Best hoppy beers in NC

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  1. atypic

    atypic Initiate (0) Apr 8, 2011 North Carolina

    Curious to hear your thoughts on the best hoppy beers in NC.

    For me, the best regularly available stuff is Sculpin (cans), All Day IPA (cans), and Double Trouble.

    For the rarer stuff, Hopslam Oracle, and Enjoy By. Oh and Wicked Weed Freak (rare if you don't live in Asheville).

    I wonder if I'm missing some gem?
     
    #1 atypic, Sep 17, 2013
  2. samtallica

    samtallica Initiate (0) Jul 22, 2010 North Carolina

    NoDa Hop Drop N Roll and Olde Hickory Death by Hops.
     
    #2 samtallica, Sep 17, 2013
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  3. rgordon

    rgordon Pooh-Bah (2,701) Apr 26, 2012 North Carolina
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    Foothills Jade fits the bill perfectly to my taste. Bottles somewhere soon I hope.
     
    #3 rgordon, Sep 17, 2013
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  4. Handle

    Handle Initiate (0) Mar 16, 2009 North Carolina

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  5. Sayson

    Sayson Initiate (0) Apr 16, 2005 North Carolina

    Beer Study in Carrboro did another all NC IPA tasting the other day and the standout for me was Hop Drop and Roll by Noda. I found the others pretty underwhelming, but I am fighting a summer cold and seem to have lost my sense of smell for the most part.

    I like my IPAs and DIPAs to be absolutely bursting with hop aroma and hop flavor but balanced on the bitterness. If you're like me, then there are likely three keys to this kind of a beer: freshness, freshness, and freshness. Learn to read bottled on dates, especially on Ballast Point beers. I love those guys, but the fact is their beer is expensive and it may sit on the shelf. Fresh Sculpin is a wonderful thing. Old Sculpin is a $15 six pack of amber ale. Bells Oracle is too bitter for my taste.

    For beers available in NC, I like: Green Flash West Coast IPA and Imperial IPA, anything hoppy and pale from Lagunitas (and they're priced right, too), especially Lil' Sumpin Sumpin and one of the best hoppy beers of the year, Lagunitas Sucks, Uinta Hop Notch, Southern Tier 2X IPA can be good when it's fresh...
     
    #5 Sayson, Sep 17, 2013
  6. Hanzo

    Hanzo Initiate (0) Feb 27, 2012 Virginia

    Jade is amazing.
     
    #6 Hanzo, Sep 17, 2013
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  7. dmwcpa

    dmwcpa Crusader (442) Apr 24, 2008 North Carolina

    I will add Deviant Dales and Gubna.
     
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  8. samtallica

    samtallica Initiate (0) Jul 22, 2010 North Carolina


    Those and G'Knight are great if you can find them fresh. I rarely seem them fresh though, which is sad considering the shit is brewed less than 150 miles from Charlotte. You're better off going with Dale's Pale Ale.
     
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  9. spicoli00

    spicoli00 Pooh-Bah (2,305) Jul 6, 2005 Indiana
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    Haven't tried this one, but i liked Foothills Hoppyum...
     
    #9 spicoli00, Sep 17, 2013
  10. atypic

    atypic Initiate (0) Apr 8, 2011 North Carolina

    Is NoDa available in the Triangle area? I don't recall seeing it, but I probably wasn't looking.
     
    #10 atypic, Sep 17, 2013
  11. atypic

    atypic Initiate (0) Apr 8, 2011 North Carolina

    Also, Sayson, I wasn't clear on how Sculpin cans are dated. I see numbers on the bottom, but I didn't know how to read them.
     
    #11 atypic, Sep 17, 2013
  12. abb610

    abb610 Initiate (0) Oct 14, 2010 North Carolina

    3C from Triple C has become my favorite IPA brewed in Charlotte.
     
    #12 abb610, Sep 17, 2013
  13. rgordon

    rgordon Pooh-Bah (2,701) Apr 26, 2012 North Carolina
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    Jade's a bit more austere and dry than Hoppyum- but very approachable, nonetheless. They are on to something very nice.
     
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  14. Handle

    Handle Initiate (0) Mar 16, 2009 North Carolina


    Beer Study in Chapel Hill usually picks up their bottles, and it wouldn't surprise me if he got their cans, which will be released later this month.
     
    #14 Handle, Sep 17, 2013
  15. samtallica

    samtallica Initiate (0) Jul 22, 2010 North Carolina


    For some reason I always forget about this beer, but I totally agree, it is a very tasty IPA.
     
    #15 samtallica, Sep 17, 2013
  16. dbrauneis

    dbrauneis Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,071) Dec 8, 2007 North Carolina
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    I'm pretty sure the numbers are a Julian date xxYYY where xx is the last two digits of the year and the YYY is the day of the year.

    EDIT: You might want to check out this related thread. http://beeradvocate.com/community/t...pin-no-bottle-date-weird.116742/#post-1723376
     
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  17. dbrauneis

    dbrauneis Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,071) Dec 8, 2007 North Carolina
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    I have started to see more NoDa in the Triad as well as the Triangle - which makes me pretty happy since I really enjoy Hop, Drop, and Roll.
     
    #17 dbrauneis, Sep 17, 2013
  18. dmwcpa

    dmwcpa Crusader (442) Apr 24, 2008 North Carolina

    This does not seem to be a problem in Raleigh. Last spring we had Gubna a week after it was canned. I picked up Deviant Dales that was about three weeks old a couple of weeks ago.
     
    #18 dmwcpa, Sep 17, 2013
  19. samtallica

    samtallica Initiate (0) Jul 22, 2010 North Carolina


    I guess it just doesn't move around here. I did find relatively fresh Gubna when the first batch of that was brewed in NC earlier this year, but Deviant Dales and G'Knight are almost always 2 or 3 months old when I bother to check. Maybe I just miss the fresh shipments, but OB's stuff seems to sit on the shelf aside from Dale's Pale Ale.
     
    #19 samtallica, Sep 17, 2013
  20. brstls4drmrs

    brstls4drmrs Maven (1,396) Jan 30, 2011 North Carolina

    are you looking for the best IPAs available here? Or the best NC brewed IPAs?
     
    #20 brstls4drmrs, Sep 17, 2013
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