To keep this useful...

I've had a beer pretty much every day since I stopped updating, but maintaining this crap is too much of a chore and is damaging my beer appreciation. So here's my favorite of every style from which I've had at least four beers. If there are more than one, then it's a tie.

Abbey Dubbel:
Stoudts Abbey Dubbel (USA)

Abbey Tripel:
Allagash Tripel (USA)
Tripel Karmeliet (Belgium)

Abt:
Rochefort Trappistes 10 (Belgium)

Amber Ale:
Troegs Hopback Amber Ale (USA)

American Pale Ale:
Three Floyd's Alpha King (USA)

American Strong Ale:
Dogfish Head Raison d'Extra (USA)
Stone 8th Anniversary Ale (USA)
Stone 9th Anniversary Ale (USA)

American Wheat:
Three Floyd's Gumballhead (USA)

Barley Wine:
J.W. Lee's Calvados Cask-Aged Harvest Ale (UK)
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot (USA)

Belgian Ale:
Orval (Belgium)

Belgian Strong Ale:
Abbaye des Rocs Grand Cru (Belgium)

Belgian White (Witbier):
Dominion Summer Wheat 2004 (USA)

Brown Ale:
Goose Island Hex Nut Brown Ale (USA)

Doppelbock:
Ayinger Celebrator (Germany)

English Strong Ale:
Traquair House Ale (UK)

Flemish Sour Ale:
Duchesse de Bourgogne (Belgium)

German Hefeweizen:
Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier (Germany)

Golden Ale:
Shipyard Export Ale (USA)

Imperial Stout:
Great Divide Oak-Aged Yeti Imperial Stout (USA)

Imperial/Double IPA:
Three Floyd's Dreadnaught (USA)

India Pale Ale:
Stone India Pale Ale (USA)

Lambic - Fruit:
Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus (Belgium)
Oud Beersel Oude Kriek (Belgium)

Lambic - Gueuze:
Oud Beersel Oude Geuze (Belgium)

Oktoberfest:
Dominion Octoberfest (USA)

Old Ale:
Greene King Olde Suffolk (UK)

Porter:
Fuller's London Porter (UK)

Premium Bitter/ESB:
Rogue Brutal Bitter (USA)

Saison:
Ommegang Hennepin (USA)
Saison DuPont Vieille Provision (Belgium)

Spice/Herb/Vegetable:
Traquair Jacobite Ale (UK)

Stout:
Dominion Oak Barrel Stout (USA)

Sweet Stout:
Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout (UK)

Weizenbock:
Schneider Aventinus (Germany)

December 21, 2005 - #164 of 365

Brewer: Flying Dog Brewing Company (Colorado, USA)
Beer: Wild Dog
Style: Weizenbock
abv: 8%

Background: 750 mL bottle from the store. This brewery sucks, but this is a special release.

Appearance: Pours murky brown with a large off-white head that quickly disappears.

Aroma: Very strong wheat, cloves, and light fruit, mostly banana and apricot. There's a background of toffee and other dark malt aromas.

Flavor: Reminds me of my homebrewed Hefeweizen--very wheaty, with some banana. There are some dark malt flavors at the finish. The wheat in the finish, however, tastes like mold.

Notes: Eh.

Rating: 3.3 out of 5

December 20, 2005 - #163 of 365

Schlitz

December 19, 2005 - #162 of 365

One beer or another.

December 18, 2005 - #161 of 365

Genessee Premium Lager

When in Rome (or Portage)

December 17, 2005 - #160 of 365

Brewer: Troegs Brewing Company (Pennsylvania, USA)
Beer: Dreamweaver Wheat
Style: Hefeweizen
abv:

Good.

December 16, 2005 - #159 of 365

Brewer: Dogfish Head Brewery (Delaware, USA)
Beer: Olde School
Style: Barley Wine
abv: 15%

Background: Bottle from the store. My car got stuck at the bottom of my driveway and I had to walk to get this one out of it--half in the woods, where thorns stabbed at my every step, and half on the driveway itself, where the ice made eels of my boots.

Appearance: Pours amber-gold with a small, dense white head and a lot of effervescence.

Aroma: Biscuit, raisin, and some nice hops to balance.

Flavor: Very well-balanced, with the malt (bread, dark fruit, caramel) taking over at the beginning and the hops coming in at the end to give it a dry, bitter finish. The alcohol is no more perceptible than it should be in a Barley Wine.

Notes: Very good.

Rating: 3.9 out of 5