Spinoff from the best craft breweries thread, i find it hard to quantify best breweries, but easier to quantify best or favorite styles. Since taste is subjective, choose your style and pick your favorite Louisiana beer that you've had. Feel free to add styles.

Best Pale Ale - Tin Roof Voodoo
Best IPA - Gnarly Barley Jucifer
Best Double IPA - Parish Ghost in the Machine
Best DDH Pale - Parish DDH Envie
Best DDH IPA -
Best DDH DIPA -
Best Stout - Parish Reve' Coffee Stout
Best Mixed Fermentation (Long Aged) Sour - Tie: Great Raft Come What Mayhaw/ NOLA House of the Rising
Best Kettle Sour (Gose/Berliner Weisse) - Urban South Lime Cucumber Gose
Best Saison - Urban South Coop'd Up
Best Barleywine - Parish Grand Reserve
Best Porter -
Best Pilsner -
Best Belgian Ale -
Best Oktoberfest -
Best Amber -
Best Light Lager -
Best Dark Lager -

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Posted by cgrand

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Posted on 11/27/18 at 9:42 am to BugAC

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Best Stout - Parish Reve' Coffee Stout

i like it a lot, but frick its expensive. korova milk porter (or even guiness) is nearly as good and about 1/2 the price

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Posted by BugAC

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Posted on 11/27/18 at 9:43 am to cgrand

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i like it a lot, but frick its expensive. korova milk porter (or even guiness) is nearly as good and about 1/2 the price

I agree it is pricey. Urban South's Cafe' is a close second for me. I love coffee stouts.

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Posted by Salmon

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Posted on 11/27/18 at 9:46 am to BugAC

Best IPA - Parish Bloom

Best Saison - GR Farmhouse Slang

Best Porter - GR Old Mad Joy

Best Pilsner - GR The Company I Keep

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Posted by BugAC

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Posted on 11/27/18 at 9:47 am to Salmon

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Best IPA - Parish Bloom

Current bloom or past bloom? I would have put the bloom on my list, but i didn't care for the current version of this beer.

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Posted by Salmon

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Posted on 11/27/18 at 9:48 am to BugAC

I don't know if I got any of the latest batch. I had it last spring though and thought it was as good as ever.

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Posted by BugAC

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Posted on 11/27/18 at 9:55 am to Salmon

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I don't know if I got any of the latest batch. I had it last spring though and thought it was as good as ever.

I think late 2016 was the first release and my favorite. The following Spring was another release was really good as well. The 2018 spring release is the last one i had, and it was not my favorite. This is one of the beers i kept complaining about the perceived over-carbing issues (along with Nova Vert) that i pick up. Others may not pick it up.

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Posted by NOLATiger71

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Posted on 11/27/18 at 10:18 am to BugAC

Best dessert beer I ever had was the White Chocolate beer that Dixie produced in the mid 1990’s. Left an impression on me, I wish they would relaunch it.

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Posted by GeauxPack81

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Posted on 11/27/18 at 10:27 am to BugAC

Best Black Lager - Great Raft Southern Drawl
Best Light Lager - Great Raft Reasonably Courrupt
Best Black IPA - Parish Dr. Hoptagon (Did they make it this year?)

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Posted by BrohemAlem11

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Posted on 11/27/18 at 10:48 am to BugAC

Best Porter - GR Old mad joy
Best Stout - NOLA irish channel stout
Best Light Lager - Red River Helio
Best Dark Lager- GR corrupt
Best Amber - Ouchita LouisiAMBER
Best Kettle Sour (Gose/Berliner Weisse) - Great Raft life itself
Best Oktoberfest - no sure what my favorite is, but great rafts Oktoberfest had to be one of the most disappointing things I've ever tasted.

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Posted by kingbob

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Posted on 11/27/18 at 10:54 am to BugAC

I don't care what anyone else says, Gnarly Barley's chocolate peanut butter porter is delicious.

I had a hefeveisen from the Abita tap room that I swear was the best of that style I've ever tasted by a wide margin. I'm assuming, that means that it was just a test batch and will never be made again.