some damn good IPA's out there

**BC.** · 11-16-2018, 06:03 PM

First snow day of the year!

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**Cruiser** · 11-16-2018, 06:55 PM

Good ole Weldwerks never fails to satisfy

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**HD333** · 11-16-2018, 07:24 PM

Haven’t had a Sap in a while. As good as I remember. Glad I bought 8, going to make a nice turkey day beer.

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**dookeyXXX** · 11-16-2018, 08:09 PM

Bringin' it back to the "right" coast, as in the Left Coast...

Reppin' Alameda, California:

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**Self Jupiter** · 11-16-2018, 08:14 PM

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Dematerialize. Actual color is lighter than this photo shows

**Vt-Freeheel** · 11-17-2018, 06:15 PM

Hanging with some friends at Lawsons, great time until these DBags kid pulled the fire alarm. Piercing noise for 5 minutes until it got shut off. FD arrived to coach them on proper way to watch children.
As the bartenders were still serving, we stayed put. Half of the crowd went outside and the other side shuffled into better seats.

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**My Pet Powder Goat** · 11-17-2018, 07:04 PM

Haha how old was the kid?

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**hafjell** · 11-17-2018, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Doremite

Was just curious as I’ve had a few times myself. Have really enjoyed it on tap but had a couple so so can experiences. I am convinced BB is way over hyped but maybe I am just cranky or setting my bar at knee buckling greatness. It’s just beer =)

They make a lot of beers. Some are great, some are good, some are ok. All of them are very close to the highway.

**dookeyXXX** · 11-17-2018, 09:23 PM

Straight Outta Sacramento, California:

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**abraham** · 11-17-2018, 09:33 PM

Nothing super fancy tonight

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**jackstraw** · 11-18-2018, 07:24 PM

Originally Posted by Vt-Freeheel

Hanging with some friends at Lawsons, great time until these DBags kid pulled the fire alarm. Piercing noise for 5 minutes until it got shut off. FD arrived to coach them on proper way to watch children.
As the bartenders were still serving, we stayed put. Half of the crowd went outside and the other side shuffled into better seats.

Man, we've had our alarm go off... because of burnt toast...but the FD was super pissed that we didn't have everyone outside the building. They didn't give a fuck that we "knew" it was the toaster. I get it. That thing goes off now, everyone GTFO.

**dookeyXXX** · 11-18-2018, 08:03 PM

THE HERMIT
Moonraker Brewing, Auburn, California:
This is one of the first hazy IPAs I ever had (along with Moonraker's Zulu Haze). They changed the cans since then (this is roughly 3 years ago), but they used to list the "fruit" notes that the beer would have. I recall that the original can of The Hermit said something about "mangoes."
I do not follow craft beer blogs or the scene very heavily, so I bought the 4-pack because I'd never heard of it and it was a local brewering (60 miles west of where I live).
The first can I drank I almost spit out as it tasted like a flavor-enhanced beer that had been brewed with mangoes and I despise flavored IPAs (really any flavored beer). I was shoveling snow at the time and kept pounding them, went through a whole 4-pack, and each one tasted better than the last.
Novice that I was, I later learned that the "mango" flavor was a by-product of the hops that were used.
This had become one of my favorites from Moonraker, and it's one of their regular cannings, too (so others obviously dig it, too).
The funny thing is that next time I went to the local craft liquor store to buy some more they told me that they couldn't get it any more.
Now I usually purchase straight from the brewery if I make a trip down to the Bay Area, so it's a treat.