So, I’m at Valley River brewery, one of my favorite places for a beer you see, and I’m up to a couple new things today. The first is that I checked in here with the Pint Pass app, which (they say) pays you to check in at breweries. I’ve had same for a while now, but always forget to use it. Today I made it a point do so, and sure enough it did credit my account $2 for the check in. The proof of the pudding, though, will come when I go to use the money in the account at some future date.

New thing two is that I ordered a pizza here. I’ve always heard good things about their wood-fired brick oven pizza, and after enjoying one I can heartily recommend them. The basic 10-inch medium pie (I finished about half) was $10.95 with mozzarella and red sauce. I added mushrooms and sliced fresh tomato for $.75 each, and sautéed spinach for $1.50. The sauce was tangy, the toppings plentiful and the crust chewy inside and crisp and toasty on the bottom.

Pizza and beer go hand in hand, and far be it from me to break up the two. As I am often wont to do, I ordered a sampler of four beers ($5.50) with the intention of bringing a growler of the lovely Dawn Mild back to the hotel. My plans went awry when one of the beers in my sampler was so wonderful, I decided to get that instead.

The last beer I sampled was Solstice Tripel, an abbey tripel in style. I am quite fond of this yeasty Belgian style, and while I prefer the maltier dubbels, I am always happy to sipple on a tripel.

Solstice Tripel has an alcohol content of 10% by volume and sells for $5.50 for a 10 ounce glass. You can also fill a growler for

My taster glass of Valley River Solstice Tripel arrived yeasty with a banana-pineapple nose, more fruity pineapple in the palate (not from hops mind you), strong malt, subtle yeasty funk, warming alcohol finish. 10%.

Wonderful! While I didn't fill my growler with this beer (it lost out to the magnificent Olde Marsden Ale), I enjoyed it all the same. Even if I lose at the casino, I win at Valley River Brewery.

And remember, try a new beer today, and drink outside the box.

*Pricing data accurate at time of review or latest update. For reference only, based on actual price paid by reviewer.

(B)=Bottled

(D)=Draft

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