AB treats their employees better than 90+% of craft breweries so it's probably a good thing for the employees.
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Beer|OT| Crazy for the hazy
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Made it to Great Notion, Ecliptic, Ex Novo, Cascade, MT (it was right next to Cascade and they only had one thing that wasn't available in SD which I tried and was just as good as anything brewed in SD.) and Upright. Also made it to Belmont Station of which I'm posting this from right now (picking up some FG 3-way and de Garde.) This city is fantastic. Upright, Cascade, and Great Notion being the stand outs. Thanks for the suggestions y'all! I'll be here till Tuesday so I might be going to more but I think I'll try to visit a few hiking spots for my last few days. Went to Forest Park today which was a great light hike.
Ruse looks kind of out of the way for me, maybe check out Wayfinder. If anything I'll try to find something to go from them if they bottle/can stuff here.
I ran into Sam Adams 76 earlier this year and really enjoyed it, but it seems to be disappearing from the stores I used to buy it at. Very disappointed... Anything similar out there? It was a very refreshing Lager-style beer.
Depending on your area the lager market is crazy strong right now. Tons of amazing options in Colorado.
A widely available pilsner I love is Firestone Pivo pils.
A widely available pilsner I love is Firestone Pivo pils.
I've had that in a bottle before and remember liking it. I'll see if I can find it in a can!
Haven't tried Firestone's Pilsner before. I do remember liking their Velvet Merlin Stout when I was into heavier and darker beers many years ago. Thanks for the suggestion!
Central Market, PCC and Whole Foods all carry it. Bottle shops, too. Reubens Pilsner is pretty good as well.
Thanks a lot! I moved a few years ago to the east side, so don't get over to Central Market much these days, but I'll definitely hit up a nearby Whole Foods soon.
I don't know if you Pilsner lovers in the US can get it easily, but Bitburger is a really nice German Pilsner
Talking of beers, the Phillips perfect draft system has a pretty great and expanding selection.
Although, I think that it might be price prohibitive in North America
Talking of beers, the Phillips perfect draft system has a pretty great and expanding selection.
Although, I think that it might be price prohibitive in North America
Bitburger is easy to find, their 4-packs are $8.99 at the grocery store.
Visiting my dad this weekend and since he's a total hermit I went out with him for an evening of good beer in my old high school town. Where there suddenly is like 500% more restaurants/cafes/bars, including a craft beer bar with a nice selection. Came across this in their toilet rooms:
A for effort :)
A for effort :)
Just got back from 450 North down in Columbus, IN. My buddy and I had one of everything except the Kolsch and the two ciders at the bottom (had those last time).
Found Mac & Jack's Resolution IPA at a Safeway yesterday. First time I've seen any form of Mac & Jack's in can or bottle form. Picked up a 6 pack and looking forward to giving it a try even though I've kind of grown to dislike a lot of IPAs in the last couple of years.
I got a bottle of Palace in the Sun. Gonna drink it down here in Lincoln City, OR with friends over the next few days.
Stopped at Ft George and de Garde on the way down today. Hadn't been to the new de Garde space, it's really nice.
Cowiche Canyon is still my favorite. I hope it makes distro down here this time cause it didn't last year but did the previous year.
I had some really great beers at Centennial Craft Beer when I was out there on a business trip. It's not a brewery but they have great local stuff on tap and bottles. And the bartenders really know their beers. I didn't eat there but the food that came out looked good. Would recommend.
Only visited a few times but you could probably get some stuff from Marz, Half Acre, Pipeworks, Revolution, and Off Color. Toppling Goliath usually has some good distro there too which is always great stuff. Hopefully someone from Chicago can chime in before your trip.
Going to Riga in two weeks. We already read a lot about the craft beer scnece an breweres there. Really excited to experience it first hand. Does anyone have any recommendations by chance?
It's funny though, even thogh I really enjoy a nice craft beers these days, the classic german styles I grew up with will always be my favourites, especially when casually drinking with friends.
It's funny though, even thogh I really enjoy a nice craft beers these days, the classic german styles I grew up with will always be my favourites, especially when casually drinking with friends.
Got a little present at work today, hope I'll let it sit and get better because I'm very bad at aging beers, lol.
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Utopias? It's out. All the Costco's around Seattle have it.
Huh. I may need to go poke around the liquor stores tomorrow and see if they scored any.
I saw Celebration at Whole Foods in Seattle yesterday. I hate SN calls it a fresh hop. Their explanation is stupid.
Brewed my first sour beer after reading American Sour Beer: Innovative Techniques for Mixed Fermentations. It'll be at the very least 6 months before I get something out of it probably, but I'll definitely be tasting along the way. I'm going the clean fermentation first and transferring to a secondary, then dropping bottle dregs along the way approach. Obviously a risky approach but I've got nothing but time!
Also, enjoying wet-hop/fresh hop season very much right now.
Also, enjoying wet-hop/fresh hop season very much right now.
Now at 73, and thinking that might be the final tally for 2019.
Dang it. I'm way too late to be useful but i would've recommended lone pine brewing company if I'd seen thiswhen it was actually posted
I love Paste's lists since they're always done in a blind set up removing hype. Glad to see Fremont at #3, as well as pFriem, Great Notion, de Garde and Breakside repping the PNW.
With that said, it is pretty funny that Monkish is on the honorable mention list and Holy Mountain didn't even make that. Paste requires breweries to send in beers for their tastings, and I don't think either brewery has ever done so or even cares. The list definitely does skew to the East coast, but that makes sense since that's where Paste is located and what they can obtain without asking for freebies.
They've probably never had them. Their blind tasting lists always require breweries to send them their beers if they're not available at retail where they are. They're awesome tasting rankings to read through and they remove the hype but they also always have glaring omissions but unless they trade for them they're always be there.
They didn't reference Fremont's fresh hop project, either, which is really odd.
Lists are always debatable, but I still like it.