What is the best tasting craft beer flavor that you have drank?

[JEDIYoda]

Let me start out by saying we have Fieldworks out here and they are constantly coming out with limited production beer flavors!
https://fieldworkbrewing.com/napa/
I just enjoyed a 32 ounce of their Blackberry Parfait Beer!! Fantastic!!
https://fieldworkbrewing.com/our-be...our-beer/our-beer/our-beer/our-beer/our-beer/

 

[Dr. Detroit]

I've been to over 50 breweries and the variety is endless -

Pliny rates very high with me - a true west coast hoppy beer.

Firestone - Mind Haze, Ballast Point - Sculpin, Alpine - Hoppy Birthday, Karl Strauss - Hoppyaliss, Mike Hess - grapefruit Solis, Alvarado & Revision are making some excellent hazy IPAs these days.

I miss Monkey Paw brewery a lot and curse Coronado for shutting them down.

 

[FerrelGeek]

How about they make something besides effing IPAs. There are actually good beers that come with an IBU <90.

An IPA is good on a hot summer day after doing yardwork.

I've been to over 50 breweries and the variety is endless -

Pliny rates very high with me - a true west coast hoppy beer.

Firestone - Mind Haze, Ballast Point - Sculpin, Alpine - Hoppy Birthday, Karl Strauss - Hoppyaliss, Mike Hess - grapefruit Solis, Alvarado & Revision are making some excellent hazy IPAs these days.

I miss Monkey Paw brewery a lot and curse Coronado for shutting them down.

 

[zinfamous]

How about they make something besides effing IPAs. There are actually good beers that come with an IBU <90.

Amen. I'm definitely focusing more of my attention on sours over the last couple of years, and it seems like they are only slowly becoming more popular. I think I was mostly done with IPAs ~2004. I really could live the rest of my life without seeing another IPA, even though some are still great. The market is just saturated with 95% or more of them being lazy, boring, bullshit IPAs with no redeeming value.

Fullsteam in Durham is my most recent favorite brewery visit. Their wine barrel-aged Ava is brilliant. Duck-Rabbit has been great for a long time, and that is because they almost exclusively focus on dark malt beers in the Marzen-to-Stout spectrum.

 

[BudAshes]

I like the beer flavored beer.

 

[Iron Woode]

Upper Canada Brewery - Maple Brown Ale

 

[snoopy7548]

IPAs are good, but I tend to prefer something a bit more smooth. Lots of IPAs are way overdone and so bitter you can barely drink it. Ales are usually a safer bet.

I'm not sure if I can remember the best tasting craft beer I've had. I've had a lot of really good ones but these days I don't drink much beer. I guess if you like hops, but not overly hoppy, the Hop Knife IPA is really good.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Higher the ABV the better in my book. Love me some barrel aged stouts/porters... Belgian Dubbel/Tripels/Quads.... Also don't mind a decent mead/cider.

Some of the best I've had:

Prairie are kings of delicious heavy stouts:

Firestone Boxed series are also awesome. Stickee Monkee = Delicious

My "Budlight" equivalent beer that is delicious that I can always go back to... La Fin Du Monde by Unibroue

 

[MtnMan]

I've been to over 50 breweries and the variety is endless -

Pliny rates very high with me - a true west coast hoppy beer.

Firestone - Mind Haze, Ballast Point - Sculpin, Alpine - Hoppy Birthday, Karl Strauss - Hoppyaliss, Mike Hess - grapefruit Solis, Alvarado & Revision are making some excellent hazy IPAs these days.

I miss Monkey Paw brewery a lot and curse Coronado for shutting them down.

There are over 30+ craft breweries within 10 miles of my house, 60+ within 40 miles of my house, and been to over 100..... It is still a study in progress, but it's probably going to be a NE IPA, or a Belgium Dubbel or Triple, or a Stout - preferable on Nitro.

 

[deadlyapp]

I had a stupidly delicious peanut butter stout this past weekend in Portland but can't remember where it was from, maybe it was backwoods brewing.

I love IPAs but honestly find something much more enticing about stouts and porters. More nuanced flavors generally.

 

[Denly]

I have over 600 logs on untap and I only start it last summer

My highest rated are, anything 3F, Big rig double choc stout, Cantillon, Omnipollo Zodiak, Panil, Dulcis Succubus, Unibroue Blonde De L'Enfer, Founder Backwoods Bastard

Edit - If you ever come across Sous-Bois by Oshlag Brasserie give it a try, it is the most ….Different/ridiculous beer I ever had. Only if you're adventurous.

 

[Denly]

Higher the ABV the better in my book. Love me some barrel aged stouts/porters... Belgian Dubbel/Tripels/Quads.... Also don't mind a decent mead/cider.

See if you have access to black isle barrel age series, nothing fancy just good old strong stouts, it is refreshing from all the new age coffee, sweet and milky stuff.

 

[soulcougher73]

I enjoy many beers but one I keep loving to go back to is 80 Acre from Boulevard. Hoppy wheat beer. It's amazing.

Another fall back beer is 1554 from New Belgium. But usually a fall/winter beer for me.

 

[Captante]

the variety is endless

No question about it ... I've had far too many excellent beer's to pick any single favorite... best I've had recently was this stuff:

https://troegs.com/beer/first-cut/


Heck I even enjoy some mass-produced commercial beers like plain old Miller High Life! (ice-cold in bar-bottles)

 

[clamum]

I'm no longer a drinking man but out of the beers I've had, I think I liked Guinness the most. Mmmm that was pretty tasty. Granted I was no beer connoisseur, but I didn't really care to sample every beer under the son. I was more concerned with getting drunk so typically drank the cheap stuff.

 

[BurnItDwn]

my favorite flavored/adjuct beer is probably KBS or BCBS
my favorite reasonably priced adjunct/flavored beer is Southern Tier Creme Brulee desert beer
Otherwise, I generally love all sours, stouts, quadruples.... too many to pick just 1.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Aside from my own, Samuel Smiths Tadcaster Porter.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't usually buy craft beer. I'm not a big beerhead(prefer sprits(whisky)), and I've been burned a few times. They're pretty much all expensive, and I've had a couple that were terrible, and several that were mediocre. I don't feel like gambling on them anymore. I stick with the big guys for the most part, with Guinness extra stout being my favorite. Been enjoying Guinness Blonde lately. Hoppy and citrusy; it makes a good summer beer.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I don't usually buy craft beer. I'm not a big beerhead(prefer sprits(whisky)), and I've been burned a few times. They're pretty much all expensive, and I've had a couple that were terrible, and several that were mediocre. I don't feel like gambling on them anymore. I stick with the big guys for the most part, with Guinness extra stout being my favorite. Been enjoying Guinness Blonde lately. Hoppy and citrusy; it makes a good summer beer.

You need a guide.

 

[lxskllr]

You need a guide.

Like I said, I'm not a big beerhead. I just don't care that much. You mentioned Samuel Smith. I'm a fan of their beer, and it was the first ultra premium I had back in the day. I still get some every so often as a treat; usually in winter. I like the oatmeal stout and imperial stout. The last beer aside from the Blonde that got my attention was a draft from the German restaurant I go to. I think it was a Paulaner product. Really malty, without being cloying. That's one I'd like to get again.

 

[Exterous]

Michigan is big into craft beers so I've been fortunate to sample many. Too much variety to choose just one but I generally prefer Belgium beers. When we went last year and went to a local grocery store the beer section was pure heaven. Soooo many Tripple, quads and trappist beers for $1-3. I almost decided to skip any sightseeing and just drink all day every day.

How about they make something besides effing IPAs. There are actually good beers that come with an IBU <90.

It's was bad enough that the variety packs always had an IPA. Now they all have a least two if they're not a 'Hop Pack' of only IPAs.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Sam Adams Old Fezziwig is pretty fine too.

 

[lxskllr]

It's was bad enough that the variety packs always had an IPA. Now they all have a least two if they're not a 'Hop Pack' of only IPAs.

The "default" flavor seems to be hops-O-plenty anymore. It's like coffee where the default is megaroast. I like really hoppy beers, and I like very dark roasted coffee, but not every fucking time. Hard to get a normal ale from a tap. They're pretty much all IPAs, whether they explicitly say so or not.

 

[zinfamous]

I have over 600 logs on untap and I only start it last summer

My highest rated are, anything 3F, Big rig double choc stout, Cantillon, Omnipollo Zodiak, Panil, Dulcis Succubus, Unibroue Blonde De L'Enfer, Founder Backwoods Bastard

Edit - If you ever come across Sous-Bois by Oshlag Brasserie give it a try, it is the most ….Different/ridiculous beer I ever had. Only if you're adventurous.

I went to the Cantillon brewery in Brussels many years ago. ...it's the only actual, real brewery that still survives in Brussels (Yes, there are some shitboxes now that probably "make" Stella and Carlsburg).

Fucking delicious, and a great self-guided, easy tour of a tiny place that makes ages-old, delicious Lambics and whatever. We were there when they were bringing in the sour cherries and they encouraged us to take them off the pallet as we chilled at the one table and drank our beers. ..very hard to find in the states (BevMo on the west coast carries them for sure), and also pretty damn expensive for what it is.

But, it's one of those great beer experiences.

Honestly, if World beer were limited to only real Belgian beers, I would be fine. They encompass most of what you need...I would miss some things, but whatever. Belgium does everything I want a beer to do, for most of their styles. My budget doesn't allow it, though. lol.

And no...very very very very few American breweries that I have seen can do that properly with their "belgians."

s0me0onesmind is correct though: La Fin Du Monde has the right-on.

 

[zinfamous]

I'm no longer a drinking man but out of the beers I've had, I think I liked Guinness the most. Mmmm that was pretty tasty. Granted I was no beer connoisseur, but I didn't really care to sample every beer under the son. I was more concerned with getting drunk so typically drank the cheap stuff.

Here's the thing, if your standard "shit beer" is Guinness, then your country is doing it right.