Beachwood Brewing & Blendery - Q4 2016

Any tasting notes/thoughts on Invasive Species?

 

From what I remembered last night. Had 3 of 4. Habanero > least favorite. Never cared for Habanero Sculpin. Not much spice on the first taste. More spice flavor after going down. Mango was my favorite of the 3. Opened after the Habanero bottle. First impression was good. A lot better than the Habanero. 3rd bottle was the Grapefruit (which I thought was the regular Invasive IPA bottle. Not much grapefruit for me. Not that Wanted to taste all grapefruit. It was okay. Still have the regular IPA to open.
All was good enough to go back to the HB location and pick up another 4 pack. $11/4pk not bad at all. They had plenty left. Foam Top 6 pk was only 8.99. Bottles of CitraHolic and MM still inside cooler.

 

Regular Invasive is pretty solid. As guns said, Grapefruit doesn't have much grapefruit to it, which I'm okay with it. Haven't tried the other two as I'm not keen on habanero or mango

 

Damn! I can't believe next month will be 10 years for the Seal Beach location. Lots of specials for 10 days.

 

There's a curry night AND a Mac n cheese night during that week too. Poor Jameson...

 

Poor colon...

 

I'll be in LA for the beginning of this! I may go to that location instead of the Long Beach location.

 

Get ready for insanity. Beachwood Seal Beach is tiny and gets packed easily

 

Or do both.

 

More data points for Invasive Species tasting notes:
I like the regular the best of the 3 I had. Not really looking forward to cracking the habanero as straight up pepper beers aren't my style.

The regular is fantastic. I like it better than Pride of cHops and Melrose. The mango came in second as it had a nicely pronounced fruit profile however it kind of muted the hop flavor of the regular. The grapefruit just didn't come across as strong as the other two. The fruit was lacking and like the mango, continued to really diminish the nice hop character of the regular.

 

Update on the Invasive IPA (4th of 4 bottles). Had this one the other day and thought that it was the best of the 4. Would be nice if they sold this in 12oz 6pk all day long. Mango was #2 for me. The other 2? Meh.

 

I realized I missed out on the Alpha Galactic bottles when it was released back in the beginning of November. Did it sell out fast & how much where bottles going for?

 

Didn't they postpone Alpha Galactic?

 

Maybe thats why I missed AG release?

 

Found it!

https://www.beeradvocate.com/commun...r-releases-thread.211533/page-42#post-5057173

 

Anyone know the brand of glasses they use? Their IPA..

 

Just found out Beachwood will be at LB home-brew festival. Hope they do some more of these at it seems like a good deal: http://www.welovelb.org/long-beach-homebrew-festival.html

 

Any rumors or guesses on what the next beer to make it to 6-packs might be??

 

I'd love it if some of the core beers made it to six packs. Citraholic, Amalgamator and Melrose would find their way to my fridge much more frequently. The $9 bombers make these more of an occasional purchase rather than an instant purchase.

 

Melrose
Amalgamator
CitraHolic