Beer > Wine > Liquor has happened.  Additionally, hangover considerations continue to hold more sway in my beer preferences. Together with general aging, I am attempting to reconcile these developments while still retaining an acceptable sense of self.

For those bored/interested/read everything I write, an exercise in futility - a more advanced ranking:

bock lagers > dry red wines > whiskeys > brown ales > non-bock lagers > tequilas > vodkas > non-dry red wines > non-brown, non-pale ales > pale ales > gins > rums > Welch's grape juice (some call this white wine, in fact, I prefer non-alcoholic Welch's grape juice to any white wine I've ever had)

Subject to change.   A future brands ranking?

Note - an endorsement of a general category presumes select representatives.  Thus when I imply that whiskeys are better than tequilas, I'm talking about Jack, Jameson, Maker's, etc....and similarly the best tequila has to offer.  Comparisons including all representatives quickly lose meaning, as anyone who has tasted McCormick's knows.  This rule of thumb is widely applicable.  For example, when people say "Kenyans are fast long-distance runners," they are talking about select representatives.  The common Kenyan spends nearly all of his or her energy procuring nourishment and staving off starvation, not running several miles at a time, let alone fast.