One of my life list beers made it into NC - Alesmith Speedway Stout.

[NRaleighLiberal]

Bought 2 bottles, haven't tried it yet, but supposed to be great (who has tried it, and what do you think?)

Now if we could only get the Cigar City stouts here, it would be beer heaven. Not yet, sadly.

[OriginalGeek]

1. Haven't tried that

but I will if I ever can find it. I dig your St Bernardus goblet. I'd collect more beer glasses if I had room.

It is nice living just up the highway from the Cigar City brewery. We get most of the bottles and cans and quite a few of them on tap. And I plan to take a day trip to Tampa to visit the brewery.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. are they as good as the ratings say? Seems everything they make is top notch

[OriginalGeek]

3. I think they are terrific

I almost always have a 6 pack of the Maduro brown ale in my beer crisper. I've liked or loved every CC beer I've tried.

The annoying thing is I waited a long time to try them because they were available at my local grocery store - how good can grocery store beer be? Apparently, pretty damn good! I learned a lesson there.