Your Top 250 Letdowns

You beat me to it!

 

Awful beer fresh. Transcendent beer with about 3-4 years on it.

I'm not a member of the "age everything" club, but those 15%+ Bruery beers actually age quite nicely IMHO.

 

I love Abrasive and I think Julius is very good maybe a bit overrated

 

Have had 201 out of 250. Real simple for me.

1. Every Trillium IPA that's not some form of Congress Street or Fort Point.
2. Last Buffalo in the Park
3. And everything else depends on batch. i.e. morning delight b2 is excellent, b3 drainpour, b4 meh. baa '14 is god like, baa '16 is almost god-like, baa'17 drainpour.

 

Im a blasphemer and do not care for Enjoy By. It tastes like potent onions. I also dont think Breakfast Stout is that great but the label reminds me of Korn so thats cool.

But of those ive had, Green, KBS, Focal Banger etc.....i enjoy.

 

Not worried about my comment carrying credence based on that silly criteria. There is life beyond this website and how you want to try to shape the forum heirarchy to discredit my post is unimportant. An opinion was asked for and I gave mine. I didn't say I didn't like any of the beers on the list I have had. How they make that list and what that actually means is what I spoke to.

 

I opened this expecting "How isn't Hamm's on the list? It's like totally rad" and "Tree House is for normies, they don't make a true NEIPA". 1 for 2 at least!

 

I feel like this list is totally out of whack due to the NE IPA hypetrain over the last few years. I'm guilty of overrating some of these beers and am now much more critical.

Rating beer is hard for a variety of reasons.

 

Zombie Dust is a Pale Ale, not an IPA

 

So having tried every beer on the Top 250. I'd rather share what I've learned in the process. As opposed to telling you which beers didn't meet expectations I prefer instead to tell you which brewers are producing/blending an incrediblely high quality product consistently.

These are the breweries I reccomend:

Side Project
Hill Farmstead
Cantillon
Drie Fonteinen
J. Wakefield
Angry Chair
de Garde
Great Notion
Sante Adairius
Jester King
Casey
Weldwerks
Cerebral
Barrel Culture
Barrel Theory
Other Half
Tree House
Trillium
Pulpit Rock
Boiler Brewing
The Answer
Monkish
Toppling Goliath (Stouts)
3 Floyd's (Stouts)
Bottle Logic (Stouts)
More (Stouts)

Cheers!

 

I preferred Haze and Green much more that Julius. Still a well made beer.

 

Missouri's own Madagascar came up as a disappointment to me.

Finally landed a bottle of it and served it up one special evening. It tasted like spiced cola with a hit of bourbon to me. It was thin and weak. I ended up ordering it on tap a few weeks later and thought the tap version was amazing and worthy of some of the hype. Don't know if I got a bum bottle, but I thought it didn't deserve a whisper of the hype it has gotten during that initial drink.

 

This marked the beginning of my disappointment in Prairie. I thought BA Bomb was okay, and was subsequently disappointed in both their Pirate versions. Disappointing is not welcome when I'm paying a dollar per ounce.

Bourbon Paradise and Vanilla Noir redeemed them quite a bit in my eyes.

 

You're doing it wrong.

On threads like this you're supposed to declare that your singular experience, where either your perceptions or the sample could have been off, supercedes everything everyone has ever said about that beer.

 

Apologizes.

I had a good beer and it sux - you all are wrong.

Better?

I guess this is a good opportunity for me to say I have another BA Bomb in my fridge. I'll open it at some point and see if my first experience with it was off. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to land another Pirate variant, so that impression may last indefinitely.

 

The big one for me is Founders Breakfast Stout.

I like stouts, but this one just never does it for me. It's okay, but I've bought 6-packs over the years, and 1 or 2 of them end up sitting for a while.

Now, I've had it on tap at a good beer bar, and it was pretty darn good. Not sure what's up with that.

 

I ran a few quick searches on the top 250. Every one of the top twelve featured an ABV between 8% and 15%. The list as a whole included something like 80 IPAs. Not a single hit for "pilsner," "lager," or "bitter." Conclusion: The list reveals a good deal about the reviewing community's tastes; it tells us nothing at all about the best beers in the world.