Whats your top 5 beers?

fonecrusher1

So what makes it into your top 5 beers list? If 5 isn't enough make it a top 10 list. For me at the moment;

1 Chimay trappist
2 Paulaner hefeweizen
3 Leffe blonde
4 Old Speckled Hen
5 Duvel

boardsy

Fine beers there, though I'll never trust Paulaner after it once gave me an unexpected unwarranted hangover (and Hefeweizen isn't my favourite style).

My top 5, this week anyhow ;-)

1. Dog-fish Head 90 minute IPA (best IPA ever?)
2. Adnam's Innovation (big hops, but beautifully soft & rounded)
3. Poperings Hommelbier (ditto, but with something indefinably minerally & moreish!)
4. Fuller's 1845 (lots of rich sweet flavor, nicely balanced by bitterness)
5. Brewdog Tokyo Stout (18%!! like nothing else I've tasted)

TheWarrior

This past year my top 5 would be :

Dogheadfish 60 Min IPA
Brewdog Punk IPA
Adnams Innovation
Bitter & Twisted
Brooklyn Stout

Still not enough hoppy beers locally available on the Irish Market.
My top 5 Next year will be different...

Bigcheeze

Changes all the time but lately I'd say:

Fuller's London Porter
William Bros Midnight Sun
Brewdow Punk IPA
Brooklyner Hopfen Weisse
Odells IPA

All above available in Drinkstore.ie

DBCyc

BrewDog Tokyo*
Cantillon Kriek Bio
Great Divide Hercules IPA
Schneider Aventinus
Galway Hooker

...I look forward to updating this list

the beer revolu

This hour:

Orval Trappist
Dogfish head 90' IPA
Schneider Aventinus
Leifman's Guldenband
Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA

Edit: How could I forget Trapiste Rochefort 8??

BeerNut

The beers I keep coming back to:
Brooklyn Lager
Cantillon Gueuze
Clotworthy Dobbin
Duvel
Schlenkerla Märzen
Schneider Weisse
Sierra Nevada Torpedo
Westmalle Dubbel
Wrasslers XXXX

Bigcheeze

BeerNut wrote: »

Wrasslers XXXX

Is Wrasslers in bottle yet ?

JnarF

Hard to say but off the bat:
BrewDog 5AM Saint
Fullers London Pride
Big Daddy IPA
O'Haras Stout
Bitter and Twisted

munchkin_utd

top 5 in terms of consumption

Augustiner Helles
Franziskaner Dunkel Weissbier
Guinness on Draught
Franziskaner Weisbier hell
Spaten Helles

top 5 in terms of lovely-ness, and sort of my desert island shortlist if I had a container to fill with 5 beers to do me over a year

Augustiner Oktoberfest
Augustiner Edelstoff (if from the wooden barrel, preferably in a beer garden!)
Augustiner Helles
Hacker Pschorr Sterne Weisse
Guinness on Draught

I'd be partial to some of the belgian trappist stuff, love the innis + gunn products, not to mention the Schenkerla and Schneider brewery stuff. Theres so much good beer in the world, but I have named my 5!

eurokev

1 Killkenny (so underrated)
2 Bangla , An indian beer
3 baltika cooler
4 Carlton Cold
5 Any O' Haras


Drink smithwicks when im out. Not a fan of mainstream beers, nor wheat but understand why people like these. Work in the industry.People really have to wise up and start trying new drinks to give us more choice in our off licences. I see great beers coming on the market every week and lasting no time because they cant break the monopoly

fonecrusher1

munchkin_utd wrote: »

top 5 in terms of consumption

Augustiner Helles
Franziskaner Dunkel Weissbier
Guinness on Draught
Franziskaner Weisbier hell
Spaten Helles

top 5 in terms of lovely-ness, and sort of my desert island shortlist if I had a container to fill with 5 beers to do me over a year

Augustiner Oktoberfest
Augustiner Edelstoff (if from the wooden barrel, preferably in a beer garden!)
Augustiner Helles
Hacker Pschorr Sterne Weisse
Guinness on Draught

I'd be partial to some of the belgian trappist stuff, love the innis + gunn products, not to mention the Schenkerla and Schneider brewery stuff. Theres so much good beer in the world, but I have named my 5!

You like the Augustiner then?!:D

Never had it before myself. Thats another on my list this weekend. The Chimay trappist ale is beautiful stuff. Especially with a chunk of extra mature cheese, feckin delicious. I had a bottle of the Innis & Gunn oak aged ale & i wasn't sure about it. Lovely smell, the taste is unusual. I prefered the Old Speckled hen. Going to try Hobgoblin ale soon.

Good list though.:)

Technocentral

Brooklyn East India Pale Ale
Sierra Nevada Torpedo
O' Haras IPA
Galway Hooker
Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier

Have to mention Fullers 1845 too.

poisonated

1)Miller
2)Budweiser
3)Heineken
4)Fosters
5)Carlsber


I think I better leave right now.

baz30

poisonated wrote: »

1)Miller
2)Budweiser
3)Heineken
4)Fosters
5)Carlsber


I think I better leave right now.

I love it...

Technocentral

poisonated wrote: »

1)Miller
2)Budweiser
3)Heineken
4)Fosters
5)Carlsber


I think I better leave right now.

Each to his own but I'd find all of them very bland and lacking in flavour, I appreciate that lots of people aren't into beer for the taste just the effect.

fonecrusher1

eurokev wrote: »

1 Killkenny (so underrated)
2 Bangla , An indian beer
3 baltika cooler
4 Carlton Cold
5 Any O' Haras


Drink smithwicks when im out. Not a fan of mainstream beers, nor wheat but understand why people like these. Work in the industry.People really have to wise up and start trying new drinks to give us more choice in our off licences. I see great beers coming on the market every week and lasting no time because they cant break the monopoly

I used to drink the usuals like bud,heineken,miller etc up until about a year ago. Now if a person is happy with that stuff, thats fair enough but really its not great beer. Its all about the massive advertising that brainwashes people into getting this stuff week in week out.
Anyway for the last year i have been drinking mostly polish beers, zywiec,tyskie, lech & its fine beer & many times nicer than the usuals. For the last month ive stepped up another level & dived into the world of higher quality beers & its been a bit of a revelation for me. Im appreciating beer on a whole new level.

The thing is if you put a little bit of effort into being a little more selective you can find plenty of great quality beers for cheaper than bud,carling,miller. 3 examples straight away; Leffe blonde - 4 for 5 euro, Hoegaarden 4 for 5 euro, singha beer - 1.25 & any of these beers is way better than that other dishwater.

Theres no going back for me now.

Technocentral

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

I used to drink the usuals like bud,heineken,miller etc up until about a year ago. Now if a person is happy with that stuff, thats fair enough but really its not great beer. Its all about the massive advertising that brainwashes people into getting this stuff week in week out.
Anyway for the last year i have been drinking mostly polish beers, zywiec,tyskie, lech & its fine beer & many times nicer than the usuals. For the last month ive stepped up another level & dived into the world of higher quality beers & its been a bit of a revelation for me. Im appreciating beer on a whole new level.

The thing is if you put a little bit of effort into being a little more selective you can find plenty of great quality beers for cheaper than bud,carling,miller. 3 examples straight away; Leffe blonde - 4 for 5 euro, Hoegaarden 4 for 5 euro, singha beer - 1.25 & any of these beers is way better than that other dishwater.

Theres no going back for me now.

Your so right, mass, constant advertising and not wanting to stand out from your peers keeps people buying the really poor beers, but I think its slowly changing over the last 5 years or so. In Dublin at least, The Porterhouse and newer places have shown people that beer doesn't just have to be barely flavoured fizzy water, the comparison I'd give is going from Budweiser to Sierra Nevada (or most of other peoples lists here) is like graduating from eating Pot Noodles to meals in a top restaurant.

BeerNut

Bigcheeze wrote: »

Is Wrasslers in bottle yet ?

It is. It's nice, but milder than the draught. The Celebration tastes quite a bit like draught Wrasslers.

kenmc

munchkin_utd wrote: »

top 5 in terms of consumption
top 5 in terms of lovely-ness, and sort of my desert island shortlist if I had a container to fill with 5 beers to do me over a year

Augustiner Oktoberfest
Augustiner Edelstoff (if from the wooden barrel, preferably in a beer garden!)
Augustiner Helles
Hacker Pschorr Sterne Weisse

And you were doing so well until....

Guinness on Draught

But ya had to go and ruin it, didn't ya?!:(

BeerNut

kenmc wrote: »

But ya had to go and ruin it, didn't ya?!:(

Oh no! You'll summon johnnyskeleton! Snobs under the beds! Run!

BeerNut

eurokev wrote: »

2 Bangla , An indian beer

I think they're going for Bangladeshi rather than Indian. It's made in England, though.

ciaran76

My beer tastes have changed dramatically in the last year I would have said last year my top 5 would have been:

Bitter and Twisted
Guinness export
Fullers London Pride
Any Westmalle beer.
Leffe
Hobgoblin

But late last year I discovered hoppy beers ! Don't get me wrong still love all the above.

This year I am loving :

Sierra Nevada Torpedo
Galway Hooker
Brooklyn East India Pale Ale
Big Daddy IPA
Most Brewdog beers.
Saranac IPA
Cask Timothy Taylor's Landlord

Next week I might change my mind again !

goldencleric

Bigcheeze wrote: »

Is Wrasslers in bottle yet ?

It is indeed ... picked some up in my local offo which was a real surprise

builttospill

Impossible to say but I would keep coming back to:

Dogfishhead 90 minute IPA
Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot
Guinness Foreign Extra Stout
Timothy Taylor Landlord Pale Ale

GristlyEnd

Brooklyn lager
Delirium Tremens
Duvel
Westmalle Dubbel
Sierra Nevada Torpedo

Mo14

I haven't tried nearly enough decent beer yet, but of what I've tried, my favourites are:
1. Duvel
2. Chimay Red
3. Leffe Blonde
4. Franziskaner
5. Paulaner Wheat beer.

Yum.

IrishWhiskeyCha

In Alphabetical order ...

Adnams Innovation
Galway Hooker
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot
O' Haras IPA
Weihenstephaner

I've had some great Belguim beers but can't really remember what is what so I just stuck with the ones I can get my grubby mitts on regularly.

matrim

I've been trying to keep a rating of beers and currently the top one's are

La Trappe Blonde
La Trappe Dubbel
Leffe Blonde
O'Hara's Red
Delirium Tremens

The one's I'd drink more often would be

Speckled Hen Ale
Tyskie
Staropramen
Leffe Blonde

slayerking

5 Beers I cant get enough of at the mo (changes by the week almost):


Odell's IPA
Galway Hooker
Schlenkerla Marzen
Porterhouse Hophead
Speakeasy Prohibition


Great to see Galway Hooker making it into alot of peoples 5's. Its such a solid beer, one I always find myself coming back to.

iPlop

1) it has a citrus taste to it

2)it's like a tornado in a glass when you pour it just delicious

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Hammer Archer

1. Isnyer Zunftrat Dunkel (Made by a small brewery in Isny, Baden-Wurttemberg). It's heaven in a glass.
2. Erdinger Weissbier.
3. Calwer Eck-Brau Weissbier. Made in the smallest brewery in Stuttgart.
4. Fuller's London Pride.
5. Dachsenfranz Kellerbier. Another German beer.

You can probably tell I've been to Germany recently :pac:

Curry Addict

1. augustiner helles
2. erdinger heffe weiss
3. delerium tremens
4. leffe triple
5. duvel
6. leffe blonde

Seaneh

1) Black Butte Porter
2) The Abyss
3) Coopers Best Extra Stout
4) Guinness Extra/Foreign Extra
5) Fullers London Pride


I think I might be a stout fan...

noby

Seaneh wrote: »

1) Black Butte Porter
2) The Abyss
3) Coopers Best Extra Stout
4) Coopers Best Extra Stout
5) Fullers London Pride


I think I might be a stout fan...

I think you might be a Coopers Best Extra Stout fan.

Seaneh

noby wrote: »

I think you might be a Coopers Best Extra Stout fan.

haha. well spotted.
time for a quick edit!