Paver laying beer.

Post plumbing and pre-burger beer.

This was one of my early entrees into the craft beer world. Still tasty

dave99ag said:

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Rainy day beer.

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I've got one of these in the fridge too

Joining the club

Can't get much fresher than this. First time having a beer from Saloon Door and this one is pretty good.

jetch17 said:

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Joining the club

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This was past it's prime

That looks beautiful.

Scriffer said:

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Post plumbing and pre-burger beer.

This was one of my early entrees into the craft beer world. Still tasty

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Beer name checks out

Here's to hoping that DaveHimself gets to stock his fridge tomorrow.

I might have a couple of those for him!

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I saw today that Houston HEBs are getting Schramms mead, is that possible? That's insane to me if true. Wonder if Austin will get any.

Hudson2508 said:

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I saw today that Houston HEBs are getting Schramms mead, is that possible? That's insane to me if true. Wonder if Austin will get any.

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It's at the Lakeline HEB. I'm not a mead guy so I usually see the price and fly right past.

Truth be told...i made a slight typo on his shipping label.

Ok so like every time I get my lady in the hook for an RRBC run, she basically said tonight she wants to make a run up thru VT & Maine later this year.... sounds like we may start up near ME and potentially end up in Boston for a night, meandering thru VT ... so gurus, I'm assuming the main "must stops" are:

- bissell bros
- Alchemist
- hill farmstead
- lawsons finest
- Trillium etc near Boston

Of course open to others.

I'm sure I'm missing other familiar ones from the region - really looking for any info on good towns/places to stay in thru VT.

Hill Farmstead won't be open for the rest of the year. They are only doing online orders but you can't drink there so you can't get the full experience. Burlington is a must in VT (foam, four quarters and burlington beer co). I would stay in Waterbury at the Stagecoach Inn and eat and drink at blackback pub and prohibition pig.

I've heard good things about Fiddlehead but I haven't actually gotten to try their beer yet.

Cool, yeah I haven't given the first thought of covid regs etc in that part of the country for the rest of the year... def some looking into before pulling the trigger on anything

I'm off tomorrow...Next up

Take it FWIW but on my trip to Portland we didn't even get to Bissell Bros itself! Was able to have it around town at some of the eateries and was satisfied with that. They also don't do tasters at the brewery so it's not conducive to trying multiple brews easily...not sure if they do half pours though. This was way pre-Covid so I can't imagine that it's changed.

I am an Allagash fan. Love that brewery for its history and beer. They have a lot of neat taproom features and a newer coolship program that would be a good target for some bottles. If I had to choose one brewery though to return to in that area it would be Lone Pine. We went to the Portland location on a whim and it was packed and slinging amazing beers.

Austin street is really cool. It's kind of an incubator row of properties for breweries to operate in and startup at. I can't remember the whole deal behind it, but some other breweries started there then moved on and expanded. Austin Street Brewing was a great stop. The row of breweries is just next to Allagash as well, I believe there are at least a couple more on the strip there.

Oxbow was our last visit, was fun to grab a couple bottles to bring home.

We stayed in Stowe, VT, but Waterbury would be a good stay as well.

If you are starting in ME, I would make time to go by Maine Beer Company, especially if they have something on that is harder to get, like Dinner or Second Dinner. It is a great tasting room to hang out at.

Lawson's is reopening their tasting room in a couple of weeks after being drive thru only for a long time. I haven't seen anything from Alchemist about opening up, but they don't really have a good tasting room anyway. It is like they designed the experience with the intention of making people want to leave as quickly as possible. When I go later this month I plan to just drive by Alchemist to pickup my ToGo order, then hang out at Lawson's.

I will second Prohibition Pig. Cool restaurant with great beer selection.

Vermont has had what seem to be the most severe travel restrictions in this region for the past year, but they recently said fully vaccinated visitors don't need to quarantine or get tested.

I'm guessing the 'Trillium etc' includes Treehouse.

Thanks yall

I don't see people talk about Great Raft on here but I have to say they have some great stuff.

Old Mad Joy (Baltic porter) is fantastic.
Rhinestone Life (ipa) is quite good.
And this sour ale is one of my favorites.

They are out of Shreveport but readily available in DFW.

Little over a month left of having Monkish right down the road

Objective Aggie said:

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I don't see people talk about Great Raft on here but I have to say they have some great stuff.

Old Mad Joy (Baltic porter) is fantastic.
Rhinestone Life (ipa) is quite good.
And this sour ale is one of my favorites.

They are out of Shreveport but readily available in DFW.

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They're great. Grace and Grit is great!

Yo beer dudes. Gonna run through the March madness spreadsheet tomorrow and make sure everything is updated. If I miss you and you've sent already just let me know. I'd you haven't sent yet... get to it.

Also... bbry... I didn't forget about you... but finding ****ty beer is super hard.

I'll be dropping off on the doorstep for jwag on Monday.

I recently got legal to go to VT, and Lawson's is about to open their tasting room. I know I'm late on sending my beers, but I am thinking the extra time will be worth the wait. I'm thinking I'll head up there later this month.