50 Beers to Try Before You Die

[NewChief]

Thought the beer snobs here might like this article (and probably critique the hell out of it).

http://www.wisdeo.com/articles/view_post/2984
(CBS) You've heard of "100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall"?

How about 50 to try before you die?!

Spoiler!

Call it the bucket list of beer.

GQ magazine put together a list of 50 beers from around the world all beer enthusiasts need to try before they die.

GQ's style editor, Adam Rapoport, narrowed down that list and, along with co-anchor Harry Smith, sampled Rapoport's top half-dozen. All six are readily available across the country, and inexpensive.

Rapoport's top six:

Allagash White
Ommegang Hennepin
Oskar Blues Dale Pale Ale
Redenbach Grand Cru
Anchor Steam
Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout

All descriptions seen here are from GQ

Allagash White - $9 (4-pack bottles)
The Portland, Maine-based Allagash makes a lot of excellent, wheat-heavy Belgian beers, and this is their flagship: light and bubbly with a beguiling spice mix no one has been able to guess. This is a wheat beer. Like most, it's a little cloudy and sweet, relatively low alcohol. Often drunk a lemon or orange wedge squeezed into it. I don't want to say it's a beer for girls, but it's a beer for girls. They love it-especially on a hot, summer afternoon.

Ommegang Hennepin - $7 (750ML)
Earthy yeast plus lemon and clove in a supremely drinkable amber body. This is the best American saison there is. It's a farmhouse ale, aka 'saison' (pronounced SIZE-ON). Similar to a wheat beer, but spicier (a lemony, clove zest). Goes great with ethnic, spicy foods such as Thai food. And it opens like a bottle of champagne, which is cool.
Saison (French, "season") is the name originally given to refreshing, low-alcohol pale ales brewed seasonally in farmhouses in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium, to refresh farm workers during harvest season.

Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale - $9 (6-pack cans)
Packed with tons of citrus from a heavy dose of American hops, this is the quintessential stateside IPA. Like most pale ales, it's on the hoppier side-which means its slightly bitter and sour. You know hops when you taste em. However, it's not as hoppy as a IPA (Indian Pale Ale). And we really like the can, which makes it easily transportable, great to bring to a picnic or barbecue or the beach. Technically speaking, beer lasts longer in a can because no light is allowed in.

Rodenbach Grand Cru - $9 (750ML)
The classic Flemish red: funky, vinegary, and dark. A blend of one part young and two parts barrel-aged beers makes it deliciously sour with notes of boozy fruit. A fruitier beer, but not fruity sweet, more fruity sour. The fruitiness cleanses your palate so it makes you hungrier. Slightly more expensive, more fancy. More like wine than the six pack you pick up at 7-11. You could bring it to a dinner party.

Anchor Steam - $9 (6-pack bottles)
The one and only true example of this unique style, Anchor's Steam Beer is a lager in name only. Fermented at higher temperatures than your typical lager, it keeps the style's crisp dryness but adds fruity esters and extra hops. The most accessible and biggest name of the bunch. But it deserves the hype. It's a lager (which most commercial beers are, such as Bud and Heinekin), but it delivers more flavor. It's a good first step into the world of more unique beers.

Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout - $3 (12 ounces)
The classic oatmeal stout: soft and creamy, with just a touch of roasted bitterness, like the soft poke of feathers in a down pillow. A meal in a bottle! Dark as root beer. Really rich and smooth. Goes down easier than you expect, kind of like Guinness. You don't need dinner when you've got a bottle of this in front of you.
Allagash White
The Portland, Maine-based Allagash makes a lot of excellent, wheat-heavy Belgian beers, and this is their flagship: light and bubbly with a beguiling spice mix no one has been able to guess.

Anchor Christmas Ale
Anchor has changed their Christmas Ale recipe every season since 1975 (along with their label design), but they hew pretty close to a classic, festive cold-weather brew: rich and fruity with subtle spice. Last year's had notes of vanilla and cinnamon.

Anchor Steam
The one and only true example of this unique style, Anchor's Steam Beer is a lager in name only. Fermented at higher temperatures than your typical lager, it keeps the style's crisp dryness but adds fruity esters and extra hops.

BrewDog Smokehead
The two Scots behind BrewDog look outside their homeland's long but languid beer traditions for the inspiration here, storing a pitch-black stout in smokey Scotch barrels to give it an outrageously salty, earthy tang.

Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
Dark stouts usually have hints of cocoa to them already, so the trick with chocolate beers is subtlety. Brooklyn nails it: Not too sweet, not too bitter, but chocolatey enough to make it special.

Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron
Drink this one for its story, as much as for its taste: Dogfish Head's Sam Caglione traveled to the wilds of Paraguay to find one of the hardest, heaviest woods on earth and used it in a tank built to age just this beer. The dark, extra-strong brown ale gets an added kick of vanilla from the wood's unique oils.

Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse
Fritz Briem's is Berlin's take on wheat beer: yeasty and super-carbonated but with a uniquely tart, bright finish, making it the perfect summer beer (with no need for a pansy-ass lemon slice).

Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold
Richer, hoppier, and maltier than standard American lagers-or even German ones-but crisp enough to be your new go-to session beer. (Note to non-beer nerds, a session beer is usually one that's light in alcohol, allowing you to drink several different ones during the course of an evening. Or day.) Dortmunders are tough to find even in the homeland, but thankfully craft breweries like Great Lakes are making them common fare around here.

Hitachino Lacto Stout
Skip Hitachino's more common lemonade-y wheat beer and seek out this harder-to-find stout, made with milk sugar for extra creaminess and a slightly sour, Hershey-bar-like kick.

Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout
One of the best examples of a notoriously tricky style, this one tastes more like the foam of a cappuccino than the espresso, which is to say light, smooth, and just sweet enough to balance the stout's natural bitterness.

Leelanau Whaleback White
Leelanau is the side project of Ron Jeffries, who also brews at Jolly Pumpkin. Their wheat beer is cidery, sour, fruity, and extra dry, thanks to aging with wild yeasts in French oak barrels.

Lion Stout
If you only have one Sri Lankan stout before you kick, make it this one. Creamy and bittersweet, with a rich tan head and notes of fruit. Plus, it comes in cans-perfect for spicing up your next barbecue.

Ommegang Hennepin
Earthy yeast plus lemon and clove in a supremely drinkable amber body. This is the best American saison there is.

Oskar Blues Dales Pale Ale
Packed with tons of citrus from a heavy dose of American hops, this is the quintessential stateside IPA.

Oskar Blues Old Chub
Thick, sweet, and insanely malty; ruby-red, light on the hops, and heavy on the toffee notes. Old Chub outdoes all other Scottish Ales, even though it's made 4,000 miles from Glasgow.

Picobrouwerij Alvinne Melchior
Melchior is a solid English-style barleywine-strong, sweet, and malty, with notes of rich, dark fruit-but the extra kick from an infusion of mustard seeds pushes it into mad-science territory. It's so crazy, it has to work.

Pretty Things Jack D'Or
They call this one a "Saison Americain" thanks to a heavy dose of citrusy, west-coast hops. Belgian yeasts give it a sour kick and a blend of oats and barley smooth it out.

Rodenbach Grand Cru
The classic Flemish red: funky, vinegary, and dark. A blend of one part young and two parts barrel-aged beers makes it deliciously sour with notes of boozy fruit.

Rogue Dead Guy Ale
Rogue's Dead Guy is a strong, German-style maibock-full of hearty malts with a bit of spice from Saaz hops.

Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout
The classic oatmeal stout: soft and creamy, with just a touch of roasted bitterness, like the soft poke of feathers in a down pillow.

Sierra Nevada Harvest Ale
Sierra's Harvest Ale marked a new trend for west-coast brewers when it debuted in 1996, and it's still the best of the (slightly-bigger-these-days) bunch: wet hopping, in which hops go straight from the vine to the brew kettle without being dried. They use cascade and centennial, grade-A west-coast citrus bombs, with extra earthy, grassy flavors unique to hops picked and brewed right at their prime.

Sixpoint Sweet Action
Sweet and very hoppy, with a little grass and citrus thrown in. It's mellowed a bit from the original recipe-their Double Sweet Action is closer to the roots, but harder to find.

Smuttynose Barleywine
This is one of the best barleywines around, but a bit challenging to get into. It's heavy on the caramel, and thick as syrup, like a sherry. Drink it like one, too: This is a perfect dessert beer.

Stone Imperial Russian Stout
Heavy, thick, and midnight black. Imperial is an understatement-this is a meal in a bottle. If you can find it, try it barrel-aged for an extra level of bourbony, syrupy goodness.

Stone Old Guardian
Old Guardian is a perfect entry-level barleywine. Not heavy and thick, like the more intense varieties, and with extra hops to balance the boozy, fruity malts.

Trumer Pils
Forget Pilsner Urquell-that watered-down swill has nothing on Trumer. Started in Salzburg 400 years ago but now made in the Berkeley hills, it's a radically flavorful pils, bitter and bubbly and extra dry with slight floral notes from heavy hopping.

Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier
Cloudy, spicy, crisp, and tart, this might be the perfect wheat beer, and a summertime staple.



AleSmith Speedway Stout
This artisanal San Diego brewery boasts a line-up that is high in quality, and often in ABV. Speedway Stout just barely edges out their other offerings with its coffee infused richness that opens up more flavors as the beer warms.

Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye
This brewery's expansion may be built on the deserved growth of Racer 5 IPA, but you'll be greatly rewarded for tracking this down. Everything is on overdrive with huge hops, caramel malts ,and spicy rye, but the balance it maintains makes for an impressive brew.

The Bruery Saison Rue
The awards and accolades just keep coming for these young brewers. The line-up is always adventurous, but perfectly restrained rather than overt. Saison Rue is a farmhouse-style beer with hints of rye and wild yeast strains that make for a deliciously complex drink.

Cantillon Iris
The Iris is the flower of Brussels, and this annual brew is barrel-aged for two years. While it is spontaneously fermented like other Cantillon lambics, it differs in that it contains only pale malts and a portion of fresh hops (versus wheat and dried hops). It is tart but complex. Substitute this for sparkling wine and your guests will be glad you did.

De Struise Pannepot
A vintage-released Belgian Quadruple Ale that is sent forth into the world at least two years after it was brewed. The combination of flavors is compelling and rich while the carbonation keeps the heft of the beer from crushing the palate-which makes for a surprisingly easy drinking 10% ABV. An oak-aged 2008 batch is soon to be released.

Dieu du Ciel Route des Epices
This Montreal brewery is single-handedly raising the craft-brewing profile of Canada. This selection may not be their best known but it is probably their most intriguing, with its use of peppercorn. The flavoring is unmistakable, and pairs incredibly well with smoked meats.

Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA
What can we say? If the West Coast Style IPA (arguably) became the USA's contribution to the beer world and is itself an exaggerated version of the English IPA, what is the next level? How about a version boasting 18% alcohol and 120 International Bitterness Units? (Note to non-beer nerds: That's crazy bitter.) Be careful with that 12-oz. bottle.

Jolly Pumpkin La Roja
Visitors to this Dexter, Michigan, brewery could be forgiven for mistaking it for a winery. Ron Jeffries barrel-ages every release. Most batches are then blended to provide consistency, but all have wonderful tart elements that the used barrels help to impart. La Roja is a delicious sour brown ale in a line-up of excellent brews.

Marin Brewing Company IPA
In our minds, this is the quintessential interpretation of the West Coast Style IPA. The aroma, color, malt balance, and bittering are perfect and eminently drinkable. There isn't an element that overshadows another, and it's an excellent baseline by which to enjoy other IPAs.

Orval
Only one beer is made at this Trappist brewery, but that is more than enough. Orval is a worldwide classic Belgian Ale. Proprietary yeasts imparted during secondary fermentation give Orval its subtle and distinctive sourness.

Port Brewing Shark Attack Red
What started as (and still is) a small pizza chain is now a full-fledged and high-quality craft brewery. Port Brewing is also responsible for the Lost Abbey line; Shark Attack Red is their Imperial Red Ale. It's wonderfully rich and balanced by intense hopping.

Russian River Pliny the Elder
Perhaps the most well known and sought out double IPA on the planet. The reputation is well earned, as the brewers have found the magic spot between huge flavors and drinkability. This is a hop head's dream.

Saison Dupont
The style has been making a welcome comeback, and this one is probably the best known progenitor. Saisons are traditionally delicate but flavorful, complex but not overt. They are excellent beers for food pairing, and Saison Dupont is the perfect match for a huge range of flavors.

Schneider Aventinus
Consistently recognized as one of the top beers in the world, Aventinus is a wheat doppelbock with flavors of bread, caramel, and fruit, and a slightly bitter finish. And the carbonation level makes it a very drinkable 8%. A classic.

Westvleteren Abt 12
This Trappist beer is available only at the source and there are strict limits as to how much one can purchase. The monks only make enough to run the monastery. Its difficulty to obtain aside (but not discounted), "Westy" 12 is widely considered one of the best in the world, and is often aged for several years.

Harviestoun Old Engine Oil
Yep, it's the color of old engine oil. (Is there not a manlier name for a beer?) And, while we haven't actually tasted old engine oil, we're going to say that it tastes nothing like it. A perfect balance of roasted coffee flavor and chocolate, with a slightly bitter finish. For a heavy beer it's surprisingly drinkable.

Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
This medium- to full-bodied brew first hits you with a huge toasty espresso taste and then with a bitter, hoppy finish. The Colorado-based Great Divide recommends drinking it for breakfast, but with a cloying high 9.5% ABV you'll need to take a nap for lunch.

Double Mountain Black Irish Stout
Why do we import Guinness when we have this right here? Brewed in Oregon, this has that creaminess you love in Guinness, but with real flavor-pleasantly roasty, with a hint of dark-chocolate bitterness.

Samuel Adams Utopias
It's hard to call this a beer because it has no carbonation, has the consistency of brandy, is best sipped from a nosing glass, and, oh yeah, it costs $150 for a 24-oz. bottle. But it's worth a taste if you come across it at a bar: complexly sweet, like a port.

Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier
We can't pronounce it either, but don't let that keep you from drinking it. Simply ask for it at your finer beer store or bar as "that German Smoke Beer," and they'll most likely bring you this: a beer made with malt toasted over an open fire that gives it a pleasantly smoky flavor-like liquid BBQ.

Russian River Valley Brewing Co. Beatification
Perhaps the wildest American Wild Ale out there. Mouth-puckeringly sour, funky like a barnyard, with a little bit of oak (it's aged in barrels). Beatification is a super-intense beer that you will either hate or become addicted to.

Monk's Café Flemish Sour Ale
This is like drinking a Sour Patch Kid. Light, with a pleasant, palate-cleansing sourness, it's the perfect partner to a pile of Belgian frites and mussels. Or anything you want to eat a whole bucket of.

[TimBone]

So, a couple of weeks ago, I woke up to my wife telling me I had multiple packages packages from the mail, sitting on the counter. One was from NewChief, and the other was from KCUnited. They were kind enough to send me some quality beer in return for the Ghost I sent in November.

New Chief sent me a Coffee IPA (you read that correctly) from Fossil Cove Brewing Company, and a Hardwork Pale Ale from Ozark Beer Company. KCUnited sent me a Spotted Puffer DIPA from Pipeworks Brewing Company. Pics below pulled from Google.





I tried all three on the same night, and found all of them enjoyable.

I started with the Coffee IPA, because to be honest with you, I figured it would be a novelty type beer. I mean, I'd never heard of coffee in an IPA before, and how could it be anything more than something you try once and never go back for more? I admit that I didn't like coffee at all when I started drinking beer a couple of years ago. Since then, I've grown to enjoy it in stouts and porters. But an IPA? C'mon. Well, it was good. I think the key to it was making sure neither flavor was overpowering. You get a decent shot of coffee, and then it finishes with an IPA flavor that certainly isn't hopped out west coast style. It was a surprisingly good balance. I saw some people online mentioning that there wasn't much coffee flavor, but I disagree. I also found out that there are quite a few Coffee IPA's out there.

Then I tried the Hardwork Pale Ale. NewChief mentioned that this was his almost daily drinker, and I can see why. If it was at a decent price it would be a great everyday drinker. It also had a balanced flavor to it. Good malt, and subdued hops. It would be really easy to sit in front of the TV one night and run through about 13 of these things. I drank one the night they came in, and was gonna share the second one with a buddy, but after tasting it, I didn't really want to share it anymore. So I drank the second one after the Chiefs beat Houston.

Now, the Spotted Puffer. The artwork on that bottle was freaking awesome. I was excited to try the DIPA, to compare it to Abrasive and Ghost. If you read the description of the beer from the company, then it's going to taste exactly as you would expect. Honey, passion fruit puree, and Citra hops. This thing was very sweet, I thought (maaaaaaybe a tad to sweet). If they came off the honey just a little bit, I think the beer might be even better, but as it is, it's still a great beer. It had a juicy, refreshing flavor to it. When I first tried Ghost, I thought it might have something more tropical in it, such as passion fruit, but after tasting this one, I know I was wrong. You can certainly taste passion fruit in this beer. With this beer (and the hardwork pale ale), I found myself taking continous sips, rather than taking a sip and setting them down. Solid, solid beer.

Thanks to KCUnited, and NewChief. You guys rock.

Listen guys, when I decided to send those Ghosts out, I didn't want anything in return. Not that I'm complaining. It paid off big time. You guys sent me stuff from your areas, including Marcellus's home brew, that really tasted great. Really though, the Ghost was meant as a thanks for introducing me to craft beer. It was this thread that piqued my interest in craft beer. It was the scramble for the Boulevard Chocolate Ale a few years ago that got me into the game. I just mentioned that I'd like to try it, and Mikeyis4dcats was nice enough to PM me, and offer to ship me a bottle. I thought that was awesome, and since then he's sent me a few other beers that I can't get here. On top of that, I've learned a ton about beer from this thread, and have PM'ed Reaper with questions about Farmhouse Ales to the point where I thought he might block me. So, the Ghosts were my way of saying thanks to you guys. Obviously I couldn't send one to everybody, because I wanted to drink a bunch of them myself, but if there's any beer from this area that any of you think I can grab for you, let me know. It would be my pleasure.

[KCUnited]

Happy you liked the Pipeworks. The honey adjunct is kind of their signature in their fish labeled IPA series and they certainly don't skimp on it. It plays better in combination with a more bittering hop in some of their other DIPAs (Square Grouper). They rotate another, similar DIPA, Sure Bet, with a mango puree instead of passion fruit that I like even more.

[Shag]

Originally Posted by TimBone

Listen guys, when I decided to send those Ghosts out, I didn't want anything in return. Not that I'm complaining. It paid off big time. You guys sent me stuff from your areas, including Marcellus's home brew, that really tasted great. Really though, the Ghost was meant as a thanks for introducing me to craft beer. It was this thread that piqued my interest in craft beer. It was the scramble for the Boulevard Chocolate Ale a few years ago that got me into the game. I just mentioned that I'd like to try it, and Mikeyis4dcats was nice enough to PM me, and offer to ship me a bottle. I thought that was awesome, and since then he's sent me a few other beers that I can't get here. On top of that, I've learned a ton about beer from this thread, and have PM'ed Reaper with questions about Farmhouse Ales to the point where I thought he might block me. So, the Ghosts were my way of saying thanks to you guys. Obviously I couldn't send one to everybody, because I wanted to drink a bunch of them myself, but if there's any beer from this area that any of you think I can grab for you, let me know. It would be my pleasure.

Cheers, dude!

The thing about beer people is that they love to share. For me, that's a big part of the fun. When I go to Darkness Day at Surly, people walk around with insanely rare beers, and just pour tasters for random people, or invite you to hang out at their campsite for a while and partake. I have a pretty decent cellar going with some pretty amazing beers in it, but I very rarely crack any of them open unless I have a buddy or two around to share it with. I'll save particular beers to share with particular people, because i think they'll really like it. For whatever reason, it seems to be a common theme amongst beer people, and it's awesome.

I can't speak for the others, but I certainly didn't feel obliged to send anything back, but it was a great opportunity to share one of my favorite local beers with someone new.

[phisherman]

Thanks again for the beer, it was tasty! Let me know if you're ever needing anything local to KC; I'd be glad to pick up an extra or two for you.

[phisherman]

Oh, and if you're ever in KC, let me know. I'll open up whatever you want out of the cellar. I've got tons and really am always looking for an excuse to open things.

Shoot, I've been bringing fun bottles to my local watering hole on Friday afternoons for about a year now and it really hasn't even made a dent in all the dang boxes downstairs.

[Lzen]

I gotta say that I've become a big fan of Old Chub. I've only ever tried a couple of Scotch Ales. The first time was several years ago when Sam Adams did their holiday mix pack. Loved their Scotch Ale. I wonder if I could get my local store to get just 6ers of that. Anyway, so I was over at a friend of a friend's and he had a stocked beer fridge with a great variety of beers. Saw Old Chub Scotch Ale and had to try it. I've been a big fan ever since.

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by Lzen

I gotta say that I've become a big fan of Old Chub. I've only ever tried a couple of Scotch Ales. The first time was several years ago when Sam Adams did their holiday mix pack. Loved their Scotch Ale. I wonder if I could get my local store to get just 6ers of that. Anyway, so I was over at a friend of a friend's and he had a stocked beer fridge with a great variety of beers. Saw Old Chub Scotch Ale and had to try it. I've been a big fan ever since.

My wife picked up a 12 pack assortment of Oskar Blues beers and that was one of the selections. I agree, pretty good stuff.

[Shag]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

PsuedoSue is high on my list of beers to try. TG has distro to about an hour away from me in Wisconsin, but knowing my luck they'd be wiped out by the time I made the drive.

IMHO, Sue is a shell of what it once was. Back when TG was small and fairly unknown, Sue was up there with Zombie Dust - an unbelievably tasty Citra pale ale. It was one of my favorites. Unfortunately, when they moved locations and brewhouses, it took a step down. Now, most of it is contract brewed out of FL, and it's decidedly average. Unfortunate what's happened to that beer.

If you really want to try it, I can get it local and send some your way.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Lzen

I gotta say that I've become a big fan of Old Chub.

NTTAWWT

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by Shag

IMHO, Sue is a shell of what it once was. Back when TG was small and fairly unknown, Sue was up there with Zombie Dust - an unbelievably tasty Citra pale ale. It was one of my favorites. Unfortunately, when they moved locations and brewhouses, it took a step down. Now, most of it is contract brewed out of FL, and it's decidedly average. Unfortunate what's happened to that beer.

If you really want to try it, I can get it local and send some your way.

Hmm, I've heard a few others say the same, but most everyone I know here still talks it up quite a bit. I've had similar experiences with spot batches of ZD, but that may be FFF quality controls.

I sent you a PM.

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by TimBone

Listen guys, when I decided to send those Ghosts out, I didn't want anything in return. Not that I'm complaining. It paid off big time. You guys sent me stuff from your areas, including Marcellus's home brew, that really tasted great. Really though, the Ghost was meant as a thanks for introducing me to craft beer. It was this thread that piqued my interest in craft beer. It was the scramble for the Boulevard Chocolate Ale a few years ago that got me into the game. I just mentioned that I'd like to try it, and Mikeyis4dcats was nice enough to PM me, and offer to ship me a bottle. I thought that was awesome, and since then he's sent me a few other beers that I can't get here. On top of that, I've learned a ton about beer from this thread, and have PM'ed Reaper with questions about Farmhouse Ales to the point where I thought he might block me. So, the Ghosts were my way of saying thanks to you guys. Obviously I couldn't send one to everybody, because I wanted to drink a bunch of them myself, but if there's any beer from this area that any of you think I can grab for you, let me know. It would be my pleasure.

You made it clear you didn't want anything in return which was very generous, that's just not how it works with beer guys.

[Clyde Frog]

So ****ing good. Not overly sweet like most milk stouts and very well balanced.

[TLO]

I haven't posted one single time in this thread. But now I have!

[OnTheWarpath15]

Wow, six weeks since this thread's been bumped.

Anyone get any Hopslam? I have a six pack I'm going to sit on until later this spring.

Also, anyone try Incarnation IPA by Four Hands Brewing out of St. Louis? Damn good stuff.

[Shag]

Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58

Wow, six weeks since this thread's been bumped.

Anyone get any Hopslam? I have a six pack I'm going to sit on until later this spring.

Also, anyone try Incarnation IPA by Four Hands Brewing out of St. Louis? Damn good stuff.

Why are you sitting on the Hopslam? Drink that shit fresh.

I've had it on tap a couple times this year - tasty, as always.