Hopefully one of you Boulevard aficionados can clear this up for me.

Local craft bar taps a barrel aged keg every Monday. This weeks was advertised as a 2015 Boulevard Rye-On-Rye-On-Rye, so I stopped in for a pour.

Delicious no doubt, but I can't find any info on a 2015 Rye-On-Rye-On-Rye, only 2016/17. Did it exist in 2015 or do they simply have it mislabeled? I asked the bartender if this was something Boulevard just distro'd or if they'd been sitting on the keg and he said they sit on BA kegs to roll out at future dates.

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Pretty sure there was only Rye-on-Rye in 2015, and their release calendar confirms that.

Went to 8th Wonder here in Houston last Friday.

Had:

Haterade. Gose. Very salty and tart. Would be great on a warmer day.
Mission Control. Porter. Tastes like their regular offering, Rocket Fuel, but without the coffee undertones. Sweet, malty, and a bit of a cocoa flavor. Decent.
Nitro Cougar Paw. Nitro Red Ale. Pretty standard red ale. Very smooth due to the nitro.

What did you think overall? I remember thinking they were mostly decent, but nothing jumped out at me as wonderful.

That's what I saw as well. I'll stop by and let them know.

Also, Chicago's first pour-your-own bar opens in my hood tonight. You purchase a card for 32oz and can choose between 62 taps. There's a concierge onsite that can re-up your card if you're not displaying visible drunkenness after your 32oz expires. Could be a good way to try a wide variety of beers with 2oz pours.

I confirmed this with my contact at the brewery. Which bar, if I may ask?

Links Taproom in Chicago. It's a really good craft bar, recently voted #1 in IL by some crowdsourced publication. Probably just a mislabel on their menu.

http://www.linkstaproom.com/beer-menu/

My Boulevard contact always wants this kind of info so that he can make sure the Chicago reps are on top of it.

That place has got a nice list right now, mmmmm, Vietnamese Speedway Stout.....

That's refreshing, and not surprising, to hear about Blvd. Chicago's a crowded market.

I frequent that place often, and they're really cool people that are more than engaged with just the craft scene by throwing events/donating proceeds to various community causes. I'm sure it's just an oversight on their part. They're usually pretty on top of things, and yeah, they keep a great taplist. They had BA Darkness on for an entire week a couple weeks ago.

If you like Hefeweizens their fall seasonal, Weissheimer, is as close to tasting like Franziskaner as I have found.

Rocket Fuel is a good coffee porter.

They aren't say Buffalo Bayou but they are pretty good, I like their stuff more than say Karbach, and at the taproom it is pretty cheap.

I just went to one of those for the first time down here in SD - pretty cool concept. This one was just an open tab, pour as much as you like until you're ready to leave. Definitely a great way to sample a lot of different beers.

Cool.

I'm traveling to SD in June for the Royals/Pads series. Staying right near Ocean Beach. I'm not getting a car so I probably can't make it up north to Alesmith and a bunch of those others. I am excited to hit whatever is around OB/Downtown though. Would definitely take any recommendations if you have any.

OB has a some good spots, including my favorite (pizza port):
- Pizza Port
- Newport Pizza
- OB Noodle House
- Raglan
- Mike Hess

Should consider an uber to North Park, then all below are walkable:
- Modern Times
- Toronado
- Rip Current
- Waypoint Public
- North Park Brewing
- Mike Hess
- Tiger! Tiger!
- Blind Lady Ale House

Downtown:
- Ballast Point
- Bottlecraft
- Karl Strauss
- Resident
- Monkey Paw

There's also a nice Stone location at Liberty Station, which will be pretty close to you.

Petco Park has a lot of great craft beer, as well: http://www.petcoparkinsider.com/petco-park-beer-guide.

It's beer mecca here - you can't throw a rock without hitting a great taplist. Hit me up when you're in town, and if I'm around, we can go grab a beer somewhere. I'll probably look at going to that Royals game, too.

KCUnited snitching on the Chicago bars.

Not huge on Hefeweizens, but if theyre quality, I'll certainly try them. I enjoyed 8th Wonder, but you're right, Buffalo Bayou is better. Very underrated. I still suggest you make your way over to Brashland at some point as well.

LMAO

That'll teach them for messing with my untappd check-ins.

I've already had 2016 Rye-On-Rye-On-Rye!!!

Pizza Port is definitely towards the top of my list. If we decide not to catch all 3 games of the series, we might take a day and go up north.

Seeing the ocean, drinking some quality beers and catching a Royals game all in one day has me pretty excited.

Went to Lost 40 Brewing in Little Rock AR last weekend.

They have a DIPA called Snakebite, great beer, best DIPA I have had in a long time.

Damn tasty.

They have a Baltic Porter thats pretty solid as well.

Timbone can you get that stuff in your neck of the woods?

We get it up here. That DIPA is actually called Snake Party. We can get cans up here, though it's a seasonal/limited release. it's only like $11 a 4 pack, which isn't bad for their limited releases.

They also have a barrel aged stout called Nighty Night that's like $24 a four pack.. they're trying to do the whole Prairie thing, evidently.

Anyway, Lost 40 is good shit, and their taproom is awesome.

That's right, Snake Party. Wish I had tried the Stout.

The taproom is pretty fancy I must say.

Rebel Kettle is also right down the street, and it's pretty good as well with a nice taproom. It's cool, too, because Lost40 kind of sticks to traditional American stuff whereas Rebel Kettle does weird sours and wilds and saisons.

Ballast Point is quickly becoming a favorite... had some Victory at Sea on tap last week and it was excellent, and bought a very good Mocha Marlin last weekend.

Also tried the Red Velvet, which is light red, light in taste, 5% ABV, and oddly named an Oatmeal Stout... not bad though.

Wife was at the store and came home to tell me that she saw a new Boulevard beer on the shelves. I asked which one was it? Her words, "it was triple something?"

Any help?

She just looked at that link and said that was it.

I will address spelling and reading with her next week.

LMAO

I have one that I brought from KC... it was a going away beer from someone who clearly doesn't get me, but I feel bad throwing out beer gifts.

What's wrong with it? Looks like something I'd enjoy actually as a Belgian style. I'm a beer softie though.

Belgians all taste the same to me... I've heard people refer to it as 'spicy hops' (which is what the description of that beer says), but I think it's the yeast that's used. I've never had that one, but don't care for them. The rest of the description doesn't sound bad at all though.

I'm in Columbia, MO for one night only.

Anything I can get here that you can't get/is hard to get in STL or KC?

Any brewpubs to check out?

Try Logboat Brewing Company.
Rock Bridge's beers are also pretty darn good.

Boulevard's Scotch on Scotch is ****ing fabulous

Drove over to Craft Beer Cellar to check out the selection. Enjoyed a Rye-on-Rye-on-Rye and a Mothers' Barrel Aged MILF while I shopped.

Walked out with some stuff I can't get regularly/at all in STL:

Prairie Artisan Phantasmagoria
Uinta Hop Nosh
Mother's Lil Helper
Ballast Point Sculpin

Where do you shop in St. Louis? I've seen all of those beers in St. Louis at one time or another. Try Randall's, Lukas, Friar Tuck's, etc. Seriously, none of those are particularly sought after and they should be all over.

If you want more, let me know, I'll pick them up for you in KC.

I shop at Randall's regularly.

The guy in the shop said that Mother's doesn't distribute to STL County yet...I haven't seen it.

I see stuff from Prairie, but I hadn't seen Phantasmagoria before.

I hadn't seen anything from Uinta either, but I haven't exactly been looking to be honest.

I guess you're right about Mother's; weird, I swear I have seen their beers in town at least a time or two.

Maybe I'm just getting it confused with my local HyVee, which has piles of all of those beers.

Wasn't a huge fan of Lil Helper, but Phantasmagoria is the tits.

Had a hot date with the current wife on Saturday. Went and tried some flights of beers along with a local sour.

#24 Founders Rubaeus Nitro was unbelievable. An amazing creamy mouth feel with a great finish the surprisingly wasn't too sweet. Fantastic stuff they make there at Founders.

The Southwestern style Gose was very interesting. Not my favorite but very unique with strong cinnamon and nutmeg.

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Was that at Helio? Sorry we missed you, we hit 4 or 5 different breweries the day before. My favorite PHX breweries from this trip were:

Papago in Scottsdale. Their brews are decent, but they had really good guest taps (Epic Big Bad Baptist) and you can consume their guest bottles onsite or take them to-go. Really cool place that differs from a lot of the really polished looking brewery/bars around PHX.

Wren House (near Helio Basin) in PHX. It's an old house that's been converted to a 10 barrel setup with taproom. Really cool DIY vibe going there. They're putting out some really good hoppy beers.

This was at Ground Control by us. I prefer to drink and drive only a short distance when I can. :D

Yea we've been to Papago quite a bit. Definitely a vibe that's more to our liking and not super fancy/nice. Haven't been there in a while but we had friends who lived close so we could walk down there.

Haven't been that far east to try those places yet but if I get a reason to go out there, we will stop by.

Did you ever try Saddle Mountain Brewery over by the Indians park? I had a smoked pastrami sandwich that was to die for from there a few weeks back.

Anybody had the Lagunitas Citrusinensis Pale Ale?

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I haven't been to Saddle Mountain, but I think its great more breweries are popping up on the west side. We caught a KC game in Peoria and stopped into Peoria Artisan. The beers were nothing mind blowing, but it was a really cool spot with indoor/outdoor seating and a mister system on the patio. Its kind in the middle of nowhere though.

Anyone drink this stuff? I love it, and I'm not particularly a beer drinker.

I can't pronounce, so I just call it Vitus.



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Help a non-beer expert out. So we had that Founders Rubaeus Nitro listed above and loved it.

Looked it up at total wine and found the beer but it doesn't say Nitro. Will this not be the same thing as we had if we buy it?

http://www.totalwine.com/beer/specia...8&igrules=true

It'll be the same beer, but on CO2, not nitro.

It's just a difference in how it's served. Nitro can provide a creamier, smoother mouthfeel. Same beer, same flavor, just a difference in mouthfeel than CO2.

All the stephaners are amazeballs. Try the Dunkel and Kristall

They got the YEAST!

I had it last year. I apparently liked it, as I gave it 4.25 on untappd. Slightly sour/citrusy pale ale. Lagunitas just really makes a bunch of solid beers.

I know we have at least one other Mikerphone Brewing fan here. His new taproom opened last week in the NW burbs of Chicago. Yesterday he released Super Special Sauce, double dry dropped with mosaic. Easily worth the traffic to get to the burbs.

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My gosh. You've got some sort of nerve, posting that while I'm on my beer break.

I was totally thinking of you which is why I didn't mention that I was able to grab 2 bottles of it.

LMAO

Be prepared to not like it out of the bottle! :rolleyes:
I LOVE me some Youngs Double Chocolate Stout. outta the tap it's super great. out of a bottle it's total ASS.

Maaaan...I bet it was delicious, too. It's all good, man. Hope you enjoyed!

I somehow missed this post before today. I've never seen Lost 40 down here in Louisiana. I jave been thinking of a detour through Little Rock on my next trip to KC, though. I definitely want to check them out.

Being honest, I've only tried a few nitro beers. I don't know if I've just had bad examples, but they all taste kinda flat to me. Like the beer has sat out in the glass for a few hours, and then re-chilled. Not a fan.

Like I said, though, I may have had bad examples of them.

I'll likely send the 2nd bottle to my brother. I can only drink so many 750ml bottles of beer. Hopefully he gets a canning line down the road for these. The good news is his beers will be brewed with much more regularity and in bigger batches now that he has his own spot. So they'll be around whenever you're back in the game.

I've been drinking Left Hand Nitro Milk Stout lately, man it's delicious.

I ran a marathon last year and the idiots I ran with told me to drink Guinness afterwards because of the nitro being good for my broken body at that point or something.

Now I can't get enough, so tasty!

I don't normally drink on a Monday, but I'm in Michigan for work and stopped by the source for a 2017 KBS.

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Nice! Love Founders - want to get to that brewery someday. KBS is delicious...

Nice!

I am digging the shit out of their beers when I can find them here.

It's really a beautiful space. It's mid 40s here but I wanted to hang on the patio because the entire block smells like grain and the brewing process. They have a really great setup.

Good stuff. I like the 2017 better than the last few years which were damn good.

http://thebradessexreport.blogspot.c...ights.html?m=0 I did a blog post on my trip to a micro brewery here in houston.

Grace and Grit DIPA from Great Raft is legit AF!

Timbone, I can pick you up some Lost40 and send your way. I think I still have your addy. Anything specific you want?

Oh shit, Grace and Grit is in Arkansas, now? That's good shit. That's a really solid DIPA.

No need to worry about me for now. I'm on a beer haitus, trying to drop some weight. I'll be back on the beer scene soon, though.

Love, love, love Mikerphone. They're up and coming, big time. They came to Crane's festival last year in Raytown and killed it. Imperial Smells like Bean Spirit along with a couple of others. I'm pretty sure that I got too drunk to really care about checking beer into Untappd or actually pouring at the booth where I was supposed to be working.

Went to Founders for KBS day this year, and while I love the space, the hunger-games style seating arrangement with no hostess or line of any kind is extremely annoying. I'm sure it's fine on a Tuesday afternoon with no one there, but when it's busy it's just an awful setup.

I"m sure some do it better than others, but I expect a shitshow for every moderate to big release I attend.

Great Raft is maybe the most underrated brewery in the U.S. right now, and they're only underrated due to lack of exposure & being in the South.

I saw he was at Crane's event in KC and alerted my KC friends. IMO, his Smells Like Bean Spirit is a bit overhyped, but I'm not a big coffee stout guy and there's been some growing pains with the different batches. If he ever barrel aged it though, it will break this city. IMO, his hops game is pioneering in the Great Lakes region and he's done it all by contracting in other spots up until now.

One other thing on Mike, he's a genuine great dude who is brewing and juggling all the craziness that comes with the scene with the best intentions.

Anyone tried Southern Tier Thick Mint? I love their Blackwater Series... I've found Creme Brulee and a couple others here, but apparently Thick Mint hasn't made its way here or won't. :(


Good to see you in this thread, Reaper.

Shreveport also isn't a craft beer city. I've talked quite a bit with one of their brewers, and he mentioned that they don't always feel the support from the area. There's crap breweries in the state that sell more totally based on location (such as being in New Orleans).

How is Abita? I never had any of their stuff.

The Evil Twin Wet Dream coffee brown ale is delicious and interesting, and I'm not a big fan of brown ales.

Picked up a sixer of the Lagunitas Waldo Special Ale... wow. Boozy to say the least, but really good. Pretty damned good value for a sixer (9 bucks, I think), as most beer of that quality and booze content like that would cost a few bucks more for a four pack (probably around 12).

Lagunitas One Hitter series has been a win for me. I imagine if you're seeing Waldo, you may see Born Again Yesterday which is a really good unfiltered pale. I enjoyed it last year and it's starting to distribute again this week I believe.

I like Purple Haze, tried Andy Gator and hated it.

Sorry, just saw this. I've always found Abita to be very mediocre. I've only had one beer from them that I wanted to try again, and that was a Strong Ale they made to celebrate their 25th Anniversary. It was called Vanilla Doubledog, I believe. They only brewed it once, though.

Abita sells very well down here, but it's mainly due to Louisiana pride, I would assume.

Anybody feel like sharing their Untapp'd Usernames? I'd like to follow you folks on there and see what beers you're enjoying.

I'm CaveState on Untappd. I don't normally check beers in as I'm drinking them and will usually check in a bunch all at once whenever I have some time. So it looks like I'm drinking in the mornings or having several at once, but it's not like that...I promise. I get annoyed when trying to have a conversation with someone and they're foaming at the mouth to check their beer in after taking one sip.

I just created a profile (inmem58). How does this app work? Just check in beers?

Quattro Goomba's in Aldie, VA. It is a combination winery, brewery, and pizza place. Just in separate buildings due to reeruned blue laws I am assuming. The margarhita Pizza was fantastic though.

Anyway I had several of their beers:

Traditz. Barrel Aged barleywine. Boozy and with a sweet malty character. Though being about 12% abv the alcohol wasn't harsh.

Brown Chicken Brown Cow. Brown Sugar Brown Ale. Pretty average brown ale. Didn't taste any brown sugar though it was pretty smooth.

Good to be Queen. Tart Cherry Blonde Ale. This was the best of what I tasted. The cherry flavor was prominent but it wasn't sweet. Very refreshing.

Absence of Sound. Porter. It was a decent version of a porter. Nothing really to say about it.

Whine Tunnel BA. Barrel aged wheat wine. Like a barleywine but made with wheat. Smells like it was like a super hefeweizen. Tasted just boozy and fruity. None of the expected ripe banana and clove taste one would expect from a hefe.