California mistress

[The Hedgehog]

I just love Hopzone, but dammmnnnn…

 

[deer_shooter]

Pliny is legit. I'll still take Weldwerks Juicy Bits over all IPA's but thats just me. Nice Coozie.

 

[bigjohn]

Pliny is the best thing to ever come out of California.

 

[jryoung]

Pliney is good, but I find myself going to Mind Circus from Russian River.

 

[The Hedgehog]

Pliney is good, but I find myself going to Mind Circus from Russian River.

I tired all of them - 20+ at the Windsor brewery yesterday. I brought 6 pliney elder bottles and 4 of the pliney double dry hop cans back to MT. The regular pliney the elder is top shelf.

 

[The Hedgehog]

In the light of such dogshit hunting expeditions in MT these days, I decided to vacation in the name of alcoholism. Visited north of San Francisco, California for the tasting of fermented fruit juice. Most of it truly tasted like decade old communion swill, but yesterday we hit the gold mine. A place called Cakebread cellars in St. Helena - wow. Then, after trying a number of rotten beers, stumbled into an IPA that was worthy of another hours drive to the brewery to try everything they had, lots of real good beer. Russian River Brewing Co - they know what they're doing. Upper Echelon. It's like a MT elk hunter (bud light), hitting up the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation for elk. Stayed in Calistoga. Not a bad getaway.

 

[Khunter]

you done well on that trip.

 

[The Hedgehog]

I brought home 9 bottles of wine and maybe 12 beers. The beer was not cheap, but the wine was even more hideous to the wallet. Best thing I came home with was a new wine aerator.

 

[Jason73]

In the light of such dogshit hunting expeditions in MT these days, I decided to vacation in the name of alcoholism. Visited north of San Francisco, California for the tasting of fermented fruit juice. Most of it truly tasted like decade old communion swill, but yesterday we hit the gold mine. A place called Cakebread cellars in St. Helena - wow. Then, after trying a number of rotten beers, stumbled into an IPA that was worthy of another hours drive to the brewery to try everything they had, lots of real good beer. Russian River Brewing Co - they know what they're doing. Upper Echelon. It's like a MT elk hunter (bud light), hitting up the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation for elk. Stayed in Calistoga. Not a bad getaway.

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[jryoung]

In the light of such dogshit hunting expeditions in MT these days, I decided to vacation in the name of alcoholism. Visited north of San Francisco, California for the tasting of fermented fruit juice. Most of it truly tasted like decade old communion swill, but yesterday we hit the gold mine. A place called Cakebread cellars in St. Helena - wow. Then, after trying a number of rotten beers, stumbled into an IPA that was worthy of another hours drive to the brewery to try everything they had, lots of real good beer. Russian River Brewing Co - they know what they're doing. Upper Echelon. It's like a MT elk hunter (bud light), hitting up the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation for elk. Stayed in Calistoga. Not a bad getaway.

You should have gave me a heads up, I could have steered you to some solid spots. If you cross the golden gate and make it towards Santa Cruz, Sante Adairius and Humble Sea are awesome.

Cakebread is solid juice and they've been doing it well for a long time.

 

[The Hedgehog]

would have had i known you were a local there. crossed the golden gate twice while there, last night ended up on fisherman's wharf area.

 

[cedahm]

I tired all of them - 20+ at the Windsor brewery yesterday. I brought 6 pliney elder bottles and 4 of the pliney double dry hop cans back to MT. The regular pliney the elder is top shelf.

OMG - my RRBC cred has waned since I finished a long engagement with a client in Marin 5 years ago (we went up to the Santa Rosa pub every Wednesday night for like 6 months) - but there is DDH Pliny in cans now?!?!

Willing to set up a trade with anyone nearby. Can send anything you need from CO that doesn't make it out there (Outer Range, Weldwerks, etc). We get some RRBC distribution here in CO but not very much (and less now that Falling Rock closed down).

Or Cellarmaker in SF where I spent most Tuesday nights during that stretch.

 

[rwc101]

There's some good Pliny clones for homebrewers.

 

[The Hedgehog]

OMG - my RRBC cred has waned since I finished a long engagement with a client in Marin 5 years ago (we went up to the Santa Rosa pub every Wednesday night for like 6 months) - but there is DDH Pliny in cans now?!?!

Willing to set up a trade with anyone nearby. Can send anything you need from CO that doesn't make it out there (Outer Range, Weldwerks, etc). We get some RRBC distribution here in CO but not very much (and less now that Falling Rock closed down).

Or Cellarmaker in SF where I spent most Tuesday nights during that stretch.

Don’t be envious of my stash. I did a little googling and didn’t realize how notorious and in demand this stuff is..

 

[The Hedgehog]

Forbes - Pliny for President?

 

[cedahm]

Don’t be envious of my stash. I did a little googling and didn’t realize how notorious and in demand this stuff is..

We get plenty of regular Pliny and Blind Pig (which I prefer) in CO, to the point that it sits on shelves for a short while where it used to be (10 or so years ago) hidden in back and available only if you were in the know.

But the DDH version is new to me and sounds delicious. I will probably end up in Sacramento again in a couple weeks, will have to jaunt over to Santa Rosa/Windsor

 

[Dougfirtree]

It's a classic, but if you like that, you REALLY should try some of the IPA's coming out of New England these days from Breweries like:

Lawson's, Tree House, The Alchemist, Hill Farmstead, Upper Pass, Lost Nation and Burlington Beer Co. Colorado is pretty ridiculous these days, too...

 

[Bigjay73]

Jesus christ, it's just beer. None of its that good, and IPAs taste like a skunks ass

 

[cahunter805]

Looks like a great trip buddy! I haven’t had the DDH but just noticed on their website it’s sold at a liquor store 2 blocks from my house! Guess I’ll have to try it out this weekend at deer camp.