Best beer you've ever had?

[Ridge Ghost]

Our family deer camp does Keystone Light barrels. For some reason that stuff tastes pretty good when you're up there.

Funny how that works. I'm a craft beer snob, but that cheap light stuff really hits the spot in the hockey locker room.

 

[Where's Bruce?]

The best beer depends on the place, type of weather and overall situation. No one beer is always best, any real beer drinker knows this. A nice dark beer is better suited to certain foods and cold winter weather...perhaps a cigar. An amber craft beer is often perfect but sometimes only an IPA will getcha there. (Real beer guys understand this). But the very best you may ever drink is the one you buried months earlier when grooming your Fall campsite before hunting season. You are in your tent miles from the trailhead, started your day at 3am, ate breakfast, did your business and hiked till just before sunrise. Spent the day glassing, spotting and stalking until sundown and hiked for hours in the dark back to camp. There the beer you buried last June is waiting...nice and cold beneath a big rock. THAT is your best tasting beer right there.

 

[Trial153]

These are some stand outs I have had...
Heady topper
Julius
Dinner
Pliney the younger ...the elder is excellent as well
Founders KBS
Zombie dust
Sanctification
Damnation
Double shot
Birth of tragedy
Abner

 

[Turnem n Burnem]

I don't go places that do not have Miller Lite at the gas stations!!

 

[topher89]

Upslope IPA and their Christmas Ale are two of my favorites

 

[Loco4dux]

These are some stand outs I have had...
Heady topper
Julius
Dinner
Pliney the younger ...the elder is excellent as well
Founders KBS
Zombie dust
Sanctification
Damnation
Double shot
Birth of tragedy
Abner

Heady topper... YES

Pliny the Younger is where I draw the line on beer though... people traveling from all over the world and waiting outside for many hours/days is absolutely absurd and ridiculous. And i'm only 2.5 hrs from the brewery.

If were talking triple IPA's Knee Deep Simtra is REAL GOOD.... and readily available.

 

[LostArra]

These are some stand outs I have had...
Heady topper
Julius
Dinner
Pliney the younger ...the elder is excellent as well
Founders KBS
Zombie dust
Sanctification
Damnation
Double shot
Birth of tragedy
Abner

You've got the best beer supplier on earth


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[Trial153]

You've got the best beer supplier on earth


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It's has taken a lot of work and relationship building. It also helps that I have access to Treehouse, The alchemist and hills farmstead to trade......

 

[Trial153]

This will either be to celebrate a a Patriots win, or numb the pain. Either way....

From Trillium Brewing...

Trillium is putting out some excellent beers

 

[WRO]

I'm a huge fan of the bend beer scene as of late.

Boneyard rpm
Cascade mosaic
10 barrels Joe ipa



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[wncbrewer]

Working in the craft beer industry, I get to try a lot of beer (it's awful but someone has to do it) I would say the quality of craft beer across the country continues to improve. There is enough competition now that the mediocre breweries are starting to get weeded out. I'd be very hard pressed to pick a favorite, but everything that comes out of the Ale Apothecary outside of Bend is solid gold.


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[16Bore]

Had some Ballist Point "Victory at Sea" last night. Didn't take long to figure out why the glass was so small.

Man that was good stuff.

 

[LostArra]

Working in the craft beer industry, I get to try a lot of beer (it's awful but someone has to do it) I would say the quality of craft beer across the country continues to improve. There is enough competition now that the mediocre breweries are starting to get weeded out. I'd be very hard pressed to pick a favorite, but everything that comes out of the Ale Apothecary outside of Bend is solid gold.


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Do you think Oregon is passing Colorado and California as the craft brewing center?
I know Asheville, NC is kind of trendy now too.
I visited SN and Wicked Weed in Asheville. SN tours are top notch.

 

[slvrslngr]

So many good ones, so little time!

 

[Bughalli]

It depends on the type of beer you like, but for me it's all about IPA's. For awhile I was tracking which IPA's were getting the highest rankings (Beer Advocate) and even went so far as to plan my vacations around traveling to places where I could try them. So I would say I tried a decent number of them, including the hard to find ones coming out of Vermont that never make it out of the darn State. Pliney the Elder is still at the top of my list, but it's hard to get...and I only live a couple hours from the brewery. (I'm due for a pilgrimage soon.) Alpine's Nelson and Duet are right up there (San Diego). A small brewery in Redding, CA (Fall River Brewery) makes some great IPA's as well. Their Hexagenia IPA and Widowmaker double IPA are really good....but again, very small distribution and most people don't know about them. My go-to (affordable & accessible) IPA is Green Flash's West Coast IPA. Can't beat the taste for the value. My local beer store sells it cheaper than all the big box stores even when on sale.

 

[2ski]

Working in the craft beer industry, I get to try a lot of beer (it's awful but someone has to do it) I would say the quality of craft beer across the country continues to improve. There is enough competition now that the mediocre breweries are starting to get weeded out. I'd be very hard pressed to pick a favorite, but everything that comes out of the Ale Apothecary outside of Bend is solid gold.


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Yep. The mediocre breweries are definitely starting to get weeded out. The consumer of beer is no longer happy drinking wheat beers that are eh, and now are picking out better beers with more going on with the layers they are tasting. It used to be easy to get good rare beers. It's getting good harder. Stores are starting to limit bottles bought by customers of certain beers so that they aren't horded by few.

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[Warren1726]

Bell's Hopslam is fantastic, especially this year. My go to is Bell's Two Hearted.

 

[Brendan]

Trillium is putting out some excellent beers

They really are. Night Shift is another one and they're right down the road from me if anyone wants to try some...

The Northeast may get it's butt kicked from a hunting perspective, but the beer can hold its own.... In the next couple months I'm going to visit / pick up some from Night Shift, Tree House, Alchemist, Trillium, Lawson's, Hill Farmstead and Maine Beer Co...

 

[Art Vandeley]

Miller lite

 

[Trial153]

They really are. Night Shift is another one and they're right down the road from me if anyone wants to try some...

The Northeast may get it's butt kicked from a hunting perspective, but the beer can hold its own.... In the next couple months I'm going to visit / pick up some from Night Shift, Tree House, Alchemist, Trillium, Lawson's, Hill Farmstead and Maine Beer Co...

You listed some of the very best anywhere. I agree ...about the only thing the Northeast can hold their own is brewery's