Bottle recommendations - Cleveland next week

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  1. Douggo

    Douggo Initiate (0) Oct 24, 2009 Minnesota

    Greetings, Great Lakes forum! My wife will be in Cleveland next week, and I'd like to find some good barleywines, imperial stouts, and/or DIPAs that are likely to be readily available. Bottle shop recommendations also welcome. I'm sure she'll be staying downtown, and likely without a car, but a short cab ride, or a spot not far off the route from downtown to the airport, is doable.
    Anyway, here is the list of breweries that distribute to Ohio and not Minnesota (courtesy seekabrew.com). Thanks, all!

    AleSmith
    Anderson Valley
    Arcadia
    Atlantic Brewing
    Ballast Point
    Barley's Brewing [Draft only]
    Bear Republic
    Bison
    Black Diamond
    Bluegrass
    Brew Kettle
    Buckeye
    Buffalo Bill's
    Christian Moerlein
    City Brewery
    Clipper City
    Columbus
    D.L. Geary's
    Dogfish Head
    Eel River
    Elevator
    Erie
    Evil Twin
    Fat Head's
    Fort Collins
    Gordon Biersch
    Green Flash
    Harpoon
    Hoppin Frog
    Hudepohl (Christian Moerlein brand)
    Ironfist
    Ithaca
    Jackie O's [Limited]
    Kona
    Lexington (Alltech/Kentucky) [Limited]
    Lion Brewery
    Lost Coast
    Matt (Saranac)
    Mt Carmel
    New Albanian
    North Peak
    O'Fallon
    Old Dominion
    Oskar Blues
    Otter Creek
    Pete's - CLOSED
    Revolution
    Rivertown
    Rockmill Brewing
    Rust Belt
    Sixpoint
    Smuttynose
    Southern Star
    Speakeasy [Limited]
    Stillwater
    Stoudt's
    The Bruery
    Thirsty Dog
    Three Floyds [Limited]
    Troegs
    Uinta
    Wooden Shoe
    Yuengling
     
    #1 Douggo, Mar 14, 2013
  2. fluidmotion

    fluidmotion Initiate (0) Jan 17, 2012 Ohio

    dogfish 90 minute
    columbus ipa
    fat head's head hunter
    brew kettle white rajah

    only 90 minute is a dipa, other are great ipa's
     
    #2 fluidmotion, Mar 14, 2013
  3. BeerBuckeye

    BeerBuckeye Savant (1,223) Oct 2, 2009 Ohio

    You need to have her search high and low for Columbus IPA, Head Hunter, and White Rajah---though I think CIPA can be a little difficult to find? I've seen Sculpin recently as well. Anti-Hero is good too.

    Should be able to find some Nugget Nectar as well, as it looks like new batches have dropped around Ohio. Might be able to find Palate Wrecker as well (I've at least seen some in Columbus lately).

    Grab Hoppin' Frog BORIS at least, but might as well grab DORIS too. Plenty of that around. Thirsty Dog Siberian Night is another good one. We still have Ten Fidy hanging around down here in Columbus, too.
     
    #3 BeerBuckeye, Mar 14, 2013
  4. miketd

    miketd Initiate (0) Mar 2, 2006 Ohio

    Head Hunter, White Rajah and Columbus IPA should all be relatively easy to find... but not downtown. She could go over to Great Lakes to see if Alchemy Hour IIPA is still there. There is also a store on w 6th(?) but can't say what is there as i have only been there a couple times.
     
    #4 miketd, Mar 14, 2013
  5. jamvt

    jamvt Savant (1,150) Aug 5, 2005 Massachusetts
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    Visit Fat Head's
     
    #5 jamvt, Mar 14, 2013
  6. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    Your wife might still find some Arcadia's BBA Cereal Killer or BBA Imperial Stout. They're both pricey at ~ $8 for a 12 oz. bottle, but both are very tasty. The non-BBA versions of both beers should be more easily found.
     
    #6 PapaGoose03, Mar 15, 2013
  7. Douggo

    Douggo Initiate (0) Oct 24, 2009 Minnesota

    Thanks, guys, for all the suggestions. She came home with Nugget Nectar, Columbus IPA, Palate Wrecker, Old 21, Head Hunter, and Alchemy Hour. Looks like a pretty good haul!
     
    #7 Douggo, Mar 22, 2013
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  8. PapaGoose03

    PapaGoose03 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,057) May 30, 2005 Michigan
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    She's a keeper! :wink:
     
    #8 PapaGoose03, Mar 23, 2013
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  9. Blueribbon666

    Blueribbon666 Pooh-Bah (1,669) Jul 4, 2008 Ohio
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    Really wish Columbus Brewing's distro was better in NE Ohio, it's been better of late but still pretty spotty w/only the IPA being the most common. The more high end grocers like Heinens & Whole Foods are the usual places I find it as well as some locals here and there.
     
    #9 Blueribbon666, Mar 23, 2013
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