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Pencil This In: 31 Reasons To Get Drunk At Local Option

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Jan 17, 2014 6:30PM

2014_1_17_PTI.jpg Beer geeks have enough excuses to visit Local Option but the venerable Lincoln Park tavern is giving you 31 reasons to visit them this evening. Here they are.

Goose Island BCS - Proprietors 2013
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout 2013
Goose Island BCS Barleywine 2013
Bell's Brewery, Inc. Hopslam
Allagash Brewing Company Hugh Malone
Bell's Brewery Expedition Stout
Birrificio del Ducato Verdi Imperial Stout Anniversario
Central Waters Brewing Company Bourbon Barrel Stout
Dark Horse Brewing Co. Too
Evil Twin Brewing Imperial Doughnut Break
Evil Twin Ron and the Beast Ryan
Half Acre Beer Company Beer Company Quakerbridge
LambickX Private Domain 2013
Local Option Bierwerker BBA Kentucky Common
Local Option Bierwerker Blood ov the Kings
Local Option Bierwerker Dampf Loc
Local Option Bierwerker Morning Wood
Local Option Bierwerker Schmetterling Gose
Local Option Bierwerker Sweet Leif
Local Option Bierwerker Voku Hila
Local Option Bierwerker Outlawger
New Belgium Brewing Brewing Lips Of Faith - Avoine IPA (Half Acre Collaboration)
Pipeworks Brewing Company Brewing Company Brother Nelson Razbeardo
Pipeworks The One Horned Wonder And His Fanciful Flying Fresno
Port Brewing / The Lost abbey Board Meeting
Thisted Bryghus Limfjords Porter
Thornbridge Brewery Brewery Wild Raven
Three Floyds Brewing BrewingBackMasking
Three Floyds Permanent Funeral
Three Floyds Zombie Dust
Virtue Cider Mitten

'Nuff said. The shenanigans kick off at 3 p.m.

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