Be sure to stop in Iowa on your way and load up on Toppling Goliath and Surly.

DallasAggie2012 said:

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Making a roadtrip from DFW up to Colorado Springs and then on to Estes Park this weekend. You guys have any good recommendations for breweries or food spots along the way? Also, any good hike recommendations around those areas since I know we've got a few Colorado guys on this thread.

That Spindletap One Love is pretty tasty stuff too.

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https://www.oskarblues.com/beers/

https://www.lefthandbrewing.com/brewery/on-tap

I love the left hand milk stout on Nitro. It is delicious and smooth unlike co2 beers. It is also not syrupy like some dark beers.

I'm in Sioux Falls - so we get all of their offerings at the store. I'm a huge Toppling Goliath fan, Drekker not as much.

Sioux Falls might be the best place we lived so far (Houston, Indianapolis. Pasadena, Ca) if you don't mind a random -40 day Good local beers (Luplin, Fernsons), good restaurants, basically no traffic and our summers aren't god awful hot

Back to my HEB recommendations

I'll add, when you drive out of the city you do wonder if you were in a colony on Mars. It's pretty barren

But the economy and how the state handled Covid make this a pretty stable place to hang your hat

FriedTex said:

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I live in South Dakota and am driving down to Conroe Friday with my family (wife and three little girls) to do the grandparent world tour for a couple of weeks. My mom, being the sweet lady that she is, asked me what beer she should could pick up for me for our arrival.

So my question is: what would a Conroe HEB most likely have in stock right now that I should tell her to pick up? Northern Houstonians, help a brother out

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My dude. As the local Conroe-ite, let me welcome you. You've for sure, for sure got to hit B-52. Since they've opened back up to on-site consumption, their cans and crowler selection is more restricted, but check the Cans & Bottles menu along with the Indoor Taproom menu to see what they're doing to go: https://untappd.com/v/b52-brewing-company/917260?ng_menu_id=58cdee1a-1e23-4b13-a6c1-70aed5bf4289. Really killer stuff.

Westside HEB should have Spindletap Houston Haze & Heavy Hands. Pariah Ghost in the Machine among others. Martin House Sours. Lone Pint Yellow Rose. Tons of Saint Arnold options. They've got single cans on the end cap by the frozen foods which offers some decent one-offs

As I said yesterday, I've discovered the Kroger on the South Loop actually has a better selection of craft beer now including the more limited releases from Spindletap and Jester King. You probably have Untitled Art up there, but that's exciting for us too.

Both will have a variety of Prairie Artisan Ales. Even if you don't want one of those hefty stouts now, they will hold pretty well for those -40 degree days.

Oh, and if you've got any extras from your homeland that you need to offload, let me know.

Anyone come across Lunch in D/FW?

Very cool, I liked Woodgrain downtown when I visited a couple years back and Fernson is good. Crooks and Colton are where I have some extended in law family. I like Sioux Falls a lot too.

Looks like we're going to Boulder for the 4th of July. Any recs for breweries between Boulder and Greeley? I'm hoping to make it to WW if I can find other things to do along the way.

I have been able to come across it at Central Market, but it was selling out pretty fast most places. It didn't seem like much came in though and I haven't seen much come in after the initial shipment or two. It should become easier to find now that people have had it once or twice.

Also, thanks to those who gave some good recs for Colorado spots. Much appreciated.

That's cool. When we were in Sioux Falls in 2017, I didn't even think to stop and look for TG and Surly. On our way back to Texas, I made a detour when we got to Sioux City and stopped at a Hy-Vee to grab Surly and TG stuff to bring back home.

DallasAggie2012 said:

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I have been able to come across it at Central Market, but it was selling out pretty fast most places. It didn't seem like much came in though and I haven't seen much come in after the initial shipment or two. It should become easier to find now that people have had it once or twice.

Also, thanks to those who gave some good recs for Colorado spots. Much appreciated.

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Hmm ok, thank you. I have looked every time I've gone to the Lovers CM, but haven't come across it. Hopefully they get more in soon. I have had it once before but not in quite a while.

They are allowing proxy's for pick up.

Also, is this the first year of 750ml bottles and not the 500?

Nice dude. Is that the regular version or is it variant?

Regualr. Best one in the last 3 years imo

Lt. Joe Bookman said:

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Anyone ever had Smog City out of Torrance? This IPA is fantastic.

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Ha yup, live 2 miles from them and Monkish. They make some decent barrel aged stouts and sours as well

Very cool. This IPA wasn't really "juicy" as described on the label. Tasted like a typical west coast to me. Still really good, though.

I've got a ton of glassware, but only two brewery shirts:
B-52 & Smog City

Well this sounds interesting:

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Today (Friday, June 12th) at Noon, we're thrilled to release our latest collaboration beer REX MACHINA -- a hazy IPA brewed with our great friends at Weldwerks Brewing Co. in Greeley, CO!

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https://jesterkingbrewery.com/main-blog/introducing-rex-machina-hazy-ipa-brewed-in-collaboration-with-weldwerks-brewing-co

Damn. I wish I could get that!

A pic of the haze.

https://instagr.am/p/CBVtdusn05q

Hmm, I'm in Boerne this weekend. Might have to make a trip for that one!

And reservations made.