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i want to try something diff this week. gonna take chico up on his recommendation of Anderson Valley, Bear Republic or Breckenridge.

mike - i went to a few of those sites, unfortunately MD is on a lot of the "cant ship" lists.

bd - my craft beer store lets me special order a case of any beer that can distribute in MD and then keeps it in the back walk in and lets me buy sixers at a time. 10% off if i buy the case.

i found that when they special order a beer, it ends up getting in their normal rotation.

If you go with Breckenridge, their oatmeal stout and vanilla porter are realllly top of the line. Breckenridge kinda pissed me off when they discontinued their basic Pale Ale about 3 years ago. It was perfection.

Breckenridge is one of those old skool original micro breweries (started sometime in the 80s)...they aint newbies.

Another from Colorado that gets constantly overlooked is Avery Brewery...top notch IPA. I mean top effing notch.

People's Porter | Foothills Brewing Company | Winston-Salem, NC | BeerAdvocate (http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/11036/26788/)

Foothill brewery, the people porter, not bad. I'm not a big porter/stout guy, but cold winter nights seems to my these beers taste better. Not a bad beer

I've been on a serious IPA kick lately, picked up a 6er of this today

Smuttynose IPA "Finest Kind" | Smuttynose Brewing Company | Hampton, NH | BeerAdvocate (http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/141/16403/)

I've been on a serious IPA kick lately, picked up a 6er of this today

Smuttynose IPA "Finest Kind" | Smuttynose Brewing Company | Hampton, NH | BeerAdvocate (http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/141/16403/)

Not a bad ipa, they are better.kinda similar to heavy seas loose cannon, which I would favor over this one.

If you go with Breckenridge, their oatmeal stout and vanilla porter are realllly top of the line. Breckenridge kinda pissed me off when they discontinued their basic Pale Ale about 3 years ago. It was perfection.

Breckenridge is one of those old skool original micro breweries (started sometime in the 80s)...they aint newbies.

Another from Colorado that gets constantly overlooked is Avery Brewery...top notch IPA. I mean top effing notch.

Avery is top notch. They are the kings are barrel aged high gravity stouts. They are ridiculously expensive but the best around.

i havent been able to find Avery, ive been looking.

i decided to play it safe this weekend and did a 6er of ballast point big eye and firestone union jack.

i cant find smuttynose either, ive been looking for that brewer as well.

Great thread - just a story I saw on the news here in Colorado Sunday morning before the Broncos played the Colts.
The brewery Dad and Dude was on showing a tailgate spread that Dad was talking about.
Then they turned to young Dude about the beer, and they have a new one called Outta Luck. Dude says it has orange crush in it and is great for pounding.
btw their Dank beer is a top notch IPA

i dont want to cause panic but .... i have confirmed through my sources with direct knowledge that there is a Great Divide "brewers picks" shortage as the MD distributor has not been re-supplied by GD for almost 3 weeks now. The distributor's shelves are literally empty.

Founders Black Rye | Founders Brewing Company | Grand Rapids, MI | BeerAdvocate (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1199/16115/)Had this tonight. Great beer and very different.

definitely looking forward to this one

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