Favorite Colorado IPAs?

Yeah it sounds delicious. Think I'll swing by and try it and maybe grab a growler of it..

 

That is what I was afraid of.

 

I bet it'll still be on next weekend

 

Want to try it, but their prices on double ipas or DDH beers are pretty insane. $9-10 for a pour. I'm guessing the crowlers are around 16-18$ to take home. No thanks.

 

I didn't realize it was crowlers

In my experience, Odd13 beers need to sit for a couple of weeks before drinking, but I've made the mistake of sitting on a crowler for two weeks which ended up being an oxidized mess.

 

Their prices don't bother me at all. I've never paid that much for any of their IPAs. They're definitely not $9-10 at the taproom. I'm not going to pretend I know how much it costs to make those beers cuz I don't, but I do know it's not cheap with the DDH beers and DIPAs.

 

Really? I have had two month old crowlers that taste fine.

 

I'm lost. Odd13 doesn't have a crowler machine now, do they (the day they get one, I'll be so happy)?

DDH n00b = growler
Alpha Bits 5 = crowler

 

I heard crowler. Good to know.

 

I had a DDH Galaxy Juicy bits this past week and it was very oxidized. I've had two month old BA stouts that were fantastic though.

 

Cerebral just released Tandem Jetpack today for those that are interested.

 

They definitely are $9-10 At the taproom. DDH juicy bits and Alpha 5 are both $9 At the taproom currently. Extra juicy bits was $10.

 

I did have juicy bits in a crowler with about a month on it, and while it was still great, it wasn't the same glorious elixir it was fresh.

 

@rscot231 my homebrew geekery has gotten the best of me, can you elaborate on the yeast changes? If you prefer not to I get that too.

 

Their crowler prices are definitely on the expensive side compared to similar styles from other breweries around town. For being a flagship beer, I wonder why it hasn't been put in 12oz cans yet? Can't say I've heard much about their current 12oz offerings.

 

i was just thinking about this today. They make enough juicy bits to have no limits at the pub, and send out crowlers to distribution. So when they decided to do cans they thought that hef and puesta would be best... but why? Because they're lighter beers and lighter beers should be in cans? It seems to be a common theme when breweries start canning to not put their best selling beer in them but a pils or a lighter lager of some sort.

 

We use Vermont Ale from The Yeast Bay as our house yeast at the production brewery. It's predictable, fast, and tasty. We use London Ale III sometimes for rotating IPAs or taproom releases. The taproom has largely switched to LA3 for everything. This is n00b with LA3, oats, and a Citra double dry hop. The base beer is Mosaic and El Dorado.

 

Not speaking for my dear friend Neil or anyone else, but this is one of the problems with crowlers. People treat them like cans. They aren't filled the same way as cans on a machine that's dialed in to do the filling. They are subject to human variability. You can have a great crowler fill or a shitty one, depending on who's filling it. We certainly have cans that occasionally have oxidation issues, but for the most part the automation on the machine creates a more consistent product with less oxygen pickup. Treat crowlers like growlers, not cans.

 

I think by putting the beer into distribution channels in a crowler format is begging for the crowler to be treated like a can. Like everyone else, I am surprised juicy bits hasn't seen cans at this point.
Also, thanks for the input on yeast changes in n00b. I like la3 in my homebrews, but it likes to stay in suspension until I bottle. Somehow it always floccs hard once bottled. Maybe it's a function of pressure.

 

Making enough of a certain beer for it to always be on at the taproom and sporadically delivered in crowlers is a far cry from making enough to put six packs on shelves in Colorado.