Where to go? Wallingford, CT

Knuckleheads (a burger/wings place) just opened a "tap room" with 30 draft lines. Went on Sunday, and they had a great selections. I had a NEBco Gold Stock, and a Resin. My wife had a Dirty Bastard, and an Ovila Plum Quad (just to give you an idea of the kind of selection).

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Knuckleheads/251987131497507

Wallingford Wine and Spirits is a very solid liquor store, and has become a regular stop for me.

https://www.facebook.com/Knuckleheads#!/pages/Wallingford-Wine-and-Spirits-Co/322498731195675

 

Knuckleheads is on Center Street.

Here is their tap list, BTW. Not sure if they're good about updating it:

http://www.beermenus.com/places/8669-knuckleheads

Wallingford W+S is on N.Colony - I don't know where South becomes North... never got that, but yeah, Center Street is right off that road.

 

The standard stuff, yeah.

 

Wallingford Wine & Spirits is indeed the only store you need to seek out, but as long as you're in the area you might as well drive 10-15 minutes down the Wilbur Cross Parkway (CT 15) and hit up NEBCO.

You won't regret it.

Oh, and since you'll only be 20 minutes from New Haven, I might as well recommend Modern Apizza - fresh NEBCO on tap and some of the best pizza you'll ever taste in your life. Also, if you want to head down town you'll find the tag team beer bars of Prime 16 and Cask Republic, both of which are amazing. Closer to Wallingford is Mikro, which always has a solid tap list to go with their truly outstanding gastropub menu.

 

The Dew Drop Inn in Derby has 20 taps and amazing wings. Also Louis Lunch in New Haven is the birthplace of the hamburger, worth a stop for any burger fan to say you were there.

 

Thanks for stopping by Nebco.

 

The closest Heady to BDL is 4 hours north, the opposite direction from Wallingford. You might be able to find someone willing to trade, but seeing as Jai Alai is available next door in NY, I doubt anyone who's made the trip up to VT would be looking for it. Some other Florida brews, maybe, but a flagship like Jai Alai would likely be a longshot, just given the time investment necessary for someone in CT to have multiple Heady 4-packs to spare.

Good luck, in any case!

 

That might help. But Heady is really only common within 45 minutes or so of the cannery - they don't even send any to southern VT. Anyone in CT who has it got it either via trade or by making the 4 to 5 hour (one way) drive up to Waterbury. Now, of course there are a number of us CT beer nerds who make that trip with some regularity, and it's not terribly uncommon to have someone open one at a tasting, but it's not like it's just sitting on shelves in the area.

If you were just looking for a single can to try, I'd be willing to bet that someone would offer to hook you up for little or nothing in exchange - I certainly would myself if I had any. But if you want multiple 4-packs, that's probably going to take something fairly substantial.

 

I think we all wish it was common around here, but that's not the case. Throw up an ISO in the trade forum for a trade in person and see if anyone responds.

This isn't true, right? I thought it didn't get shipped up here anymore.

 

Does it not? I'm not a fan of the beer, myself, so I can't say I pay close attention. I just know that it was readily available in NY the last time I thought to look. Has Cigar City pulled out of NY entirely, or just the IPA?

 

Sounds like everything?
http://beeradvocate.com/community/t...-packs-in-nyc-long-island-wtf-happened.66432/