Craft beer question.?!

Craft beer question.?

What are a couple of good craft beers for a newbie to start with?

I'm not looking for anything to heavy so no porters or stouts.

I have had Sam Adams many times and I do like it. Sierra Nevada PA was pretty good too and I liked Stella (not sure if that's considered a craft beer)

I have been drinking macro's for years. But want to start exploreing micro brews.

I live in NJ if that helps.

some good breweries (and beers) to look for are:

widmer brothers (hefeweizen, drop top, W'07 pale ale)
mctarnahan's (amber ale)
pyramid (amber weizen, apricot weizen, )
deschutes (mirror pond, inversion, bachelor, cinder cone)
new belgium (mothership wit, sunshine wheat)
dick's (working man's brown)
lagunitas (ipa, maximus)
pete's (wicked ale, strawberry blonde, rally cap ale)
rogue (honey orange wheat, hazelnut brown, dead guy)

not sure how many of these make it out to NJ, but they're something to keep your eyes open for..