Best Spring Craft Beers 2016

Widely Distributed

Here are the most popular beers during the Spring that are widely distributed. You'll notice some of these are Summer seasonals that are released early in Spring.

1. Abita Strawberry Harvest
2. Bell's Oberon
3. Dogfish Head Aprihop
4. 21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon
5. Bell’s Smitten Golden Rye Ale
6. Firestone Walker Parabola
7. Founders Rubaeus
8. Sam Adams Porch Rocker
9. Elysian Superfuzz
10. New Belgium La Folie

Regional

Craft Beer Spring Seasonals 2015 is a guide from the Brewers Association that breaks down Spring craft beers by region of the country.

Northeast

1. Captain Lawrence Sunblock
2. Heavy Seas Double Cannon
3. Mayflower Spring Hop Ale
4. Ommegang Glimmerglass
5. Troegs Cultivator Helles Bock
6. Smuttynose Durty
7. Cape May Honey Porter

Central

1. Bell’s Smitten Golden Rye Ale
2. Black Mesa Alexander Supertramp
3. Capital Maibock
4. Crow Peak Redwater Ale
5. Indeed Mexican Honey Imperial Lager
6. MKE Weekend @ Louie’s
7. Sockeye Maibock
8. 3 Sheeps Hello My Name is Joe
9. Ale Asylum Diablo Belga
10. Atwater Mai Bock

Pacific

1. Anaheim Conrad's Kolsch
2. Breakside Salted Caramel Stout
3. Hopworks Rise Up India Red Ale
4. Maui Lorenzini Blood Orange Double IPA
5. Ninkasi Spring Reign
6. Tap It Continuum
7. Worthy Farm Out Saison

Mountain West

1. Asher Organic Ginger Bomb
2. Avery Perzik Saison
3. Boulder Emergent White IPA
4. Joseph James Rye’d N Dirty
5. Kanna Creek Crossed Irons
6. Grimm Brothers Maidens Kiss
7. Ska Vernal Minthe Stout
8. Squatters Sociable Krystalweizen
9. Uinta Tinder
10. Wasatch Raspberry Wheat
11. Odell Runoff

South

1. Alltech Lexington Kentucky Rye Barrel IPA
2. Tennessee Brew Works Walk the Lime
3. Avondale Strawberry Kolsch
4. Branchline 5AM to Midnight
5. Front Street Henry's Helles Bock
6. Service Old Guard
7. Southern Star Red Cockaded Ale
8. Starr Hill Reviver
9. Swamp Head Day Trippin'

Rare & Obscure

Here's a list of the highest rated Spring beers on Ratebeer. These highly rated and difficult-to-get Spring beers will have beer geeks traveling from far and wide to track down. Note: these beers often have very limited distribution.

1. Founders KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout)
2. Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout
3. Stone Imperial Russian Stout
4. Kuhnhenn Fourth Dementia (4D) Old Ale
5. Hill Farmstead E.
6. Southern Tier Blackwater Series: Mokah
7. Aecht Schlenkerla Fastenbier
8. Southern Tier Jah-va Imperial Coffee Stout
9. Hoppin Frog Hop Dam Triple IPA

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About The Author

Will Stephens is the Co-Founder of BeerMenus. He's a Certified Cicerone®, regularly proctors Certified Cicerone® exams, is the co-organizer of the Road to Cicerone Q&A series, is a regular homebrewer whose beers frequently pop up on the BeerMenus HQ page, and a huge proponent of dry-hopping cold-brew coffee.