What was you first Craft Brew?

The beer that got me interested was when I was given a Trader Joses Dark. Got really into it when I had a Foothills Brewing Hoppyum IPA

 

Anchor Steam Beer in 1980. Also New Albion Ale & Stout in 1980. Visited New Albion brewery in 1980.

 

My first real craft beer was a Bell's Pale Ale. Didn't care for it at the time. Came a long way since then

 

Sam Adams Boston Lager towards the end of college. Probably 1987.

 

The Shed still exists as a brewery, owned by and brewed at Otter Creek. The Shed building is also still around, known now as Idletyme Brewing Company. Incidentally, both Mike Gerhart from Otter Creek and Shaun Hill from Hill Farmstead worked at the Shed back in the day.

 

Their Mountain Brown is a really nice beer.

 

I was pinching bottles of Boston Lager out of my dad's fridge at like 17-18.

 

Like many people from Minnesota , Summit EPA.

 

1) First "Craft" beer I bought(which actually was the first year I was legal to buy) was Blue Moon(2007)...
2) First Brewery I visited was Surly(grew up in MN, moved to Iowa for school/career)

 

Like several fellow advocates, I think my first "craft" beer would pre-date the very notion of "craft" beer by quite a long way. But for what it's worth, peering back through the mists of time:

Timothy Taylor Best Bitter - in the form of a shandy - around 1986.

 

Sprecher hefe in 1988.

 

Not exactly sure but it was either
Sierra nevada pale ale or Dead guy at some point around 2000
Mcneill's brewery in Brattleboro, VT