Best Fall Beers of 2024: What to Crack Open This Season

Men'sjournal ^ | 09/17/2024 | Joshua M. Bernstein and Matt Allyn

[ChicagoConservative27]

Autumn is prime time for enjoying ales and lagers, and there's no shortage of fall beers waiting to be tapped—be it while watching a football game, reading up on IPA beer history, or raking leaves (we'd also recommend hoisting lager steins at your local Oktoberfest bash). Fall’s cooler weather welcomes a bounty of fall beers.

There are plenty of heartier styles suited for taking off the chill and pairing with that bubbling pot of chili. Stouts, porters, and nitro beers are once again fair game, and coolers swell with fleeting releases such as fresh-hopped pale ales and pumpkin everything.

We welcome several intriguing ales to store shelves, including IPAs seasoned with spruce tips to ambers ales spiked with maple syrup.

Below you’ll find 24 of the best fall beers to drink during fall’s crunchy, leaf-filled glory. Try the best fall beers of 2024 before winter’s first snowfall.

[ChicagoConservative27]

The smoked beers look interesting.

[ansel12]

For me the best fall beers were usually somewhere just past a case and high 20s.

[blackdog]

Does anyone know how or where I can find Bass Ale? It disappeared in 2019 and it was my mother's milk. Nothing tastes good to me but Bass Ale. I'm tired of beers that taste like grapefruit, spices, coffee, pumpkin, and other nonsensical flavors that have no business being beer.

Closest I have gotten is Fat Tire and Yuengling Lager (which is an excellent beer). I was getting Speckled Hen, but that's gone now as well.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I just did a Google search and it said it is brewed sporadically.

[gnarledmaw]

discontinued

[gnarledmaw]

No, apparently that was some weird hoax

[blackdog]

It’s in every pub in England. It can’t be discontinued. That is unless because it doesn’t have some bullpiss bottle or can art that makes my head hurt. Art on the can or bottle does not equal good beer. Actually I think the more artwork and dumb name, the worse the beer.

[PROCON]

I drink the same beer every night and have been for years, it’s from one of the first microbreweries in Seattle, it’s called Red Hook Long Hammer IPA, it’s taste is as close to the dark German beers I had while stationed there back in the day, 6.2% alcohol.

[blackdog]

In 2019 it was on tap in every hotel bar, decent restaurant, and beer aisle. Then one month it just disappeared like Hoffa, never to be seen again or even talked about. How does a beer dating back to the early 1700’s and in continuous production since then, just go away?

[BenLurkin]

Her ya go!

[dfwgator]

[Leaning Right]

Winter, spring, summer, or fall. My beer is always the same. It’s because I’m terrified of vampires. And I figure that this beer might help.

[ChicagoConservative27]

How’s the taste

[gnarledmaw]

It looks like if it still exists its the victim of megabeer brand manipulations including but not limited to changing production facilities.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The best beers are those close to home. I've got ten good to great breweries within seven miles of me and probably 30 within 50 miles. I have trouble trying all the good local beers much less those from around the country and the world in this fine article.

We just got back from a wonderful ten day trip through the Canadian Rockies. My souvenirs to myself are always useful: Local Beer & IPA, Locally roasted and blended coffee, Baseball caps. Sometimes friends convince me to share my souvenirs with them. We found that the Grizzly Paw Brewing Company in Canmore, AB makes some great beers. Cheers!

[blackdog]

The American beverage markets are so dysfunctional. In Tennessee, any beer sold must only come from a distributor. Those distributors are the huge corporations with numb-nutz marketing managers like that lady that destroyed Bud Light. (A beer worthy of destruction IMHO)

A brewery next door to a restaurant or store, can only sell its beers by selling them first to AB or the like. It's stupid.

[BipolarBob]

For me the best fall beers were usually somewhere just past a case and high 20s.

I'm trying to decipher. Are you talking quantity here? If so, why do you hate your liver?

[BipolarBob]

Sorry, I’m not tempted. Same with pumpkin beers. I might buy a single pumpkin to try but not a six pack of sink disposal cleaner. Not interested in the fruity flavors either.

[BipolarBob]

In Tennessee, any beer sold must only come from a distributor.

sounds like a monopoly.

[blackdog]

Yes.....from what I’ve been able to glean, it’s a brand mismanagement thing by mega beverage idiots. It’s no longer brewed in America, but my local beer, wine, liquor store, carries 300+ SKU’s. All are artsy-fartsy nasty crap. Very little moves besides single cans at a time. People try it and then move on to something else, repeat.