How time changes everything

[Martin2D]

There was an old CP thread here that listed a whole bunch of styles and everyone's favorites. http://www.cigarpass.com/forumsipb/index.php?showtopic=55891
I really wanted to revisit this and see how what everyone liked now and how (if any) had changed.

* American Pale Ale: Founder's Pale Ale NOW Weyerbacher Harvest
* English Pale Ale: Innis and Gunn NOW Unknown
* ESB: - NOW Yard's ESA on Cask
* Sweet Stout: Left Hand Milk Stout Voodoo Cowbell
* English Brown Ale: Smuttynose Old Dog Brown Ale SAME
* Oktoberfest: Brooklyn Brewery Oktoberfest NOW Great Lakes Oktoberfest
* Irish Dry Stout: Don't like this style at all, but if I had to choose: Moylan's SAME
* Oatmeal Stout: Goose Island Oatmeal Stout SAME
* American Strong Ale: Port Old Viscosity I could list 1000 and none of them would be alike, but Stone Arrogant Bastard
* English Porter: - NOW Arcadia London Porter
* American Porter: Founder's Porter SAME
* Belgian Dark Ale: Russian River Rejection SAME
* Belgian Strong Pale Ale: Brooklyn Local 1 / Duvel Duvel
* Belgian Strong Dark Ale: Russian River Salvation / Troegs Mad Elf SAME
* Dubbel: - Westvleteren 8
* Trippel: Still none
* Quad: - Westvleteren 12
* India Pale Ale: Green Flash West Coast IPA NOW Smuttynose Finest Kind IPA
* Imperial IPA: Pliny the Younger Kind of fallen out of favor with this style, but I'll have to say: Moylans Hopsickle
* Scottish Ale: Oskar Blues Old Chub Founders Dirty Bastard
* Maibock: - Don't like this style still
* Doppelbock: Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock Same
* Bock: -
* German Pilsner: - Slyfox or Stoudt's
* Vienna Lager: - Great Lakes Elliot Ness
# American Amber/Red Ale: Troegs Nugget Nectar OH HELL YES
# American Double/Russian Imperial Stout: Southern Tier Choklat, Jahva, etc / Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti NOW Smuttynose RIS and Portsmouth Kate the Great
# American Pale Wheat Ale: - FFF Gumballhead
# American Barleywine: DFH Olde School Barleywine Smuttynose Barleywine
# American Pale/Adjunct Lager: Miller High Life Oh God no
& Rye: Founder's Red's Rye Same
& Wheatwine: Smuttynose Wheatwine Same

Now I drink mainly what I brew, but I have shifted from liking huge beers to more balanced beers. My favorite brew is now Smuttynose Finest Kind IPA. I definitely drink more local stuff now too as I drink mainly Smuttynose, Troegs, and Weyerbacher if I'm buying commercially.

Can't wait to see other's lists.

 

[The Black Cloud]

I never filled this out the first time. Probably hadn't started exploring craft beers at that point. Some styles I have tons of favs, others I haven't explored much or have had a few. These I will denote with *default

* American Pale Ale: SN pale ale *default
* English Pale Ale: Bass ale *default
* ESB:
* Sweet Stout:
* English Brown Ale: Samuel Smith brown *default
* Oktoberfest: Spaten Oktoberfest, Sam Adams Octoberfest, Gosser Dark (technically not an oktoberfest, but extremely similar)
* Irish Dry Stout: Moylan's Dragoons *default
* Oatmeal Stout: Firestone Velvet Merkin, Founders Breakfast stout
* American Strong Ale: Arrogant Bastard, Sublimely Self Righteous, Rogue Dead Guy Ale
* English Porter: - Fuller's porter *default
* American Porter: Black Butte, Rogue Mocha porter, Maui Coconut porter
* Belgian Dark Ale:
* Belgian Strong Pale Ale: Chimay white, Delerium Tremens
* Belgian Strong Dark Ale: Trois Pistoles, Delerium Nocturnum
* Dubbel: - St Bernardus Abt 12
* Trippel: La Fin Du Monde *default
* Quad: Ladyface 1st Anniversary Quad *default
* India Pale Ale: KRB Just Outstanding IPA, Firestone Union Jack
* Imperial IPA: KRB Citra, Avery Maharaja, PtE
* Scottish Ale: Moylan's Kilt Lifter, GD Claymore
* Maibock:
* Doppelbock: Spaten Optimator *default
* Bock: SN Glissade *default
* German Pilsner:
* Vienna Lager:
# American Amber/Red Ale: Troegs Nugget Nectar, Ladyface Amazon imperial red
# American Double/Russian Imperial Stout: Stone IRS, Green Flash double stout, KRB Class V, KRB Class X, GI Nightstalker, GI BCVS, Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel (euro, I know), Port Older Viscosity (if it isn't tech an imp stout, it should be)
# American Pale Wheat Ale:
# American Barleywine: Bruery Cuir, Stone Old Guardian, TAPS Barleywine
# American Pale/Adjunct Lager: Kona Longboard lager
& Rye:
& Wheatwine:


Crap, I still got a lot of exploring to do!

 

[Phlicker]

So here are mine (yes, I'm actually still alive!). I'm not sure if all are due to a change in tastes, or just a discovery/appreciation of new & different beers, but here goes...

• American Pale Ale: Great Lakes Burning River now Victory Headwaters Pale Ale
• ESB: Yards ESA (on cask if I can find it) still the same
• English Brown Ale: Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale stil the same because I don't drink many of these
• Oktoberfest: Hacker-Pschorr (German); Pennichuck "Big O" (American) with the demise of Pennichuck it's now Ayinger Oktoberfest (German) and Sly Fox Oktoberfest (American)
  
• Irish Dry Stout: Sly Fox O'Reilly's Stout still the same
• Oatmeal Stout: Founders Breakfast Stout now Firestone Walker Velvet Merlin
• American Strong Ale: Firestone Walker XII (or any of their reserve series) still the same
• English Porter: Fuller's London Porter now Harviestoun Old Engine Oil
• American Porter: Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter still the same
• Belgian Strong Pale Ale: Allagash Interlude now Duvel
• Belgian Strong Dark Ale: Trappistes Rochefort 8 now Chimay Blue (does Troegs Mad Elf count?)
• Trippel: Not much experience here...yet...will have to say Victory Golden Monkey (as Justin cringes) now Allagash Curieux
• Quad: Trappist Westvleteren 12 still the same
• India Pale Ale: SUCH a tough category for a hophead...I'll give two; Bell's Two Hearted and Bear Republic Racer 5. The new Sierra Nevada Torpedo might overtake one of those, though. now Ballast Point Sculpin, Ithaca Flower Power and Southern Tier 2XIPA, though I'll never pass up Two Hearted on tap.
• Imperial IPA: No fair! Too many to list, but some never-fails are: Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA, Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA, Victory Hop Wallop, Avery Maharajah, and anything from Deschutes. That's if you omit the "holy grails" like both Pliny's, HopSlam (which I don't care for), Surly Furious, Racer X, etc. this is a list that keeps growing, too...too many to list but I've really been enjoying Lagunitas Hop Stoopid
• Scottish Ale: Oskar Blues Old Chub now Sly Fox Gang Aft Agley
• Maibock: Victory St. Boisterous still the same
• Doppelbock: Victory St. Victorious (American); Ayinger Celebrator (German) still the same
• Bock: Penn Brewing St. Nikolaus Bock Bier still the same, but I love the Genesee Bock "goat" cans that come out every spring!
  
• German Pilsner: Victory Prima Pils or Sly Fox Pikeland Pils still the same
• Vienna Lager: Sam Adams Boston Lager and Victory Lager are pretty interchangeable to me. still the same
• American Amber/Red Ale: Troegs Nugget Nectar still the same...duh!
• American Double/Russian Imperial Stout: Deschutes Abyss, Oskar Blues Ten Fidy, and Hoppin' Frog B.O.R.I.S. the Crusher Abyss has really risen to the top here for me, but the special Victory "Dark Intrigue" release last year was stunning
• American Pale Wheat Ale: Southern Tier HopSun still the same
• American Barleywine: Sierra Nevada Bigfoot & the new Troegs Flying Mouflan still the same
• American Pale/Adjunct Lager: Yuengling Traditional, Straub, Reading Premium go ahead and laugh, but I'm enjoying the hell out of Narragansett this summer.

 

[tsmckenney]

* American Pale Ale: Three Floyds Alpha King
* English Pale Ale: * ESB: Bitter Brewer
* Sweet Stout: Surly Four, MTH Three Hour Tour
* English Brown Ale: Surly Mild
* Oktoberfest: SurlyFest
* Irish Dry Stout: Murphy's
* Oatmeal Stout: Tyranena Down 'N Dirty
* Baltic Porter: Sinebrychoff Baltic Porter
* American Porter: Maui Coconut Porter
* Belgian Dark Ale: 21st Amendment Monk's Blood
* Belgian Strong Pale Ale: Delirium Tremens
* Belgian Strong Dark Ale: MTH Grand Cru
* Dubbel: St. Bernardus Prior 8
* Trippel: St. Bernardus Tripel
* Quad: St. Bernardus ABT 12 & Boulevard The Sixth Glass
* India Pale Ale: Masala Mama & Wet & Left Hand Warrier
* Imperial IPA: Three Floyds Dreadnaught & Rush River Double Bubble
* Scottish Ale: Rush River Winter Warmer & Three Floyds Robert the Bruce
* German Pilsner: Bitburger (I suppose)
* Vienna Lager: Surly Hell
# American Amber/Red Ale: Troegs Nugget Nectar
# American Double/Russian Imperial Stout: Founders Breakfast Stout
# American Pale Wheat Ale: - Three Floyds Gumballhead
# American Barleywine: Sierra Nevada Bigfoot
& Rye: Brasserie Dieu Du Ciel Route Des Epices

 

[calhounhusker]

* American Pale Ale: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Now SNPA or Odell St. Lupulin
* English Pale Ale: Samuel Smiths Pale Ale  Still the Same
* ESB: Left Hand Sawtooth  Still the Same
* Sweet Stout: Empyrean Fallen Angel or Sam Adams Cream Stout  Now Empyrean Fallen Angel/Tallgrass Buffalo Sweat/Young's Double Chocolate Stout <---Can't choose.
* English Brown Ale: Newcastle Brown Ale - Big Sky Moose Drool - Empyrean Third Stone Brown  Now Samuel Smiths Nut Brown Ale or Wychwood Hobgoblin
* Oktoberfest: Sam Adams Oktoberfest or Paulaner Oktoberfest/Marzen  Now Sam Adams Oktoberfest or Hacker-Pschorr Marzen
* Irish Dry Stout: Guinness Draught  Now Guinness Extra Stout
* Oatmeal Stout: Samuel Smiths Oatmeal Stout  Same
* American Strong Ale: Lefthand Chainsaw  Now Rogue Double Dead Guy Ale or He'Brew Rejewvenator
* English Porter: Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter  Same….This is just such a fantastic beer.
* American Porter: Sam Adams Honey Porter  Rogue Double Mocha Porter or Ska Ten Pin Porter
* Belgian Dark Ale: New Belgium 1554  Same
* Belgian Strong Pale Ale: Duvel  Now Nebraska Brewing Company Melange A Trois or Unibroue Don De Dieu
* Belgian Strong Dark Ale: Chimay Grand Reserve  Now…This is such a tough category for me as many many of my favorite beers are in this category. So I’ll just list a couple…
Unibroue Trois Pistoles
Delirium Nocturum
Northcoast Brother Thelonious
Rochefort 8
Unibroue La Terrible
* Dubbel: St. Bernardus Prior 8
* Trippel: Trippel Belgian style Abbey Ale  Now Unibroue La Fin Du Monde or Gouden Carolus Tripel
* Quad: Westvleteren 12  Now – There are so many good quads but this is still the best I have ever had but it has to be bumped out because of its price and low availability…Short list of Quads I thoroughly enjoy…
St. Bernardus Abt 12
Three Philosophers
Boulevard Bourbon Barrel Quad
* India Pale Ale: Bell’s Two Hearted Ale/ Lucky Bucket IPA or Ska Modus Hoperandi.
* Imperial IPA: Boulder Mojo Risin  Now Weyerbacher Simcoe IPA/Avery Maharaja IPA/Dogfish Head 90 minute is damn good as well, I just can't get it here and have only had it a number of times.
* Scottish Ale: Black Friar Scottish Ale  Now Traquair House Ale or Meantime London Scotch Ale
* Maibock: Rogue Dead Guy Ale  Same…This is not a favorite style of mine
* Doppelbock: Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock  Now Kulmbacher EKU28/Moretti La Rossa/Paulaner Salvator
* Bock: Sam Adams Winter Lager  Now Sam Adams Chocolate Bock
* German Pilsner: Warsteiner Premium Verum  Same
* Vienna Lager: Sam Adams Boston Lager  This is more of a fallback style for me. Boston Lager is fantastic, as is Sprecher Special Amber and if you go by style….. Boulevards Bob 47 Oktoberfest.
New Styles I have gained an appreciation for or forgotten off my first list:
* American Pale Lager: Ska Mexican Logger
* Double IPA: A tough one as Imperial/Double is almost the same thing. I’d have to say Odell Myrcenary Double IPA/Boulevard Double IPA
*Belgian IPA: Nebraska Brewing Company HopGod/Piraat Ale
*Flanders Red Ale: New Belgium La Folie
*American Wild Ale: New Belgium La Terroir
*Rye Beer: Upstream Gianduja Imperial Rye Brown Ale
*Saison/Farmhouse Ale: Nebraska Brewing Company Apricot au Poivre Saison or Goose Island Pepe Nero
*American Stout: Bells Kalamazoo Stout
*Russian Imperial Stout: Nebraska Brewing Company Black Betty/Surly Darkness
*American Imperial Stout: Goose Island Bourbon County Stout /Goose Island NightStalker/Boulevard Dark Truth Stout
*American Pale Wheat Ale: Lagunitas A Lil Sumpin Sumpin Ale.
*Lambic: Odell Friek
*English Barleywine: Avery Samaels is good but incredibly tough to sit and down so I think a more drinkable english barleywine is Weyerbachers Insanity(Tap, not bottle)
*American Barleywine: Avery Hog Heaven/Lefthand Oak Aged Widdershins(One of the most drinkable barleywines I have ever had)
*Eisbock: Kulmbacher Eisbock...This beer has to be one of my favorites period, especially on tap.
I have really gotten into more and more big beers. Russian/American Imperial stouts and Imperial/Double IPAs are some of my favorite styles. Then again, so are Quads and Belgian Strong Dark Ales

Also, I hate to be a beer snob there BlackCloud, but some of those styles are a bit off.

 

[The Black Cloud]

Not surprised that I have some styles off. I usually keep a mental track of what general style a beer is. To dissect it into more and more categories is a bit tedious, IMO. I'm no archaeologist.

What matters most is the beer is good! :thumbs:

 

[smellysell]

I think mine are fairly similar, more to me drinking so much more homebrew lately than anything else.

* American Pale Ale: Southern Star Pine Belt Pale Ale Daisy Cutter
* Dunkelweizen: Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier Dunkel same
* ESB: Surly Bitter Brewer same
* English Brown Ale: Dogfish Head India Brown (close enough) same
* Irish Dry Stout: Beamish same
* Milk/Sweet Stout: Bell's Kalamazoo Stout same
* Oatmeal Stout: Hoppin Frog BORIS the Crusher same
* American Strong Ale: Port Old Viscosity same
* English Porter: Harvest Moon Pig's Ass Porter same
* American Porter: Deschuttes Black Butte Porter same
* Baltic Porter: Okocim Porter same
* Belgian Strong Pale Ale: AleSmith Horny Devil Matilda
* Belgian Strong Dark Ale: Gouden Carolus Grand Cru of the Emperor same
* Dubbel: Westvleteren 8 same
* Tripel: Tripel Karmeliet Curieux
* Quad: Rochefort 10 same
* Schwarzbier: Bayern Schwartzbier same
* Old Ale: Thomas Hardy's same
* Imperial IPA: Bell's Hopslam same
* American IPA: Bear Republic Racer 5 Blind Pig
* Scottish Ale: Founders Backwoods Bastard same
* Bock: New Glarus Uff-da Bocksame
* Maibock: Blackfoot River Maibock same
* Doppelbock: Weihenstephaner Korbinian same
* Pilsner: Bayern Pilsner same
* Marzen/Oktoberfest: Weihenstephaner Festbier same
* Saison/Farmhouse Ale: Dupont Foret Odiferous Brewing Brett Saison
* Flanders Red Ale: Duchesse De Bourgogne Rodenbach Grand Cru
* Kölsch: Library Kolsch same
* American Amber/Red Ale: Nugget Nectar same
* American Double/Imperial Stout: Dogfish Head World Wide Stout BCS
* Russian Imperial Stout: Deschuttes Abyss Founders Imperial Stout
* American Stout: Cadillac Mtn Stout same
* American Pale Wheat Ale: 3 Floyds Gumballhead same
* American Barleywine: East End Gratitude Old Numbskull
* English Barley Wine: Midnight Sun Arctic Devil same
* Witbier: Harvest Moon Beltian White same
* Smoked Beer: Alaskan Smoked Porter same
* Weizenbock: Aventinus same
* Lambic: Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus Cantillon Lou Pepe Framboise REALLY want to try Fou Foune though
* Gueze: Lindemans Gueze Cuvee Rene Girardin Black Label

 

[calhounhusker]

Not surprised that I have some styles off. I usually keep a mental track of what general style a beer is. To dissect it into more and more categories is a bit tedious, IMO. I'm no archaeologist.

What matters most is the beer is good! :thumbs:

Haha, I gotcha. I meant no offense of course.

I usually get a bit further into my interests than most people.

 

[Martin2D]

Heh, I like most of the lists. Definitely more local then expected although I don't know how much far and away stuff people get because NJ gets so much stuff from everywhere.

 

[calhounhusker]

Heh, I like most of the lists. Definitely more local then expected although I don't know how much far and away stuff people get because NJ gets so much stuff from everywhere.

Nebraska gets a decent amount but we are missing a lot of different bigger craft brews that have either never distributed or have pulled out.

In the last year we have had these breweries pull out: Avery, Lefthand, and Flying Dog. Avery is a big loss IMO and Lefthand/FLying dog both have a few brews I enjoy.

I really really want Dogfish Head, Lagunitas, Stone, Sweetwater, Founders and Bells(Though we can get it in Council Bluffs) and Cigar City to come to Nebraska. I'd give my left arm for some 120 minute IPA and some more Burton Baton.

We are damn lucky to have some really good breweries right here in Nebraska though. NBC just started 4 years ago and already make some absolutely awesome beers. Their barrel aged reserve series is amazing. Lucky Bucket is another really new awesome brewery(Certified Evil is a 12% Belgian Strong Dark Ale that is unlike any other beer I have drank.) Some other good Nebraska Breweries are Empyrean, Thunderhead(Cornstalker is one of the few wheat beers I like, It's a delicious Dark wheat ale),Spilker Ales(Hopluia is one of my favorite IPAs) and Upstream makes some awesome stuff.

 

[The Black Cloud]

Not surprised that I have some styles off. I usually keep a mental track of what general style a beer is. To dissect it into more and more categories is a bit tedious, IMO. I'm no archaeologist.

What matters most is the beer is good! :thumbs:

Haha, I gotcha. I meant no offense of course.

I usually get a bit further into my interests than most people.

No offense taken at all.

 

[tsmckenney]

Completely forgot about Bitter Brewer. Had to change that up.

 

[GregSVT]

I didn't do one last time but here's my current list. I'm adding Pumpkin Ale on the end since it is one I enjoy as well.

* American Pale Ale: Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale
* Dunkelweizen: Shiner Holiday Cheer (not much experience here)
* ESB: N/A
* English Brown Ale: Turbodog
* Irish Dry Stout: Guiness
* Milk/Sweet Stout: Mackeson - so miss this one
* Oatmeal Stout: Iron Fist Velvet Glove
* American Strong Ale: Firestone Walker Anniversary blends
* English Porter: Harvest Moon Pig's Ass Porter
* American Porter: Maui Coconut Porter
* Baltic Porter: Alaskan Baltic Porter
* Belgian Strong Pale Ale: Poppaskull
* Belgian Strong Dark Ale: Bell's Hell Hath No Fury Ale
* Dubbel: N/A
* Tripel: Curieux
* Quad: Boulevard Bourbon Barrel Quad
* Schwarzbier: Rahr Ugly Pug
* Old Ale: Old Peculier
* Imperial IPA: 3 Floyds Dreadnaught
* American IPA: Bell's Two Hearted
* Scottish Ale: Founders Backwoods Bastard
* Bock: Sam Adams Chocolate Bock
* Maibock: John John Dead Guy Ale
* Doppelbock: Thomas Hooker Liberator Doppelbock
* Pilsner: Sam Adams Noble Pilsner
* Marzen/Oktoberfest: Live Oak Oaktoberfest
* Saison/Farmhouse Ale: Boulevard Saison Brett
* Flanders Red Ale: N/A
* Kölsch: Saint Arnold Lawnmower
* American Amber/Red Ale: Nugget Nectar
* American Double/Imperial Stout: Goose Island BCS
* Russian Imperial Stout: Firestone Walker Parabola
* American Stout: Saint Arnold Winter Stout
* American Pale Wheat Ale: Laugintas Lil Sumpin Sumpin
* American Barleywine: Firestone Walker Abacus
* English Barley Wine: Pelican Mother of all Storms
* Witbier: Bruery Imperial White Orchid
* Smoked Beer: Alaskan Smoked Porter
* Weizenbock: Like Oak Primus
* Lambic: N/A
* Gueze: N/A
* Pumpkin Ale: Heavy Seas Great'er Pumpkin (aged in bourbon barrels)

 

[Make Grant]

Just wanted to co-sign the overarching message of the thread. When I first joined this board I was big on Coors Light and Yeungling. They both taste like salty alka-seltzer now.