Good People Brewing Back Forty Avondale in that order.

Central City, Howe Sound, and Phillips.

Craft Reno, hands down, best local beer destination. Bottle shop with 3 rotating taps (always something good/cool).

quote: Originally posted by bluesandbarbq Not necessarily the best but your favorite. My favorites locally are: Depot Street, Yazoo and Marble City. Good people, good beers.

quote: quote: Originally posted by fretwalker quote: quote: quote: Originally posted by kinger The Brew Kettle - all around favorite based on beers, food, atmosphere, and value. About an hour away though. Hoppin' Frog - best quality locally, and the owner/brewer frequents our tastings. Production only so their establishment is all business. Thirsty Dog - most beers are average to really good, a handful are outstanding. Tasting room/bar in the brewery. Them along w/ the Frog are both the closest breweries to me. Been around a long time so they also get my sentimental vote as a catalyst in my craft evolution. I think I like your locals better than mine! Thought the Hoppin' Frog Christmas Ale was top-notch, in fact, I just bought the last bomber on Cork-n-Bottle's shelf. Thirsty Dog, well, ya gotta love a brewery that would name a beer, "Old Leghumper." That and Siberian Nights are usually in my fridge. Good stuff, fer sure!

quote: Originally posted by kinger quote: quote: quote: Originally posted by fretwalker quote: quote: quote: quote: Originally posted by kinger The Brew Kettle - all around favorite based on beers, food, atmosphere, and value. About an hour away though. Hoppin' Frog - best quality locally, and the owner/brewer frequents our tastings. Production only so their establishment is all business. Thirsty Dog - most beers are average to really good, a handful are outstanding. Tasting room/bar in the brewery. Them along w/ the Frog are both the closest breweries to me. Been around a long time so they also get my sentimental vote as a catalyst in my craft evolution. I think I like your locals better than mine! Thought the Hoppin' Frog Christmas Ale was top-notch, in fact, I just bought the last bomber on Cork-n-Bottle's shelf. Thirsty Dog, well, ya gotta love a brewery that would name a beer, "Old Leghumper." That and Siberian Nights are usually in my fridge. Good stuff, fer sure! Rivertown bottles are now up this way, and I've enjoyed most of what I've had from them so far. I'm starting to see Mt. Carmel as well, but haven't gotten around to trying them out yet.

Need you ask?....Penn Brewery, and the Church Brew Works....I have to get to the Church soon...It's been a while....My soul is in need of redemption.....[:0][:D]........

Choc! Great people and I love their signature series.

Christian Moerlein will forever occupy a special place in my heart, as the (then) newly introduced OTR transformed me from a life-long Guinness drinker to a craft beer drinker. But is it local? Not quite yet... locally owned, yes. There's a building (formerly a potato chip factory) that's going to be a brewery, and a construction project on the riverfront that's going to be the Moerlein Lager House, but as of this moment it's all contract-brewed elsewhere. Further clouding the definition of "local," more than 3/4 of Samuel Adams' production is brewed in the former Hudepohl-Schoenling brewery in Cincinnati. So, is Boston Beer a local? The local locals seem to be obsessed with Honoring the Traditions of Cincinnati Brewing.... in a nutshell, Lager. Helles-bent, one might say. Sorry, I'm really not a lager guy. Outside the lagersphere, Rivertown's Roebling vanilla espresso imperial robust porter is tasty, if a bit too busy. Mt Carmel's Scottish Ale wasn't bad, but if I'm perusing the Cork n Bottle's cooler and I have Robert the Bruce and Dirty Bastard in front of me, Mt Carmel isn't the one going home with me. I guess I'm waiting for one of these brewers to make me say, "WOW"

Titletown is the best! Stein club, new beers all the time, great beer cheese soup, great burgers with butter on them. Cask ales. The place smells like malt and hops from 3 blocks away. In the summer you can look out at the fox river. They grown their own hops. There's the giant fiberglass sculpture of a packer on a giant football outside and all this historic stuff inside. And the owner knows, loves, says hi and is genuinely interested in everyone who walks through the door.