Hello, I usually just post in the Great Lakes forum. Family is visiting Omaha, NE in a few weeks without me and I was hoping for some beer feedback. I looked at SeekaBrew already, and it looks like SKA, O'Dell, Funkwerks, Great Divide, and Boulevard are the breweries I would be interested in. Other recommendations or suggestions within those breweries? My family probably will just go to one liquor store and or grocery store, they will not be doing any hunting for me. Any feedback is appreciated. Style preferences are porters/stouts, fruit/sours, pale ales, scotch ales, browns, reds/ambers. Not much on most ipas or dipas. Let me know, and thanks.
I would make sure they pick up some yeti, seriously one of my favorite beers. A lot of my friends really like the empyrean dark side vanilla porter. I didn't care for it, but think its worth trying.
The tl;dr version of the following paragraph is this: The best thing they'll be able to do for you is stop into Beertopia with some idea of your preferences, be it by style or some examples of some of your favorites, and let them (us) work their (our) magic. Yeti is a great call, as are Odell Cutthroat Porter and Tallgrass Buffalo Sweat (you didn't mention Tallgrass, but they're quite good). The Espresso Oak Aged and Chocolate Yeti variants are both currently available as well as regular Yeti. Boulevard's Dark Truth is a great Belgian Stout, and Beertopia still has some Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout from them as well. For Scotch ales, Odell makes a very nice one, 90 Schilling. Lincoln brewery Empyrean does a decent one as well. Most of the sour stuff currently available here is Belgian and very likely readily available to you (Hanssens Kriek, Vanderginste Oude Bruin, Cuvee De Jacobins, Oude Beersel Gueuze and Kriek, Lambickx, Duchesse, Petrus) although if Boulevard's Hibiscus Gose shows up by the time they're here, that one is definitely worth grabbing, and I'd say Boulevard Love Child as well, but that stuff flew off the shelf. Nebraska Brewing makes a pretty decent pale and brown ale. Funkwerks is all about Belgian styles, and their Saison and Tropic King (imperial saison) are both readily available, as well as Deceit (Belgian golden). And if you're interested in saisons, then Boulevard Tank 7 should be grabbed, as well as Saison Brett on the off chance I haven't drank it all by then.
as far as local bottled offerings available right now in stores i'd recommend the blue blood outlaw saison w/brett & empyrean barrel aged saison. neither will blow your mind probably, but they're both good and easy on the wallet
Thank you very much. I will have to ask my relatives to stop in...I'm sure my brother already shops at your store. Funkwerks definitely sounds good. We do get Tallgrass here already and I really enjoy almost all of their basic offerings. Any chance of finding Lugene Milk Stout or would that be gone and out of season now?
Thank you for the exhaustive post @ElJosharino. I kept planning on taking a stab at this a few times yesterday and other things came up. I will second the suggestion to send them our way. https://www.facebook.com/BeertopiaOmaha If I remember correctly, Lugene is past its date code by now unfortunately. Not if I beat you to it!
Local brewer Zipline has a few good brews out like the Copper Alt and Double Chocolate. New Holland Dragon's Milk has been flying off the shelves and I 2nd the Empyrean Dark Side vanilla porter as well as Boulevard bombers. Beertopia is a great place to buy as well as the Stony Brook HyVee on the west side if town.
I'll second the love for Boulevard Dark Truth Stout and Yeti from above, both excellent beers. For a Red/Amber suggestion I had Finch's Fascist Pig last time I was down there and thought it was fantastic. I'll also agree that Beertopia should be the place they stop at. I grew up just over the river in CB, and still have family down there, so I make sure to stop in after having 1 or 7 pints at Crescent Moon whenever I'm down there. My brother is a regular at both places.
One other stout I just thought of... Not sure what the supply was like in Michigan but Beertopia still has some Abyss.
Thanks for all the thoughts. We do get Finch's here and New Holland. Looking forward to seeing what comes home
