The color codes are special pricing. Green = half price until the keg kicks. Blue = a dollar off on certain days of the week. Red = no discounts. Regular customers get one dollar off any listed price (except reds).
Personally, I’m enjoying a Cigar City Jai Alai IPA now.
In the bar’s defense, all but the red are $1.00 off for regular drinkers. Also, they are extremely liberal with tastes and with freebies. If I go in and have four beers, typically one is on the house and the other three are a buck off listed price.
Also on any given day the are a few people drinking $1.00 bottles of Bud.
I loved the Matilda (drank it regularly when it was on tap at the place I go to.) and the Nero. I haven’t had the Pere Jacque but like others of its style.
Well, that changes things; I don’t mind paying for a great selection, but it’s nice when a regular customer is recognized with the occasional free brew or local’s discount, both practices which are technically illegal here on good ol’ U-Taw…:dubious:
That said, there are a couple of places here that slide me a freebie on the sly once in a while, which I typically end up paying for in the form of an extra-large gratuity at the end of the night.
The place with the largest selection of draught beers that I know of has around 35 taps, but again, due to our one singlemost arcane, asinine, outdated liquor law still on the books, no tap beer in Utah can be stronger than 3.2% alcohol.
I was a typical St Marks & Avenue A (N.Y. N.Y. when the punks and the homeless ruled the neighborhood) drinker. Guinness and a brown paper bag, but since it’s so damned hot out, I’ll take a hard cider . . . and a brown paper bag.
Wow. Yesterday (Monday) they had their Monday Madness special going. Two dollars off any draft beer. The Sierra Nevada Summerfest Ale was great, followed by a couple Crispin hard ciders. It’s a great summer so far.
With the weather the way it is today (high of a 100+ with a lot of humidity), it’s going to have to be something on the lighter and lower alcohol side, like the Great Lakes Wright Pils or the Goose Island 312. I’m not a huge fan of the 312, personally, but for a day like today, it would hit the spot. I’d also give the Telegraph Rye XPA a shot, although I’ve never had it.
I would try the Great Lakes Wright Pils, because I recently had their Edmund Fitz porter for the first time, and liked it a lot. I would like to see what they do with a pilsner.
I was looking at the Great Lakes selections as well. I’ve had quite a few of their beers, and they’re all solid. Love their porter.
That said, I’d go for the Founders Devil Dancer. Founders is one of my top breweries and I’ve had the Devil Dancer in bottles. Great flavor and a nice alcohol content.