This is in Ohio - Jackie O's in Athens is the BEST. Who Cooks For You is the greatest, most drinkable IPA to ever exist, and is soooo tasty. I share that favorite with one of the owners, who I get to work with every year as they throw a fundraising event for the Planned Parenthood health center in Athens because they are the aforementioned BEST. This year they made special flavors for us, including a Chai Latte of their Chomolungma (which has BIGFOOT ON THE CAN. Their art is unbeatable). They do a ton of cool sour stuff too, and just opened their first location outside of Athens in Columbus that will be opening for the general public soon with a ROOFTOP BAR.
Wolf's Ridge is amazing, and their food is even better than their beer.
Columbus, and Ohio in general, has EXCELLLENT BEER.
PLEASE let us do the questionably legal beer swap!
Also, for my corner of Central PA, I’m going to have to pick Troegs Mad Elf. It’s a Christmas Belgian aged on cherries, and it’ll knock you on your ass, but it RULES. Troegs is also big enough/distributes widely enough that you might be able to find it in your neck of the woods! (I would also like to take this moment to shoutout my favorite small Harrisburg area breweries, Ever Grain and Zeroday.)
Philly is a hotbed for great beers. I'm about two hours north of Dogfish Head, which might be cheating, but I love their Sea Quench. If you want more local, I'm quite a fan of the 2SP Wawa Coffee Holiday Porter.
I have also tasted the joys of a coffee beer that is not a porter or stout. Stable 12 Brewing in Phoenixville, PA (Philly adjacent, sort of) has a blonde coffee ale that's name escapes me but it was one of the wildest drinking experiences of my life. Looked like Budweiser, tasted like Guinness.
Elsewhere in the Philly beer scene, I have no choice but to mention Kenwood Light Lager. It's a beer from a bunch of guys in their 20s from Delco who made a beer that's not fancy but its better than the big boy domestic lights. Toss a pickle or a lemon in it and you're gonna have 3 or 4 of them with a smile on your face.
For Michigan, it's something from Short's. Don't let the Bell's hype fool you. For summer, Soft Parade. Fruity, light, high alcohol content. Any other time, Bellaire Brown.
Also, I'm obviously on Cloud 9 for Michigan State, but Cincy should be ranked above us. End of story.
Now that it's finally getting cooler, I'm starting to drink darker beers, and the Rocket Frog Wallops Island brown ale is a pretty good one. They also make some good sours, including a cherry limeade sour, though Virginia Beer Company's A Night In... sours flavored with different fruits are also good. Also a big fan of Vasen and Vibrissa's hefeweizens. It's nice to see German-style hefes get more popular, since for the longest time the biggest wheat beers on the market were all Belgian-style.
good news: the best local beer where i'm from is available where you are currently from, and that is the West Sixth Pennyrile Pale Ale. hop character, but not overwhelming. soft edges but not like, milky. plenty of melon and citrus notes. ideal around a campfire and a lake alike.
worse news: I can't believe you actually made that swill y'all call chili into something I would absolutely eat, you monster, how dare you
There's so much good beer in Michigan, it's hard to pick. I love Perrin's No Rules Vietnamese Porter, but it's not an everyday beer. Unless you're Keith Richards.
Having also received a care package from Beer Nye with some Daybreak in it, I can confirm that it's really good. And if you pour it into a glass, it looks nothing like what you'd expect a coffee beer to.
Impossible question to answer as I’m from St. Louis, a city awash in fantastic breweries. (We have one in particular you may have heard of and, yes, despite the snobbery, it’s good too.)
That said, my *favorite* in town is a little joint called Civil Life, which puts out a best-in-class Brown Ale and, surprisingly as someone who shies away from hoppiness, a delightful Rye Pale Ale. In season, Schlafly’s pumpkin ale is one of the best examples of the genre, and 4 Hands is consistently great as well, particularly their Absence of Light, a peanut butter chocolate stout that currently inhabits my fridge.
That deep fried football is a work of demented genius, sir. Please fax. And enjoy your return to campus. If your experience is like ours taking elementary schoolers down to Durham, your kids will love everything about that. (Also, don't forget to make your 529 contribution this month; you're out of state for UC tuition now.)
Here in Indiana I will put Three Floyd's Gumballhead up against anything. It's a fruity, hoppy wheat ale. Many espouse Alpha King as their best beer, but Gumballhead is where it's at.
You probably have few subscribers from Ottawa, Ontario, but if any of them ever happen to be here, a local brewery, Beyond The Pale, produces a superb stout, The Darkness. I am a huge stout fan, and this is my favourite to date. It's only available locally, unfortunately for everyone else.
FL has a ton of great beers and I am going to prattle on aimlessly about some of my faves here:
Bold City Brewery's Duke's Cold Nose Brown Ale, or simply Duke's. This is their most widely distributed beer and a perfect serviceable brown ale, but the Jacksonville based brewery makes a ton of unique beers at their downtown location, rotating taps about monthly. The best beer I've had at Bold City is their Bourbon Barrel-Aged Roxy Cream Ale. It is simply heaven in a glass. The bourbon is a punch, to be clear. You can't miss it. I love it so much. They do growler fills for for mad cheap too.
Veterans United Brewing makes several great beers (I have not had one I didn't love) but my favorite is their Buzzin' Bee Honey Rye Wheat Ale. It has a pinch of sweetness and a bite of rye and I could drink a dozen if 4 or 5 didn't put me on my ass.
There are tons of other Jacksonville breweries including many small new ones, but the other big player in town is Intuition Ale Works. I'd say they're more of the drinkable IPA type beer brewer and their Jon Boat epitomizes that.
I guess I should let that be enough now, and just list off some of my favorites.
Also Scott please let us run a questionably legal beer secret santa. please.
This is in Ohio - Jackie O's in Athens is the BEST. Who Cooks For You is the greatest, most drinkable IPA to ever exist, and is soooo tasty. I share that favorite with one of the owners, who I get to work with every year as they throw a fundraising event for the Planned Parenthood health center in Athens because they are the aforementioned BEST. This year they made special flavors for us, including a Chai Latte of their Chomolungma (which has BIGFOOT ON THE CAN. Their art is unbeatable). They do a ton of cool sour stuff too, and just opened their first location outside of Athens in Columbus that will be opening for the general public soon with a ROOFTOP BAR.
Wolf's Ridge is amazing, and their food is even better than their beer.
Columbus, and Ohio in general, has EXCELLLENT BEER.
PLEASE let us do the questionably legal beer swap!
Also, for my corner of Central PA, I’m going to have to pick Troegs Mad Elf. It’s a Christmas Belgian aged on cherries, and it’ll knock you on your ass, but it RULES. Troegs is also big enough/distributes widely enough that you might be able to find it in your neck of the woods! (I would also like to take this moment to shoutout my favorite small Harrisburg area breweries, Ever Grain and Zeroday.)
Philly is a hotbed for great beers. I'm about two hours north of Dogfish Head, which might be cheating, but I love their Sea Quench. If you want more local, I'm quite a fan of the 2SP Wawa Coffee Holiday Porter.
While it is not legal to mail beer via the USPS you can send “yeast samples in a liquid suspension” and it’s is then perfectly legal.
That being said, Iron Duke in Ludlow MA makes a number of tasty brews from their 306 Apricot IPA to their Baby Maker Stout.
I have also tasted the joys of a coffee beer that is not a porter or stout. Stable 12 Brewing in Phoenixville, PA (Philly adjacent, sort of) has a blonde coffee ale that's name escapes me but it was one of the wildest drinking experiences of my life. Looked like Budweiser, tasted like Guinness.
Elsewhere in the Philly beer scene, I have no choice but to mention Kenwood Light Lager. It's a beer from a bunch of guys in their 20s from Delco who made a beer that's not fancy but its better than the big boy domestic lights. Toss a pickle or a lemon in it and you're gonna have 3 or 4 of them with a smile on your face.
For Michigan, it's something from Short's. Don't let the Bell's hype fool you. For summer, Soft Parade. Fruity, light, high alcohol content. Any other time, Bellaire Brown.
Also, I'm obviously on Cloud 9 for Michigan State, but Cincy should be ranked above us. End of story.
Now that it's finally getting cooler, I'm starting to drink darker beers, and the Rocket Frog Wallops Island brown ale is a pretty good one. They also make some good sours, including a cherry limeade sour, though Virginia Beer Company's A Night In... sours flavored with different fruits are also good. Also a big fan of Vasen and Vibrissa's hefeweizens. It's nice to see German-style hefes get more popular, since for the longest time the biggest wheat beers on the market were all Belgian-style.
good news: the best local beer where i'm from is available where you are currently from, and that is the West Sixth Pennyrile Pale Ale. hop character, but not overwhelming. soft edges but not like, milky. plenty of melon and citrus notes. ideal around a campfire and a lake alike.
worse news: I can't believe you actually made that swill y'all call chili into something I would absolutely eat, you monster, how dare you
There's so much good beer in Michigan, it's hard to pick. I love Perrin's No Rules Vietnamese Porter, but it's not an everyday beer. Unless you're Keith Richards.
Having also received a care package from Beer Nye with some Daybreak in it, I can confirm that it's really good. And if you pour it into a glass, it looks nothing like what you'd expect a coffee beer to.
Impossible question to answer as I’m from St. Louis, a city awash in fantastic breweries. (We have one in particular you may have heard of and, yes, despite the snobbery, it’s good too.)
That said, my *favorite* in town is a little joint called Civil Life, which puts out a best-in-class Brown Ale and, surprisingly as someone who shies away from hoppiness, a delightful Rye Pale Ale. In season, Schlafly’s pumpkin ale is one of the best examples of the genre, and 4 Hands is consistently great as well, particularly their Absence of Light, a peanut butter chocolate stout that currently inhabits my fridge.
That deep fried football is a work of demented genius, sir. Please fax. And enjoy your return to campus. If your experience is like ours taking elementary schoolers down to Durham, your kids will love everything about that. (Also, don't forget to make your 529 contribution this month; you're out of state for UC tuition now.)
Here in Indiana I will put Three Floyd's Gumballhead up against anything. It's a fruity, hoppy wheat ale. Many espouse Alpha King as their best beer, but Gumballhead is where it's at.
You probably have few subscribers from Ottawa, Ontario, but if any of them ever happen to be here, a local brewery, Beyond The Pale, produces a superb stout, The Darkness. I am a huge stout fan, and this is my favourite to date. It's only available locally, unfortunately for everyone else.
FL has a ton of great beers and I am going to prattle on aimlessly about some of my faves here:
Bold City Brewery's Duke's Cold Nose Brown Ale, or simply Duke's. This is their most widely distributed beer and a perfect serviceable brown ale, but the Jacksonville based brewery makes a ton of unique beers at their downtown location, rotating taps about monthly. The best beer I've had at Bold City is their Bourbon Barrel-Aged Roxy Cream Ale. It is simply heaven in a glass. The bourbon is a punch, to be clear. You can't miss it. I love it so much. They do growler fills for for mad cheap too.
Veterans United Brewing makes several great beers (I have not had one I didn't love) but my favorite is their Buzzin' Bee Honey Rye Wheat Ale. It has a pinch of sweetness and a bite of rye and I could drink a dozen if 4 or 5 didn't put me on my ass.
There are tons of other Jacksonville breweries including many small new ones, but the other big player in town is Intuition Ale Works. I'd say they're more of the drinkable IPA type beer brewer and their Jon Boat epitomizes that.
I guess I should let that be enough now, and just list off some of my favorites.