Friday, October 14, 2016

Top 10 Beers of Each (Most) Style

I use the UNTAPPD app to keep track of each beer I try. I believe it all started when I couldn't remember what brewer's version of Oktoberfest I liked, and which ones I hated. As of today, I have tasted and rated 562 beers. I rate all the beers on a 5 star scale: 3 is average, 3.5 is good, 4 is great, 4.5 is the best I have had. So here is the list:

IPAs and APAs

4.5 stars

  • Furious - Surly Brewing Company
  • Pliny the Elder - Russian River Brewing Company

4 stars

  • Pale Ale - Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
  • Two Hearted Ale - Bell's Brewery
  • Unrated Rye IPA - 612 Brew
  • Abrasive Ale - Surly Brewing Company  
  • Todd The Axe Man - Surly Brewing Company 
  • 1349 Pale Ale - Surly Brewing Company
  • Wet - Surly Brewing Company
  • Stone IPA - Stone Brewing
  • Stone Delicious IPA - Stone Brewing
  • Stone Enjoy By 10.31.15 - Stone Brewing 
  • Stone Mocha IPA - Stone Brewing
  • Fresh Squeezed IPA - Deschutes Brewery
  • Size 7 - Steel Toe Brewing
  • Green Bullet IPA - Dangerous Man Brewing Co.
  • Pinner Throwback IPA - Oskar Blues Brewery
  • Boneshaker - Amsterdam Brewing Company
  • Saga IPA - Summit Brewing Company
  • Hopslam Ale - Bell's Brewery
  • 30th Anniversary Double IPA - Summit Brewing Company
  • Wolf Pup Session IPA - Golden Road Brewing
  • Space Dust IPA - Elysian Brewing Company
  • Alabaster Woodchuck - Bent Brewstillery
  • Grapefruit Sculpin - Ballast Point Brewery & Spirits
  • Rebel Grapefruit IPA - Samuel Adams
  • Citradelic - New Belgium Brewing Company

Ales

4.5 stars

  • Bender - Surly Brewing Company

4 stars

  • Fat Tire - New Helgium Brewing Company
  • Cacao Bender - Surly Brewing Company 
  • Coffee Bender - Surly Brewing Company 
  • Newcastle Brown Ale - John Smith's 
  • Tour de Fall - New Belgium Brewing Company
  • Mourning Wood - Local Option Bierwerker
  • Cold Press Black - Bent Paddle Brewing Co. 
  • Decadent Dark Chocolate Ale - Atwater Brewery

Sours

4.5 stars

  • Pentagram - Surly Brewing Company
  • Coolship #2 - Elgood's Brewery
  • VanderGhinste Oud Bruin - Omer Vander Ghinste Brewery
  • Roselle - Fair State Brewing Cooperative

 4 stars

  •  Saint Dekkera Reserve Sour: Flanders Red - DESTIHL Brewery
  • Wekken Sour - De Proefbrouwerij
  • Aunt Sally - Lagunitas Brewing Company

 

 

Porters and Stouts

4.5 stars

  • Death by Coconut - Oskar Blues Brewery

 4 stars

  • Vanilla Java Porter - Atwater Brewery
  • Cutthroat Porter - Odell Brewing Co. 
  • Guinness Draught - Guinness
  • Chocolate Milk Stout - Dangerous Man Brewing Co 
  • Trespass Porter - Jack Pine Brewery
  • Darkness (2015) - Surly Brewing Company
  • The Abyss - Deschutes Brewery
  • Gobias - Oliphant Brewing
  • Cassian Sunset - Central Water Brewing Company
  • Cinnamon Rasin Commodore - Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits
  • 2X Stout - Southern Tier Brewing Company

 

Lagers

4.5 stars

  • Grain Belt Nordest - August Schell Brewing Company (Grain Belt)

 4 stars

  • Grain Belt Premium - August Schell Brewing Company (Grain Belt)
  • First Call - Modist Brewing Company

 

 Others

4.5 stars

  • Stiegl Radler Grapefruit NaturtrĂ¼b (shandy) - Stieglbrauerei zu Salzburg

4 stars

  • Strongbow Cider (cider) - Bulmers Cider
  • Jack-O Traveler Pumpkin Shandy (shandy) - Traveler Beer Co. 
  • Spencer Trappist Ale (belgian) - Spencer Brewery
  • The Bennie (bock) - Granite City Food & Brewery
  • Delirium Tremens (belgian) - Brouwerij Huyghe
  • Saison (saison) - Brasserie St-Feuillien 
  • One (belgian) - Surly Brewing Company

Friday, April 4, 2014

2014 Baseball Award Predictions

With the 2014 MLB season just underway, it is time for my award predictions. Here we go:


Jose Abreu
Chris Owings
 
We will see how I do at the end of the season!