The Best Hazy IPAs Of The Year - According To Top Beer Competitions

[day_trippr]

Not only have I never enjoyed any of the beers mentioned, I've never even heard of the related breweries.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikof...the-year-according-to-top-pbeer-competitions/

 

[Hammy71]

Uhm, yeah....I've never heard of any of these....best in what?

 

[fluketamer]

i have never heard of or seen those beers.,

canned ipas have really been giving me a problem lately. i cant find anything even remotely decent. they all have weak if any hop flavor or aroma.

so many drain pours.
two weeks ago i went to a small craft store that supposedly specialized in ipas and it was terribly disappointing.
one had that stale clay flavor that to me means stale or old hops and the other had no hop flavor at all. and this sickly haze to it. like the whole point of the beer was the haze not the hops

useless and 6 to 7 $ a pint.

this was another disappointing drain pour:

just tasted like malt liquor with a little bit of dank ( maybe)
couldnt finish it.

that lawsons is drinkable but still not really juicy or citrusy.

unfortunately even the tap beers are lacking.

cigar city ipa on tap was another poor showing. no hop aroma at all.

virgils ale at virgils bbq tasted like rolling rock.

i did have a cape may ipa on tap a few days ago that actually tasted like hops.

it still could have used another 2-3 ounces of dry hop tho.

 

[hilljack13]

this was another disappointing drain pour:

I must have been on desperate times. I bought a few of these a couple years ago just b/c it was the highest abv I could find for cheap.

 

[tracer bullet]

cigar city ipa on tap was another poor showing. no hop aroma at all.

Jai Alai? Huh, that beer always blows me away when I have it (roughly a few pints every other year when I make it to Florida, though it is sometimes in cans locally).

 

[TBA]

Jai Alai? Huh, that beer always blows me away when I have it (roughly a few pints every other year when I make it to Florida, though it is sometimes in cans locally).

Cigar City used to be a great place to go. They had several great beers besides Jai Alai. The brewery has been sold several times and last year they laid off the brewers in Tampa and moving main brewery to North Carolina now. I wonder if they have changed the recipe to make it more profitable. I support my local owned and operated breweries.
https://www.brewbound.com/news/mons...ons-brewery-to-cross-category-innovation-hub/