In a much abbreviated archæological trawl of memories, the “best of”-selections shall be constrained to annual updates up to the most recent past.
Top honours go to Stone Brewing’s 2018 edition of W00tstout. A thick and wondrously deep and sweet stout. It truly is a mystery why I never stocked up on this afterwards as it was easily available over the christmas period.
And curiously enough, this beer further cements how wrong I was about Wil Wheaton back in the day – my dislike of Wesley Crusher has been reversed by the likes of headlining Stand By Me, being a reliably prickly NPC in Big Bang Theory and creating Table Top, the first sensible board game channel on Youtube. And this magnificent “pushing the winter away, sip by sip”-beer.
Domestically the highest score was attained by Coolhead’s Juicy Lucy, a very hop-heavy DIPA. Especially appropriate with its namesake – a cheeseburger in which all the cheese has been stuffed within the patty, explicitly helping prevent the meat from drying out.
In this, as in all “best of”-listings new beers shall have precedence ahead of repeats (even if the scores do not agree, otherwise the winter solstice-classic Sunturnbrew would top the chart every year).
FI: Vuoden 2019 parhaat kahdesta ikisuosikkikategoriasta: sameaa IPAa ja makeaa imperial stoutia.
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