"Dank" Brews: What do you recommend?

Wookey Jack!

 

Is this a pun? I can't tell!?!

 

Another nod for Palate Wrecker. Damn, it was most excellent.

I also love Double Crooked Tree and Brother Benjamin for dark and dank IPAs.

 

This just in: dank means different things to different people in the context of buds AND beer. News at 11.

 

Any hoppy brew from Port is dank as hell. After visit their brewery I'm not sure I would have passed a drug test.

 

Dank IPA- Dad's and Dudes Brewery.

 

Undercover Investigation Shutdown Ale from Lagunitas

 

My buddy is a total head and has been obsessed ever since I let him have Zombie Dust.

 

If You're in NC, pick up Olde Hickory's Death By Hops. They're a hit or miss brewery, and this is a hit. Deep, dank, sticky, and lingering. Cheers.

 

Does anyone else find these "dank" IPAs rather unsavory and off-putting? They're often described as having flavors of garlic, onion, and even cat pee (blech!).

The ones I've tried are:
-Stone Enjoy By IPA
-Green Flash Palette Wrecker
-Oscar Blues Deviant Dale's IPA
-New Belgium Rampant IPA

I consider myself a hop-head and love IPAs, but I don't understand the appeal of this dank style. Anyone else feel the same?

 

Weed.

A buddy of mine was quite the connoisseur in college. I would partake only occasionally, but appraising his stash was always fun. The variety of flavors and scents was really astounding. So, what I'm saying is I enjoy the smell/taste of a vast variety of herbal products. Sometimes those aspects are nice in beer too.

 

I fully disagree. I don't consider Rampant too dank but I do enjoy it. When I think dank I think of Hoptimum and that's one of my favorites. Palette Wrecker is pretty danky and that's another favorite of mine. I've never experienced garlic, onion or cat pee flavor in an IPA.

 

I like variety and sometimes like to switch it up from citrus or piney ipas. The danks may be a bit of an acquired taste.

 

The two beers of the list that I tasted (Stone Enjoy By IPA, Green Flash Palette Wrecker) do not taste ‘dank’ to me. The perception of ‘dank’ (often described as being similar to marijuana) is often a case of an individual’s perception of certain hops (that are used late in the beer’s hopping schedule).

Below is a list of certain hops that can be perceived as being ‘dank’ along with my personal perception of those hops:

dank hops:

Apollo
Columbus
Chinook
Simcoe
Citra
Summit
Nelson Sauvin

depending on how they are used

An interesting list of hops which potentially could provide dank flavors. The caveat of “depending on how they are used” is appropriate but another caveat should be: highly dependent on personal palates.

I have homebrewed all Simcoe and all Citra hopped beers but my personal palate does not ‘register’ dank. The Simcoe tastes piney to me and the Citra is tropical fruits to me. Others have drank my all Citra hopped IPA and made comments of Cat Pee.

I have had beers that utilize Columbus hops and those beers have dank flavors to my palate.

Nelson Sauvin has a weird white wine flavors that I don’t like if too much is used (e.g., Sixpoints Spice of Life – Nelson Sauvin IPA).

I have never noticed dank with Chinook but I will continue to look for it.

I am not sure what to say about Apollo and Summit.

Cheers!

 

I'm not a fan of the over-hopped IPA, DIPA, IIPA style at all. Beers similar to Two Hearted, West Coast, Hopsicle, and Titan are where I like to find my happy median. As my friend likes to remind me; there is a such thing as overseasoning. Typically hop bombs or dank IPAs do not take much to understand nor do they have much depth or complexity. That bores the hell out of me and I do not understand why it would become a widely accepted style as it is, today.

 

I agree that I have never tasted onion, garlic or (God Forbid) Cat Pee, (although I did enjoy several bottles of Evil Twins Cat Piss once, but that's another story) in any of those beers. Palate Wrecker and Deviant Dales are two favorites that give me my "Hop Fix" but I will admit they may be an acquired taste, especially for those new to the Hoppy Craft Beer experience. I know I personally did not like anything at all Hoppy when I first started drinking craft, but as my palate developed and my taste buds re-acclimated after all those years of Bud Lite and Corona being poured across them the hop experience is a regular journey here. The only thing I did not like way back then was the extreme bitterness, which I have now come to love. But dank or off putting (garlic, cat pee, onion) is not in any of those IMO.

 

I've honestly never smoked marijuana or really been around it. I think I've smelled the smoke before. That said, I don't really know what "dank" refers to. I have an idea in my head of what I think it tastes/smells like...cheesy, funky, herbal. But me trying to imagine the flavor of a dank beer is like somebody who has never had a banana who is trying to imagine what banana bread tastes like.

I've had Deviant Dale's IPA and liked it quite a bit, but it was a fairly standard citrusy IPA with some piney/resinous flavor. I didn't like Rampant the first time I tried it, tried it again and disliked it even more. But even still, I'm not sure if I get "dank," I thought it was just weirdly sickly melony and nectary and not in a good way. To use another obscure description for taste, Rampant is what I would consider "messy."

 

I think they best description I've heard is, "smells like your cat ate your stash and took a piss on your Christmas tree."

 

I love em all

 

Palate Wrecker and Deviant Dales are onion BOMBS. Summit hops, for some people, give off an onion/garlic quality. Personally, I don't mind it, but it can be off putting to some.