A new wet hop IPA on draft for Amplified Ale Works 4th anniversary party, along with 21 other Amplified offerings.
A Couple Rough Draft IPAs
My Coors Light neighbor had a gathering this weekend and the few beers not meeting his palate were left untouched. He called them “brown bottle beer” and grouped them with the like of Pacifico, and Stella.. I don’t recall having a Rough Draft beer since we stopped by their brewery opening day. Pleasantly surprise with […]
Hoppy Birthday
Eppig Brewing
San Diego’s newest craft brewery. All low IBU options. My fav was the blonde, while Michele preferred the Berliner Weisse.
2016 Celebration
An annual treat from the fine folks at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company.
Fruity, Malty and Modern IPA
Dieu du Ciel (Montreal)
Tasters in Montreal!
Blood Orange & Hibiscus Fruitlands
Decent, but not as good as some of the previous Fruitlands. 4.8% ABV
Barrel Harbor South Island Pils
Celebrating a warm Saturday at Surfside Tap Room in Oceanside. I’m enjoying a refreshing South Island Pils while the Mrs. nurses a Black Marlin Mocha Porter from Ballast Point.
Stack Me Greens Fresh Hop IPA
Enjoying yet another wet hop beer — this one from @artifexbrewing in San Clemente, CA. Clean, fresh and juicy. So much so that there’s a bee (upper left) hanging out hoping for a little nectar for her own purposes. #wethop #ipa #its90degreesinsandiegotoday
Fall Brewing Plenty for All
A nice czech pilsner from Fall Brewing Company, which I have yet to visit. Perfect beer for a 90 degree October day. Yeah, I know, it’s in a Belching Beaver glass.
Belching Beaver OB
Very happy with the 9% ABV double IPA Use These Hops Up!
Deceitful IIPA
Delicious DIPA from Back Street Vista. Simcoe, Columbus and Centennial hops with a surprisingly well-balanced malt profile. 8% ABV but you’d swear it was no more than 5%. Deceitful indeed.
Dragon’s Milk
An enjoyable 11% ABV bourbon barrel-aged stout from New Holland Brewing. I thought the beer was a good balance of all the flavors…though I would have preferred flavors to linger a bit longer after swallowing.
Punkin Ale from Dogfish Head
Was sitting on the patio and enjoying this @dogfishhead seasonal so much that I almost forgot to get a photo. Every year is just a little bit different and yet always delicious.
Elysian Great Jasmine Not
Elysian is my new favorite brewer. Elysian Avatar Jasmine IPA is not. It’s more saccharin than a vanilla at sea on nitrogen. It’s drinkable, but so is Stella when you need to.
Enjoy by 10.31.16
Lots of good, and very little bad, packed into this tiny bottle of bitter beer. I feel that with every sip I’m reducing my chances of getting scurvy.
Idaho by 10 Barrel Brewing
Continuing my fresh hop IPA journey in Bend, I am currently enjoying an Idahop. 6.8% ABV and 75 IBUs.
Lagunitas Born Yesterday
One of the best offering I’ve had from Lagunitas. 6.5% wet hop IPA. Going for another.
Sizzle fresh hop IPA
Yep. That’s all that’s left of a very delicious wet hop IPA from Cascade Lakes Brewing in Bend, OR
Craft Kitchen in Bend
Enjoying an IPL and Pond Monkey Pale at Craft Kitchen on the Deschutes River in Bend, OR.
Dry Hopped Steam Beer
An offering from Anchor I had not tried. I like it better than the regular steam beer.
San Clemente Left Coast Pale Ale — The perfect ending to your week
I have a lot of go-to beers. Sculpin IPA is one as long as there’s no fruit in it. Coronado Idiot is just one of my all time favorites. San Clemente Left Coast’s beer is just the right beer at the right time. It’s better than Pizza Port’s Kook, 6.5% by volume. Some nice crisp […]
Rogness Taxon
A hoppy brown ale, with a hop bitterness on top of the roasted malt bitterness, all the way from Austin, Texas. Not really my style, but that didn’t stop me from finishing it.
Soundcheck Wet
Amplified Ale Works wet hopped IPA.
Graveyard’s Pale Ale
I had the draft version of this beer at Bressi Ranch some weeks back, and very much enjoyed it. This 6.2% “San Diego” pale ale was made with Mosaic and a mix of Australian hops, and would be considered an IPA in other parts. Though it’s supposed to be stocked at each of their […]
Shockolate Wheat
The flavor is remenisent of a Tootsie-Roll dissolved in large quantity of soda water…more watery than Tootsie-Roll. As one might imagine, it’s not very good. Not sure how much better it would have been if we had fresh, whenever that would have been. Couldn’t fine a date on the bottle, but snowflakes make me think […]
Mohawk Bend 5th Anniversary Hoppy Ale
A 7% ABV collaboration IPA…from Mohawk, Tony’s Darts Away and Bagby Beer. I’m told Mohawk and Tony’s Darts Away are owned by the folks from Golden Road. I was pleased with it…went well with vegan happy hour foods.
Peyote Pale Ale
The $4 pint for the night at Diablo Taco, from Baja Brewing. It worked for me. The day is looking up.
Soundcheck Wet Hop IPA
A newer offering at Amplified Ale Works. 6% ABV, well balanced…get while you can cuz I doubt it will last long.
Mosaic Pale Ale
A 6% ABV from Figueroa Mountain Brewing. Maybe the same as the Fig Mtn Mosaic I had elsewhere, indicating 5.5%..but with someone typing or writing it out on the beer menu, I’m not so sure. Enjoyed both.
Brew Your Mind Peach Please
I’m get zero fruit flavors or smell from this 6.5% ABV IPA that Michele smuggled back from her recent trip to Hungary. Maybe it has no fruit but thought it needed it. A somewhat dry bitter finish, that reminds me of grapefruit peel, overpowers any malty sweetness. I’m enjoying it, though I think more […]
Huff n Puff
A “Slovenian” pale ale from Pizza Port Bressi. Crisp and clean 4.8% abv. I didn’t even know there were Slovenian pale ales.
Cuvee de Tomme 2008
Found this little gem in the beer cellar while doing a little re-arranging the other day. What carbonation there was is gone, but the tart raisin, cherry and malt remains. Pretty solid for an 8 year old.
Beautiful Princess Yeasty Red Vagina Ale
Michele’s colorful name for this American amber ale, dry hopped with Mosaic, and made at do-it-yourself brewery, Citizen Brewers, during a party celebrating a good friend’s birthday, was sadly not selected as the official name for the beer. I’d like think it was only because we did not make the label required for the group […]
Champagne Velvet..
..Brand Beer. A 5.5% ABV pre-prohibition pilsner from Indiana’s Upland Brewing. Not really my favorite style of beer, but decent enough..I ain’t pouring it out. Also not wasting time with a glass…drinking right out of the can. Oddly the pale malt, or so I assume cuz the can is opaque, reminds me of unsalted oyster […]
Hopster nyilván IPA
I’m pleasantly surprised by this 7.7% ABV American-style IPA that Michele smuggled back from her recent trip to Budapest. Balanced with pleasant hop flavors that linger slightly on the palate, and no malty sweet aftertaste.
Three Weavers Knotty IIPA
Piney, resinous and 8.5% ABV. Not sure I can make it will last until my slice arrives…
Infinity+1
The 12.3% ABV triple IPA from Hess Brewing is quite nice. No underlying sweetness in the base, just great hop flavors..which only linger on the pallet a short time urging you to take another sip. I had a bottle couple months ago and enjoyed, but I think I like this bottle that’s been on […]
Citracado IPA
Stone’s 20th Anniversary beer has resinous and dank hop flavors with lingering bitterness long after you’ve swallowed, or spit it out… if’n that’s your thing. No malty sweetness that you can find in some higher gravity IPA. This one’s clocking in at a respectable 9% ABV. It’s working for me at the moment.
Cutthroat Pale in Utah
One thing I do like about the craft beer revolution is that you can get a good beer in Utah. On a Sunday.
Über Jam
I’m like’n this 6.6% ABV Belgian-style ale. Somewhat sweet up front, mild bitterness on the finish, and overall refreshing. A new offering from our friends at Amplified Ale Works.
Oneida
Enjoyed this 5.8% ABV hoppy pale ale from Modern Times Beer Company. Not sure if it is pronounced wăn-ee-tah, or won-ee-dah, or oh-nee-dah…
Sam Adams Summer Ale
At JFK Admiral Lounge.
Barba Pale Ale
We found an alley with plenty of shadow, a nice breeze and the local brewery’s beer on draft. The draft version is much better than the bottle of the same beer we tried earlier. The bottle was flat and too sweet..almost syrupy. On draft it’s still malty, but in addition to the better mouth feel […]
Benevolent Son IPA
Another in a long list of IPAS from Back Street brewing in Vista. 6.6% abv, bright, fresh and crisp with just a little maltiness. Perfect for an ungodly hot day.
Varionica Pale Ale
Decent, but not my fav. Malty base is a bit too sweet to me.
A La Americana
The 5.4% ABV American-style wheat beer generously hopped with Mosaic is one of the best Croatian beer we’ve had so far. With the light /pale malt body and pleasant bitter finish it was very refreshing. It’s made on the island of Hvar just a 5 minute bike ride from Hvar town center (maybe a 20 […]
Zmajska Pivovara Pale Ale
Our first Croatian craft beers. Both were clean, balanced and true to style. Both seemed more American-style and less similar to their European counterparts. The 5.3% ABV Pale Ale ale was refreshing and had a mildly hopped finish. The 6.5% ABV Porter was smooth and roasty with with no unpleasant bitterness.
Dalmatian Beer
Točeno on draft for me and the bottle of Tomislav for the lady. The 7.3% ABV Tomislav Croatian made dunkel was the better of the two. The Slovenia made pale lager on draft was just…not my style.
Cider Tasters at Julian Ciderworks
Eighteen (18) delicious ciders from local apples
Majaraja IPA
Nothing like a big, hoppy DIPA to take the edge off a hot summer afternoon.
Betty IPA in bottle
Seeing Adam’s Betty in a can, I got jealous and had to go get my own. This is one of those I prefer in a bottle.
Breakside India Golden Ale
I’m enjoying it. An 8.1% ABV hoppy strong golden..what’s not to like?
Tasters at Big Island Brewhaus (Hawaii)
Quaint location inland a bit, and full of locals. Wide variety of tasty beers. My fav was the Golden Sabbath. Lunch was great, too.
Betty IPA
A brief break from cider.
Millstone Cobbler
A delicious blend of cider and peach wine. Pleasantly tart with a more dry finish, and 8% ABV. Really quite good.
Dale’s Pale Ale
Straight out of da can.
Brett Baby Cakes to go
A pale ale with mild bitterness and nice funky brettanomyces characteristics.
Hungarian Craft Beer
Fresh off the plane Vári Nővérek ’16, from Hungary’s Szent András Sőrfőzde, is like a hoppy American-style session pale ale. It remind me of a northern east coast IPA or pale ale, with some rye with the malt. No citrus or pine notes, but a distinct dry bitter finish.
Watermelon Dorado
I like watermelon. I also like Dorado, Ballast Point’s 10% ABV double IPA. I don’t think I would have thought to mix the two…but why not give it a try. When first poured, the nose is sweet watermelon and very little hop character. Taste is not sweet but hop bitterness over the malt base, with […]
Beers in Hungary
Untappd tells me I tried 15 new beers while in Hungary. Some big commercial yellow beers and a few craft beers. I can’t spell their names, but could look them up if I had to…
Fünke Hop Farm
My fav of the many brews we tasted at last week’s International Beer Festival at the Del Mar Fair. A pleasantly tart wine-barrel-aged, dry-hopped saison. 6.5% ABV and 15-IBU. From Sudwerk Brewing, Davis, CA. Quite nice. Hmm..or was that last, last week? Time flys when you’re…busy…doin’..stuff.
Palanfrina
A 9% ABV gruit from Italy made with chestnuts. Malty sweetness and alcohol, like a boozy mild English brown ale but with a Belgian – like yeast..maybe. Interesting. I couldn’t tell you there were any kind of nut in the beer based on flavor…but I suppose without the chestnuts it would have been imported Italian […]
Fourthmeal
A hoppy Belgain style collaboration ale from The Bruery and Maine Beer Company. 6.something% ABV hops more fruity, with pleasant bitterness.
Propagation Series 004
By Beachwood Blendery… Nice mellow tart funky sour.
Hula Bay IPA from Left Coast
An exclusive from Left Coast Brewing for Islands restaurant. Light bodied and citrusy. Perfect for a warm day in late spring
Saint Arnold Boiler Room
At the Petrol Station #wheninhouston #drinklocal #worktrip
Beatitude Pineapple Tart Saison
Pineapple not evident at first taste..mostly just tart and wet. But I get hints of pineapple after I swallow a sip and exhale through my nose.
Laguna brews a crisp pale ale that greets you with a little local history
I remember the Greeter at the pottery shop used to wave at everybody driving through town. 3 or 4 decades later, they are using his likeness on their label. Malty, drinkable, though it reminds me of a fresh harvest hopped beer. 34 IBUs, 6.3%
Calyp-so-Irie IPA
At Legends Craft Brewery, Anaheim.
Saint Archer Mosaic IPA
Quite possibly the best MillerCoors beer I’ve tasted. Still got that 9% ABV thing going for it and only 6 bucks at Price Club.
Aurora Hoppyalis IPA
Very nice, and it’s got that 7%ABV thing going for it too.
Another Gold Record
A damn good Belgian-style strong golden ale from Amplified Ale Works. …and more drunk for your buck at $3.50 each…almost half price….for another six minutes.
On a Mission to Plunder
In a world of popular session IPAs this is a real IPA, thank goodness someone brewed a complex IPA which as rich as you can get. It’s got all the taste of a West coast DIPA, but the smoothness of a regular IPA with some bite of citrus and pine. This beer is so rich […]
Mischief rising
A little young, sour and yeasty, but a great golden Belgian ale. A little malt and maturity would make this one go a long way. It’s got a unique dryness that makes it worth drinking. I bought it at OC wine mart in YL for $7.99 so worth the price.
California Wild Ales
Beautiful day to taste R&D samples from California Wild Ales while they await permits. All 7 samples tasted of tart Lactobacillus and most were fruited.
Pikes Peak Gold Rush
An enjoyable 9% Belgian-inspired strong golden in Colorado Springs…complete with local frogs croaking ‘n all. Not all south of Denver is lost. For me.. next trip….plan better. .
Panther IPA
7.6% ABV at Colorado Mountain Brewery, Colorado Springs.
Superpower IPA
At the source.
.394 Pale Ale at Airport
Electrocution IPA
A great day for a bike ride. We stopped at Amplified Ale Works new Miramar location for some fuel. I chose a small glass of the Electrocution IPA, she chose the G-string, the Belgian-style strong golden listed as Gold Record at PB location.
Top Rope IPA
Another local IPA. This one 6% abv. A solid 16 ounces of IPA.
At Little Apple Brewing
Having a 24/7 session IPA (unfiltered IPA 4.6% abv) and an Irish Angus Stout (6.2% abv). Both are delicious. #manhattan ks, #littleapplebrew
Eagle Rock White Rabbit
Random old bottle found in a liquor store stamped “enjoy by 06.06.14″… Loved it originally, now excessively boozy with less flavor.
Tiger Bite and Tiger Paw
At Topeka, Kansas’ very popular Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant enjoying a Tiger Bite IPA and Tiger Paw Porter
Slow Ride Session IPA
From New Belgium. Nice and hoppy but with an ABV that makes it possible to have one at lunch and still be functional the rest of the day.
Sunny Day Electrocution IPA
Another beautiful day in San Diego…so clear after yesterdays rain. A nice reward for making the 2 mile trek down the coast to Amplified Ale Works. This 7.1% ABV west coast IPA is never a bad choice. I expect we will need to fortify for the trek back home.
Shake a Day IPA
From Big Sky. Super fruity hop profile, 7% ABV. Definitely a thumbs up.
De Dolle Ara Bier
8% ABV Belgian strong pale ale at Fathom Bistro Bait & Tackle.
Gold Record
A new 9.4% ABV Belgian-style golden strong ale at Amplified Ale Works. It’s somewhat sweet, a bit of black pepper in the finish, and warming alcohol throughout. Nice beer.
Toolbox Brewing
L to R Free Range Lettuce, Chéne Bretta, and Ruby.
It’s Dynamite IPA
New one in a long series of IPAs from BSB. Uses TNT and Motueka hops for a really fruity profile. 6.7% abv
Amplified Miramar Now Open
Now available east of I-5, Amplified Ale Works brew house, off Miramar Road, soft open has been happening since 3pm today. Enjoying the colaboration beer, Centerpointe, made with next door neighbor, Pure Project.
Twisted Pretzel Wheat
Odd for them to have made it. Odd also that we ended up with a bottle of it. 5.1% ABV. Smells like…stale kettle popcorn. Not much flavor…but I’m getting a watered down marzen, but a tad more sweet. Reminds me of popcorn flavored Jelly Bellys…but not in a good way.
Booze Bros Sauer Blanc
Very refreshing 6.5% ABV saison. Mildly tart, a bit of brett funk, some white wine notes, some sweetness too, but not overly so. Way way more to choose from compared to my last visit.
El Segundo Mayberry IPA
Chose over Firestone Luponic Distortion, and it was a close call between this and Three Weavers Expatriate…but happy with my choice.
Aurora Hoppyalis IPA
I’m very happy with Karl’s 7% ABV San Diego – style IPA. A well deserved bronze at last year’s GABF.
Midnight Jack Brewing
Of the 10+ drafts available, we chose 6. L to R, top to bottom, Belgian-style blonde, pale ale, IPA, coconut porter, milk stout on nitro, and double chocolate stout.
Lunch with Wild Lady
Pleasantly surprise with this Belgian-inspired farmhouse ale with brett from Santa Ana’s The Good Beer Company. 7% ABV, slightly tart, a little funk, clean finish. Nice beer. This was 2015 release.
