Just had a New Belgium Pink Peppercorn IPA at Aleworks in Bozeman. Delicious. Slight peppery feel and taste goes well with the bitter. I may have another to confirm.
It's probably been mentioned, but Surly IPA in MN is tha bombbbb.
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Just had a New Belgium Pink Peppercorn IPA at Aleworks in Bozeman. Delicious. Slight peppery feel and taste goes well with the bitter. I may have another to confirm.
It's probably been mentioned, but Surly IPA in MN is tha bombbbb.
I had that there on Friday and I concur.Quote:
Originally Posted by flowtron's ghost
.....Doh!Quote:
Originally Posted by HobieTony
Just picked up a case of Harpoon Leviathon IPA One of the best I have tasted,maybe better than DFH 90.At 10%, it may take more than a day to finish.haha.
picked up a pack of Green Flash Hop Head Red. Good stuff, but honestly I prefer their West Coast IPA, which is a bit more hoppy.
got some lagunitas little sumpin ale..
delicious as most the other lagunitases are
Union Jack is still perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by HobieTony
Fremont Brewery in Seattle is on absolute fire right now. Their ipa and pale are delicious anytime, and their Cowiche Canyon hop lab is amazing. Apparently the fresh hop Cowiche Canyon is lights out, so I will have to track some down this fall. Also, their barrel aging program is the best thing beerwise in WA right now, but this is an IPA thread...
I spent a week in San Diego on an IPA binge back in may. Hit up Ballast Point, Coronado, Pizza Port Solana Beach and grabbed pints of every other brewery I saw. My favorite beers of the trip were the Coronado Idiot IPA and the Ballast Point Big Eye IPA, although everything I tried at Ballast Point was fantastic.
Sante Adairius 831 IPA - hoppy, tasty, "danky" <- their word, not mine. good IPA from santa cruz co. Due to the retardacy for various booze laws you can get a taster, a 12oz or a growler... but not a pint
Ithaca Flower Power IPA. Costs me 15 bucks a six, but, goooood.
yeah it's ridiculous, I was at Firestone and they wouldn't let me get a pint of Double Jack.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Conway
I was displeased.
Had Great Divide Rumble last night - which I am sure some of you Colorado natives have had much of. For me however, it was a first - and what I thought was a very good beer.
12oz draft pour. Light orange, cloudy color. Slight head - which dissipates after a few minutes.
Smoother, easy drinking, fruity, light caramel, but hoppy enough for an pale ale fan.
I would get again.
Three Floyds Gumballhead
While not being a true IPA (wheat beer) It is a hoppy som'bitch that is down right tasty.
Not truly an ipa, but Telluride Brewing's Rye Pale Ale is my new addiction. Highly recommended. Great flavor, bitter with a bit of fruity spice. Very refreshing.
Are they canning that? Where'd you get it. I love a good RyePAQuote:
Originally Posted by flowtron's ghost
check 406 brewery if in bozo, buudy o mine doin good things, the c4 ipa was a crusher, hes had lighter stuff lately with summer heat but its always changing, and hes a huge hop nerd...
im enjoyin the torpedos lately for the grocery store "go to"... make me forget the night sometimes tho, heh...
It's been a long time since I've had Oskar Blues Gubna. Cracked one open last night and it blew me away again. Love that beer. Tough to believe it's $15 for a four pack of cans, but good god is it worth it. %10.0 ABV too.
Did not care for that one at all. But I truly love their Alpha King (PA), Zombie Dust, and Dreadnaught.Quote:
Originally Posted by idiot
I have never had those ^^
gumballhead is certainly not a true ipa, but was nice on a mid 90s Indiana summer day. It is a lighter beer that has been dry hoped so you get an easy to drink hoppy beer.
I would absolutely try their other offerings if and when I have a chance
What the hell? That is what I pay in OAKLAND, CA ... I woulda thought it would be a lot cheaper in CO.Quote:
Originally Posted by guroo270
It makes sense. We only pay $6 for a Pliny out here if we can find it, except for the few places that really try to gouge you just because it's rare. I went to the liquor store in Breck one time and they had Avery's Dugana for $5, which sells for $6 AT the brewery. That kinda grinded my gears, but whateva.
Well it's usually cheaper overall for wineries to sell at volume to distributors (and then add distributor and retail markups) than it is to sell retail in a tasting room, which is wine is almost always less expensive from a good shop than direct from the winery - I assume beer to be similar although out here I usually get sixers and cases for a buck or two less than at stores. That said, Pliny costs $5 a bottle at the brewery at $4.50 at Whole Foods and other places that have it. At least it's a 17 oz bottle to make up for the extra price. It ends up costing less than $7-9 22 ouncers of stuff like Ballast Point Sculpin, Port Mongo, High Water No Boundary, etc.
The thing that grinds my gears is that Avery's distributors are pretty big in San Diego - almost every place I went to over a few days in June was serving it ... but it's almost non-existent in NorCal. We'll get some Avery stuff out here but I've never seen the DuganA - a beer that I have yearned for since I first tasted it.
was at the Avery Brewing Co on Sunday and sampled all of their IPAs. The cask conditioned hand pumped was by far the best.
A guy I know from the local beer store posted this on fb. He was at The Dray in Seattle.
I intentionally asked for a Pliny, drank half and commented "this is the worst thing I've ever had. I can't believe people buy this swill" and left the rest on the table.
With what intention? Just to get reactions out of people? How long til some dude swooped on the other half?Quote:
Originally Posted by pisteoff
His responseQuote:
Originally Posted by guroo270
I really just did it for a laugh, mostly. And to give them a story. I don't really have an opinion on Pliny, except I hate that we can't get it.
He part-owns the best beer store in this town, and has been asked many times if he can get Pliny (he can't - RR refuses to distribute it in this county), and that obviously frustrates him.
They are canning it. It was in my buddies fridge down in T-ride. I was house sitting, he said "help yourself" so I did... All of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by shredgnar
Just got back from Oregon -- goddamn they make some IPAs in that state.
Highlights:
Brewer's Union Mutant Dew (cask conditioned, so rad).
Boneyard RPM
Deschutes River Sticky Wicket
Plus there's a Below Grade Double IPA in my fridge, and the lady friend has been instructed to bring back a growler of Blackfoot River Single Malt IPA from Helena.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-k...820_173236.jpg
Brewed about 3 miles from where I'm sitting.
"Wicked Pissa" indeed.
A few I've been liking lately:
21st Amendment Hop Crisis
Fremont Brewing Interurban
Anderson Valley Hop Ottin
Two Beers Evolutionary (I've mentioned this one before and it's still in my top 3)
it took me a couple but the anderson valley hop ottin has grown on me. i think the first one i had must have reacted poorly with whatever i was eating at the time.
also tried the troeggs perpetual ale. pretty nice, definitely on the hoppy side but smooth
The last word I'd want to use to describe an IPA I enjoyed is "smooth."Quote:
Originally Posted by crackboy
perhaps easy drinking?Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
The Alaskan White IPA that came out not long ago was incredible.
splitter, you've got good taste in beer
Moving to SLC tmrw, I've been fiending on dank tap beers before I go. My biggest hang up with SLC is the tap beer scene.
406 brewery citra-amarillo IPA was the goods yesterday. Enjoyed that.
Currently enjoying a New Belgium LOF Super IPA. Seems like their version of Gubna. Tasty, not quite as fruity as the Gubna.
Ninkasi made in the shade IPA was alright, not quite as hoptastic as I'd want, but apparently it's more of a seasonal, drinkable beer.
Belgzman Belgian IPA is a spicy delight. Little bit more going on than the NB Belgo.
Montana Ale Works has some good stuff going on right now. I should have been destroying happy hour here for the past week. Damn.
The Alaskan White IPA? You sure you don't mean the Anchorage Bitter Monk?Quote:
Originally Posted by Crass3000
Also from Sante Adairius - Last Friday. Little less boozy, still hoppy, served with a floating hop. Tasty
double DBA? Never had/or even heard of that one. How is it compared to the regular DBA? Alcohol %?Quote:
Originally Posted by splitter
It's good. I liked it better after a few. It leans a little sour, and I'm not a sour guy.
We have a really cool beer seller here in Reno, probably like most places, but ours still feels a little unique. I got these Firestones there.
Went to Costco the other day, and besides the overwhelming amount of burners, I noticed they also had this Firestone DBA as well. I picked up 12 of the Lagunitas Lucky 13's instead.
My favorite IPA's have come from Mikkeller. Evil Twin is his brother. Twin in fact. Evil Twin does a lot of sours, but when he makes an IPA, it's fuckin' good. The Disco pictured there is an IPA aged in chardonnay barrels. It's really nice. It's the one in the glass.
Nice write up splitter.
On the new "lighter" not quite an IPA front, give Lagunitas Day Time a pass. It's got a few hops, it's light, it's.... still the same money as real beer from them and not nearly as good.