I was just thinking of beers that at first sip made you go "holy shit that's good". Whether it be a new style or a new take on a style, I've come across a few game changers. Like Fantome La Delmatienne HF Ann RareR DOS Flaming Fury KTG Southampton BLR Beat B3 After thinking of this list I guess its beers that live up to the hype. Either way they kick ass!
Backwoods Bastard Ruination Burton Baton Palo Santo Marron Tank 7 Golden Monkey Midas Touch Vampire Slayer But No. 1 is Hoponius Union. I think I'm easy...or don't have much mind to be blown...
Odell Mountain Standard. I know it will taste different but I want to see if I like it better than Sublimely as far as Black IPAs are concerned.
Hill Farmstead- Susan, Abner, Life without Principle #2, Edward, I'm sure more HF if I get to try them. Lawson's- Double Sunshine Heady Topper Zombie Dust Pliny the Elder Wormtown Be Hoppy Flower Power Firestone Walker -Double Jack and Parabola BCBS and Variants Founders KBS Pretty Things-Meadowlark IPA These are my HOLY SHIT! Beers Always looking for the next one!!
Stone Escondidian Imperial Black IPA. The aroma coming out of the bottle... it was then that I was certain of brewing as an ARTFORM
Good start there! Ok , a short list: - Dark Lord - zombie dust - Mikkeller Chipolte porter - RisGoop - darkness - BCBS - BA FFF most variants - Hopslam - Pliny the elder - licher pils - half cycle - black note ( draft only) - pour mans IPA - CBS - and plenty more....... Love this craft beer shit! Cheers
Lagunitas sucks Stone's Ruination 10th anniversary Firestone Walker's Double Jack FFF's Zombie dust SN's Narwal I have a particular fondness for stone's lucky bastard and the saison du BUFF colab aswell everything i've had from lawsons really blows my shit away too.
Three mind-blowing beers: Cascade Drie Zwarte Pieten Sang Noir- Before sampling this (at the Portland Holiday Ale Fest in 2008), I didn't like sour beers because all I could taste was sour. And this one did start off more sour than I was comfortable with. But underneath the significant tartness were rich layers of cherries and oak and bourbon. When I focused on those flavors, I started to see how the sourness fit together with the rest of the beer. It was one of those "Aha! THIS is how it's supposed to work!" moments. I spent a good 20 minutes picking that beer apart as it warmed. Then I went back to get more. Firestone Walker Parabola- I loved this beer so much that I left the 2008 Stone 12th Anniversary Party early so that I could get back to Los Angeles for the opening of the Blue Palms Brewhouse because I knew they would have it on tap. Complex, immense, nuanced, balanced, perfectly textured, thoroughly satisfying. I have had barrel-aged imperial stouts which were Parabola's equal, but as yet none have bettered it. Pizza Port Frank Double IPA- Man, I can still remember my first pint of this. The most amazing Amarillo hop nose I've ever found. Full-bodied and dry, with a terrific hop bite. Ridiculously drinkable.
There are a lot but Lagunitas sucks right now. I wasn't expecting much then i had it and it was like damn!!! I have about 12 sucks now and I like it more and more each beer.
Midnight Sun Artic Devil 2008 drank when was 3 years old Alesmith Speedway 09 aged 2 years Hopslam Two Hearted Heady Topper KBS Bourbon County Coffee King Henry HF Everett
There have been many through the years, but here are some of the more recent ones. Heady Zombie Dust Pipeworks Last Kiss Central Waters Bourbon Barrel Stout 2012 2012 Darkness Cantillon Saint Lamvinus 2008 De Molen Hel & Verdomenis New Glarus Serendipity
The first thing that comes to mind is Jolly Pumpkin Bier De Mars. I still remember the first time I had it and the first sip simply amazed me.
Well, it was a reeeeeeally long time ago (fall of 1982) but I still remember it like it was yesterday; I picked up what looked like a special beer for a special occasion (and it definitely had a special price). It turns out that it was Aass Bock, and the first sip totally floored me- so rich, malty, almost chocolatey- like my favorite beers squared. Maybe any true Bock would've done it, but this was definitely the right beer at the right time; and it subsequently became the first beer that I would actively search for after that moment.
Ok, going off of the "holy shit that's good" theory... Aventinus La Chouffe Paulaner's Salvator St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout Founders Backwoods Bastard, Curmudgeon, Porter & Breakfast Stout Great Lakes Blackout Stout & Edmund Fitzgerald Mad River's John Barleycorn 2010 Anchor's Old Foghorn Weyerbacher's Old Heathen, Insanity & Blithering Idiot Troeg's Troegenator & Nugget Nectar Bell's any of the stouts Dbl Cream, Kalamazoo, Expedition. Two Hearted, Porter & Best Brown Ale in cask form Left Hand's Milk Stout North Coast's Old Rasputin & Scrimshaw Oskar Blues Ten Fidy & Old Chub Thristy Dog's Old Leghumper & Siberian Night DFH's Chicory Stout Cellar Rats Black Rat RIS Jackie O's Dark Apparition Grand Canyon's Starry Night Stout Breckenridge's Agave Wheat
No the well traveled beer drinker here as some. But for a novice with limited access to good beer , here is a list of a few who really made me think about the way beer is made Founders Breakfast Stout , and I'm not a stout lover Hopslam Bigfoot Barleywine A dipa homebrew I made Odell Isolation and Two Hearted ale
Rochefort 10 Pliny the Elder Tart of Darkness Love Buss Little Sumpin Wild But the original mind blower was Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout about 18 years ago.
I have been pleasantly surprised by many beers, but there are only a few that have really blown me away or far exceeded my expectations. Those being - Lagunitas Sucks Kuhnhenn's Bourbon Barrel Barleywine Stone 15th Anniversary Black IPA Founders Barrel Aged Sumatra Brown Hair of the Dog Adam Southern Tier Unearthly FFF Zombie Dust Dark Horse Bourbon Barrel Plead the 5th Founders KBS (on tap)
Heady Topper Breakfast Stout Backwoods Bastard Supplication/Beatification/Temptation Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale Zombie Dust 75 Minute IPA
To name a few... FW Parabola FW Abacus/Sucaba FW DDBA Hoppin' Frog BA Naked Evil Hoppin' Frog D.O.R.I.S. the Destroyer The Bruery Fruet CCB Warmer Winter Winter Warmer Great Divide BA Old Ruffian Great Divide Yeti, Oak Aged Yeti, Espresso Oak Aged Yeti, & Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti Dark Horse Plead the 5th Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree BCBS & BCBCR Les Trois Mousquetaires Porter Baltique Flying Dog Gonzo Weyerbacher Insanity Founders Imperial Stout Founders Backwoods Bastard Smuttynose Baltic Porter AleSmith Speedway Stout Brassiere Dieu du Ciel Peche Mortel Avery Samael's Ale Avery Mephistopheles Stout Avery Rumpkin Avery Uncle Jacob's Stout He'Brew Sweet 16 MBC Zoe Lagunitas Undercover Shutdown Ale Lagunitas Imperial Red Troegs Nugget Nectar Stone Ruination & 10th Anniv. Ruination
Ten Fidy Palo Santo 75 minute The combination of Wake n Bake and Moo Hoo BCBCS Waiting to pick my brains up off the floor to try my 2 year old Parabola and one year Oak aged Espresso Yeti. honorable mention - BCBS, FBS/FIS , flower power, sucks
+1 - Avery Mephistopheles Stout. Elegant perfection. I will never, ever forget the one time I had the opportunity to try it.
