Firestone Walker Brewery Store

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  1. Kramerbarthomer

    Kramerbarthomer Pooh-Bah (2,116) Mar 22, 2012 Colorado
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    Just a quick question if someone from California can help me out. Going to be visiting on vacation in a couple weeks with the wife and I'm planning to do the coast drive on highway 1. Is it worth taking a detour to hit up the FW brewery and the store? I was thinking of trying do dinner at the Paso Robles restaurant one night as well. Is the food any good?? (wife doesn't give a crap about beer so she'd want good food...) and finally are the FW BA beers readily available in bottles at the brewery store (parabola, stickee, sucaba, etc...) Im guessing that they're not... I get all their shelf stuff here in CO, but the BA beers are very hard to come by. Any help would be appreciated... Thanks in advance. Cheers.
     
  2. m34josh

    m34josh Zealot (508) Oct 19, 2009 California
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    No idea about that restaurant, but yes it's worth stopping by if you want those beers. They had all of them as of three days ago, as well as some of the older anniversary beers if you have a bunch of extra money laying around
     
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  3. Japsican23

    Japsican23 Devotee (378) Aug 7, 2013 California
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    After this past weekend, they may be running low or cleaned out, but if you are coming in a couple of weeks they might restock shelves. When I was there at noon yesterday they still had bottles of stickee monkee, parabola, sucaba, anniversary XVII, Ol' Leghorn, Lil Opal, and some other stuff.

    We ate at the taproom restaurant on Friday night and found the food to be quite good! Definitely a step above the regular crap you get at chain restaurants like Applebees, Red Robin, etc.

    Hope this helps!
     
  4. Kramerbarthomer

    Kramerbarthomer Pooh-Bah (2,116) Mar 22, 2012 Colorado
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    Thanks. I do appreciate it. Sounds like we will be making the detour!
     
  5. KevSal

    KevSal Pooh-Bah (2,940) Oct 17, 2010 California
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    The brewery store fridge is like heaven, they had almost all there beers and vintages, although after this passed weekend it might be a bit thinner.

    Fw is one of my favorite breweries, highly recommend
     
  6. Madirish76

    Madirish76 Initiate (0) Apr 14, 2010 California

    As of sun paso was out of stickee monkey and rose...but buellton had a ton of everything. I would recommend buellton just for the barrelworks experience.
     
  7. KevSal

    KevSal Pooh-Bah (2,940) Oct 17, 2010 California
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    The only issue is it's weekend only
     
  8. thome50

    thome50 Initiate (0) Dec 10, 2006 California

    Another issue, Barrelworks is 2 hours south of the main brewery. Depending on how far south the OP is going on the trip down the coast it might be way out of the way.

    I'd also speculate and say that there will be ample BA beers in stock. Also, depending on when your trip is there might be a new sour or two on the shelf. They have released a new one every month and a half or so since February so you never know.
     
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  9. Lostmango

    Lostmango Initiate (0) Jun 29, 2013 California

    If your wife wants good food, stop at bistro laurent in paso. If she is adventurous you can get the tasting menu, i think its like $60 or 70 with wine parings. Kitchen brings out courses of whats fresh/in season. Great meal.
     
  10. KevSal

    KevSal Pooh-Bah (2,940) Oct 17, 2010 California
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    if you like food your better off going to the other firestone in downtown slo, best tri tip sandwich ive had to date. Do affiliation with the brewery tho :stuck_out_tongue:
     
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  11. AptosBeerDrinker

    AptosBeerDrinker Initiate (0) Aug 9, 2011 California

    The brewery is great and all and those beers are nice but it's not worth missing the drive through Big Sur over, if that's what you mean by "detour". In twenty years you're not going to remember some random burger/beer you had but if this is one of the only opportunities you have to venture through Big Sur, you'd be crazy to skip it.
     
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  12. rrryanc

    rrryanc Pundit (896) May 19, 2006 California

    I think the better detour is to miss Hwy 1 between SLO and Cambria, and take 101 for that. It's not that bad of a detour and you don't miss much scenery.
     
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  13. AptosBeerDrinker

    AptosBeerDrinker Initiate (0) Aug 9, 2011 California

    True. You can still hit Sebastian's Store for sandwiches when you get back to 1 that way too.
     
  14. FocusDave

    FocusDave Initiate (0) Mar 3, 2014 California

    Skip Paso for dinner and head down to either San Luis Obispo or Avila Beach.
     
  15. wyatt

    wyatt Initiate (0) Nov 18, 2009 Louisiana

    is the store open on the weekend only?
     
  16. Black_Rider

    Black_Rider Pooh-Bah (2,019) Mar 26, 2013 California
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    FYI there are two stores at the Paso brewery. One across from the restaurant where the tasting room is and one further in back (diwn the street and to the left)

    Both are epic
     
  17. 1424IpA

    1424IpA Initiate (0) Nov 2, 2012 California

    Food at taproom is okay, service is always bad there. Check yelp reviews...plenty of other great restaurants in paso if you plan on staying nearby. BM if you need more info..
     
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