And here is the list of the top 25 beers of 2009 according to Maxim magazine. Of course the validity of this is thrown out completely by their choice for #11, but the list still does include a number of local brews:
1. Butternuts Beer & Ale Porkslap Pale Ale
2. Widmer Brothers Drifter Pale Ale
3. Great Divide Hoss ("Best Name")
4. New Belgium Hoptober ("Staff's No.1")
5. Victory Helios Ale
6. Oskar Blues Ten Fidy
7. Pyramid Haywire
8. Sam Adams Noble Pils
9. Sierra Nevada Torpedo
10. Clipper City Marz Hon
11. Bud Light Golden Wheat (whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?)
12. 21st Amendment Brew Free! Or Die IPA
13. Dogfish Head Indian Brown
14. North Coast Old Stock
15. Foothills Sexual Chocolate
16. Deschutes Green Lakes Organic Ale
17. Upslope Pale Ale ("Best Pale Ale")
18. Intercourse Brewing Blue Ball Porter
19. Ballast Point Calico
20. New Glarus Fat Squirrel
21. Brooklyn Local 1 ("Best Wine Sub")
22. Barley Brown's Tumble Off
23. Firestone Walker Union Jack ("Best IPA")
24. Harpoon UFO White
25. Sly Fox Phoenix
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2 comments:
that porkslap ale is quite frankly the greatest ale nam I have ever seen. Love it. Must get my hands on some!!
Interesting. I was surprised to see that the BeerAdvocate rating was only a B-. This and the Upslope are my next beer run.
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