Posts Tagged: Big Hop Bombs
Big Hop Bombs: Extreme Beer And Your Personal Limits
Posted by on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 in - 16 comments
It's always a big day when Eric Asimov writes a beer article for The New York Times. Being Canadian, a culture with a deep seam of neediness running through it¹, you glow when you feel like you are noticed just as when the beer nerd's nerdiness gets the MSM treatment. But in today's article all … read more »
Big Hop Bombs: Ithaca Beer's IPAbbey, Me And Tom Brady
Posted by on Saturday, December 29, 2007 in - 5 comments
Is this the right thing to note? I dunno. I think sometimes that we are a bit to concerned as beer nerds that the beery moments in life are not quite up to the sip any more. But Stan has pronounced that beer is still beer and Stonch argues that it should be more the pub than the brew. There you …
Big Hop Bombs: Harvest Ale, Founders, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Posted by on Thursday, November 22, 2007 in - leave a comment
Man does not live by contests and prizes alone. Some days you need to have beer. Most days really. And what better beer to have than Founder's take on wet hopped IPA brewed with undried hops rushed from the field upon picking to the boiling wort. A seasonal released just a few weeks ago. Orange …
Big Hop Bombs: Three Friday Night Big Pale Ales
Posted by on Friday, August 17, 2007 in - 2 comments
Here we are. A Friday night in a summer that is drawing to a close - at least up here in Canada. Time to get out some summer bombs out of the stash. • First up is far southwestern New York's Southern Tier's Hoppe, an imperial pale ale. Wow. A drier 10% imperial extra pale ale. Not an imperial …
Big Hop Bombs: Is Saranac Imperial IPA The Best Value In Beer?
Posted by on Saturday, June 23, 2007 in - 4 comments
I popped over the border yesterday with the family for a US shopping spree. Nothing over the top but seeing as we have Watertown NY, a neighbouring a small US City with a college league baseball team, a place with good ribs, a mall with good hoodies for 15 bucks and a 94 cent dollar, why not …
Big Hop Bombs: 10th Anniversary IPA, Stone Brewing, CA, USA
Posted by on Friday, May 18, 2007 in - 2 comments
I have to say, I like the anniversary brews. I had Stone's eighth anniversary brew, a 7.8% mild ale that I reviewed back in 2005. And I think this last year's edition uses font half the size compared to two years ago and I suspect there are over 1,000 words in the personal essay by brewer Dave … read more »
Bit Hop Bombs: 120 Minutes IPA, Dogfish Head, Del., USA
Posted by on Monday, April 30, 2007 in - 5 comments
So I give the tickets away, come hope to find them, end up having have to dig through the recycling to find the envelope and there it is - and it is not for the Jays against the Tigers...it's for the Thursday night game next week against the Sox. I am so there. • Good reason to break out the … read more »
Big Hop Bombs: The Week of Eleven Big US India Pale Ales
Posted by on Thursday, March 29, 2007 in - 2 comments
Two of my favorite eleven a side squads - IPA and AFC • Springtime is here. For me this is the perfect season for those American green, weedy IPAs that taste like liquid salad with gasoline for dressing. Autumn cries out for stouts and porters while winter needs a slow-sipped tripel or the malt …
Big Hop Bombs: Double IPA, Ithaca Beer Co., NY, USA
Posted by on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 in - 1 comment
Another great Upstate NY IPA, this one from the makers of one of my favorite green hopped even arugulan IPA, Flower Power. I noted the press release for Ithaca Beer Co's Double IPA last spring and was happy to see that it was an experiment with local hops. I was also well warned that this brew …
Big Hop Bombs: Two California IPAs
Posted by on Friday, May 26, 2006 in - 6 comments
I picked up these last time I was in New York, far western IPAs making their way across the continent. While I have had a number of North Coast brews before - like their Rasputin Imperial Stout - and have seen them fairly regularly, it was only around last Christmas that I noted the Lagunitas …
