What beer are you drinking now? #4932

1) Hop Butcher Urbs in Horto (7.5% canned 3/23/26): A NEIPA from Chicago with Strata and Mosaic for flavors of orange, grapefruit, mango, tropical berries.
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2) Other Half Stay More Elevated (8.0% canned 2/28/26): A NEIPA from NY with Citra, and Strata for flavors of OJ, grapefruit, mango, tropical berries. (Correctly matched the two blind)

Hop Butcher versus Other Half Battle with Strata. First is Hop Butcher Urbs in Horto. Fantastic balance of orange, grapefruit, mango, tropical berries. Amazing complexity and tropical smoothness here.
Next is Other Half Stay More Elevated. OJ upfront. The Strata stands out here with grapefruit pith and then tropical mango.Fantastic but shows the alcohol a bit more and not as smooth as Urbs in Horto. Hop Butcher keeps putting this one out for a reason.
Winner: Hop Butcher Urbs in Horto

 

Torpedo Tuesday
Enjoying this one from the patio. 76 degrees out, feels great. Cheers

 

I found myself on the north side of Houston for a change...and visited a new to me brewery. They have been open about 5 years now...

Senate Avenue Brewing...their Pale Ale. Kind of woody and astringent.



The Hefe is next...Banana esters, plastic phenols, and diacetyl, blah.

 

Then, their IPA, and a big brat for a late lunch. Its OK, fruity hops, but again woody and astringent.



Everything was just kind of average to OK at best. Its serves the neighborhood purpose for a brewery, cause not much else is around here, but not one of the better ones in town.

 

Great picture!

 

Fat Head's Head Hunter ipa for supper prep on taco Tuesday.

 

Wow! Never saw it in a can! Very cool!

 

Easy millie here in Hudson Valley.
Probably more like 3 mil

 

That looks great. Any aging on it? Does it need it? I recently had Chimay Blue 2022 and it was dynamite.

 

Right along here ba. Lunch ipa, Maine,

 

Been a rainy nasty day all day...need some Lone Pine Void Crush, Black IPA and some jazz for this evening ha.

Dave Liebman, Richard Beirach, George Mraz, and Al Foster can help...their album Quest.

 

Just finished up dinner and now I'm having a Heady Topper ..



Made chicken fajitas for dinner.

 

Happy hump something, BAs.

A little self-portrait in beer excellence. Latest gnome added to the collection.

Cumbre Elevated IPA.
The undisputed King of New Mexican beers.

20km on trails earlier today and feelin OK.
...
Cheers...

 

Following the @DoctorZombies beer drinking program. Start with a Torpedo then chase with a Jai Alai. Get on it BA’s. I highly advise itCheers

 

One nice thing about NA beers is the ability drink beer during the workday with no consequences. Best Day Electro-Lime, a super refreshing take on a Mexican lager.



Egészségedre!

 

This cover of this song was my introduction to Blue Öyster Cult. I listened to Garage Inc nonstop the whole second half of my senior year of high school

 

That’s the new can. Here’s what it looked like a year ago. Had it last April. Freaking delicious Cheers

 

Back at the rental pad now enjoying People Who Exist to be Terrified of Existing, a WCIPA collab from Burial and Hop Butcher
Cheers!

 

Thanks for the question @scott451 . I pour both, mix them up to blind them. Test the aroma and flavor blind and make my notes. Then unveil which is which. Aroma usually 1 then 2. Flavor usually 2 then 1 to keep it fair.

 

A lager brewed in the great state of Georgia.