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Craft Beer in Delray Beach
Tryst Restaurant Neighborhood Pub Atmosphere
Looking for microbeer or craft beer in Delray Beach?
If you're in Delray Beach and you're looking for craft beer or a neighborhood pub in Delray, Tryst Restaurant is the place you'll want to be!
Tryst Restaurant has over 58 varieties of craft beer with about 10 different kinds of craft beer on tap!
Craft Beer on Tap at Tryst Restaurant
This neighborhood pub in Delray Beach has definitely taken the edge on the craft beer popularity with their vast variety of craft beer to choose from.
The Bar Scene at Tryst Restaurant
And get this...30 wines by the glass!
I'm a red wine drinker myself, so I haven't personally tried the craft beer at Tryst Restaurant, but I have a lot of testimonials at the end of this page if you want some confirmation on just how good their beer selection is.
And, I also have ratings and testimonials on three of the top-rated craft beers offered at Tryst Restaurant.
And, one more thing, I have a video of Dan Oliver, The Beer Guy, in the bar scene at Tryst Restaurant.
I think you'll enjoy the entertaining video!
So read on my friend....
What is Craft Beer?
Craft beer is an American term generally referring to beer that is brewed using traditional methods, without adjuncts such as rice or corn, and with an eye to what's distinctive and flavorful rather than mass appeal.
Photo Courtesy Christopher Smith, NYT
The term microbrewery is a term for a small scale microbrewery that produces a small volume of beer – thus the term microbeer or microbrewery.
Most microbreweries are also craft breweries but don't let that confuse you because craft beer can still be from a large brewery.
American craft beers will usually have a fuller more complex flavor than the typical light American lager style of beer.
In craft beer you will experience an increased percentage of specialty malt and hop ingredients and flavors and aromas not found in the light American style lagers.
The skill of the Masterbrewer brings out the desired aroma, color, mouth feel, foam and flavor qualities of the hops and malt through formulation of recipes and the fermentation of sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide gas and other characters.
The Beer Guy - Dan Oliver Interviewing Tryst Restaurant Bar Scene
Click the middle of the video below to view a 3-minute video of Dan Oliver - The Beer Guy from The Palm Beach Post doing interviews and discussing beer and food at Tryst Restaurant in Delray Beach.
Microbrewery and Craft Beer Ratings
Since I'm not a beer connoisseur, I did some research to see which beer at Tryst's has the highest ratings.
The following three beers ranked 98 or higher according to the comments and ratings I found on the internet.
Dogfish Head 90 IPA Scores 100!
Notes of apricots, peaches, cranberry, maple syrup, and raisins... So delicious! It’s one bountiful fruit basket in a pint. I’ll come back to this one again and again.
Poured out a clear amber brew with a great light tan that was quite thick and left average lacing. The aroma is insane! One of the best I’ve ever smelled.
Beautifully floral with peaches, apricot nectar, more fruits that I didn’t have time to identify, weak pine, raisins maybe, thick malts.
The taste was incredible form first sip - the wonderful aroma just set that up. Intense hops of grapefruit, orange, lemon, sweet bready malts, soft caramel, tastes like flowers smell, weak molasses. It’s all just put together so nicely.
Chimay Premiere Reserve (Bleu) Scores 99!
The aroma was both spicey and fruity, but it is beyond me to determine which ones. Taste was extremely good as was the mouth-feel.
Aroma is yeasty and vinous with a lot of berry fruit, flavor is similar but more intense and deep with a long medium sweet finish that leaves very nice berry fruit flavors in your mouth.
Nose of yeast, vanilla, plum and other dark fruits. Taste is sweet, a little spicy, and hints of booze. Leaves a very mild warming feel in the stomach.
Champagne is a perfect description of this beer. In fact I think I may be popping a bottle of this in celebration instead of the bubbly! Will keep for toasting or celebration.
Rogue Chocolate Stout Scores 98!
Pours black with a small dark mocha head. Nose is chocolate, brown sugar, cocoa & some coffee. Bitter profile.
Opaque pour with a creamy tan head, excellent retention, decent looking lace.
One of the most chocolaty beers I’ve ever tried. The aroma is incredible chocolaty and inviting. A good desert beer.
Aroma of dark chocolate, chocolate milk shake, a little espresso. Flavor is sweet chocolate at the beginning and dark chocolate and espresso on the finish.
Tryst Restaurant Happy Hour
Happy Hour: 4:00 - 7:00
LIVE MUSIC WEDNESDAYS: 8:00 - 11:00
"After the Beach" Sundays are Fun Days at Tryst: 3:00 - 5:30
Drinks 2 for 1
LIVE MUSIC SUNDAYS: 3:30 - 6:30
Testimonials
58 craft beers on their list, from microbrewers. They've converted me. I'm now officially a craft beer lover.
Tryst Restaurant in Delray is a great place to take friends for a night out on the town. Not the romantic, stuffy kind of place, but more of a fun, upscale neighborhood pub on Atlantic Avenue.
Besides the food, the beer selection is really unbelievable with lots of craft beer on tap and in the bottle.
Tryst Restaurant in Delray has an amazing selection of 58 craft beers to choose from! The names sounded almost magical right out of Hollywood. Bigfoot Barleywine, Chimay Cinq Cents, Midas Touch. Rogue Dead Guy. La Chouffe.
The bar is what shines for me. They've jumped on the recent popularity of craft beer and put together a nice selection of craft beer on tap.
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Most microbreweries are also craft breweries but don't let that confuse you because craft beer can still be from a large brewery.
The aroma was both spicey and fruity, but it is beyond me to determine which ones. Taste was extremely good as was the mouth-feel. 
Pours black with a small dark mocha head. Nose is chocolate, brown sugar, cocoa & some coffee. Bitter profile. 
