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[Anonymous No.13474829]

Have you ever gone on a trip for beer tourism?

Also, what should I get next from pic related?

[Anonymous No.13474970]

get the yarn that has the price tags on it and hopefully that's enough

[Anonymous No.13475075]

>>13474829
I went to the US for beer. Also to meet some of my buddies that I met from the beer generals that used to be a thing regularly.

Boston was pretty damn good. Small scene but some really good quality breweries, stores and bars. Went there mainly for Extreme Beer Fest, which featured a lot of top-notch breweries from across the country. You really must visit Trillium though.

Chicago had a lot more of all of those things, but at about the same quality level.

LA was also pretty good, but it's hard to get out to a lot of the locations so it's best to do one area at a time like Torrens or Anaheim. That being said there's some really good places that seemed to me to be in the middle of nowhere and thus I didn't visit them unfortunately.

If you're in Europe I'd recommend going to Manchester, Belgium or Copenhagen though. Manchester's great for beer, really the beer capital of the UK at the moment in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.13475108]

>>13475075
To be honest the craft scene is really huge in the UK. Bristol is good for craft beer and strangely so is Cardiff

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[Anonymous No.13475138]

>>13474829
Every once in a while I'd go to this bar that had every beer in the world.
It's been closed for a while though.

[Anonymous No.13475143]

>>13474970
They've all got price tags on them tho

[Anonymous No.13475154]

>>13475108
I've only really been to London, Manchester and Exeter. Exeter had a nice little bar where everyone was friendly, but not much else. Someone was nice enough to buy me a drink there but I didn't stick around because I wasn't well.

I did briefly pop down to Buxton briefly one time and had some really fun ice cream beers there.

[Anonymous No.13475186]

Yes, practically every abroad trip is beer tourism in part because in my country alcohol is so expensive that going to another country is like a miracle of cheap beer

[Anonymous No.13475228]

>>13475186
What country do you reside in that alcohol is that expensive? Australia?

[Anonymous No.13475249]

>>13475228
Finland. There's a phenomenon called "booze rally" where people go on the ferry to Estonia to buy alcohol because it's so much cheaper there. Well, Estonia is raising taxes so people started going to Latvia instead. But yeah.

[Anonymous No.13475253]

>>13475249
Shame, as Estonia has much better booze than Latvia. I assume most people are just looking for cheap piss though.

[Anonymous No.13475256]

I hate beer and e cigs but the logos, names and colors of these brands and flavors interest me

[Anonymous No.13475261]

>>13475253
You'd be correct, mostly. But I guess some people would still go for the quality stuff because of the money saved.

[Anonymous No.13475506]

>>13475256
You've never had a coffee and chocolate oatmeal breakfast stout before?

[Anonymous No.13475861]

>>13474829
>stout
>for breakfast
i wish i lived in a country that this was normal

[Anonymous No.13476004]

>>13475861
You don't live in the UK?

[Anonymous No.13476049]

>>13476004
i live in some shithole in the united states, where beer/liqour laws change every time you get to a new city
i can't buy a beer anywhere before noon around here

[Anonymous No.13476132]

>>13476049
My county is worse than that. Towns have to have a minimum population size to sell liquor and wine, and the town no matter the size has to vote whether to permit the sale of beer.

[Anonymous No.13476140]

The breakfast stout is delicious, very dark too which is lovely.

[Anonymous No.13476242]

>>13476140
is it affordable to the everyman

[Anonymous No.13476246]

>>13474829
>man I just LOVE craft beer

[Anonymous No.13476252]

>>13476049
Dry counties are horrible. Sorry bro

[Anonymous No.13476296]

>>13476242
Not really 4 quid for half a pint

[Anonymous No.13476315]

>>13474829
>Have you ever gone on a trip for beer tourism?
Not being a flannel-clad hipster douchebag, no I have not.
>Also, what should I get next from pic related?
Lowenbrau, def.

[Anonymous No.13476337]

>>13476315
Hey boomer, calm down

[Anonymous No.13476544]

>>13476315
Lowenbrau is pretty standard tho breh

[Anonymous No.13476864]

>>13476132
so what about all the drunks? are they just meth heads instead?

[Anonymous No.13477307]

>>13474829

Beer Emporium. Nice. Would recommend their pizza too.

[Anonymous No.13477350]

>>13476864
Fentanyl and meth basically, yeah. It's the christian sharia law south.

[Anonymous No.13477780]

When I was driving across Iowa once I made the several hour detour up to Decorah to stop at Toppling Goliath if that counts

[Anonymous No.13479301]

>>13477307
Do you also frequent the wild beer bar?

[Anonymous No.13479931]

>>13474829
I've been on a trip for whisky tourism but never beer. I know a guy who has though, mostly in Belgium and The Netherlands, and really enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.13479942]

>>13475154
Did you ever go to the marble arch brewpub when you were in Manchester? Good beers and the food was superb last time I went, that was a few years ago mind

[Anonymous No.13481100]

>>13479942
Manchester wasn't too great for beer when I went there a month ago. Honestly, the best craft beer in the UK is in Wales and the south west at the moment in terms of quality

[Anonymous No.13482201]

>>13479301

Nah Whapping and the whole Cargo container situation just generally isn't cosy or charming. I find them pretty bleak to be honest.

[Anonymous No.13483215]

>>13482201
The wild beer bar was good, it wasn't in an old shipping container, it closes at 10pm though which was a bit weird

[Anonymous No.13483771]

>>13481100
Never actually been to Wales but i've had a few good beers and ciders from there. Lived in the north west for a bit though and i'm sick of seeing Tiny Rebel beers everywhere.

[Anonymous No.13483838]

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[Anonymous No.13484005]

>>13474829
Can you imagine being an adult and still drinking beer?

[Anonymous No.13485315]

>>13475249
Used to be a similar thing in the UK getting a ferry to France to get cheap wine and lager. We called it a Booze Cruise since it rhymed and involved a boat.
Don't see it done much these days.

[Anonymous No.13485327]

>>13474829
>beer tourism
I fucking hate hipsters so God damn much

[Anonymous No.13486258]

>>13485327
OK boomer

[Anonymous No.13487446]

>>13474829
Yes, I went to Tasmania. It was legit.
Recently had some Victorian craft beers. Kiwi Sours. They tasted like vomit. But I also had a raspberry rye milk porter and that was great.

[Anonymous No.13487536]

>>13487446
Tassie has some interesting breweries but travelling there for the beer is almost the last thing I'd think of doing

[Anonymous No.13488448]

>>13474829
Yeah. I won't move to a different place until I have drank all the beer a place brews themselves. One of the many joys I get from going on trips.

[Anonymous No.13489029]

>>13488448
Based and beerpilled

[Anonymous No.13489263]

>>13487446
>>13487536
Had a really well made pale from du Cane recently but they've only made three beers. Bruny Island is supposed to be good too. There's some good Tasmanian beer out there but I don't think it's worth traveling there for it.

[Anonymous No.13489440]

>>13488448
The local beers can pretty much all be had in local, overpriced, pubs. There's not a lot of travelling to be done.

>>13489263
Bruny Island has some great beers, can confirm.
Given that I live in Melbourne, it's not much of a travel. I did a bit of hiking there too. Some of the best hiking in the world, I'm told.
Not baller enough for Tasmanian whisky though.

[Anonymous No.13489459]

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[Anonymous No.13489485]

>>13489440
If you're into beer feel free to join the /ck/ beer discord: MmKBWCU

There's two Melbournian members, by the way.

[Anonymous No.13489573]

>>13489459
Boomer cope