Physically Most Demanding Release & Most Remote Brewery

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Hill Farmstead and Three Palms (RIP) are the most off the beaten path that I have come across.

 

Pliny the Younger has to be the most physically demanding I've been to, the time you have to get there in the morning and the wait time is insane.
Off the beaten path would have to be Uncle Sam's Misguided brewery in Livermore. I found it after leaving Altamont beer works in Livermore it was this small little house with a sign on the street telling you to head to the backyard...couple of guys filling up growlers slapping stickers of what it was on them hahaha I believe they have a bigger location nowadays. I gotta visit them again.

 

Black Husky Brewing is probably the most remote location in WI (map link). Although that will soon change when they move to Milwaukee.

 

The most physically demanding is Darkness Day. Show up around 3:30 on Friday. Drink all night. Sleep outside in a tent. Forced awake at sunrise (UGH) to break down your camp. Stand in line for 2+ hours to get a wrist band. Wait 2 more hours for the gates to open.

 

When you consider that Hill Farmstead is 35 miles from the Canadian border, I'd say that's pretty remote. And I can't think of any others that I've visited that took as long to get to or were so difficult to find. Fortunately, I was there early in the morning at opening time and before the desire got around big time that you could actually go there to get beer.
But I don't do releases, just like I don't go to the movies the first night they're out since I have no problem with waiting or not having something if it means I need to wait in line for hours in the rain or the cold or the hot sun or in any kind of conditions but 70 degrees and partly sunny with a slight breeze. The most demanding thing I've done for beer is drive 2 hours each way and wait 45 minutes in line for 8 cans of Julius and 8 cans of Curiosity 23. For me, that's demanding to the max.

 

Hardest release I've done: Sitting in pouring rain for 10 hours to get Pliny the Younger. Bring a tent.
Most remote I've been to: Toppling Goliath. It's a shabby little Iowa town in the middle of nowhere with Amish people riding their buggies on the highway.

 

I was surprised how far out Anderson Valley was. Haven't done a ton of bottle releases and the few I did were pleasant, with people being cool passing around nice beers.

 

You certainly have commented for the 'remote' category, but definitely not 'demanding'. I would have thoroughly enjoyed standing in line there just for a drink of water.

 

Not particulary hard to get to..it's just driving... but our most out-of-the-way place was in Grand Marais, Michigan on the Upper Peninsula. Lake Superior Brewing Company in the Dunes saloon. It's a tiny burg and let's just say most people are not just happening by.

 

Getting into fff at lunchtime on a weekend is demanding. Bring beer to drink in your car in the parking lot cause they won't sell you beer at the bar while you wait for your table. Brilliant business tactics. Not

 

Treehouse is pretty damn remote and usually always a line regardless of the time or release..

 

Most demanding was Dinner release in Dec at Maine Beer Co. 24 degrees and snowing. Stood outside for 3+ hours.

Most remote off-the-beaten-path I've come across is definitely Hill Farmstead. There is nothing around. You don't go near there for anything else. An hour off the highway and you pass absolutely nothing the entire drive.

 

Old timers will remember the Kate the Great release (2010?) the morning of a nasty ice storm. Had to be in Portsmouth before the highways in Maine had been properly plowed and salted. Not remote, but certainly demanding.

 

I personally haven't gone there, but I think the fermented yak milk in the Himalayas would be out there in every possible way.

 

Most physically demanding release happened to be my first ever: Hunahpu variant release in October 2011. Unorganized, crowded, hot. Was a huge crowd in the brewery waiting for the sales to start (which were late getting underway) and they tried to force us into single file lines for each variant without anyone knowing which line was for which variant. I was lucky to be in the rum line since that was the variant I wanted but, of course, looking back I wish I had ended up in the apple brandy line. Wasn't all bad since I got the last pour of Tiramisu Stout which was excellent and, to my knowledge, was never made again.

Most remote brewery has definitely been Haw River. It's in Saxapahaw, NC. Tiny town where all there is is the brewery, a restaurant, a music venue and a general store...and they're all right next to/on top of each other, which is cool, but the nearest hotel is 45 minutes away so a cab is not an option if you plan on drinking a lot.

 

Lets see, I've been to Silver Gulch (the furthest most brewery in the US), though its only 15-30 minutes from Fairbanks. Denali Brewpub (in Talkeetna) and 49th State (actually outside the entrance to Denali park, unlike Denali Brewpub, though Talkeetna is where a lot of the bush planes going into Denali are based) are both pretty remote.

The furthest remote from my home would be Bierre Club and Anchor Brewing in Bangalore, India.

 

If the brewery wants to play artificial scarcity game with me, I'll leave them to their own devices. I don't care to be involved in such nonsense. I don't do beer releases anymore.

I rode 50 miles on my bicycle with a few miles of some nasty steep grade. When I realized that I got lost and need to go back up the hill to get back, I did a 15 mile detour to the next town for a beer, then road back on a flat terrain. It was a great beer.

 

I was there in 2010 (first time). Figured I'd try to get there by 6am, as doors opened for bottle sales at 8am(?). Wife convinced me to leave earlier, and we got there at 1am. Found the guy handing out calendar pages, and got two dates in January. I was kicking myself for getting up so early, then he told us that he was already onto the second calendar year. I think they stopped handing out pages in March or so. Then I went to go sleep in the car. Such a waste of time.

 

The most demanding release is whichever one I was last at. It was a premium effort release.
I had to wait for a few bottles of secret Parabajava a few weeks ago.
That's how this works right?