Good beer in unexpected places

Grapefruit sculpin and Hop Juju at a sir pizza

 

I found 3 Heady Toppers in an abandoned cooler on the Mass Pike this past summer. With ice!!

 

Sierra Nevada Celebration in my mother-in-law's fridge.

I tell you...very unexpected!

 

What's the house ale like? It's available in bottles in some bars here in Toronto.

 

I was looking for those. Give em back!

 

Top 3

1. Found cases of BCBW and Coffee in a spanish deli in nyc last year
2. King Henry growler fills at a place that is never that great with no announcement
3. Backyard bottles last month for $18 at a sports bar where everyone was consuming BMC (went through 4-5 bottles that night)

 

Spaten Optimator in a tiny post exchange at Ft McClellan in Alabama.

 

Penn Station in New York City.
In the lower level there are now multiple vendors that have a dozen or more taps, selling some pretty good drafts in "to go" cups for thirsty (and discerning) commuters to enjoy on the train ride home.
Gone are the days when the choice was limited to bottles of Bud, Coors, and Heineken.

 

Small little pizza place in town has Surly Furious on tap year round, every fall they get one keg of Darkness and sell it for same price as Furious. $6 a pint!

 

Bolt Cutter, on the counter next to the register, "cause it was the last one"....

 

A variety of Goose Island beers at the Goose Island bar in the Staples Center for a Devils/Kings game.

 

you can even get stuff like chimay from the newspaper type stores too.

 

You win...close thread.

 

Stone ipa at winn dixie in Alabama. Just started carrying. Fresh too. So awesome. Next to that Is sn pale ale, sn Torpedo, sn seasonal, and no more craft lol.

 

A Ten Fidy in my dads fridge...he doesn't drink...I musta left it there last year.

 

Far better than the tops of three heads you would expect to find in a cooler abandoned along a highway.

 

The House Ale is very good and consistently so but it is actually an old school beer and often seen as 'Scotch Ale' though its debatable at best whether that was ever the intention when first brewed in 1965. If you accept it as being of that style its on the restrained side but still somewhat earthy and rich with well integrated wood and an almost faint buttery quality. It deserves a try at the very least especially since Traquair decades ago was well ahead of the whole craft beer game.

 

I found Chimay and several other good beers at a Phillips 66.

 

Just recently had my first Fresh Squeezed...awesome IPA

 

Walked into a small local liquor store by the gf's house and there was a 6 pack of zombie dust sitting on the shelf that had been bottled the day before! I've had it fresh before but not that fresh.....needless to day it was phenomenal.