I am either way on them. I love their business model and really dedicated themselves to the community, delivering kegs, and not getting too big too fast but my big Buffalo brewed beer is Big Ditch. Not big on Flying Bison and CBW when I first started drinking them gave me a bad taste for them but the recent ones seem to have been much better.
Woodcock Brothers up in Wilson is growing on me, just so far so you need to make a day of it.
Ethan from CBW is a little beer wizard. He did the tap installation at my new employer, Toutant.
That said, I just picked up the blood orange ale from Elysian and some Sixpoint Crisp.
Toutant has an exclusive custom cider from Leonard Oakes called Sidredoa, a blend of french and spanish cider styles. Super, super dry, light effervescence, nothing like any other cider I have ever tried.
You’re at Toutant now? That’ll be a 10min walk from my new place of employment and it’s a restaurant I’m really excited about. I had the Elysian Space Dust IPA and it was really good.
Also, yes…Ethan would be the go-to guy for anything beer related. I worked with him briefly while he was a philosophy teacher at D’Youville and got to chat with him before he left to start CBW.
That sounds interesting. The drier ciders are pretty refreshing esp when the weather is warm. That restaurant looks pretty awesome. Interested to check it out.
That I am. Tonight is our last open house/industry opening, we will be closed Tuesday and Wednesdays and Thursday is game on.
I will be there Thursday, Saturday and Mondays. The food is insane and the space is beautiful, I really urge everyone to come check this out.
I just went to New Orleans last month, so the fact he’s bringing that southern food here is a huge plus. NOLA’s food is outrageous
The menu is certainly focused on NOLA/Creole/Bayou, but it really is an encompassment of southern cuisine all together. Here is a dinner menu
My wife is one of the cool kids and will be attending tonight! she’s so cool.
I have been on a major IPA kick lately, picked up a few I haven’t had yet tonight as well as a 4 of the Old Chub Nitro, can’t wait to try it
(Don’t mind the disaster we are mid renovation on the new house)
Really enjoying this.
On tap at ABW 
They’re about 10 miles Northeast of home for me, so have been there a few times. Great building. Decent beers.
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Single Cut has the best IPAs I’ve had in a long time. Good call @dozr.
Those are the best ciders. There’s a cider from CNY that sounds really similar to what you’re describing, can’t remember the name though.
This is almost like a sparkling wine made from apples.
Wife and I did a trip down to Watkins Glen this weekend, stopped at a bunch of wineries along Seneca Lake. We found this place called Climbing Bines Hop Farm, awesome place.
I tried the Dunklewiezen, Blonde, Amber from there House Line, also tried the cider which was excellent ended coming home with some since wife liked it as well.
I also really liked Earle Estates Meadery, if you have never had mead I suggest going there.
Friend of mine in Oregon is continuing to pay off a debt with beer.
So he sent me some space beer among others.
“Seven years after Ninkasi Brewing Company, an independent craft brewery based in Eugene, Ore., opened its doors, the brewery decided the sky was not the limit. In 2014, the brewery’s co-founders embarked on a new kind of mission – the Ninkasi Space Program (NSP), with one ultimate goal: send brewer’s yeast to space, return it to Earth and use it to brew delicious craft beer.”
MoorPat is having a Ninkasi tasting this week…this tomorrow evening
Ground Control is available in WNY now, if you find you liked it enough to grab more.
