Friday Night Pints Year Ender

Celebrating the 1st Ever NCAA-Football Tournament

It’s the end of the year and that means two things: We are all going to over-stress, over-eat, and over-drink, and soon it will be over and it’s list time! Those of you who know me, or have read and or listened to me at all, know that I love lists. Lists break everything down into a simple-to-digest way of knowing what is better than something else. Also, you rarely catch feedback from lists. People have to pretend to be happy to just be on the list, so you don’t get a lot of flack from brewery owners about their beers being too low on the list. After an amazing year cheering on Boise State and their inclusion into the first-ever College Football Playoff, we are doing lists of 12! How great is that? Five felt too small, 25 felt too big, and here was a ready-made gimic for me all along. 12. God bless those idiots who run college football and Go Broncos!

Top 12 Idaho Beers

1. Sockeye Molte Grazie Italian Pils

2. Mother Earth Project X Series

3. Boise Brewing Barrel Aged Black Cliffs Stout / Black Cliffs Stout

4. Prost / Sockeye Collab Special Pale 14 degrees

5. Sockeye Bakalava Stout

6. Bert’s Brewing Last Match Cherry Smoked Helles

7. Ruckus German Pils

8. Barbarian Barrel Aged The Morrigan

9. Gem State Early Riser Oatmeal Stout

10. Mother Earth Big Mother 3X IPA

11. Loose Screw Meridian Haze IPA

12. Lost Grove Robot Yeti Hazy IPA

Honorable Mentions: Alliteration Ales Borealis Baltic Porter, Payette Recoil IPA, Bear Island Brewhouse #6 Pils, Mother Earth BooKoo IPA, Grand Teton 208 Golden Ale

Top 12 Non-Idaho Beers

1. Georgetown Bodizhafa

2. Fort George / Ghost Town / Brujos Three Way West Coast IPA

3. Fremont Head Full of Fresh Hops

4. Epic Brewing Big Bad Baptist Old Fashioned

5. The Bruery Ruekeller Helles

6. Firestone Walker Wookie Jack Black IPA

7. Epic Brewing Big Bad Baptist There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand

8. Pfriem Nectaron IPA

9. The Bruery We All Scream

10. Prost Marzen

11. Sierra Nevada Celebration Fresh Hop IPA

12. Stone IPA

Top 12 Not Beers (mostly Idaho)

1. Warn Reserve Cocktail Co West 509 Bitters

2. House Made Syrups Barrel Aged Old Fashioned Syrup

3. Koenig Caldwell Nights Rodeo Bourbon

4. Telaya Turas

5. 44 North Sunnyslope Nectarine Vodka

6. Telaya 2022 Grenache Blanc

7. Cinder Laissez-Faire Red Blend

8. Bardenay Rum

9. House Made Syrups Black Pepper Coriander Syrup

10. Warn Reserve Cocktail Co Chili Lime Bitters

11. Spark Plug Canned Espresso Martinis

12. Split Rail Swamp Donkey Red Blend