Beer ...I Drank Some.

Green Cheek Brewing in Costa Mesa. I also have a ticket for a pour tomorrow at Tustin Brewing in ... Tustin? Life is good when you live in Orange County.

 

What? Hydrate, yo.

 

Mexican beer. In mexico

 

Hide the IPAs and flannel or you'll have gravel roaming camp too.

Apparently the Ukraine supplies a not-insignificant portion of the barley used in U.S. beer and there's hand-wringing about beer prices going up. People thinking the price will increase of course means that it will whether production is affected or not. Bud, Miller, and Coors expect any impacts to be minimal to nonexistent due to their collective phasing-out of barley in the 1970s.

 

I'm surprised the industry hasn't run out of hops, given the radical trendiness of IPAs.

 

Define "trendiness." West Cost IPA has been on fire since about 2007. Swings and roundabouts for sure, but yeah, they are still here and are not going anywhere.

 

It seems that mt bikers HAVE to like IPAs and the IPA craze really took off and went out of control maybe 3-4 years ago. I had Breckenridge IPA in 1995, but IPA was merely one of a couple dozen styles of beer then. Look through this thread - maybe 80-90% of beers mentioned are IPAs. I have to laugh that now they have to be infused with fruit and other flavors.

You do you, people!

T-R-E-N-D-Y!

 

Fake news. Hazy's are the current IPA trend.

However .. West Coast IPA will never fully die .... at least not in SoCal.

 

I would not expect any IPAs to die. But I would remind people that there are many other styles of beer/ale out there that they may enjoy as well or better, although they won't be able to brag about their IBU numbers..

 

Fair enough. Message me when your back is better and I will give you a full on tour of Orange County IPA's ... AKA .... the very definition of West Coast IPAS.

 

Woo! I’m one of the cool kids!
I burped a good one into Herzie’s face, and he tasted it a little. Was it yummy, Herzie?

 

WTF? Legit.

 

I’m still smelling it..

 

It is all citrus and flowers. Craft beer is next level at this point. They have hops that can do whatever they want the hops to do.

This is not the beer of the 80's.

 

No, it's not. Nor the beer of the last 500 years. It's New Age beer - for the Woke!

 

My first introduction to IPA's....

Good times in the Maritimes... bought in 24's, like most buy Bud or Modelo here....

going strong since the mid 90's.

 

I had a Sassy Pony tonight.
Hazy and darker than most pales.
Thin on the tongue at first, but very flavorful. It was a nice foil for the roast pork loin and creamy pasta.
I’d have it again.

 

103° outside. . . What else am I going to do.

 

Name the brand & model.....

 

Doesn’t matter it was a hot day, it’s clearly in a frozen mug and well carbonated.

 

Ive become reaquainted with Pacifico this weekend.

 

Just a Coors Light in a frosted mug.
It was free so I couldn't turn it down.

 

Sacrilege - but I don't like frozen beer mugs. Hard to handle, drips all over and waters down the beer. I'll take a cold beer in a room temp pint glass please!

 

Benny says, "where's mine daddy?"

 

How can you say that?!

 

There is a 2 fisted handle on this baby so no worries about mishandling it. No drip and no watered down beer, it doesn't last that long
Beer is for drinking, whiskey is for sippin.

 

Hhmmmm . Sips in between drinks...