Tag: Hoppy

Bombay By Boat IPA

  • TYPE: IPA
  • BREWERY: moonlight Brewing Company
  • LOCATION: Santa Rosa, CA
  • CONTAINER: 4-pack 16oz cans
  • COST: 12.99
  • ABV: 6.2%
  • RATING: 4 swigs
  • REVIEWED BY: Dave

I found the can washed up on the rocks in Shelter Cove—intact, icy cold, label sun-bleached but legible: Moonlight Brewing — Bombay by Boat IPA.

No one leaves a full IPA behind. I popped it open. That’s when I heard the truck. Old Taco, rust red, loaded with crab pots. A hand-painted sign flapped on the tailgate: “CRABS & CONSEQUENCES.”

The driver spotted me. Yellow slicker, beard full of kelp. He slammed the brakes, pointed a claw-handled knife, and screamed: “THAT’S NOT YOUR BEER!”

I ran. The crabs jumped first—dozens of them, skittering like sentient castanets. One launched onto my chest and hissed, “That beer was an offering!”

I chugged it anyway. The ocean held its breath. The truck sank into the mist. The crabs froze mid-scuttle. Somewhere, faintly, a foghorn wept.

When I came to, I was lying at the base of the lighthouse, the can was gone. My breath smelled like citrus hops and malts.

Scratched into the bench beside me: Next time… bring bait

THEIR STORY:

A classic IPA offering balance and drinkability by weaving a blend of American and European Hops with a reliable malty depth like all Moonlight beers. This IPA is unfiltered and aged cold longer for clarity and delight.

DELICIOUS BY EVERY MEASURE– this ain’t a factory beer

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FREEDOM IPA

  • TYPE: IPA
  • BREWERY: Tequesta Brewing Co. (TBC)
  • LOCATION: Tequesta, FL
  • CONTAINER: 12 oz Can
  • COST: $5 Pint (on tap) My friend picked up this six for me as a gift.  My guess, between $12-$14 per six pack
  • ABV: 6.6 %
  • RATING: 4+ Swigs
  • REVIEWED BY: Dave

This is the kind of beer other IPAS dream of being…. a no-nonsense IPA–– that’s it. Bitterness to the dying end.  An IPA for IPA Purists. 

I have spent many hours at TBC, which I consider an extension of my living room.  This cozy cool place feels like a pair of your favorite jeans and the craft beer they make is second to no one.   I have kept my mouth shut until now on this place, but their story needs to be told and this review is going to make me get there an hour earlier than usual to secure a place at the bar. But now I’m just wondering… do they open at seven AM?

THEIR STORY:  India Pale Ale bursting with tropical citrus bitterness.  A beer that screams FREEDOM!  ‘MERICA!

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Go To IPA

  • TYPE: IPA (Session)
  • BREWERY: Stone Brewing Company
  • LOCATION: Athens, GA
  • CONTAINER: 1 Pint  (16 oz) Can
  • COST: $10.99 4-pack
  • ABV: 4.8%
  • RATING: 3+ Swigs
  • REVIEWED BY: Dave

I was in a Wegmans looking for an IPA that I could make my goto beer after a strenuous day of doing nothing, so walking the isles, scanning the shelves… well… voila…. Stone Co To IPA…   From the bold colors of the can to the first sip, this was it.. my goto IPA.   Its a bold hoppy taste that strikes all the facets of a session IPA and holds on to a nice fruity finish, leaving you right back where you started… taking another sip with your elbows above your head as you drain it, then crush the can in a primal yell!  Of course, the store’s staff were not too pleased I was drinking in the isle and quickly ushered me to the checkout counter.

THEIR STORY:

Since day one, we’ve been abundantly forthright and fully transparent about our lust for hops.  It’s led us to craft many an IPA, most of them imperial–some intense for their time and all timeless in their intensity.  For Stone Go To IPA, we are embracing our hop obsession in a new way,  funneling an abundance of lupulin-borne bitterness into a session IPA delivering all the fruity piney character of a much bigger IPA.  To accomplish this,  we employed hop bursting, a technique wherein an irrational amount of hops is added during the final phase of the brewing process to coax out  extreme flavors and aromas while also imparting a burst of desirable  pleasant bitterness.   The result is an alpha-acid-rich beer that you can enjoy more of without missing out on the assertive hop character you, like us, crave.  So sit back and go two with your new every day go-to IPA and bask along with us in the glory of the almighty hop.

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The Shape Of Hops To Come

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  • TYPE: Imperial  IPA (with 5 Hops)
  • BREWERY: Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company
  • LOCATION: Croydon, PA
  • CONTAINER: 1Pint Can
  • COST: Paid $10.21 for four 16 oz cans ($2.55/can), Wegmans
  • ABV: 9.5%
  • RATING:45 Swigs
  • REVIEWED BY: Dave

This Imperial Pale Ale was my coveted beer of choice in the early days of drinking craft beers: I hoarded this beer, not bringing this out at a party…. I was not sharing it at someone’s fire-pit sleep-over, I was not gifting it to a friend (well… maybe… if I could wear a Roswell alien mask) and I was not promoting it on a public website so that the prices would go up because it is so delicious. In fact, it was so delicious that it belonged on the ISS.  This was the kind of beer I could drink all night, as long as I did not have to drive anywhere (9.5 ABV).  The initial taste is sharply beautiful as each of the 5 hops tumble around on your taste buds and you want more before coming up for air.

The only issue I have is the crazy plastic top that holds the four cans in place; I was looking for the combination.  Trying to remove one of these reminds me of the scenes on Star Trek, where Scotty had to remove the dilithium crystal core rods from the reactor,

“I can’t do this, Captain!”

You might think this is a little pricey for 4 cans, but realize these are 16 oz cans and the ABV is 9.5 % so that works out to be like a million cases of Ultra.

THEIR STORY:

“We brew with the same punk mentality that has been pushing bands and punk rock for the past 40 years.  The shape of Hops to come is not only a nod to our favorite bands, but also an oath of always trying to push the limit of beer and our ability to make it.  With this IPA we not only wanted to make something bitter, hoppy, and mouth crushing but wanted to try and incorporate some new hop varieties along with some well known favorites to craft a hop bomb of a beer that you won’t want to put down even if you don’t have any taste buds left.  Hopped continuously from mash tun to kettle to fermenter, we cut loose withApollo, Newport, Slmcoe, Topaz, and Citra for a lethal hop concoction that we hope will be another step in the IPA evolutionary ladder.”

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