The BA Top 100*

*Beer Advocate's Top Beers that appear in Great Brewers list

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Trappist Westvleteren 12 (Yellow Cap)

Trappist Westvleteren 12 (Yellow Cap)
Brewed By: 
Westvleteren
Self-Defined Style: 
Belgian Quadrupel
Strength (ABV): 
10.2% ABV

The softest of the Westvleteren beers. Nicknamed Flemish Burgundy. Generous, creamy aroma and powerful caramelized and malted taste.

Best With: 
Cheese (buttery; Brie, Gouda, Havarti, Swiss, sharp; Blue, Cheddar) General (Digestive) Meat (Beef, Smoked Meat, Game)
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Russian River Pliny the Elder

Product - Russian River Pliny the Elder
Brewed By: 
Russian River
Self-Defined Style: 
Double IPA
Strength (ABV): 
8.0% ABV

Pliny the Elder was a Roman naturalist, scholar, historian, traveler, officer, and writer. Although not considered his most important work, Pliny and his contemporaries created the botanical name for hops, "Lupus salictarius", meaning wolf among scrubs." Hops at that time grew wild among willows, much like a wolf in the forest. Later the current botanical name, Humulus lupulus, was adopted. Pliny died in 79 AD while observing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Awards: 
Gold Medal, 2006 World Beer Cup (Double IPA Category)
Gold Medal, 2005 GABF (Double IPA Category)
Bronze Medal, 2004 GABF (Double IPA Category)
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Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout

Product - Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout
Brewed By: 
Founders
Self-Defined Style: 
Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout
Strength (ABV): 
10.0% ABV
Color (SRM): 
44º L
Bitterness (IBU): 
25 IBU

A bit of backwoods pleasure without the banjo. This stout is brewed with a hint of coffee and vanilla then aged in oak bourbon barrels. Our process ensures that strong bourbon undertones come through in the finish in every batch we brew. We recommend decanting at room temperature and best enjoyed in a brandy snifter.

Best With: 
This barrel aged stout is phenomenal with hearty, creamy desserts such as chocolate mud cake or chocolate cheesecake. Enjoy poured over fresh vanilla ice cream.
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Deschutes The Abyss

Product - Deschutes Abyss
Brewed By: 
Deschutes Brewery
Self-Defined Style: 
Imperial Stout
Strength (ABV): 
11.0% ABV
Bitterness (IBU): 
65 IBU

A deep, dark Imperial Stout, The Abyss has almost immeasurable depth and complexity. Hints of molasses, licorice and other alluring flavors make it something not just to quaff, but contemplate.

As for the great "drink it now or let it age" debate, we stand clearly on the fence. Distinct and delicious on release, the flavors meld and fuse into an entirely different pleasure a year on.

Best With: 
Caramelized Onions and Abyss Infused Cream Cheese on Pepper Crackers
Awards: 
Silver Medal, Imperial Stout 2008 European Beer Star Awards
Gold Medal, Imperial Stout 2007 Great American Beer Festival
Best Beer Above 7%, International Champion Beer & Supreme Champion 2007 International Beer Challenge
#1 Best Stouts & Porters 2007 Men's Journal October Issue
Gold Medal, Strong Ales 2007 California Brewer's Festival
Gold Medal, Stout Category 2007 San Diego County Fair
Gold Medal, Imperial Stout Category 2007 North American Beer Awards
Gold Medal, Strong Ale Category 2007 West Coast Brew Fest
Bronze Medal, Imperial Stout Category 2007 Australian International Beer Awards
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Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee Stout

Product - Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee Stout
Brewed By: 
Goose Island
Self-Defined Style: 
Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Coffee Stout
Strength (ABV): 
13.0% ABV
Bitterness (IBU): 
60 IBU

Everyday Goose Island smells the wonderful coffee roasting next to our brewery at Chicago's Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea. They put the same passion and skill into their coffee as Goose Island does with its beer. This excellent stout is made with Black Cat Espresso beans from our friends next door. You'll like the combination.

Cellaring Notes: Develops in the bottle up to 5 years

Color: Midnight
Hops: Willamette
Malt: 2-Row, Munich, Chocolate, Caramel, Roast Barley, Debittered Black
Coffee: Intelligentsia Black Cat Espresso

Serving Suggestions:
Preferred Glass: Snifter

Best With: 
Flourless Chocolate Coffee Cake, Capriole Bourbon Chocolate Torte
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Trappist Westvleteren 8 (Blue Cap)

Product - Trappist Westvleteren Blond (Green Cap)
Brewed By: 
Westvleteren
Self-Defined Style: 
Abbey Dubbel
Strength (ABV): 
8.0% ABV

A sweet and fruity aroma with an accent of melon.

Best With: 
Cheese (buttery; Brie, Gouda, Havarti, Swiss, pungent; Gorgonzola, Limburger) General (Chocolate) Meat (Beef)
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Bell's Hopslam Ale

Product - Bell's Hopslam Ale
Brewed By: 
Bell's Brewery, Inc.
Self-Defined Style: 
Double India Pale Ale
Strength (ABV): 
10.0% ABV

A biting, bitter, tongue bruiser of an ale. With a name like Hopslam, what did you expect?

Best With: 
With a bold emphasis on hop bitterness, India pale ales are the ultimate beverage pairing for spicy dishes. The sharp hop presence in most India pale ales can stand up to even the most devilish of spices in Cajun, Malaysian, Japanese, Indian, and Mexican cuisine.
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Cigar City Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout

Product - Cigar City Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout
Brewed By: 
Cigar City
Self-Defined Style: 
Imperial Stout
Strength (ABV): 
11.0% ABV

In Mayan myth, Hunahpu gave cocoa to the Mayans. The base recipe is Marshal Zhukov Imperial Stout. It is aged on pasilla and ancho peppers as well as vanilla, cinnamon and cocoa nibs.

Best With: 
The roasted and burnt malt notes of stout and its typical hearty nature make it an exceptional compliment to raw or steamed oysters, however stout is also at home with most chocolate or cream based desserts.
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Hill Farmstead Ephraim

Substyle - Imperial Or Double India Pale Ale
Brewed By: 
Hill Farmstead
Self-Defined Style: 
India Pale Ale
Strength (ABV): 
10.3% ABV

Ephraim (1823-1913) was our great-great grandfather; Hill Farmstead Brewery resides several hundred feet downhill from the land that he and his father settled. In his honor, this Imperial India Pale Ale is dutifully crafted from American malted barley, buckets of American hops, our ale yeast and water from our well. It is unfiltered, naturally carbonated, and double dry hopped. Intensely aromatic and saturated with resinous hop flavor, this is the ale that I dream to have shared with Ephraim. 10.3%, 21ºP, 280 Theoretical ibus.

Best With: 
With a bold emphasis on hop bitterness, India pale ales are the ultimate beverage pairing for spicy dishes. The sharp hop presence in most India pale ales can stand up to even the most devilish of spices in Cajun, Malaysian, Japanese, Indian, and Mexican cuisine.
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Founders Breakfast Stout

Product - Founders Breakfast Stout
Brewed By: 
Founders
Self-Defined Style: 
Breakfast Stout
Strength (ABV): 
8.3% ABV

You've got to love coffee to truly appreciate this phenomenal brew. Brewed with an abundance of flaked oats, bitter and sweetened imported chocolates, Sumatra and Kona coffee. Breakfast Stout has an intense fresh roasted coffee nose toped with a cinnamon colored frothy head that seems to never fade and makes you wish breakfast could last forever.

Best With: 
This sweet stout yearns for a pairing with chocolate confections, cheesecake and tiramisu.
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Ballast Point Sculpin India Pale Ale

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Brewed By: 
Ballast Point
Self-Defined Style: 
American IPA
Strength (ABV): 
7.0% ABV
Bitterness (IBU): 
70 IBU

The Sculpin is a testament to our humble beginnings as Home Brew Mart. It showcases bright flavors and aromas of apricot, peach, mango & lemon. The lighter body also brings out the crispness of the hops. This delicious Ballast Point Ale won a gold medal at the World Beer Cup 2010 in the International Pale Ale category. The Sculpin fish has poisonous spikes on it’s fins that can give a strong sting.

Awards: 
2009 Great American Beer Festival - Silver Medal - American-Style India Pale Ale
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AleSmith Speedway Stout

Product - AleSmith Speedway Stout
Brewed By: 
AleSmith
Self-Defined Style: 
Imperial Stout
Strength (ABV): 
12.0% ABV

A HUGE Imperial Stout that weighs in at an impressive 12% ABV! As if that's not enough, we added pounds of coffee for a little extra kick. Jet Black, with an off-white head. Starts with a strong coffee and dark chocolate sensation, then fades to a multitude of toasty, roasty and caramel malt flavors. Clean and crisp, full- bodied. Warmth from the high alcohol content lightens up the feel. You won't fool your taste buds - this beer is HUGE!

Best With: 
This rich, viscous stout is an outstanding compliment to thick, creamy desserts, or a strong cigar.
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The Bruery Black Tuesday Imperial Stout

Product - The Bruery Black Tuesday Imperial Stout
Brewed By: 
The Bruery
Self-Defined Style: 
Imperial Stout
Strength (ABV): 
19.5% ABV
Color (SRM): 
45º L

Our infamous Black Tuesday is an Imperial Stout aged in Bourbon barrels for over a year. Rich caramel, toasted malt, vanilla, burnt wood, anise are just a few of the many flavors of this rich, decadent imperial stout.

Best With: 
The roasted and burnt malt notes of stout and its typical hearty nature make it an exceptional compliment to raw or steamed oysters, however stout is also at home with most chocolate or cream based desserts.
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St. Bernardus Abt 12

Product - St Bernardus Abt 12
Brewed By: 
St. Bernardus
Self-Defined Style: 
Belgian Abbey Brown Ale
Strength (ABV): 
10.0% ABV

St. Bernardus Abt 12 from Brouwerij St. Bernard is a traditional abbey ale brewed in the classic style of Belgium's Trappist Monks. It is almost ebony in color, smooth, creamy and full bodied with big richness of texture that is almost oily and very assertive, like a warming coconut brandy.

Best With: 
The bold, malty complexity of this Abbey ale shines with rich desserts such as cherry pie with vanilla ice cream.
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Firestone Walker Parabola

Product - Firestone Walker Parabola
Brewed By: 
Firestone Walker
Self-Defined Style: 
Russian Imperial Stout
Strength (ABV): 
13.0% ABV

Parabola has been a major component of past anniversary blends and is one of our most aggressive offerings. This beer features bold bourbon and tobacco aromas and a rich dark chocolate, charred oak flavor. Parabola is best enjoyed in moderation and is a perfect beer to pair with those chocolate dessert favs.
An extension of Quercus Alba —the Firestone Walker Barrel aged program. Russian Imperial Stout Aged in Bourbon Barrels. ABV=13% IBU=50 COLOR= BLACK 15% OATS / HOPPED WITH 100% US GROWN FUGGLES

Best With: 
The roasted and burnt malt notes of stout and its typical hearty nature make it an exceptional compliment to raw or steamed oysters, however stout is also at home with most chocolate or cream based desserts.
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Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier

Product - Weihenstephaner Hefe
Brewed By: 
Weihenstephaner
Self-Defined Style: 
Hefeweissbier
Strength (ABV): 
5.4% ABV

Nothing refreshes you more than this naturally cloudy wheat beer with its wonderful yeasty fragrance and taste.

Best With: 
Goes well with dishes that do not have too intensive a flavor, especially that Bavarian specialty 'Weisswurst' or white sausage.
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Firestone Walker Abacus

Product - Firestone Walker Abacus
Brewed By: 
Firestone Walker
Self-Defined Style: 
Barrel Aged Barley Wine
Strength (ABV): 
12.0% ABV

Abacus is a barrel aged Barley Wine. Four barrels in total were selected for the blend. The base of this year’s offering was aged in Heaven Hill bourbon barrels for 3 years! The resulting beer is strong yet extremely elegant and smooth. Big boozy bourbon and American oak aromas combined with soft chocolate malty undertones. Complex malt flavors framed in oak, with hints of dark chocolate, vanilla, tobacco, coconut and just a touch of dark cherry. This is definitely a sipping beer, best served in a brandy snifter.

Best With: 
Abacus pairs well with dark chocolate and sturdy cheeses.
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Cantillon St. Lamvinus

Product - Cantillon St Lamvinus
Brewed By: 
Cantillon
Self-Defined Style: 
Fruit Lambic
Strength (ABV): 
5.0% ABV

Beer or wine? St. Lamvinus is a two-year-old Cantillon lambic fermented in oak casks along with wine grapes from France, and siphoned directly into 750 ml champagne bottles. The type of grapes used, and the winery in France that supplies them, are different every year.

Best With: 
The pleasant combination of sweetness and tartness from the fruit in this beer enable it to pair with a wide range of desserts such as raspberry crumble, cherry pie, or apple tart.
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Troegs Nugget Nectar

Product - Troegs Nugget Nectar
Brewed By: 
Tröegs
Self-Defined Style: 
Imperial Amber Ale
Strength (ABV): 
7.5% ABV
Bitterness (IBU): 
93 IBU

Squeeze those hops for all they're worth and prepare to pucker up: Nugget Nectar Ale, will take hopheads to nirvana with a heady collection of Nugget, Warrior and Tomahawk hops. Starting with the same base ingredients of our flagship HopBack Amber Ale, Nugget Nectar intensifies the malt and hop flavors to create an explosive hop experience.

Best With: 
This IPA's generous hop character makes it an ideal pairing with spicy foods such as barbecue, dry-rubbed ribs, or ethnic cuisine such as curry based Indian food, wasabi based Japanese dishes, or spicy Thai entrees.
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Goose Island Bourbon County Stout

Product - Goose Island Bourbon County Stout
Brewed By: 
Goose Island
Self-Defined Style: 
Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout
Strength (ABV): 
13.0% ABV

"I really wanted to do something special for our 1000th batch at the original brewpub. Goose Island could have thrown a party. But we did something better. We brewed a beer. A really big batch of stout-so big, the malt was coming out of the top of the mash tun. After fermentation, we brought in some bourbon barrels that aged the stout. One hundred days later, Bourbon County Stout was born. A liquid as dark and dense as a black hole with thick foam the color of a bourbon barrel. The nose is an intense mix of charred oak, chocolate, vanilla, caramel and smoke.

Best With: 
This beer is best paired with a rich chocolate based desert, with a top quality cigar, or on its own as a digestif.
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Surly Furious

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Brewed By: 
Surly
Self-Defined Style: 
American IPA
Strength (ABV): 
6.5% ABV
Color (SRM): 
27º L
Bitterness (IBU): 
99 IBU

A tempest on the tongue, or a moment of pure hop bliss? Brewed with a dazzling blend of American hops and Scottish malt, this crimson-hued ale delivers waves of citrus, pine and caramel-toffee. For those who favor flavor, Furious has the hop-fire your taste buds have been screeching for.

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Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze

Product - Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze
Brewed By: 
Drie Fonteinen
Self-Defined Style: 
Oude Geuze Lambic
Strength (ABV): 
6.5% ABV

Drie Fonteinen is the only remaining traditional geuze blender in Belgium, using only 100% spontaneously fermented lambic beer, aged in oak casks, with no artificial sweeteners or other additives. The blendery is connected to the very popular Drie Fonteinen Restaurant in Beersel, on the outskirts of Brussels. The proprietor, Armand Debelder, buys pure lambic from three breweries in Belgium, ages them in oak, and blends them, employing the skill, knowledge, and supreme passion for real geuze that his father handed down to him.

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Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock

Product - Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock
Brewed By: 
Ayinger
Self-Defined Style: 
Doppelbock
Strength (ABV): 
7.2% ABV

Originally brewed at a monastery in northern Italy, "double bock" was quickly introduced by Bavarian brewers to compete with bock. Doppelbock names end with the suffix "-ator." Profoundly dark, rich elixir with a complex fruitiness of roasted malt and whole hop flowers. Semi-dry finish.

Best With: 
Pastries and desserts, roast goose, cured ham, smoked duck, wild turkey, filet with Dijon sauce, chanterelles, Tournedos Rossini, Châteaubriand. Enjoy with a fine cigar after dinner. Serve in stemmed tumbler at 50°.
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New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red

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Brewed By: 
New Glarus
Self-Defined Style: 
Wisconsin Cherry Ale
Strength (ABV): 
5.1% ABV

Our International World Champion Specialty Beer is a true winner. Brewed with whole Montmorency Cherries, Wisconsin Wheat and Belgian roasted barleys. Over a pound of Door County cherries in each bottle. Ruby red in color, a medium body, highly carbonated and intense with cherry flavor and bouquet.

Best With: 
Crepes suzette, tuna salad sandwiches, roast duck, fruit or chocolate desserts. Mix this with a stout for a complex blend of chocolate and cherry.
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Cantillon Lou Pepe Kriek

Cantillon Lou Pepe Kriek
Brewed By: 
Cantillon
Self-Defined Style: 
Cherry Lambic
Strength (ABV): 
5.0% ABV

Very rare unblended cherry lambic, straight from the oak barrels, with almost twice the cherries of the normal blended Kriek.

From the brewery's website:

"The traditional Lambic is a beer whose spontaneous fermentation cannot be controlled entirely by the brewer. Due to the influence of many factors, the taste and the aromas of our product are different every time we brew.

Best With: 
Chocolate, Sweet Desserts
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New Glarus Raspberry Tart

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Brewed By: 
New Glarus
Self-Defined Style: 
Wisconsin Framboise Ale
Strength (ABV): 
4.0% ABV

Wisconsin framboise made with raspberries, wheat and year old Hallertau hops. This ale is fermented in large oak vats. The raspberry bouquet will greet you long before your lips touch your glass.

Best With: 
The quintessential dessert beer. Perfect with chocolate mud cake, cheesecake, or creamy desserts like mousse or crème brûlée.
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Fantôme Saison

Product - Fantome Saison
Brewed By: 
Fantôme
Self-Defined Style: 
Saison
Strength (ABV): 
8.0% ABV

8% alc. by volume, with a wonderfully musty and characterful aroma. "Absolutely gorgeous, complex summer refresher with enough interest to drink all year-round." (The Beers of Wallonia). Both authors give this beer a perfect 10. We would not give it a 10 (even if we knew what that meant) but there are drinkers out there who believe this is the "Nectar of the Gods." Certainly, no other brewer makes beer like this, in Belgium or anywhere.

Best With: 
This beer is a miracle with food. Enjoy it with salmon steaks, Thai food, spicy Mexican dishes, Vietnamese food, steaks, Cajun dishes, and well aged Gouda cheese.
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The Bruery Humulus Bruin

Substyle - Belgian-Style Dark Strong Ale
Brewed By: 
The Bruery
Self-Defined Style: 
Belgian-style brown ale
Strength (ABV): 
6.9% ABV
Color (SRM): 
20º L
Bitterness (IBU): 
25 IBU

Brewed from the second runnings of our massive Imperial Stout, Humulus Bruin is a hoppy Belgian-style brown ale. Huge amounts of Summit and Sterling hops were added to the whirlpool and as dry hop additions, giving this beer an almost illicit aroma. Up front, hops dominate the avor but then give way to roasty, toffee-like malt.

Accolades:
Los Angeles International Beer Competition 2008, Gold, Experimental Beers

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AleSmith IPA

Product - AleSmith IPA
Brewed By: 
AleSmith
Self-Defined Style: 
American IPA
Strength (ABV): 
7.8% ABV

Deep golden to light amber color, and a nice off-white head, with good retention when properly served. Starts off with pleasantly strong hop flavors, balanced by a firm malt backdrop, then fades to a dry finish with a lingering hoppiness.

Medium straw color, pale tan head. Rich malty aroma with a HUGE dose of hops. Medium-full body with sweet malty flavors and a delicious abundance of aromatic a bittering hops.

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Drie Fonteinen Schaerbeekse Kriek

Product - Drie Fonteinen Schaerbeekse Kriek
Brewed By: 
Drie Fonteinen
Self-Defined Style: 
Kriek Lambic
Strength (ABV): 
6.5% ABV

Armand Debelder's most special Kriek, brewed with Belgium's famous Schaerbeekse cherries, renowned for their incredible color and flavor. Loads of these rare and expensive sour cherries, pits and all, are poured into aging casks of lambic, where they are gradually infused into the beer. The result is a delectable blend of sourness from the lambic and a slight hint of sweetness from the ridiculous quantity of cherries employed. Naturally, no sugars, sweeteners, or artifical flavors are used.

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Unibroue La Fin du Monde

Product - Unibroue Fin Du Monde
Brewed By: 
Unibroue
Self-Defined Style: 
String Triple-Style
Strength (ABV): 
9.0% ABV

La Fin du Monde has a brilliant golden color with vigorously effervescent foam. It is mildly yeasty with a complex palate of malt, fruit and spice notes followed by a smooth, dry finish.

Best With: 
Its complex flavor and natural carbonation make La Fin du Monde an ideal pairing for aged cheeses and succulent cuisine like scallops, filet mignon and duck confit.
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Schneider Aventinus

Product - Schneider Aventinus
Brewed By: 
Schneider
Self-Defined Style: 
Wheat Doppelbock
Strength (ABV): 
8.0% ABV

Dark ruby color, clove-like aroma, full bodied palate with a hint of caramel, light, delicate bitter finish.

Best With: 
This beer is excellent with duck, venison, good pork and wild boar.
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Russian River Blind Pig IPA

Product - Russian River Blind Pig IPA
Brewed By: 
Russian River
Self-Defined Style: 
IPA
Strength (ABV): 
6.0% ABV

Blind Pig IPA was originally brewed by Vinnie at Blind Pig Brewing Co. in Temecula CA. Inspired by the original Blind Pig IPA, this beer is loaded with hop character but only has 6.0% ABV.

Awards: 
Silver Medal, 2007 GABF (American IPA)
Gold Medal, 2006 World Beer Cup (American IPA Category)
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Samuel Adams Utopias

Product - Samuel Adams Utopias
Brewed By: 
Samuel Adams
Self-Defined Style: 
Utopias
Strength (ABV): 
25.6% ABV

Sweet fire, with rich malt and wood complexity, Samuel Adams Utopias is deep amber in color. At 25.6% ABV, this is the world's strongest beer.

Best With: 
Perhaps the most extreme beer on earth, this beer is very suited to be sipped on its own as a digestif.
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Cantillon Fou'foune

Product - Cantillon Fou Foune
Brewed By: 
Cantillon
Self-Defined Style: 
Fruit Lambic
Strength (ABV): 
5.0% ABV

To create this astounding and unique fruit beer, the Cantillon brewers buy apricots from a vineyard in Bordeaux and pour them into casks of aged lambic. Over three to four months, the fruit dissolves and ferments, and is infused into the beer. The result is a wonderful peachy-apricot aroma and taste, combined with the tart, earthy flavor of honest, wild-yeast fermented lambic beer.

Best With: 
The pleasant combination of sweetness and tartness from the fruit in this beer enable it to pair with a wide range of desserts such as raspberry crumble, cherry pie, or apple tart.
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Bell's Two Hearted Ale

Product - Bell's Two Hearted Ale
Brewed By: 
Bell's Brewery, Inc.
Self-Defined Style: 
India Pale Ale
Strength (ABV): 
7.0% ABV

India Pale Ale style well suited for Hemingway-esque trips to the Upper Peninsula. American malts and enormous hop additions give this beer a crisp finish and incredible floral hop aroma.

Best With: 
With a bold emphasis on hop bitterness, India pale ales are the ultimate beverage pairing for spicy dishes. The sharp hop presence in most India pale ales can stand up to even the most devilish of spices in Cajun, Malaysian, Japanese, Indian, and Mexican cuisine.
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Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald

Product - Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald
Brewed By: 
Great Lakes
Self-Defined Style: 
Porter
Strength (ABV): 
5.8% ABV
Color (SRM): 
40º L
Bitterness (IBU): 
37 IBU

A complex, roasty porter with a bittersweet, chocolate-coffee taste and bold hop presence. Named after the ship that frequently docked in Cleveland and sunk in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 with many Northeast Ohioans on board. Style origin: Originated in Great Britain and named after the porters who hauled goods from wagons to the stands at the open air markets common to England at that time.

Best With: 
Roasty and smoked flavors like barbecued ribs, steaks and oysters. Also a favorite with chocolate desserts.