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My Top 10 Beers of 2009

This is a list of the most memorable beers I tried this year. Note that these are not necessarily new beers, just new to me:

1. Rock Bottom Chicago (Rotating) Dry-hopped Oatmeal Stout
2. Two Brothers Red Eye Coffee Porter
3. Three Floyds Alpha King
4. Hertog Jan Dubbel
   

   Hertog Jan Dubbel, Netherlands

5. Rock Bottom Chicago Instigator Doppelbock
6. Grimbergen Brune
   

   Grimbergen Brune, Belgium

7. Galway Hooker Irish Pale Ale
   

   Galway Hooker, Ireland

8. Live Oak Oaktoberfest
   

   Live Oak Oaktoberfest, Texas

9. St. Louis Kriek
   

   St. Louis Kriek, Belgium

10. Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet
    

    Tripel Karmeliet, (Chicago by way of) Belgium

Honorable Mention:

My first homebrew batch of Burnham Brown Ale! Perhaps it was just a fluke that my first batch ever turned out so good, but oh well! Don’t worry; subsequent brews have been nothing to write home about, so I’m not exaggerating just because it’s my beer. ;)

Robey Street Burnham Brown Ale, Chicago

And of course, the WORST beer of 2009:

Jupiler Pilsener. I bought a can of this for the train ride from Brussels back to Amsterdam. It was pretty rank.

Jupiler Pilsener, Belgium