We'll have our almost 1 year old with us so evenings are probably out. I'm thinking maybe Sunday if I can still get tickets. Any place nearby that you guys recommend for food? Are there good Cuban places near there?
Most will say Cigar City which is a great choice. However, I would pick Cycle Brewing (St. Pete), Rapp brewing, and Green Bench brewing over Cigar City. All three of those are doing much more variety these days.
Late to this thread, but a few of my favorite breweries:
Ballast Point (just about anything by them, especially Indra Kunindra [curry stout], Victory at Sea [Vanilla Imperial Porter], and Sea Monster [Imperial Stout])
Green Flash (also just about anything, but especially their Serano Double Stout - have to go to the brewery itself for it though)
Mission Brewery (their Chocolate/Cherry porter - on tap at the brewery only atm - and Dark Seas - probably my absolute favorite Imperial Stout, it's heavy on toffee taste)
I also recently moved to the Paso Robles area in central California, so I've been spending a lot of time at the Firestone Walker brewery. And holy crap their Proprietor's Reserve series (read: Barrel-aged just about everything, and ridiculously delicious for being 10+% abv) is amazing. Today I'm having Stickee Monkee, a barrel-aged Belgian Quad. PM me if you're reading this and ever in the area and find yourself wanting to hit up FW
I'll check all these out if I have time... at least I can buy them at the liquor store.
Duvel is one of the best liked beers here in Belgium too. Very full - yet smooth - taste. Pretty high alcohol percentage though (8.5%), be mindful of that.
Dude, you need to drink that Enjoy ByGreat beer I found this weekend. Ran out the next and bought 12 more. If you can find it, do it. I haven't been a fan of Cigar City but this collaboration with AleSmith is a fantastic brown.
just old bottles saving for a friend. they are going to make drinking glasses with themDude, you need to drink that Enjoy By
Sadly, I did move and I miss SD something fierce. Although I do have to admit some of the area here isn't bad. And having a 10 min drive to Firestone really, really helps.
We've visited Utah too, but this was in San Fransisco, where we drank 2 local beers (but I forgot their names).
Nope. ABV is not required to be listed. Most of the time it is, but not always. I have a fuck-ton of empty bottles because I save them for homebrewing and I had to dig through quite a few but I found a Rogue 22oz "OREgasmic Ale" bottle that does not list an ABV anywhere, and I have searched top to bottom. I am pretty sure the majority of the macro-brews don't list their ABV anywhere either but I don't have any around to confirm.
