2307 Cantrell Rd? That's less than 10 miles from my house. Weird. I don't remember seeing a brewery there....
Had a Space Force tonight at Smitty's Garage in F'ville. Either the beer was wack or their lines weren't clean & talk about overpriced $ 8.50 a pint, plus another buck in tax
I remember it not wowing me, but this was sad. Plus. the Bar Tender did a sloppy pour with way too much slop.
Let me start by saying that I think this is a somewhat specious argument. Yes, depending on where you live and how you define "local" one can cite various individual beers as good - or better - than an analogous beer from Sierra Nevada. But do we really judge breweries on one or two beers? Or do we judge them considering the breadth and depth of what they produce? Going on the latter criteria it will be pretty tough to find a local brewery as good as Sierra Nevada, top to bottom. As far as local vs. not - I live on the Monterey Peninsula. If you define "local" as "5 miles" ( and if you count taprooms as local, rather than tge actual site of the brewing operation), for me I get to count Peter B's brew pub, Hops and Fog brew pub, tasting rooms for Dust Bowl and Fieldwork, and the OG location of Alvarado Street. [two brew locally, two are taprooms with beers brewed off site.] I drink a lot of beer from them but drink even more from beyond 5 miles. Now, if you define local as 50 miles many other breweries come into play, especially in terms of my consumption habits, Sante Adairius, Private Press and Humble Sea. But even then I'm likely still drinking more non-local beers. [Now if you define local as within the state you live in... yes, I drink locally. Because then I get Alesmith, North Park, The Bruery, Green Cheek, Bottle Logic, Monkish, Firestone Walker, Cellarmaker, Wondrous, Moonlight, Russian River, Cooperage... and yes, even Sierra Nevada.]
I think you might have misunderstood the point I was trying to make in the SN pils thread. My point was simply that I was able to find beer styles brewed locally (by various local breweries) that I felt were as good or better than those made by SN. As I preferred to support local breweries, and preferred to drink local products, I therefore rarely drank SN products anymore. That being said, none of those individual local breweries are making the range of beers that SN makes, almost all of which are made at a very high quality level. It would be ridiculous for me to argue that any of those individual local breweries are superior to SN, and that wasn't the point I was trying to make. That being said, much as I do enjoy the SN pils, I would not say that it's better than any of the local pils made in the PDX area. Consequently, it's unlikely that I'll be buying any more of it, unless I happen to see it on tap someplace where there are no other local pils options.
If you define “local” as within 15 miles or so, my answer is 0% as the two breweries here, well, underwhelm. At least I didn’t say they suck. If you go out 50 miles, then Lone Pint and it’s Yellow Rose makes me about a 33% local drinker.
I spent a lot of my drinking time at various breweries in and around home so the answer is definitely yes.
No, most of the local breweries make only a couple beers I like at best. I still tend to lean towards the more regional and national breweries.
If we're talking within an hour of my house, very little. If we're talking in all of New England, I'd say about 90% of what I drink.
Locally I have Marble, Track, Cloudwater, Torrside, Blackjack, Pomona Island & Sureshot On the Sixth day god created Manchester
