Sometimes in beer, you may not see a beer style produced very often but one way you can sneak around that is to “imperialize” that style and it helps to have a brewery like Stone Brewing who excel at big beers doing it.
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Dollars & Snobs
If you saw the John Oliver – Last Week Tonight commentary on dollar stores and how terrible they are, you will understand why the name of the new beer from Paperback Brewing is so scary and fitting for the Spooky Season…
…it is good to see that Black IPA has found a bit of a seasonal niche for Halloween.
Paperback also has a good beer name going with the Beer Snob IPA but they really should have gone for a different IPA sub-style like Brut instead of…
Kiwi Sopranos
Ogopogo Brewing has enlisted Arrow Lodge Brewing on a Nectaron hop pilsner project under the name of Italian Water Management. I had to ponder that name a bit, but I do like it. Just enough off kilter.
Butcher on the Beach
Offshoot Beer Co. the hop arm of The Bruery has teamed up with noted midwestern IPA maker, Hop Butcher for the World on a new hazy double IPA, Beach Casual will be dressed up to 7.5% abv.
The Lemons and Pears
Angel City Brewery has a new beer release with a fruit that is not often seen in beer (or cider for that matter), pears.
Sounds both refreshing and autumnal at the same time.
Cookies, Cream and Stout
I do not need any nostalgia when it comes to ice cream. I will have it every day to keep it in mind if needed but Radiant Beer Co. has a new late summer stout to maybe pair with a pint…
Nostalgic Vibes is a cookies and cream ice cream cone pastry stout. Using Cacao nibs, Comoros Vanilla Beans, crushed chocolate sandwich cookies and waffle cone pieces.
Friendly and Hazy
Common Space Brewery is hitting up #GreatBeerGivesBack hashtag with the new Furry Friends Hazy IPA. They already did the puppy part but if you want to support by getting a beer and not a new pet, then hustle down to Hawthorne.
Strung Along
There are some weird bedfellows in craft beer collaborations and here is another one not on my bingo card as Firestone Walker has teamed with Ernie Ball, they of the guitar strings for a West Coast DIPA…
Effing Around
Audio Graph Beer Co. has a new summer beer out in cans and they are not effing around….
One Batch of Schoolmates
The Stone Brewing One Batch Dispatch series is back with the new Schoolmates Hazy Double IPA.
Here is the beer description from he brewery: “This particular hazy double IPA features a unique new hop called Anchovy. Don’t panic – despite the name, you can expect ripe watermelon flavors combined with dankness and orange cream character from “new classic” Citra.”