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How's your local beer, /ck/?

Mine is Terrapin (Athens, GA). The Rye Pale Ale is nice and tasty, but the Golden Ale is a little underwhelming. I haven't gotten to try their multitudes of special offerings.

>> No.4091840
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We have Badger Beers and Palmers Brewery, which are the best local ones. Badger is pretty much Nationwide. You can find Tanglefoot in most supermarkets. Palmers is a local Microbrewery you only really see at CAMRA festivals.

http://www.dorsetbreweries.com/brewery/palmers-brewery/

Can this be a Beer General thread, too? Pic related - it's my Christmas cache, along with novelty Belgian glassware.

>> No.4091844
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Pretty fucking fantastic.

>> No.4091856
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Absolutely fantastic. Murray's craft brewery is 45 minutes away, with some of Australia's best craft beers in my opinion

>> No.4091867

>>4091840
Sure, love the glassware too.

>> No.4091872

Three Floyds

godlike IPAs

>> No.4091889
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Schell's is within driving distance.
This year's Snowstorm is kinda good and interesting...

>> No.4092025
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I live in Ottawa, Ontario, and a lot of the beer I've had _not_ coming from the direction of Quebec has been absolutely disgusting. Quebec, on the other hand.. mmm.. c'est tres delicieux, despite the guy in this picture not knowing how to pour a beer.

>> No.4092034

San Diego microbrew master race reporting in:
Alesmith
Lost Abbey
Stone
Societe
Port Brewing
Ballast Point
Green Flash
Latitude 33
Coronado
Iron Fist
Karl Strauss
and MORE!

>> No.4092038
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>>4092025
Euros tend to go in for the large, foaming head that's 30-50% of the glass, especially French and Belgians. Quebecois folks might have adopted the same style in their beer quaffing ways.

This is about as non-local as it gets for me (other than crappy Asia brews), but Goose Island wheat beer was very nice and refreshing. Pretty light and a short after-taste, but still enjoyable.

>> No.4092086

There is the Loup Rouge brewery that explores beer and creates good unique products and there is Tchequebec who makes Czech style beer. They are both really good breweries in their own style.

>> No.4092094

>>4091844
Another Colorado master beer race reporting in.

If it's beer, we've got some of the best of it.

>> No.4092113

>>4091840
There's a pub near me that sells loads of Belgium beers. There's a £5 deposit for the Kwak glass, I need to try it sometime.

>> No.4092117

Just north of >>4092034 (ahem, Alpine?)

The Bruery
Bootlegger's
Beachwood
Craftsman
Ladyface

...and others I'm forgetting or would like to forget. It's getting better around here though.

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>>4092113
The beer itself is nothing really special. It's nice, but the glass is the party piece. Like a real yard of ale, you have to watch for the air bubble breaking the seal of the liquid in the bell, because then it suddenly all pours out in one go.

I know a a pub that used to have Kwak glasses, but last time I went in, they served it in a normal glass and said they had all been broken.. The problem is that people get them when they are drunk, and absent-mindedly try to stand the round bottomed glass onto the bar or table and not back in the scaffold(!)

Drinking this now. Anyone who likes a challenging beer, track down Duchesse de Bourgogne. If you can acquire the taste for that then you can pretty much drink any beer.

>> No.4092165
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probably the best beer in the alps.
smooth yet subtle hop flavour.
this is no racist emblem btw, the owner of the frist brewery had the name "Mohr", which, if translated, depicts a name for a dark skinned person in an old mannered way.

Captcha: tyBest PLEASE

>> No.4092170

>>4091837
My local brewery's range: http://www.webrew.co.uk/ourbeers.html
Guardsman is so tasty, as is Conqueror. Yes, its very, very English. They even made an ale to commemorate the royal wedding this year

>> No.4092199

>>4092170
I laughed at how all their ales are given Monarchist names, and then their only lager is called Republika.

Acknowledging the fact that they are covering all the bases there both beverage-wise and politically..!

>> No.4092206

>>4092170
I guess its kinda hard not to be a monarchist when the Queen lives more or less next door

>> No.4092336
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New England Brewery here, Ghandi Bot IPA is tasty shit, premeditated murder also very good.

>> No.4092352

>>4092025
This has always been one of my favorite beers. It's like 12USD for a 4 pack though.

>> No.4092399

East London - Redchurch Brewery

Bethnal Pale Ale
Shoreditch Blonde
Hoxton Stout
Hackney Gold
India Pale Ale
Old Ford Export Stout
Baltic Street Porter

>> No.4092456

>>4091889
Have you tried their chimneysweep yet? I'm not sure if I like it. Schell's dark is my personal favorite.

>> No.4092468

Up in Humboldt County, we have Lost Coast Brewery, which makes some of the most amazing pale ales and lightly flavored beers, like Tangerine and Raspberry Brown.

My favorite from them is Great White, though, a super simple, fully-flavored beer that's easy on hops.

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It's insensitive to the struggle of African-Americans and it's a terrible beer.

>>4092165
Hey, in Rankweil gibt es den Sternen. Geh und bilde deinen Biergeschmack, denn Mohren und Fohren sind beide wirklich nicht gut.

Von allen im Ländle gemachten und über den Einzelhandel vertriebenen Bieren ist einzig das Egger Wälderbier akzeptabel.

>> No.4092577

I live in the center of Flanders, belgium.

I rarely drink beer.

>> No.4092589

>>4091837
Come drink in Atlanta!
>Monday Night
>Wild Heaven
>Sweetwater
>Red Brick
>Red Hare
>Burnt Hickory (very new and small, shipping some kegs out. They run out fast but their black pepper IPA is delicious.)

My aunt and uncle are good friends with the Terrapin owners and say they're great people. I'm going on a camping trip this Easter with all of them plus cases of Terrapin. Pretty excite.

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Hannen Alt.
It's okay I guess, but there are far better Alts

>> No.4092619

>>4092038

One of my favorites to pound down. Low in alcohol and a real refreshing citrusy taste really makes it great.

>> No.4092622
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>>4092618
Also my family used to own a brewery. Lohbusch Bräu.
My mom liked it. (Her family owned it.)
My dad tasted it once and he said it was disgusting and tasted of anise.

>> No.4092651

>>4092589
Is that where Sweetwater is from? I see it in all the grocery stores, I'll have to give it a try.

>> No.4092681

>>4092589
Laughing Skull nigger.

>> No.4092701

>>4092651
yes, sweetwater 420 is a great beer. living between atlanta and athens has been a boon to my alcoholism

>> No.4093104

>>4092651
Yeah. They're pretty good. The IPA and porter are my favorites definitely. Blue is pretty interesting but a little light for my taste. Road trip and Low Ryeder are my runners-up. None of their beers are incredible but they're all very solid. Can't go wrong with any of them really, though my tastes have gotten to strong to really enjoy 420.

>>4092681
Never had any actually. What's their best?

>> No.4094620

>>4091837

Hey OP, I live in Athens too

>> No.4094648

>>4092589
Monday Night and Wild Heaven are both contract brewed at my local brewery over in Greenville, SC, Thomas Creek.

They are both many times better than anything Thomas Creek labels as their own.

>> No.4094651

>>4092681
its just an amber ale brewed by Red Brick for The Vortex. Nothing special

>> No.4094666

Bluegrass Brewing Company isnt that far from me. even though i dont like em

>> No.4094680
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Louisville, KY

ridiculous amount of microbreweries and distilleries

Bourbon Barrel Ale is stupid delicious

>> No.4094689

>>4092622
heh. low bush.

>> No.4094704
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There are a good amount but this is probably the biggest in my city. They also brew a few Trader Joe's branded beers. They just emulate German beers and very rarely go outside the style norms, pic related.

>> No.4094705

>>4094680
Bourbon Barrel Ale really is awesome

>> No.4094726
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Finally somehwere I'll be unique!

Here in Salt Lake City we have Wasatch and Epic breweries.
Epic is good for a strong tasting beer that still adhears to the 4.0% utah standard. Wasatch I prefer though for their Pumpkin Ale, Kolob (Mormon sci-fi heaven apparently) and their Polygamy Ale (Slogan: "Why just have one?").

>> No.4094727

>>4094666

dem heathen trips

i'm in Lex, where are you?

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>>4094726
For a 4.0% limit its really not bad.
If I wanted to get shitfaced thats what gin and whiskey is for.

>> No.4094813

>>4094727
it's 'those', not 'dem'.

>> No.4094827
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>>4094680
I tried that. I absolutely loved it.

As for us here in Maine it's hard to say since we have a ton of craft beers and microbrews. Peak Organic and Allagash are among my favorites. Shipyard is also good and our largest beer in the state.

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Pretty gross. It's tourist shit, really.

>> No.4094846
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Midnight Sun makes some FANTASTIC brews. The Arctic Devil is worth starting a knife fight over.
>pic related
For those looking for a more...sedate beer; King street Brewery offers a tasty and inoffensive selection of beers, named in a flash of originality, after the style (i.e. King st. Lager, King st. Stout)

>> No.4094851

>Dallas Tx
Ive tried some Festivus Ale, it was really dry and bitter. Didnt like it too much. Maybe because it was from growler, but I kinda doubt that.
Wintervention:
Very dark and heavy stout. Hoppy and bright for its color though. Very enjoyable, and 10% ABV.

>> No.4094896

Wichita, KS reporting in.

Boulevard and Shock Top.

As a person who doesn't drink much beer, I did enjoy a few of their brews.

>> No.4094908
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>>4094896
>wichita
>boulevard
>local

>> No.4094948

>>4094908
Close enough mo'fo'.
When I think local brew I thought "In State."

deal with it

>> No.4095213

>>4094620
Good to see all the fellow Georgians here, and someone from Athens too. Got lots of new beer to try.

>> No.4096101

>>4094731
Is that a bong

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Threads like these make me want to go to America.

>> No.4096118

amerifags cannot into beer. deal with it.

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>>4094908
Get yer panties out of your ass, because Kansas City to Wichita is not a huge distance and 'local' enough considering we're talking about Kansas here.

Empyrean Brewing Company is my local brewery. I have never been impressed with the restaurant they were associated with, so I don't drink Empyrean beers often enough, but I have enjoyed their Burning Skye Scottish Style Ale and Luna Sea Extra Bitter.