Beer of the Day Podcast - 1st Anniversary Show - June 21st, 2016 - Beer of the Day

Welcome to the Beer of the Podcast. Are you hungry. Stephen are thrilled. Yeah I think they are going to pick me like two weeks ago he said that for the anniversary show we're going to watch a different anniversary. Yeah like yeah it could be great. And then today is like oh yeah I don't remember any pick an I.P.A. recently is your the day. Now why will today. I don't think we've ever had a triple I.P.A. on the show. Remember one. I don't know if we've done a triple I.P.A. but I do know that we have done three hundred eleven different beers on the show so far today. No. On the first forty nine episodes three hundred eleven. I think President Reagan out of all those what do you think is the most popular brewery we've featured on this show what are you ranking popular down the one we've had the most beers of I think it's no I don't believe hard it is stone stone. We did sixteen different stone beers on this program. What's next. You Belgium. Well Claremont fourteen we did the show from Claremont craft. So we did a bunch of that show on that shot just haven't clarified and I skip their doctor's head is tied with fourteen as well because we also did a Dogfish Head show where we featured all Dogfish Head beers. Not surprisingly clown shoes we did twelve of those and we did a clown shoes show a lot of rogue and rogue twelve rogue that pretty good. I think you looked at the list twelve Ommegang nine New Belgium really most of those lips of Faith series strange brews. Yeah we did nine from Boulevard. We did eight from Sierra Nevada and we did six from core an auto. That's pretty good pretty good list pretty good work here. How many did we do from Budweiser one we did many Yeah I think you did a doctor from a ladder. Yeah. All right well let's get into the first one and we figured for our first anniversary show beer of the days birthday is coming up on the on the nineteenth the sixteenth. I can't remember now this is hop a birthday session I.P.A. from

Alpine beer company in Alpine California. Just a measly five point two percent for start off really low here. It's going to get a lot higher nice fresh copy aroma color wise I think as your orange ish amber color little hazy. Just a little bit kind of a copper color yeah. Alpine California is just north of San Diego east northeast. So the down in Southern California. There's not much in there's not much that's west of San Diego. You know in my mind and very much south either except Mexico. I know that alcohol content does not denote other characteristics like you know how intense it's going to smell but for some reason I was tricked myself thinking Oh this smells really obvious going to really strong as it is Mel's hobby to me. It smells very

grassy to me like grassy hops like I like the label on this you know I we've had a we've had some other Alpine beers and their labels are not that great in my opinion but I think they are thought provoking and I think this is kind of cool for Happy Birthday. It's hot cake. Very interesting label. That's a Stevens or his birthday next year. Oh yeah optic flavor wise it does have a lot of strong hop flavor for being a five point two five percent beer. I would say that fresh top flavor kind of low

on the malt I'm surprised how much sweetness there is in this beer and I'm almost wondering if they're using like non fermentable sugars. Because there has a good flavor of sweetness without a ton of alcohol at five point two five percent when you get this much sugar you're thinking it's going to be higher. A.B.V. but it's not it's got a good sweetness which balances well with the with the hops you guys are probably going to call me crazy but the first overpowering taste I get is butterscotch crazy. Dr I don't know as it is sweet and sweet for sure. This is a pretty incredible tasting beer at five point two five percent. I know Andy is not a famous session I. Yes I hear he hasn't said much about this yet but I bet he is thinking maybe this is his favorite session I.P.A. has ever had. It's pretty good. It is five point two five percent. So it's kind of just above that sessional levels as far as the definition goes but I would call this for an I.P.A. it's a session I.P.A. it's a low

A.B.V. I.P.A. it still tastes like it's you know missing something but. Drink this you know especially they for golfing or whatever. This is a good one to make sure you don't get too drunk. It has a fairly nondescript after taste it just kind of fades away to nothing. How you describe it. Not exactly. I like it as it's a good amount of hops I mean it's it's what a West Coast style session I.P.A. should be and it's citrus it's got some pine not very multi To me it's not very sweet. It's very drink

of all it's great for the style good up to a good start here. Anyone have any interesting beers this week that they wanted to mention I did have one and I I wish I remembered more about it and they would talk and fill in a little bit. We were at the brew pub on Friday night and they had this I.P.A. maybe the double I.P.A. from Almanac. Yeah and it was like citrus so it was like it just super like Juicy I.P.A. really enjoyed it. Yeah and it was just really I think intense like intense in a good way where you like your taste buds are going through all the flavor profiles of like pine in Citrus you know and just just a good amount of hops that war like bittering hops but more just like a ton of flavor and it and it was just a fantastic beer. It was it was it was it was the best beer we had as it was very I had one I was going to share with you guys. Surprisingly also a session I.P.A. was the best beer I had this week. But it was unique. It was from Lawsons in Vermont twit you can't get in California but I had one delivered it was probably the best session I.P.A. I've ever had and and he mentioned how a lot of such an I.P.A. has to be lacking something but this one had like all the flavor that doesn't tend to be in most such an I.P.A. So if you can find it. It's a can. It's called Lawson's super session number two very very juicy hop the flavor of fall for a session I.P.A. by that this week I thought it was excellent. Sounds good. All right let's go to the next beer. We have the port ten year anniversary Imperial I.P.A. port Brewing Company San Marcos California kind of the same neighborhood as Alpine really. I was looking in the beer of the day archives of the refrigerated vault and it turns out we haven't another port anniversary ale from last year. And so we might as well. Kill two birds with one stone here and try them side by side there it's an imperial I.P.A.. We're looking at ten percent is that what it is eleven percent eleven percent the old allegedly sign it should be one percent. So here I mean obviously I.P.O.'s are going to lose happiness of eleven on the old one. You know you expect to see some of the hop fade a little bit so it will be interesting to try these back to back to our starting off with this year's write a fresh start with the ten year. Yeah OK perfect. As I have that one. You know it's not too many shows we do where an imperial I.P.A. is the second beer on the lineup. Oh goody. This is a little bit lighter than the last one we had

thought I'm a little bit more coppery this is kind of like pretty through good had just a fresh aroma right I mean it's got some like Hop quality to it but I just it's like smelling a garden. That sugary to me pretty sweet. It's more floral smell than hop you know like a garden. Yeah because of of flowers of caramel smell come out of edged bulls. It's a little sweeter and multi-year than I was expecting. But I definitely some hops but eleven percent is going to be multi eleven percent. It's there. Yeah it is you know you expected to be strong and I got a little bit of a kick there but nothing too bad. Did either but it has a lot of the alcohol is coming through. It's almost like a bar. Sometimes you get high alcohol you don't get you get like the sugar basket. This has the sugar but it's not masking the alcohol for some reason you're getting the alcohol burned from it. Word. I don't get a ton of burn but I mean that I don't get a lot of myself I find it pretty enjoyable I mean it's a sip

are you not going to drink it real fast but. I do it. I think obviously it's hopping but it's not really bitter hops there's like a sweet multi nuance also that balances out the hop. So you're not getting that overwhelming bitterness from the hops. So it's kind of a caramel multi miss that is I would say is the foremost flavor with some hops in the aftertaste it. It does have a fair amount of boozing this though too. So you know you're getting your money's worth from this one. I think what's not most notable for me is this kind of a sticky like oily feel to it which it's it's not too boozy but it's got this. Maybe it's resinous but there's like oily characteristic to it. I would I enjoy. Well if you look at your glasses and I'm sure they do this like in a wine tasting and they call it something like Yeah. It is it is stick in there. I mean there are lots of lace in so let's analyze the hops here are getting pine are you getting citrus grass seed herbal somewhere that tiny pine and grassy I don't like pine. Yeah. I get a lot of malt that's really way it's you know Joe and I have brew some beers in the last year and it really did make an eleven percent beer you. Just imagine how much more Motley would have to use to make that beer it's double you know yours is pretty crazy. Yeah well that's that's the thing. I mean as somebody who brews beer you guys will under can appreciate what goes into these triple I.P.A. as we have on the show. Every one of these when they get to eleven

twelve percent. And some challenge to get up there which can't fit any more miles an hour. You know a cooler to get above eight percent. We've tried Trust me I do the ninth anniversary. Yeah and you open up the night then a verse free. So this one I bought when I was in San Diego back when we did the San Diego show probably maybe episode number ten or so and we actually did two different San Diego shows on the podcast. We brought back a whole truckload of beer and so yes San Diego that was back in July of last year so almost a year ago and we went to the port brewery report Brewing Company and I feel like this is one of the you know original San Diego Brewer is there's been several there for many years but this one is pretty well established and it's port and lost Abbey together as one so they make some pretty good beers. So this one is very similar in color to the previous one. It might be just a little bit lighter and a little bit more cloudy definitely more clout Yeah. But similarly aged. Bottle chain yeah yeah but when you put your nose in there. You do get a little bit of like champagne or shard in a smell from and I wonder if that's coming from the way it's ferment in the bottle a little bit more how it's age in the bottle it definitely is less happy than the previous one. As you would expect with an older beer. I suppose it's not bad. You know as long as that doesn't really hurt the flavor may not be taste as fresh. I don't know if that's because I have a huge head on mind but it seems like super thick and like viscous it is. This is a little bit more of a brickie mult taste. Obviously the hops of faded a lot. I think that it loses something when it when it doesn't have the same freshness. It's it's definitely like syrup. That's this taste way boozy or to me I just got a really strange like sauce Burleigh not necessarily root beer but like a medicinal like root beer can be like artificial root beer flavor or anybody else get that or crazy. I get a little of that. Yeah it will cream soda E.. Yeah it's just like an carbonated soda. So I don't have this one but I take it. Britain like the older one and everybody else like the newer one. You know what I want to set in love either of them. Yeah I'm going to I don't know I wouldn't go as far as to say I like this one a lot of people save beer but if you're going to save beer don't save an I.P.A. drink that as soon as possible because you want to get it fresh. I have a feeling that this beer is not doing pour any justice. I was but it's a last year. Yeah agreed. So anyway but I'm glad we were able to move it along and clear up the spot in the fridge in the hall the vault the vault for a newer I.P.A. to drink fresher. That's right. All right. I am going

to pick a random beer that we have done on this podcast and and he's going to tell us what it was like the Boston Beer Company. On the Eastbound and Down podcast. Sam Adams honey Queen it was I mean. I don't remember it was honey. I guess I'm gay. I get that one mixed up with honey cause I know I remember the honey queen where we got the B. the bottle and I was like man isn't he. Terrible. I just any honey beer. I think is just going to be way too sweet but I remember it being pretty good actually. I remember I think it was the beer of the day that I might have been it was surprisingly enjoyable. Yeah. And we never we all had pretty good things to say about it. All right well quiz you and some other ones. Later on I know it's good to hear

news of the day on this here already. I'm almost sorry to brings that up but all you drunk munch ears out there Pizza Hut in the U.K. is launching beer Pete was made from Kraft ales and lagers but it's not even the in the US. No they're trying to out at Yeah one that U.K. location as a test test program so they're making the dough with beer in the dough and if it's good not good. To me they're going to try it out. And if it works out then they're going to bring it universally so there are two

flavors. These are the best names ever the steak feast and the American Hot American Hot what I have a feeling this is the name of the pizza self. Not that it. I'm guessing the American hot is not going to be the top seller in the U.K.. So. The beer from we we do homebrewing we take that there were bashing all the leftover grains and we we I was going to make bread out of it but I looked the process not like that is too much work so I just gave to Dallas and. The cals is his family's parents' cow. Yeah the cows loved lead up right away so she already and then in other news there is a craft revolution. Craft beer revolution in Paris of all places we so there's a bar in the Oberoi can't descript that is serving craft beer and apparently that is like very revolutionary for France they do because they do it to please support wine at the bar. Yeah that's right Jimi you know we should've looked up as how many of our new stories of the last year are based on fear is going to be bought out by a bigger Prairie or something like that I get to believe that it's private half. Yeah I mean I had to get a special sound effect for it just so that we had music to play when it happened so that was a big one but yeah. So I think it's good the French to get into beer everyone else is doing it so you know why shouldn't why shouldn't they and there's be so much better than ours. OK So you know the beer next beer. I hope you don't have too many listeners from France and they don't anymore. Just a few

but we had an explosion. If you're in France and you like craft beer and listen the show is right this in give us a comment let us know what you think of the beer scene in France or some good French beer. Yeah. It's right next beer is triple amnesia I.P.A. from Indian Wells Brewing Company in your current California are hoping that it's going to make us forget how bad the rest of these beers are yeah I was just I was marveling at the fact that this is the first time I've seen Andy spill something not in his lap. That's you know it's good I didn't spill it. It did so it definitely gushed there's a real thick head on all of our glass. Yeah. This one's a lot more brown like I wouldn't still like a drop or color but it doesn't seem orange it seems like more brown tinted than like a copper color and it's nose more brown it smells like more brown sugary darker more like a penny from one thousand nine hundred one. Well I think these triple I.P.S. in general are going to be a little bit

darker in color. I would guess very heavy molasses to me. Yeah I actually think it's good and you know you need smell. I get the more dry hop aroma on this fresh chop. Well I think we've had one of their beers. We've had one of their beers on the show

before we had that Amber Ale that was aged and whiskey barrel so I thought we all enjoyed it. This reminds me. Unfortunately of the Gilgamesh no mega monster right. In how like horribly surprising it was and then how bitter it is it's bitter in all the wrong places like butter right up front and then it just sticks around so that in scene something because the Gilgamesh make a monster was probably the beer that we dislike collectively the most on this show. That's the worst beer I've ever had. You couldn't make it worse. Here's what we had to say about it. I got multi you know thirty six like after taking cheese that is the line and then you see a piece of mold on it and then all the sudden you feel like I just made a bunch of. I don't get the love I'm going to have to hold on I'm going to have to implement and these three separate I really want to try this way I'm I'm shocked. I have shocked at how you meet his beer is in a bad way in a bad way I did not like this just like at all that the finish is awful but I think when I have it in my mouth and I'm tasting it. There's a lot of a lot of flavors and. But actually I kind of like I kind of enjoy it. Yeah that's and that's what I'm getting I'm getting like malty I'm going to be sweet.

And then you exhale I'm you know I'm getting. I'm going to that better than I guess a little complexity and then it immediately turns to sour news and bitterness and then it just it's almost eyes of the most by old yes that you get after you know as

they are. You know that thing you know yeah yeah exactly. Yes it's like on the exhale it's a really bad. I think you know it's like if you've been puking your guts out yes like that. Teach them that I am an oath. I know I agree with Steve one in your mouth. It's like Jeff I really I really wish you could try some this because taste is so bad I think it is based on that real taste like bile in a yeah bucket of rusty nails. Rusty bales of taste which is disappointing because when like like Steve

said when it's one thing your mouth. OK I can't even get it back in my mouth so bad so we didn't like it. Yeah this beer is not that bad. Are you going to bring him bad I would drink this. Yeah yeah it's very you know how much alcohol it has it's not a bad beer at all. It's like watery and bitter. It's very watery Yeah bitter. I don't know if I like it but I was so I had the amnesia I.P.A. which is their regular I.P.A. this is you know basically three times that in every way and I thought the same thing of that that had a very like in mouth feel I just pulled it up on the website when I wrote and it. It wasn't a good beer it's been on the website I haven't scheduled it as the beer of the day because I didn't think it was very good then and watery and lacking carbonation and very light this is OK I just hope the next three are a little bit better but I think you're similar. I think he's right there would. Does lack carbonation I think it would be an improved beer with more carbonation I feel like in general even though there are a lot of beers that we have on the show that I don't like per se. I can pick out redeeming qualities and say like I can understand how someone would like drinking that I can't pick out any for this beer. I have to concur I have a hard time thinking anyone's going to drink this bill. And this is a good one. Have another one so I feel like we're giving our opinions about the beer but not describing it a ton. So let me just agree. So the thing that has beer has it has a it has multi flavor it has some sugar. The problem is that we're so used to West Coast hops that are very citrusy and piney I'm guessing they're using just straight bittering style hops like probably some like the nugget. Where it is just adding bitterness to it but not a lot of complex different styles of hops that we're often used to in our hobby beers that we enjoy. You know maybe it's more of a English style and I hear they're using artisan spring water for this so that that

does say something. It's not quite free range coastal waters. But I think Joel's right like this. For it to be ninety nine. IB use. I mean that's pretty bitter but it's not really Hoppy one to tack on to what Joe thought I think everything Joe said it's pretty accurate. It doesn't have any distinguishable flavor. There's no it's like watery bitterness and that's it. There's no other flavor I can pick out there are some bolts in the character some of caramel there's some there's a little bit of very small amount of like it be some sort of like dark purple as well and it's there it's just that for a triple I.P.A. you're expecting to have a very complex or were used to show I say very complex hot profiles and it's just not there so back on Feb ninth. We did a show called Cincinnati to serve the and we record. It at minor manner. We did and we had a beer on that show that I randomly pulled up here. Called the panther from Ryan Geist brewery Joel what do you remember about that beer so that was a brown ale of some sort and it was it was a porter or stout it was is right out. Yeah. And I remember I had good order. Good. This is like one of the most well balanced orders that comes in a can and it is like insanely drink a bullet where you could drink a six pack and not feel like you had too much sugar but you just had the perfect amount of alcohol and Balts and just flavor profile that just made you want more and more of it. I really like that bear fruit. Take a break. We're halfway done when we come back we have three more trip or I.P.S. over the word trouble but we'll see in just a minute here on the fears of a pod cast or if you have enjoyed this program over the past year and you like to support us. You can always do so by

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alcohol burn. But I'm just thinking about it like the port one to me was super boozy So I think it's extremely drinkable for ten point two percent. I don't think it's too bitter. I mean it's one hundred plus I'd be use. I mean six. We're very well

balanced I mean it's the right amount of malt the right amount of hops. I mean this is what triple I.P.A. is taste like. I think more people would be open to drinking that I think when downloaded to that kind of sweet finish. I think that is really what's lending itself nicely to that. Overwhelming bitterness level yet as it does finish more the sweet side you can taste the bitterness throughout the drink but it's not overwhelming at the end so compared to the previous beer we had it previous beer we

had had a ton of bitterness and not a lot of happiness this is the exact opposite. It's got on of Hoppe Enos in a good way. It's that mosaic that I really like but not a ton of bitterness for how high the IB use are it's good I like the hot flavor they put in this and I said I think Jeff said it's. Well balanced for how much hops has it just like body and structure and I appreciate that in a bit like this couldn't be more opposite of a triple in Asia. You know like and back to my point about the triple amnesia is this is this beer this Clermont is not up my alley but I can appreciate it and pick up like things that are redeemable qualities about it. I think it is really well balanced so you can tell that it's a well crafted beer. It's a

it's pretty new. They recently have come out with the single Dole and triple I.P.A. as in bottles that are available throughout the Los Angeles area. So you can probably pick this up at Costco and other stores clemency was always that they were canned

right. Or there is a bottle where they were canning a couple of their beers and then they just in the last six months or bottling. But they were really distributing much they have that in the canning they've only had the Jacaranda in the station I want to one and the third anniversary of we're the only ones in Cannes I believe right. So they're doing both now so on the show we got to. View. Bryan who is the head brewer and owner and owner and here's what he had to say about the triple I.P.A. triple do it is the biggest of them all. It's a triple I.P.A. it's ten almost ten half percent. It's a very hard style to make in my opinion with that much alcohol use even can become a multi So there's a few techniques we used to try to keep it as dry as possible to really let the hop shine and I think we've achieved that quite well. Hops in this. There's a couple in there but all you really experience is is most a. It can be like it's fruity and just in your face type of hot just me my favorite ha yeah I can I smell mosaic. Yes I love beers with Mosaic opt out. So I was really looking forward to this this pier is about six weeks old now it's not the the freshest purple you we've ever had. You know this beer does change with time when this beer is really really fresh. The Mosaic mosaic in my opinion changes with time it starts out very dank and very candid at but then transitions to more of a freak and you like. That's where we're at right now it makes me wish I was there. I think a lot

of very well crafted I.P.H. have a dry finish that you know lends to the bitterness but it makes it a pleasant betterness not you know some people don't like I.P.O.'s because they don't like the bitterness but if it's like a dry pleasant bitterness I think that it's really nice. Let's move in the next beer keeping with the triple I.P.A. theme. This is hop shortage. That's ironic from from kneedeep Brewing Company kneedeep is in Auburn California. It is one of our favorite breweries in the Greater Sacramento area and just yesterday kneedeep celebrated their sixth and. So looking at this period interesting if I didn't know what it was I don't think that I would think it was an I.P.A. it's very light for the Triple seven. Yeah. Jeff mentioned

earlier the triples are probably can be darker in color. It's like a light straw color no need to keep is well known for their I.P.S.. So well known they have three triple I.P.S. sim Tra Hopper real low and that we're trying now. So the story behind this beer. I believe if I remember correctly there was a hot shortage in two thousand and twelve when the boom that just started this crap your boom and started and kneedeep you know for the sake of being ironic says OK we'll just make a triple I.P.A. with as much as we can. Because they had a right and that was that was this beer. They actually manufactured up shortage. This is the cousin of Sentra but brewed with only Centennial and chinook hops and this is this is also one of those breweries

that has unique like stamp and signature on their beers all the needy beers in my opinion have a very unique flavor. I'm not sure if it's the Easter However they're doing it. They might want or maybe the water could be the east. Yeah they might be just doing two types of East but I've never had a beer. That's similar to this beer from any other brewery. This is a beer. We don't have very often even though it's been around for a while now so that's kind of why I got it because we Jeff and I both thought all three of them. You know just to see what we could get but I decided to pick this one because this is the one I've had the least of sim for a hopper real low in hop shortage. So of those three I think this one has the least amount of sweetness to it. Yeah but it's still a fantastic beer it's got a on of hot flavor and they've just somehow loaded this thing with hot flavor whether it's through dry hopping or doing it during the boil I don't know. What it is but they just found a way to just make hop in liquid form and it's just going down. It's good. It doesn't really have like a biting bitterness though it's like very I would describe after taste is very mild also to me the first thing I thought is it's very smooth very very

smooth easy to drink. Before has as it came of the term like happy juice. Yes and that to me I think is the script of this here. It's kind of the juice has the bitterness but it's not doesn't give you that cotton mouth dry mouth bitterness it's just kind of a smooth bitterness. I find is surprisingly better like more bit more bitter than expected. I find it hard to like describe the hops in this like Typically I can say they're Piney or they're citrusy or they're tropical it's really hard with a

spear to describe it and I like the hops. I think of the flavor profile is really nice but I have a hard time like picking out flavors. It's more like a grain based hopper you often we always have associate it with like citrus or like you say like pine. But this one comes across to me like more of like a hop like. And I just it's just like like bread that is just like very intense bread. I need some barley or something. Sounds like Walt if I had to put it on that spectrum I'd say it's pine I do get Pinus on this grassy I think I mean Centennial is kind of a very palatable hop Yeah it's using a lot of very earthy the earthy. I think should look is what adds a little more of that bite but I think the pair will together. I think that all the peers who tried so far today this is the least sugary least sweet. Yes but that. Luckily to me are pleasantly to me does not mean overly bitter. I don't like a lot of these beers if I took out the sweetness they're just going to be under equally bitter whereas this one it. I don't have the sweetness but I'm not missing it. It's mild it's a mild bitterness that like I think I think you're you said it's really smooth too. So it's not biting at all. So go back and compare it to the port which was eleven point two percent. This is eleven point three percent. I think even though this might be a little more bitter than that the alcohol is more hidden somehow. Yeah absolutely. Well you need known for making all their beers are seventy percent or more

and they just don't taste it and they're really good at hiding the alcohol. I heard they have a quadruple I.P.A. if you guys had that is that correct. Like because I go back to what I said at the beginning like triple I.P.A. or not the most common beer. There's a lot of her is that don't make one and it's pretty remarkable that we're having a brewery here that makes three triple I.P.A. that's pretty unheard of. I don't know anybody have that quad but that's also out of that's their thing right up

the ranged arranged. If you guys have that now. No I don't think I have no. I had it at the Sacramento really feel brew fest on Friday. They brought that with them. Really. So yeah they did was it good or do you remember. No I remember it was quite

good thirteen point one percent. Yeah it's. I think I only had half and so then I said it was just six and a half percent that's good. As beer fest math right there. Yeah incoming transmission. You've got mail. Comments this week. I don't think you'd be right to have a beer the day anniversary show and not have a comment from. Oh Buckeye rich the common. Did On our last podcast The Louisiana and Florida Gulf Coast brews hail our northwest vacation has commenced and I'm currently on a train from Vancouver to Seattle. Just listen to this podcast it was thoroughly entertained your my go to podcast for making travel enjoyable on a side note Brit. Yes Yes Yes I'm very happy that case exciting that bill we have in Ohio and can finally brew beers

over twelve percent. My favorite local brewery has already double digits on most beers so get it over twelve percent as of more than welcome. I'll keep you all posted on my Seattle Cannon Beach and Portland beers. Hopefully I can get one to the

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comments you can post them on Facebook on Twitter on Instagram or on the website or you can send us an e-mail at feedback at beer the day dot com We love to hear from you. We love to read your comments here on this podcast. Our this movement in the final beer of the night. This is from founders Brewing Company Grand Rapids Michigan. This is the devil dance or triple I.P.A.. A twelve percent. I don't even have a sound clip for twelve percent. So I do know that when you come over to the beer the day headquarters if you accidentally go into the vault with a secret code and you accidently grab a beer. That's intended for the show. You get reprimanded from Dallas which is what we're really which is what happened. Day because at the beginning of

the day I came over and grabbed a beer and he said no son and Joe's about to hand this to me and I want that. Well you haven't and now who like dark amber color definitely the darkness very clear it's reddish brown the red Yeah everybody proper everybody got a quite a bit ahead of everybody got some this is I mean different in color from the other three purple I.P.A. is for sure it's got kind of a tropical aroma. But I think it on an idiot. I once either agree Els the boozy is to me for me like

I was surprised because it's the highest alcohol content and I thought it had the most mild aroma. And yet a little tropical hop I get a little likes spicy cinnamon or something to maybe that's what I'm like the feeling is I'll burn like that red

gum. Yeah yeah big red big red gum. Yes very good red gum that's like a big flavor to it you know it's that one called just I want to just I want to sip. But it taste like Big Red. So you know sees my word hot juice on the last one but this one is more like Hop soup. Right. It's very thick but it is it's kind of clean but it's it's thick and better. This is a beer that I kicks you in the face until you're too big a sip to start out I need just to sip it I took a good goal. Oh I feel like this is

like what a Viking would drink like. Unlike before he got to go into battle and he's like grabbing a woman. He's like your home or drink. You need your Viking that's like it's pretty intense. I mean it's got a lot of thick syrupy feel to it but syrup is like always we see syrupy we think of a bad thing. This is got quite a good amount of hops that are bouncing off the sweetness. But it is a very thick tasting be I mean it's just viscous it's usually reserved this phrase for mixed drinks such as Manhattan or something like that but this will put hair on your chest. It will I agree it's bold their will on the last show we had a bunch of beers that were lighter and I would say like the purple haze you could take any six year old off the street. Given this beer and he'd like it. Not that we can know that you could probably take any six year olds off the street and give it out all for the record I know Obama said you could not take any adult off the street and give them this beer and they'll like it. This is a very select person that will enjoy this beer. They want you know they want to be here. That's going to you know kick like a mule like the devil. So there's not me. So often when I drink a beer. I think of times I would want to have this beer and I wasn't born during Viking time so I can't really use that but I can imagine myself like being on the long like winter hike and like man I'm working freezing come back into the night I think OK after the hike I suggest that I go back

into the cabin of this burning fire I'm like yeah I want one of this right. That's not terrible. I only want like the old time everyone drink brandy through the same way. Like I need to be told I never told you was a warm up. Sort of brandy for you haven't. I just fell through the ice. This is what I want when I got out. So do you know how many hop hops. I do they used. I want you to read No I don't know I don't know ten. Jeff read it. Jeff. He read it I read it you were the most not fun person to play a game with as I was ten ten and they dry hopped out with ten different varieties allegedly so hop soup then you know there's like Hops Yeah. So I guess I mean they're just going for the hop over low over kill but I think they did it when really like a couple different hops together can create different flavors if you have ten. It's probably going to get me to just fall is going to muted out and had this hop. I was going to say thanks. I think it got muddled. It's a little muddled. I don't know I think a lot of that point. Depends on the crafting though. I mean look at like a like a blended scotch right. You know you just put thirty seven has got to go doesn't make it better but like there's some of that really is the technique that used to make it's true much better and so like Normally when I talk about the hop spectrum and there's like some fruity and some tropical and some really dry in there. It's like you can mix some of them together to get different flavors. But if you're doing a bunch of different ones you're going to get this like flat line. In music. It's like the Wall of Sound. Will this beer is like the wall of hops where it's just hitting you from every angle and you have to kind of process it as best you can. Yeah but I feel like there's a time and a place for this beer. There is a time where I would really enjoy this beer. I just it wouldn't be on any time between March and October for me but I do VERY of the several other mean that I would be never. I actually I actually really enjoy it's a beer that I would split one of these twelve ounce bottles with somebody and be happy with that it is absolutely starting up it is absolutely not under it will in any way like it's not horrible You don't think oh my god I can't have this. It's very strong it's very in your face in a warming up though. Yeah I think a budget. Andy I'm curious. I think you're an expert in this category but to me this borderlines on like a Harley wine or. Do you feel you get

any like barley wine characteristics from Les Yeah. But I still still identify it as I.P.A. it's not as there's not as much burn like there's some burn there. But it's not to that extent it's still hot be enough just to fall into the I.P.A. umbrella.

But you know anytime you have a triplet be you can find you know you're going to have some gray areas. This is like the blues iest of all of them. I think we need to do a Bollywood show soon we should we really want to do it I'll go July fourth the hottest day of the year with the car outside. We have to do it when I come visit because I can't do a barley wine show. Yeah. Yeah that's I mean obviously triple I.P.O.'s are going to be big bold over the top on the hops over the top on the alcohol. I think this kind of fits the bill. All right well we're six in here let's figure out what our favorite beer the day was and you want to recap the beers that we had before we try and figure out who's going to go first. Sure. So we start off with the Happy Birthday session I.P.A. from Alpine and we had the port ten year anniversary and then we also had the ninth anniversary which we won't even talk about we had the triple amnesia I.P.A. from Indian Wells the triple dude from Claremont the hot shortage from kneedeep and we finished off with founders devil down dancer. Right. Anyone had this the wheel of the spinning here. Thank God I was hoping someone else could go first. That would give me time to kind of think about what I was going to pick. I'll go first. You know say no no I'm gone I am going to. Select the I'm going to pick the devil dancer the last beer we had this beer as much as I'd like to hop shortage. I love kneedeep Cy P.A.'s but of the three Triple I.P.A. as they have hops orange is my least favorite it's just a little too bitter So that being said devil dancer I was surprised by I love the color I love the redness of it. The it's very hot forward. Like I said the the Wall of Sound is a wall of hops and it just attacks you from every angle with hops and. It really is a lot to process. But as somebody who loves yours. I'll take it all process that as best I can and I think. The more you drink it the more you're going to appreciate it so that was the one that I appreciated the best Jeffrey. Well first of all I'm going to say that most of these are from California which is what I would expect because we want these to be as fresh as possible. I and I say that because I like the founders but it was not my favorite I think I think the triple I.P.A. category is kind of a gray area that there's not real like strong definitions of what that means and I think all of these were very different. None of these tasted really that similar to me but my favorite was the Claremont the triple dude. It just it was the most drink of all at well as a template two percent and I know has a lot of mosaic cops which I enjoy and I like that creamy mouth feel and it just was the one that if I'm going to sit down and drink a triple I.P.A. which is not for everybody it's you know a kick you know strong beer. That's the one that I could drink on a regular basis and enjoy the most so the triple dude is. Going to a bar and all these beers are on tap and I have to pick one and the triple dude's hands down the winner right. It's the most wrinkled ball it's the most enjoyable but if I have to get to have a beer fest and I can only pick one in the five rounds before it's going to be the devil the answer. Every time. That's such a unique triple I.P.A. I had like really dark flavors that you don't get from any of these other beers. And it really it really reminds you it does remind you of scotch in the sense that you you get so much out of so little so. The answer from

founders Mike do I have to pick one. Yes it's required. I know which one I'm not going to pick. I'm pretty sure we're all unanimous in that if I had to pick one. I'm going to go with the triple duty as well out of all of the beers that we had which I have repeated myself over and over on this podcast but this you know I P A's in any form. Single double triple quad whatever are not my alley but. The triple dude is the one that I think was the most balanced and the most drink a bowl from the standpoint of I hate I.P.S.. Yes So I agree with Jeff in Britain. I'm going to go with the triple dude it's that amount of mosaic hops is just so good it's enjoy a bowl. I'm just I really like the way that they balance their beers and they're having a beer that has ten point two percent alcohol but you can still sit down and drink a pint and not even worry about getting that over intense mouthfeel where you like oh I can't drink anymore this is just too much so. Triple duty is my beer of the day not to take anything away from the triple digit because I mean I think that it kind of got a softball thrown up to it for I.P.L. lovers I mean like I said those are cops it's the most universally loved flavors of one of my puter wants to look for. For that reason I'm not going to take it even though it probably was. One that I think would be if I was to drink any of these I'd probably drink that one but I think the most well crafted one was the hop shortage. I am not an E.D.P. lover in any way I am not

generally going to reach for a needy beer but just the fact that for how bitter and how hop it was I drank it and I found some redeeming qualities I thought this isn't terrible. I didn't love it. I'm not generally gonna drink it but just I could tell it was very very well crafted and I appreciated that. So it's been a year into the show and Steve has selected a needy beer is. Wow and check us out on Facebook on Twitter of the day on this edition Adhir today's site and we thank you for listening

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