"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
05/02/2020 at 16:41 • Filed to: None
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This morning’s hike through the desert with the Cracks and Holes Hiking Club rated a shower beer. Fortunately, my shower comes equipped with a ledge for just such an occasion.
Bosque’s Hazy IPA has been acclaimed elsewhere, so we won’t recover that ground with any more than the summation of it being fantastic and that you should drink it. Here we’re concerned with its performance as a shower beer, and I’m going to rate it a 7.5/10 for this application.
That different mouth feel of a hazy IPA (more full-bodied? creamier? whatever...) isn’t an attribute in a shower beer. It feels just a bit more along the line of the hot, steamy water flowing over you, when stark cold contrast is what we’re after in the beer for the shower. The coldest, boldest, hoppiest IPA you can find revels in the sublime contrast to hot shower. Those cold calories rejuvenate your soul while the soap and water restore the veneer civilization upon your biology. The richer profile of the hazy IPA just doesn’t suit quite as well. The aluminium (said in the British manner) can (pun intended) also heat soaks a bit faster.
In the end, it was still a wonderful earned treat. My gold standard for shower beers remains Great Divide’s IPA in glass bottles. May we all be so lucky.
Kilbourne Hole. Is indeed a hole, and big.
ClassicDatsunDebate
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
05/02/2020 at 17:04 |
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If shower beer is anything close to Post-game hockey change room beer than I’m subscribed.
gin-san - shitpost specialist
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
05/02/2020 at 17:08 |
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I just did the two things separately - I decided to give myself a shower to feel some semblance of civility (at nearly 5PM) and rewarded myself with this:
Brief review: refreshing, nice hint of blueberry without being overly sour/sweet, it does drink very much like a kolsch. On a scale of “ garbage water” to “ nectar of the gods” , this falls in the “pretty good” region of the scale.
phenotyp
> ClassicDatsunDebate
05/02/2020 at 17:14 |
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While I can’t make a direct comparison to post-hockey beer, I can confirm that showerbeer, when earned, and especially in a walk-in shower, is one of the greatest things.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> ClassicDatsunDebate
05/02/2020 at 17:14 |
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I would imagine so, just a long as it is earned.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
05/02/2020 at 17:15 |
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A shower beer must be earned.
Nom De Plume
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
05/02/2020 at 18:13 |
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I never seem to make the shower before it disappears. More of an air bath beer.