IPAs....heaven in a mug!

[gregintenn]

westsixth.com/ipa/

This was on tap last night where we dined. I had a couple with a large prime rib. If there's anything better, I don't know if I could stand it!

[billisonboard]

Cool, good beer and environmentally responsible in everything we do.

[gregintenn]

Feb 7, 2016 16:43:17 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Cool, good beer and environmentally responsible in everything we do.

Yeah....whatever. The beer's wonderful!

[Baby Fawkes]

Feb 7, 2016 16:35:59 GMT -5 gregintenn said:

westsixth.com/ipa/

This was on tap last night where we dined. I had a couple with a large prime rib. If there's anything better, I don't know if I could stand it!

Never tried it yet but will do at some point. Beer is one of the few areas I really get into in a big way. I appreciate the fact that the picture shows them canned. Cans get a bad rap for being cheap beer, but in reality they protect the beer from UV so much better than even the brown glass bottle that is normally used.

Thanks for the recommendation. Will have to check it out and see if our tastes are similar

[gregintenn]

Feb 7, 2016 19:15:14 GMT -5 Baby Fawkes said:

Feb 7, 2016 16:35:59 GMT -5 gregintenn said:

westsixth.com/ipa/

This was on tap last night where we dined. I had a couple with a large prime rib. If there's anything better, I don't know if I could stand it!

Never tried it yet but will do at some point. Beer is one of the few areas I really get into in a big way. I appreciate the fact that the picture shows them canned. Cans get a bad rap for being cheap beer, but in reality they protect the beer from UV so much better than even the brown glass bottle that is normally used.

Thanks for the recommendation. Will have to check it out and see if our tastes are similar

I prefer draft beer to canned. I've yet to try an IPA I didn't like. Regular popular beer, and especially light beer have little flavor to me. I like something with taste, or else I'll just have water.

I'm open to suggestions for new beers to try as well.

[billisonboard]

With orange slice

[Baby Fawkes]

Of course draft beer wins out, but for non keg delivery I thinks that cans are best.

If you're an ipa fan then a few suggestions would be

Upheaval- Widmer
Betty - Hangar 24
Fresh Squeezed - Deschutes
Spring IPA - Faction
Pliny the Elder - Russian river

Those are probably my top recommendations. I'm very biased towards the west coast because I have my most experience here.

Happy to swap recommendations for other styles if you are interested.

[gregintenn]

Feb 7, 2016 19:59:27 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

With orange slice

Oh yeah....that's good stuff!

[gregintenn]

Feb 7, 2016 20:15:44 GMT -5 Baby Fawkes said:

Of course draft beer wins out, but for non keg delivery I thinks that cans are best.

If you're an ipa fan then a few suggestions would be

Upheaval- Widmer
Betty - Hangar 24
Fresh Squeezed - Deschutes
Spring IPA - Faction
Pliny the Elder - Russian river

Those are probably my top recommendations. I'm very biased towards the west coast because I have my most experience here.

Happy to swap recommendations for other styles if you are interested.

Any recommendations of a good, flavorful beer are always welcome.

I enjoy a Samuel Adams Boston Lager. A Guinness will do in a pinch for a dark beer, although I've not had opportunity to try a large variety of stouts.

[Baby Fawkes]

Guinness is always a good a goto option that is available pretty much anywhere. My problem with it is that it doesn't travel all that well. Guinness in the US is incredibly hit or miss.

If you like Barrell aged beers I have been very happy with some of the Boulevard offerings from KC, MO. Their smokestack series are where you should focus. The imperial stout and the barrel aged quad are exceptional.

If you want a Non Barrell aged stout to try you really should try out Mean Old Tom from Maine Brewing and Breakfast Stout from Founders.

If you like a sweeter taste to your beers you can't go wrong with Campfire Stout from Highwater or the Graham Cracker Porter for the Denver Beer company.

[gregintenn]

It's difficult to find a lot of these regional, small brewery beers around here. I wish I had a local store that offered a large selection. Most of what I get to try is when we're on vacation somewhere.

[billisonboard]

I am impatiently waiting for our new local brew pub to decide they have enough beer ready to serve so they can open.

[Baby Fawkes]

Feb 7, 2016 21:16:08 GMT -5 gregintenn said:

It's difficult to find a lot of these regional, small brewery beers around here. I wish I had a local store that offered a large selection. Most of what I get to try is when we're on vacation somewhere.

That's actually a general underlying theme of our trips. Wherever we visit my DW and I always pull up google maps and search for local breweries. We don't plan our trips around it but we do plan a day or two of down time and use that to visit breweries. We have been know to detour a road trip on the way to a destination purely to stop in at s brewry.

[happyhoix]

Feb 7, 2016 21:16:08 GMT -5 gregintenn said:

It's difficult to find a lot of these regional, small brewery beers around here. I wish I had a local store that offered a large selection. Most of what I get to try is when we're on vacation somewhere.

You're in TN, right? How far are you from Nashville?

The Flying Saucer bar has 83 beers on tap and 120 bottled beers and counting.

The bad part is trying to decide what to try.

The good part is there is such a wide range even a mixed family like mine can find something to keep everyone happy - DH likes porters, and stouts (his favorite so far is the Terrapin Liquid Bliss). He's just started getting into bourbon barrel aged beers.   I like heffeweisens and Belgian wits, and in the summer, my favorite is Stiegl Radler (60% grapefruit - tastes like Fresca, very nice in hot weather).

[swamp]

www.saranac.com/

If you see this line of beers, you really should try them.

[swamp]

www.magichat.net/

www.ubuale.com/

www.ommegang.com/

[ArchietheDragon]

Love me a good IPA.      Luckily New England is just making good IPAs almost everywhere.     Even CT is getting into the swing of it. 

Treehouse Brewing in MA is the hottest new brewery in the area.   They can do no wrong right now.  everything they make is just spot on.   Hard to get, though, as they don't distribute so you have to go the brewery. 

New England Brewing in CT is my goto brewery which distributes.   Their Sea Hag IPA is top notch.  



For wide distribution, Lagunitas and Stone make great IPAs.   Lagunitas Sucks is really good, Stone Enjoy By is excellent and you can get them almost everywhere. 

[tloonya]

Feb 7, 2016 16:35:59 GMT -5 gregintenn said:

westsixth.com/ipa/

This was on tap last night where we dined. I had a couple with a large prime rib. If there's anything better, I don't know if I could stand it!

If you ever had a beer from the brewing thing poured out of copper whatever its brewing in - warm, muddy - you wouldn't survive probably...

I still remember. Germany, basement bar, dark, ham, potatoes, bread...all is just made and THAT beer. Are you alive yet?

[midjd]

Big fan of the Lagunitas Sucks IPA and Boulevard's variety pack (the unfiltered wheat and stouts are both good). They sell Boulevard at our local Target so I cash in my health bucks from our employee wellness program for Target GCs and go use them for beer... just like they intended, I'm sure.   

Dogfish Head 120-Minute IPA is probably my all-time favorite, and not just because of the 20% alcohol content 

Three Floyds has some great ones (Zombie Dust and Yum Yum especially), as does Three Wise Men/Scotty's (their Blackberry Wheat is delicious and I usually hate fruity stuff), although I'm not sure how widely available either's offerings are outside this area.