20 most influential beers of all time

[Tony L]

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[canuck]

I've only had 8 of those 20 beers.

[GAM]

I only have had 9.

Sandy

[jeffsmith]

14 for me.

[BobbyOK]

14 for me.

Same here. Possibly 15 - can't remember if I've had the Hop Rod Rye or not. Also all 7 of the honourable mentions.

Interesting explanation for Blind Pig.

[mr x]

We had the HRR once at Pihney's. S Haynes was quite turned off by it's use of hops. IIRC, you may have been there for that meeting.

[amartin]

I've had 9. I haven't had Westmalle Tripel, and I haven't heard of some of the others.

[Tony L]

I have had 7 out of those, but the best of them all is the one I'm drinking right now... Garrison's Imperial IPA
Man that is one tasty brew. I sure do wish I could get it here regularly, instead of depending on some great friends
who bring such things to me,

Just getting a winter warmer into me before I go out to brave the snow to try to clear the driveway of some of
the dump this blizzard deposited so far.

[akr71]

12 maybe 13 (I know I've had a Sierra Nevada, not sure if it was the Pale Ale)

[chicanuck]

I only hit 6 and 1 honorable mention, I have never seen most of those beers......I need to get out more.

[canuck]

I've only had 8 of those 20 beers.

Including the honorable mentions, I've had 10.

I blame it all on the shit selection at the NBLC.

[BobbyOK]

We had the HRR once at Pihney's. S Haynes was quite turned off by it's use of hops. IIRC, you may have been there for that meeting.

That's what I was thinking. Couldn't recall for sure. We'll call it 14.5.

[berley]

16, here. No thanks to the NBLC.

[gm-]

Interesting list, would be fun to do one here on the forum, people would pick their candidates and then the ones mentioned most often would make the list.

I think this particular list is very "american" in my opinion, and some of choices are pretty strange, very questionable how you can acknowledge Hoegaarden only in the service of propping up Allagash White, surely Hoegaarden is more influential then...

I would also replace Ayinger Celebrator with the original dobbelbock, Paulaner Salvator.

I have had 14 of them, have yet to try Hop Rod Rye, Burbon County Stout, New Albion Ale, Blind Pig IPA,the diet beer and Sam Adams Utopia.

[BBrianBoogie]

17 for me, and all the honorable mentions. Not a bad list really. I could pick it apart a little, and there's definitely a couple American ones that seem out of place to me but I'd agree with a lot of them for sure.

[LiverDance]

beer for thought...

http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2013/01 ... -all-time/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Graham.C]

beer for thought...

http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2013/01 ... -all-time/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I like that article better.