BEER VOTE: Best Beer Brewed in LA 2016 Edition

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Awesome! Gives me something to do while standing in line for BBQ.

How will ghost be remembered? In the beginning of the year it was tGOAT...

FIRST DRAFT, subject to multiple changes and revisions.

1. Parish Grand Reserve (I'm a sucker for barleywines)
2. Parish GITM
3. Parish Bloom
4. Parish DDH Envie
5. Parish Bloom
6. Gnarly Barley Peanut Butter Korova
7. Gnarly Barley Brightside
8. Parish Reve
9. Tin Roof Juke Joint (revamped)
10. Parish Flora Genesis
11. Gnarly Barley Korova
12. Tin Roof DIPA
13. NOLA House Of The Rising
14. Tin Roof Voodoo Bengal (revamped)
15. Great Raft Commotion

I haven't had many others from Great Raft or NOLA recently... I'm sure they have plenty other good stuff out though. Nothing from Abita, Chafunkta, Southern Craft, Mudbug, Second Line, or Urban South makes the cut.

I know this is slanted a lot having recently gone to GR day and brought all those beers home... plus easy access to Tin Roof's revamped recipes... but whatever.

*subject to change

1) GR HH Old Mad Joy
2) GR You Me and Everyone We Know
3) GR Come What Mayhaw
4) Parish Reve
5) Parish Bloom
6) GR DDH Commotion
7) Parish DDH Envie
8) Parish Opus Vert
9) GR Rum BA OMJ
10) GR Drunk Uncle
11) GR All My Tommorrows
12) Parish GITM
13) Gnarly Barley PB Korova
14) GR Near and Far
15) GR Farmhouse Slang

So...yeah. I'm sorry for the overload of Parish and Great Raft but they are easily 1a and 1b in the state, and they are both producing the best beers in the state.

Great Raft produced so many new beers in the Belgian and barrel programs this year.

I wish I could try some of the Courtyard IPAs.

The rest of the breweries...step up your shite.

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1. GITM batch 9 2/13/16
2. Bloom
3. GITM batch 12 5/16/16
4. GITM batch 14 7/26/16
5. GITM batch 10 3/4/16
6. GITM batch 15 8/15/16
7. GITM batch 13 5/19/16
8. Newer Envie before the yeast change
9. GITM batch 11 4/7/16
10. GITM batch 16 11/14/16
11. DDH Envie
12. Reve
13 Opus Vert
14. Grand Reserve
15. Dr Hoptagon

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I can get behind this. I'd throw Serendipite up behind Reve.

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Even with inconsistency, it's a top 3 beer in the state.

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Sorry. I have to consider the entire year. If they hadn't brewed it since the spring, it would be in my top 5 easily

But I'm going to account for inconsistency. The February batch of Grace and Grit was easily a top 15 beer, but the January batch was awful. So I didn't include it.

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But I'm going to account for inconsistency. The February batch of Grace and Grit was easily a top 15 beer, but the January batch was awful. So I didn't include it.

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Send some of that Shreveport goodness down here.

I also love the 2013 list. Abita was repping. Glad the landscape has changed and look forward to seeing what the next few years produce.

Blasphemy