
Currently rated as the third best beer in the world on BeerAdvocate, when Pliny the Younger is released each year, people drive (or fly) for hours, sometimes days, to get to Santa Rosa, in Northern California, where they wait in line for hours more just to sample this uber-hoppy monster (weighing in at 10.25 percent alcohol by volume).
The release was February 4 this year but after the release, Russian River sends a limited number of five-gallon kegs of Pliny the Younger to beer bars around the country. One of the very few restaurant locations to get a keg of the rare Pliny the Younger, El Dorado Corner Café will be tapping it tomorrow at 7:00 sharp! Limit one per customer, but that’s ok because they’ve got plenty Pliny the Elder on tap to keep you going…
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