Pittsburgh - New Beers & Local Breweries

Hoping the cask Build and Destroy with Coffee and Vanilla is left for you. That was one of my favorites.

 

Heading out fairly soon, going to hit up BG and Hop Farm today with the wife and baby in tow.

 

Shadyside MD has Enjoy After bottles behind the counter.

 

Anyone know if dinner reservations are necessary for Dorothy Six?

 

Picked up track 8, agave maria, and enjoy after at whole foods today. not sure how many are left, i would call first.

 

I'm on board with your review for the most part. Couple things I found very different from you are:

Cloudy - If that beer is cloudy to you then these beers the other brewers are putting out are straight up cake batter. Boot Camp has a perfectly translucent haze to it.

Boozy/Hot - The alcohol is certainly noticeable(especially as it warms) but in no way is that beer boozy or hot. At 9 whatever % abv that beer is I expected a bit of an alcohol presence and I'm not much of a fan of detectable alcohol in an ipa but it really doesn't detract from the overall enjoyment of that beer.

Overall Boot Camp is very well done.

 

My appearance review was written before I even poured the beer. The actual look had no effect on what I wrote. As for the booze, I expect (and enjoy) some level of it in any 9%. Liked it way more than I thought, outside of Helltown it was one of the more enjoyable local DIPA's I have had - take that anyway you'd like.

 

that Caliente place has a bunch of Jacks Abbey stuff on tap FYinzI

 

So 50% of your review is utter horse shit? Seems like a reasonable thing to do.

 

I know I'm like two weeks late but has anyone seen any straggling lagunitas citrusinensis anywhere? Thanks!

 

I picked some up last weekend at shadyside giant eagle. Had at least 2 cases under.

 

I checked yesterday and didn't see it. Whereabouts was it? Thanks again

 

@sbb32 whole foods Wexford had a few cases left today. On draft as well.

 

directly AX from the chilled singles section.
it's on tap a few places around. I wanna say Caliente has it.

 

Not sure where you're located, but saw it at several places around the South Hills. Duffys had a case or two very recently and think I saw it at the place on 50 in Bridgeville as well, but the latter was early last week.

 

Shadyside ran out Wednesday or Thursday. All the days kind of blend together.

 

Anyone try the green giant? Is it worth the trip?

 

Hopefully one of them is Map of the Sun. Loved that one.

Side Project Saison du Fermier, Maine Dinner, Trillium Artaic, Green Man Maceo, and Cigar City Caffe Americano are the five that first come to mind.

Also, opened @brewgentlemen One the other night and was quite pleased. A really nice creamy mouthfeel with some tempered barrel (mostly bourbon and vanilla) and plenty of the sweet chocolatey and roasty flavors you want in a stout. Didn't have it on draft, which I know many people preferred to the bottles, but I say the bottle was a treat. Looking forward to next year's release.

 

I was wondering about that one. That was a pretty small release in NH, right? Did you ever have KtG? How did this compare?

 

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