Favorite Beers of Fall 2016
Beers! As we head into winter, we thought to each share our three favorite beers of the fall. Let us know if you have others to add or follow either of us on untappd.
Top 3 Beers: Anu
Transmitter – PH1 Dry Hopped Sour – From a very young Queens brewery, this is an acerbic delight. It’s a sour ale but not fruity with characteristics of a malty pale ale.
Folksbier – Echo Maker – From an even younger Brooklyn brewery, I enjoy the rye bread and slightly spicy parts of this beer. It has a sufficient hop profile to sort of wash away the immediate rye flavors and ready you for the next sip.
Brasserie Dupont / Lost Abbey – Deux Amis – Saison is my favorite beer style. It’s a farmhouse ale categorized with a low-hop profile (not bitter) and highly malty. This is my favorite saison for 2016; maybe my favorite new beer of 2016. Deux Amis is simultaneously a beer geek’s beer and great for new craft beer explorers.
Top 3 Beers: Mike
I’m going to cheat slightly here in that most of the fall beers I had were either forgettable or ones I’ve been enjoying for years. I also need to figure out how to make my lesser palette sound interesting compared to Anu’s notes.
Off Color– Sibling Rivalry – Let’s start with my home state and the style that got me excited about beer (tripel). One BeerAdvocate review somehow includes 14 different elements in describing the aroma and taste. I’ll just say this is an “American” tripel, which means you get a little less of the traditional sweetness, a little more hops, and still a very nice beer.
Boulevard – Bourbon Barrel Quad – Cheat #1 here, as I’ve loved this beer for years. However, I only sporadically see it in large format, 25 oz. bottles. Until now! Boulevard, an excellent Kansas City brewery, now sells the BBQ in 4-packs. The bourbon is lighter than other barrel-aged beers but a great domestic quad is a very hard beer to find.
The Bruery – 9 Ladies Dancing – Cheat #2 here, as this is sitting unopened in my fridge. On the plus side this is one of my two or three favorite breweries and is part of their awesome 12 Days of Christmas series. On the downside there is a coffee element since this beer is modeled after tiramisu. It promises to be interesting in either a very good or very bad way.