Food Pick me out a beer or three from this list.

On tap:

5 Rabbit Golden Ale 16oz. Draft 5.3 $6.00
Allagash White 16oz. Draft 5.5 $6.00
Arrogant Bastard Ale 16oz. Draft 7.2 $6.00
Bear Republic Racer 5 16oz. Draft 7.0 $5.00
Bell's Hopslam 13oz. Draft 10.0 $8.00
Bell's Two Hearted Ale 16oz. Draft 7.0 $5.00
Blackthorn Dry Cider 16oz. Draft 6.0 $6.00
Breckenridge Vanilla Porter 16oz. Draft 4.7 $5.00
Dark Horse Crooked Tree IPA 16oz. Draft 6.0 $5.00
Dark Horse Raspberry Ale 16oz. Draft 5.0 $6.00
Delirium Tremens 13oz. Draft 8.5 $8.50
Finch's Threadless IPA 16oz. Draft $5.00
Founders Centennial IPA 16oz. Draft 7.2 $5.00
Founders Porter 16oz. Draft $5.00
Great Divide Yeti Stout 9oz. Draft 9.5 $9.50
Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold 16oz. Draft 5.8 $5.00
Green Flash Imperial IPA 13oz. Draft 9.0 $8.00
Guinness 20oz. Draft 4.3 $5.50
Lagunitas A Little Sumpin Sumpin Ale 16oz. Draft 7.3 $5.00
Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout 13oz. Draft 8.0 $6.00
Lagunitas IPA 16oz. Draft 5.7 $5.00
Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat 16oz. Draft 5.0 $5.00
Monk's Cafe Flemish Sour Ale 16oz. Draft 5.5 $7.00
New Belgium Dig 16oz. Draft 5.6 $5.00
Port Brewing Mongo 13oz. Draft 8.0 $7.00
Rogue Imperial Russian Stout 9oz. Draft 11.6 $6.00
SKA Modus Hoperandi 16oz. Draft 6.8 $6.00
Sam Adams Cherry Chocolate Bock 13oz. Draft 5.9 $5.00
Sierra Nevada Ovila Quad 9oz. Draft 10.4 $7.00
Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA 16oz. Draft 6.6 $6.00
Southern Tier Choklat 9oz. Draft 11.0 $6.00
Stone IPA 16oz. Draft 6.9 $5.00
Stone Levitation Ale 16oz. Draft 4.4 $5.00
Stone Ruination Double Dry Hopped 13oz. Draft 7.7 $7.00
Stone Ruination IPA 13oz. Draft 7.7 $7.00
Stone Sublimely Self Righteous Ale 13oz. Draft 8.7 $6.00
Three Floyds Alpha King 16oz. Draft 6.0 $5.00
Three Floyds Arctic Panzer Wolf 13oz. Draft 9.0 $8.00
Three Floyds Dreadnaught 13oz. Draft 9.5 $8.00
Three Floyds Gumballhead 16oz. Draft 4.8 $5.00
Three Floyds Pride & Joy 16oz. Draft 4.88 $5.00
Three Floyds Robert The Bruce 16oz. Draft 7.2 $5.00
Two Brothers Ebel's Weiss 16oz. Draft 4.9 $5.00
Uinta Crooked Line Detour IPA 13oz. Draft 9.5 $8.00
Victory Golden Monkey 13oz. Draft 9.5 $7.00

By bottle:

Amstel Light 12oz. Bottle 3.5 $4.00
Breckenridge 471 Small Batch IPA 22oz. Bottle 9.2 $16.00
Brooklyn Sorachi Ace 25oz. Bottle 6.5 $20.00
Chimay Grand Reserve (Blue) 101oz. Bottle $120.00
Coors Light 12oz. Bottle 4.2 $3.50
Corona 12oz. Bottle 4.6 $4.00
Dogfish Head Fort 25oz. Bottle 18.0 $35.00
Heineken 12oz. Bottle 5.0 $4.00
Hoppin Frog BORIS The Crusher 22oz. Bottle 9.4 $15.00
Hoppin Frog Mean Manalishi 22oz. Bottle 8.2 $15.00
J.K. Scrumpy's Winter Solstice 22oz. Bottle $13.00
Mike's Hard Lemonade 12oz. Bottle 5.2 $4.00
Miller Genuine Draft (MGD) 12oz. Bottle 4.7 $3.50
Miller Genuine Draft 64 12oz. Bottle 3.0 $3.00
Miller Lite 12oz. Bottle 4.2 $3.50
Orval 11oz. Bottle 6.2 $9.00
Port Brewing Mongo 22oz. Bottle 8.0 $12.00
Redbridge (Gluten Free) 12oz. Bottle $4.00
Sharp's 12oz. Bottle 0.4 $3.50
Three Floyds Arctic Panzer Wolf 22oz. Bottle 9.0 $16.00
Three Floyds Dreadnaught 22oz. Bottle 9.5 $16.00
Uinta Crooked Line Cockeyed Cooper 25oz. Bottle 11.1 $24.00
Uinta Crooked Line Detour IPA 15oz. Bottle 9.5 $15.00
Uinta Crooked Line Labyrinth Black Ale 25oz. Bottle 13.2 $24.00
Uinta Crooked Line Tilted Smile Imperial Pilsner 25oz. Bottle 9.0 $15.00
Wild Blossom Chocolate Honey Buzz 6oz. Bottle $11.00
Wild Blossom Hot Honey 6oz. Bottle $9.00
Wild Blossom Prairie Passion 6oz. Bottle $9.00
Wild Blossom Sweet Desire Mead 6oz. Bottle 14.0 $15.00


My dad has been wanting us to meet him and my mom at this local gastro-pub type place they found a few months back. We finally are getting around to it tonight, and I just checked the beer list. Pretty respectable.

I love me some Hop Slam by the bottle, so I'll have to have one on tap. Next will be to figure out what else to try.

 

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At the risk of making you almost as jealous as you are that I have Stanley trying to cuddle with me non-stop, I have exactly 18 Hop Slams currently in my garage fridge. But I've not had it on tap.........yet. Probably be my first choice of the evening.​

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I was eyeing that DFH too. I just didn't know if I wanted to choose that at the expense of having 2-3 of something else. But I usually love DFH. Have you had Fort yet? Any comments?

 

I love hoppy beers. The hoppier the better usually.

I just realized the Chimay's was a 101oz bottle!!!

 

I am a hop head, but I like a wide variety of stuff. I appreciate the input.

 

Mmmm, Hop Slam.

 

Don't overdo it on the hoppy, like uncharted said--not only will it obliterate your tastebuds for more beer, but it can give you a terrible headache the next day.

The Ovila Quad from Sierra Nevada is pretty tasty on tap. I'm sad that the only beer on there from Oregon is Rogue. Not my favorite.

 

Thanks all for the input.

I had a few beers and the bartender was kind enough to let me taste a couple others without ordering an entire beer.
HopSlam is great on tap.
Three Floyds Dreadnaught was awesome.
Monk's Flemmish Sour was too sour.
Allagash White was good, but more wheaty than I prefer.
Three Floyds Gumballhead was very good. Exact definition of a session beer IMO.
Stone Ruination Double Dry Hopped was maybe my favorite of the group.

 

Yes, I've had the red and blue Chimays before. Good stuff, the bottle they had was the same as the regular blue, just a massive bottle of it. Definitely a thing for a party or group like you said.

I was greatly impressed by the place. It was tiny, in a strip mall, and you'd drive right by it if you didn't know to stop. But the food was absolutely fabulous, very good quality and very tasty. My steak literally could've been served in a Morton's or Ruth's Chris and would've still been considered excellent. All of the appetizers we shared were good, and everyone loved their meals. The beer choice was obviously superb, and the bartender was great. When we sat down the waitress was only so-so, but adequate. Everything else was absolutely top notch.

 

I love it when I get to taste a beer without trying a whole pint. At the beer festival we went to on Friday, I probably tried upwards of 20 different beers because when my friends and I tackle a beerfest, we are strategic about what we try and who tries what, so that we can share a bit, especially with more alcoholic beers (i.e. bourbon barrel beers, strong ales, barleywines of all stripes). The winner of the night was New Belgium/Elysian Brewing's collaboration called Trip XI, a rosemary-sage farmhouse. It was so different than any of the other beers we tried that night that it was downright refreshing.

 

I know we have a decent group here in the general area of Chicago. This place is in the far south suburbs, so here is a link to Tribe's Alehouse if anyone is interested in checking it out.

Link to Tribe's.

 

This place might be a bit easier for someone visiting Chicago, and we loved it (thanks to roachboy for the recommendation): http://hopleaf.com/