Top Five Near You, Now.

He's doing he 40 years in the wilderness... It's just a mirage

 

I hate everyone here. I live in Oklahoma. Aside from rochefort, Prairie, and bernardus, good beer is scarce.

 

Flower Power
Sour In The Rye
Central Waters BBA Scotch Ale
Tart of Darkness
GI Sofie

 

Im going with:
Moose drool,
Rogue hazelnut brown necter,
Sock knocker,
Firestone porter,
Rubicon IPA.

 

Just 5 ? But they're only fifteen feet from the couch.

 

Green Flash Double Stout
Tallgrass Ethos IPA
Yazoo Sue
Straight To Ale Monkeynaut IPA
Bayou Teche Beire Joi

 

The store I'm talking about isn't in Iowa. My town is pretty mediocre for beer selection. Luckily I'm in eastern Iowa and a quality liquor store is less than a 5 mile drive away from me in Illinois. It's great, considering the majority of the people in my area don't give a single shit about craft beer.

Here's an example. I walk into this place in the middle of August and Founders Imperial Stout, Devil Dancer, Breakfast Stout, Backwoods Bastard, KBS, Red Rye, and Curmudgeon are all still sitting on the shelves. Hell, they even had Bourbon County Cherry Rye and Coffee Stout sitting there for weeks. Even Dogfish Head World Wide Stout sat there for months before anyone picked it up. It's awesome.

 

I wanna be your friend.

 

Greenbush Brother Benjamin
Jolly Pumpkin La Roja
New Holland Farmhouse Hatter
Bell's Two Hearted Ale
Short's Lil' Weezy

 

So you were just bragging about the beers that your boss has? haha, nice one.

 

Every time I go to Marty's I'm more disappointed with their prices than with their selection. But I did notice that no whales are ever on the shelf. Used to be my go-to place for tea, mustard, hot sauce and sparkling wine. Even applied for a job there once--never heard back.

 

1-Deradnaught
2-Rochefort 10
3- St Bernardus 12
4-Lucky 13
5-G'Night

 

Pannepot Reserva
Cascade Apricot
Westbrook Gose
Stone Enjoy By
FIS

 

Less bragging than salivating...he doesn't exactly open up his stash to employees either, alas alas

Yeah, our shelf selection is...well, honestly fairly plebeian. I blame a lot of that on the sheer amount of product we move over the course of a given week/month/whatever...when you have hundreds of people coming in over the course of a single day buying beer (and frequently doing so in large quantities), anything even remotely interesting tends to vanish alarmingly quickly. These days we tend to just hide anything with a limited supply or a time-limited release behind the cigar counter as soon as it comes in, and wait for the more beer-savvy customers to come to us directly with inquiries. (And I do mean anything that's in limited supply...even Lunch, which we get in every six weeks or so, gets hidden away.) That said, we do try to get in as much of the more esoteric/limited stuff as we can...it just also tends to vanish correspondingly quickly.

 

Grocery store 2 miles from me:

SN Pale Ale
SN Torpedo
Great Lakes (most offerings)
Stone Levitation
DFH 60 & 90
Widmer Bros (Hopside Down, Citra Blonde, Alchemy Ale)

 

NH was on the list this batch. Beverage King in W.Leb had 5 bottles this morning....

 

Uh...
Hmm.....
I wish I could say Jai Alai, that shit is rare nowadays.
Two Hearted
Storm King
Rumble
Founders Centennial IPA - just grabbed it can't wait to try it.
Ohhh and IDK....rasputin???

 

On a side note, I know the owner of the store very well. There's a wing joint next to his store that has jumped into the craft beer scene with both feet. He tends to stock the same beers that they're pouring that week/month. He and I discuss potential stocking orders on a monthly basis, as we share the same ideas about quality beers.

 

Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier
Stone Ruination
CCB Jai Alai
Terrapin WnB
Founders Porter