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Ditto.......

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I got together with a bunch of beer-loving friends and we blind taste tested 16 IPAs. Here are the results: Men vs Culture: Men vs IPA - The Results

JKelleyLBI

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In no particular order:

Sierra Nevada Celebration
Stone Ruination
DFH 90 Min

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13 Stripes Brewing

Primary: Apfelwine & oak chips
Primary: 13th Hour Brown Ale

Conditioning: Caramel Cream Ale
Kegged: Black Patent Crystal 60 Ale
Drinking: Oaked Apfelwine, American Brown Ale, RIS

jservants

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Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Elder
DFH 90
Racer 5
Big Daddy IPA

GregR

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HEY! you're breaking the rules! top 3 buddy!

good choices by the way. I've never had pliny the younger or Big Daddy but Hamilton's in San Diego will have younger on tap tomorrow! gonna have to go try it.

jservants

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Sorry, too many good ones!

Pliny the Younger will knock you on your a$%... be careful!; I believe its around 11%, only brewed around this time of year... they ran out of carboys at the brewery, so you had to either drink it there, or find a bar that served it. Enjoy!

Oh yeah, I think big daddy is only distributed in Nor Cal now... trying to get it down to So. Cal; SF based.

brokenanchor

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Testing 16 IPAs can be a dangerous thing, but I'm glad someone had the guts to do it...though I feel like the results could have been skewed toward the end of that marathon.

Hops Infusion - Weyerbacher
Odells IPA
Avery IPA

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Primary - Summer Citrus Wheat
Bottled - Amarillo SkyPA, APA, Black IPA, BM's Black Pearl Porter, Ye Olde Smashing IPA, Embers to Ashes RIS, Oktoberfast
Memories - Embers to Ashes RIS, Headless Horseman Pumpkin Ale, HAlt Beer, SMASH IPA, Orange/Coriander Pale

SumnerH

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Next time throw a few British-style IPAs in the mix! Meantime, Schlafly Export, Drake's...if I were doing an organized tasting, I'd want a fuller picture of what IPAs are than just the neo-American version.

Traditionally they didn't use C-style hops, but they used more hops than a lot of the modern British versions so it's worth investigating both.

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On deck: Little Bo Pils, Bretta Off Dead (Brett pale)
Secondary: Oude Bruin, Red Sky at Morning (Sour brown ale)
On tap: Saison Duphunk (sour), Amarillo Slim (IPA), Earl White (ginger/bergamot wit)
Bottled: Number 8 (Belgian Strong Dark Ale), Eternale (Barleywine), Ancho Villa (Ancho/pasilla/chocolate/cinnamon RIS), Oak smoked porter (1/2 maple bourbon oaked, 1/2 apple brandy oaked)

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Dogfish 90 minute
Bells Two Hearted
Upland Dragon Fly

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so speaking of IPA. . .I decided to go out to in spite of St. Paddy's day. I was going to go to my favorite bar but there were at capacity and a line wa out front. (god I hate St. Paddy's day!) so I ended up heading to another place. well my friend and I were there and I got a lost abbey first and then got a Racer 5 IPA. normally a great IPA. but this was just bad. I don't know if the whole Keg was off or it was really old or what but man. . . tasted way too sweet. had almost no hop bitterness. barely even an aroma of hops. all in all a very bad pint.

now before anyone says maybe it was a mispour -- I watched it get poured. ugh. I would have sent it back but seeing as there were no less than 6.022X10^23 people in the bar I just choked it down and my friend and I left. I need to go find a decent racer 5 soon so I remember how good it really is.