AHA Best Beers of 2013... for me.

I recently received an email from the AHA regarding the Zymurgy's best beers of 2013. The email provided a link to pick your favorite 20 beers of the year. I have never done anything like this before, and have only really kept a mental list of my favorite beers. I decided to give it a try, and with much help from Untappd (https://untappd.com/), I was able to come up with a list a 20 of my favorites for the year.

Honestly, I found this pretty challenging. At time, my rank order is somewhat irrelevant. If anything, my list of more of an honorable mention of 20 different beers that I really enjoyed throughout the year. That being said. the top 5 is probably the closet to an actual rank ordered listing. I have put them in bold. Let me know what you think, I am curious to hear other's opinions and I encourage everyone to, first, join the AHA, and, second, do their top 20 list.

1. Ballast Point Sculpin IPA
2. Stone Espresso Imperial Russian Stout
3. Sierra Nevada Celebration
4. Sierra Nevada Narwhal
5. Selin's Grove Brewery Saint Fillian's Wee Heavy
6. Devils Backbone Schwarzbier
7. Lagunitas Little Sumpin' Sumpin'
8. Hardywood Park Gingerbread Stout
9. Midnight Brewery Purdy Mechanic IPA
10. Anchor Steam
11. Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
12. Foothills Peoples Porter
13. Lagunitas Pils
14. Legend Oktoberfest
15. Center of the Universe Slingshot Kolsch
16. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery 90 Minute IPA
17. Strangeways Brewing Blitzkrieg Bock
18. Troegs Troegenator Dopplebock
19. Victory Prima Pils
20. Midnight Brewery Rockville Red

As you can see, its been a great year for Virginia, and especially Richmond beer. Its good time for the city. I should include some honorable mentions such as:

Legend Golden IPA
Midnight Granite Oatmeal Stout
Lickinghole Creek Tripel
Apocalypse Ale Works Wet Hopped Hoppocalypse

Did I leave any out? Hit me up on Untappd! Username:Boitnottmk