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Beer I’d like to try and beer I’ve tried. I liked, were just ok, I didn’t like. Also see wine, chocolate, and other lists.

Naturally, this isn’t comprehensive – I’ve tried others that aren’t listed here – and it’s biased toward my taste. If I mark a beer , I may still think it’s good overall, but just doesn’t match my own personal taste, and vice versa. I tend to prefer IPAs and darker beers like stouts and porters. I don’t mind lighter ales and lagers, but some, like lambics, I’m not a fan of.

To try:

Hill Farmstead Harlan IPA

Bell’s Two Hearted

Almanac misc.

Avery Brewing Maharaja

Porterhouse Plain Porter

Traquair House Ale

Windswept Porter, APA, Wolf

Santorini Crazy Donkey IPA

Ommegang Ommegeddon

Wasatch Brewery Polygamy Porter, misc

Squatters misc

Linden Street Burning Oak Black Lager

O’Hanlon’s Ruby Stout

Brouwerij ‘t IJ miscellaneous

Mayfield Iconoclast Nocturna (imperial stout)

Brasserie d’Achouffe Chouffe Bok (amber)

Magic Hat (various)

Tried:

Lua Loud As Hope (hefeweizen)

Pondaseta Martin & Martin (Irish style dry stout)

Highway 1 Cloud Break Kölsch

Alpine Duet (IPA)

Dokkaebier LP Witbier (wheat with lemongrass and peppercorn)

Mikerphone Life’s A Trip And Then You Rye (IPA)

Fonta Flora Oak Stand (schwarzbier) , Hulihe’e IPA , Lake James Ice

Seapine Pilsner

Cinderlands Brick Top (coffee quad)

MadeWest Pale

Topa Topa Chief Peak (IPA)_ , Level Line (pale)

M.Special Greatland Special (IPA)

Ventura Coast Resinite (IPA)

Logsdon Farmhouse Ales Helles For Sinners

Threes Dare To Know

Block 15 Blacklight (black lager)

New Holland Dragon’s Milk (barrel aged imperial stout)

Resident Culture West Coast Connect (double IPA)

Bay Area Brewers Guild / Speakeasy Common Dreams (steam)

Interboro + Burial Alpine Style (pilsner)

Connecticut Valley Hand Over Heart (schwarzbier/dark lager)

Wild Leap Coast West (IPA)

StormBreaker Right As Rain (pale)

SingleCut Cut Out Bin (pale)

Green Bench Between You & I (pilsner)

Urban Chestnut Oachkatzlschwoaf “O-Katz” (märzen)

Proclamation Derivative: Mystery (IPA)

Ology Resolved Enigma (IPA)

Black Hammer Playa Pilsen (Mexican lager)

Jester King / Mikkeller Drink’in The Sunbelt (wheat)

Ecliptic / Cloudburst Cosmic Collaboration (witbier)

KCBC Robot Fish

Nightmare Matricide (imperial stout)

Fort George Cathedral Tree (pilsner)

Heater Allen Pils (pilsner)

Icicle Dark Persuasion German Chocolate Cake (milk stout)

Headlands Hill 88

Transient Slow Up (pilsner)

Burial Contrition (pilsner)

Leffe Blonde

Great Raft Reasonably Corrupt (schwarzbier/dark lager)

Rooftop Bourbon Barrel-Aged Belgian Quad

Wayfinder Crusher Destroyer (smoked bock) , Freiheit! (festbier)

Bearded Iris Tunnel Vision DDH w/Citra(IPA)

Jessup Farm Four Year Anniversary (quad)

Stable 12 Dark (porter), , Light (stout + coffee), Dark + Light

Wimbledon Quartermaine (IPA)

Camden Town Pale Ale

St. Austell Tribute (pale)

Baja Mexican IP Por Favor

Revision IPA

Spring House Blood Turning Black (imperial porter)

Bike Dog Pro-Zach (IPA)

Eight & Sand Nitro Sweet Potato Caboose

Double Mountain Killer Lion (IPA)

Parish Envie – 4XDH (pale) , Rêve (coffee stout)

Andechester Weiss Dunkel

Elder Pine Chin Chin (stout)

Three Weavers Blood Junkie (red)

Separatist Lifestyle (kölsch) , Euro-Spliff (zwicker-pilsner)

Mother Earth IPA (not sure which)

Hideji Kuri Kuro Dark Chestnut Ale (imperial stout)

Infinite Ale Works West Floridian (quad)

Stillwater Suggested For You (pale)

Parallel 49 Wild Tale (wheat pale)

Yellow Dog Play Dead IPA

Woodland Empire Free At Last (IPA)

State Room Filibuster (double IPA)

Coldfire Minute After Midnight (imperial stout w/coffee)

Black Raven Wisdom Seeker (imperial IPA)

Legal Remedy World Court Mocha Blonde Stout

Odell 180 Shilling Ale (scotch ale)

Pipeworks Lizard King

Calicraft Oaktown (brown) , The City (IPA)

Monday Night Brewing Dark Subject Matter

Brewery Vivant Love Shadow (barrel aged imperial stout) , Wizard Burial Ground

Hubbard’s Cave Accident In Hubbard’s Cave , Vanilla Imperial Stout (2019-2) , Fresh V4 (imperial IPA)

Against The Grain Stave It For Later (rye-wine, bourbon aged)

Scuttlebutt Ray Of Hope (pilsner)

Brickstone Hop Skip

Wyndridge Farm Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout

Zipline Double IPA , The Stout (Russian imperial)

Rhinegeist Brewery Oddjob (imperial IPA) , Stryker (imperial IPA)

MIA Big In Japan (rice lager)

Laughing Monk Third Circle (tripel)

Barrel House Z Festbier

Adroit Theory All I See Is Carrion (quad) , Tenebris (barleywine) , Invisible Art (black IPA) , All Shall Perish (hazy IPA)

MobCraft Queen Hazel (imperial stout) , Padishah (barrel aged imperial stout)

Ahnapee Brewery Cafe Blonde

Yakima Good Monkey

Hoppin’ Frog Fresh Frog Raw Hop (imperial IPA) , Rocky Mountain Barrel-Aged T.O.R.I.S the Tyrant (russian imperial stout) , Pentuple

Matchless Brewing These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty!

DC Brau On The Wings Of Armageddon

BuckleDown Brewing Citra Clencher (double IPA)

Tyranena Doubly Down N’ Even Dirtier (imperial stout)

Metal Monkey Ghuleh (pale)

Toppling Goliath Pseudo Sue (pale) , Sosus (double IPA) , Hopsmack! (double IPA) , King Sue

Matchless For British Eyes Only (IPA)

Counterbalance Kushetka Imperial Stout

Soma IPA

Adelbert’s Flyin Monks (quad)

Martin House Cellarman’s Reserve Crystal (IPA)

Brewmaster Jack Prinsipia (quad)

Hopworks Urban Brewery Ace Of Spades

Eight & Sand We Can Brew It

Taxman Declaration (Belgian double IPA) , Qualified (quad) , Deduction – Bourbon Barrel (dubbel)

Melvin IPA

Four Fathers Viking Funeral

Belching Beaver Peanut Butter Milk Stout

Vault Teller Pils

Anchorage Darkest Hour (imperial stout) , Do Us Part , Shape Shift Black (imperial/triple IPA) , Pack Call , Good Vibe Pils , Anadromous (sour stout) , The Turning Shape (tripel)

Barrel Of Monks Abbey Terno (dubbel) , Father Christmas (christmas ale)

River North Barrel Series #7: Avarice , Barrel Aged Double Avarice (19% ABV!) (both whiskey aged imperial stouts), Whiskey Barrel Quandary (quad) , First Ascent

Baxter Bootleg Fireworks (double IPA)

Monkless Capitulation (tripel) , Trinity (tripel) , Dubbel Or Nothing , Peppercorn Imperial Wit , Four Devils (belgian pale) , Friar’s Festivus (quad) , Shepplekofeggan

Spring House Big Gruesome (imperial stout)

14er White Out Stout on Snow Peak

Fulton Cosmic Stallion

Crux Fermentation Crux Pilz (pilsner)

Straight to Ale Stop Work (kölsch)

Pelican Beak Breaker (double IPA) , Mother Of All Storms (barrel aged barleywine)

Lucky Labrador Porter , Super Dog (IPA)

10 Barrel Pearl IPA , Joe IPA

Interboro Legend Has It (kellerbier) , El Nuevo Pres (pilsner) , Pilsmatic (pilsner)

Aslan Batch 15

4 Hands City Wide (pale ale)

Fair State Vienna Lager

Gun Hill Genius Loci (imperial IPA) , Shot In The Dark (milk stout), , Tried & True (oktoberfest)

Due South Oaked Category 5 (IPA)

Cascade Lakes Salted Caramel Porter

Decadent Ales Double Toasted Marshmallow (double IPA)

Wolves and People Tractor Pull (strong ale)

Boxing Bear Red Glove (double red ale)

Capital Maibock

Coppertail Unholy Trippel , Oktoberfest

pFriem IPA , Belgian Christmas Ale , Extra Pale Ale , Mosaic Pale , Pilsner , Rye Whiskey Imperial Brown , Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout , Vienna Lager

Alameda Island Alameda’s IPA

Evil Twin Even More JCS , 60 Days Dry Aged Stout (oatmeal stout)

Knee Deep Breaking Bud (IPA)

Zaftig Shadowed Mistress (American ale) , Bambalam , Wee Heavy

101 North High Gravity IPA

Melvin Experimental J-Hole (red IPA)

Bronx Crystal Whipped IPA

Buoy Cream Ale

Breakside Salted Caramel Stout

Gigantic IPA , Pipewrench (gin aged IPA) , Massive! (2018) (bourbon-aged barleywine)

Iron Horse Double Rainbow (red IPA) , Quilter’s Irish Death (dark ale)

Bale Breaker Field 41 (pale) , Fresh Off The Farm , Hop Country (IPA) , Bottomcutter

Taxman Qualified (quadrupel)

Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck Trignac XII (tripel)

Santiam Pirate Rum-aged Coconut Stout

Copper Kettle Mexican Chocolate Stout , Snowed In (oatmeal stout)

Three Magnets Welwyn Garden Keeping Ale , Oyster Stout , Sorry, Not Sorry! (IPA)

Double Mountain Dark and Moody (imperial stout , No Collusion (imperial stout) , Citra Single Hop (IPA)

Black Raven Splinters (scotch ale)

Praire Artisan Ales Phantasmagoria (imperial IPA) , Okie (barrel aged brown)

Crooked Fence Sins of our Father (imperial stout)

4 Noses El Jefe (stout)

Gigantic Too Much Coffee Man (black saison)

Buffalo Bill’s Blueberry Oatmeal Stout

Silver City Bourbon Barrel Aged Old Scrooge Christmas Ale

Baerlic Collusion Dulce De Leche , Dark Thoughts (black lager)

Heathen Epitaph (Russian imperial stout) , Reindeer Tears

Milwaukee Brewing Louie’s Resurrection (amber)

Founders Backwoods Bastard (scotch ale)

Kirkland Brown , IPA , Porter

Angel City IPA

Breckenridge Vanilla Porter

Revolution Deth’s Tar (imperial stout) , Working Mom (brown) , Masters Of War (imperial oatmeal stout) , Unsessionable (IPA) , VSOG (barleywine)

Penrose Taproom IPA

Fairhope Judge Roy Bean (coffee stout)

Saint Arnold Pub Crawl (pale)

NOLA Hopitoulas IPA Revivalists (pale ale)

Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan

Gnarly Barley Radical Rye

Palooza Hibitus IPA , Peanut Butter Chocolate Stout

Team Rediculous IPA

Barebottle Half Samurai (sake/rice beer), California Cologne (kölsch) , Berry Shakesbeer (IPA)

Saint Archer White

Bike Dog Straddler IPA

Lost Abbey Track #8 – Number of the Beast (quad)

Karl Strauss Aurora Hoppyalis

Camino James Star Imperial Rye IPA , Nuberu Pale Ale , Pale Rider (pale)

Old Schoolhouse Brewer’s Reserve Imperial Stout

Reuben’s Brews Amarillo Fresh Hop Pale Ale

Picobrouwerij Alvinne Melchior

De Struise Brouwers Pannepot (quadrupel)

SanTan Hop Shock IPA

Phoenix Ale Camelback IPA

Strike Double IPA

Madison River Black Ghost Oatmeal Stout

Odell 90 Shilling Ale

Sockeye Dagger Falls IPA

Snake River Zonker Stout , Pako’s IPA

Grand Teton Amber

Brouwerij der St. Benedictusabdij de Achelse Trappist Achel 8° Bruin

Founders Backwoods Bastard (bourbon aged scotch ale)

Modern Times Black House (coffee stout)

Cellarmaker Southern Passion

Stone/Beachwood/Heretic Unapologetic (imperial IPA)

Borg Brugghús Myrkvi #13 (porter)

Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson Boli (ale) , Gull (lager)

Viking Premium Gold , Classic (lager)

Georgetown James E. Pepper 1776 (brown, aged in rye barrels)

Tap It IPA , Ale Camino

Fieldwork Morning Time Breakfast Stout , Batch 1 (double IPA) , Super Delta (imperial red)

Berryessa Double Tap IPA

HenHouse Free Agent (pale ale) , Oyster Stout , Juice Enthusiast (IPA)

Southern Pacific Chocolate Rye , Alt , Barrel Aged , Pilsner

Auburn Alehouse Isotope PU240 (imperial IPA)

Baeltane Sable Porter

Fort Point Freigeist Charred Manzanita Ale , Villager (IPA) , Citra Park (pale) , Park Hoppy (pale) , Animal (IPA) , Park (pale; which?) , KSA (kölsch)

Boulevard Sixth Glass (quadrupel)

Omnipollo Nebuchadnezzer

Ruhstaller 1881 (red)

Brouwerij Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet

Hoppy Black

Pine Street Atom Splitter (pale ale) , IPA

San Francisco Homebrewers Guild Belgian Infrared , Mega Brown

FreeWheel Ironbridge Wenlock Stout

Feather Falls Casino Amber

Big Sky IPA

Mission IPA

Eight Bridges IPA

Altamont Smoke N Dank , Rich Mahogany Red

St. Florian’s Brown , Flashover IPA

Clown Shoes Chocolate Sombrero

Faction Flagship Pale Ale

Marston’s Oyster Stout

Belhaven Twisted Thistle IPA

Birra Del Borgo Perle Ai Porci (English stout)

Einstök Ölgerð Icelandic White Ale , Icelandic Toasted Porter , Pale Ale

Boulevard/Sierra Nevada Terra Incognita (wild ale, aged in whiskey barrels)

EJ Phair Shorty’s Revenge (american ale, aged in whiskey barrels) , Steeltown Stout

Schooner’s Dead Reckoning Baltic Porter (aged in bourbon barrels)

Glacier Hungarian Oak Aged Porter (aged in Hungarian oak barrels)

Kiuchi Hitachino Nest Extra High (XH) (Belgian strong ale aged in sake casks) , Hitachino Nest Japanese Classic

Brouwerij Huyghe Delirium Tremens

Lervig Rye IPA

Ballast Point Big Eye IPA , Sculpin (IPA)

Uinta Baba Black Lager , Hop Nosh IPA

Muskoka Mad Tom IPA

Flying Monkeys Smashbomb Atomic IPA

Mill Street Cobblestone Stout , Tankhouse (pale ale)

Pretty Things Fluffy White Rabbits (triple)

Rhinelander Boatswain American IPA , Double IPA, Chocolate Stout

Carlow O’Hara’s Irish Stout

Shepherd Neame Double Stout

Whitewater Belfast Black

Innis & Gunn Winter Treacle Porter , Bourbon Cask Dark Ale

Orkney Dragonhead Stout , Ale 9 (IPA)

Highland Scapa Special (pale ale) , Cold Mountain (winter ale)

Bayhawk Red , Chocolate Porter

Heretic Evil Twin Red , Shallow Grave Porter , Torment (dark belgian ale), , Chocolate Hazelnut Porter

Brasserie de l’Abbaye du Val-Dieu Val-Dieu Grand Cru (quadrupel)

Brouwerij De Block Satan Red

Brouwerij Alken-Maes Grimbergen Dubbel

Kissmeyer No. 7 Honey Porter

Third Street Aleworks Bombay Rouge (red IPA)

Double Take Amber

Triple Voodoo Grand Cru (Belgian pale ale) , Inception (Belgian ale)

Dying Vines Old Brick Bitter

Flying Dog Pearl Necklace Oyster Stout

Brouwerij Verhaeghe Duchesse De Bourgogne

Pacific Brewing Laboratories Squid Ink (black IPA)

Westvleteren 12 (see the blog post)

The Bruery White Oak

Malheur Brut Noir

Castello di Udine Lager Rossa

Santorini Brewing Yellow Donkey IPA , Red Donkey IPA

Pivovar Velké Popovice Kozel Czerny Velkopopovicky (dark)

Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan Hefe-Weissbier

Paulaner Hefe-Weizbier

Septem Monday’s Pilsner , Thursday’s Red Ale , Friday’s Pale Ale

Mythos Helenic Lager

Black Toad Dark Ale

Alina Oro Do Milano Doppio Malto

Pausa Cafe Tosta

Asahi Black (stout)

Founders Porter

Sixpoint Sweet Action (IPA) , Alpenflo (helles)

Lost Coast 8 Ball Stout , Alleycat (amber) , Indica (IPA) , Downtown Brown , Great White

Porterhouse Oyster Stout

Prescott Ponderosa IPA

New Belgium Fat Tire (amber)

Brouwerij Het Anker Gouden Carolus Noël (Belgian dark)

World Brews Four In Hand IPA

Bison Chocolate Stout , Hop Cuvée (pale ale)

Fort Collins Incredible Hop #1 (black IPA)

Rahr & Sons Ass Kisser Double IPA

Hermitage Brewing Ale of the Hermit , Maltopia Double Scotch Ale

Hermitage Irondale “Swanton Rea’s” Double Chocolate Stout

Coronado Idiot IPA , Islander IPA , Mermaid’s Red , Stupid Stout

Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout , Titan IPA Wood Werks (brown rye)

Midnight Sun Arctic Rhino Coffee Porter

Emelisse Espresso Stout , Imperial Russian Stout

Valeir Extra (Belgian IPA)

Full Sail IPA , Amber

Brùton Barley Ale

Victory V-Twelve (quadrupel)

Birrificio Le Baladin Super Baladin

Fuller’s London Porter (with nitrogen )

Brouwerij Smisje Catherine The Great (imperial stout)

Brasserie St. Feuillien Triple

Redhook ESB , Long Hammer IPA

Echigo Stout

Hair Of The Dog Adam

Avery “The Czar” Imperial Stout , Tweak (16% ABV!), Mephistopheles Stout , White Rascal , Vanilla Bean Stout

Ballast Point Victory At Sea Imperial Porter

Spaten Optimator (doppelbock)

Fish Brewing Fish Tale IPA

Dick’s Double Diamond Winter Ale

Firestone Walker Union Jack IPA , Velvet Merlin Oatmeal Stout , Velvet Merkin (oatmeal stout aged in bourbon barrels) , Double Jack (imperial IPA) , 14 Anniversary Ale , Walker’s Reserve Porter , Pale 31 , Wookey Jack (black rye IPA), Helldorado 2017 (blonde barleywine) , 805 (blonde)

Tied House Hoptopia (double IPA) , Cascade Amber , Ironwood Dark , Menage A Singe (black IPA)

Pyramid Snow Cap , Hefeweizen , Curve Ball (blonde)

Napa Smith Bonfire (imperial porter) , Golden Gate IPA

Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel (double imperial stout) , Big Worse (Bourbon Barrel Edition) , Koppi Coffee IPA , Beer Geek Bacon aka Rauch Geek Breakfast , Black Hole , Texas Ranger Eagle Rare Chipotle Porter , Milk Stout, Crooked Moon Tattoo (imperial IPA) , Green Gold (IPA) , Frelser Doppelbock

Schmaltz aka He’Brew Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A. (double IPA)

Harvey & Son Le Coq Imperial Extra Double Stout

Jolly Pumpkin La Roja (wild amber) , Bam Noire (dark farmhouse ale)

Russian River Brewing Blind Pig (IPA) , Damnation (golden ale) , Pliny the Elder (double IPA) , Pliny the Younger (imperial IPA) , Supplication (oaked cherry ale) , Temptation (blonde, aged in chardonnay barrels) , STS Pils

Lucky Hand Black Lager

Kona Pipeline Porter , Koko Brown , Fire Rock Pale Ale , Big Wave Golden Ale , Castaway (IPA)

Ska Brewing Ten Pin Porter

Durango Brewing Blueberry Wheat , Amber

Carver Brewing Iron Horse Oatmeal Stout , Raspberry Wheat , Cascade Canyon Cask IPA , Oatmeal Pale Ale , Colorado Uncommon

Brasserie Lebbe L’Amalthée

Brasserie Dupont Saison Dupont Vielle Provision

Birrificio Troll Palanfrina (dark ale)

Brouwerij Rodenbach Grand Cru (Flanders red ale)

Brasserie de Rochefort Trappistes Rochefort 6 (Belgian dark ale) , 8 (Belgian dark ale), , 10 (quadrupel)

Eel River Brewing Organic Porter , Porter , Blonde , Acai Berry Wheat , Earth Thirst Double IPA, Emerald Triangle IPA

Ninkasi Total Domination IPA , Oatis (oatmeal stout) , Believer (double red ale) , Lady of Avalon (dark lager) , Tricerahops Double IPA , Maiden The Shade (aged in Dry Fly gin barrels) , Jarrylo (pale ale)

Mehana Volcano Red , Sunset Amber

MacTarnahan’s Summer Grifter (IPA)

Coastal Fog IPA

Nectar Ales Black Xantus

Port Brewing/Pizza Port Hop 15 (double IPA) , Wipeout IPA , Santa’s Little Helper (imperial stout) , High Tide Fresh Hop IPA , Old Viscosity , Night Rider (imperial stout, aged in Heaven Hills bourbon barrels) , South of the Pier (IPA)

Iron Springs Sless’ Oatmeal Stout

Tui IPA

Mad River Steelhead Double IPA , Serious Madness (black ale) , Mad Belgian (Belgian pale ale) , Steelhead Bourbon Vanilla Porter (aged in Heaven Hills bourbon barrels) , Slammin’ Salmon (DIPA) , Jamaica (red)