I’ve earned this

"interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366) 05/05/2018 at 22:24 • Filed to: Beerlopnik

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Starting my vacation off the right way: relaxing with some beer on a Saturday night. This one will have me feeling pretty good pretty fast. I’ve been waiting to try the 120 Minute IPA for a couple years now and finally picked one up recently.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > interstate366, now In The Industry 05/05/2018 at 22:30

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What I feel every IPA is flavored by

However cheers on some relaxation.

interstate366, now In The Industry > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 05/05/2018 at 22:34

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On this one all you can taste is the alcohol. If anything the few hops you can taste make it less intense. Which is saying something.

Vimto > interstate366, now In The Industry 05/05/2018 at 22:35

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Where did you find the 120?

interstate366, now In The Industry > Vimto 05/05/2018 at 22:36

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A local beer shop. It was $11 for one.

Ash78, voting early and often > interstate366, now In The Industry 05/05/2018 at 22:39

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I can’t stand the 90-minute and I generally love DIPAs. Dogfish is amazing with what they do, I just never seem to enjoy most of their stuff.

Their standard 60-minute IPA is one of my least favorites, but I have to give them credit for at least helping popularize the style.

Bell’s Two Hearted, Great Divide Titan, Cigar City Jai Alai, Straight to Ale Monkeynaut, etc are all better to me. The first two are available nationwide.

interstate366, now In The Industry > Ash78, voting early and often 05/05/2018 at 22:47

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It’s been awhile since I had either the 60 or the 90. Most of what I’ve had by Dogfish Head in recent months has been specialty releases. Virginia gets a bad rap around these parts, but one of the good things about it is that we are absolutely spoiled for good craft beer. The Richmond area has a solid two dozen breweries now, and a few of them specialize in double IPAs, so I quite often get to enjoy them. Plus there’s regional distribution of prominent names like Dogfish, Weyerbacher, Bell’s, Troegs, Flying Dog, and so many more. Bell’s has a new DIPA out whose name escapes me, but it was quite good.

Ash78, voting early and often > interstate366, now In The Industry 05/05/2018 at 23:00

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The last part doesn’t surprise me — there are very few breweries where I can say I really like everything they make.

Bell’s and Lagunitas might be the only two.

The cool thing now is that so many west coast breweries have eastern locations (usually in NC, which is crazy thick with craft brews). Much fresher products!

interstate366, now In The Industry > Ash78, voting early and often 05/05/2018 at 23:07

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You know, I can’t say I’ve ever had a Lagunitas beer, but I see them for sale in Target and such. NC and VA are definitely good beer rivals. We have a few West Coast breweries as well; Stone is the 800-pound gorilla of the Richmond beer scene, Ballast Point has a facility in Roanoke (although I find their beers to be wildly overrated), and Green Flash had a facility in Virginia Beach for a few years but recently shuttered it. I’ve had some quality NC local beers as well.

TorqueToYield > interstate366, now In The Industry 05/05/2018 at 23:11

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120 min is a damn good treat. Really incredible that an 18% beer can taste that damn smooth. From what I’ve heard some years just don’t taste good and they have to essentially drain pour hundreds of gallons.

If you can get your hands on it World Wide Stout is also worth it. Then let it sit for 5 or 10 years if you can stand it.

Pretty much anything with one of those yellow caps is an automatic buy for me.

https://www.dogfish.com/blog/you-wouldnt-steal-world-wide-stout-would-you-danger-cap-story

interstate366, now In The Industry > TorqueToYield 05/05/2018 at 23:18

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Indeed. I’ve had them all now in the past few years: Fort, World Wide Stout (both original and vanilla oak-aged), and another that currently escapes me. Interestingly, I have one in my fridge aging that’s even more potent, that comes from a local brewery. When I bought the bottle the guy working there said that the label on it was less then what it actually had. The bottle says 18%, but the beer itself has close to 22%.

Ash78, voting early and often > interstate366, now In The Industry 05/05/2018 at 23:36

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If you like IPAs, Lagunitas is amazing. About half their beers are some version of it.

I’m partial to Little Sumpin Sumpin. Maximus is like a DIPA but for regular prices. Most of their sixers are $10, which is not terrible at all.

Stone is another insanely overrated/overpriced brewery, IMO, but again I respect that they made craft beer big long before it was widespread.

Oh, Victory is another great brewery, almost all good stuff.

interstate366, now In The Industry > Ash78, voting early and often 05/06/2018 at 00:05

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Ah, nice.

I can agree with Stone being overrated, but they’re decidedly cheaper than Ballast Point and many others, so I’ll frequently get some Ruination or a limited run release from them, but there are definitely better breweries locally. I could list close to a dozen that I personally would visit over Stone, but they’re not bad.

I’ve had a few Victory beers before. They are indeed good.