Pittsburgh PA – Rivetowne.
My special favorite is the Scottish Ale.
Mac and Jacksin Redmond WA
Bonecrusher Wit Beer by the Darling Brewery (Darling being a town in this case, not a term of endearment)
Rivertowne brews a great pineapple beer; better on draft than bottled.
VooDoo Brewery, Helltown, East End, Full Pint, and Draii Lag are my favorite local breweries.
Mystery Brewing’s Six Impossible Things (chocolate stout) and Thornfield’s End (smoked rye stout). They’re seasonal, though, so we won’t see these again until fall.
If the situation calls for a Bud but you appreciate good beer, Session lager is definitely the way to go.
So who’s going to organize the Doper beer tour? Or should we all fill a few growlers and meet in the middle?
Depends on the definition of “local”, I guess.
If we’re talking about my city, then I’d say that I’m pretty partial to Lakewood Brewery’s Lakewood Lager (a Vienna style), their Temptress Imperial stout, and most of the other things I’ve had of theirs. I also like Peticolas Brewing Co.'s Velvet Hammer Imperial Red ale and their Golden Opportunity Kolsch. Franconia Brewing in McKinney makes some stellar German-style beers- I particularly like their Dunkel and Oktoberfest.
If we’re talking about the state, then I’m also partial to the offerings from Karbach (Houston), Buffalo Bayou (Houston), Southern Star (Houston area), Live Oak (Austin), Texian (Houston-Area), and Spoetzl (Shiner, TX).
Y’know, the next time someone starts one of those “Who wants to be immortal?” threads, I’m going to link to this one and say, “I ain’t leaving until they run out of beers for me to try.” 
Exactly. It’s what I keep in the fridge for company, although I like Full Sail products in general. I don’t drink enough any more to be knowledgeable about local brews, but I just saw on the news that four Oregon micros made the list of best breweries. . .nationwide? My only beef is that most of what’s available is way too hoppy for my tastes. I much prefer a lager or a hefe, as my tolerance for bitter tastes is quite low. Breakside is really the exception for me, as they’ve struck what I consider to be the perfect balance.
Des Moines, IA - Confluence Brewing Co. especially the Farmer John Multi-grain Ale and the Des Moines IPA. Plus they have some really awesome seasonal beers (ChewBOCKa and Imogene Irish Red are my personal look-forward-to’s)
Today, in honor of National Burrito Day, I went to lunch at Chipotle with some co-workers. Local brewer Oskar Blues was demonstrating their latest variety, Beerito, there today and we each had a taster cup. To our complete surprise, it was actually very good. I have no idea if it was a one-day wonder or not, but I’d have it again if I saw it sold anywhere.
Cool…I love Oskar Blues Ten Fidy
Coincidentally today is also National Beer Day
At the moment, probably Hoppiness is a Warm Pun from Brewmaster Jack.
Not technically local, since it’s at the opposite end of the state, but this is MA and MA is tiny.
I quit drinking about 2 1/2 years ago but one of my favorites was Naked Pig Pale Ale from Back Forty Beer Co. in Gadsden, AL (about 25 miles from the tiny town where I grew up).
Another good one is from my buddy, Bo, at Druid City Brewing Co. here in Tuscaloosa, AL.
Druid City Pale Ale
http://www.druidcitybrewing.com/beer/druid-city-pale-ale
http://www.druidcitybrewing.com
Lots of good stuff produced by a couple of locals who know their stuff. Much better than Hanger 24, which gets all the press but has seriously declined lately.
Deal. And I’ll buy you a coffee or hot chocolate.
St Arnold’s Elissa is a well-balanced IPA. I’ll sip the occasional hop monster, with notes of grapefruit or catpiss, but this one is mellow. (And it’s named for Galveston’s tall ship.)
Buffalo Bayou’s 1836 is a “copper ale”–a good balancing act between malt & hops.
Really, there’s a wealth of fine local & regional beers.
Athens, GA, has a local brewery named Terrapin. While I can drink some of their seasonals, they used to have a sunray wheat beer , now discontinued. Sadly, as that was one of the best they had, and was not an ale like most of their selection.
(Well, technically wheat beers are typically ales.)
Cincinnati, which is seeing a major resurgence in craft brewing (yay being settled by Germans!)…
Mad Tree Brewing’s “Thundersnow” is a fantastic spiced winter ale that is only available seasonally
Mt. Carmel’s Stout compares well to any better stout I have had anywhere, period
And for everyday and session drinking, Moerlein’s Zeppelin Bavarian Pale is excellent…
and one more, because they ar about to move the brewery 5 minutes from my front door… Rivertown’s Divergent, a sour weissbeer… just tasty