Your top 5 in 2015 so far.

My top five first tries this year in no particular order.

Deschutes Fresh Squeezed
Courtyard How Can Anything Ever End?
Habanero Sculpin
FW XVIII
DuClaw X-10 Cantaloupe Saison

 

The five best beers i've had this year that i hadn't tried before in no particular order
Sour in The Rye
BCCBS vanilla Rye
CBS
Jai alai
Nocturn Chrysalis

 

My top 5 for the year in no particular order:

1) Ann - Hill Farmstead
2) Good Morning - Tree House
3) Frambroise Du Fermier - Side Project
4) JBM 35 - 3 Sons
5) Derivation 1 - Side Project

Honorable Mentions: Summation (3 Sons), BA Lumberjack B2 (3 Sons), Imperial Purple Raz Bu (De Garde), Last Buffalo in the Park (Funky Buddha), Art (Hill Farm), Derivation B2 (Side Project), HoD (Schramms), Cellarman (SARA), Assassin (TG), MA Hop Scene

 

Lift Bridge Barrel-Aged Silhouette
The Alchemist Heady Topper
Surly Todd the Axeman
August Schell Starkeller Peach
Surly Abrasive Ale

 

1. Heady
2. King Sue
3. Abrasive
4. Todd the Axe Man
5. Pliny the Elder

Honorable mentions include TG Light Speed, Pseudo Sue, A bottle of 2012 Backwoods Bastard I got at a cellar sale, Indeed's Derailed Imperial Double Dangerous Chocolate Whiskey Queen Milk Stout and Dangerous Man's Peanut Butter Porter. Reppin' Nordeast Minneapolis!

Yep, I'm hop *****. King Sue, Todd and Pliny were all first timers for me this year.

 

Oh...hell yea, I don't know how I could forget about Dangerous Man's Peanut Butter Porter! Love that stuff

As for King Sue, I only had the batch that came out in early May, and I have to say I was a bit underwhelmed. Don't get me wrong, still a delicious beer, but just not Top 5 quality for me personally. I hear the Mike-brewed batches are much much better so I'll be giving it another shot as soon as I can!

 

1. Southern Tier- Mokah Stout
2. Ballast Point- Habanero Ipa
3. Firestone Walker- Double Jack Ipa
4. North Coast Brewery- Old Rasputin
5. Samuel Smith- Organic Chocolate Stout
I realize these have been out for a while but they were NEW to me for 2015.

 

Top new beers to me in 2015 (in no order):

Spotted Puffer
Tequila Barrel Mexican Cake
Black Tuesday
Sahati
Event Horizon

 

no particular order:

CBS
Cigar City Cow Boss
Odell IPA
Pseudo Sue
18th St Hunter Chili

 

Trillium Fort Point
Tropicalia
All Green Everything
Dinner
Noble I Love It!

 

Top 5 I've had for the first time in 2015, no order:

Carton Regular Coffee
Yazoo Sue
DC Brau Solar Abyss
Trillium Vicinity
Cigar City Cubano Style Espresso Brown Ale

I would like to mention one more though:
Union Old Pro Gose

 

1. TH - Good Morning
2. Surly - Todd the Axe Man
3. Alchemist - Focal Banger
4. TH - Curiosity Sixteen
5. Lawson's - Sip of Sunshine (Within 10 days of canning)

 

Only counting beers I had for the first time in 2015:

CBS (on draft)
Trillium Melcher St
Trillium Headroom
HF Ann batch 2
Bourbon County Rare (batch 1)

Cheers!

 

In no particular order:

Trillium- Fort Point Pale Ale
Bottle Logic- Fundamental Observation
Treehouse- Good Morning
Alesmith- BAVSS
Central Waters- Black Gold

 

Cigar City Caffe Americano Rum BA
Olde Hickory Omega Point
Funky Buddha Last Snow
SARA West Ashley
Trillium Heavy Mettle.....and a few other hoppy beers from Trillium...and HF Double Citra...and Todd. (Hard to choose between all these amazing examples of hoppy beer.)

 

Double shot-treehouse
Apricot Cut-Casey
Huna-CCB
Forces unseen-rare barrel
Curiosity 14- treehouse

Honorable mentions- pseudo sue, kbs, tweak, Casey- Biere de garde... Way too many other great beers. I'm pretty fortunate, it's been an awesome beer year so far.

 

Chronologically:

The Bruery Blue BBLs
De Garde Mosaic Petit Desay
Block 15 Cherry Imagine
De Garde Purple Raz Bu
Fort George Overdub Session IPA

 

No specific order:

Matthias DIPA (from Haymarket in Chicago)

Birth of Tragedy

FW17

Mosaic Dry Hopped Fort Point Pale Ale

Todd the Axeman

 

No order here....

Other Half Mosaic
Other Half All Green Everything
Westbrook Gose
River North Brewing BA Avarice
McCoy's Public House Ursa Major (small local brewery)

 

Beer I had for the first time in 2015 that blew my socks off:

HF Abner
HF Mosaic
Other Half Mosaic
Foley Brothers Pieces of 8
Alpine Hoppy Birthday
Singlecut Bon Bon 2x TNT
Westbrook Mexican Cake
Barrier Money with Pineapple & Mango