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We are a group of average beer drinkers coming from all walks of life. Keep in mind our reviews are not the opinions of one person but an amalgam of the members present for each tasting and merely a guide and not the definitive be a

ll end all. Feel free to post your beer related input, opinions, reviews, pictures and information on our page. If you run into us out and about this great city, pull up a chair, have a few pints and let’s talk all things beer. As always, remember to drink what you love and love what you drink!

If this cask of Flying Bison Brewing MacBison Scotch Ale was, in fact, the last one ever from the brewery, at least we w...
12/09/2025

If this cask of Flying Bison Brewing MacBison Scotch Ale was, in fact, the last one ever from the brewery, at least we went out with a bang at Mr. Goodbar VIP Cask Fest. It was right at the top of our list and we drank the hell out of this beer. If it is the end, it was a great way to go out.

Habitat for Humanity Buffalo's Craft Brew Tour Cards are more than coupon books — they are a curated craft-beer adventur...
12/08/2025

Habitat for Humanity Buffalo's Craft Brew Tour Cards are more than coupon books — they are a curated craft-beer adventure where every pint redeemed is a brick in someone’s future home.

For $40, you’ll get a free drink at 28 Western New York breweries, distilleries, and bars, including Ellicottville Brewing, Hamburg Brewing, Hofbrauhaus, The Ridge West Seneca, Resurgence Brewing, Big Ditch Brewing, Brazen Brewing, 42 North Brewing, Southern Tier Brewing, Mystic Hills and more.

Craft beer for a good cause – plain and simple. Real, tangible change in our own backyard, our own communities, all fueled by the beer, cider, or spirit in your glass.

Here's what to know and where to order yours.

Habitat for Humanity’s Craft Brew Tour Cards aren’t just a ticket to great beers — it’s a passport to building homes, strengthening communities, and blending the best of Western New York’s craft-beer scene with the mission of giving back. In short: Craft Brew Tour Cards are more than coupo...

12/08/2025

Celebrating a big Buffalo Bills win with our first fire of the season and Thin Man Brewery Kranberry Kringle, a 4.9% cranberry witbier. The fire is cozy and the beer is super light and sessionable with light notes of tart cranberries. Go Bills. Bills by a billion.

Walking in a winter wonderland for Buffalo Bills game day at Wayland Brewing, keeping warm and dodging the snow with a W...
12/07/2025

Walking in a winter wonderland for Buffalo Bills game day at Wayland Brewing, keeping warm and dodging the snow with a Winterland Winter Lager on side pull. This presentation of the beer is perfect - light bodied and creamy with just the right amount of winter spice and malt. And so far this beer is better than the game.

More boozy fun from Other Half Buffalo first anniversary. As expected, there are plenty of banger hops and haze to go ar...
12/07/2025

More boozy fun from Other Half Buffalo first anniversary. As expected, there are plenty of banger hops and haze to go around - Cone Juice Concentrate IIPA, Extra Extra Broccoli IIPA and So Green, Ege Brokolisi IIPA were simply fabulous. Here's to many more years of, well, this. Cheers Other Half.

Happy first anniversary, Other Half Buffalo! From world class hazies to crushable lagers (we are massive fans of the Sna...
12/06/2025

Happy first anniversary, Other Half Buffalo! From world class hazies to crushable lagers (we are massive fans of the Snaps series), thank you for filling our glasses with the good stuff this past year. Now we just need to find time to come in and play some darts at the taproom. Happy anniversary, Other Half Buffalo. Keep pushing the craft forward. We’ll be right here, beer in hand. Here’s to year two and beyond — Buffalo’s thirsty.

This 2022 bottle of Resurgence Brewing and Thin Man Brewery We're Almost Friends Maple Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine is...
12/06/2025

This 2022 bottle of Resurgence Brewing and Thin Man Brewery We're Almost Friends Maple Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine is drinking great right now. Toffee, roast, raisins and dark fruit. We had it as part of a flight at Resurgence, and we're happy that they had some bottles left. Barleywine is life.

Keeping the cask beer train rolling at Buffalo Brewing with a fantastic 1842 Vienna Lager on gravity cask. This beer is ...
12/05/2025

Keeping the cask beer train rolling at Buffalo Brewing with a fantastic 1842 Vienna Lager on gravity cask. This beer is fabulous - light bodied and creamy with a touch of smokiness and oak and a nice bready malt note. It's incredibly smooth and easy drinking. We need to continue to normalize cask beer releases! Go try some of this beer while supplies last.

This year's VIP Cask Night at Mr. Goodbar was one to remember. We saw so many friends and had so many great beers - this...
12/05/2025

This year's VIP Cask Night at Mr. Goodbar was one to remember. We saw so many friends and had so many great beers - this year's lineup was one of the best ever. There was not an IPA to be found and dark beers ruled the night - Autark Cozy Dark Mild, Smoldered Society Strike Anywhere Into the Darkness, Brickyard Brewing Pub Ale #3, 42 North Brewing Coconut Ninefold Darkness Imperial Stout and Flying Bison Brewing MacBison Scotch Ale, perhaps the last Flying Bison cask in existence, were excellent. We loved to see the turnout too - maybe the best ever - for an event centered around local cask beer. Here's hoping next year is even bigger and better.

One of our favorite events on the beer calendar is tonight - the annual VIP Cask Beer Festival at Mr. Goodbar. The Elmwo...
12/04/2025

One of our favorite events on the beer calendar is tonight - the annual VIP Cask Beer Festival at Mr. Goodbar. The Elmwood Avenue staple is rolling out a full lineup of hand-crafted casks from some of Western New York’s most respected breweries — and you won’t want to miss it.

Cask offerings include:

- Blackbird Cider Works – Barrel Aged Ghost Lantern
- 42 North Brewing – Coconut Ninefold Darkness Imperial Stout
- Flying Bison Brewing – MacBison Scotch Ale
- Gene McCarthy's/Old First Ward Brewing Co. – Against the Grain Hefeweizen
- Smoldered Society – Strike Anywhere Into the Darkness Lager
- Big Ditch Brewing – Imperial Stout
- Community Beer Works – Vanilla Blizzard Kit
- Thin Man Brewery – Sponge Candy Porter
- Autark Brewhouse – Cozy Dark Mild
- Brickyard Brewing – Just One Before I Die IPA

Tickets for the event are still available for $30. We hope to see you all there!

If you love cask-conditioned beer and local craft brews, get ready: the annual VIP Cask Beer Festival is back at Mr. Goodbar this Thursday, December 4. The Elmwood Avenue staple is rolling out a full lineup of hand-crafted casks from some of Western New York’s most respected breweries — and you ...

Happy Buffalo Beer Buzz Day! This week, we have stories on Habitat for Humanity Buffalo 2026 Craft Brew Tour Cards, beer...
12/03/2025

Happy Buffalo Beer Buzz Day! This week, we have stories on Habitat for Humanity Buffalo 2026 Craft Brew Tour Cards, beer list for Mr. Goodbar VIP Cask Fest, keg tree lighting at Frequentem Buffalo, Other Half Buffalo first anniversary party, tickets on sale for CollaBEERation Festival, 5 Golden Rings Challenge at Steel Leaf Brewing, a pair of festive stouts at Santora's Pizza Pub & Grill x 1927 Brew House and a new barrel aged Belgian Tripel from Buffalo Olde Brewery.

Habitat for Humanity 2026 Craft Brew Tour Cards Now Available For $40, you’ll get a free drink at 28 Western New York breweries, distilleries and bars, including Buffalo Olde Brewery, Resurgence, Hamburg Brewing, 42 North, Mystic Hills, Brazen Brewing, The Ridge West Seneca, Southern Tier, Butera....

When you're in the area for work, you go to Tree House Brewing new space in Saratoga Springs. This place is wild. With t...
12/03/2025

When you're in the area for work, you go to Tree House Brewing new space in Saratoga Springs. This place is wild. With the recent snowfall, it looks like something out of a Hallmark movie and that's not even to mention the beer - Trail Ciitra Pils, Catharsis Porter and Brighter Than Sunlight Imperial IPA were all excellent. Great way to spend a Tuesday. We will definitely be back.

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The Buffalo Beer League was founded in August 2010 by passionate craft beer fans Brian Campbell and Scott McMillan, who were looking to expand their knowledge and understanding of all things craft beer, beginning with a blank notebook (aka The Grade Book), a six pack of Sam Adams Cherry Wheat and a liter of Captain Morgan Spiced Rum (don’t ask, they don’t really remember).

From there, things grew to include close friends Jesse Walters, Ryan Jablonski, George Ruffles, William Rogers, Dan Lohr and more, who would each bring a different beer to a weekly group tasting session to be sampled, reviewed and graded. Armed with a background in street team marketing and guerilla advertising in the music industry, as well as a love for all things local, the BBL grew into a powerful promotional tool as the Western New York beer scene began to blossom and take shape. Their scope now includes everything from event and festival coordination and management, volunteer staffing and social media promotion to beer blogging, podcasting and content creation.

“When we started the Buffalo Beer League, all we wanted to do was try something new,” Brian says. “That’s why we launching this thing - drinking good beer with good people, all while promoting local businesses and breweries and doing whatever we can do to help further the Buffalo craft beer scene. It’s all about having fun, drinking local and drinking better beer with our friends.”

The BBL attended more and more Buffalo beer events as they increased annually, outgrowing the Grade Book as they moved primarily to social media after the advent of Untappd (for beer grading and reviewing purposes). It was through these events that Scott, Brian and Jesse linked up with Mark Jowett (at Community Beer Works’ monthly Book Club meetings to be exact), who they’d see at pretty much every event they drank at. Mark quickly became a core member of the BBL and the four continue to fuel this Buffalo beer promotional engine to this day.