The Ongoing Beer List

On the tail of a Twitter conversation on Wisconsin beers and a renewed interest in homebrewing seemed like a perfect time to write up my favorite beers.

My Homebrew Favorites

1. Owd Potters Field Ale
2. Sour Cider – Mach II
3. Sour Cider – Mach I
4. Aloysius Amber Rye – 2011

Top 5 Anytime, Anywhere Beers

1. Rush River Unforgiven
2. Rush River ÜberAlt
3. North Coast Brewing Red Seal Ale
4. Affligem Abbey Blond
5. Two Brothers Brewing’s Cane and Ebel

Special Occasion Beers
One beer at the end of a great day:

• Bockor’s Cuvée des Jacobins Rouge – the fullest, most complex example of a spontaneous fermented Flanders Red I’ve enjoyed to date.
• Samuel Adams’ Wee Heavy
• Staples Mill Brewing Co’s Stout of Morning Destruction
• Barley John‘s The Dark Knight Returns
• Founders Brewing’s Reds’ Rye Ale
• New Holland’s Rye Hatter
• New Belgium’s Trippel
• Two Brothers Brewing’s Oh Brother! Tripel

Killing time on a beautiful spring afternoon at the train station near Hannover:

• Einbecker Mai-Ur-Bock

In Belgium on vacation:

• Westmalle Tripel
• Palm Speciale

Weekend on the river in northern Wisconsin:

• Leinenkugels Red
• Leinenkugels Creamy Dark (after sunset with a campfire)

In Minneapolis (or Portland), watching a local bike derby under pouring rain in October with empties as the course marker:

• PBR

Reading William Gibson

• Tsingtao

(more later)