What is your favorite locally brewed beer?

Mac & Jack’s African Amber

Boundary Bay Brewery has a seasonally-changing selection. If we happen to go to Round Table Pizza, I’ll usually get a Boundary Bay Scotch Ale or whatever other BB brew they have on tap.

This. Or their strawberry ale when in season. I miss Abita. :frowning:

I live in the Atlanta region and my fav is Wild Heaven White Blackbird

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The Korean pears and pink peppercorns make it incredibly delicious, even if it doesn’t seem obvious at first that they would!

Ballast Point’s Sculpin. Until I moved a few years ago, I was a ten minute walk from the brewery. Now I’m a few miles away.

This reminds me of when I was in Mississippi last May. My last night there I had a beer. It was from a brewery in Kiln, very near Bay St. Louis where we were filming. I can’t remember the name of it, but it was very good.

3 Stars is good, they sell it at Nats Park. Have you tried Heavy Seas white IPA? I think it was just a seasonal, haven’t seen it in a while.

And the Grapefruit Sculpin is a great twist on it. Pineapple Sculpin, not so much.

Southern Hops’pitality.

I can’t even keep track of what Chicago has to offer these days. It seems like a new brewery is showing up on the shelves or opening up a brewpub/taproom every couple of weeks here now. For everyday drinkers, I like Half Acre’s Daisy Cutter IPA and Revolution’s Anti-Hero IPA and Three Floyd’s Gumballhead American Wheat (that’s technically Munster, IN, but within the Chicagoland area.) For the big beers, I like Goose Island’s Bourbon County Stout (or whatever it is legally called these days) and even their Imperial IPA. Three Floyd’s Dreadnaught IIPA is also one of my favorites, but it seems to vary quite a lot from year to year.

You have Lauganitas now so that opens some pretty good doors…

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Yeah, went there the first week or two it was opened. Pretty neat place. I like their beers well enough, and Hop Stoopid is in my regular rotation, with the occasional Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’. But I prefer the ones I listed. Lagunitas is an interesting brewer–everything they make seems to be slightly off-style. Their quirks are fun, though.

I think I saw the white IPA somewhere recently. I’ll probably have something from 3 stars at Nats Park on Saturday if the snow holds off. If we include beer from brewpubs, Franklin’s has produced some great beers over the years.

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Try Gumballhead from Three Floyds.

Definitely. I would also recommend Bell’s Oberon for the same general style, but that’s Kalamazoo, MI, so doesn’t quite fit under “local” for the thread, but worth knowing about if you like the American Wheat style.

First Magnitude Drift English Mild Ale, though I love pretty much everything they’re putting out right now.

i have tix to the Nats on Saturday, if the snow holds off, I’ll buy you a beer there.

Red Hook is pretty solid and they’re the closest brewery to me (15 miles, maybe, in Woodinville). Unfortunately, they discontinued their porter, so thumbs down on them. But then, I can do their beer tour anytime I like, and that gets you six five-ounce samples of beer for $1, so I’ll cut them a little slack for that.

Scuttlebutt is a little bit farther away (20 miles?) in Everett, but I can find their porter all the time.

With so many breweries in this area, anything farther than 20 miles away doesn’t seem local anymore.

Ditto on the Breakside IPA, and I’m not a fan of IPAs in general. This one has a nice citrus tang to it, though. I also like Full Sail Sessions lager, which is out of Hood River, for a good swigging beer.

Chicago area (Warrenville) Two Brothers Northwind Imperial Stout.