I usually go down to where burial is and bounce around between there, green man, wicked weed funkatorium, twin leaf, Catawba, hiwire etc. Sierra Nevada is out of downtown but a really, really cool facility so I recommend that if you have time. The main wicked weed brew pub is great, and I like bhramari right next to it. You can find great beer on every corner but we always end up doing those. For food I really like blue dream curry house, Gan shan station, Chai panai, burial, Sierra Nevada, wicked weed brew pub, over easy, the junction, nine mile. Also tons of great food everywhere, haven't had a chance to try it all. Its really small downtown so you can just stroll around and check shit out. If you get tired of walking its a 5 dollar uber from one side of town to the other.
I'll be around Palo Alto the next week or so. I'm not going to spend time seeking out anything rare (ie, I'm not driving out to RR) - but what a few local beers I should pick up when I'm there? Stuff I can pick up at a nice bottle shop. I like just about anything. I'm not a fan of big hops, but I do enjoy a balanced IPA.
ecliptic they have pretty legit food too, and the neighborhood is great for walking and hitting a bunch of places
Anyone know where i can get bcbs in Cincinnati on Friday. visiting from out of town. thought i would be lazy and post here rather than calling stores.
If any of you dudes want a ton of stouts and would like to send me some fresh IPAs and/or some sours in return, then check the spoiler and message me if you want some stuff. K thnx. Spoiler 903 BA Sasquatch (Batch 1) Avery Uncle Jacob's (2015) Boulevard BBQ ‘14 Brooklyn Hand & Seal ‘14 Brooklyn Black Ops ‘14 Bruery Sucre ’14 Coop Territorial Reserve ‘14 Dark Horse BBPT5 ‘14 Deschutes Not the Stoic ‘15 Deschutes Mirror Mirror ‘14 Deschutes Abyss ‘14 Deschutes Black Butte XXVI Dogfish Head 120 Minute (1/14/15) Doghfish Head Olde School Elevation Oil Man ‘14 Elk Valley Brewing Old Grizzly Barleywine Freetail La Muerta ‘14 Goose Island BCBS ‘14 Goose Island BCBS ’15 (11/Nov/15) Great Lakes Brewing BA Blackout Stout ‘15 Lakewood BBT ‘14 Lakewood BBT ‘15 New Holland Night Tripper ‘14 North Coast BA Old Rasputin XVII Odell Fernet Aged Porter Olde Hickory Event Horizon ‘16 Prairie Xmas Bomb ‘14 Saint Arnold Divine Resere 14 Schlafy Oak Aged Barleywine ‘13 Smog City Infinite Wishes ‘16 Sweetwater Happy Ending ‘15
would gladly trade hops for any BCBS 14 you might have. I live in Brooklyn so have access to Other Half, Single Cut, Threes, LIC, KCBC, etc
think I just have the one bottle of '14 left, but all the '15s are blessed and non-infected (think there's 3 bottles) I'll send you a bottle shipper with whatever you want for some fresh hops, so PM me if there's something else you're after.
Charlotte people, any good beer stuff happening between now and Sunday? I'll be in your city and the in-laws want to drink. Bonus points if it's a new brewery I haven't taken them to yet.
What do the inlaws like? Two newer ones I like are Wooden Robot in South End and Legion in Plaza Midwood. Of course OMB is always impressive for the family hang out of not hoppy beers.
Sad news...really love The Kaiser. Have one sitting in the fridge for Thanksgiving day. Guess I need to stock up. http://www.westword.com/restaurants...-acclaimed-demons-and-dictators-beers-8523299 Colorado’s beer cellars and basement refrigerators will be a little more forlorn in coming years, as Avery Brewing has decided to discontinue seven of its pioneering mainstays, including some much-loved beers that are particularly valued because of how well they age. The Boulder brewery said last week that it will stop brewing and bottling The Beast, Samael’s Ale, Mephistopheles, The Kaiser, The Czar, Salvation and Dugana. The decision means that Avery’s three acclaimed trinity series, the Demons of Ale, the Dictators and the Holy Trinity, will come to an end as well. The remaining beers from these series, The Reverend, Maharaja and Hog Heaven, have been repackaged and will be released in new formats. The beer retirements are surprising; Avery used the two series to redefine what bold, high-gravity craft beer could be in the United States and to build its reputation. While other older breweries — like Great Divide, Ska, Boulder Beer, Twisted Pine, New Belgium and Odell — have retired beer because their flavor profiles no longer matched consumer demand, Avery’s beers still held up. The Czar, a 10 percent ABV Russian imperial stout; Mephistopheles, a 15 percent ABV imperial stout; and Dugana, a double IPA, are among BeerAdvocate’s highest rated Colorado beers; The Kaiser, a 9.3 percent imperial Oktoberfest, and The Beast, a 17-percent grand cru ale, are highly sought-after seasonals from year to year. Avery spokesman Mike Mackay acknowledges the importance of these beers and their status as favorites among the public. But he said the brewery wants to move on and give its focus to a newer series of six year-round barrel-aged beers, in 22-ounce bottles, called Botanicals & Barrels. “It was a tough, tough decision. We’ve never really cut a lot of beers out of the portfolio before,” he explains. But it made more sense for the brewery to cut the smaller-batch seasonal beers in favor of the year-round Botanical series. Two of those, Vanilla Bean Stout, aged in bourbon barrels, and Raspberry Sour, aged in oak barrels, are already out. A third, Tangerine Quad, will debut in a few weeks. Three others, Apricot Sour, Ginger Sour and Coconut Porter, should show up in 2017. Avery now owns more than 3,300 barrels, many of which it keeps at an off-site location, and the new series will keep them full, Mackay adds. The new beers will also give Avery’s brewers new challenges. “It’s a new frontier for us, and we want to go all in,” he says. “The Demons and Dictators series were ahead of their time when they first came out, but that was over a decade ago,” said Avery Brewing founder Adam Avery in a statement. “These beers led the way for everything we do today to push the boundaries of our beer. Now we are taking all that courage, expertise and quality control we gained and amplifying it in a much bigger way in our barrel program. "We are not only focused on making our barrel program the biggest out there, with annual production of multiple different styles of barrel-aged beer, but more important, we are committed to making it the best and highest quality," he continued. "This is challenging us more than we’ve ever challenged ourselves before — and that’s a good thing. It’s hard to say goodbye, but I couldn’t be more excited to see the reaction of our fans when these barrel-aged beers get in their hands." Mackay says the older beers may be resurrected from time to time in the taproom or for a barrel-aging project.
We checked out Wooden Robot last time I was around and they liked it a lot. Have not heard of Legion, I'll prioritize that. They are not huge fans of OMB for some reason.
I'm a big fan of NODA brewery as well. They always have a number of beers I enjoy and it's rarely overly crowded and pretty open.
Sycamore --> Lenny Boys --> Sugar Creek Have never been to any of these Charlotte places before tonight. Delicious beers. Too many beers. Going home drunk.
I'm assuming the Bourbon County Stout stuff isn't that hard to get this year. Went to the store yesterday and was just browsing through the aisles. The owner comes up and says hey I think we have some Bourbon County bottles left if you want one. Sure, I'll give it a whirl.
I walked in and picked up a couple of bottles as well. Hopefully they're not funked up like the last year's batch.
I was told at my local store that part of the batch was bad so volume was down. That being said, I showed up 5 minutes before store opening and I was the second in line so getting some was pretty easy.
My local ABC had severely restricted allocation. 6 cases of BCS, 2 cases of Barleywine, that was it. I was like 10th in line or I would have been screwed. Got a growler of 2015 as well. I had one of this year's batch, tasted fine to me. 2015 was good but it was missing all the heat on the front, almost made it a little too sweet for my tastes. Still a great beer though.
Just opened this bad boy. Oh so deliciously funky Edit: follow up - That was a very interesting and delicious beer. Probably ranks in my top 10 all-time. It was a strange yet wonderful combination of sour + fall-spicy. Very delicious.
headed to the Atlanta Strong Beer Fest at Wrecking Bar for the third year in a row. Every beer is from Georgia and is at least 8% abv. Here's the list they have released so far: Arches Brewing Belgian Tripel Burnt Hickory Brewery BA Kolbs Farm Burnt Hickory Brewery Maps and Legends Cherry Street Thunderhops Triple IPA Cherry Street Hoppy Balboa vs. The Blonde Coastal Empire Dawn Patrol Creature Comforts Duende Creature Comforts Existence Dry County YUUGE!! Eagle Creek Brewing Co. Tripel Anniversary Eventide Highlander Strong Scotch Ale Gate City Double Tropical Stout Jailhouse Brewing Co. The Judge Jekyll Brewing Copious Jekyll Brewing Off The Grid Max Lager's Cab BA Max Abbey. Max Lager's Excommunication Monday Night Georgian Imperial Monday Night Bourbon BA Drafty Kilt Monk's Mead WB collab Monk's Mead Mead/Collab Moon River Tripka's Big Barleywine Orpheus Brewing Abandon All Hope Red Brick Brewing Co. Vanilla Gorilla Red Brick Brewing Co. Red wine BA Hype Whale Reformation Brewing 2015 Bourbon BA Providence Reformation Brewing 2016 Bourbon BA Declaration Second Self Brewing Janus Service Brewing Company Service Stout Southbound Brewing Co. Roxanne Southern Brewing Company Gingernaut Southern Sky Alepocalypse Steady Hand Imperial Coffee Stout SweetWater Tart Bourbon BA Imperial Stout SweetWater Coffee Bourbon BA Imperial Stout Terrapin Beer Co. Smoke on the Porter Three Taverns Craft Brewery Helms Deep Three Taverns Craft Brewery Third Age Three Taverns Craft Brewery Hoplicity Wild Heaven Craft Beers 2016 Height of Civilization Wild Heaven Craft Beers Ode to Mercy Special Winter Ale Wrecking Bar Brewpub Mexican Siberius Maximus Wrecking Bar Brewpub BLiS BA L5 Project Wrecking Bar Brewpub 4 Roses BA Hammer Wrecking Bar Brewpub 4 Roses BA Choco Mountain Wrecking Bar Brewpub Old Forrester L5 Project Wrecking Bar Brewpub Cab BA Hammer Wrecking Bar Brewpub Bovine Justice Wrecking Bar Brewpub Hop Noggin Wrecking Bar Brewpub Dbl. BA Quad Wrecking Bar Brewpub 2014 Ye Olde Sprinklerhead Wrecking Bar Brewpub Buffalo Trace BA RIS #9
Ok the Founders is excellent. Very smooth, slight mocha with a nice bit of chocolate and caramel. Just outstanding.
Ten Fidy is one of the best Imperial Stouts you will find, one of my favorite beers ever. Never had Founders Porter. Have you tried their Breakfast Stout? If you can find it get some, excellent brew
What's up guys.... I miss the thread. The wife and I spent the weekend in the Anaheim area so I made sure we stopped by a few places: - The Bruery - Noble Ale Works - Kings Brewing (Rancho Cucamonga)
Nice little haul tonight. Haven't had any of it before. Pretty excited. X2 X2 I love that fucking thing...as does Mrs. Honda