Tell me where you live and I will reccomend a local beer for you

[Taverner]

You don't have to give me the address - just the city and state.

[bicentennial_baby]

1. Boston

[Taverner]

2. Oh God, you guys are swimming in good beer: I'll reccomend a few

Southern Tier Gemini
Southern Tier Unearthly
Southern Tier Jah-Va

Dogfish Head Palo Santo
Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Yes, we are!

Can you describe them a lil bit? :)

[Taverner]

7. Sure!

DFH Palo Santo is a nice, strong, dark ale aged with palo santo wood. You can really taste the tanins in this one, its smooth and you can't even taste the 13%ABV

DFH 90-min IPA is an excellent IPA full of the right balance of hops to malts

Southern Tier Unearthly and Gemini are both really good ales that have a nectar like quality to them. Technically their IPA's, but they are so much more

Jah Va is a Stout with LOTS OF COFFEE!!! Expect to stay up and party an hour or two longer after dusting off one of these

Cheers!

[LeftyMom]

11. Only a Californian would say Delaware is local to Boston. nt

[Taverner]

15. LOL

Well I just know they distribute to Boston :)

[Shakespeare]

17. Or maybe a Texan.

What? Delaware's not so far. :rofl:

[LeftyMom]

23. Kinda the same idea. We drive to places in-state that would be four states away in New England.

Also, we tend to get pretty fuzzy on geography once you get far away from the Pacific.

[Taverner]

25. You mean there are cities between Reno and NYC?

[LeftyMom]

36. Sure, but they're only there for changing planes.

I think some of them are actually painted onto the windows of the airport.

[Taverner]

45. Some kind of mental projection coming from the TSA I think

I remember landing at the Topeka airport and driving and driving and driving - asking myself "WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE PEOPLE???"

[LeftyMom]

49. I took Greyhound from Sac to Chicago and back twice.

By my estimation, there are approximately 100 people along I-80 east of Reno and west of Chicago, and they all either work at gas stations, diners and truck stops or plant corn. Except in Nevada, where they also run seedy middle-of-nowhere casinos.

[Hangingon]

93. Looks like it is only 295 miles from Wilmington to Boston

It is 400+/- from my house to my sister's in Dallas. I guess maps confuse people. The Rhode Island map is the same size as the Texas map.

[taterguy]

4. A few miles from where this pic was taken

[Taverner]

8. Is that anywhere near...um...anywhere?

[taterguy]

12. Everybody knows this is nowhere

[Taverner]

16. But where is nowhere? Anywhere near anything anywhere?

[taterguy]

21. It's the place where Woody Guthrie said that everything is against the law

Surely that helps

[Taverner]

31. Ahhh Winston Salem, NC!

Check out anything from Thomas Creek Brewery. Their Orange Blossom Pilsner is pretty good!

[KamaAina]

5. Honolulu, HI

not a trick question: there is at least one possible response.

[Taverner]

10. Not trick at all: Maui Brewing Company

Anything they sell.

I personally like their CoCoNut Stout, but their IPA is good too

[KamaAina]

46. I have not seen it up here on O'ahu

then again, I am not likely to be seen in the sort of specialty store that would have it, since none of them are right at a bus transfer point on my way home. :shrug:

[Drum]

6. Coney Island, Brooklyn NY...

[Taverner]

13. Anything by Southern Tier or Dogfish Head

[Drum]

18. Thanks!

:toast:

[redqueen]

9. North of Dallas.

Thankya. :)

[Taverner]

14. Hmmm...now that ones tough, but not impossible

If you check around, you can get access to some great Rocky Mountain beers - and I'm not talking Coors!

Great Divide is really good, and they make a great Oak Aged Stout, as well as a great IPA (Titan) and a great Double IPA (Hercules)

Oskar Blues also makes some great brews: Ten Fidy, Old Chub, Dale's Pale Ale and Gordon Beer are all excellent.

[redqueen]

20. Heh... I hope you're not!

I'd seriously question the wisdom of taking your advice, if you were. :)

Thanks... I'll make a note of those!

[yellowdogintexas]

85. Come over to Fort Worth and we will take a tour of Rahr's and have

some of their free beer.

THAT be a great DU North Texas Meetup spot.

When I get back from Connecticut I am seriously going to put this out on the TExas page.

[yellowdogintexas]

86. Taverner, we have Rahr's over here in Fort Worth

pretty good, and nice free happy hour with tours every Saturday.

The beer is sold at Central Market locally but there are some restaurants that serve it on tap around here :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :party: :party:

[GOPisEvil]

19. You know the place.

:)

[Taverner]

24. HAHA yes

Actually, I would skip bottled and canned beers in your town and go right to the source: Austin is the lone diamond in the wilderness that is Texas. Check out Uncle Billy’s Brew and Que Smokehouse and Brewery. Good BBQ AND good beer!

[GOPisEvil]

26. Interesting. I thought you would mention something from St. Arnold's in Houston.

They make a damn fine brew over there.

[Taverner]

28. I haven't been there yet :)

When they ask me where to go in Texas, my answer is always Austin and not Houston.

[GOPisEvil]

30. Well, if you ever get sent to Houston, St. Arnold's has tours on Saturday.

Free beer! :)

[Taverner]

34. Tell YOO whut!

Next time I hit Texas, meet me there and we'll drink free beer. Afterwards we can down whatever we don't drink!

[GOPisEvil]

37. Sure, I can be there in about 3 hours.

;)

[Taverner]

39. Probably gonna take me longer

Especially since Phoenix seems to be taking the lions share of my time

I'm heading there tomorrow! WOO HOO! 105 temperatures!

[GOPisEvil]

42. Only 5 degrees warmer than here.

OK, 6. :eyes:

[Taverner]

44. And some people wonder why we in the US use so much AC

[kentauros]

53. I pass by St. Arnold twice a day, to and from work

:)

And I still haven't taken a tour! :P

My current favourite Texas beer is Real Ale in Blanco, Texas. I discovered it at Whole Foods, but I'm sure Spec's has it, too.

Words to live by:

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."

-Frank Zappa

[Spacemom]

22. Just outside of Austin

I'm not a beer drinker, so it really will be new information to me. :D

[Taverner]

27. Uncle Billy’s Brew and Que Smokehouse and Brewery

If you are in Austin, this place is a must see.

Of course, since it is a smokehouse veg food is limited. This is a Texas brew house after all.

If you want good vegetarian or vegan food, come to California. Or better yet, come to my house! We are carnivores, but I speak vegetarian.

[IronLionZion]

29. Washington DC, or College Park MD to be precise

:toast:

[Taverner]

32. Check out Capitol City Brewing

Great stuff on tap!

If that fails, Baltimore has Friscos Tacos. There are no bad beers in that place!

[Shakespeare]

40. Ever had Foggy Bottom's brews?

I've been pining away for Foggy Bottom Ale ever since I moved to LA.

[galledgoblin]

33. Albany, NY

[Taverner]

35. Too Easy: Southern Tier

Gemini, Unearthly or JahVa are all good.

[galledgoblin]

48. no brands from further upstate?

agreed though, Southern Tier is good.

[Taverner]

38. I find it funny that no San Diegoans or Chicagolanders have chimed in

Of course, that's because they live in Beer City, USA!

[bigwillq]

41. Near New Haven, CT

:beer:

[Taverner]

43. EVERYTHING by Willimantic

Willimantic makes some AMAZING brews!

[Blue-Jay]

47. I'm between the Three Floyds & Goose Island breweries.

So I'm good.

[Taverner]

68. Beer Heaven

Couldn't ask for a better location other than Sandy Eggo.

[tigereye]

50. Pittsburgh and there are great microbreweries just a mile or 2 from my house

as well as the famous beer cave at Dee's 6 Pack and Dogs. It's like a candy store for beer drinkers!



Curious what you would come up with though.



And I know you love Dogfish, which we can get here in Pa, or drive to Rehoboth to get!


:hi:

[Pierre.Suave]

51. St Paul MN

[Taverner]

60. Go to Barley John's and get a growler of anything

Or a 4 pak of Surly Furious

[Pierre.Suave]

62. AHHHHHH

you can have all the Surly Furious you want, it is horrible.

Way too hoppy for me, I will take some Surly bender though.

[Taverner]

73. Bender's good

I'm just an IPA Hop Monster type of guy.

Have you had BJ's The Dark Knight or Dark Knight Returns?

Pure yum!

[Pierre.Suave]

76. I have never had any BJs

If they have it solely at BJs, I would need to go there.

I have never been there, it is way out in New Brighton.

[trotsky]

94. Furious is da bomb.

But it's a sippin' beer, that's for sure.

My everyday beer is Summit Extra Pale Ale. Can't be beat.

My "lawnmowing" beer is Grain Belt.

[lost-in-nj]

52. Here it's Cricket Hill

http://www.crickethillbrewery.com/



:hi:


lost

[Pierre.Suave]

54. St Paul MN

go!

[Taverner]

61. Barley John's or 'BJ's' for short

Growler of anything

[Pierre.Suave]

67. meh, it is in New Brighton

I live 3 blocks from The Happy Gnome, voted the best neighborhood bar in St Paul, they have Surly Bender as well as tons of other GREAT beers, including New Belgium Brewerys 1554 which is my current fav.

[Tektonik]

55. San Diego

[Taverner]

64. Awwww fuck...that's the mother lode

Grab a growler of Alpine Duet IPA, or some bombers of Alpine's Pure Hoppiness.

If that doesn't work grab a growler of some of that Whiskey Barrel aged Russian Imperial Stout at Stone.

Try out whatever the Port Brewing companies are doing, or head to the wharf and grab a growler of Ballast Point Sculpin IPA.

[tekisui]

56. Asheville, NC.

I have a fav, let's see if you chose it....

[Greyskye]

57. El Dorado Hills, CA

In the Sierra foothills.

The 'big brand' that I usually get is Heineken - and the best I've ever had of that was on tap in Amsterdam...

[jeff30997]

66. El Dorado ?

And for centuries the Spanish Conquistadors were

searching for it and you live there !(Hehehe) :)

[Greyskye]

87. The town of El Dorado is actually up the hill a bit more.

And out in the boonies a bit. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=El+Dorado+Hills,+CA&daddr=el+dorado,+ca&sll=45.146018,-122.614433&sspn=0.006856,0.015342&ie=UTF8&ll=38.690601,-120.960503&spn=0.121392,0.245476&z=12

El Dorado is host to "Poor Red's", home of the best Gold Cadillac in the state. It's quite an interesting bar on a Friday or Saturday night, but only if you don't mind sharing the place with as many other people as can squish in. :)

I just found somebody's photo journal of their motorcycle ride through the Gold Country, and they end up at Poor Reds. Great bunch of pictures of the local California foothills - gold rush country. http://www.digmycity.com/forum/f97/ride-thru-gold-country-auburn-coloma-9723.html

[Taverner]

71. Grab some Rubicon IPA

Out of Sacramento. I think you can also get Stone out there

[Greyskye]

90. Not usually an IPA fan

But thanks anyway! :hi:

[Throd]

105. I live in EDH too. Try Sprocket Ale from Diamond Springs.

Or come to my basement brewery in about 3 months. I'm shooting for something similar to Newcastle Brown Ale.

[Greyskye]

107. Excellent!

Where is the Sprocket Ale available? I'd love to give your basement brew a try when it's ready! :hi:

[Throd]

108. My mother-in-law gave me a case. She got it in Placerville.

I'm going to do a little digging to find out where to get more. It was actually very, very good (microbrews can be nastier than anything Coors ever made).

I'll look you up when everything is ready. Don't worry, my basement remodel does not include a "Silence of the Lambs" torture pit.

[Greyskye]

109. Thanks

I'll be on the lookout for the Sprocket Ale next time I'm in Hangtown.

Good to hear that you're keeping with a more mainstream basement remodel. :)

[XemaSab]

58. Redding, CA

:D

[Taverner]

79. It's gotta be...

Anderson Valley Boont Amber Ale

[jeff30997]

59. Muahahahahahaaah!

Here's the challenge:

I live in Socialist Kanuckistan (aka Canada)so

"just the city and state" OK:

Saguenay,Quebec(That's supposed to be the state)


Hey,just kidding,this is a great OP.

And the fact that your nick is Taverner and

that you recommend a local beer is so cool. :toast:

[Taverner]

65. Unibroque mon ami

[jeff30997]

69. Unibroque ?

Please what does it mean ?

(You speak French?)

[Taverner]

75. I don't but Quebec has Unibroque brewery that does some MEAN Belgians

[GRLMGC]

63. Los Angeles, CA nt

[Initech]

70. Anaheim, CA

[Taverner]

74. Port 2nd Anniversary IPA if you can find it

If not Port Shark Attack

[Redneck Socialist]

72. New Hampsha...

By the jesus we got some wicked good beah up heah. Whaht do ya think I should be a drinkin'?

[fizzgig]

77. fort collins, colorado

if you say f(l)at tire, i will never talk to you again :P

i have my favorite beers from the fc breweries, but not so much from the surrounding cities

[Taverner]

78. Oskar Blues Gordon Beer

Beer so good, and it comes in a can if you can believe it.

[JTG of the PRB]

88. Not to mention Dale's Pale Ale, also from Oskar Blues in Lyons.

Good stuff! :9

[Guava Jelly]

80. Kansas City, MO

:)

[Mutley]

81. I already know it, but I'll see if you give me the same one.

:D

Sussex County, Delaware.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

82. Detroit, formerly home to Stroh's Brewery

So, what's on tap?
:hi:

[DeepBlueC]

83. Hartford, CT

[LostinVA]

84. North Jersey

[sasquatch]

89. Dayton, Ohio

[Blue-Jay]

102. There's a brewpub/restaurant near you.

I think it's called "Hops", and it's down the road from the Fairfield Commons mall on Veteran's Memorial Pkwy. The beers are really good and the food is above average. You can even take home a refillable gallon jug if you like the stuff. The refills are cheap too.

I'm going to be back in the area next week, so I might even talk my wife into stopping there after a bike ride.

[Mr_leftyclimber]

91. Morgantown, WV

[terrya]

92. Chicago

[blue cat]

95. Round Rock, Texas nt

[Chan790]

96. Burlington, Connecticut

Home of The Brown Elton (which is actually pink and always has been), one of the few places in America where we can actually prove that George Washington slept. Because GW slept a lot. In fact, if Washington slept everywhere he is reputed to have slept, it's amazing that we won the war.

Crazy narcoleptic bastard. :hide:

As any CT 5th grader can tell you, Washington was also a piss-poor spy...captured twice by the French during the French and Indian War. The only reason he wasn't executed was because he was so bad at being a spy that he never obtained any information and they couldn't actually make the argument that he was a spy as opposed to a guy pretending to be a spy...and he had a lot of money to buy his freedom. Thankfully, he was a better commander of guerrilla forces, saboteur and from the British POV, a terrorist. Washington played dirty and he played hard; the Brits had never seen anything like it.

Many of the hills, canyons and brooks near my house have stories and names attached to them as a result. He liked to hide troops in forested high-ground on both sides of roads...then wait for British regiments to pass in the middle, opening fire down on them, annihilating entire units while taking no casualties. Another favorite trick was to sabotage bridges by removing nails so that (British) horse-backed couriers (because the revs used foot-couriers) would be thrown to their deaths in the stony brooks this part of the New England is legendary for when the horses snapped their ankles. The British had a name for these sorts of tactics...cheating.

You might be wondering what this all has to do with micro-brewed beer. The Brown Elton was a tavern and inn. It houses one of the few remaining (but non-functional) breweries of that time. Tours are available by appointment. No drinking allowed on the premises. (I just find that ironic.)

This concludes this episode of Chan790's Sardonic Real History of Western North-Central CT

[datasuspect]

97. sulphur, louisiana

[joneschick]

98. come to Milwaukee, we're still Brew City.

so many to choose from. :hi:

[LynneSin]

99. You know what I wanted recommended

[Lautremont]

100. Winnipeg, Manitoba

I'm not sure you'll be able to tell me anything I don't know, but I'm always open to learn more about beer!

[Shell Beau]

101. I already know. My husband loves the Lazy Magnolia beers.

Especially the Southern Pecan.

[applegrove]

103. Ontario

[Scarlett17]

104. Detroit

Can I request a dark beer recommendation?

[RebelOne]

106. Atlanta, GA

Maybe I will try it even though I am not a beer drinker.

[mwdem]

110. Ft. Worth, Texas

I'm close to it.