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What are the best breweries/brewpubs in DFW to visit? Both for a good venue and good to great beer.

Places I've been to:

• Community
• Deep Ellum
• Braindead Brewing
• Small Brewpub

Places I haven't been, but heard are good to see:

• Franconia
• Lakewood (went through improvements recently??)

What am I missing out on?

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Collective Brewing Project in FW, for sure. Both their beer and the venue are awesome. Pretty much seamless between FOH and production, barrels everywhere.

Good to know. That seems to be the best option from here. Hoping as a I travel to be able to make some good IP swaps for other desirable bottles to start building up some ammo. Or I just need to find better beer friends like Hickory.lol

Speaking of Collective, is anyone else planning on going to their Urban Funkhouse bottle release party next Friday? It's their farmhouse saison barrel fermented with a Brett and Sacc blend.

I'll be out there after work snagging a couple beers and a few bottles depending on what the limit is. Could always snag some for other folks that aren't able to get a bottle either if anyone is interested.

I'd be interested... let me know

Drank a few more of my Denver trip beers. Only brought back one of each, so never planned to save them for much time.

Silly Cybies is about as pretty as any sour beer I've tasted, and maybe my favorite from Crooked Stave so far. I got to try some at the tasting room along with so many other delicious beers that I forgot why this was one of the only ones I splurged on to take home with me. Really pleasant tartness from the raspberry along with the dark fruit of the base beer. Wish I had more!

Also drank a couple of Avery's-- Avery "Double 'D''s" which was a BBA spiced ale with ginger added. Pretty tasty but fine with having just once.

The other was Fiel al Estilo, their "Mexican Barleywine" aged in Tequila barrels with chiles added. This was a much spicier beer in Boulder at the taproom, but the bottled version I thought was better balanced overall. Definitely would like to find some more someday.

Gotta love ABW's attitude when it comes to brewing/marketing. "Should we put a taco on a can...? Hell yes!"

Noble Rey is a newer brewery in the Arts District. A few things that are different from others are you can buy beer to go there because of how they did their license, they have guest taps on rotation, and they are one of the few places that make a Steam/California Common. Pretty tasty.

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Noble Rey is a newer brewery in the Arts District. A few things that are different from others are you can buy beer to go there because of how they did their license, they have guest taps on rotation, and they are one of the few places that make a Steam/California Common. Pretty tasty.

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Forgot about them. That Steam beer is great.

Just received my refund check from Goose Island for 2 BCBW and 1 BCBCS. It took about 2 months instead of the 2 weeks they quoted at the time and I didn't get the promised T-shirt, but at least they delivered on the check.

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Gotta love ABW's attitude when it comes to brewing/marketing. "Should we put a taco on a can...? Hell yes!"

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Yeah, I heard Austin invented the breakfast taco too.

Glad I was able to live in Austin for a decade, before it got over the top and touristy.

Anyone try Sexy Betty?

You're good from what I understand. The potentially infected ones were the Barleywine and Coffee variants.

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You're good from what I understand. The potentially infected ones were the Barleywine and Coffee variants.

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Phew, was about to say. My first BCBS regular was great, got 2 more to age.

What does everyone see happening next year with the Black Friday release?

*****in'

The other two should be awesome with some time in them

Speaking of trade values, y'all think a sherry Atrial could pull one of the rare stouts? Something like a Dark Lord, Toppling Goliath or Tree House Stout? Would be willing to add other fruited sours as well if I could land something really rare. Just want to vet it here before I ask for something stupid on BA.

I've had regular Atrial so might want to trade it for something I'll never get again.

Sherry atrial for dark lord is too much. From what I remember when shatrial came out, trade wise, you could do much better. If that's the route you go then wait until after DLD day and trade for whatever variant they come out with.

Agree with Maca on the Dark Lord comment. Sherry Atrial traded really high initially, but it seems to have gone down some in value just off of what I have seen lately. It still has strong value, but it won't pull any of the Toppling Goliath or other high tiered stouts. I would either hold on to it if you have not tried it already or give it a little more time to see if the value starts to trend back up in the near future.

Yeah sherry atrial won't get you anywhere close to the bigger stouts. Right now it's value has really taken a hit since the release. You might be able to get a couple Cycle stouts or something along those lines for it but none of the heavy hitters

Thanks BMac, Dallas and Maca.

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Collective Brewing Project in FW, for sure. Both their beer and the venue are awesome. Pretty much seamless between FOH and production, barrels everywhere.

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At a conference in Ft. Worth today and am making plans to visit this brewery since it's barely a mile away from the hotel. Do they have food or foodtrucks?

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At a conference in Ft. Worth today and am making plans to visit this brewery since it's barely a mile away from the hotel. Do they have food or foodtrucks?

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No food but normally a food truck.

That works for me. I need to find a place to watch the game today. The Brass Tap had good beer and plenty of TVs.

Lordy.

saw D&Q got an asston of Pineapple Sculpin in. May have to toot on a few of those this weekend.

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Speaking of trade values, y'all think a sherry Atrial could pull one of the rare stouts? Something like a Dark Lord, Toppling Goliath or Tree House Stout? Would be willing to add other fruited sours as well if I could land something really rare. Just want to vet it here before I ask for something stupid on BA.

I've had regular Atrial so might want to trade it for something I'll never get again.

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If you haven't tried it, I would drink it. That is hands down the best JK beer I've had. The complexity of that beer was top notch.

What's behind that blue door???????????????????????

The labels on Pliny were different back in January when I was there. I knew something was different but didnt have an old one to compare to. Is it a brewery only thing?

ok, I decided to finally check the difference

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I like the old version better.

Put me down as liking the old ones better

Agreed.

Seems like that would fall squarely in the If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It category.