Tried a lot of beers lately.
Dark Horse Crooked Tree IPA from Minnesota. From their website "Inspired by West Coast I.P.A.'s, but brewed with Michigan style. The Crooked Tree is heavily dry hopped to give it a big aroma of pine and citrus. The flavors are big, yet very balanced between fresh hops and malt. Often described as "grapefruit" our hops give this beer an excellent fruit flavor that finishes dry, crisp, and clean. It will pour a nice deep copper color with a bit of haziness. Because of our almost patented "Intense Transfer Methods" our Crooked Tree has won several medals in the India Pale Ale category. " Darkhorsebrewery. A pretty decent beer but some of the beers below are a bit better
Burton Beer - Cask - An okay bitter which is low on the APV at 3.8%, and easy to drink.
Victory Headwater American Pale Ale - Headwaters-pale-ale. This was a good one. Worth trying over and over.
Thornbridge Merrie Spiced English Brown - From their website "Fantastic deep brown ale spiced with Coriander, Juniper and Lavender. " APV 5.9%. Interesting taste, with almost a apple cider kind of taste. Worth trying but probably wouldn't try too many of them. Maybe a good one to have with dessert, maybe even with the Pumpple.
Flying Dog - Old Stratch Amber Lager - From their website "Old Scratch Amber Lager is a malty, mellow beer that is fermented at medium temperatures to develop both ale and lager characteristics. "Gold Scratch" raises the standard in the amber lager category". APV 5.5% Old-Scratch . A very good beer, great taste.
Weyerbacher Winter Ale - Winter Ale. A pretty good ale. Easy to drink.
Mission Street Pale Ale - Paso Robles, CA. Gold Medal Winner chosen by PrimeTime in our beer exchange. Great taste with an interesting finish, which was surprising.
Flying Dog - Snake Dog India Pale Ale - From their website "Snake Dog India Pale Aleis a Colorado-style IPA, power hopped with specialty hops from the Pacific Northwest. This is the brewery's hop monster, and the citrus fruit aroma will hypnotize the senses of the most hardcore craft beer drinkers." APV 7.1% Snake-Dog . This one was from Bone Marrow's choose for the exchange. A great choice.
Avery Brewing - Joe's Premium American Pilsner - Premium American Pilsner. This was my choice for the beer exchange. Very much reminded me of Australian lager beers. It even came in a can, which of course I got crap about.
So far, I have sampled the Mission Street Pale Ale, the Average Joe's "canned" beer and the Snake Dog. While I don't have Cast Iron's flowery way with words when describing these brews, I'll simply say that this flurry of IPA's has certainly opened my eyes to new level of tasty beverages. I'd give all of these beers two thumbs up. (A beer critic - i'm not!) Over the last few days, I have also enjoyed the Yards and LongHammer IPA's which has further increased my delight and joy of this style of beer.
ReplyDeleteToday was a big day at the place we all work...raises and bonuses were handed out (yes - I think we're still pretty fortunate...) Anyway, I handed out my peeps merits, etc and when I came back to my desk I found an extra little bonus sitting on my chair - 2 more IPA's from T-Bone! Very hard top this day for sure.