Craft beers!
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My favorite beers are the ones that I make myself. My 2 standbys are a double hopped IPA and a Chocolate Stout (aka Farmhouse ale). Also have a Blue Moon clone that is a big hit at parties (the full keg gets totally consumed). I have been making beer for over 20 years. Used to make wine but decided it wasn't worth the hassle but still make port-wine from time to time which I fortify with Everclear to make it more like a flavored brandy.
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I enjoy about anything but an IPA. Lately I’ve been sampling Upland tart beers. Brewery is only about 35 minutes from me. Spencer’s Trappist series are really good. You can’t beat an abbey beer. It’s the anti-IPA.
One of my retirement plans is to start brewing again. If our water was better here, it would be a lot easier.
One of my retirement plans is to start brewing again. If our water was better here, it would be a lot easier.
Move to Wisconsin.I’m also a fan of Spotted Cow, but it’s not sold in Texas.
(Ignoring the Smirnoff on the left, all three of these beers are Wisconsin beers)
To answer the OP's question, I don't know I have a clear favorite. Wisconsin has so many craft beers to choose from it's hard to have a favorite. I just keep trying good beer after good beer.
Spotted Cow is not bad, for sure, but is viewed almost like Bud Light by the craft beer drinkers in Wisconsin. I swear it's more popular by people outside of Wisconsin than inside Wisconsin, though that's probably because it's so popular it's sold everywhere up here which means it can't be a hipster beer anymore.
I am just starting to get into homebrewing with kit beers and cider, and there's nothing like pulling a glass of something you made yourself out of a tap in your own house. I started with cider, and a 5 gallon keg lasted 3 days with a bunch of friends helping me build a fence. I've kegged an identical batch of cider, made and kegged an American Pale Wheat beer (extact kit) which just finished minus a few bottles I took out of the last of the keg. I've got a Summer Ale excact beer that's waiting to be kegged when we get home from our camping trip, and two more batches of cider aging in the basement.
I plan to get a few one gallon batches of cider going to try various yeasts and compare, and once the Summer Ale is kegged I've got an English Ale extract kit waiting to be brewed.
I suspect the number of commercial beers/ciders we buy will drastically drop as my homemade pipeline establishes a little more firmly.
Spotted Cow is not bad, for sure, but is viewed almost like Bud Light by the craft beer drinkers in Wisconsin. I swear it's more popular by people outside of Wisconsin than inside Wisconsin, though that's probably because it's so popular it's sold everywhere up here which means it can't be a hipster beer anymore.
I am just starting to get into homebrewing with kit beers and cider, and there's nothing like pulling a glass of something you made yourself out of a tap in your own house. I started with cider, and a 5 gallon keg lasted 3 days with a bunch of friends helping me build a fence. I've kegged an identical batch of cider, made and kegged an American Pale Wheat beer (extact kit) which just finished minus a few bottles I took out of the last of the keg. I've got a Summer Ale excact beer that's waiting to be kegged when we get home from our camping trip, and two more batches of cider aging in the basement.
I plan to get a few one gallon batches of cider going to try various yeasts and compare, and once the Summer Ale is kegged I've got an English Ale extract kit waiting to be brewed.
I suspect the number of commercial beers/ciders we buy will drastically drop as my homemade pipeline establishes a little more firmly.
I enjoy Saranac craft beer. They have a Trail Mix multipack that has a couple different flavors in the same 12pk. I can't get it where I live but grab some when I go back to visit family.
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VooDoo ranger is available in Aldi's and is very reasonably priced considering the other choices. Little over $1.00 per bottle. I LOVE IPAs.
Local brewery makes a beer called "Stripper Dust". I'm nervous to bring it home as the wife may have an issue with the name.
Local brewery makes a beer called "Stripper Dust". I'm nervous to bring it home as the wife may have an issue with the name.
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I like to try beers from the many microbreweries we have in the area. One of my favorite in-state but not local beers is Hoppyum IPA out of Winston-Salem, NC.
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Three Floyds Zombie Dust
Toppling Goliath King Sue
Four Hands Divided Sky
Four Hands Citywide APA
New Belgium Trippel
Those are a few of my very favorites right now. They seem to come and go.
Evil Twin also makes some very good beer, as does DeSuetes.
Toppling Goliath King Sue
Four Hands Divided Sky
Four Hands Citywide APA
New Belgium Trippel
Those are a few of my very favorites right now. They seem to come and go.
Evil Twin also makes some very good beer, as does DeSuetes.
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My favorite local, but we have so many great options that it is really hard to choose.
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Bombshell Blonde 
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Yup, southern star has some fine beers. Just across the freeway from my too.
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