Favorite breweries that aren't distributed in your area

But if you live near DC or VA then you don't even have to worry about it and get a tonne more stuffages!

 

I would love to pay only $42 for a case of Green Flash Double Stout, but it's $55 and I pay it anyway. I will not spend $75 on a case of Yeti though. PA does get a fantastic assortment, so I can be content with the variety that comes through. Where I get beer envy is seeing prices in other states.

 

Cigar City, Firestone. Actually, shouldnt complain. In Ohio I think we have all but 2 of the top 25 craft breweries now. Except we do get shut out of some brews (BCBS) because of 12 % abv law. There is a bill proposed to change it to 21 though

 

Breweries I've had that don't distribute here: Boulevard, Yards, Great Lakes and Terrapin.

Word of mouth breweries: Deschutes, Hill Farmstead, Tired Hands

I'd like to have access to everything, realistically, haha.

 

New Glarus or Cascade

 

Very big list, because I live in a very small town, so I'll stick to beers that I once was able to buy regularly when I lived in Ithaca NY and can no longer get: Ithaca (duh), Dogfish Head, Southern Tier leap to mind. Mostly of the pale ale/IPA persuasion.

 

Pretty much 90% of my favorite breweries don't distribute in New Mexico, or at least not within 280 miles of where I live.

 

Well, I don't know if it would be my favorite brewery, but from what I've read and heard about Surly, I'm pretty sure that would be my number one brewery to try right now.

However, I dished out a ton of "likes" to those on here echoing the same sentiments of Founders, Bell's, Troeg's, Dogfish Head, Three Floyds, Prairie, Half Acre, and Great Lakes. Hope I didn't sound too desperate right now.

Luckily, Midnight Sun, Stone, Lagunitas, Avery, Deschutes, Ninkasi, Elysian and The Bruery have graced the shelves of Juneau more than enough times with a fairly nice reserve of high end European brews.

 

Wait a minute, MN doesn't get Stone or Lagunitas? .......huh, are you joking with us?

 

Foothills, Duck-Rabbit, Great Lakes, NoDa, DFH, Olde Mecklenburg, Olde Hickory.

Luckily I go to North Carolina a couple of times a year so I can stock up on these.

 

You're also missing AleSmith, Jester King, Bruery and Crooked Stave

 

For everyone bemoaning Hill Farmstead's lack of availability be reasonable. HF is a world class brewery but it operates like a mom and pop store. They are not going to increase their distro because there is not enough to go around. There are some brewers in the same league that do have the capital and business plan to distribute but most of them would have to make a deal with Big Beer, such as Goose Island and Boulevard have, to get anywhere close to national distribution. I son't see HF or Russian River doing that any time soon.

 

Russian River obviously, but also Westbrook. I need more Gose in my life.

 

Sounds like he could've possibly brought you a lot more than just good beer.

 

Three Floyds

 

More populated areas of the state indeed do get those brands, just not us out here in the boonies.

 

Founders
Three Floyds
Tröegs
Bell's
Terrapin

 

We get Bruery. I can live without jester king but Alesmith is great. Had a few in SD this summer. Great beers as well.

 

Live in SW VA and we get a surprisingly good selection here, but I would love to get Odell's, Deschute, Alesmith, Cigar City, Russian River, Hill Farmstead, and Three Floyds.