yaledelay wrote:If you are ever in Milwaukee, PM me, or any member of the HI-Fi really and we will take you on the http://www.lakefrontbrewery.com/ lake front brewery tour, you will be sauced on the best beer you can drink...

I've had the Riverwest and the Eastside and enjoyed these both quite a bit, especially the Riverwest.

It's difficult to recommend these Chris without looking like I'm clamouring for obscurantist connoisseur points but if you're exploring Belgian ales and fed up with the usual Trappists and Dubbels etc. I'd really vouch for these two which are peculiar, very distinctive and extremely good.

Duchesse de Bourgogne - A Flemish ale which has an almost red wine richness but isn't at all heavy. (You might have some luck ordering it here.)

Drie Fonteinen Oude Gueuze
I'll leave it to the review to sell this one - This bottle displayed some straight lemon zest in the nose, some malt and horse blanket notes..If you can't track down a mature Oude (old) Gueuze then almost any Gueuze Lambic will blow your mind ever so slightly, really sour and tart, fantastic beer.

I usually reckon the best beer (at least pub-wise) is whatever is brewed locally and independantly. Support your local brewer etc...

My current local brewer is Batemans, a good brewery although this year's seasonal brews...I dunno...

Adam, I had some Bateman's Spring Goddess when I was last back in the boonies - it was pretty nice. A good, light summer ale.

The best local brewery around these parts is probably Enville who make the fantastic Enville Ale. Regrettably, my local pub doesn't serve this one though:

cjh wrote:

Stick a footswitch, a couple of pots and some jack-sockets on that and you've got a boutique hit on your hands!

cjh wrote:It's difficult to recommend these Chris without looking like I'm clamouring for obscurantist connoisseur points but if you're exploring Belgian ales and fed up with the usual Trappists and Dubbels etc. I'd really vouch for these two which are peculiar, very distinctive and extremely good.

Duchesse de Bourgogne - A Flemish ale which has an almost red wine richness but isn't at all heavy. (You might have some luck ordering it here.)

The House of Glunz is a place in Chicago that has this. I've been looking at ordering some for my birthday. With cjh's recommendation, I think I will.

Any more information on where to get some of these beers, particularly in Colorado, would be helpful.

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:anything by the Samuel Smith brewery is worth drinking.

Do any of the other Brits find this amusing?

hip priest wrote:

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:anything by the Samuel Smith brewery is worth drinking.

Do any of the other Brits find this amusing?

I bet it commands a premium in the Yooessuvheh.

The only thing Samuel Smith has going for it as far as I'm concerned is value for money.

This weekend I had a beer called Chesters Strong & Ugly, brewed by the Barngate Brewery. It was the nicest beer I've had for a long long while.

I think it's only available in Cumbria though...

I'd recomend any of the beers New Glarus Brewing Company makes.