The point was Boulevard is something you settle for not search for. The beers I'd prefer in NY to Saison Bretta would be a different list but it would probably be a large one as well. I googled craft beer NYC and found a link to top 15 craft beer bars and looked over their menus. Two had Hill Farmstead on tap. At least one had Allagash. Some had Stillwater. One had Prairie Ale. Many had Firestone Walker.

Stillwater is awesome and pretty easy to find.

if you're in the hudson valley, try peekskill brewery. they've got some good stuff.

A couple new ones:

Samuel Adams Verloren: It isn't the best gose that I have tried, but it was pretty good. I would have liked to have had a bit more Sea Salt in the finish. There is a guy in my home brew club that makes a bunch of fruit infused gose that I would take over this any day of the week.

Boulevard Tasting Room Ginger Lemon Radler: It was pretty damn good and perfect for First Friday Art Walk. It isn't as cloying as Stiegl and the ginger really compliments the beer aspect of the beverage.

Did anyone else get their hands on a Sierra Nevada Beer Camp 12 pack?
I got lucky and a local distributor set one aside for our homebrew club to consume at our meeting tonight.
I had the Chico King on tap prior tonight, but I wouldn't have been able to try the rest without his help.
I was a little underwhelmed by the Ballast Point and Bell's collaborations, but the Ninkasi and New Glarus ones were pretty damn good.

Fact of the day:

Over the past year, Bud Light Lime has done over 500 Million in sales.

Pretty good idea.

I attended Great Nebraska Beer Festival as a member of the Lincoln Lagers. I served my Key Lime Double Wit about half the time I was there, and spent the rest of the time mingling with some BJCP friends and talking to a couple commercial brewers I know who were at the festival for the first time.
Here's a sampling of what I tried according to Untappd. I focused on breweries I have never purchased products from and new regional breweries.

Belgian Curve Grand Cru by Scriptown Brewing Company
Coffee Black Eye Porter by Scratchtown Brewing Company
Royale 41 Double IPA by Peace Tree Brewing Company
Ichabod Pumpkin Ale by New Holland Brewing Company
Full Circle Kolsch by New Holland Brewing Company
Fox Hole Pivo by Modern Monks
Air American Blonde Ale by Lucid Brewing
Goslar Gose by Lucid Brewing
Pale Ale by Kinkaider Brewing Company
Apricot Wheat by Keg Creek Brewing Company
Pumpkin Springs Porter by Grand Canyon Brewing Company
Hoperation Overload Double IPA by DESTIHL Brewery
Hibiscus Gose by Boulevard

It was unbearably warm once again this year, but they kept us under a big tent with fans in it with all the other home brew clubs, so I also drank my fair share of quality home brews including a Flanders Red from the South Omaha Brewers and a Nelson Sauvin Wheat Ale from a member of the Kansas City Bier Meisters that I judge beer with at least twice a year.

I picked one up yesterday. Haven't gotten around to trying any of them yet though. I'm just wondering what order I'm going to drink them in.

We tried to consume them from lightest to Darkest, and least complex to most complex. We skipped ahead to one of the favorites at one point, but I don't remember at what point that happened anymore.

I have been boycotting Golden Road every since they sent a cease and desist letter to a fellow home brewer in Omaha when he was starting up Farnham House Brewing Company. It was originally named Goldenrod, after the state flower of Nebraska, but Golden Road thought that was too similar to their name and felt that the flower logo resembled their Palm Tree logo. The folks in Omaha didn't want to contend with some upstart brewing company in LA that doesn't even distribute in this state in a drawn out legal battle, and simply let it go.

IMO, They seem to be more about the entrepreneurial aspect of the business than they are about succeeding at making fantastic beer. I've got no problem with it, and am happy to see a young woman making it big in the craft beer business, but I still won't consume their products for personal reasons.

Sounds somewhat similar to Natty Greene's Brewery out of Greensboro getting a challenge from Anheuser-Busch InBev when they filed for a brewery trademark because it was too similar to "Natty Light." Nevermind that Natty is a nickname for Nathaniel, and Greensboro was named after him. As far as I know, they are planning to move forward with the trademark.

http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/blog/2 ... l?page=all

I can see how you would get that impression. The novelty of having a young woman as co-founder and President gets them a lot of press, but she's a business person not a brewer so articles focusing on her end up slanted to the business side of things rather than being about the beers. Also, in their first year or so of business, their main beers were a session ipa, a wheat and a brown ale. Even if you are aiming high, its hard to achieve much wow factor with those types of beers.

They hired a new head brewer away from Drake's soon after that, and really started to branch out beyond those core beers though and he also tinkered with all of the recipes and pretty much improved everything. I think most of their beers are now very good. They still don't make anything that's really world class or fantasic as you say, but I'm always pleasantly surprised when I try something new by them. They've also just hired away the head brewer from TAPS Fish House and I think their plan is to build a second facility that they are going to put him in charge of. I think they also plan to up their barrel aging program and start experimenting with sours some. So they are upping their game.

It seems kinda lame to send a cease and desist order to your friend especially when their beers aren't even available in Nebraska. I think they probably have much larger ambitions than the level of business they are doing today and if they are going to protect their trademarks, they have to do it immediately and not sometime later down the road when you want to start distributing in Nebraska when Goldenrod might have been firmly established. You're not missing much right now through boycotting them but you might be later. The brewer they hired away from TAPs was responsibly for Remy Stout which is a world class beer. I respect your loyalty to your friend though.

The airport can idea is a very good one. Wish I'd thought of it. I would love to fucking carry one two of those.

And I had a sierra Beer Camp beer on tap in Chicago this week, some kind of scotch ale if memory serves.

Probably the Asheville Brewers Alliance Tater Ridge? Brewed w/ sweet potatoes.

Tater Ridge, yes that's it. Wasn't bad, I guess. It was loud and crowded as fuck in that taco place, so I was plenty distracted.

Yeah it wasn't one of my favorites from the pack.

I thought the Cigar City, Russian River, Three Floyds were the best. The Allagash one just made me miss having Allagash White always close by.

Not necessarily in line with the craft beer of this thread, but good read on Miller Lite: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/miller-tyme

Doesn't surprise me, I guess.

Those cans make me want to drink them even though I A. won't, and B. know what's inside isn't good

They look great.

Couldn't have put it better.

For my cheap beer, I drank Miller Lite before and continue to drink it now. The difference is that I definitely feel cooler when drinking it now.

i was in NC over Labor Day and destroyed a TON of those miller lite cans from someone's cooler and it was GREAT so fuck everything in the whole world in the ear. My god it was so hot that day. I hate NC. I need to move to Alaska. I wonder if my daughter is old enough to move out.

Military school?

Also, cannot get down with miller lite. Shit just does not taste good to me, no matter how hot it is. There is ALWAYS something else to drink.

Where in NC? Da beach? I was in Raleigh over the weekend and it wasn't too bad.

Yeah, down in Wilmington. Maybe I'm just not used to the humidity anymore but I was praying for the sweet embrace of death.