Favorite breweries that aren't distributed in your area

I can't believe I forgot TG!! I love HH IPA! Never had Great Lakes or Lawson's but would love to.

 

Shit, I forgot Surly!

And obviously I didn't read your post to full comprehension, so Founders and FFF got multiple votes...please get that stuff to the West Coast pronto!

Luckily I get an Odell fix periodically, have yet to have a brew from them that wasn't solid to stellar.

Cheers

 

Ouch.

 

Luckily I travel for work and pretty much always drive so I can bring a truckload of beer home with me.

 

For something that is in a lot of states that we don't get I'll go with New Belgium. Really enjoy 1554 and Ranger.

For something that doesn't even make it out of it's own state that much: Holy City.

 

New Belgium doesn't go north and east of Maryland and Delaware. Yet. I called and they said they want to be in all 50 states by end of 2017.

 

It would be nice if I didn't have to trade or order online (questionable freshness) for:
Firestone Walker, Alpine, Russian River, Three Floyds, Kern River, Cigar City, Port Brewing, Half Acre, Ithaca ......

 

Domestic: New Glarus
Import: Kloster Andechs

I'd also love to get Three Floyds and Founders, too.

 

The Alchemist.

 

Hoppin' Frog
Columbus Brewing Company
Great Lakes
Thirsty Dog
Two Brothers
Mount Carmel
Heavy Seas

 

I would be so happy if we could get Great Lakes and Bells here in Rhody (will take Mass as well since I live five minutes from the line, like most everyone else here).

 

I am very excited that I found out just the other day that Maine Brewing is now in my area of MD. Friend picked up some "Lunch" the other day, and we plan to split it sometime this week. Some good news stories to share for MD people after my long list of whining earlier on this post.

 

Three Floyds, I suppose. I haven't had many brews from places I can't get.

Three Floyds impressed me a lot with their Arctic Panzer, Zombie Dust, and Alpha King. Dreadnaught was great too, but I thought Arctic Panzer was far better (my sister agreed with me, so it's the truth!)

 

Would love to be able to get my hands on Cigar City and Odell's

 

Take your pick between South Lyndale, Lake Wine and Spirits, Chicago Lake, Stinson. All should have Abrasive and all are just a few blocks away from 35W.

 

DogFish Head
FFF
Surly
Indeed
Russian River
Firestone Walker
Lagunitas
whoever makes that Bourbon County Stuff

 

Add Surly to this list for me

 

Founders
Bell's
Three Floyds

(Though admittedly can find two of those on some very rare occasions through one very well-connected local shop)

 

This list could go on forever!!!
Of course nearly everyone would throw Alchemist, Lawson's, and Hill Farmstead up there.
So my other 5 would probably be: Firestone Walker, FFF, Russian River, New Glarus, and Toppling Goliath.

 

I haven't had a chance to try much that isn't "in my area," so there are definitely some breweries that would probably be on this list that I've never gotten a chance at (Russian River and Hill Farmstead are two I'd really like to try), so the closest I have is New Glarus, which I love, and which I have to drive about 2 hours to get a hold of. Luckily I'm in Wisconsin a lot, so I don't have much of an issue getting their stuff (the only exceptions being the brewery-only beers, which I sadly have never had).