What are some of your favorite craft beers?

I just poured myself a Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale, and it made me wonder... Which craft beers does ATS drink?

Some of my favorites:

Breckenridge Oatmeal Stout
Breckenridge Vanilla Porter
Bell's Two Hearted Ale
Point 2012 Black Ale
Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale
Magic Hat #9
Founder's Imperial Stout
Founder's Red's Rye

Cigar City Jai Alai IPA
Cigar City Moduro Oatmeal Cookie Brown Ale
Troegs Nugget Nectar
Founders Breakfast Stout
Southern Tier Pumpking
Firestone Walker Double Jack and Union Jack
Weyerbacher Simcoe IPA
Prism Brewings Love is Evol
Yards Pale Ale

reply to post by OGOldGreg


Solid choices! Some of those I've never heard of, but I remember the Pumpking being extremely tasty. Are any of those like the Cigar City local or distributed nationally? I'm in the Chicago area, but I can custom order through my friend's store.

reply to post by DaTroof


Cigar City is in Tampa
Yards is in Philadelphia
Prism is near Philadelphia

The rest i'm not completely sure

reply to post by OGOldGreg


Nice. I'm going to look into some of those in the near future.

I see you like IPAs. Have you tried Lagunitas Hop Stoopid?

Squatters Hops Rising
Brother David's Triple
Wasatch White
Wasatch Hefeweisen (I'm a big fan of the wit)
Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout
Uinta 5th Anniversary Barleywine


The thing about the state I live in is that all liquor and beer above 3.2 ABW has to be sold in a state run liquor store, we also have a bunch of other crazy liquor laws - so I have limited access to a lot of great craft beers from around the country. Our local breweries are great though, and to promote local business alcohol sales laws are less strict for local breweries.

I homebrew too, so I drink more of my own that stuff purchased at the store.

I've been a fan of Golden Monkey frmo Victory Brewing in Downingtown, right outside Philly

Golden Monkey

Sweetwater IPA
Shipyard
Fat Tire
Magic Hat Vinyl
Straight to Ale - Monkeynaut and Lily Flagg

Drinking Newcastle from DraughtKeg right now, but the best i've had is Rochefort 10 with Delirium Tremens in 2nd.

I want to stress how good the Rochefort is. If you haven't tried it, please do.

ive got no idea what a 'craft' beer is. but i do have a funny story about my friend getting fired from a brewery.

probably should save it for a rainy day.

The Deschutes line-up.
Ninkasi
Rogue
Arrogant Bastard
Laurelwood Brewery

Originally posted by lacrimosa
ive got no idea what a 'craft' beer is. but i do have a funny story about my friend getting fired from a brewery.

probably should save it for a rainy day.

When people talk about "craft" beers, they usually (but not always) are referring to microbrews. A microbrewery is any brewery that makes less than six million barrels a year (in America, I think) and can't be more than a quarter owned by a non-beer company.

Ahhh Craft beers.

I'm in Southern California and lets face it, we brew some of the best craft beers in the country. Here's my list of favorites in no particular order.

Retribution Imperial IPA
Big Daddy Double Daddy IPA
Stone Double Bastard
Anderson Valley Imperial IPA
Racer 5
Sierra Nevada Ruthless RYE IPA.
Revolution XPA

There's plenty more out there

reply to post by CosmicConsciousness


Anderson Valley is all great stuff. I don't think I've had an Anderson Valley beer I didn't love.

I fell in love with the Bell's Special Double Cream Stout today. Tomorrow, I'm going to try some Dogfish Head Tweason'ale.

reply to post by DaTroof



I haven't but I will certainly look into it.

Originally posted by youdidntseeme
I've been a fan of Golden Monkey frmo Victory Brewing in Downingtown, right outside Philly

Golden Monkey

I live like 20 minutes from the victory brewery. I personally couldn't stand the golden monkey. It's not for everyone I suppose

I had nearly forgotten about this thread until another thread about the supposed White House Honey Ale reminded me.

So, here are a few more I would recommend:

Two Brothers White Ale
Slumbrew Happy Sol - AWESOME summertime beer!
Three Floyds Brian Boru
Luna Coffee Stout

Dogfish Head 90 Minute
Bell's Expedition Stout
Founder's Breakfast Stout
Lost Rhino Icebreaker
Epic Sour Apple Saison
Green Flash Le Freak

I could keep going but I'll stop at six.