Bay Area Supermarket & Bottleshop Thread (November 2016)

both New Tusk n Grain bottles are at Beer Rev. $15 each. Had the coffee one, it's pretty Damn good

 

Collage 2 and Xocoveza hit K&L today if anyone was looking. Keeping my eyes and ears open for that BA Fiddy!

 

I'm not sure if this is the right thread for this, but seems like as good a place as any. Does anyone have info or prior experience with the barrel-aged beer festival that is happening at The Bistro in Hayward tomorrow? I know their IPA festival around Beer Week is great, but don't have much knowledge about this one. Unfortunately, it does not look like they publish a list of beers / breweries ahead of time. If anyone could offer an idea of what to expect, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

 

Also @grilledsquid

I think you posted in the October thread that you were looking for The Butcher. I stopped by City Beer earlier this week and they had bottles in the cooler. It sounded like they had a few more in the back, so it's possible they may still have this - worth checking with them if you are interested.

 

It's a pretty nice fest. I usually volunteer at all the Bistro's events, but I'm not sure of the exact price to get in. I want to say for this one, it could be around $40-$50 with 10 tasting tickets and the opportunity to buy more. I could be wrong though. Haha. The Bistro will usually release a list of breweries closer to the event, but rarely what beers they will have. It's a good mixture of sours, stouts, and other styles in various barrels.

 

Thanks for the info - appreciate it. Looks like they posted a beer lineup on their Facebook page last night: http://bit.ly/2fOnoku

 

Crafty Fox in SF is killing it again. Expensive, but nice to be able to drink so many great beers at one spot.

Updated 11/10/2016

Name ABV Served In Price
Almanac Never Say Never DIPA 8.5 9oz Draft $8
Altamont Rich Mahogany 6.0 16oz Draft $7
Altamont Undersized IPA 4.5 16oz Draft $7
Alvarado Street Bixby Blonde 5.0 13oz Draft $8
Alvarado Street Danktoberfest 5.5 16oz Draft $8
Alvarado Street Haole Punch 6.3 9oz Draft $9
Alvarado Street Mai Tai 6.5 16oz Draft $8
Berryessa Wet Mini Seperation Anxiety 4.0 16oz Draft $7
Devil's Canyon Root Beer 0.0 13oz Draft $5
Faction Fall IPA 6.7 16oz Draft $8
Fieldwork Island Time 5.8 9oz Draft $9
Fieldwork Milk Chocolate Brown Nitro 5.4 16oz Draft $8
Fieldwork Misfit Stream IPA 7.0 16oz Draft $7
Fieldwork Outdoor Hoppy Pilsner 5.3 16oz Draft $7
Fieldwork Overripe Northeast IPA 5.8 16oz Draft $8
Fieldwork Strawberry Tart Brett Saison 6.0 9oz Draft $8
Fieldwork Textbook 6.0 13oz Draft $8
Fieldwork The Decline 9.5 9oz Draft $8
Henhouse Hallertau Yo Boy 7.0 13oz Draft $8
Henhouse Inside Job 8.4 9oz Draft $8
Henhouse Stoked 5.1 16oz Draft $7
High Water Campfire Stout 6.5 13oz Draft $8
High Water Sugaree Maple Bourbon Pecan Pie 9.8 9oz Draft $8
Jolly Pumpkin Los Vivos Y Los Muertos 4.2 9oz Draft $12
Jolly Pumpkin Oro De Calabaza 8.0 9oz Draft $12
Lagunitas Stoopid Wit 6.0 13oz Draft $7
Lagunitas Willett Whisky Barrel Imperial Stout 11.2 9oz Draft $9
Libertine Casa De Newton 5.0 9oz Draft $10
Magnolia Delilah Jones Rye 2015 10.8 9oz Draft $8
Magnolia Promised Land Imperial IPA 10.1 9oz Draft $8
Magnolia The Walrus and The Carpenter 7.5 9oz Draft $8
Moonlight Lunatic Lager 5.0 16oz Draft $7
Prairie Artisan Ales 4th Anniversary Ale 7.0 9oz Draft $10
tag and jug brut cider 7.3 13oz Draft $8
Temescal Basic Batches Mosaic 4.5 16oz Draft $7
Woodfour Berliner Weisse

 

Tons of Fieldwork, and tons of Alvarado... Might just swing by there after work to get some POG juice. I mean Haole Punch.

 

anybody seen or heard anything about BA ten fidy yet? seems to have made it to a lot of other regions already

 

Re: BA te fidy - Came and went in Sonoma county already this week afaik. Beercraft got em Thursday bottlebarn got em Friday. Heard both spots sold out in 24 hours but can't confirm.

 

OB's distribution is pretty terrible around here already...still holding out hope that they're just lagging

 

Yep, I was down in Oakland for the JRAD show yesterday and stopped by Beercraft on the way back up and they said it sold out yesterday morning and that they're not getting anymore. They did have it on tap though and also got bottles of Collage 2. There's still a few of those left so get some while you can.

 

City Beer Store has a Boneyard keg, are they distributing down here now? Trying to decide between Liquid Gold with Orchard St. or Crafty Fox with Galaxy Juice.

 

Boneyard shows up every once in a while at CBS, Toronado will have some notorious on randomly and some other Boneyard beer.

Hahah, just saw Galaxy Juice at Crafty Fox also, might head there for that, and some alvarado after work

 

Toronado has Maine Beer Co. Peeper, $7 for 16 oz. Not bad. One could do one hell of a bar crawl today.

 

Ol Beercafe had a couple of Abraxas bottles left in the cooler. IIRC they were $22 a bottle.

 

Snagged two BA Ten Fiddy today @ City beer store. $10.99 per. Schwing!

 

Looks BA1050 hit the South Bay yesterday and today, and didn't last long according to the instagram posts

 

Anyone seen Stone Ripper Pale Ale?

 

K&L Wines SF has Abraxas in the back, 3-4 bottles left

 

Ales Unlimited was nice enough to go to Rare Barrel and bring back bottles of Forces Unseen. Picked up one of those and two bottled of Desay Deux from deGarde.

You know you're in trouble when you spend $50 at the first of five bottle spots you're hitting for the day.

 

Hitting beer Rev in a few hours. Will post if any cans have landed.

 

Found Hop Concept Tropical and Juicy and cans of Henhouse IPA canned TODAY at City Beer Store. You can only get the Henhouse cans today so get on over there.

 

Rare Barrel distributing now? Forces Unseen at City Beer and Bine and Vine in San Diego.

 

I guess they are which means my bank account is going to be hurting that much more, but I'm happy to not have to go to Berkeley.

 

Snagged some bottles of Michigan Maple Jesus at Berkeley Bowl yesterday. The guy said they only got a case - there seemed to be about ten bottles left.

 

I think it was $10.99 for a 12oz bottle. Can't find my receipt...

 

If anyone is interested : Trader Joe's just got another batch of their exclusive Modern Times beer - accumulated knowledge. The closest we're going to get to a mass produced, shelf stable NE style hazy, juicy ipa. It's fantastic!

Found mine at the Lakeshore Oakland store. $6.99 a bomber I believe.

 

Right on! Thanks for letting us know. I loved this one last time and only found out about it just ~ a month after it came out.

 

Has anyone spotted the new Alvarado st cans in the usual spots yet? Haze of our lives and Tayberry. I would expect them to be in the East bay soon.

 

Also regarding Alvarado cans: does anyone know of Peninsula stores that get cans delivered? I only know of Ale Arsenal