Your Top 3 Beers?

[glk]

Zombie dust/ alpha king

Coast high art

Bells 2 hearted

Sculpin. All but the habanero.

Hop hunter

Citrus hero

Dales’s pale

Surly furious

 

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[DrOldSchool]

Hard to pick just 3... I've always been a British beer snob, but when I'm out now I usually go for the darkest beer on the menu. But if I'm thinking all-time it's got to be these:

 

1) Boddingtons Pub Ale. Love when I find it on tap

2) New Castle. Easy go to beer can find almost anywhere

3) Leinenkugel's Creamy Dark. All the taste of a dark beer but not as heavy as some stouts can be

[1puttTUT]

My list is rather provincial. With two world class brewers in the state and a number of other quality craft beers to choose from, don't need to venture far. Plus, believer in supporting MI made craft beers. Not esoteric or difficult to acquire.

 

1. Bell's Two Hearted Ale. Reliable, easy to find everywhere, consistent quality. Still remains a benchmark IPA.

 

2. Founder's Breakfast Stout. Chocolate, coffee, roasted grains. Delicious. A cousin to KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout), but easier to find during the release period. KBS is a stunning brew. But to much cult status and difficulty to procure unless your literally standing in line.

 

3. Founder's All Day IPA - Just like it's name, an IPA that one can drink anytime. A little less hoppy than 2 hearted. Grapefruit overtones. A good session beer and the summer refresher while golfing.

 

Honorable mention. Bell's Hopslam. Six different Hops, touch of honey, double IPA. An in your face potent (10% ABV) brew. Fantastic on tap. Defiantly not a session beer. Two is max.

 

Best Newcomer with potential. Old Nation Brewing Co. M-43 N.E. IPA. Multiple hops, Grapefruit and Pineapple overtones, less hoppy than the typical IPA. Somewhat pricy for four 16 oz. cans. But quite delicious.

 

When not feeling crafty, or when I just want a cheap beer. Labatt's.

 

Excellent choices here. The question is so hard to answer, I think I might give three per category of the main beer categories I frequent.

 

DIPA/TRIPA: Dark Horse Double crooked tree (extra points for being easy to find locally; just a great colder weather beer; packs a huge punch at over 12%)

Old Nation Boss Tweed; basically a higher abv version of M-43

Bells Hopslam; super easy to drink for a 10% beer; bonus points for coming in cans, which makes it way easier to bring to the golf course ?

 

Stout: Founders Breakfast stout; available year round, not too pricey, and just plain delicious

Oskar Blues Ten Fidy; available year round, comes in cans, downfall is cost (~$16 for a four-pack of 12 oz cans)

Dark Horse BBA plead the 5th; probably my favorite stout, but pricey and hard to find

 

Easy drinking/lighter IPA's: Deschutes Fresh squeezed; cheap, yummy, available year round

Old Nation M-43; easy to drink and delicious; I wish they made bigger yeti coozies to accommodate the tall boy can

Shorts Soft Parade; high abv for a fruity beer at 7.5%; available year round and in cans; nice and refreshing on a hot day

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Sweetwater Blue, Sam Adams Cherry Wheat, and RJ Rockers Son of a Peach would be one 3 pack

 

Pacifico, Bud Light, Stella Artois would be another 3 pack

[DuckFatFried]

1. Brooklyn Brewery - Black Ops

2. Clown Shoes - Chocolate Sombrero

3. Keystone Light (football season)

[12tamale]

1. Foggygeezer by 3floyds and Warpig

2. Zombie dust

3. Dragons milk by New Holland

Last couple months anyways, subject to change.

[N8dogg2669]

Oberon

New Castle

Yeungling