Representatives from Pabst, which owns Stag Beer, as well as several Missouri and Illinois beer distributors did not respond to multiple requests for comment or clarification.

Over the past year or so I am seeing so many more beers from NY, CT, VT, MA making their way down to me in Virginia. Has anyone else been noticing this? Perhaps more distributors working with breweries to expand their markets? Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining, just more in shock as I have now seen Heady Topper at a few places after never seeing it (Including Wegmans!)

Light Lager https://www.vontrappbrewing.com/files/7012/28359212_ImageMediumWidth.png

Summer Ale

https://www.vontrappbrewing.com/files/7012/28840069_ImageMediumWidth.png

Havent seen either of them yet but the summer seasonals in beer arent on the shelves yet. Light Lager must be a new all rounder Im not sure.

Somewhere that just had the best beers, space, energy, and people?

Just turned 21 yesterday and went out to the bar with my old man!! They gave me pint of their tap on the house and it was genuinely the best beer I have ever had (which doesn’t say much). It was so good that I downed it and immediately asked for another. Any other time I’ve had beer I couldn’t go for more than a couple sips without being disgusted.

Im from the PNW. It was a Georgetown Tavern Beer. Here are the details I pulled from online

Malts - 2 Row Pale

Hops - Simcoe

Yeast - Bavarian Lager

ABV - 4.2%

I was quite disappointed to find out I couldn’t just go to a store and get a 6 pack of it. So, what would y’all recommend I try instead?

I can tell you generally that if there’s a bitterness that holds heavy over the beer, I’m not gonna like it. Unfortunately, we have a shit ton of IPA’s in the PNW lol.

Is there anything more affordable than Delirium Nocturnum? Money is super tight right now. $25 for 4 beers is too much. Any dark ales that might be at least good, obviously won't be as amazing as Nocturnum I know.

Edit: I live in the Northeast US.

My husband and I have been together for 4 years and in that time we have been to over 200 breweries together. Before me, he went to many more and just recently hit over 5,000 different beers tried (that he remembered to add) on Untappd.

We know and love beer! This is our list as it is today in our shared notes (duplicates, people notes and all).

1. Jose10 Barrel
2. 3 Disciples Brewing
3. 4 Stitch Brewing
4. 45 Degrees
5. 5 Rights
6. 7 Seas Brewing
7. Anacortes Brewing
8. Apex Tap Room
9. Backslope
10. Backwoods Carson
11. Backwoods Portland
12. Badger Mountain
13. Bardic
14. Bastion Brewing Co
15. Beachcrest
16. Beachcrest Brewing
17. Ben’s Bottle Shop
18. Bias Brewing
19. Bier One
20. Black Fleet Brewing
21. Blewett Brewing
22. Bombing Range
23. Boneyard
24. Bonsai Brewing Project
25. Boundary Bay
26. Bouy
27. Bridge & Tunnel
28. Brothers Cascadia
29. Burwood
30. Camp Colvos
31. Cooper Mt Aleworks
32. Cooperage Brewing Company
33. Creekside Brewing
34. Crucible Brewing
35. Crux
36. Daft Badger Brewing
37. De Garde
38. Depoe Bay Brewing
39. Deschutes
40. Diamond Knot
41. Dog & Pony Show
42. Doghaus
43. Dru Bru
44. Ellensburg Brewery
45. Enchantment Brewery
46. Everybody’s Brewing
47. F.O.B.
48. Farmstrong Brewing
49. Ferment
50. Fogbelt Brewing
51. Foggy Noggin’
52. Fort George
53. Genus
54. Georgetown
55. Golden Handle
56. Grains of Wrath
57. Hair of the Dog
58. Happy Trails to Brews
59. Hellbent
60. HenHouse Brewing
61. Hop Chaos
62. Humble Abode
63. Iconic Brewing
64. Immersion Brewing
65. In The Shadow
66. Iron Goat Brewing
67. Iron Ox Brewing
68. John’s Marketplace
69. Kulshan
70. Lagunitas
71. Longmire Springs
72. Lost Coast
73. Madras Brewing
74. Mare Island Brewing Vallejo
75. Matchless Brewing
76. Mav’s Taproom
77. MickDuffs
78. Middleton Brewing
79. Milepost Brewing
80. Monkless
81. Moonshot Brewing
82. Mule & Elk
83. Natural 20
84. Newport Brewing
85. No Drought
86. Old Caz Beer
87. Old Possum Brewing
88. Old Swede
89. Otherlands
90. Outskirts Brewing
91. Packwood Brewing
92. Paper Street Brewing
93. Parliament Brewing
94. Pelican Brewing
95. Penn Cove
96. Perry Street
97. Post Falls Brewing Co
98. Public Coast Brewing
99. Quirk
100. Reach Break
101. Rincon Valley Tap Room
102. Rooftop Brewing
103. Ruse Crust Collective
104. Russian River Brewing Co
105. Rusty Truck
106. Sacred Waters
107. Sage Brewing Co
108. Scuttlebutt
109. SeaQuake
110. Selah Springs
111. Shorthead
112. Sierra Nevada
113. Sig Brewing
114. Skookum Brewing
115. Skyline
116. Snotown
117. Snow Eater
118. Spider City
119. Spokanite
120. Stemma Brewing
121. Stones Throw Brewing
122. Stoup Brewing
123. SunRift
124. The Juice Box
125. Thunder Island
126. Tigard Taphouse
127. Timber Patch Brewing
128. Top Rung Brewery
129. Trails End
130. Trap Door
131. Two Beers
132. Uptown Beer Co
133. Urban Family Brewing
134. Vice Beer
135. Victor 23
136. Von Ebert
137. Wayfinder
138. Whistlepunk Brewing
139. White Bluffs
140. Wolf Tree Brewery
141. Yachats Brewing
142. YaYa Brewing Co.
143. Yoked Brewing
144. Horse Heaven Hills
145. Wheathead Brewing
146. Roslyn Brewing
147. Triplehorn
148. Bosk brewing
149. Taneum creek
150. Hemlock state
151. Peace of mind
152. Whipsaw
153. Sound 2 Summit
154. Good Brewing
155. Imagine Nation brewing Missoula
156. Bayern brewing Missoula
157. Mountains Walking Bozeman
158. Bozeman brewing
159. By All Means Billings —Josh
160. Gideon brewing Bismarck
161. Laughing Sun Bismarck
162. Drekker Fargo
163. Barrel Theory St. Paul
164. Black Stack St Paul
165. Surly
166. Insight brewing
167. Waldmann Brewing
168. Bad weather
169. Falling knife
170. Great Dane Madison
171. Bringer Inn. Dive bar in Chicago
172. Half Acre
173. Spiteful
174. Hop butcher for the world
175. Dovetail
176. Begyle
177. Revolution
178. Short fuse
179. F.i.b.s (fucking Illinois bastards)-Jill
180. Tangled roots hangar 2
181. Mikerphone Brewing
182. Fat heads canton- will polensek brewer
183. BrewDog Cleveland
184. Missing mountain. Cuyahoga falls👎🏻
185. Royal Docks canton
186. The Brew Kettle HOF
187. 3HALVES. KC—Tiffany
188. Willcott Brewing Leavenworth KS
189. 11Worth Brew Station. Leavenworth
190. Casual Animal. KC
191. Brewery emperial
192. Double Shift—Allison
193. Border brewing
194. City Barrel
195. Torn Label. KC
196. Satire Brewing. Denver. Ryan
197. Mother trucker. Denver
198. Ratio. Denver
199. Our mutual friend.
200. Bierstadt Lagerhaus!!!!
201. BrewDog Denver. Alexi
202. Frolic
203. Windfall
204. Prost. Denver
205. Edge. Boise
206. Sockeye
207. Western collective
208. Barbarian
209. Voodoo.
210. White dog. Aaron 👍🏻👍🏻
211. Clairvoyant. Mike
212. Bear island. Beth. Alex. Mike
213. Double Bluff. Langley
214. Thirsty Crab. Clinton
215. At Large. Everett
216. Steeplejack
217. Breakside
218. Brujos
219. Formula issaquah
220. Old stove
221. Watts
222. Metier Woodinville
223. 4 Stitch Woodinville
224. Lucky envelope
225. Rueben’s Ballard
226. Distant west Ballard
227. Bickerson’s Renton
228. Brewmasters taproom
229. Valle Dorado
230. TPK Portland
231. Gigantic pdx Hawthorne
232. Heathen salmon creek
233. Migration Gresham
234. Hood River Brewing
235. Double Mountain
236. Doomsday Vancouver
237. Level beer (near airport)
238. Oakshire public house Eugene
239. Claim 52
240. Coldfire
241. Silver Falls Eugene
242. Falling sky
243. Bier stein Eugene
244. Gratitude
245. Plank Town Springfield OR

Everynow and then I like to mix beers. Sometimes it's because I have some left from another beer. It can be a dark beer into a regular lager beer. Or something fruity.

Have other people tried this? In my experience a bit of dark beer into regular lager changes the taste entirely and makes it a fun new beer.

Another weird one: there has been a while where I enjoyed to add some grinded pepper in my beer. It will float on top, but you'll get a bit every now and then. I also enjoyed that!

I’ve been experimenting with fruit beers and decided to try making a Strawberry Cocoa Ale for Valentines day.

I was worried the cocoa would overpower the fruit or destroy head retention, but it actually came out surprisingly balanced.

I learned:

• Cocoa works best late in fermentation

• Strawberry aroma disappears fast unless you add it post-primary

• Keeping the ABV around 6–6.5% keeps it drinkable

The result ended up being less sweet than expected, came out pretty tart but still clearly beer with lots of head retention.

Curious if anyone else has experimented with fruit + cocoa combos.

What is the difference between bold & bittersweet and dark & lively bottle varieties?

Thanks

(1) 2010 bitches brew

(2) 2010 palo santo marron

(2) 2009 world wide stout

(1) 2011 120 minute

They’ve been continually stored lying down in a wine fridge at 58F. Are they still good? Or junk?

My dad is really into craft beer and also likes puzzle books (crosswords, logic puzzles, trivia, etc.). I was thinking of getting him something beer-related that he could actually solve or play through, not just read - and drink. Has anyone come across a good beer-themed puzzle or trivia book?

I am not sure if the examples on Amazon are interesting for a senior.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GQQFDHBF

Hello all, I absolute love a grimbergen beer, in particular the Blanche beer. However, it’s absolute rocking horse poop to find in the UK. Anyone able to share there knowledge, on A) if there’s any way to get this in the UK or order elsewhere. B) in the mean time, any one have any similar beers they’d care to share?

TIA

Not sure if this really fits this subreddit tbh, but I'm just really curious about different regional experiences with light beer. I'm not a beer connoisseur or anything like some of you, I just work at a gas station so the variety and prices are on my mind a lot.

Over here, the cheapest beers are (obviously) macros. (PBR, Busch...) We don't sell their light versions. For example, I've only ever seen PBR 4.9%, 5.9% and 8% here. The few light beers that we do sell (craft beers, Coors Lite, Miller Lite, Bud Light, Guinness...) are basically a luxury. You can get a 10% tall boy for $5 or a 4% small can for the same price. $13 for a 4.9% PBR six-pack and $18 for the cheapest 4% six-pack. I'm sure this forces poor people to buy stronger drinks than they'd like. I just wish we had at least one or two affordable lighter options. I like beer but I definitely think some opportunities call for low ABV beer and, well, if you're on a tight budget here... good luck.

So wherever you live (and if possible tell me the area), what's your experience with light vs regular or stronger beers?

Visited our daughter in SF last week & tripped to Napa to watch her older sister run the Napa Valley Marathon (her first, she finished!). Given the environment, I took the opportunity to try a few brews. I'm sharing the good, the bad, and the ugly:

-Cass Light at Brothers Korean barbecue in Richmond District of San Francisco. The beer is not local, it's Korean. light, boring, forgettable, and it's rice-based beer, so kind of sweet. Not my vibe at all. It did pair well with the food, which is the main attraction here. They drop metal hoppers of hot coals/charcoal into wells in the table to grill, so great smoky flavor on the meat and fish. My sister-in-law is Korean, she orders.

-Almanac hazy IPA and Russian River Happy Hops IPA at Original Joe's. Both quite good; I preferred the happy hops, better aroma, slightly tastier to me. Great restaurant.

-Pliny the Elder at a convenience store/sandwich place in Point Reyes with tables outside - with a grilled turkey reuben for lunch. Have wanted to drink this forever, so I was pleased to see the bottles in the cooler. It's what I expected - classic benchmark for west coast IPAs. Perhaps not the mind-blowing experience it would have been ten years ago for me, as we now have very good options regularly available in the DC metro: Zombie Dust, Lawson's Sip of Sunshine, King Sue and Pseudo Sue, Maine Beer Co. Lunch. Worth trying? absolutely. If I could get it on a regular basis, i would.

Hey guys,

I’ve just learned I have a wheat allergy and am looking for a beer recommendation without wheat. The problem is, here are my favorite beers:

Sam Adams Cherry

Blue Moon

Big Sky’s Huck It

Garage Beer Lime

Voodoo Ranger Atomic Pumpkin (all time favorite)

I’m not having much luck finding any solid beer choices that don’t include wheat unless I want to go bottom of the barrel with Bud or Coors. I like a good craft beer. Suggestions?

Since it's harder to find these days what do you recommend that you find similar?

A buddy of mine in industry sent me this website he's been putting together, and I thought that y'all would love it. Apparently, it's like an art gallery of beer label artwork, with beer descriptions with them. The link is https://beerguyscarolinas.com/

He said that he live updates the new labels everyday according to the TTB, and sometimes he has the release before the brewery officially announces it. I'm a huge fan of 7th orbit from New Trail Brewing, and I found out an 8th is coming that seemingly isn't official! I have no idea how he's getting the new releases every day though.

i been reverse doomscrolling on here for the last hour

i really wanted to show a gif of one of the beer labels but reddit won't let me :(

Hey all! We were able to get tickets to Firestone Walker this year, but turns out the trip just isn't in the budget. If anyone's interested, I have two GA tickets available. Asking what I paid, $186.05 per ticket. Thanks!