If you're not new, you've seen my
Monthly Top Five Beer Lists. Last year, I had a
Best of 2010 Poll and
posted the 2010 winners from that poll in addition to naming my own 2010 Top Five.
I made a few changes/upgrades for this year's
Best of 2011 Poll. I included pictures of each. I included the honorable mentions, upping the nominee number from 60 to 85 (ish, I keep losing count, LOL). There are
45 breweries represented, in alphabetical order, so be sure to check all the way to the bottom.
You are surely going to miss a lot of stars from this list, as I do try not to repeat so often. But I believe that I've done a pretty good job of offering a pretty big list of stars. If your favorite didn't make the list,
write it in and tell your friends what an idiot I am so they can vote too.
Quick rules: Vote once by leaving a comment. Pick up to 5 beers from the list or from your imagination. Hit me with your sarcasm on how there's this awesome beer from San Diego that I must have forgotten about, and how I'm totally stupid for leaving it off the list.
I LOVE that. Oh, and feel free to send me a bottle and perhaps it will make the 2012 contest next year. Poll closes midnight Eastern on January 31, approximately a week from now. Results will follow shortly after. Thanks for reading. If you don't want to miss any action this year,
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2011 Best Beer Nominees
21st Amendment Hop
Crisis Imperial IPA
Avery Joe's Premium American Pilsner
Bell's HopSlam Ale
Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout 11-12
Cigar City Bohr
Cigar City Cubano-style Espresso Brown Ale
Cigar City Marshal Zhukov's Imperial Stout
Cigar City Papaya IPA
Cigar City Sea Bass
Clipper City Heavy Seas Loose Cannon Hop3 IPA
Clipper City Heavy Seas Peg Leg Imperial Stout
Dogfish Head Festina Pêche
Dogfish Head Namaste
Dogfish Head Olde School Barleywine 2010 (Cave Aged)
Flossmoor Station Brewers Whim Series
Flying Fish Exit 11 Hoppy American Wheat
Goose Island Fleur 2010
Goose Island Night Stalker
Great Divide Colette Farmhouse Ale
Great Divide Hibernation Ale 2011
Great Divide Smoked Baltic Porter
Great Lakes Dortmunder
Gold
Great Lakes Edmund
Fitzgerald Porter
Green Flash Double Stout Black Ale
Half Acre Gossamer Golden Ale
Jolly Pumpkin La Roja Artisan Amber Ale
Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza
Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout
Lagunitas Olde GnarlyWine
Lagunitas Our
Own Bavarian Styled Doppel Weizen
Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale
Lakefront IPA
Laughing Dog Rocket Dog Rye IPA
Left Hand Fade to Black Volume 3: Pepper Porter
Lost Abbey Cuvee de Tomme
Lost Abbey Deliverance Ale
North Coast Brother
Thelonious Belgian-Style Abbey Ale
North Coast Old Stock Ale (2010 or 2011)
Oskar Blues Ten FIDY Imperial Stout
Ommegang Adoration
Ommegang Aphrodite
Ommegang BPA Belgian-style Pale Ale
Ommegang Three Philosophers Belgian-Style Blend
Red Brick Smoked Vanilla Gorilla
Russian River Blind Pig IPA
Russian River Consecration
Russian River Damnation
Golden Ale
Russian River Pliny the Elder
Saison Dupont
Samuel Adams (Boston Beer) East-West Kolsch
Samuel Adams (Boston Beer) Infinium Ale
Samuel Adams (Boston Beer) The Vixen Chocolate Chili Bock
Samuel Smith's Organic Strawberry Ale
Schneider-Brooklyner Hopfen Weisse Ale
Sierra Nevada Best of Beer Camp #37 Weizenbock
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale 2011
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale 2011
Sierra
Nevada Estate Homegrown Ale 2011
Sierra Nevada Hoptimum
Sierra Nevada Life
and Limb 2
Sierra Nevada Ovila Dubbel
Southern Tier Crème Brûlée Imperial Stout
Squatters Provo
Girl Pilsner
St. Bernardus Abt 12
Stone Cherry Chocolate Stout
Stone Japanese Green Tea IPA
Stone Lukcy Basartd
Summit Honeymoon
Saison
Three Floyds Moloko Milk Stout
Unibroue Blanche de Chambly
Victory Summer Love Ale
Victory Headwaters Pale Ale
Victory Old Horizontal
Widmer Brothers Pitch Black IPA
Widmer Brothers Rotator IPA Series X-114 IPA
Weyerbacher QUAD
5 comments:
Olde school (haven't had it more than 3 months old but sounds good), lagunitas sucks, abt 12, terrible, summer love
Victory Moonglow didn't make the list? :(
So many good beers on the list, makes it difficult to choose only one. I'll be a homer and pick cigar City Cubano Espresso. I had it on tap at Cigar City tap room and it was incredibly delicious.
Cheers!
Agree that so many to choose from on this list. I'd side with Sierra Nevada Estate, Ten Fidy, or Night Stalker.
Troegs Nugget Nectar! From this list though, I really enjoyed Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale.
With a list like that I don't think I could even narrow it down to 5.
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