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Angry Grimace posted:They have a pretty good tap list at Whole Foods near my office. It's kind of weird that the grocery store has a really nice tap list. I'm really jealous that there are states that let you do growler fills and such in the grocery stores/etc  I'd love to be able to have my own growlers and refill them whenever I wanted.air- posted:I think Sam's in Durham is the gas station right? The selection there is loving ridiculous. Yeah, that's the one. loving unreal.
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RiggenBlaque posted:I guess since we're on the subject of NC, does anyone have any recommendations of the best places to go in Durham or Raleigh? I'll probably be in the Durham area for like 3 days and Raleigh for maybe an afternoon. I probably won't be able to visit any breweries. Durham: Tyler's is great and right next to Durham Bulls Athletic Park if you're interested, I've never made it to Sam's but it's supposed to be great. A couple other options are Bull City Burger & Brewery as well as Fullsteam, which always has some cool food trucks parked in front. Raleigh: Tasty Beverage, Ridgewood, and Bottle Revolution are the stores. In addition to the other recs, Busy Bee is a cool restaurant/bar.
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crazyfish posted:Galaxy Hero is very good. I had it from a bottle and from a growler, and the people I shared the growler seemed quite pleased with it too. Coffee Eugene is pretty awesome. I've had it at their third year party and at the brewpub once. The bourbon-aged Eugene really is just meh. Smells like bourbon, tastes like bourbon, and that's about it. Speaking of Coffee beers - Coffee Break Abduction is really quite good. I think I've had three bottles in the past month or so. I really hope those guys start barrel aging their stuff because some of that *should* turn out amazing. I'm also in the process of convincing my wife that we need drive up to the Woodman's west of Kenosha this Saturday to stock up on Serendipity and one or two other New Glarus beers. I really am not a big fan of the Belgian Red or Raspberry Tart but goddamn Serendipity is good.
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Midorka posted:Edit: Nvm I finally get it. You're saying that you don't see the justification of buying Lunch often when you can get a growler fill at Earth B&B for $10 on Mondays. I'm a bit slow. How's Earth B&B anyway? The website looks awful, how's their beer? Yeah, sorry about that. I was writing that post in bits and pieces during breaks between games of league of legends last night. I guess it sort of lost cohesion. Proofreading is a good thing. Agree about their website. It is pretty awful. But their beer is solid. Last year they won best new beer at the brew-vitational and would have been featured at Beer Week Opening Tap but for some reason they don't participate in any beer week events. I get a vibe that the owner is comfortable just having a nice small brew pub and he doesn't want to get caught up in anything bigger or more corporate. The owner has been brewing a long time - he created Victory Baltic Thunder. He's also a really nice dude. Additionally, his apprentice and eventual head brewer, moved on to help start Tired Hands. They are quietly making astounding beer that doesn't get talked about as much as it should. Also, if you do go, get the Seed flatbread. It's awesome. deedee megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Apr 18, 2013 |
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Compusaurus posted:I'm also in the process of convincing my wife that we need drive up to the Woodman's west of Kenosha this Saturday to stock up on Serendipity and one or two other New Glarus beers. I really am not a big fan of the Belgian Red or Raspberry Tart but goddamn Serendipity is good. That drive is really easy if you do it at the right hour (and I guess where in the area you're located). But from downtown to that Woodman's after 7 is only about 45 minutes and the same on a Saturday morning (assuming minimal Great America traffic). That was our load up spot for years for WI trips and I still try to make it up 2-3 times a year. And yes, Serendipity is my favorite of the fruit beers and I love them all.
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Compusaurus posted:Speaking of Coffee beers - Coffee Break Abduction is really quite good. I think I've had three bottles in the past month or so. I really hope those guys start barrel aging their stuff because some of that *should* turn out amazing. They are. I think End of Days is in barrels now, not sure what else is. On a side note, Pipeworks batch 1 was a barrel aged smoked porter...and it was awful. The Coffee Break Abduction I opened on Sunday was good but it was a semi-unbalanced coffee bomb. Not a bad beer but would have liked a little more of the vanilla to shine through.
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Casual Yogurt posted:gently caress da haterz <3 whole foods. Whole Foods is the only "big box" store I regularly purchase from. One used to do a pretty good happy hour, and most Texas/local glasses would end up being $2-3 a pour. I also have 3 stores within 10 minutes of me, but they each have completely different draft lists for growler fills.
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crazyfish posted:I think End of Days is in barrels now Droooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.
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Raleigh / Durham stuff: Seconding Busy Bee, Sams's, and Tasty Beverage Co. Also, The Raleigh Times Bar is near Busy Bee and usually has a good selection too. In Durham, go get a burger at Bull City Burger & Beer.
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Another recommendation for Bull City. Great burgers for a pretty reasonable price (given that it's grass-fed free-range hippy cows)
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Apr 18, 2013 18:40
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Retemnav posted:Raleigh / Durham stuff: Seconding Busy Bee, Sams's, and Tasty Beverage Co. Also, The Raleigh Times Bar is near Busy Bee and usually has a good selection too. In Durham, go get a burger at Bull City Burger & Beer. Do you Raleigh people not like Horniblows? Perhaps I've just been drinking Big Boss for so long, but even though the location leaves something to be desired, I'm still a fan of their tap room.
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So Lagunitas isn't the only brewery with a "Censored" beer: http://jesterkingbrewery.com/salt-lick-redacted
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JK should know better and are probably just milking this for BA street cred. In case it's unclear from the blog post, "The Salt Lick" is a famous BBQ joint in mid-Texas.
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Apr 18, 2013 19:55
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California has silly growler rules so Whole Foods here only does pints in their little bar area. I never get any shopping done.
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Casual Yogurt posted:California has silly growler rules so Whole Foods here only does pints in their little bar area. I never get any shopping done. Woah, your Whole Foods has a bar, like, with beer?! All of the ones I've ever been to have a juice bar, but no beer.
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Thanks to everyone for the Durham/Raleigh recommendations, I didn't realize so many people were familiar with the area. I'm going there with my wife who has no interest in beer (something I'm largely thankful for) so I'll probably be limited to places that have interesting looking food. I think I have one afternoon where I'll be on my own, so I'll just hit up whatever remains then.
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Tigren posted:Woah, your Whole Foods has a bar, like, with beer?! All of the ones I've ever been to have a juice bar, but no beer. The 3 I referenced in DFW let you walk around the store with the beer. In fact, shopping carts even have a holder for your glass.
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air- posted:The 3 I referenced in DFW let you walk around the store with the beer. In fact, shopping carts even have a holder for your glass. 
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air- posted:The 3 I referenced in DFW let you walk around the store with the beer. In fact, shopping carts even have a holder for your glass. Ya, I don't even want to think about the cool stuff we don't get in California. But I was surprised even his California WF has a beer bar.
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Tigren posted:Ya, I don't even want to think about the cool stuff we don't get in California. But I was surprised even his California WF has a beer bar. in terms of beer, yes, you Californians just can't catch a break, huh?
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Tigren posted:Woah, your Whole Foods has a bar, like, with beer?! All of the ones I've ever been to have a juice bar, but no beer. Yeah, they just put a bar into the Whole Foods near UC San Diego:  funkybottoms posted:in terms of beer, yes, you Californians just can't catch a break, huh? We're straight up deprived.
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air- posted:So Lagunitas isn't the only brewery with a "Censored" beer: Does a smoked saison sound like an awful idea to anyone else? On a related topic, what breweries are making saisons in the normal style a la Saison Dupont Vielle Provision? I.e. <7% ABV, etc.
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Glottis posted:Does a smoked saison sound like an awful idea to anyone else? The only other one I know of is that Evil Twin/Stone/Stillwater Perfect Crime, and that wasn't anything particularly bad nor earth-shattering either. Sixpoint Harbinger fits that criteria, think it's like 6.5 ish?
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Tank 7 is up there at around 8.5% I think. I know because I served it at my rehearsal dinner and people were caught unawares. Edit: Oops, I read that less than sign as a greater than sign BoredByThis fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Apr 18, 2013 |
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I think smoked sour sounds kinda bad, but all of the ones I've had were great. Maybe saison is similar? 
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Glottis posted:Does a smoked saison sound like an awful idea to anyone else? Stateside Saison is 6.8% and is awesome. Cellar Door is 6.6% and is awesomer.
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Glottis posted:Does a smoked saison sound like an awful idea to anyone else? A smoked anything sounds like a pretty bad idea to me...
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Houseguest from Germany + my birthday coming up = sweet sweet beer.
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Glottis posted:Does a smoked saison sound like an awful idea to anyone else? Funkwerks makes a baller saison (it's their flagship beer in fact), clocks in at 6.8%.
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Glottis posted:Does a smoked saison sound like an awful idea to anyone else? You would think so, but Oxtoberfest is pretty great. You won't get a lot of funk, most likely due to the smoke replacing/overpowering it. But that was the only real difference. The rest of the expected peppery, herbal, floral notes were all hit. It was like drinking a summer bonfire at dusk (we need a BA emoticon).
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ShaneB posted:Houseguest from Germany + my birthday coming up = sweet sweet beer. Way to ruin the beer by leaving it in the light of the window.
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Paul Proteus posted:Way to ruin the beer by leaving it in the light of the window. Yeah, where's your humidity-controlled cellar and teku glass holster 
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Glottis posted:Does a smoked saison sound like an awful idea to anyone else? Drydock has a saison that comes in at 4.7% I think. Coincidentally (or maybe not) it's not as good as other saisons I've had in the past. Thinking of the saisons I had around here last summer, I'd say most of the good ones are in the 6.5-8% range. Haven't had anything much stronger than that, though. Saison Rue might have been just over 8.
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If you have a source of unskunked Saison DuPont I don't know why you'd drink anything else. Not just any other saisons, anything else. Younger Bam Biere is basically all saison and not much wild character yet.
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Eejit posted:Drydock has a saison that comes in at 4.7% I think. Coincidentally (or maybe not) it's not as good as other saisons I've had in the past. Thinking of the saisons I had around here last summer, I'd say most of the good ones are in the 6.5-8% range. Haven't had anything much stronger than that, though. Saison Rue might have been just over 8. You reminded me of Great Divide's Colette, which is a pretty good and widely available saison. It's above 7% but not by a lot. As of this year it's made year-round, I'm pretty sure.
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Angry Grimace posted:Yeah, they just put a bar into the Whole Foods near UC San Diego: Bad rear end! That's right down the street from me. I know they were renovationg, but I didn't know they added taps. I may have to stop in and see what they have. e: Do they do growler fills like I've heard others talk about their WF's doing? Capt. Awesome fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Apr 18, 2013 |
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Capt. Awesome posted:Bad rear end! That's right down the street from me. I know they were renovationg, but I didn't know they added taps. I may have to stop in and see what they have. No, but that's a state law limitation. If our booze law people got off their duffs and opened it up they'd be candidate #1 to do it, as as far as I know they're the first bar in a grocery store in the area.
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Paul Proteus posted:Way to ruin the beer by leaving it in the light of the window. FADED!!!
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Thanks for the replies, seems like most of them aren't available where I am (CA). Saison de Lente is the closest I've seen in a while. I got Tank 7 a little while ago and was kind of annoyed / caught off guard by how strong it was.
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North Coast Le Merle is 7.9% so a little stronger than you're looking for, but it's always really delicious, more hops than Dupont but I've also never had super fresh Dupont.
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