Beer in the new era

tropical storm irene was in august 2011 and destroyed the pub. that prediction of the cans hitting boston is lol in retrospect!

haha totally remember reading about that

btw i have heard people make the claim that heady isn't an neipa but generally people advancing that as a serious point have been too addled by juicebombs to appreciate that the style originated with heady's danker, more traditional hop profile.

the big deal in 2011/12 was heady's crushability relative to other dipas of the time. before that my perception of dipas was via cringing my way through a dogfish head 90 minute or something.

not super Hazy really but my go to IPA from the northeast is Sip Of Sunshine it's easy to get and damn good.

sip is very good. lawson's was always mentioned in the same breath of the other big vermont brewers even though the sunshine ipas were his only beers that really fit the profile.

to me the use of the newer hops, the lighter malt bill, and lower bitterness are more important to the style than the presence of haze.

Ah see my entire experience with NEIPA is the juicebomb varieties and HT didn't remind me of that at all (although it has been 3-4 years since my last taste of the stuff).

I will admit to being a total hazy IPA dude (not bro) and being in the NYC metro, get Other Half, Grimm, and Sand City on the regular. One big attraction for me is that they pair beautifully with pot.

My big problem is with the fruited-sour IPAs getting so popular. Most of them aren't really that sour and with the fruit and lactose end up being way too sweet for me. When it comes to sours, I want a Oude Bruin or a barrel aged saison.

I have really enjoyed the Hudson Valley sour IPAs I've been lucky enough to have tried. They are definitely the diamond in the rough of that particular style though.

I did have a Hudson Valley sour IPA that tasted exactly like fresh squeezed white grapefruit juice and was great.

Co-sign PBKR. I want to be grimacing as I drink that stuff. Drinking that sweet stuff is life with the training wheels left on.

Hit both Fort George and Buoy pubs while in Astoria, OR this weekend. Big thumbs up to both.

Fort George's Fields of Green Hazy IPA is particularly yummy.

I love that part of the OR coast.

possibly good, possibly an abomination?

https://twbrewing.com/beer/salted-nut-roll-ale

If you can't even say what it's called without laughing or barfing in your mouth, I don't think it's even worth trying.

I would definitely taste an ounce or two of it... but def a hard pass on a 4 pack of 16oz cans.

https://cdn.craftbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/NewBelgium_MuralAguaFrescaCerveza.png

i think this is the worst beer ive ever had, it was barely even beer, i did not buy it or choose it, i took one sip

it had little pieces of lemon meat in it

ew

had a can of mirror universe from state fair coop the other day. WOW. hazy ipa nectar. loved the hint of pine/dank going on behind the subdued tropical (pineapple and something else. maybe mango?) backbone. A+

i mean agua fresca yeah cool nice, but beer uhhh, and with hibiscus what why

Gross!

breweries are really eager to use hibiscus for some reason, idk is it always on sale?

I've noticed that some local-ish beers that up until a few years ago were relatively harder to come by, like Zombie Dust and KBS, now just sit in stacks at the store for weeks and months. It's great if you're a fan, but it must be frustrating to be a brewery that boosts production to keep up with demand, but then shoots way past demand and is left with a surplus. I still see stacks of bourbon county!

I was gonna say, hibiscus is quite popular here in Montreal, but I don't know why. I've had ones I've liked but they only make sense if you put them in a separate category from beer

when i went to hillstead farm i had a hibiscus beer that was really good it tasted more like an extremely dry cider than a beer and it was a beautiful color, i got it cause i was talking to a quebecer who was drinking it lol, he told me he was taking $300 of beer back w him

xp it's gonna get pretty choppy out there for bigger craft breweries

classic growth conundrum, safer to stay small, grow slow

Didn't we just have the hibiscus discussion like a month ago?

2 months, not like this thread is very active anymore:

Beer in the new era

haha whoops, that was 2018... lollin'

that brother soigne was prob the last time i had hibiscus anything!

had a can of mirror universe from state fair coop the other day. WOW. hazy ipa nectar. loved the hint of pine/dank going on behind the subdued tropical (pineapple and something else. maybe mango?) backbone. A+

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yeah, it's one of the best IPAs they've come up with, after their collab with Modern Times called Spirit Foul

speaking of fair state, one of their more popular offerings is a hibiscus sour

on the surplus product front: my favorite mpls booze store seems to always have leftovers that they put on mad sale—4 packs of Insight and Fair State that are usualy $8-9 marked 2-for-$6 and shit like that, I love it

and there are still bottles of CBS on the shelf there marked down to $22 from $24, I still won't pay that much

hibiscus in sour form sounds like something i'd try! xpost
and holy shit @ 2 for 6. in calif. a $4 can is not unreasonable

The Modern Times monthly special release* cans are $12/4pack which are my usual go-to (so long as they are IPAs notsomuch the other styles), but considering their uh... financing strategy, not sure how much longer that price point will exist.

*scroll down to bottom: http://www.moderntimesbeer.com/beer/release-calendar

Untappd Festival this past weekend seems very Fyre Festival-esque:

12,500 attendees in an outdoor football stadium during the middle of a severe thunder/hail storm.... good read.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article230039404.html

The event proved so popular in advance that organizers tweeted Friday night only 30 tickets remained. All tickets eventually sold, according to the event’s website. Organizers limited the crowd to 12,500.

this is a really strange way of saying "the event sold out"

lol my friends brought some salted nut roll ale to a party last night. I had a sip, it wasn’t awful but I don’t think I could drink much more.

Really into the Bauhaus hazy pale that I tried the other day.

dogfish head is merging with boston beer

#beerintheoldera

can't remember the last time I've had a beer from either brewery, an eternity for sure.

i'm sure i've had a sam summer within the past year. there are still plenty of places around here where sam is the best draft option.

but i haven't seriously considered drinking a DFH beer in years.

I've got to admit, as much as I like all the excellent beer tiny brewers are putting out there, it's super frustrating that their small scale self distro model means you've only got a tiny window of opportunity - from an hour to maybe 24 hours at the absolute max - to snag any of their excellent beers before they disappear. Hop Butcher is a favorite of mine, and they seem to release an excellent new NEIPA weekly. If you are not on the ball and flexible, you've really got no shot at most of them, which the brewery announces over social media. Today, I was able to grab a pack of Blazed Orange, a sweet NEIPA with orange and vanilla, for the first time. But no sooner do I get home when I get a social media alert from *another* small brewer that their delivery just arrived at the same store I was just at.

I think it's cool that these guys are all so active on social media, and generally seem to be making an effort to get as much beer as they can out to as many places as possible, helping people find it as needed. But it's become downright exhausting to even try to keep up.

That's exactly why I stopped any pretense of trying to keep up. Whatever happens to be on the shelves when I hit the store, I'm sure I'll find something already known to be a surefire winner or something that looks interesting to try. Am I missing out on potentially great beers? Of course, but it is so damned exhausting and unless you are someone with a ton of free time, quick access to a vehicle and plenty of patience to pore over social media, well, it's kind of a fool's errand anyway.

Which isn't to knock anyone itt, but it just go to be so stressful. The shelves are packed with great stuff! I'm not going to chase down a truck.

^ That's pretty much my operating principle lately, and I got lucky last weekend and found some Parabola right on the shelves at a Trader Joe's.

Yeah, you can often just stumble on some great stuff too!

Speaking of which, I was really surprised by how much KBS is still sitting in stacks and stacks at the local Binny's. They really cranked that up this year.

The shelves around Chicago are fortunately packed with all sorts of good stuff you can find on any given day, and I am extremely grateful for that. But many of my favorite beers as of late don't hang around very long and require some hustle, in addition to the aforementioned. It's kind of a shame, because I've shared them with friends, from big beer fans to just casual beer fans, and reaction is almost always super positive followed by the question: where can I get this? And I have to tell them, well, you can't. To the casual beer drinker friend that doesn't even compute.

xpost I want to say last year was the first year I saw KBS all over the place. And Hopslam. And BCBS. This year is I think the first time I've seen Zombie Dust just collecting zombie dust.