And it goes down very smooth and refreshing, with a sweet citrus aftertaste. Very chugabble on a hot day, --which is a problem as it packs a stupefying 9.5% ABV.
Posted on 06/07/2024 3:36:54 AM PDT by Libloather
The best beers in the world are easier to get than ever before. Forty years ago, customers strolling through grocery stores would only find endless variations on the easy-drinking domestic lager. Care for a Busch? Miller High Life? Bud Light? If you were lucky, you might find an imported Irish beer like Guinness, a beach-y Mexican beer such as Corona, or perhaps even Foster’s, that Australian beer sold in the oversized can.
Today’s hopheads can pick from tens of thousands of the best beers that deliver every conceivable flavor and alcohol level. Hazy double IPAs are now sold alongside zippy pickle beers, prickly pilsners, fruity sour ales, and smooth-drinking hefeweizens. Beers like Allagash's White, Russian River’s Pliny the Elder, and Bell’s Brewery’s Two Hearted have become beloved classics occupying permanent perches in fridges far and wide.
Craft beer is now so mainstream that excellent IPAs are sold most everywhere, from 7-Eleven to Applebee’s and even college football stadiums. Despite the ubiquity, the beer industry has had a rough couple years, facing fierce competition from hard teas and seltzers, canned cocktails, and newly legal cannabis beverages and edibles. In 2023, store sales of craft beer slid nearly one percent while volumes declined 4.4 percent according to data from Circana, a Chicago-based market research firm.
While some breweries have shuttered, many breweries are thriving and continuing to produce beers that, to rise above the competition, are better than ever. New trends include craft breweries embracing pilsners and easy-drinking lagers, revamping the cleanly bitter west coast IPA, and creating compelling nonalcoholic beers and sparkling hop waters.
But after plenty of research—and, uh, drinking—we’ve settled on a ranked list of the top 50 best beers that are readily available.
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I remember Utica Club, I just have to swing around in my office chair, and look out the window at the former Iroquois Brewing Co. Ceased operations in ‘78 if my memory is correct.
Anderson Valley Brewing Company, 17700 Boonville Road, Boonville, CA 95415
Anderson Valley Brewing Company's website is avbc.com.
The BEST beer is any one I have in my hand at that moment.
Do, the stuff that buys me beer
Ray, the guy who sells me beer
Me, the guy who drinks the beer
Fa, the distance to my beer
So, I think I’ll have a beer
La, la la la la la beer
Ti, no thanks I’m drinking beer
And that’ll us back to *sees empty glass* D’OH!
I came down Highway 1 about six weeks ago. Was driving down the coast from Ilwaco, WA and went to the coast at Leggett. I thought about cutting over to Boonville, but continued south on 1 all the way to Tamalpais Valley Junction, then got back on 101 to home.
I’ve heard of Boont Amber Ale, but haven’t had it. I’ll look for it!
Every heard “Boontling” tongue?
And it goes down very smooth and refreshing, with a sweet citrus aftertaste. Very chugabble on a hot day, --which is a problem as it packs a stupefying 9.5% ABV.
Oh yeah. We used to go to the Utica Club brewery tour for free on their little trolley car. Took the family on a tour there in March but they no longer have the trolley and they now charge $20 per person for the tour. They still brew Utica Club, but it seems their focus is now on their Saranac products. Remember the Matts Beer Ball back in the day? They also brewed Billy Beer.
I’m surprised to see Genny Cream Ale there, too. It’s not that good.
AVBC recently repackaged their brews in 12-oz. cans, replacing their previous 12-oz. bottles. I picked up a six-pack box of the cans a few weeks ago. Identical high quality & taste as the bottled Ale.
Boontling: AVBC's website has a page explaining the dialect's history & brief etymology. Other than the examples in the embedded video there, I have not heard anyone speak Boontling; not at the brewery or anywhere else. Maybe we should sprinkle FR comments with a few phrases.
I enjoy a morning horn of zeese, using a mix of Jeremiah Pick's beans.
Bahl Hornin'! [since 1987]
Best beers ever.
Yacht Club Beer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Schmidt_Brewing_Company
$3.99 a case bar bottles in the 70’s
An intermediate point between “grain” and “bourbon” is essentially “beer”.
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