Favorite Beer

[gator]

something.......i mean, EVERYTHING about that just seems foul

gator

[stmasley]

Been meaning to post on here for a while but just now getting around to it. If any of you guys go to Orange Beach, it's worth a trip to Pensacola to get some decent beer and to eat a HopJack's. The wife and I went over the Fourth, and I was able to find a decent selection to bring home ...

[gator]

masley, you've been holding out.

i have everything in that photo in at least a 12 in my office, awaiting the day i tire of bourbon and water......except that 2 hearted ale..........i'm envious. hd it before and it's good stuff.

gator

[donia]

.... If any of you guys go to Orange Beach...

you can get those in orange beach at a couple of the liquor stores (b/c of the %alc) on the main highway. got some good stuff there last year (even had delerium and chimay). the lady at the store said they were starting to get a good inventory built up and others were beginning to get walk-ins built for beer, too. the store i got it at also has a deli, near one of the marinas-zeke's i think, and sells deliriums for $20 a beer with meals....liquor store had 'em for $26/4pack .

[Hole Hunter]

I was in Orange Beach this past weekend and could not find any good beer, other than the Sweetwater "Tackle Box" that I scored at Publix. If anyone can find the Sweetwater Motor Boat, it is some good stuff!
I went to two liquior stores in OB and they did not have swat. Guess I did not find the "good" one.
That's okay that 12pk of Miller High Life tasted mighty fine by the pool.
Cheers!

[donia]

I was in Orange Beach this past weekend ...... Guess I did not find the "good" one.

can't remember the name, but it was on the west side of zeke's, may have been a mile or so. it was the far left store in a 3 or 4 store strip just off the highway and had a good many bright neon liquor signs on the front....that's all i can remember....i'll see if i can find it online- data servers are down due to an ac issue, so i'm dead in the water for a lil while.....


Edit* these are from free the hops community:

"There is a package store in front of Zekes they carry the new stuff" (i think this is seaside liquors)

"I was in the Gulf Shores area and spotted some good stuff; Bells Two Hearted Ale, Sweetwater products, at a place called TOBACCO ROAD right next door to Hazels."

[Hole Hunter]

10-4
I will have to remember those.... I will be back down there at the end of the month.
Thanks

[stmasley]

I'm pretty sure that breweries like Stone and DFH don't distribute in AL (yet??). That's why we made a trip over to FL. I actually found the Great Divide in Orange Beach at a random seafood shop that had a beer cooler in the back with a couple (older) cases of stuff. I looked in a couple grocery stores and liquor stores in Orange Beach while we were there, but they pretty much had what you can get here (MS) plus a couple of offerings from Sweetwater (the 420 and the Blue) ..

[gator]

real hard to top a bell's two hearted ale.......but, if any of you run across "pliny the elder" from russian river................BUY ALL YOU CAN TOTE.

i've had one glass of it, and i may never taste another like it again.

gator

[Greenhead22]

I'm bringing a mini-keg of NOLA Blonde Ale to Jackson this weekend.

[augustus_65]

real hard to top a bell's two hearted ale.......but, if any of you run across "pliny the elder" from russian river................BUY ALL YOU CAN TOTE.

i've had one glass of it, and i may never taste another like it again.

gator

I bought a six pack of two hearted ale last Friday night. It is full bodied and full of hops. I had one Sunday night with dinner and was not dissappointed.

[donia]

"where the good stuff hides" - got replenished! been on a rationing schedule with what few i had left (singles on the left are ones i've been holding on to - haven't found an occasion to enjoy the df120min or the maredsous).

very excited to have the hop ottin ipa - sentimental favorite....and a flavor favorite!

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*from vulcan beverage in b'ham*

[4dawgma]

I'll try one'em diet dr. peppers!

[donia]

I'll try one'em diet dr. peppers!

dang!! now you know where those hide, too!!

[kris Schaumburg]

Abita has a commenerative 24 oz beer out right now. Glass bottle with shrimp boots, dubbed SOS "Save our shore". Its a pilsner. I had one last weekend, awesome, really liked it.

Gator, come down to NOLA, you can get anything you want here. Heck there are at least a half dozen local breweries that have stuff on the supermarket shelves right now.