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AAC Beer Thread - Downtown Shocker Brown - 01-28-2018 12:02 AM
Beer discussion to bridge the divide. Best brewery in each city.
From my experience:
Wichita: Central Standard/Hank is Wose
Tulsa: Prairie Ales
Tulane: Courtyard
Memphis: Ghost River
Cincinnati: Brink Brewing
Houston: Brash Brewing
Dallas: Rahr Brewing
Greenville: Uptown
What say you?
RE: AAC Beer Thread - geef - 01-28-2018 12:27 AM
Hey! Now you're speaking my language. For my taste, Rhinegeist is making the best beer in Cincinnati. Urban Artifact, however, does some interesting sours and wild ales. Curious, how do you know Brink? I don't live there, but I trawl for breweries when I visit (coupla times a year) and haven't been to Brink yet.
USF/ Tampa: Cigar City for certain
New Orleans: NOLA Brewery, although Abita has powered me through many a night down there
For the record, Tulsa wins the American Beer Conference. Can't beat Prairie.
RE: AAC Beer Thread - mlb - 01-28-2018 12:37 AM
I've never heard of Brink myself?
RE: AAC Beer Thread - Lush - 01-28-2018 08:43 PM
brink's been open for about a year up in college hill. never been . i've heard it's terrible and great. i'll only go to urban artifact if someone asks if i want to go. it's cool to have a brewery in my neighborhood (soon to be two, three if you count taft's taproom which for all intensive purposes is northside. annexation) i just wish it were a different one. not a huge fan of sours and not just because they are so trendy. rhinegeist is pumping out the best suds in town. i'm most fond of listermann's. the o.g's. not the best beer in town, in fact their flagship hazelnut double brown ale, chicow, is f*cking awful. it's essentially syrup. i imagine if i crushed up a couple of codeine in it i could get high like the southern rappers. it's a beer supply store and now a brewery with a cozy tap room. they've been making their own beer for a minute but couldn't have a tap room because of some silly state laws which won't let you. until recently. at least that's what i've heard
RE: AAC Beer Thread - MechaKnight - 01-31-2018 03:06 PM
There's so many great craft beers out there right now, it's hard to nail down a favorite. I drink Adelbert's whenever I see it on a menu. Their dubbels and tripels are fantastic but a little pricey. When getting a 12 pack at the store I tend to grab New Belgium.
But the best beers are those shared with people you love.
The best beer I ever had was the Citra Mellow at Galveston Island Brewery. It's not just that the beer was pretty good, but we had spent hours at the beach and were heading home. We drove past the brewery and saw they had a playset in their yard and the taproom was open. Sitting at their picnic table with my wife, still a little wet, salty, and sandy from the beach, watching my kids play, the sun setting in the distance and turning the sky orange, the cool breeze, the cold, crisp, hoppy citrus IPA in my hand. It was heaven.
I started homebrewing about a year ago too. Some have been really good, some have been disappointing. The flavors and alcohol content have mostly been good, but I've been having a hard time getting the carbonation right. It's a fun hobby but the wife hates the smell on brew day.
RE: AAC Beer Thread - C0|db|00ded - 02-02-2018 12:45 AM
(01-28-2018 12:02 AM)Downtown Shocker Brown Wrote: Beer discussion to bridge the divide. Best brewery in each city.
From my experience:
Wichita: Central Standard/Hank is Wose
Tulsa: Prairie Ales
Tulane: Courtyard
Memphis: Ghost River
Cincinnati: Brink Brewing
Houston: Brash Brewing
Dallas: Rahr Brewing
Greenville: Uptown
What say you?
Central Standard is quaint but you cannot diss the Old Town fixture that is River City Brewery.
Harvester Wheat? Tornado Alley? Old Town Brown? Get serious brother... RCB is an icon in Wichita.
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RE: AAC Beer Thread - UofMemphis - 02-02-2018 02:51 PM
(01-28-2018 12:02 AM)Downtown Shocker Brown Wrote: Beer discussion to bridge the divide. Best brewery in each city.
From my experience:
Wichita: Central Standard/Hank is Wose
Tulsa: Prairie Ales
Tulane: Courtyard
Memphis: Ghost River
Cincinnati: Brink Brewing
Houston: Brash Brewing
Dallas: Rahr Brewing
Greenville: Uptown
What say you?
best Memphis beer is 'Tiny Bomb' by Wiseacre IMHO
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RE: AAC Beer Thread - geef - 02-09-2018 02:02 PM
(02-08-2018 03:31 PM)Tymanh99 Wrote: brink is definitely doing some great things. urban artifact and listermann are the top 2 IMO. streetside brewery just released their #blessed NE IPA in cans and it's fantastic.
the best brewery hands down in the state of ohio is Hoof Hearted in columbus. their NE IPAs are right up there with the big boys of Monkish, Treehouse, Other Half, etc.
I appreciate the word on Brink. I look forward to checking it out. I tell ya - Ohio is making some damn good beer. I can no longer bring back exotic bottles from Oregon to impress the friends and family. On Hoof Hearted and Columbus - I had a handful of buddies travel from Portland to Columbus for the MLS Cup in 2016. Soccer fans and huge beer geeks. They were super impressed with Hoof Hearted and Seventh Son, in particular.
I stopped through Athens to visit my nephew in the fall, and spent some time at Little Fish and Jackie O's. Super impressive.
RE: AAC Beer Thread - geef - 02-09-2018 03:06 PM
(01-28-2018 12:02 AM)Downtown Shocker Brown Wrote: Beer discussion to bridge the divide. Best brewery in each city.
From my experience:
Wichita: Central Standard/Hank is Wose
Tulsa: Prairie Ales
Tulane: Courtyard
Memphis: Ghost River
Cincinnati: Brink Brewing
Houston: Brash Brewing
Dallas: Rahr Brewing
Greenville: Uptown
What say you?
Obviously, I have beer on my mind today. I almost forgot Deep Ellum Brewery in Dallas. I don't know whether it's the best beer in Dallas, because I never see beer from there come out this way. I do know that the Deep Ellum neighborhood was my refuge when I visited there, and the brewery was the heart of that refuge.
RE: AAC Beer Thread - rath v2.0 - 02-09-2018 05:21 PM
(02-08-2018 03:31 PM)Tymanh99 Wrote: brink is definitely doing some great things. urban artifact and listermann are the top 2 IMO. streetside brewery just released their #blessed NE IPA in cans and it's fantastic.
the best brewery hands down in the state of ohio is Hoof Hearted in columbus. their NE IPAs are right up there with the big boys of Monkish, Treehouse, Other Half, etc.
Heading to Brink this evening for the first time. From the eastside I have to pack a bag lunch and bring a Sherpa to get to Hamilton Ave...no easy way there.
Streetside is around the corner from us...we go there often and dig the folks that run it but I don’t go there because I think the beer is off the charts great. Some of it feels a bit too homebrewed for my tastes. And their IPA is a bit too session-ie.
Elevator in Columbus does some good things as do the folks making Black Rajah up north.
Not AAC territory but my favorite brewery right now is the whacky sh!t the guys at Against The Grain in Louisville have going on. I rank them up with the blokes at Three Floyd’s in terms of not giving a damn and just letting their freak flag fly.
RE: AAC Beer Thread - rath v2.0 - 02-09-2018 10:11 PM
Brink was well worth it.
RE: AAC Beer Thread - geef - 02-09-2018 11:38 PM
(02-09-2018 10:11 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote: Brink was well worth it.
Hey! Good to hear that. Yeah, I stay in the same 'hood as you when I'm in town, so Streetside is the most convenient. I've come to know the family who owns it a bit, and they're good folks, but I don't get the session IPAs either.
RE: AAC Beer Thread - Lush - 02-09-2018 11:40 PM
session ipa's certainly serve their purpose. some founder's all day for cornhole at ten a.m.
RE: AAC Beer Thread - geef - 02-10-2018 04:14 PM
(02-09-2018 11:40 PM)Lush Wrote: session ipa's certainly serve their purpose. some founder's all day for cornhole at ten a.m.
I get that, and cornhole at 10 a.m. is always a solid idea. I'm a total hophead, but I've been moving toward some of the good lagers and kolschs being produced these days as my session beers.
RE: AAC Beer Thread - Lush - 02-10-2018 06:50 PM
good call. i'm partial to pilsners as a sessionable, they just go down too damn quickly. unless it's a czech
RE: AAC Beer Thread - rath v2.0 - 02-11-2018 02:49 PM
Went to Urban Artifact last night...want to like them but they need to get out of the rut dumping citrus in everything. Like they want to make everything a gose. 2 of the beer geeks I was with ordered red wine after the tasting flight.. I ended up ordering a bottle of Stone IPA after having their Finn...apparently there are a lot of lemon orchards in Finland because that’s all that IPA tasted like.
RE: AAC Beer Thread - Lush - 02-11-2018 02:55 PM
yeah, even though i haven't been to brink, i'd much rather have a regular brewery in my hood. there's a trappist brewery going across the street from urban artifact as well. taft's brewhouse is just down spring grove though. urban artifact does have good music though
RE: AAC Beer Thread - geef - 02-11-2018 04:38 PM
I love me a gose. Sometimes. But not often. It's the reason I generally go to tap houses far more often than breweries. You're assured of more beers, and a greater variety of beers.
RE: AAC Beer Thread - rath v2.0 - 02-12-2018 11:05 AM
They seem to fall into the trap too many do of getting a little too into what they personally like. Ends up homogenizing their offerings. Those businesses tend to not make it in the long run. See Blank Slate. Do your thing and fly your freak flag but you have to offer something for the wider beer geek public rather than having everything taste like it came out of the same tank.
Guys at Streetside warned us we probably wouldn’t like it. They were right.
RE: AAC Beer Thread - geef - 02-12-2018 11:36 AM
(02-12-2018 11:05 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote: They seem to fall into the trap too many do of getting a little too into what they personally like. Ends up homogenizing their offerings. Those businesses tend to not make it in the long run. See Blank Slate. Do your thing and fly your freak flag but you have to offer something for the wider beer geek public rather than having everything taste like it came out of the same tank.
Guys at Streetside warned us we probably wouldn’t like it. They were right.
I agree for Cincinnati. For now. The specialty thing can work in some cities. We have at least two breweries here that are exclusively sours, one that does mostly farmhouse, and now three that are doing only the crisp German beers (much to my delight - we need more of that). But we have something like 70 breweries within city limits and people come here to drink, so it can work. It's probably still a bit early in Cincinnati. That's why places that are more well-rounded - like MadTree, Rheingeist, Streetside, etc. - are big hits.