IPA

505 Reviews

What’s So Weird About Delicious?

What’s So Weird About Delicious?

A silly beer name but these brewers are no fools. Well in fact they are. Refined Fools that is. I still remember Mr.T’s famous line from Rocky III which launched his career, “I pity the fool “* referring to anyone who would be foolish enough to cross him and receive...

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A Night at the Opera

A Night at the Opera

Marketing is so easy. You put up a picture of a pretty girl and you've instantly got the attention of a bunch of guys. It isn't exactly innovative, but it works. I tried this West Coast Pale Ale from Barley Days and it is really good. I can't say whether they...

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Digressing and Reminiscing

Digressing and Reminiscing

Let’s step into Mr. Peabody’s WABAC* (Wayback) machine and go back to a time when people like the dude on the beer can were listening to tunes on their IPods. Wait a minute, I’m still listening to tunes on my IPod. That’s not going back. How about when we were kids...

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Cold IPA? I Hope So.

Cold IPA? I Hope So.

For some reason, the bell bottomed biker on the beer can, our single friend and one eyed Jack* riding through the streets on his slow-ped mo-ped with a keg precariously balanced on the passenger seat, reminds me of an earlier version of Chicken Man, peddling his bike...

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Head for the Hills

Head for the Hills

Bottom of the 9th and my Starter wasn’t available so I had to go to the Bench and bring in my pinch bitter, Shorty Hills*. Will this be a hit or will Shorty be another Casey at the bat and come up short**? The Bench Brewing slogan is “the beer from wine country”. For...

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It’s 4:33 Somewhere

It’s 4:33 Somewhere

4:33* Black IPA, is this The Imitation Game or a beer tasting? If I get the Wordle in 3 I feel like I have won the war, but I would rather be cracking a cold one than cracking a code. This isn’t the first Black IPA I have quaffed so I am not a stranger in a strange...

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A Review with Panache (not panaché)

A Review with Panache (not panaché)

Panache, sounds foreign to me. The COMDB translation department were already on the case. Once they finished their 24 they got right into translating this beer’s name. Of course “panache” is an English word too, meaning flamboyant confidence of style or manner....

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Sinister Minister, Save One for Me

Sinister Minister, Save One for Me

Today’s BBQ and beer is fire and Brimstone, Niagara based Brimstone Brewing and their Sinister Minister that is. Looks like it’s the saved that’s needin’ the savin’ this time*. If you want to tell me how great a frosty cold IPA is on a hot summer day slaving over the...

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A Pyrotechnic Pint of IPA Perhaps?

A Pyrotechnic Pint of IPA Perhaps?

The roman candle* of fireworks fame, a cascade of awe inspiring balls of fire and flame shooting into the air. Sounds like a Kiss concert**. Fireworks have been used for many years to celebrate, and also to represent sex in old movies. How about Jerry Lee Lewis***...

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Hazy Days Again

Hazy Days Again

It looks like a hazy day on the farm. And we all know what follows a hot hazy day. A thirsty night, of course. It would seem to me that a juicy IPA might be just the row to hoe when it comes to partaking in a pint after such a day on the farm, or elsewhere for that...

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