Your Top Ten Highest Rated Beers From 2015

I've had 9 out of 10 of those and all of them are among my favorites. Abner and Julius would have been on my list if I had tried them for the first time this year.

 

Rodenbach Grand Crue - 4.59
Fullers ESB - 4.59
Firestone Walker Union Jack - 4.59
Troegs Nugget Nectar - 4.55
BP Grapefruit Sculpin - 4.54
Lindemans Kriek Lambic - 4.54
Sam Smith Organic Cherry - 4.53
GI BCBS - 4.52
Schneider Aventinus - 4.5
GL Chillwave - 4.5

 

Tree House Green - new highest rated beer for me
Tree House Julius
Founders KBS
Pliny the Elder
Lawson's Sip of Sunshine
Tree House Haze
Troegs Nugget Nectar
Sierra Nevada BA Narwhal
New England Coriolis
Tree House Strider

Obviously 2015 was the year I finally got my hands on some Tree House beers. They are beer wizards, in my book.

 

1) CBS
2) Good Morning
3) Julius
4) Fuzzy Baby Ducks
5) DDH Fort Point
6) Pliny the Elder
7) Consecration
8) Twilight of the Idols
9) Victory at Sea
10) Melange #3

There are so many more beers that could've been inserted into any slot, but this is a quick list of some of the more notable ones.

 

Nectarous 4.66
Proprietor's Bourbon County Brand Stout (2013) 4.6
Imperial Biscotti Break Bourbon Barrel Aged 4.51
Sump Coffee Stout 4.51
Anniversary Saison 4.47
A Deal With The Devil 4.46
BOMB! 4.46
Mocha Wednesday 4.46
AleSmith Speedway Stout - Vietnamese Coffee (Bourbon Barrel Aged) 4.46
Black Tuesday - Port Barrel Aged 4.46

 

1. Modern Times - School of Certain Victory (4.85)
2. Bell's - Black Note (4.75)
3. Modern Times - BA Devils' Teeth w/ BA Coffee (4.74)
4. Societe - The Coachman (4.74)
5. Dark Horse - BA Plead the 5th (4.69)
6. The Bruery - Cuivre (4.62)
7. Trillium - Fort Point (4.6)
8. Noble Ale Works - Galaxy Showers (4.56)
9. Noble Ale Works - Citra Showers (4.55)
10. Jackie O's - Oro Negro (4.53)

 

1. Trappistes Rochefort 10
2. Prairie Pirate Bomb!
t3. FW Union Jack
t3. TG PseudoSue
5. Columbus Bodhi
6. Trappistes Rochefort 8
7. Westmalle Trappist Tripel
8. Founders Breakfast Stout
9. Sixpoint The Crisp
t10. Surly Blakkr
t10. SN/Riegele Oktoberfest

Fives across the board for Rochefort 10. That one even had me considering the monastic path. (For the free beer.)

 

Based on what is available to my area in 2015. I rate within the style on reviews. The good news for me is, I'm only, I'd say, a little more than half way through what's available... and new brews come in every month. These were all new (to me) in 2015.

Worst.......to best:

10) SN- Tumbler
9) SN- Vienna Lager
8) Summit- Saga IPA
7) Deschutes- Jubelale
6) Bell's- Two Hearted Ale
5) Pilsner Urquell
4) Founders- Breakfast Stout
3) Founders- Dirty Bastard
2) SN- Celebration IPA
1) Chimay- Blue

 

Trappist Westvleteren 12 (XII)

Samuel Adams Utopias

Grapefruit Sculpin

Second Fiddle

Sierra Nevada Octoberfest

Mission Gose

The Little Brother

Plead The 5th Imperial Stout

Tart Of Darkness

Heavy Seas - Blackbeard’s Breakfast Barrel Aged Imperial Coffee Porter

 

Firestone Walker Maltose Falcons Brownywine
Device Brits in Moscow
Firestone Walker 18
Fieldwork Torrential
Bell's 30th Anniversary
Cellarmaker Killed By Death
Cellarmaker You Are What You Is
Lagunitas High Westified
Cellarmaker Nelquinox
Fieldwork Eliza

 

1. Toppling Goliath - Sosus
2. Toppling Goliath - Hopsmack
3. Tree House - Julius
4. Tired Hands - Imagination of Ourselves
5. Grimm - Afterimage
6. Tree House - Haze
7. Wicked Weed - Recurrant (profile pic)
8. The Lost Abbey - Red Poppy Ale
9. Wicked Weed - Red Angel
10. Fiddlehead - Second Fiddle

 

1. struise - zombination reserva
2. struise - shark pants
3. de molen - hel & verdoemenis 666
4. struise - black damnation 9 beggars art
5. struise - blue monk special reserve
6. carlow brew co - O Hara's Leann Follain
7. nogne O - imperial stout barrel aged 2012
8. great divide - yeti
9. struise - black damnation 3 black mes
10. struise - sint amatus oostvleteren 12

 

peak organic fresh cut

 

Mine were...

1. Cigar City Brewing - Hunahpu's Imperial Stout - Double Barrel Aged
2. de Garde Brewing - The Archer
3. de Garde Brewing - Black Raz Bu
4. Casey Brewing & Blending - East Bank
5. Funky Buddha Brewery - Morning Wood
6. Fremont Brewing Company - Bourbon Barrel Aged Abominable: Coffee And Cinnamon
7. Tröegs Brewing Company - Flying Mouflan (Bourbon Barrel Aged)
8. Casey Brewing & Blending - Dry Hopped Oak Theory - Galaxy And Simcoe
9. Tired Hands Brewing Company - Parageusia4
10. Hill Farmstead Brewery - Ann

 

1. Unibroue Maudite
2. St. Bernardus Witbier
3. Allagash White
4. Unibroue La Fin Du Monde
5. Unibroue Trois Pistoles
6. St. Bernardus Pater 6
7. St. Bernardus ABT12
8. Cape May Brewery "The Bog" cranberry shandy
9. Troegs Dreamweaver wheat
10. Unibroue Blanche De Chambly

I guess you could say Unibroue and St. Bernardus had a very good year.

 

1. Fremont Abominable Winter Ale
2. Alpine Nelson IPA
3. Walking Man Homo Eructus DIPA
4. Ballast Point Victory At Sea Imperial IPA
5. Avery Hog Heaven Barley Wine
6. Merrill Barrel Satsuma Hefeweizen (ok, its a home-brew but good, I swear)
7. Breakside Lunch Break Session IPA
8. Gigantic Solid! Wheat Beer
9. Lagunitas Nighttime Black IPA
10. Elysian Bifrost Winter Ale

All West coast or Western beers!

 

Speedway stout
Palo santo marron
120 minute
Burton baton
Zombie dust
Tallgrass big ricc
TG lightspeed
Pliny the elder
Dark truth stout
Funkwerks Saison

 

The Bruery Chocolate Rain
FB Last Buffalo in the Park
FB Morning Wood
Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout
No Rules Vietnamese Porter
Clown Shoes Extremely Angry Beast
Rare Barrel Home Sour Home
Snowed In
De Garde Pom Bu
Pallet 4.

 

1. BCBS Rare (2010)
2. Fundamental Observation
3. Julius
4. DB Huna
5. Mornin Delight
6. Good Morning
7. Double Dry Hopped Fort Point Pale Ale
8. Assassin
9. Peche n Brett
10. El Gordo