Your Top 10 Beers

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  1. Rhode17

    Rhode17 Initiate (0) Mar 1, 2011 Massachusetts

    Going with the ones that are reasonably easy for me to lay hands on during the year.

    Dark Horse Plead The 5th
    Founders Breakfast Stout
    Julius
    Wormtown Be Hoppy
    MBC Mean Old Tom
    MBC Zoe
    Victory at Sea
    Bell's Two Hearted (used to be easy to grab)
    Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
    Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
     
  2. HeavensGoblet

    HeavensGoblet Initiate (0) Apr 21, 2015 Massachusetts

    HF Citra
    HF Anna
    Heady Topper
    Maine Beer Co. Mean Old Tom (Nitro)
    Other Half Mosaic
    Russian River Consecration
    Tired Hands Back Into the Emptiness
    Tree House Green
    Tree House Haze
    Tree House Double Shot
     
  3. Newport_beerguy

    Newport_beerguy Pooh-Bah (1,860) Feb 24, 2011 Rhode Island
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    The top 10 straight from my review scores, with a few omissions due to age of some reviews/ticks (my palate has changed a bit in the past few years!)

    Proprietors BCBS (2014)
    Triple Shot - Tree House
    Congress Street IPA - Trillium
    Everett - Hill Farmstead
    Smoking Wood - The Bruery
    Cocoa-Nut Barrel Aged Framinghammer - Jack's Abby
    Julius - Tree House
    Backyard Rye BCBS (2013)
    Founders CBS
    Double Dry Hopped Mass Rising - Jack's Abby

    Top 3 of more available/shelf beers:
    Flower Power
    Ten Fidy
    Tank 7
     
  4. Sludgeman

    Sludgeman Grand Pooh-Bah (3,356) Aug 17, 2012 District of Columbia
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    War And Peace - Fulton Beer
    Stone Enjoy By IPA - Stone Brewing Co.
    Prairie Funky Galaxy - Prairie Artisan Ales
    A Little Sumpin' Wild - Lagunitas Brewing Company
    BOMB! - Prairie Artisan Ales
    Evil Twin Even More Jesus - Evil Twin Brewing
    J.W. Lees Harvest Ale (Lagavulin Whisky Cask) - J.W. Lees & Co (Brewers) Ltd
    Founders Double Trouble - Founders Brewing Company
    Ten FIDY - Oskar Blues Grill & Brew
    Tart Side Of The Moon - Brewery Vivant
     
  5. RichD

    RichD Pooh-Bah (2,318) Mar 18, 2012 Rhode Island
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    Based on my reviews for this site my top 10 is

    Tree House Good Morning
    Alchemist Heady Topper
    Lawson's Double Sunshine
    Founders CBS
    Goose Island Bourbon County Vanilla Rye
    Hill Farmstead Double Citra
    Firestone Walker Parabola
    Founders KBS
    Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee
    Tree House Julius

    The unfortunate thing for me is, that these beers are all limited (with the exception of Julius in my area.)

    My top 10 list of reasonably attainable beers would be

    Tree House Julius
    Goose Island Bourbon County
    Tree House Green
    Founders Breakfast Stout
    Trillium Fort Point Pale Ale
    Weihenstephaner Hefe
    De Struise Pannepot
    Goose Island Matilda
    Founders Imperial Stout
    Troegs Nugget Nectar
     
  6. GoSemiPro

    GoSemiPro Initiate (0) Nov 27, 2015 Georgia

    Johnny Hash
    Eschaton
    Breakfast stout
    Labyrinth
    Tripel karmaleit
    Duchesse
    Black ops
    inceptus
    Southerly love
    Tropicalia
     
  7. Yellolab2010

    Yellolab2010 Initiate (0) Jan 25, 2014 Pennsylvania

    This has changed quite a bit!
    Assassin
    prop 14
    MD
    BCBCS
    pseudo sue
    dinner
    Abner
    focal banger
    good morning
    prop 13
     
  8. laketang

    laketang Grand Pooh-Bah (3,017) Mar 22, 2015 Arizona
    Pooh-Bah

    currently:
    smuttynose finest kind
    bells two hearted
    revolution anti hero
    hubbards cave vanilla imperial stout
    stone delicious
    deshutes black butte porter
    surly hells lager
    brickstone hop skip
    lost abbey serpents stout
    pipeworks ninja vs unicorn
     
  9. taxandbeerguy

    taxandbeerguy Pooh-Bah (2,799) Jul 12, 2013 Canada (ON)
    Pooh-Bah

    Rochefort 10
    Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier
    St Bernadus ABT 12
    Rodenbach Grand Cru
    DDC Peche Mortel
    Schneider-Weisse Aventinus
    ST Pumking
    Founders Breakfast Stout
    Rochefort 8
    Houbolon Chouffe Dobbelen IPA Tripel
     
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  10. Ilovelampandbeer

    Ilovelampandbeer Pooh-Bah (1,719) Aug 25, 2013 New York
    Pooh-Bah

    Heady
    Double Shot
    Prop 14
    KBS
    Sucaba
    BAVDL
    Everett
    Edward
    Veritas 15
    Triple Sunshine
     
  11. beergoot

    beergoot Grand High Pooh-Bah (9,310) Oct 11, 2010 Colorado
    Mod Team BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    My Top 10 based on my ratings:
    1. Odell IPA
    2. Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock
    3. Great Lakes Christmas Ale
    4. Deschute's The Abyss
    5. DFH Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
    6. Aecht Schlenkerla Urbock
    7. Samuel Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout
    8. Founder's Breakfast Stout
    9. Victory's Dirtwolf
    10. Mission's Dark Seas
    But if you want a top 10 based on "normal" buying habits, these beers come readily to mind (in no particular order):
    1. Oskar Blues Old Chub
    2. Aecht Schlenkerla Märzen
    3. Upslope Brown Ale
    4. Pikes Peak Brewing Little London
    5. Ballast Point Sculpin
    6. Full Sail Session Black
    7. North Coast's Red Seal
    8. Sam Adam's Boston Ale
    9. Stillwater - Contemporary Works - Stereo
    10. Santa Fe Brewing - Freestyle Pilsner
     
  12. Cibsie

    Cibsie Zealot (722) Jan 10, 2015 Minnesota
    Trader

    CBS
    Vanilla Rye
    BCBCS
    Proprietors '14
    2015 BA Darkness
    Double Barrel Jesus
    2012 Darkness
    Backwoods Bastard
    KBS
    BCBS
     
  13. RBassSFHOPit2ME

    RBassSFHOPit2ME Initiate (0) Mar 1, 2009 California

    2009 batch 4 Temptation
    OG Bourbon County Brand Stout Rare
    Pliny the Younger
    Pliny the Elder
    Bourbon County Brand Stout Backyard Rye
    Supplication
    Alpine Bad Boy
    Rochefort 10
    2 year aged Bigfoot Barleywine
    Cellar Maker Hop Slangin' (Nelson / rye batch)
     
  14. ScaryEd

    ScaryEd Grand Pooh-Bah (3,793) Feb 19, 2012 New Hampshire
    Society Pooh-Bah

    Will be close to my ratings but not exactly.

    1. Hill Farmstead Double Citra
    2. Heady Topper
    3. Ten Fidy
    4. Parabola
    5. Uncle Jacob's Stout
    6. La Trappe Quadruple (Oak Aged)
    7. Julius
    8. Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout
    9. Dinner
    10. Sip of Sunshine
     
  15. AHeaston8

    AHeaston8 Initiate (0) Dec 9, 2013 Ohio

    GL Christmas Ale
    Lagunitas Sucks
    Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale
    Bell's Two-Hearted Ale
    Stone Vanilla Bean Porter
    Firestone Walker Union Jack
    Founders Dirty Bastard
    GL Edmund Fitzgerald
    Bell's Kalamazoo Stout
    Founders KBS
    Founders Breakfast Stout
    Left Hand Sawtooth Nitro

    HM:
    Founders Black IPA
    Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
    Hofsbrau Oktoberfest
    Stone IPA
    Great Divide Hoss
     
  16. pat61

    pat61 Initiate (0) Dec 29, 2010 Minnesota

    My top ten beer list depends on my mood at the moment, where I am at, the last beer I had and the what is available right now.
     
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  17. prost2hefeweizen

    prost2hefeweizen Initiate (0) Aug 6, 2015 Oklahoma

    No real order:
    Weihenstephaner hefeweiss bier
    Paulaner hefe
    Franziskaner hefe
    Founders breakfast stout
    Founders backwoods bastard
    Founders centennial IPA
    Founders Porter
    Chimay blue
    New Glarus Spotted Cow
    Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock
     
  18. conoraugustine

    conoraugustine Initiate (0) Feb 17, 2015 North Carolina

    1 beer per brewery

    1. Toppling Goliath - Sosus
    2. Tree House - Julius
    3. Tired Hands - Imagination of Ourselves
    4. Grimm - Afterimage
    5. Fiddlehead - Second Fiddle
    6. Hill Farmstead - Excursion #1
    7. Wicked Weed - Pernicious or Recurrant
    8. Lawson's - Sip of Sunshine
    9. Noble - Tongue Tickles
    10. Creature Comforts - Athena
     
  19. Dentist666

    Dentist666 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,017) Dec 21, 2009 Russian Federation
    Pooh-Bah

  20. kcbar58

    kcbar58 Initiate (0) Aug 28, 2015 Florida

    No order really:

    -Boulevard Double Wide IPA
    -Mikkeller Nuclear Hop Assault
    -New Belgium Le Terroir
    -Coronado Idiot IPA
    -Sierra Nevada Hoptimum
    -Lagunitas Censored
    -Founders Dirty Bastard
    -Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro (admittedly just cracking into milk stouts, but wow)
    -Lagunitas Undercover investigation shutdown ale
    -Lagunitas imperial red

    There's also a lot on my try-list which I plan on possibly making it up in that top 10 namely: Abbaye De saint Bon-chien, Russian River Wild ales, omnipollo neb, Shane's big DIPA, several Great Lakes beers, FW double Jack, FW double DBA, racer x, Grimm afterimage, bunch of milk stouts
     
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