and kept this one
6. Russian River Beatification- 4.85 +6.4% rdev #4 American Wild Ale #30 on top 250 beers
6. Jackie O's Dark Apparition Mole- 4.85 +16.3% rAvg 4.17 with only 13 ratings
8. New Belgium Bottleworks 10- 4.83 +9% rdev rAvg 4.43 with only 63 ratings and retired
9. Brooklyn Local 1- 4.81 +9% #9 BSPA
10. Stone Imperial Russian Stout 4.8 +10.6% #14 Russian Imperial Stout #198 on top 250 #20 on Beers of fame

I know we discuss beers that are overrated and beers that are underrated because we like to discuss the extremes. Here are the top rated beers I have had in the top 250 with my score comparison.

1. Heady Topper- 4.55 -3.6%rdev #33/1575
2. Bourbon County Coffee- 4.25 -9.2% rdev #199/1575
3.Pliny the Younger- 4.5 -3.8% rdev #40/1575
4. Pliny the Elder 4.25 #199/1575
5. KBS 3.7 -19.9% 1093/1575
6. Cantillon Fou Foune- 4.5 -2.8% #40/1575
7. Zombie Dust 4.43 -3.9% #115/1575
8. Trappist Westvleteren 12 4.58 -.7% #22/1575
9. Parabola 3.48 -24.5% #1320/1575
10. Bourbon County 4.08 #397/1575 -11.1%

All of my top 10 are of the top tier of their respected styles and have over a 4.0 rAvg
Of the top 10 rated beers I have had 4/10 are outstanding; 3/10 are great; 1/10 is good; 1/10 is decent but overrated; and 1/10 just wasn't for me.

I would also like to note that of these 20 beers Zombie Dust is by far the most drinkable and if I could get it all the time I would. I'd drink HT a lot if I had better access to it too.

 

tree house julius
tree house green
tree house haze
founders imperial stout
trillium big sprang
nebco sea hag
nebco locust reign
nebco fuzzy baby ducks
heady topper

anything else less than 7-10 days old. I'm the anti-ager. I like 'em YOUNG

 

#1 is HF S&S - all others are a tie for 2nd
HF Society & Solitude
Ghandi Bot
Heady
Focal Banger
Jai Alai
KBS
Nelson
Blind Pig
BCBS
HF Abner

 

in no particular order..and those that i can remember as i'm sure i'll forget about some:
pliney the elder
consecration
permanent funeral
Maine lunch
pipeworks citra ninja
BCS
allagash resurgam
bent river jingle java
kbs
zombie dust

 

1. Westvleteren XII
2. Fiddlehead Mastermind
3. Heady Topper
4. NEBCO Gandhi Bot
5. NEBCO Fuzzy Baby Ducks
6. Zombie Dust
7. Rochefort 10
8. Pliny the Elder
9. Off Color Brewing's Dino Smores
10. NEBCO Coffee Breath

Or something like that...

 

in no order:
Duvel
St. Bernardus Abt 12
Boulevard Tank 7
Sierra Nevada Celebration
Dogfish Head 90 Min
Dogfish Head Bitches Brew
Chimay Premiere
Port Brewing Mongo Double IPA
Victory Dirt Wolf
Troegs Nugget Nectar

probably be different by next week.

 

Based on what I've been lucky enough to try:
Heady
BCBCS
KBS
Ghandi Bot
Duck Duck Gooze
Huna
Pliny
Black Note Stout
Bourbon Barrel Black Maple
Psuedo Sue

Honorable Mention:
Alpine Nelson
BA Plead the 5th
Sip of Sunshine
Mexican Cake

 

In no particular order:

Stone Enjoy By
Dirtwolf
Sucks
Old Rasputin
Troegs Perpetual
Ten Fidy
Cigar City Invasion
Jai Alai
Black Butte
Tired Hands I See a Darkness

 

I'm gonna ignore what my ratings say since a lot of them I've only had once and in small amounts. Not really in any order.

Sucks
Sculpin
Nelson
Nelson Showers
Ten FIDY
Dirt Wolf
Enjoy By
Blazing World
Victory at Sea
Stone IRS

 

Zombie dust
Fiddlehead mastermind
Weihenstephaner vitus
Weihenstephaner heffweissbier
Cigar c invasion pale ale
Saison DuPont
Duchesse du Bourgogne
Westy
Rochefort 12
Hofbräuhaus original
Bells two hearted
Heady topper
Coronado islander iPad
Boston lager & Guinness (for getting me into this)
DFH 90
DFH festina peche
My home brew cider

 

Close enough, 10 of my favorite beers, in no particular order, and some probably being left out....
Hoppyum by Foothills, Hoptimum by Sierra Nevada, Ragin' Bitch by Flying Dog, Dales Pale Ale by Oskar Blues, Sweet Baby Jesus by DuClaw, Rampant by New Belgium, Ruination IPA by Stone, IPA by Caldera, Hop Hog by Lancaster Brewing....I quit, too many too list !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Oh crap, don't want to forget Rochefort 10, pretty amazing for a Monk beer, lol !!!

 

Not set in stone but off the top of my head

Founders Imperial Stout
Cantillion Iris
Blvd Saison Brett
Izzy Prox
JP Oro D Calabaza
JP Pesuegador 5
Anchorage Love Buzz
RR Suplication
RR Beautification
Side Project Fuzzy
Alpine IPAs

 

Victory Dirt Wolf
Sierra Coffee Stout
Deschutes Fresh Squeezed
Bear Republic Racer 5
Ithaca Flower Power
Dogfish Head Indian Brown
Bells Two Hearted
Deschutes Inversion
Stone Milk Coffee Stout
Stone Ruination

 

In no particular order:

-Heady
-HF Abner
-ET Imperial Biscotti Break Bourbon Barrel Aged
-BCBS Vanilla Rye
-BCBS Coffee
-Tired Hands Can't Keep Up 8
-Tired Hands Psychic Facelift
-Tired Hands Mago Tago
-Tired Hands Pineal
-Tired Hands Aphillyation