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Thread: some damn good IPA's out there
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08-06-2012, 09:23 AM #451
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.
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08-10-2012, 04:43 PM #452
Three Floyds Gumballhead
While not being a true IPA (wheat beer) It is a hoppy som'bitch that is down right tasty.whatever I feel like i what to do!
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08-10-2012, 10:09 PM #453
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.
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08-11-2012, 08:53 AM #454Registered User
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08-12-2012, 05:48 PM #455
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......
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08-12-2012, 06:07 PM #456
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.
"One season per year, the gods open the skies, and releases a white, fluffy, pillow on top of the most forbidding mountain landscapes, allowing people to travel over them with ease and relative abandonment of concern for safety. It's incredible."
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08-12-2012, 07:13 PM #457
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08-13-2012, 08:44 PM #458
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 chancewhatever I feel like i what to do!
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08-14-2012, 12:48 AM #459_______________________________________________
"Strapping myself to a sitski built with 30lb of metal and fibreglass then trying to water ski in it sounds like a stupid idea to me.
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08-14-2012, 08:40 AM #460
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.
"One season per year, the gods open the skies, and releases a white, fluffy, pillow on top of the most forbidding mountain landscapes, allowing people to travel over them with ease and relative abandonment of concern for safety. It's incredible."
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08-14-2012, 09:30 AM #461
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._______________________________________________
"Strapping myself to a sitski built with 30lb of metal and fibreglass then trying to water ski in it sounds like a stupid idea to me.
I'll be there." ... Andy Campbell
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08-14-2012, 11:00 AM #462
was at the Avery Brewing Co on Sunday and sampled all of their IPAs. The cask conditioned hand pumped was by far the best.
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08-14-2012, 12:01 PM #463
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.
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08-15-2012, 10:44 AM #464"One season per year, the gods open the skies, and releases a white, fluffy, pillow on top of the most forbidding mountain landscapes, allowing people to travel over them with ease and relative abandonment of concern for safety. It's incredible."
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08-15-2012, 12:56 PM #465
His response
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.
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08-15-2012, 04:06 PM #466
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08-16-2012, 12:25 PM #467
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.We heard you in our twilight caves, one hundred fathom deep below, for notes of joy can pierce the waves, that drown each sound of war and woe.
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08-20-2012, 03:44 PM #468Funky But Chic
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Brewed about 3 miles from where I'm sitting.
"Wicked Pissa" indeed.
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08-20-2012, 05:04 PM #469
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)
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08-20-2012, 08:15 PM #470
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
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08-21-2012, 09:13 AM #471
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08-21-2012, 10:17 AM #472
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08-21-2012, 09:45 PM #473
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08-21-2012, 10:10 PM #474
The Alaskan White IPA that came out not long ago was incredible.
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08-21-2012, 10:41 PM #475
splitter, you've got good taste in beer
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