The Craft Beer Thread....

81 wrote:

Yeunling....budweiser without the eagle

81 wrote:

Yeunling....budweiser without the eagle

81 wrote:

Miller lite it is









Yuengling still sucks

shep wrote:

went to cigar city today....the tasting room wasn't too impressive as a bar, but the beer was great. enjoyed 2 flights of different CC brews, then finished with a pint of my fav (the cubano-style espresso brown ale). sitting at home now with a Jai Alai and a cigar i bought at the brewery..

it was worth the 40 minute drive.. just wish i had more time, and that they had a better bottle selection at the brewery for take out... i didn't want to get a growler on account of I'm planning on transporting it back to houston with me..

adam42381 wrote:

The wife and I got back from our beercation/concert trip to the Tampa area last night and we had a blast. We visited Dunedin Brewery and 7venth Sun Brewing in Dunedin, Barley Mow in Largo, Cigar City in Tampa twice and Peg's Cantina/Cycle Brewing in Gulfport.

The first day of our trip was Wednesday and we visited three different breweries for the first time. 7venth Sun was hands down our favorite of the three. We sampled everything they had on draft and were not disappointed. Dunedin also had some solid offerings and their dry-rubbed wings were great. Barley Mow was a decent, but not worth going out of your way.

On Thursday, we ate lunch at Datz Deli in Tampa and it was excellent as usual. Their food is top notch and they have a solid beer selection. After lunch, we headed over to Cigar City which is always a must when we're in the area. The beers were very good as usual, although I would argue that the overall quality of their beer has been a bit diluted due to the fact that they make so many different beers. If I counted correctly they had 22 beers on draft and we tried all of the ones we'd never had before. After leaving Cigar City we went to the Americanarama concert which was a lot of fun. At the show we each had a Cigar City Jai Alai can ($8.50) before switching to the 24 ounce Yuengling cans ($11). Yes, concert beers are ridiculously overpriced.

On Friday we headed to Peg's Cantina/Cycle Brewing in Gulfport. This is always one of our favorite stops because the staff is extremely friendly and they brew some great beers. After leaving Peg's, we headed back to Tampa to pick up some beer to go at Cigar City. While we were there, we each had a few samples and a pint of beer that wasn't on draft the previous day.

All in all, this was the best mini beercation we've ever had. I think I may need a few days to detox at this point.

https://plus.google.com/photos/11795461 ... NCCz6y52AE

Beer list (all were shared flights of 4-6 ounce samples except for the ones from Peg's/Cycle and day 2 at Cigar City which were shared pints):

Dunedin:
Apricot Peach Ale
Three Copper Coins pale lager
American Classic IPA
Biere de Cafe brown ale brewed with coffee
Red Ale
Pale Ale
Chronicle 10: Double Oatmeal Pale Ale
Nitro Stout

7venth Sun:
Wolfman's Berliner Weisse
Summer Camp #2 IPA
Three Piece Tripel
Belge D'or Belgian strong ale
Intergalactic Pale Ale (top 5 for the week)
Graffiti Orange Creamsicle pale wheat ale
White Shadow Belgian Blonde
FYA (AKA Fuck Ya) pale ale
Sessions Brett IPA Dry Hopped with Citra
Saison In Paradise saison

Barley Mow:
Common Eileen California common/steam beer
Imperial Red
Quackalope IPA
Unkindness black IPA

Cigar City day 1:
White Oak Peach IPA (amazing beer, top 5 for the week)
Lemon Jasmine Pale Ale
Chocolate Covered Raspberry Lager
Stiftung Berliner-Weisse
Wakatu pale wheat ale
Torcedores: Sean's Hoppy Session pale ale
Whiskey Nitro Irish stout
Torcedores: Matt Tucker's Vienna Lager
Torcedores: Ben Romano's India Pale Lager
Humidor Series IPA (top 5 for the week, bought a 4-pack of bottles)

Peg's Cantina/Cycle Brewing:
Cream and Sugar Please porter (tied for favorite of the week, brought a growler home)
Batch 300 Old Ale
FreeWheel Pale Ale
Fixie IPA
Tang & Biscuits IPA
Bottom of the 9th Brown (sample)

Cigar City day 2:
Mango Red Ale
Peach Cypress (tied for favorite of the week)

adam42381 wrote:

The wife and I got back from our beercation/concert trip to the Tampa area last night and we had a blast. We visited Dunedin Brewery and 7venth Sun Brewing in Dunedin, Barley Mow in Largo, Cigar City in Tampa twice and Peg's Cantina/Cycle Brewing in Gulfport.

The first day of our trip was Wednesday and we visited three different breweries for the first time. 7venth Sun was hands down our favorite of the three. We sampled everything they had on draft and were not disappointed. Dunedin also had some solid offerings and their dry-rubbed wings were great. Barley Mow was a decent, but not worth going out of your way.

On Thursday, we ate lunch at Datz Deli in Tampa and it was excellent as usual. Their food is top notch and they have a solid beer selection. After lunch, we headed over to Cigar City which is always a must when we're in the area. The beers were very good as usual, although I would argue that the overall quality of their beer has been a bit diluted due to the fact that they make so many different beers. If I counted correctly they had 22 beers on draft and we tried all of the ones we'd never had before. After leaving Cigar City we went to the Americanarama concert which was a lot of fun. At the show we each had a Cigar City Jai Alai can ($8.50) before switching to the 24 ounce Yuengling cans ($11). Yes, concert beers are ridiculously overpriced.

On Friday we headed to Peg's Cantina/Cycle Brewing in Gulfport. This is always one of our favorite stops because the staff is extremely friendly and they brew some great beers. After leaving Peg's, we headed back to Tampa to pick up some beer to go at Cigar City. While we were there, we each had a few samples and a pint of beer that wasn't on draft the previous day.

All in all, this was the best mini beercation we've ever had. I think I may need a few days to detox at this point.

https://plus.google.com/photos/11795461 ... NCCz6y52AE

Beer list (all were shared flights of 4-6 ounce samples except for the ones from Peg's/Cycle and day 2 at Cigar City which were shared pints):

Dunedin:
Apricot Peach Ale
Three Copper Coins pale lager
American Classic IPA
Biere de Cafe brown ale brewed with coffee
Red Ale
Pale Ale
Chronicle 10: Double Oatmeal Pale Ale
Nitro Stout

7venth Sun:
Wolfman's Berliner Weisse
Summer Camp #2 IPA
Three Piece Tripel
Belge D'or Belgian strong ale
Intergalactic Pale Ale (top 5 for the week)
Graffiti Orange Creamsicle pale wheat ale
White Shadow Belgian Blonde
FYA (AKA Fuck Ya) pale ale
Sessions Brett IPA Dry Hopped with Citra
Saison In Paradise saison

Barley Mow:
Common Eileen California common/steam beer
Imperial Red
Quackalope IPA
Unkindness black IPA

Cigar City day 1:
White Oak Peach IPA (amazing beer, top 5 for the week)
Lemon Jasmine Pale Ale
Chocolate Covered Raspberry Lager
Stiftung Berliner-Weisse
Wakatu pale wheat ale
Torcedores: Sean's Hoppy Session pale ale
Whiskey Nitro Irish stout
Torcedores: Matt Tucker's Vienna Lager
Torcedores: Ben Romano's India Pale Lager
Humidor Series IPA (top 5 for the week, bought a 4-pack of bottles)

Peg's Cantina/Cycle Brewing:
Cream and Sugar Please porter (tied for favorite of the week, brought a growler home)
Batch 300 Old Ale
FreeWheel Pale Ale
Fixie IPA
Tang & Biscuits IPA
Bottom of the 9th Brown (sample)

Cigar City day 2:
Mango Red Ale
Peach Cypress (tied for favorite of the week)

Horos wrote:

I'm 'stage diving into a mosh pit of hops' with a RuinTen.