Lambic Style - Gueuze 3.82
Lambic Style - Unblended 3.73
Imperial IPA 3.65
Sour Red/Brown 3.61
Imperial Stout 3.6
Imperial Porter 3.59
India Pale Ale (IPA) 3.54
India Style Lager 3.51
Sour/Wild Ale 3.51
American Pale Ale 3.47
4 sours
3 hoppy ales
2 dark ales
1 lager
I clearly like lambics, but mostly in the Belgian style with a bit of funk, manure, farmyard, horse blanket. And I like a bit of freshness and carbonation hence the gueuze being first. Drinkable, quaffable. And I luuuurvvveeee a Flemish sour hence it's place in fourth. If I could brew a good beer, then Flemish Sour would be in top 5 definitely.
I also love hops. Imperial IPA, IPA and APAs.
And the most amazing thing for me was that ISL was in my top 10. I love lager. I love a hoppy lager and therefore it shouldn't come as a shock. It's just that most of my favourite hoppy lagers are in the Zwickel/Landbier/Keller style.
If I have to drink a dark beer, make it big stupid and imperial.
What are your tops styles and why and is there anything that surprises you?
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Narrowed down to one style it's barleywine for me.
English style barleywine populate all the scores at the top. Sublime stuff. My #1 buckled my knees when first smelled it (clearly I was standing) |
I like high alcoholic trappist ales . Bretty lambics..
Imperial ipas and all genres from the stout/porter family. My fave lagers are either textbook kraut pils' or mainstream swill such as Corona or Coors Light
My highest rated style is Gueuze. |
Imperial Stout 3.72
Imperial IPA 3.72
Imperial Porter 3.62
Black IPA 3.58
American Strong Ale 3.57
Barley Wine 3.55
Baltic Porter 3.54
India Pale Ale (IPA) 3.54
Session IPA 3.54
Old Ale 3.46
No surprises at all for me. My favorite style is Imperial IPA, but there are more crappy IIPA's around than crappy RIS, so RIS has almost always been slightly ahead on average. Apparently the IIPA's are catching up though, since they now have the same average. In Europe though, very few brewers actually brew a decent or better than decent IIPA. At least, an IIPA that has the flavors I want: sticky resinous hops, pine, bitter and still a bit fruity.
Lambic-Geuze is at place 14, behind two more hoppy styles and Quadrupels. Also no surprise. |
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Polar opposite to you Ian, but similar to Benzai: I blame my sweet tooth and love of an alcohol 'kick'.
Imperial Porter 3.79
Barley Wine 3.76
Imperial Stout 3.73
Abt/Quadrupel 3.73
Doppelbock 3.68
Old Ale 3.61
Scottish Ale 3.6
Eisbock 3.53
Stout 3.53
American Strong Ale 3.48
Black IPA 3.48
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Old Ale (105) 3.43
Lambic Style - Unblended (19) 3.39
Foreign Stout (45) 3.37
Lambic Style - Gueuze (44) 3.36
Imperial Stout (654) 3.36
Porter (472) 3.34
Imperial Porter (111) 3.34
Stout (440) 3.33
English Strong Ale (186) 3.31
Barley Wine (258) 3.29
8 malty, in particular darkly-roasted malts, 2 sour.
The first specifically hoppy thing is #14 Black IPA (205) 3.26, but many of those are just over-hopped stouts (and scoring less than stouts, you'll notice) and then there's nothing else until #33 Imperial IPA (371) 3.06. |
Phat fil - your top rated style scores lower than everyone above's 10th highest! |
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1. Imperial Stout (344) 3.95
2. Imperial Porter (30) 3.85
3. American Strong Ale (46) 3.84
4. Lambic Style - Fruit (26) 3.83
5. Sour/Wild Ale (141) 3.79
6. Old Ale (17) 3.78
7. Sour Red/Brown (27) 3.77
8. Imperial IPA (134) 3.76
9. Belgian Strong Ale (38) 3.76
10. Lambic Style - Gueuze (13) 3.75
This is not a real surprise, most of these are pretty heavily boozy, and my friends like to drink Imperial anything and sours. A little surprised by the Old Ale, though. |
Originally posted by ebone1988
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Originally posted by Ibrew2or3
Narrowed down to one style it's barleywine for me.
English style barleywine populate all the scores at the top. Sublime stuff. My #1 buckled my knees when first smelled it (clearly I was standing)
What is barley wine? |
