Well, it took over a month to post about all the fun and exciting things we did in Colorado and everywhere inbetween over Memorial Day weekend. Here it is almost Fourth of July weekend, yikes! It was a lot of fun to write as I recalled our experiences, I imagine it will be a lot of fun to go back and read this a few months or years from now. Let’s just hope Google doesn’t go bankrupt. I thought I would post a list of all the great (and no so great) beers we sampled along our way. It’s quite impressive. This is in chronological order and includes the location of said tasting. Please don’t ask me to rank them from my favorite to least favorite. That would probably take another month. We learned some interesting information on our trip, namely:
1. 1000 miles in a Honda Civic is not as bad as it sounds
2. Not all Rock Bottom Breweries are created equal
3. Yeast can “breathe” in beer, humans cannot
4. Vine Street does not open until 4pm
5. The Colorado Rockies really suck
6. Hotels that deliver beer to your room for free are cool
Now, without further ado, the list!
5/21/09
Court Ave Brewing Company – Mike Gauthier brewer
1. Two Rivers Light
2. Belgian White
3. Iowa Oaks Amber
4. Kaplan Hat Hefeweizen
5. Topping Pale Ale
6. Honest Lawyer IPA
7. Pointer Brown
8. BlackHawk Stout
9. Barrel Aged (whiskey) 21st Amendment Ale (Rye)
El Bait Shop
10. Rogue Imperial Pilsner
11. Flying Dog Woody Creek Wit
12. Raccoon River IPA
Upstream Brewing Company
13. O’Gold Light
14. Honey Raspberry Ale
15. Gold Coast Brown Ale
16. American Wheat
17. Capital Premium Pale Ale
18. Firehouse Red Lager
19. Double IPA
20. Dundee Scotch Ale
21. Blue Mystic Saison
22. Oatmeal Cookie Beer
23. Blackstone Stout
24. Blackstone Stout Cask
Crescent Moon Ale House
25. Lucky Bucket Lager
26. Ska Nefarious Ten Pin Imperial Porter
5/22/09
Odell Brewery
27. Sadie Hawkins Lager
28. Easy Street Wheat
29. Levity Amber
30. Rocky Mountain Great Red Ale
31. 5 Barrel Pale Ale
32. 90 Shilling Scotch Ale
33. Cascadian Dark Ale
34. Cherry Stout
35. Cutthroat Porter
36. Odell IPA
37. Buffalo Bourbon Stout
Fort Collins Brewing Company
38. Major Tom’s Pomegranate Wheat
39. Birdie Lager
40. Dortmunder Export
41. Retro Red
42. Rocky Mountain IPA
43. (Billy the) Kidd Schwarzbier
44. Barrel Licked Bock
45. Z-Lager Rauchbier
46. Double Chocolate Stout
47. Chocolate Stout
CooperSmith’s Brewery
48. Poudre Pale Ale
49. Albert Damm Bitter
50. Punjabi Pale Ale
51. Not Brown Ale
52. Horsetooth Stout
53. Sitzmans Steam
5/23/09
Catalyst Coffee
54. BearRepublic Racer - X
New Belgium Brewing Co
55. Trippel
56. Mighty Arrow
57. Mothership Wit
58. Sunshine Wheat
59. Blue Paddel
60. Adam’s Ale
61. Abbey Ale
Oskar Blues Brewing
62. Dales Pale Ale
63. Mother’s Little Yella Pils
64. Old Chub
65. Ten Fidy
66. Gordon.
67. Barrel Aged Ten Fidy
Great Divide Brewery
68. Begica
69. Yeti Imperial Stout
70. Titan IPA
71. Hercules DIPA
72. Wile Raspberry Ale
73. Hades Belgian Style Ale
74. St Bridget’s Porter
75. Saison
76. Claymore Scotch Ale
Bull & Bush Brewpub
77. Allgood Ale (Amber)
78. Man Beer IPA
5/24/09
Coors Brewing Company
79. Coors Original (Banquet Beer)
80. Blue Moon – Honey Moon
81. Killians Irish Red
Rock Bottom Brewery – Original Location
82. Bottoms Up Kolsch
83. Buffalo Gold Ale
84. 16th St Wheat
85. Falcon Pale Ale
86. Red Rocks Red
87. Molly’s Titanic Brown
5/25/09
Falling Rock Tap House
88. Pliny the Elder – Russian River Brewing Co
89. Damnation – Russian River Brewing Co
90. Crazy Ivan – Bear Republic Brewing Co
91. Sweet Sixteen Saison – Avery Brewing Co
92. Black Butte Porter – Deschutes
93. Biere de Mars – New Belgium
94. ‘Oaked’ Butthead Bock – Tommy Knocker
95. Modus Hoperandi IPA – Ska Brewing Co
96. Blind Pig IPA – Russian River Brewing Co
Sandlot Brewing – Coors Field
97. Pale Ale
98. Red Ale
Wynkoop Brewing
99. Two Guns Pilsner
100. Wixa Weisse
101. Mile HI. P.A.
102. B3K Schwarzbier
103. Mackenzie’s Milk Stout
104. St Charles ESB
105. Railyard Amber Ale
106. SilverBack Porter
2 comments:
an amazing accomplishment. i myself am headed to colorado in a couple weeks and have begun to map out a beer tour of my own. family trip though (8 of us), so i'll be tied down a bit. definitely going to oskar blues, left hand, avery and boulder. anything you would demand i find time for?
Thanks Nils. Sounds like you will be in Longmont and Boulder. I really wish we would have made it to Boulder. Avery would have been a can't miss and would have tried to hit Boulder Beer too. I would suggest Mountain Sun brewpub in Boulder as well. If you make it to Ft Collins, I would recommend Odell and Catalyst for sure. If you make it to Denver, I would try damn hard to hit Great Divide. Wynkoop is solid as well. For beer bars, try hitting the Falling Rock Tap room. All these places can be read about in my seven or so blogs about our trip, ha ha. Have a great time, can't wait to hear about it.
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