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This just proves I need to do my blind IPA tasting. I will be putting up an ISO next year in conjunction with some friends, want to do a side by side w/ Pliny, Heady, Ghandi, Jai Alai, Zombie, a local or two to twist things up, and maybe a HF IPA if possible. Hardest part will be coordinating getting them all fresh.

Let me know if you need Jai Alai. The Publix here has it constantly.
 
rjbank said:
Here's the new list

RR Pliny

RR any sours

New Glarus (any)

Heady topper

New England Brewing(any)

Hill Farmstead(any)

CC Jai Alai

Jolly Pumpkin Noel de Calabaza

Maine Brewing(any)

AleSmith Brewing(any

Im always looking for IPA and Sours

Added some more
 
This just proves I need to do my blind IPA tasting. I will be putting up an ISO next year in conjunction with some friends, want to do a side by side w/ Pliny, Heady, Ghandi, Jai Alai, Zombie, a local or two to twist things up, and maybe a HF IPA if possible. Hardest part will be coordinating getting them all fresh.

I did one this summer. Blind tasting among 5 of us. Heady Topper, Pliny the Elder, Ghandi Bot, along with my clone of heady topper, and a random stone beer (dont remember which one, but it wasnt even close to the other 4.

The best news was that my clone was competitive against the whole group, ranking well. Only one guy said "thats the homebrew".

I personally ranked GB 1st, HT 2nd, my clone 3rd, pliny 4th. The consensus was that pliny is third, but not far removed. GB and HT were competetive.

I havent had them side by side, but I can say for sure that zombie dust doesnt really belong in a comparison. Its really a pale ale with mega hop punch, versus and IPA or even IIPA. Its a helluva pale ale though! Now if you took FFF Permanent Funeral and matched it up... THAT I would like to see the results. I put it as top three, but hard to really discern the difference without that side by side... but I did have one in sept. and it was rediculously awesome.
 
Agreed on ZD. I've made 2 clones and have had plenty of ZD being in the distro, great pale ale, but no comparison to HT or PtE or Gandi. I think Gandi is better than the other 2 personally. I also had Snake Handler this past summer and I thought that was an excellent DIPA as well! (some of these will be on my MAW wishlist for sure!)
 
Mine is due to hit a porch tomorrow. I shipped asap for Christmas, with a bunch more new england brewing co love...
 
I just dropped yours off splattsmier. It says it should get to you by Monday. Sorry for slacking.
 
val214 said:
My package shows it was delivered in cockeysville MD.

Yours made it.. My father in law has it and hasn't opened yet... I will be there tomorrow to open it :) had you ship there in case it came to my house I'll be gone for a week... Birthday is Tuesday so I will enjoy what you sent then :) thanks again!
 
I shipped the maw I granted from a few pages back today.

I agree that Gandhi-bot > most DIPAs
 
Yeah ive seen some comments lately about Hop Venom as well, which I find weird because here locally RPM is their big seller and probably like 75% of what they brew.
 
rjbank said:
Here's the new list

RR Pliny

RR any sours

New Glarus (any)

Heady topper

New England Brewing(any)

Hill Farmstead(any)

CC Jai Alai

Jolly Pumpkin Noel de Calabaza

Maine Brewing(any)

AleSmith Brewing(any

Im always looking for IPA and Sours

Current list bump
 

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