California recommendations not available in Buffalo

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:52 pm

A friend of mine is grabbing a few beers for me in Los Angeles. I made a request for some Pliny, but they may not be in stock for a while at his local. Any recommendations around the same pricepoint that we can't readily get in Buffalo (Stone, Firestone Walker, etc...)?

andrewrg · Post by **andrewrg** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:06 pm

I would ask for anything from Alpine, although their distribution outside of the San Diego area is spotty. Other than that, Ballast Point and Alesmith are good choices.

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:10 pm

andrewrg wrote:I would ask for anything from Alpine, although their distribution outside of the San Diego area is spotty. Other than that, Ballast Point and Alesmith are good choices.

I did have a Ballast Point Imperial Porter last week with Streets that was incredible, I'll inquire about the others, I've only had one Alesmith before too.

TheSevenDuffs · Post by **TheSevenDuffs** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:14 pm

Ask him to look for Freut from the Bruery - it just came out. Or perhaps Deschutes/Hair of the Dog Collage (might be tough to find though).

Aside from that, Alpine and Alesmith were good suggestions.

liamt07 · Post by **liamt07** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:09 am

Alesmith, Alpine, RR and Kern River are probably things to look out for.

saints_gambit · Post by **saints_gambit** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 1:43 am

Alpine Duet. Ballast Point Sculpin IPA.

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:12 am

Coronado beers were surprisingly good.. especially the Idiot IPA

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:25 am

COronodo are available in NY state --Port brewing and Bruery seasonals, also Black Tuesday in some stores

Torontoblue · Post by **Torontoblue** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:10 am

See if they can get you some Blue Frog Grog & Grill DIPA, HERETIC Evil Twin or Evil Cousin, Drake's Brewing do some good stuff, too, and maybe some Knee Deep Brewing. All pretty solid California breweries that I got just up to road in Santa Barbara, so they should be available in LA.

spinrsx · Post by **spinrsx** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:16 am

Interesting.. how about getting some lost abbey beers instead in that case (I don't think lost abbey is available in NY)

northyorksammy wrote:COronodo are available in NY state --Port brewing and Bruery seasonals, also Black Tuesday in some stores

Torontoblue · Post by **Torontoblue** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:31 am

Lost Abbey can turn out to be an expensive error in judgement.

TheSevenDuffs · Post by **TheSevenDuffs** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:35 am

Torontoblue wrote:Lost Abbey can turn out to be an expensive error in judgement.

Most definitely. But a bottle of Older Viscocity is probably worth the risk.

Torontoblue · Post by **Torontoblue** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:47 am

True, this is what I stuck with and didn't go near their sour or wild ales.

saints_gambit · Post by **saints_gambit** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:42 pm

Incidentally, I just wrote about Pliny.

http://saintjohnswort.ca/2012/06/04/pli ... izen-kane/