Pints Brew wins 2 Gold Medals

What is your favorite Brew at Pints?

The following is a press release from the Edgewater - Colorado Belle Media.  Pints Restaurant and Brewery in the Colorado Belle just won two gold medals at the Los Angeles International Commercial Beer Competition held June 7-8.

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 PINTS’ BEERS WIN TWO GOLD MEDALS!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LAUGHLIN, NV-- Colorado Belle’s Pints Brewery & Sports Bar has been awarded two Gold Medals. Chili IPA and “El Jefe” Mexican Lager, won the medals in the prestigious Los Angeles International Commercial Beer Competition held June 7-8. Chili IPA won in the Field Beer category, and Mexican Lager took home top honors in the American Style Amber Lager category. Eighty-four categories with 30 to 225 entries per category were judged at the event. Brewmaster Chuck Croix entered 5 beers in the competition, including Chili IPA, Mexican Lager, Watermelon Wheat, Bodacious Blueberry and German Bock, all extremely popular at Pints. “We were very excited to receive word about the medals. We work hard to brew excellent beer, and it’s great to have an international competition recognize the results,” Croix said. In 2013, Pints’ Bodacious Blueberry Beer was awarded the Bronze medal in the fruit beer category at the same competition. In addition to keeping tanks and kegs filled with the regular beers, Chuck introduces new seasonal beers. Watch for Mango IPA, coming soon!

Pints microbrews are served at bars throughout Colorado Belle and Edgewater (Colorado Belle’s sister resort) including The Loading Dock Bar & Grille, which features El Jefe Mexican Lager, “Nonetheweizer” American Hefeweizen, Golden Ale and What the Puck IPA. The brewery’s Golden Ale is also served at most major concerts in the Edgewater’s E Center.

AWARD WINNING BEER!
Chili IPA is becoming a regular offering at Pints, and El Jefe Mexican Lager is one of four house beers in the Loading Dock Bar & Grille at Colorado Belle.
CHILI IPA: Copper-colored medium body beer with a blend of roasted chilies and a generous quantity of hops in the kettle and in the fermentation tank. Slight note of honey from our malt. The hops dominates the flavor with notes of citrus in this American IPA. 6% ABV
EL JEFE MEXICAN LAGER: A dark malty flavored Vienna style lager. There are hints of roast coffee and chocolate. 8% ABV

CURRENTLY ON TAP AT PINTS:
Pints Premium Golden Ale—A well balanced, light, refreshing ale that finishes dry and crisp.
Rehab Red—An American amber ale with a generous amount of hops that balances the sweetness of lots of caramel malt.
What the Puck IPA—Copper-colored medium body beer with a generous amount of hops in the kettle and in the fermentation tank. Slight note of honey from our malt. The hops dominates the flavor with notes of citrus in this American IPA. 6% ABV
Jackass Stout—Hints of coffee and chocolate lend character to Jackass Stout; served on nitrogen for an extra smooth body.
Bodacious Blueberry Ale—Bodaciously delicious, this ale is made with real fruit for a refreshing, noticeable flavor that isn’t overpowering.
Wild Card Brew—In addition to the five primary beers brewed in Pints, one or more Wild Card Brews are featured in Pints: Nut Brown Ale, (ABV 5%), Double IPA (ABV 10.5%) and American Hefeweizen (ABV 5.5%).

Root Beer is on tap! The Brewmaster’s Root Beer has been pronounced “delicious, better than A&W’s”. Available only in Pints.

 The Colorado Belle and Edgewater Casino Resorts are owned and operated by Marnell Gaming, LLC, a limited liability corporation which owns gaming establishments in Laughlin, Nevada. The corporation develops, expands and acquires gaming-related properties and is focused on providing a unique portfolio of gaming offerings to its guests.

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Hot Deal: Wings and Microbrew at Pints

Last Sunday we made an usual stop at Pint's Microbrewery and Restaurant in the Colorado Belle during Sunday football. We had seen the signs indicating they have Sunday and Monday game night specials on chicken wings and beer.  It turns out that this is one of the best deals in Laughlin (if you love wings and beer and football).  We were surprised that the place was only half full, but the crowd was loud and into the games being shown on a big screen and other smaller TV's throughout the large bar/restaurant.  We were less surprised that service was still as slow and unsteady as it normally is.  The beer and wings as usual made up for this.  

German Bock Microbrew

 A pint of any of the microbrews on tap are just $2.50 during the game happy hour.  We were pleased to see that for a change they had many different ones available and all of them listed actually were available. With four of us we managed to try just about all of them.   The German Bock was a favorite, strong but so good. The Golden Ale was at the other end of the spectrum of strength but had a delicious smooth taste.  The Blueberry Ale is an award winner you should definitely try as well.

ONE celery stick.  ONE carrot stick.

The wings are available during the happy hour for 75 cents a piece.  This isn't as good a price as you can get on Tuesday at Buffalo Wild Wings over in Bullhead City (50 cent a wing).  They were just as good, cooked nice and crispy, with a perfect amount of heat infused in them.  Wings must be ordered in orders of 6 at Pints.  It wouldn't be us without noting one of our pet peeves.  For an order of 12 wings they gave ONE Celery stick and ONE carrot stick.  ONE. We know the price of produce has gone up but still!  The order included the obligatory running, nearly flavorless ranch dipping sauce.  We would love to see some good chunky blue cheese and a couple extra veggie sticks!

We also ordered the Tater Skins ($8.99, no happy hour special).  These are usually very good.  

Today, however, they seem to have downsized the order.  $8.99 for 5 small halves. Even three potato's halved would be six. And one of them was tiny (perhaps a micro-potato?) This used to be one of our favorite apps to go with some beer, but $8.99 for what was given was too much.

Service was ok once we were seated.  As usual, even though they were not overly busy, we had to wait at an unmanned hostess counter for way too long (while other employees chatted at the other checkout, completely ignoring us). The server did seem less than friendly, but given how bad service we have had here before we had no new complaints.  

The beer was cold, the wings were hot, and the price was right. They do appear to have new tables and chairs.  Gone are the old copper tables (which were bigger).  

A Golden Ale and new tabletops. 

*The sign didn't indicate what time the specials start, it just says Sunday and Monday night during the football games.  We were there fairly early and they were already on.  

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