Beers To Try In The Usa

[phonos]

This place seems to be the best place within 50 miles of gulfport:

Coast Brewing Company

There are a few others around, but you have to be willing to drive for a few hours.

 

[kook]

like I said DAN MURPHYS (swansea) if they dont have it they can get it!

Bullshit. They can only get what is available through their distributors, which in the way of microbrewed American beers is stuff all. The only things I've seen over here on a widely distributed scale is Sam Adams. Some Sierra Nevada, Anchor, Flying Dog, Great Divide and Left Hand have been bought in on small scales through Pheonix beers but as far as I know they haven't reached the east.


More on topic - Theres unfortunately not a lot happening in the beer scene down that way. Your best bet is to jump onto the forums at sites like Ratebeer, The Brewing Network, Probrewer, Brewboard, Beer Advocate etc and ask if there are any locals to give you pointers. Otherwise, try the beer mapping project (beermapping.com) or look at the Places section on Ratebeer.

That said, "not a lot happening" in the US means a hell of a lot more than whats available in most stores in Aus

 

[T.D.]

If you see any beers by Lagunitas then definitely grab them and have a try. Some of the best US microbrew I've tried. And they seem to fly under the radar to an extent. Great beers though. I think they're from California, but are distrubted all around the US from what I gather.

 

[Adric Hunter]

What ever you do DO NOT DRINK MICHEALOB ULTRA!!!!!! It is to Budwieser as Pure Blonde is to Tooheys New. It is the most flavourless abismal crap i have ever tasted in my life!!!! Slightly carbonated pond water :icon_vomit:

 

[leeboy]

haha pond water love it.

What has American beer and sex in a canoe got in common....

******* close to water.

Just for the record I love american microbrew and have drank considerable amounts on my tour up the west coast from mexico to British Columbia. I LOVE OREGON

 

[BrenosBrews]

I will be working and staying in Gulfport, Mississippi which is about an hours drive east of New Orleans. Not the greatest location!! Except for the New Orleans Jazz festival on the weekend after I arrive.

I will have a 7 hour layover in LA not sure how to fill the time, Suggestions?

Due to various reasons (namely religion) a lot of places will be closed on Sundays. Except for the casinos which give you alcohol for free if you are gambling. But it's probably something pretty crap.
New Orleans is your best bet. There is a wholefoods which usually has some pretty good selections. A couple of decent beer bars too.
Directly from Beer Advocate magazine as for LAX layover; Gordon Biersch - Departure Post Security, Karl Strauss Microbrewery - Terminal 7, Manhattan Beach Brewing Company - Terminal 4 & Redondo Beach Brewing - Terminal 6.

Oh how I live for the day that Australia's airports have such options!

 

[kevnlis]

Nothing wrong with Bud, or Genuine Draft, both excellent beers at times and should not be overlooked IMHO!

If I saw anything from Three Floyds, Hair of the Dog, Stone, Dogfish Head, Lost Abbey, Alesmith, Deschutes, Kuhnhenn, Bells, or anything brewed in Wisconsin I would give it a go.

 

[sinkas]

Cant beat a Fawty

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[Thirsty Boy]

I think that there is a Gordon Biersch in terminal 1 at LAX although I think it is run as a concession and the Gordon Biersch website doesn't list it.

There is an article here that says there is a Brewpub (Redondo Beach Brewing) at the airport

and the Four Points Sheraton at LA airport apparently has a what it refers to as "one of the top five beer bars in LA" LINK and the 4 points recently made news by appointing a "Cheif Beer Officer to make sure that each of its outlets stocked a great range of local craft beer as well as a good international stock check this out plus google, so it might be worth a visit.

No help in the south, but might make your 7 hr stopover a bit easier

Thirsty


edit: - damn, while I was typing Brenosbrew beat the hell out of my post... well at least he didn't mention the Sheraton.

 

[kevnlis]

edit: - damn, while I was typing Brenosbrew beat the hell out of my post... well at least he didn't mention the Sheraton.

It took you three and a half hours to type that?!?! :lol:

 

[Thirsty Boy]

no - now that you point it out... I must just be off the game mentally and have missed his post. I saw your last post... but somehow missed Brenosbrew's... which was good enough that I wouldn't have bothered with mine.

Now I sound like a poor typist, an unobservant twat AND an a bit of retard as well.... and I was just trying to be helpful. Oh well

Still ... almost sounds like the LA airport would be a good beer destination in its own right 3 micros a gordon biersch bar and the sheraton. Hell thats a better choice of micros than Sydney ............. h34r:

 

[kevnlis]

no - now that you point it out... I must just be off the game mentally and have missed his post. I saw your last post... but somehow missed Brenosbrew's... which was good enough that I wouldn't have bothered with mine.

Now I sound like a poor typist, an unobservant twat AND an a bit of retard as well.... and I was just trying to be helpful. Oh well

Still ... almost sounds like the LA airport would be a good beer destination in its own right 3 micros a gordon biersch bar and the sheraton. Hell thats a better choice of micros than Sydney ............. h34r:

Hahaha... sorry if I helped make you look bad in any way. :icon_cheers:

As for the airport bit, I always lay over at LAX on my way to or from Chicago (which is where I am from originally) and have seen a lot of cool things there, never a brewery though! I go back home in November so I will be sure to schedule an extra long lay over this time around.

Leinenkugel's is my favourite brewery in the US. Nothing special about the beer, it is edging on megaswill now that it has been bought out by Miller, but they still brew great beer at an excellent price. We used to get slabs of their Lager for $9.00 or so back in my uni days, and that was only 10 years ago! They do a wide range of beers and all of them are well crafted and worth a try IMHO.

EDIT: Spelling!

 

[user3673]

Thanks everyone for your replies, I looked at some of the sites suggested but somehow missed finding any good info. The personal recommendations are great too, a suggestion from a like minded person is gold.

Now to decide what to do.

7 hours of drinking at micros at LAX could be very dangerous :icon_drunk: what an impression to give the boys when i arrive there :unsure:

 

[Trent]

Turkey Head
If ya have 7 hours in LA, then do yaself a favour and head to either Venice Beach, or Santa Monica, it is 30-45mins in a cab (about $40 odd dollars) or you can get an Aiport Shuttle for about $15. 7 hours will cut it fine, but none the less....
Visit Library Alehouse in Venice Beach, it is a great pub with a large beer selection. About 30 on tap, alot of belgians and great micros.
Fathers Office in santa Monica is also fantastic, but it doesnt open till 5pm. About 50 on tap, and not a bud or millers to be seen.
Third street promenade is a nice place to pass the time in Santa Monica, and there is a sportsbar (whose name eludes me right now) that has about 40 beers on tap, including Aroogant *******, Stone IPA (I think), Anchor, SNPA, and a hell of alot of other great beers.
I know that Library Alehouse does a "tasting paddle" where ya get to choose any beers in 100mL glasses for about a buck each.
It will be a tight squeeze to do this with only 7 hours, and LAX security as it tends to be, but it is possible.
Your next best bet is to go on HBD or somehting like that, tell people where yer gonna be, and ask for recommendations for great bottle shops, and get to them in the evening after work. Alot of the southers states have "blue laws" that prevent the sale of alcohol on sundays, the source of much swearing for me in stinky Valdosta, Georgia, while enroute from NYC to New Orleans for Mardi Gras one year. Apparently they dont know a man's not a camel.
Have fun, there are bollock loads of great beers in the states, if you are only going for a month or so, you can probably do as I do and drink 5 or six different ones a day, and not try the same beer twice. And after 30 days and 150 odd beers, you will be feeling very unwell, and probably happy to come home to the beer desert of aussie bottle shops!
All the best
Trent