Trip help Re: beer

Well, I have no idea how you plan to get to Sequoia from LA via 395. But if you come in the more practical way via the 99 there are some spots in Bakersfield, but I can't recall names. But upon leaving Sequoia and heading towards Yosemtie, you could pass through Fresno, which has Butterfields. I would not describe it as a place to go out of your way for, but it is well worth a visit if you are that close. Good range of styles, most very well done.

If you really are going up the 395, there is a microbrewery in Inyokern, which is right on the way. I have no idea what their distribution is, and I have never had their products. But it might be worth looking into. There is a brewpub in Mammoth that maybe some skier who checks this site can comment on. But really, that side of the Sierra does not have much.

Tahoe? Have not been there in so long that I would not know.

There are some good beers coming around at all these places, 395 and up to Tahoe (east side of Sierra Nevada). Mammoth has some good beers too. Unfortunately, I found Tahoe's traffic to be worse than LA traffic...much more hours per mile spent on the road. But some Tahoe bars have some local micro-brewed stuff that is actually really very good. You just need more patience than those living in LA...which is rather extreme.

Well I've gone and now back......... and I can recommend Mammoth Brewery......they have a most interesting ale.........Golden trout........about as light a beer as I've ever seen....clean crisp and a nice finish.......... other then that there wasn't anything to talk about......

Hmm, to each his own, but I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why the phrases, "about as light a beer as I've ever seen" and "a most interesting beer" could actually be describing the same beer.

clean crisp and a nice finish..........

Yeah, the Central Vallley (along 99) is far better for beer than 395 corridor.

Decent brewpub in South Lake Tahoe on Hwy 50 a couple miles west of the stateline (right across from the Embassy suites time shares). Its called the Brewery or some such self explanatory name. Good (not great) beer, good pizza, nice outdoor seating during the summer months.

mike

I would have figured you'd know this already, but color is not indicative of a beer's taste. Witness, say, any hellerbock or Michelob Dark.

-Steve

Or a nice Belgian Tripel or Golden Ale versus a bland, wimpy Irish Stout. Color is merely one parameter, not entirely or necessarily correlating with flavor.

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