Quick - Hide!

Is it still Tuesday? Yep....it's been a busy day :-) In the true free spirit style, I'm HOPping right to current time - the Hideout Brewey in Grand Rapids. This is our 6th stop of the day, but maybe one of the coolest. It's on a hidden back street through several apartment complexes clear at the very end and the building has grown up foliage all around it so you can't even hardly see the front door :-) so we get in there, look at a beer list (32) and ask if they have their own. Lol. Yep - all 32. Duh. The samplers come in 5, 10 or 25. Clearly a place for the hard core. We started with 5 - the. IPA (nitro), ginger peach cider, Polish potato ale, tea infused lemon shandy and the west coast session IPA. We started with the ginger peach cider and it was awesome! Subtle ginger and a fair amount of pear...very light and refreshing. Next was the standard IPA on nitro. Gotta love an IPA on nitro - smooth, velvety frothy head.  A mild IPA, one even Roger would like :-). Next up was the Polish potato ale - a first for us. I didn't pick up any potato flavor...it was just a mild generic ale. The tea infused lemon shandy was a great follow up to the potato ale. Another crisp, refreshing brew. Very light tea flavor...and light lemon, too. This is NOT a Leinie Summer Shandy! The last sample was the west coast session. I love west coast IPAs, but they tend to get overwhelming very quickly. This was a great, lighter west coast IPA. So the bottom line is that we'd like to hide out here at the Hideout Brewery for the. Rest of the day...but alas, there are some miles between here and Muskegon!