For me, with rare exception, the only beers that matters are India Pale Ales.
One beyond excellent examples are Russian River's Pliny The Elder. I would also include Elysians's Space Dust and Deschutes Fresh Squeezed on my personal short list.
As an aside, I recently learned that Elysian's master brewer is going out on his own. This is great news indeed, now that Elysian has been gobbled up by Anheuser-Busch. Elysian still maintains, however, that "corporate beer still sucks." Right.
