I love discovering small craft brewers and sampling their wares. I have a phone app called Untappd that finds them for me. On a whim I searched from my house and found one I didn't know was there within walking distance. Walking distance is good for those 12% Scotch Ales, and when it's 118 out I can sweat it out by the time I get home...
"Innes & Gunn" is as good a place as any to start
If you are ever in the Pacific Northwest, check out Bill's Tavern in Cannon Beach Oregon. They make a nice selection of IPA's, Ales, and a very tasty 2x4 Stout Porter. It's one of those towns, that's totally locally owned shops, restaurants, galleries - NO chain stores... Dog friendly, very laid back
Going well! Here are installed cables; I made up 4 to bi-wire the sigs.... Had I do it over again, I would have order straight + 45 degree spades. Would have made termination behind the Vidars a bit cleaner. No discernable difference between these and the Symo's (so how DO you A/B speaker cables - lol) - they'll go onto Audiomart soon.....
That whole stretch is nice from Tillamook up through Astoria. Add in Camp 18 (one of those wows with the size logs used to build it, I don't remember the food wowing) as you drive through the mountains and the area is great from an outside the city perspective.
I SO need to visit the PNW again. It's been about 25 years since I was there.
https://bigskybrew.com/beers/moose-drool/#:~:text=Moose Drool - Big Sky Brewing,Rich mahogany color. ??Moose Drool beer from Montana, good brown ale.
But IMHO, Newcastle never travelled well. Just wasn’t the same here in the states. I worked a spell in Berwick-upon-Tweed, and thr fresh Newcasrle was a delight! And don’t knock it, I rather liked Berwick!Well.... I've LIKEed your post even though I hate itA sad day for Lagunitus and for Newcastle Brown Ale. It's apparently targeted at the US market and the rest of the world will get the original. I assume it's not re-labeled and therefore uninformed consumers (or recently uninformed consumers) wouldn't know they were not actually drinking a Newcastle Brown Ale.
Newcastle Brown Ale has always been the defining exemplar for a brown ale. No longer true in the US anyway
yep, that’s what i meant/said!
I always have Smithwick’s around, too, though Irish…
my daughter (at school in New Have ), turned me on to Treehouse in Sturbridge MA. Apparently it’s some sort of Western Mass legend. They don’t ship, it’s this pickup thing at the brewery, and do NOT get between a fan and their Treehouse! But they make some really interesting beer! Part of the fun!
You lost me at Bieber! But I do agree there are some great beers out there. But I do love the bitter stuff.I'm not maligning, I drink IPAs as well. But they're not the end-all be-all of beer, and the madness is making them bigger and stronger with not enough attention to balance. I say don't limit yourself. Drinking nothing by IPA is like listening to nothing but Justin Bieber. A little Bieber now and then might be fine, but too much and you will want to poke sharp pencils through your eardrums.
