What are you drinking ?

[jt]

Ok, so What Are You Brewing was a hotty, as topics go.

Now I'm 15 pints into a keg I only filled on Tuesday and wondering if anyone else has a favourite at the moment ?

It's my second brown with US-Oh05 and it's better than the forst, maybe Ikept the temps down a bit during the scorcher we had in januray

[JoKing]

Greig - our palates are on a par. I agree with all of your comments above.

Scary.

[Mike Neilson]

I bought another Case thanks to the 90, I didnt want to do it as I had to stretch to do it. But what more so pissed me off was the fact that I bought 2 of them!! Why? why are they so highly rated? One thing im gratfull though in that order I did make was that I bought a bottle of Scaulpin IPA!! I wish now that I substituted the 90 for the Scaulpin!!

[Greig McGill]

Remember, we're judging these based on beer that's travelled half way around the world, and probably sat in containers getting hot and cold, etc. I doubt everyone can be wrong about these beers. Ours might just have suffered is all.

[Stu McKinlay]

You guys are funny... or I am... I thought 90 stood up the best by far (besides the Rasputin and Gonzo). Tasted like it had far better kettle:dry hop ratio to me. Much better stability. All the rest were (based on what I tasted) overly dry hopped to go anywhere beyond the county border... and that's all fine and dandy when they're fresh but it ain't good at all in the long run.

[Mike Neilson]

Yeah I buy into it a bit but why do some other hoppy beers still taste good? come on guys lets get real a shit beer is a shit beer no how far and long its traveled, and a good beers the same!

[Soren]

dogfish is also in Delaware on the east coast, so it will have travelled all the way accross the country first, and then it will sit in the distributors warehouse until boarding the boat. The califonians may just have been loaded on the boat.... I've had the 90 relatively fresh and it was great, not my favorite IIPA but certainly good.

[Mike Neilson]

Im all West Coast!! Great Cars Great Beer

http://www.nz-hotrod.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=4348&page=1...

[Stu McKinlay]

I'm happy to be on the outer.

I reckon West Coast should stay in the West Coast. Yeh, I'd love to go there one day and drink these amazing beers fresh but they should stop calling their beer IPA and start calling it WCPA (or something) because it ain't made to travel across the pacific let alone across the Indian Ocean too!

I didn't have shit beer in the box, they were all really well made... but Gonzo, Rasputin and Dog 90 were the only 'good' beers in my box. And Dog90 was strugglin' to be there (it was lucky enough in that it was far more bitter and malty than the rest of them). Anderson Oatmeal wasn't bad but it wasn't exactly "lively".
Everything else was a little old (at best) and more likely to be a soapy mess... the two Stone beers (IPA and Ruination) were probably the worst of the bunch and I suspect they were probably the most dry hopped. I respect Stone Brewing as much as any brewery in the world, afterall Stone XS IIPA is one of my favourite beers of all time, but come on guys: there is only so far you can go in imagining how good a beer might be if it were fresh.

[Stu McKinlay]

In saying all this... I may come back with more (fresher) analysis soon.

[Greig McGill]

Don't know if I agree with that Mike. Some beers are simply brewed to drink fresh. I think Stu is right in that they should call them something different - WCPA seems as good a moniker as any. :)

[Mike Neilson]

Stone XS IIPA? not Rogue?

[Stu McKinlay]

Oh yeh, you're right. I hate Stone. Love Rogue ;-)