Tag: IPA

  • What is the Best Session IPA?

    What is the Best Session IPA?

    Best of Series: What is the Best Session IPA? The Oxford Companion to Beer reminds us that one definition of light beer is “a beer with lower alcohol than most…” Which might make Joseph Owades ‘Diet Beer’ the first mass marketed session beer after Prohibition. A while back, while reviewing Lagunitas’s then new DayTime IPA we…

  • Surly Overrated

    Surly Overrated

    [schema type=”review” url=”http://34.233.121.37/2014/01/25/surly-overrated” name=”Surly Overrated IPA Beer Review” description=”Craft beer review of Surly Overrated” rev_name=”Surly Overrated” author=”Steve” pubdate=”2014-01-24″ user_review=”8.0″ min_review=”0″ max_review=”10″ ] Surly Overrated Like Keith Richards fans, sick of hearing about the epic excesses of Justin Beiber, passionate beer geeks sometimes grow weary of the buzz that comes with early achievement. Surly Overrated is…

  • Stone R&R Coconut IPA

    Stone R&R Coconut IPA

    [schema type=”review” url=”http://34.233.121.37/2013/08/31/stone-rr-coconut-ipa/” name=”Stone R&R Coconut IPA Beer Review” description=”Craft beer review of Stone R&R Coconut IPA” rev_name=”Stone R&R Coconut IPA” author=”Steve” pubdate=”2013-08-31″ user_review=”7.0″ min_review=”0″ max_review=”10″ ] Stone R&R Coconut IPA Stone R&R Coconut IPA, a collaboration between the winners of the 2013 American Homebrewers Association contest Robert Masterson and Ryan Reschan, Rip Current Brewing,…

  • Lagunitas DayTime IPA

    Lagunitas DayTime IPA Review Big flavors drive American craft beer geeks. But often, the booze in an Old Ale or Double IPA seriously limits our intake. Putting back a few bottles of the delicious Apocalypse Cow on a Sunday of NFL viewing, can lead to a brutally hungover Monday morning. Presuming the palate fatigue from the…

  • Best Coffee Beer: part 3 the Mikkeller Brews

    Our search for the world’s best coffee beer takes us to Europe for our most recent tasting. Mikkel Borg Bjergsø, inspired by a new and profound love of great imported beers he tasted in Copenhagen, started up Mikkeller brewing with his friend Kristian Keller. After some success home brewing, they achieved beer nerd fame following…