Autumn Beer Review 2016

'm curious what beers are you looking for or expecting? I've only seen the beer list posted so far on this thread and I could just drink at Surly, Town Hall, TG, Lift Bridge, Indeed and Dangerous Man and have a great afternoon of drinking beers I have never had before or are not easy to find at a liquor store. I can't wait until Saturday.

 

Didn't say I was looking for or expecting anything

 

App is up for iOS in app store

 

definitely want a .pdf on the mn craft brewers guild page for ABR. just saying. the app is nice But 2/3 the way through, I will be near drunk and might not be able to read my 'drink' list or my phone . lol

 

The hand out paper copies at the event....at least I think they do

 

I'll be selling them then... Cheap to start out with!

 

First rule of Schells at ABR...don't talk about Schells. Stoked to try them again. Always seem to miss their good stuff

 

I am really excited to wait an hour in the Surly line.

 

I didn't wait more than 10 minutes for Surly at last year's ABR and I went through their line many times. Maybe I just timed it right but I had all their highly sought after beers.

The only line I remember being really long was at Goose Island for the timed release of Bourbon Co. Stout that I skipped. Central Waters didn't have a line of more than 2 people every time I looked.

 

Get to know one of the breweries and work for them to get in early. Then the line is pretty damn short. I did that last year for Surly 9

 

The line for Vanilla Rye was pretty crazy last year. There was no one in line when I went for Black Gold.

 

If they're tapping a keg of Black Gold at Butcher & the Boar pre-ABR, I'm hoping that's a good sign they'll have it at the event too. Bonus points if everyone else is distracted by Goose Island again or the Surly Vanilla Darkness.

 

I too would like a pdf. Easier to mark the ones to try and plan of attack.

Two things to make app a little better:
1) A map with a font size larger than .0005 (or better yet, tie it to a GPS map!).
2) A highlighter tool to mark beers you want to try.

 

It's a bit clunky but you can add specific beers to the "to do" list on there. The map is garbage.

 

I can't figure it out, but maybe it's because I'm old and rely on the "Over 40 app" to get by in life.

 

If I click on a brewery then click on a beer there's a button on the top right of the screen. Then I can press "add to to do" or something of the sort. On the iOS app anyways

 

On the Android app there's a checkbox next to each beer.

 

I don't know why everyone is complaining about the map. It loads great on Windows 95.

 

Since the MN Craft Brewers Guild website has no mention of the ABR apps available am I crazy hoping that a pdf program will show up later on the website?

 

Sounds like the app is going to be the only option -
https://twitter.com/mncraftbrew/status/774351869762084864