As I did in Season 3 I decided to start off this new season of Barry’s Beer Reviews with a Stone Brewing special release beer. Emperial IPA is an American style double IPA brewed with all British ingredients all of which were specially imported for this special brew. While many English IPAs are quite mellow [...]
July 21, 2010
Categories: American Double IPA . Tags: Stone Brewing, Stone Brewery, Beer, Craft beer, Imperial IPA, Samuel Smith's, IPA, mitch steele, India Pale Ale, beer advocate, beer geek nation, iMovie 09, home brewing, odeed, greg koch, beergeeknation, steve wagner, target hops, leather couch, malted barley, rate beer, stone 14th anniversary, emperial ipa, escondido, san diego, california, 40oz, fuller's . Author: barrybrew . Comments: Leave a Comment
Founders Double Trouble IPA Double IPA 9.4% ABV 86 IBU Winter Seasonal Serving: 22oz off growler line at New Beer Distributors (NYC) Appearance: pours a hazy golden body with gleeming light orange with strew highlights at the base of the glass. Some hop haze is present but doesn’t totally cloud the beer. Medium level of [...]
April 14, 2010
Categories: American Double IPA . Tags: craft ber, Double IPA, Double Trouble, Founders Brewery, hoppy, Imperial IPA, Indian Pale Ale, IPA, malts . Author: barrybrew . Comments: Leave a Comment
For the full list of the Cigar City beers that were “unleashed” at the event and their descriptions click here Note: The tasting notes below are in the order that I drank the beers. Also, the beers were on tap and served in 80z glasses. Cubano Espresso Maduro: Dark brown in color with a thin espresso [...]
February 21, 2010
Categories: American Double IPA, American IPA, Craft Beer Advocacy, Russian Imperial Stout . Tags: Cigar City Brewing, Rattle n Hum . Author: barrybrew . Comments: Leave a Comment
Here I review one of the better Double / Imperial IPAs that I’ve has in a while. Definitely well balanced for the style, especially for a beer that clocks in at 99 IBUs and 9.5% ABV. If you can get your hands on a bottle I’d definitely recommend it.
February 16, 2010
Categories: American Double IPA . Tags: American Double IPA, Beer Review, Craft beer, Three Floyds . Author: barrybrew . Comments: Leave a Comment
Here I discuss the status of Season 4 of Barry’s Beer Reviews, my homebrew which is in the works, and some other things on my mind relating to craft beer, all while drinking a delicious bottle of Bell’s Hopslam.
February 1, 2010
Categories: American Double IPA, Craft Beer Advocacy . Tags: Beer Review, Bell's Brewery, Hopslam . Author: barrybrew . Comments: Leave a Comment
As a “Hop head” I struggle from time to time in picking go-to or favorite IPAs. Ninkasi Tricerahops fit into the group of IPAs they I would drinking on occasion for their fullness of flavor and total malt/hop balance. Upon first sip this beer reminding me of both Avery’s DuganA and Captain Lawrence Captain’s Reserve [...]
January 31, 2010
Categories: American Double IPA . Tags: Double IPA, Ninkasi Brewing, Tricerahops . Author: barrybrew . Comments: Leave a Comment
Tasting Notes: Appearance: Pours (into tulip glass) a hazy orange to gold color with a nice off white head that sticks and left a decent amount of lace up the sides of the glass, Moderate carbonation. Smell: Pretty balanced aroma for a Double IPA. As the beer warmed up the alcohol esters blended well with [...]
December 17, 2009
Categories: American Double IPA, Beer and Food . Tags: Beer Review, Big A IPA, Big Beer Series, Double IPA, Smuttynose Brewery . Author: barrybrew . Comments: Leave a Comment
Tasting Notes: Appearance: A very nice typical IPA color i.e. deep golden color with an orange-red tint to it and some carbonation clinging to edges of glass. Aroma: Mmm…hops! A nice amount of citrus and pine, not much malt but overall a balanced aroma. More sweet citrus and bitter grapefruit came out as the beer [...]
December 9, 2009
Categories: American Double IPA . Tags: Beer Review, Double IPA, Hopsickle, Imperial IPA, Moylan's Brewing . Author: barrybrew . Comments: Leave a Comment
With 15 varieties of hops this well crafted Double/Imperial India Pale Ale was very well balanced. The high ABV was well hidden too and the hop bite was no where near being overdone. In my opinion, what sets this beer apart from other beers of its style is that the citrus hops flavors and rich [...]
November 29, 2009
Categories: American Double IPA . Tags: Double IPA, Hop 15 Ale, Port Brewing . Author: barrybrew . Comments: Leave a Comment
100th Percentile out of 1036 Ratings on Ratebeer.com 6th on BeerAdvocate’s list of top 100 beers on Planet Earth 2nd on BeerAdvocate’s list of top 10 rated American Double / Imperial IPAs Being a “hophead” presents some tough challenges. One of most difficult is being able to try the higher rated American IPAs and Double [...]
November 11, 2009
Categories: American Double IPA . Tags: Barry's Beer Reviews, Craft beer, Pliny the Elder, Russian River Brewing . Author: barrybrew . Comments: Leave a Comment
