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Another Double? Why not.

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Founders Double Trouble IIPA

Founders Double Trouble IIPA

IPA’s and IIPA’s rock. That’s a fact. So I thought I’d pop up another one that you should be drinking right now. Founders Double Trouble is a crisp and easy drinking IIPA. This brew smells and tastes wonderful. When you pour it up you get a nose full of grapefruity goodness. The flavor follows up with more of the same but with a bit of tropical/mangoishness (yep, mangoishness is a word) to it. It is a smooth DIPA. It should be on the shelves of your local beer store so you should head on down there when you are done reading this sentence.

Mountain Top Treats

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Oscar Blues Gubna at Big Frog Mountain

This tasty treat was enjoyed on top of a mountain.

I love beer. Oh, and the woods too! A couple of friends and I did a mid week backpacking trip last week and we made sure to haul along some good beers to enjoy fireside. Our little trek covered some miles through the mountains of Georgia and Tennessee and we ended up atop Big Frog Mountian.

Among the many beers that weighed me down on the hike one of my favorites was Gubna by Oskar Blues Brewery. This is a robust Double IPA that is tucked away nicely in a can for convenient transportation. Some people might refer to this beer as an “Onion Bomb” and I would be one of those people. But I mean that in a good way! This beer has a nice dank & oniony hop profile going on and I love it. It is refreshing but with some meat to it.  It  may sound intimidating or gross with my description but it’s fucking tasty so stop being a wuss and pick up a 4-pack.

Myli-dog guarding a Sierra Nevada

Beer break on Hemp Top Mtn.

And what ever you do, don’t touch my dogs beer. Cheers. PACK IT IN, PACK IT OUT!

Hate to see you go but I love to taste you leave.

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Bells HopSlam

My last lonely bottle pre-consumption and excretion.

MMMmmm… Everyone loves a Hopslam. This big ass double IPA is brewed with some honey that knocks down the bitterness and adds the tiniest bit of honey flavor. The brew drips of hoppy citrus and pine flavors. It’s one of those beers that are becoming a pain in the ass to get your hands on(I’m looking at you KBS) with the craft beer scene blowing up the way it is. Maybe im just greedy for wanting to stock pile cases of this heady brew. Alas, I have finished my last bottle of Hopslam and have already donated its processed remnants to the sewer system, lucky sewer, I’m sure it still tastes of hoppy honey goodness on the way out. Any who, this is a beer that I’m sure you have heard of and that you definitely need to taste. It is one of those beers that has become a living legend and is highly sought after. This is a once a year release that comes out around Jan/Feb each year. BUT! It is American Craft Beer Week this week so you just might be able to find it on draft at an event near you! There is hope! If you run accross it in ATL please drop me a line so I can pour it in my face hole. This is one of those rare beers that actually lives up to the hype that it is surrounded by. It is a bucket list beer. You should be drinking one right now.

I’ve got a six pack of the Mondays.

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A balanced IPA from Monday Night Brewing Company.

A balanced IPA from Monday Night Brewing.

Monday Night Brewing has been contract brewing for a while and now just started brewing and bottling at their NEW facility in Atlanta, GA. One of the three flag ship beers they produce is the Eye Patch IPA. It is a balanced(slightly malt forward) IPA with a spicy and mildly citrus hop profile. The bottles that I tried seemed to be heavy on the carbonation compared to their draft counter part.

Destroyed in April

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A few highlights of the destruction that happened in April.

Peppercorn IPA

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SweetWater IPA cask with peppercorn and centennial hops

Cask of SweetWater IPA aged on peppercorns and centennial hops.

I made it over to the SweetWater Brewery this past Wednesday and they had an interesting cask of IPA. The cask contained peppercorns and centennial hops which thoroughly enhanced this beer. Spicy peppercorn dominated the nose and palate while the centennial hops made a more modest appearance. If you have time to drink some beers on Wednesday nights then SweetWater is a good place to be. Every hump day they pour unique casks of heady brews that are worth fighting the traffic for.

Can’t stop the Hop

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SweetWater LowRyeder

Whats left of a SweetWater Lowryeder Hopped in glass with wet Citra Hops.

I can’t stop putting hops in my beer now. I destroyed two SweetWater Lowryeder‘s that I hopped up with a few fresh citra hop cones. It’s to bad that its not harvest season yet cause I could do this every day. The hops tend to cloud the beers a bit as well as adding little yellow hop “flavor crystals” that float around. With the wet citra hops you get a nice combination of citrus and pine. The wet hops also add a layer of spicy heat to the finish, makes me wonder if hops rate on the Scoville scale at all.

Brew Day at Burnt Hickory Brewery

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Burnt Hickory Brew System

Burnt Hickory Brew System

The kind folks at Burnt Hickory Brewery in Kennesaw, GA were gracious enough to let me come help out on brew day this week. Burnt Hickory has been around for just over a year now and during that time they have created a great notoriety for producing some killer beers. Their line up of monster beers are changing the beer game in Georgia; every beer here is bigger and Bigger is Better. The brewery is producing higher than average ABV beers that are packed full of flavor and creativity. The beers produced here will knock the socks off veteran beer drinkers and blow the minds of craft beer neophytes. One of my favorites brewed at Burnt Hickory is a seasonal called “Noggin Knocker” it is an Imperial Eggnog Stout; Need I say more? No? To bad cause it gets better… It’s a barrel aged spiced milk stout that clocks in at 13.5% ABV. This beast then gets split into whiskey and rum barrels and is aged to perfection. Holy Shit this stuff is good. Whats it taste like? You will just have to try it yourself, this is no time for a review of this bucket list beer. It’ll be awhile before this beer comes back around, so let’s dry out our moist panties and move on. Cannon Dragger IPA was on the production list for brew day at BHB this week. This is a big american IPA that is full of hops. It’s a bit bigger that your average IPA at 8% ABV and is a mainstay for the brewery that is available year round. In addition to brewing some beers a little brewery maintenance and new fermenter construction happened that day. New fermenters = more beer for all of us!

Head brewer Will assembling a new fermeter at Burnt Hickory Brewery.

Head brewer Will assembling a new fermeter.

Brew day went off with out a hitch and with lots of beer hitting the fermenter’s before the day was done. Burnt Hickory is offering a brewery tour on May 18th so make sure to be there. Until then you can find their beers on tap in the Kennesaw area.

Hoppilicious Bigfoot

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A glass of Sierra Nevada Big Foot with Wet Citra Hops added to the glass

Big Foot hopped up with some wet Citra hops.

I decided to amp up an all ready big brew(Sierra Nevada Big Foot) by throwing in some Citra hops that I had in the freezer; the Citra hops were wet hops left over from harvest season. I made sure to stash some in my freezer for future use. I swirled and squished the hops a bit in the beer to force some of tasty fresh hop goodness into the beer immediately. After it sat for about 5 – 10 mins it was like i was drinking a completely different beer. It tasted like a malt bomb of an IPA with the fresh citrus notes battling the malty finish. The fresh Citra flavors hung out for a while after sipping and left my pallet begging for another swill.