I used to stretch out my favourite beers of the year for days on end. By style, from dark and roasty to light and fruity, it was a labour of love and while I will still tell you what my favourites of each style were for 2019, I'll do it in one shot, right here and right now.
Let's go exploring!
Beer that tastes like a Damn Beer - Lagers, Pilsners
Lagers
1. Merit Brewing No Limit Dry American Lager
2. Wellington Brewery Helles Lager
3. Collective Arts Audio/Visual Lager
4. Great lakes Brewery Humber Helles Lager
5. Merit Brewing Wrong Tree Extra Lager
Pilsners
1. Fairweather Brewing Donna Pils
2. Tooth and Nail Brewing Vim and Vigor Pilsner
3. Anderson Craft Ales Summer Pilsner
4. Left Field Brewery Glorioso Italian style Pilsner
5. Barncat Artisan Ales Motueka Pilsner
Come to the Dark Side, we have Beer - Porters and Stouts
Porters
1. Clifford Brewing Porter
2. Great lakes Brewery Harry Porter and the Bourbon soaked Vanilla Bean
3. Collective Arts Brewing Stranger than Fiction
4. Big Rig Brewing Tales from the Patch Pumpkin Porter
5. Oskar Blues Death by Coconut
Barrel Aged Porters
1. Collective Arts Brewing 2019 Imperial Porter
2. Fairweather Brewing 2018 Wishing Well
3. Clifford Brewing 2019 Imperial Porter
4. Shacklands 2019 Brewing Belgian Porter
5. Collective Arts Brewing 2018 Imperial Porter
Stouts
1. Fairweather Brewing Madrugador
2. Merit Brewing Continental Breakfast
3. 5 Paddles Brewing Grim Reaper
4. Fairweather Brewing small hours
5. Calaboogie Brewing Brown Cow
Imperial Stouts
1. Wellington Brewery Imperial Russian Stout
2. Bellwoods Brewing Black Liquids Vol 2
3. Nickel Brook Brewing Bolshevik Bastard
4. Sawdust City Brewing Blood of Cthulhu
5. 5 Paddles Brewing Peanut Butter Godiva
Barrel Aged Imperial Stouts
1. Nickel Brook Brewing 2016 Kentucky Bastard (Bourbon)
2. Amsterdam Brewing 2018 Double Tempest (Whiskey)
3. Muddy York 2019 Inkwell (Cognac)
4. Left Field Brewery Blackburne (Bourbon)
5. Nickel Brook Brewing 2019 Café Del Bastardo (Bourbon)
All things good and hoppy - Pale ales, IPAs, DIPAs and more
Pale Ales
1. Fairweather Brewing Menagerie El Dorado
2. Great Lakes Brewery Canuck
3. Bench Brewing Jordan Harbour
4. Black Lab Brewing Sitting Pretty
5. Beau's All Natural Brewing Countdown
IPAs
1. Fairweather Brewing High Grade
2. Merit Brewing Young Rival
3. Badlands Brewing Marma
4. Great Lakes Brewing Karma Citra
5. Nickel Brook Brewing Headstock
DIPAs
1. Badlands Brewing August w/Galaxy and Sabro
2. Fairweather Brewing melange
3. Sawdust City Brewing Super Juicin'
4. Nickel Brook Brewing Brett IIPA
5. Dominion City Brewing/Sawdust City Brewing Numerals
TIPAs
1. Barncat Artisan Ales Triple the Juice
Brut IPAs
1. Anderson Craft Ales Brut IPA
2. Nickel Brook Brewing In this Corner
3. Muskoka Brewery Rose Cheeks
4. Collective Arts Brewing IPA No 9
5. Shacklands Brewing Brut to the Head
Milkshake IPAs
1. Merit Brewing Weekends for Breakfast
2. Left Field Brewery WHIP
3. Bellwoods Brewing Pineapple Coconut Witchshark
4. Merit Brewing Cali Creamsicle
5. Stonehooker Brewing Mae West
NEIPAs
1. Great Lakes Brewery Thrust!...An IPA
2. Sawdust City Brewing Juicin'
3. Muddy York Brewing Working Hard Mosaic El Dorado
4. Great Lakes Brewery Furthermore...You forgot to mention Bigfoor
5. Nickel Brook Brewing Wicked Awesome
Belgian IPAs
1. Stonehooker Brewing Three Sheets
2. Shacklands Brewing Farmhouse IPA
3. Fairweather Brewing White Mystic
4. Black Bellows Brewing Himalaya
5. Beau's All Natural Brewing Wag the Wolf
Black IPAs
1. Great Lakes Brewing Apocalypse Later
2. Rainhard Brewing Nosebeeratu
3. Dominion City Brewing Melodie Noir
4. Barncat Artisan Ales Shadow Realm
5. Big Rig Brewing Release the Hounds
Session IPAs
1. Fairweather Brewing Forever Eva
2. Royal City Brewing Exhibition
3. Nickel Brook Brewing Lost in Orbit
4. Collective Arts Brewing Hazy State
5. Muddy York Brewing Switchboard
Sour IPAs
1. Fairweather Brewing Fairy Floss
2. Sawdust City Brewing The Morning of our Lives
3. Fairweather Brewing Window Seat
4. Shacklands Brewing Cosmic Trigger
5. Nickel Brook Brewing Zap!
Tart Puckers - Sour Ales
1. Fairweather Brewing beki (Mint/Raspberry)
2. Merit Brewing The Other Side
3. Collective Arts Brewing Blueberry Sour with cocoa nibs
4. Nickel Brook Brewing Uncertainty Principle No 4
5. Fairweather Brewing Gummy Venus
Farmhouse for Life - Saisons
1. Shacklands Brewing Saison Davenport
2. Sawdust City Brewing There's No Way of Knowing
3. Fairweather Brewing Aviary
4. Bench Brewing Henry
5. Sawdust City Brewing Princess Wears Girl Pants
Malty goodness - Red Ales
1. Sawdust City Brewing I, The Mountain and The Leprechaun
2. Royal City Brewing Remebrance
3. Cowbell Brewing Doc Perdue's Bobcat
4. Bobcaygeon Dockside
5. Cassel Brewing Lil Red Ale
The best of the Rest, styles that I had less than 5 examples of in 2019.
Berliner Weisse - Nickel Brook Brewing Passionfruit Uber
Best Bitter - Wellington Brewery Arkell
Black Lager - Silversmith Brewing The Black Lager
Blonde Ale - Collective Arts Brewing Lunch Money
Bock - Goodlot Farmstead Brewing Bock
Brown Ale - Wellington Brewery Good Buddy
Dark Ale - Goodlot Farmstead Brewing Dark Ale
Dubbel - Chimay Red
Dunkel - Stonehooker Brewing Dunk Tank
ESB - Beau's All Natural Brewing ESB
Belgian Golden Strong Ale - Clifford Brewing Marigold
Gose - Merit Brewing What Dreams may Come
Pumpkin Ale - Great Lakes Brewery Pumpkin Ale
Quad - Rochefort 10
Radler - Beau's All Natural Brewing Radler
Rye IPA - Redline Brewhouse Rainbow in the Dark
Tripel - Sawdust City/Nickel Brook Brewing 2016 11.05
Vienna Lager - Clifford Brewing Vienna
Wheat Ale - Sandwich Brewing Prairie Sunshine
Over 700 beers reviewed, these are my favourites. Next up, my annual countdown of The Ten, the 10 most memorable beers of 2019.
Cheers!
Polk
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