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my options on the menu board, but was quickly overwhelmed with choices. With 60 taps, Beer NV can’t possibly keep up with a chalkboard or printed menu. Instead, they’ve embraced technology with a barlength digital display listing everything currently pouring. But it doesn’t stop If a place has “beer” in their name, there—each beer listing includes prices they’d better bring their A game if they from the four-ounce taster through the want to impress hardcore beer lovers and 32-ounce “crowler” can, as well as informaearn their business. Put that place on the tion about alcohol level, beer style, and how opposite side of town from where I live, much is left in the keg. (This is all fed to and they really need to shine to get me in their website as well.) Smaller inset panels the door. stream @beernv tweets, check-ins from Growing up and still living north social beer logging/rating app Untappd, and of I-80, I’m still somewhat stuck in the kegs to be tapped soon. I felt like I was on mindset of my youth, when Meadowood the NYSE trading floor, visual beer data Mall and Magic Carpet mini golf were coming at me relentlessly. way, way down south—Foothill Road may I was attended to quickly, tasters as well have been in poured, card swiped and Carson City. Beer NV is returned. I appreciated being slowly chipping away at able to run a tab electronically my reasons not to drag without surrendering my credit myself down to their 15 Foothill Road, 448-6199 card the whole time and, later, beer mecca in the South For more information, visit beernv.com. to close out and pay on a Creek Center. Breaking roaming server’s smartphone. away from Midtown, This place, to me, is the ultiFourth Street, or other mate confluence of beer and technology. central neighborhoods for beer lovers, Beer As if 60 taps and the very name “Beer NV gives beer geeks and curious others NV” weren’t a clear enough message, the in the southern suburbs a great option for quasi-industrial decor with light shades quality beer without much of a commute. fashioned from old kegs and beer bottles My recent visit was only my second—both is another subtle hint that beer reigns here. times for special events (put on so routinely But, truthfully, it is not all about beer, as it’s hard to call them “special,” but they mixed drinks, spirits and wines are readily are). Tonight was the second annual “all available as well. local tap takeover” where all 60 taps are If I were going to open a beer bar, Beer dedicated to brews from 17 area breweries. NV is a really good example of what I’d You read that right, we now claim at least want it to look like. It pains me that it is so 17 breweries in our region, and we have a out of my way, most inconvenient to stop beer bar with 60 taps! If that’s not living by for an impromptu beer and putting it in in glorious times as a beer drinker, I don’t the category of places I have to plan for a know what is. visit. For now, unless I can stop thinking I got there early, knowing special of a 20-minute drive as a major excursion, events can get crowded fast, and, indeed, I can only hope for a second location near it was starting to fill up. Eager to get a me and be “beer envious” of you folks flight of tasters going, I started considering down south. Ω
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Bartender anna Maye Vetter pours a flight from the five dozen beers on tap at Beer NV. The bar also offers a 32-ounce can called a “crowler.”
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