Turtle Anarchy Brewing Company

My mom flew in last night for a visit so Brian and I took advantage of our free babysitter and did another brewery tour this evening.  I came across a Living Social deal for Turtle Anarchy Brewing Company a few weeks back and got two tours with souvenir glasses and samples for $8 total - can't beat that!  The brewery has only been in business since July but they are in a bunch of local restaurants or bars already.  According to the brewmaster, they can barely keep up with the demand.  I can see why though - their beer was great!

We had signed up for the 5:30 pm tour and since we were a little early we decided to get a sampler in the taproom.

We got the basic sampler which included their 3 year round beers and one rotator.

The brewery is in an office park but once you are in the taproom, you forget about that.  It's not huge but pretty cool inside.  I thought this set of canvases was really awesome ...

The brewmaster did the tour and we actually learned a ton.  The brewery only has 4 fermenters so far but they have plenty of room to expand, which they plan to do soon.

After the tour we decided to try the stout sampler.  I'm finally becoming a fan of dark beer (or at least craft dark beers!).  The most interesting was the Smoke & Mirrors which is made with dried chipolte peppers and cinnamon.  It was a bit too flavorful though - I'm not sure I could of done a full pint of it.  A sampler size though was perfect.

The souvenir glasses are pretty cool:

We are both big fans of all the beers made by this company.  I'm sure we'll be getting one soon at a restaurant that has one of their beers on tap!