Live Oak's Hefeweizen is excellent. I second Russian River on sour ales. Their Consecration and Supplication are great. Saisons- Boulverard's Saison-Brett is very good. Cigar City's Cucumber Saison is supposed to be good, and I'm having my brother bring me one from Florida.
maibocks are probably best consumed locally, in germany, april or may from the brewery closest to where you live. you like ayinger celebrator because it is sublime, it's one of my favorite beers. got a couple barrels waiting to be tapped after we get through the last of the ayinger jahrhundert, which is a great lager. love ayinger. i also have found nothing in the same universe as schneiders weiss beers. schneider edelweiss, awesome, their aventinus, are you kidding? the killer though is their mein nelson sauvin. GTFO. there are no american beers that come close. i've heard great things about russian river but haven't tried or if i did i don't recall. lagunitus, green flash, allagash are fine brewers. i carried lagunitus little sumpin sumpin for a year. haven't had stillwater. i'm am not an IPA guy but gouden carolus' hopsinjoor is a belgian stab at one. doesn't really taste like your typical american version, at all. however it is a bad, bad, bad, bad ass beer. i would take it over any american IPA. germany and belgium are the alpha and omega of beermaking. america has made great strides in the last 20 years and are on their way but not there yet.
Opened my first bottle tonight. Tasted better than last year's batch IMO. D&Q still has some behind the counter if you ask.
had my first taste of pumpkinator at Bogie's in Pearland. i gotta say, it lives up to the hype. at $9/pint i only had a couple but i'm a light weight anyways. may go back for some more this weekend.
Drinking my 2nd bottle now. This one tastes a lot better than the first for some reason. Not sure how I feel about it yet
It came out today! I just bought a case of this delicious beauty on my lunch break. Can't wait to try one after work.
HEB on Buffalo Speedway. They had a bunch of cases of it out on the floor. The beer guy said they had another pallet of it in the back.
They have enough to last until tomorrow? Kroger's gets them, word is tomorrow... if your HEB sells craft beer and Saint Arnold's they'll likely carry them, if it's the type of HEB that only carries domestics and maybe a handful of exotic beers then you're out of luck.
