Tag: IPA

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Keeping Tabs

White Labs will be selling cans but with their dual twist. And their first release is their signature, Tabberer IPA® The twist being that you will buy a four pack with two different yeasts, WLP001-California Ale and WLP008 – East Coast Ale. 

The IPA is named after “Horace Tabberer Brown, a British chemist, who shared a passion for science and brewing. While working as a brewer in the late 1800s, he set up a small lab on-site, which became the first record of a scientist using a microscope in a brewery.”

If you are in California or North Carolina you will be able to buy this and future releases.

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Survivor

Institution Ale Company has added to the California Craft Brewers Association (CCBA) range of beers with their ominously named Surviving California IPA. I don’t know what kind weird Westworld meets drama mask theme is about but I do like the lemony tumbleweed.

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Featured Review – Partake IPA

The penultimate in the five part series of reviews of Partake Brewing is the IPA. Let’s see how hoppy this N/A beer is.

Initially, this did not taste great. Had a weird aftertaste. As it warmed, it improved. More grapefruit pith notes came out. It is still a pretty thin and watery beer. Practically indistinguishable from the Pale. But I expect something more from IPA because you can use the hops to create vibrant palates. If this was labeled as a Pale or Session, I would review it more favorably.

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Review – Two from Ecliptic Brewing

When NoHo bottle shop, Hop Merchants added Ecliptic beers to their to-go menu, I hopped onto their online order form and picked up a pair to review.

Phaser pours that signature super light and milky color.  Not a lot of fruity here.  Mostly piney and resinous.  Not bad. Tiny bit of citrus shake feel. 

Starburst pours a light orange color. Bright orange aroma. Rind.  Quite bitter.  Like this. West Coast IPA. Grapefruit notes as it warms. 

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Bottled Simmzy’s

Simmzy’s has always been more draft centered even in the canniest of 16oz four-pack Times and even when they entered the package realm they went towards a different style, bottles.

Three IPAs dot their landscape starting with their Tips Up, then Tips Down the DIPA and then the cheekily names “It’s What Day” Hazy.  

They will certainly break up the can monotony in your fridge

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Review – To the Moon IPA from Eagle Rock Brewery

Sleek, silver cans that have the look of rocket fuel boosters for the space themed To the Moon IPA from Eagle Rock Brewery. This was my first curbside pick-up beer and the system in place worked like a charm. The beer is earthy and pungent. I get a Simcoe hop flavor myself. A bit of lemon peers through the window here too. This is a sustained bitterness IPA. It tastes stronger than 6.8% to me.

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Breakfast Distortion

Firestone Walker is headed into serious breakfast fruits for the upcoming Luponic Distortion. Blueberry meet Pomelo grapefruit for the next 2020 IPA in the series. I am hoping that at one point they will variety pack a few years worth of the series to make comparisons. But I am excited to taste this one.

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Abundance

Repurposing will be the order of the day for many breweries. That beer that was brewed special just might get rebranded. “Abundance of Down Time” from El Segundo Brewing would have had a different name when sipped at Coachella, but since is more than ten people it is now “new”! 13% ABV and hopped up with Chinook, Simcoe, Centennial, Loral and HBC 692 hops.

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Enjoy in 4/20

For those of the THC and CBD persuasion, this year is 30 days of dankness. Which means the Enjoy By 4/20/20 is not just one day. And after the excellent Peak Conditions fruited IPA, I will watch to see how this new (or not) recipe will taste likel