Crappy picture but y'all get the point.

Found some fresh Pliny at a random restaurant in Paso Robles that I ducked into for takeout. I think I'll have two

It's 67 degrees in South Dakota today - I've drank a lot of outside beers today

This one doesn't suck.

Finally.

I love to see people getting to experience the greatness of RRBC. I hope you get many more.

Tyrone_The_Tuna said:

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Making my first ever trip to RRBC next week. I have never had Pliny or any of their stuff, but have heard great things and am very excited. Anything that yall would consider a "Must Try" while there?

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I'm going to guess the answer is 'the sampler, and drew bites.'

All of it.

Alright, a little wrap up of my recent Denver trip:

Knotted Root up in Nederland was FANTASTIC. IPAs and sours were great. Way better than you'd expect for that little mountain town. They had some great hop combos and lesser used hops.

Uhl's Brewing in Boulder was great as well. They were celebrating Stout SZN, so most of the selections were hefty, but everything was good. Their "Adjunct Calendar" was the best (pastry) stout I've had in a while.

Wild Provisions was interesting. They're a 4 Noses project focused on fermented table beers. I enjoyed sampling their stuff. Very good for the style, nothing outlandish. I also sampled a few 4 Noses while I was there and they were pretty good as well.

WeldWerks lived up to the expectations. Ever since I first tried their stuff, I dreamed about a trip up to Greeley. Everything was out of this world. No Spoon Needed, Blueberry Crunchee, and DDH Juicy Bits were the favorites.

Wiley Roots is a name I know, but hadn't had anything from them. They were good, but fell short of expectations. Stouts outperformed the other styles.

Woods Boss Brewing had a heater outside, that's how we ended up there. A couple of good IPAs, but not worth sticking around in the cold.

Cerebral was one I was greatly looking forward to and it was VERY good, but didn't meet the same expectations WeldWerks and Knotted Root did. Some really great hazy IPAs and definitely worth another visit.

Zuni Street was across from our hotel and it was more than serviceable. It exceeded my low expectations and even delivered some really nice IPAs.

Yo beer dudes... I will be leaving town Saturday and be pretty much MIA until the tourney starts, so... i'm going to post the Beer Thread March Madness info later today. However... if you want to get started early... here is the link to sign up through ESPN.

https://fantasy.espn.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2021/en/group?redirect=tcmen%3A%2F%2Fx-callback-url%2FshowGroup%3FgroupID%3D3665944&ex_cid=tcmen2021_email&groupID=3665944&groupp=YmVlcno%3D&inviteuser=e0ZGNzE0RjNELTk2RTItNDYyNi04NkE2LTUyQjk0MzhGQkFBNX0%3D&invitesource=email

Group: Beer Thread March Madness
Password: beerz

Make sure you use your texags username to sign up.

Thanks for the return beer drop, Chipotle!
Really excited for that black beer!

All right beer threaders... it's that most magical time of the year. COVID really ****ed us over last year, but we're not letting that happen again.

If you are new here, each year the beer thread runs a March madness contest. It's mostly just people sending one person beers. People who are not me do win. Before you sign up... think to yourself... will I send beer if I lose? If the answer is no, then don't enter because it's pretty likely you won't win.

Here are the rules:

1. If you do not win the contest you are expected to send at minimum 128 oz. of beer. That is 8 16 oz beers for reference. Want to send more...? That's totes cool. Let's say you do win... you'll be getting a metric **** ton of beer. We typically can do a 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place. This all depends on how many enter, though.
2. You need to be at least semi active on this board to enter. If you are lurking and would like to enter then you would need an active member to "vouch" for you. You will be entering using the link from my previous post. Please make sure your entry is your texags username. You are only allowed to submit one entry.
3. Once the dust settles and the tournament is over. We will have a draft to determine who sends to the winners. 1st will obviously be getting more boxes then 2nd or 3rd. Please try to send out your box in a timely manner. Shipping and in person drop offs both work just fine.
4. NEW THIS YEAR! If you finish dead last you will get a mystery box from me. It will be packaged much like an advent calendar. It will be mostly ****ty beers with some gems mixed in. You are required to at least attempt to consume all beers and post pictures on the thread for our amusement.

Questions? Did I miss anything? Just let me know. I will be gone from the 13th-21st but will try to check in periodically. Should be more active after the 1st weekend of the tourney.

TLDR; win and get beers, lose and send beers.

****, I may have to enter just to try for last.

So this is happening. Got a text from BSD a week or so back telling me that I needed to make trip down to the tine, because he had something for me. And I never turn down an offer to hang out with him and his wife. So now Turfman and I are enjoying this on his back porch.