If you owned a Liqour Store....
 

What 6 Microbrews would you bring in? Looking for some different brewers/beers that people like.

My wife has been given a little Carte Blanche on what beers to order for the Liqour store she works in and asked me for some Suggestions....basically because I've been giving her a little grief about kicking it up a notch at the store.

Not looking for some exotic beer that is only made by Midget Tibetan Monks on a certain peak in the East Himalayas :hihi:

Looking more for beers that people would tend to buy on a regular basis and is available around new england...doesn't have to be made in New England....just available. (I've been telling her to bring in more of the Stone Products)

Racer5, Lagunitas Maximus, Berkshire Lost Sailor and 21st Ammendment Monks Blood
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Racer5 they have (that was one of My Earlier Suggestions :hihi:) Great Choice :hee:

anything from great divide, ballast point, alesmith, oscar blues

I like Josh's list. I would submit Russian River and Three Floyds for commercial stuff you just can't get round here. Stuff that is around but hard to find would be Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project and the anything you can get Founders to ship out east here.

Buzzards bay IPA

Ithaca flower power

Harpoon leviathan IPA

Westmalle Tripel
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5 breweries: Firestone walker, boulder, green flash, New England brewing( if distributed there), north coast brewing
5 beers: Firestone double jack, boulder hazed and infused, green flash west coast ipa, New England ghandi bot, north coast old Rasputin

I would also add Russian river stuff, but they don't really distribute east coast much
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Ithica......Southern Tiers!

Personaly i like the rogue and irragant bastard line.
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This is good stuff....keep it coming. I deally I would like to give my wife a list of a dozen or so brewers they don't carry and a couple of choices from each brewer.

The woman who used to order the beer is a wine drinker and could give 2 chits about beer...now that my wife is going to be ordering more beer I can make some suggestions....would love to see the store kick it up a notch on their beer selections.

Zimmy....good stuff...a few of those are definitely do-able as they are distributed through Seaboard, which supplies the store.

If Lagunitas puts Sucks on full year rotation it should be in every liquor store everywhere... heck... even put it in non-liquor stores... candy stores!

I'm not an objective source on the other 4, I'm a hop head.

2nd zimmy's North Coast suggestion!

Oh yeah> there's this VT brewery that sells and tells you to drink beer in the can...;)

Yeah....good luck getting that in a store down here :hihi:

There's actually a few in VT that would be nice to get....but as of now it just won't happen

Opa opa brewery in Northampton makes a very good IPA. Look into that.
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Ice House, Red Dog, St. Ides, Old English 800 and Cobra.

Lmao!!!
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Victory Brewery - hop devil and golden monkey are a must try for anyone on this board

drinking a buzzards bay golden IPA right now.. mmmmmm
fantastic

Plum island brewing ipa is very good and local. Haverhill brewing is also local, buck sucks IMO.
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Youre not confusing Opa and Northampton brew are you? Opa Opa is actually in Southampton. I like their beers for the most part but not on my "repeat list" that much.

Now if you are talking Northampton Brewery thats a different story. Unfortunately I dont think they bottle....they just sell at the brewery

I meant Opa Opa in Southampton.
The brewery in northampton is very good. Was there last fall.
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any victory is good. any founders is good, but the all day ipa is classic. so much good beer. six point. heavy seas. pretty much everything suggested in this thread would be good for the store.
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I like the Rogue Brewery... Dead Guy Ale is on tape at OMW sometimes and I have found it in 6 packs at a few places around Boston
Rogue Ales

Bottom line is

they have to SELL :uhuh:

Long Trail Ale, Shed Mountain Ale, Wolavers Oatmeal Stout, Heady Topper, Switchback bombers......representing Vermont!

Anything by Victory or Ommegang,just picked up Game of Thrones by the latter.

Dangles, do you ever go to Independent Liquors on 106? They just started carrying Lagunitas Sucks. Thye don't have a big selection of micros, but they have some that you wouldn't expect. I still like Pop's better, though.

no coors light? :buds:

never even heard of any of that stuff...........

GOTs is just meh. Look for the Fleur de Houblon from Ommegang.
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