Suggestions for Rochester this weekend?

I don't know of any special releases, but Tap and Mallet is always a great place to start for a beer bar. People are usually helpful and can guide you to other places you might enjoy. Also the Old Toad is probably been the longest in the scene and usually has their beer menu online. They can also help you out.

 

Breweries to hit:
Swift water, ROC, stoneyard, rohrbachs railroad St, genny brewhouse!!, knucklehead, lost borrough

Beer bars:
Tap and mallet, old toad, swillburger, butapub, acme (great slices and happy hour), owl house (small well selected tap list and great food, Jack ryans and stout (both low key under the radar neighborhood bars with nice tap selections)

For bottles head to ajs beer Wearhouse

 

Some locals to lookout for: three heads giant panda iipa, rohrbachs scotch ale, roc whopass iipa, go to swiftwater and get a flight, try any stoneyard u see and Genny pilot batches can be interesting

 

Nothing really to add here, but I will deinitely second AJ'S Beer Warehouse (you should be able to grab some Singlecut there) and Tap and Mallet (Grimm should hit upstate today, so you may find Tesseract or Psychokinesis on tap)

 

Damn, I'm late to the party here. I would have mentioned MacGreggors Tap Room.. over 100 beers on tap! Anyways, hope you enjoyed your stay here.. Out of curiosity, where did you end up going?

 

I wouldn't have suggested that one- there's a ton of taps, but it's super expensive, and they tend to do a really bad job at cleaning their lines, and leaving old beers on. The Henrietta location, which I assume you're referring to, is a minefield when it comes to the tap list.

 

I've never had a problem with their price, even when I was a broke RIT student lol. I have noticed their lines aren't the cleanest, but I wouldn't consider them awful. You're correct, I was referring to that location. I haven't been to that one in over a year though, since I moved closer to a different location (Gates). Had KBS on tap there, and it tasted great.

Seneca lake is an awesome drive, good call checking out the finger lakes. I've never been to Two Goats, but I've been to most of the wineries around there on a wine tour.. it's a beautiful location. AJ's the the store to go to, so it seems like you did it right.

Also out of curiousity, did you order a glass of water at Dickys? They used to not even give out free tap water ($1 bottles only), so I'm wondering if that's still the case.

 

Anything needed to be added to this? Currently in Rochester