Presented below, you will find a list of beers that I like. Lists of these sort tend to be taken more seriously when they have authoritative names, so my working title for this one was The Definitive Drunkspin Compilation Of The 18 Beers In The Universe That Are Perfect; All Other Beers Are Horrible. But that didn't fit, and/or my editor had some other dumb idea.
Would you believe that I put a lot of thought into the beer-selection methodology for this list? If you believe that, then you, my dear friend, are a rube—but also, in this one isolated instance, a correct rube, for I did approach this list with something very closely approximating a responsible plan of action. Dig this:
A lot of year-end lists concern themselves strictly with newly released beers, and there are in…