Favorite beer of choice?

[MtSkier]

Originally Posted by myersk27

Central Park Liquors is really the best shop there in Steamboat. Sometimes Arctic Liquors can be good and Ski Haus is a place I've found Russian River and Older Viscosity bottles....but really that's it. 3 shops. Makes shopping pretty easy at least.

Ski Haus was a great success last year, plan to try the same this year. Never made it to arctic liquors but we have a car this year so it's easier.


I'll do my best on denver. We may grocery shop in Denver in which case we'd be closer to noon.

Does crooked stave have to go stuff?

[myersk27]

Originally Posted by MtSkier

Ski Haus was a great success last year, plan to try the same this year. Never made it to arctic liquors but we have a car this year so it's easier.


I'll do my best on denver. We may grocery shop in Denver in which case we'd be closer to noon.

Does crooked stave have to go stuff?

I am sure that they will have something for carryout at CS when you are there. John can correct me but I assume their standard lineup stuff is generally available. and they might have some surprises there as well.

[pathetic]

anyone ever try Berkshire Brewing CO Lost Sailor IPA?

picked up a 6pack in cans today. can't wait to try it

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/33/89/

[MtSkier]

Originally Posted by myersk27

I am sure that they will have something for carryout at CS when you are there. John can correct me but I assume their standard lineup stuff is generally available. and they might have some surprises there as well.

Hmmm. Might have to try.

[MtSkier]

Originally Posted by saxlover

What dates are you in steamboat?

Arrive 12/30 leave 1/4. Won't have any time in Denver on the way back. Hoping to squeeze a quick stop in on the way to Steamboat.

[MtSkier]

Originally Posted by myersk27

Steamboat has a craft beer bar now though. And they had The Abyss on tap earlier this week....

Which bar?

Sorry for triple post.

[jmkratt]

Ben to answer the Twitter question they only have a couple "standard" beers: Vieille, Surette, and St. Bretta. Vieille is my favorite saison so I'd recommend that, Surette is very good, the St Brettas are seasonal and are hit or miss IMO.

They'll have some variety of seasonal beers and variants as well as a ton of their beers they distribute through CS Artisan Distribution.

[jmkratt]

Ha I didn't see your question here. I'm going to stop by either today or tomorrow depending on work load, I'll take a pic

[dre2142]

Im getting snipped tomorrow.....couch bound all weekend long. Im catching up on whats in my beer fridge....

[drop2d]

Originally Posted by dre2142

Im getting snipped tomorrow.....couch bound all weekend long. Im catching up on whats in my beer fridge....

Yeeeeeouch!

I feel like the last thing I'd want to do after getting the snippage done is drink beer... for 1, I'd probably end up getting drunk. And 2, I'd definitely piss more which would require handling my junk more frequently. No thanks.

Good luck to you though!

[dre2142]

yeah, we'll see how it goes lol

even if Im fine by saturday Ill milk it all weekend long.....HONEY!!! GET ME A BEER!

[myersk27]

Originally Posted by MtSkier

Which bar?



Sorry for triple post.

It's called The Barley

It's downtown steamboat.

[Roose13]

So I have lunch with my father at a diner today and on my way out I see they had a bar section. In that section was a fridge with craft beer. In the bottom of the fridge was a bottle of 2013 Sucaba. You bet your asses I bought it

[MtSkier]

Originally Posted by myersk27

It's called The Barley

It's downtown steamboat.

Nice I'll check it out.


Also gf is offering to take me out for my birthday to fountainhead, epic food and solid beers beats no food, mobs, and bourbon county. Problem solved.


And for anyone questioning my statement of epic food, 3 words. Whiskey. Cured. Bacon.

[myersk27]

Happy birthday! You also need the Reuben at Paramount.

[MDPrompter]

Madtree thundersnow is making a strong push to beat out GL Xmas as my fav Xmas beer...

[MDPrompter]

Picked up an abyss today. Dude would only sell me one even though he had a whole case behind the counter at 545pm. Booooo

[Roose13]

How does Sucaba age?

[cpxc.]

Originally Posted by mdmarvich

Picked up an abyss today. Dude would only sell me one even though he had a whole case behind the counter at 545pm. Booooo

i bought 6 bottles so far. grocery store just got 9 more cases in. I couldn't believe it. They've had to have gotten 15-18 cases of it total

[jmkratt]

Enjoyed a Vanilla Rye and Prop tonight at my buddy's place, thus completing the only year I've had every variant. I know the Vanilla is getting a lot of hate for "extract flavoring" which I didn't pick up on and I really thought it was a better beer than the Prop personally. I think Prop had more layers but that's not indicative of a better beer, I think the Vanilla is more well crafted. In any event I wish I had coffee

Originally Posted by dre2142

Im getting snipped tomorrow.....couch bound all weekend long. Im catching up on whats in my beer fridge....

Good luck man!

Originally Posted by myersk27

It's called The Barley

It's downtown steamboat.

Knows whats up

Originally Posted by Roose13

So I have lunch with my father at a diner today and on my way out I see they had a bar section. In that section was a fridge with craft beer. In the bottom of the fridge was a bottle of 2013 Sucaba. You bet your asses I bought it

Excellent decision

Originally Posted by Roose13

How does Sucaba age?

Well

Originally Posted by cpxc.

i bought 6 bottles so far. grocery store just got 9 more cases in. I couldn't believe it. They've had to have gotten 15-18 cases of it total

Damn the local King Soopers probably landed 19 cases of 3.2 Bud Light Lime today.

We seems to have more Abyss this year, not complaining. At all. Take notice FW!

[myersk27]

People who are upset with Vanilla Rye can send all their bottles to me.

[dre2142]

Big news around here. http://flyingdogbrewery.com/introduc...wery-virginia/

[unccrombie]

Originally Posted by dre2142

Big news around here. http://flyingdogbrewery.com/introduc...wery-virginia/

got the email on that this morning

[Roose13]

Originally Posted by myersk27

People who are upset with Vanilla Rye can send all their bottles to me.

And one to NJ. We're not so lucky here. I'm starting to think I'll never have anything other than BCBS and Barleywine.

[myersk27]

Originally Posted by Roose13

And one to NJ. We're not so lucky here. I'm starting to think I'll never have anything other than BCBS and Barleywine.

just think of the people who have never had BCBS and Barleywine....I'd say we are all lucky to even get those beers!

Buddy of mine in Kansas waiting in line for like an hour and got 1 bottle of BCBS....

[beefandbean22]

Yeah, here in Washington, we got mainly just BCBS. I think there were a couple of coffee kegs in the state, but not much. No barleywine that I was aware of and definitely none of the other variants.

[myersk27]

Coffee and Vanilla were very tough to come by here locally. I ended up being able to buy 3 bottles of coffee this year and no vanilla. Last year I bought about a case and a half of coffee and 7 Backyard Ryes. This year i've had to work a lot harder to get the quantity of coffee that I wanted to. I traded a lot of beer to land quantity of that variant. Vanilla is nearly impossible to trade for it seems. My best advice, Russo, is that you need to work the various trading forums out there and see if you can get those bottles. There are a lot facebook groups dedicated to trading...obviously Beer Advocate, Rate Beer, Talkbeer.com, and even places like Instagram and Untappd can lead to potential trades. Just gotta know where to look. Just my two cents man. There's also nothing wrong with just sitting back and enjoying BCBS and Barleywine....both are fantastic beers and get easily overlooked because of the rarity of the other two variants.

[MDPrompter]

Originally Posted by myersk27

Coffee and Vanilla were very tough to come by here locally. I ended up being able to buy 3 bottles of coffee this year and no vanilla. Last year I bought about a case and a half of coffee and 7 Backyard Ryes. This year i've had to work a lot harder to get the quantity of coffee that I wanted to. I traded a lot of beer to land quantity of that variant. Vanilla is nearly impossible to trade for it seems. My best advice, Russo, is that you need to work the various trading forums out there and see if you can get those bottles. There are a lot facebook groups dedicated to trading...obviously Beer Advocate, Rate Beer, Talkbeer.com, and even places like Instagram and Untappd can lead to potential trades. Just gotta know where to look. Just my two cents man. There's also nothing wrong with just sitting back and enjoying BCBS and Barleywine....both are fantastic beers and get easily overlooked because of the rarity of the other two variants.

Great advice...I'm on the same path.

Another route I'm going to try is adding some cold brew intelligentsia coffee to the glass before pouring in BCBS. I think I can get:

BCBCS > BCBS with added coffee > BCBS

[Roose13]

Originally Posted by myersk27

just think of the people who have never had BCBS and Barleywine....I'd say we are all lucky to even get those beers!

Buddy of mine in Kansas waiting in line for like an hour and got 1 bottle of BCBS....

That's such a bummer dude.

[MtSkier]

Originally Posted by mdmarvich

Picked up an abyss today. Dude would only sell me one even though he had a whole case behind the counter at 545pm. Booooo

Really? That ones not even kept in the back around here. Walked in and grabbed one off the shelf. Still have Black Butte XXVI and Mirror Mirror sitting there as well.