Let's talk good beer

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

I think there is still some people complaining about the deal they got from the city with Stone. I dunno, but if you like ipa style beers then Stone has been a top 5 brewery in the country... being able to drink them fresh is something I don’t take for granted. I like the industrial design of the brewery too and outdoor spot.

Ohhhhhhh shit...you can tell covid has fucked up my brewery game, as I don’t really go a lot since the outbreak.

How could I fucking forget The Answer brewery and brewpub.. A top 3 go to...good food and great beer.

EXACTLY. It MIGHT be the best one in RVA, but for some reason we always forget it when we head over from Crozet. Their Joose days are just insane. It is beer you could truly feed to a child and they'd have no clue.

Stone is definitely one of our stops and right now the only breweries we're comfortable going to are 1) in HUGE warehouse styles or 2) heated and outside. Summer we were totally fine going to places because we knew we could sit outside. Winter making it a LOT harder now.

Strangeways is also our jam. They don't make the best beer in town, but there's something to be said for getting a flight of twelve.

They HAVE upped their game however. Murder Hornet is one of their best IPAs they've put out. Mostly my wife and I don't have a true "preference" on beer, but I tend to migrate to DIPAs/IPAs and she migrates to sours mostly. I am getting over the IPA craze a bit. These douches walk into a place and are like, "Bruuuuuh, what's your haziest IPA?" I'm like, do you just want your palette blown out by hops for hops sake?

The Veil has been notorious for that recently (at least for us). I bought their dry hopped pilsner because that's a style ranking higher and higher for me. Was almost undrinkable because of how bitter it was. Zero balance.