I’ve long wanted to mention Boneshaker Public House here, and today seemed like a good opportunity. Although I did not eat here today, rest assured their house mac & cheeses (all of them) are incredible. They also offer pizzas and appetizer-type options. Check out the current menu as it was today. I met up with my friend, Justin, at 11:30 for today’s lower-key dark beer event, “Black Beer, Bright Sun.”
Boneshaker is one of a few craft beer bars in the area (Final Gravity, Porter’s House of Draft and Craft Beer Vault being the other noteworthy ones that come to mind). They are located at the corner of Sunset Blvd & Park Dr in Rocklin. They carry a constantly changing array of craft beers on draft and in bottles. Several times a year they have special events featuring delicious and harder to find special release beers. I am usually attracted to ones with darker beers, such as imperial stouts aged in bourbon barrels.
They expanded a while back and have a decent amount of seating both inside and out. Inside is a fairly dark (especially when walking in on a sunny day like today, it takes some time to adjust), modern-rustic ambiance. You order beer and food up at the bar and take a seat anywhere.
Today we ordered a couple of flights to try a variety. They had 3 preset ones which consisted of:
Flight A:
- Knee Deep – Dark Horse (Imperial Stout) 10%
- Anderson Valley – Huge Arker (Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout) 13.5%
- Saint Archer – Tusk & Grain (Barrel Aged Blend) 12.5%
- Modern Times – Devil’s Teeth (Imperial Coffee Stout) 10%
Flight B:
- Alesmith – Speedway Stout (Imperial Stout) 12%
- Mother Earth – Four Seasons (Bourbon Barrel Aged Peanut Butter Stout) 8.8%
- New Holland – Dragon’s Milk (Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout) 11%
- Dust Bowl – BBA RIS (Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout) 11.5%
Flight C:
- Alesmith – Hawaiian Speedway Stout (Imperial Coffee Stout) 12%
- Loomis Basin – Get Back Jack (Imperial Porter) 8.5%
- Uinta – Labyrinth (Barrel Aged Quad Black Ale) 13.2%
- Great Basin – 404 Scytale (Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout) 13%
We ordered B & C. Each was around $13 for something like 4-5oz pours. There was a slight mixup and so we were given an extra glass of something, though neither of us really figured out what it was. Of all of these, the Four Seasons Peanut Butter Stout and the 404 Scytale really stuck out to me as the best, most unique of the bunch. A peanut butter stout sounded really weird, but it didn’t really have a peanut butter flavor to it. It was fairly sweet and instead had a flavor and aroma of cake frosting.
Overall it was a decent tasting. Nothing like Final Gravity’s annual Stouterday in December, or some of the more impressive lineups Boneshaker has from time to time, but enjoyable nonetheless. It was nice to be here when it wasn’t standing room only though, which seems to be the case on those particularly special days.
We headed off to Rocklin’s Moo Moos Burger Barn for lunch afterwards, which I’ll have a separate posting about probably tomorrow.
Website: http://www.boneshakerpub.com
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