Their beer is all over New York. Had it on draft in 3 different bars/shops I visited. This DIPA was by far the best one I had.

This is the draft list. It's pretty pretty good.

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Wife and I are planning our 10 year for next year by visiting Portland, Maine.

Beautiful area with a shit ton of breweries.

Anyone been to the area and can give recommendations?

Allagash and Definitive are currently set in stone.

Barreled Souls for stouts and barleywine, and of course Bissell Brothers.

High Roller Lobster Club and their lobster roll flights are amazing. Gilbert's Chowder House and Scales are really good, and Gilbert's has chowder flights.

Bramhall is a great speakeasy.

I was only there for a long weekend and would love to spend a few months there one day.

If you can make the 2 hour drive down to Boston, Treehouse and Trillium are totally worth the trip alone.

There's some BA Speedway Stouts hitting the valley

I liked, not loved, Coffee Cake

Also if any of you fellow Phoenicians are going to the Southwest Belgian Fest on Saturday, I'll be pouring at one the stations

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Outstanding.

I saw one last 6 pack at a Superior Discount Liquor down in Manitowoc today.

I might have to snag it if it's there on Friday.

Has anyone had anything from 903 before?

There stuff is either great, or just disappointing.

**** we have flag football shit all day. Have fun!

Sat near Columbia uni having a great DIPA from Other Half called Juice Collector. Went to an awesome craft beer bar in Harlem for a few beforehand but the walk back to the metro station at night was a bit ropey. I'll tick off going through 'the hood' on my to do list.

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Hell, can you really say you visited the US if you didn't get shot...

Naw. I only have 2 more nights in New York and I still need to tick a few places off like a pastrami on rye from Katz's and pizza from Joe & Pat's. Might try and get in another Chick-fil-A because I ****ing loved it.

Do not miss the pastrami on rye at Katz. Please take a picture so I can salivate!

Yeah, I know I don't post much anymore, but I wanted to chime in here.

Phisherman is the second CP'er I've had the pleasure of meeting IRL, and he was a solid dude. Very gracious and very knowledgeable on beer. Having the opportunity to share a beer with him and chat a bit made our trip that much better.

KC, in general, is a fantastic city. Every time I visit, I want to stay. During this trip, the wife and I were actually discussing the possibility of retiring to KC eventually.

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Had a BKS ipa at Oak and Steel. Was the best beer I've had in the US so far.

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Great to see that you liked it.

We are lucky in KC to have what we have. An embarrassment of riches, if you will. Try Alma Mader too; you're not that far away.

Yeah I'll be popping down there tomorrow sometime. These brewery taproom opening times suck though, they need to be open later.

Joining the hazy gang

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I had Chocolate Hills from Phase 3 last night.

Liquid Cocoa Puffs.

Outstanding.

Worth it.

Alma Mader has fantastic beer. Great people there too.

I was there with my son sitting at the bar from 3:30ish until around 5:45 this evening and wondered if you had made it in. The Vienna lager that they have on right now was great.

Definitely super people there too. Owners are great folks, bar staff is great, beers are great. Can't miss!

Oh wow. I was also sat at the bar, near the tills from 4pm until 6.30. Dude at the bar was great. He was talking about how this brewery in England called Phantom made these Blink 182 beers recently and he's dying to get hold of them. So I ordered the beers to my house and am sending them over to him.

Poured at the inaugural Southwest Belgian Fest today (our club made about $2.5K in kickbacks and we need a new A/C for our clubhouse for the love of ****ing god)

I poured for Barrel of Monks out of Florida, pretty good Tripel

I'm not the biggest Belgian beer fan but the Trappist beers were great

Not the best but the most memorable beer was Kerel Kaishaku. Sake yeast, low grain, yet at 15%. Think honey might be used as a fermentable with some fruity esters from the Sake yeast

Anyway, after you've defeated all the other craft beer nerds you must face the final bosses

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Some cool guy at a bar gave me a bottle of this barrel aged stout from Side Project. Will crack it open with a mate when I'm back home.

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Nice.... and Cycle is legit, too.

I bet it was a pretty quiet event. :thumb:

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Got this bad boy in today.

20% - and a measly $48.99/bottle.

Gonna be a pass for me, unfortunately.

We need a movement to "make beer affordable again".

Holy shit, yeah that better be ****ing out of this world... it more or less reads like BBA World Wide Stout though, which is about half the price.

Their triple mash was incredible this year, and roughly a third of the price and @18%.

I guess you're paying up for the cool bottle and extra 2% LMAO

Guess I can't say much since I just paid $45 for a 22oz Side Project stout. :D

That beer is great. BA stout with vanilla and cinnamon in brandy barrels. It's a perfect blend of Doug's beers at Cycle and SP's big BA stouts.

Made it up to Fate today for King Size

My thoughts:

• I actually enjoyed it more that I thought I would as I think the base beer, Candy Bar, isn't good and really haven't enjoyed stouts utilizing nuts as they tend to either overpower or taste artificial. But this was pretty enjoyable
• Like most BA stouts produced here in AZ I don't get much barrel or thiccc mouthfeel which is disappointing for a 2 year aged beer, but I doubt Fate or any other breweries out here are getting many quality barrels. Still, not sure what the barrel contributed other than maybe more sweetness
• Doesn't appear to be a plan in place to can this, draft only thus far

Solid C+ imo

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Sucks not having to-go options, but thanks for checking.

And yeah, I would drink something like a Belching Beaver Peanut Butter Stout before drinking the regular Candy Bar.... King Sized is a lot bolder and I really enjoy the flavor, but yeah not a ton of barrel.

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If you're ever at the south Scottsdale location, there's a small place called Rift that usually has some nice things on tap and a lot of cans/bottles ---> https://www.riftbaraz.com/product/bo...&category_id=2

If you guys around Missouri happen to be able to find the Missouri Brewers collaboration beer I would recommend snagging a 4 pack.

Its a Triple NEIPA and even at 10% its extremely crushable and juicy. Best NEIPA I've had in a while. Don't pay attention to the color in the pic, it's much brighter and more orange in real life, the lighting in my kitchen sucks ass or my camera on my phone or both.

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Dragons Milk Reserve S'mores tonight. I like that it's not overly sweet

One of my favorite variants.

While the Oatmeal Cookie is good, I was a little disappointed.

Stout season!

Ok so it's 82°, but it's 5 o'clock somewhere and stout season somewhere.


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25lbs of BA stout/barleywine and a kilt RR SiB

Beers got delivered later in the evening and I was already into a bourbon

Hoping to crack 1 or 2 after a Chiefs win today

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Wish I could find Barleywines more around KC. Much prefer those over most RIS

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#BiL

2 of those are technically ryewines

This sounds right up my alley.

Just drinking a Deschutes Black Butte Porter. Only 5.5% as I wanted a lighter ABV and not fall asleep during Chiefs game.

Wife and I will be in KC late March/early April for my 40th.

I think we intend on staying at hotel in or near the arts district. Any bars with a wide array of taps near there, or breweries?

Drekker/Other Half collab... not the most amazing IPA, but pretty tasty.

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Oak & Steel is my favorite and we're now besties after they had Side Project available a few months ago
Maybe Taps on Main, but can be inconsistent
The Belfry

And one place that's probably way under the radar due to location is Barley's Kitchen + Tap in the burbs, and the one at 435/Midland tends to have the better list from the handful of times I've compared.

Oak and Steel
King G
Grinders (very hit or miss)
BKS is the best brewery in KC by a mile

Unrelated, but if you like sushi, hit up Kata Nori - in the crossroads

Just noticed this place in NKC... old school video games and some local beer.

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ty for the recommendations dudes.

Never heard of it, but looks like a cool place.

Indeed. Nice bar on one side with a decent beer selection most of the time and a New York type deli one the other side. Sandwiches are great. For a real treat, Jim's Alley bar is next door and will take you back to 1982 while you sip hipster beer.

So opinions on the following KC breweries?

I already know the heavyweights but want to try some newer/unknown-to-me places when I'm there in a couple weeks:

Vine St
Pathlight
Sandhills
Limitless
Boho
Transport

Also don't care about food, have intentionally left some off as they won't be open while I'm around and bonus points if they're IPA centric

TIA

Pathlight and Sandhills both get a big thumbs up. Also check out Friction.

The rest of the places you listed there are iffy at best.

Need to add BKS to your list in Brookside.

Friction is already on the list. I'll check out Pathlight/Sandhills.

Every time I'm in town, man

I haven't been to Vine, have tried their beer. Meh
Sand hills was pretty solid, rock creek (I have never been) is very close by in Mission
Pathlight and limitless have been hugely disappointing (to me)
Transport is trying to get people to hate beer. How they opened another spot in Gartner is a mystery

Maybe try Discourse in OP?
If you go to Friction (I wouldn't), Servaes is across the street. Their IPAs aren't good (to me) but their stout game is decent.
Wild Child and Drastic Measures are cocktail bars in Shawnee (right next to Friction) and are absolutely fantastic

Picked up a tin at the brewery a few years ago, but hadn't ever tried it... great double IPA, had it on tap the other night, too, followed by Hoof Hearted $120 Nachos Triple IPA.


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Lochiel Brewing is a real gem here in Mesa. Not sure I've ever seen a more neighborhood-y brewery. Their Scotch ale recipe is like 300 years old and incredible

Yesterday they sold me this 21.8% barleywine in a crowler LMAO

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21.8% ?????

Good lord that is potent.

Need to get back to O.S.H.O as it's been a while and really like some of their specialty beers.

Their North Scottsdale location, where I normally go to, was closed for a while for renovations and haven't been there since they reopened.

Sunday with no NFL games sounds like a good day to go.....

Interesting.... on the surface, probably not a place I'd check out. OTOH, those are some big hitters...

Yeah they do ancient/traditional Euro style beers. You kind of have to be into that to appreciate their greatness, which isn't a lot of American beer drinkers (or me really)

I have business by them every 2 weeks so I'll stop in for a pint and its like how I imagine being in Scotland is like, minus the industrial park LMAO

Went here today to the Iron and Ale Lynchburg Tap and Table

Awesome beers on rotation

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Food was good too.

We're finally starting to get distro for Drekker's stouts up here in Green Bay.

I'm so excited.

I had a North Park triple a few weeks ago and thought maybe their DIPAs were the sweet spot of perfection, but this is as good of a North Park IPA that I've tried.

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My triple IPA & imperial stout can buying days are behind me. I can deal with a 1/3 pint measure at a bar but whenever I buy a can I can never justify opening one unless I'm already ****ed. And if I am ****ed then I'm a) not going to appreciate it and b) going to get even more ****ed.

I've been leaning a bit more towards IPAs and sours lately due to the amount of sugar in heavy stouts (if not bourbon)... some stouts these days give me a little bit of a sugar crash even if I split one and only drink 8oz, much less a full 16oz.

Too often I'll feel like complete shit once the sugar crash hits and will be lucky to get a decent night's sleep... a ~10% double/triple IPA doesn't have nearly the impact though.

PVW Black Magick pouring in Gilbert yesterday

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Damn, the BeerAdvocate page is from 2013, but says it's aged 48 months?! :eek:

Didn't hit nearly enough spots that I would have liked to while we were in KC.

Mind you, we stayed downtown with no access to a vehicle unless my parents wanted to taxi us around. Some of the places we ate and drank:

Jack Stack
Taps on Main
Boulevard
Ponak's

Best beer I had on the trip was a Strawberry Shortcake IPA. I wasn't overly impressed with the selection, and I realize most of that was our own fault.

Next time we'll make more of an effort to get out to see and do more.

Alma Mader is the best for beers in that area. It's just a couple of doors down from Boulevard on Southwest Boulevard. Put in on the "must go" list for next time.

You were a couple blocks from Oak & Steel!

Also, we went to Rochester Brewery, or something.

Terrible.

Its pretty amazing. What I love about Beer Barn is they just throw awesome stuff on without any notice for people who know that come in

I walked in ordered a North Park IPA and scanned their board while drinking it and was like OH SHIT a PVW Black Magick

Man, North Park has seriously ruined me on IPAs... I had a couple others at Wandering Tortoise a few weeks ago and they were fine by comparison, but they're almost in the stout realm for me, where I don't even want to try one if I don't KNOW it's going to be North Park-ish or better.