Avery Ale to the Chief * * *

I bought this Avery beer back in October.  I have been holding onto this beer till today inauguration day.  The bottle says "We the Brewers of Avery Brewing Company, in order to form a more perfect ale, require new leadership that can liberate us from our quagmires in foreign lands embrace environmentally sound energy alternatives to imported oil; heal our ailing health care system; free us from tyrannical debt and resurrect the collapsing dollar.  We hereby pledge to provide him with an ample amount of our Presidential Pale Ale to support in the struggle for the aforementioned goals!"

 "Hail to the New Cheif!"

This is a good beer and a good day.  It is a hoppy and strong beer.  I enjoyed it and would drink it again.

Friar Tucks Beverages * * * * *

Friar Tucks sells wine, cheese, hard liquors, drink mixers, and most importantly lots of beer with some beer & wine brewing supplies. Two locations in St. Louis more locations in IL. We have visited both St. Louis locations are awesome. They both opened in 2008 is my understanding. Crestwood in May and Fenton in November (I will double check these dates). The Crestwood MO location (9053 Watson Road, St. Louis, MO 63126) is 18,000 square feet it was an old Office Depot which is just down the hill past the Crestwood Westfield Shopping mall on the left. It appears larger or at least wider than the Fenton MO. location (792 Gravois Bluffs Blvd, Fenton, MO 63026) which is the picture above seems to have the same amount of beer available as the Crestwood location. I originally discovered the Crestwood location from word of mouth from a friend. We were driving back from my girlfriends parents on Gravois and ran across a sign for Friar Tucks in Fenton MO. Why is this a 5 out of 5 beer beverage store? They have a large selection possibly the largest I have seen in St. Louis. As you can see in the picture that is a long isle of just beer with more beer behind me to my left and on the opposite side of the isle they have more beer including some basic home brewing supplies like steeping malts, recipe kits, books, bottles, bottling equipment, one step sanitizer etc... In the very back of the store they have a walk in cooler for beer which contains a lot of common beers as well as not so common beers that are cold. They had about 9 different beers in the 5 liter kegs which I have been interested in. We are trying some of the beers out that come in the 5L to see if like any. Friar Tucks is going to be the primary source for our beer. In fact we have already purchased about $160 worth of beer in two trips to the two locations. On our second trip we did the "Mix a Six" pack which they have a really nice mix of beer for example we got a Bitburger beer for my brother in law to have since he had some when he was stationed in Germany. In closing this store is great, the only thing I would change is the prices they are average and I wouldn't say they are discount necessarily but still good. We talked to some of the folks at the Fenton store and they were knowledgeable and very nice. They live up to the motto they posted on their website "Bigger, Better, Beverage store" I am not the only person that thinks highly of Friar Tucks check out this review. http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/18803 a A+ and 4.55 out of 5. If you want to read more about Friar Tucks visit their website. http://www.friartuckonline.com

Growlers Pub Rocks * * * * *

5 out 5

Brewtus likes Warstiener Oktoberfest * * *

Yes that is our cat Brewtus.