Chicagoland NE IPAs (2018)

Per recent Facebook posts we can look forward to Super Special Sauce (Mosaic; dbl dry hopped) once Mike can start brewing in EG and there may be JiL cans available on Wednesday at Transient during the filming of some show.

 

Noonwhistle funny gummy is freaking legit. It has the dry finish and Hop bite that so many others don't have. Definitely looking forward to the new one now. If they ever canned this stuff, it would fly off shelves.

 

I agree, just grabbed 2 crowlers myself today! Haven't stopped there in awhile but looks like it will be 2 visits this week.

 

Drinking it now. It's fantastic, but there is an unpleasant bitter aftertaste I'm not a fan of.

Somehow the very best (Trilium, TH, Other Half, Flightless-yes it's that good) are able to have a sweet aftertaste, even with a super hoppy bite.

Looking forward to Vortex this week. I will for sure be making a visit to the parents house in the burbs in the next week or so.

 

Had the opportunity to try TH: Alter Ego, Trillium: Vicinity, and Forbidden Root: Jacob Goes to Juice Town last evening. I have to say JGTJT is on par with the other "real" NE IPAs. Although Vicinity took the top honors in my opinion, there was just a small margin when rating between each. So much good stuff coming out of Chicagoland!

 

Scored a can from a friend. Nothing about this beer is NE Style - look (obviously), smell, feel, or taste are not to the style at all. That being said, it's a pretty good brew! If anybody had Thread The Needle from the 18th Street In The Shadows series, it's very similar in my opinion.

 

Another solid brew coming from the Chicago area! Who needs New England brews with the shear amount pouring out from all directions now!

 

Loved Funny Gummy! It only took one sip for me to decide I was taking home multiple crowlers of it. Just as good out of the can as it was on tap and I can't wait for the new one on Tuesday

 

Seriously. The picture that The Open Bottle posted made it look like they made 2 batches of Destination Moon and just put that beer in both cans. It makes me wonder if something went awry during the brewing process

 

Or maybe they realized that in Chicago these days all you need to do is put NE Style on the can & it will sell out immediately, seemingly regardless of what's inside....

 

For real - I would definitely like to know what happened to this beer:



If that is what is actually in those cans, something weird his going on (bad X-Files/alien pun)

 

You're right, the IG post that picture was from listed the hops in both I Want to Believe, and Destination Moon. I just figured that the former was listed as a "New England Style DIPA", so that had to be the beer in the picture. If it is the same beer, something drastic had to happen in a very short amount of time for it to change so much. It's just weird.

 

Both Hop Butchers were drainpours for me. I think they're suddenly incapable of brewing a good hoppy beer. I'm hoping the coffee stout is up to last year's standard but I'll be sitting out anything hoppy from them.

 

I don't know. It's not the first time a picture posted on their IG didn't seem to match up with how the beer actually looks in person.
I assumed this was a pic of Your Wish Is Granted, which it definitely also doesn't look anything like that, yet the caption says "Your Wish Is Granted" .......