As coffee beer fans, we became even more intrigued with Rip Current Java Storm after reading the tagline “imperial porter infused with coffee extracted from cold-steeped Kona and Sumatran coffee beans.”
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Karl Strauss is now on its 7th year of their 12 Days of Christmas series of holiday ales, and we had always planned on reviewing one of them at some point. When we saw Seven Sharks A-Circling, a smoked porter sounded mighty enticing.
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This year’s release of Santa’s Pet Monkey marked the first time Monkey Paw Brewing Company has ever bottled a beer, which was released alongside Thank You! 5th Anniversary Ale in late November.
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Kern River Citra Double IPA is one of the most sought after special release beers brewed in California. It used to be sold in a lottery system by the six pack, but with a recent brewery expansion, Kern opened up the sale to a case of bombers.
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We don’t review every Enjoy By bottle, but want to be sure to check out each of their new variation releases when they drop, like the debut of this Enjoy by 05.30.16 Tangerine IPA.
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Stone’s latest iteration of Enjoy By goes by “Unfiltered”, which is exactly what it sounds like. An India Pale Ale that has not gone through any fining process to remove excess yeast and sediment before bottling.
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AleSmith Double Red IPA debuted in October, but we have been enjoying this holiday ale for years! Huh? What? How is that possible exactly? This fall, AleSmith YuleSmith Winter Holiday Ale was re-branded.
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Enjoy By 11.27.15 Black IPA was the first run of bottles in Stone Brewing’s new subset of their highly acclaimed Enjoy By series. Billed as the “dark side of fresh”, it was limited to California.
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Over the summer we drank an Epic Brewing Company Sour Apple Saison and really enjoyed it. So when it came time to select pumpkin beers for review, reaching for their Imperial Pumpkin Porter was an easy choice.
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We thought Tropical & Juicy was the best of the Hop Freshener Series, but who knows — it may have just been the “freshest” on our tastebuds.
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Holy Citra! This IPA was criminally delicious… This India Pale Ale was in fact dank, and resinous, and sticky, and whatever other buzzwords get egregiously thrown around IPAs these days.
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Lemon & Grassy, the third installment in The Hop Concept’s Hop Freshener Series, hit shelves last weekend. The precursors in their limited series were Dank & Sticky, followed by Citrus & Piney.
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