OK Brewery/Awesome Beer

Discussion in 'Beer Talk' started by Doc_Hops, May 19, 2013.

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  1. Doc_Hops

    Doc_Hops Initiate (0) Feb 5, 2013 Pennsylvania

    So the other day I went to my local bottle shop and they had some Ithaca Flower Power on tap. For me, this beer is awesome! Great taste, smell, and freshness. I loved it. But all the other beers from them I've tried are just OK for me. Anyone else have a similar experience of having one GREAT beer from a brewery while all the others they make seem mediocre?
     
    #1 Doc_Hops, May 19, 2013
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  2. KevinK441

    KevinK441 Initiate (0) Feb 28, 2013 Virginia

    yeah there are a couple of breweries here locally in VA. who make one or just 2 great beers and all the others are just, meh. they have to make other styles to stay in business though. i guess there is someone drinking the other stuff.
     
    #2 KevinK441, May 19, 2013
  3. frankthetank86

    frankthetank86 Initiate (0) Dec 24, 2012 New York

    the alchemist
     
    #3 frankthetank86, May 19, 2013
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  4. surfcaster

    surfcaster Initiate (0) Apr 20, 2013 North Carolina
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    Foothills Sexual Chocolate

    Other offerings are good but not great. They have made up ground on their IPAs
     
    #4 surfcaster, May 19, 2013
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  5. Doc_Hops

    Doc_Hops Initiate (0) Feb 5, 2013 Pennsylvania

    I like to to keep the tone of the posts casual...plus I'll be the first to admit I don't have the best grammar.. plus this second La Fin Du Monde is tasting great...
     
    #5 Doc_Hops, May 19, 2013
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  6. nesarebad

    nesarebad Pooh-Bah (1,868) Feb 4, 2012 Massachusetts
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    They don't even need to try...
     
    #6 nesarebad, May 19, 2013
  7. Providence

    Providence Pooh-Bah (2,652) Feb 24, 2010 Rhode Island
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    I'm just busting balls man. I was joking with another BA earlier about how every other thread starts with the word so.

    Oh, and I'm no grammar genius either.
     
    #7 Providence, May 19, 2013
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  8. ShanePB

    ShanePB Initiate (0) Sep 6, 2010 Pennsylvania

    I think I've liked every other beer I've tried from them more than Sexual Chocolate.
     
    #8 ShanePB, May 19, 2013
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  9. nesarebad

    nesarebad Pooh-Bah (1,868) Feb 4, 2012 Massachusetts
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    The large format beers from Ithaca are solid - Anniversary, Brute, LeBleu, etc...
     
    #9 nesarebad, May 19, 2013
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  10. Doc_Hops

    Doc_Hops Initiate (0) Feb 5, 2013 Pennsylvania

    never had 'em but now I'll be on the look out
     
    #10 Doc_Hops, May 19, 2013
  11. smitherz22

    smitherz22 Initiate (0) May 8, 2012 California

    New Belgium - not a big fan of most of their beers, but some of them are freaking outstanding, like Ranger, or La Folie or other Lips of Faith series beers
     
    #11 smitherz22, May 19, 2013
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  12. McDiddyPop

    McDiddyPop Zealot (629) Feb 9, 2008 Florida

    Sam Adams makes Utopias.

    Biggest deviation from "pretty good" brewery to outstanding beer.
     
    #12 McDiddyPop, May 19, 2013
  13. CassinoNorth

    CassinoNorth Initiate (0) Apr 5, 2013 New Jersey

    Cascazilla isn't a bad beer at all. Really enjoyable actually.
     
    #13 CassinoNorth, May 19, 2013
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  14. Lurkerson

    Lurkerson Initiate (0) Jan 18, 2013 Pennsylvania

    Gotta be Russian River. Damnation absolutely kills, but everything else...meh
     
    #14 Lurkerson, May 19, 2013
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  15. daysinthewake

    daysinthewake Initiate (0) Nov 13, 2010 California

    Marin: White Knuckle and Platypus Venom.
     
    #15 daysinthewake, May 19, 2013
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  16. BedetheVenerable

    BedetheVenerable Initiate (0) Sep 5, 2008 Missouri

    Flying Dog....'meh' brewery, but AWESOME English-style barleywine (with some aging potential) in Horn Dog....and for a great price!
     
    #16 BedetheVenerable, May 19, 2013
  17. Igotmypistola

    Igotmypistola Initiate (0) Aug 30, 2010 California

    thiiis is a joke, right
     
    #17 Igotmypistola, May 19, 2013
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  18. beercanman

    beercanman Initiate (0) Dec 17, 2012 Ohio

    FFF
     
    #18 beercanman, May 19, 2013
  19. BogBoyJD

    BogBoyJD Initiate (0) Feb 1, 2012 Ireland
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    I'm amazed that the first response to this thread wasn't Troeg's----Nugget Nectar. Not just awesome, world class!
    Another average East coast brewery that makes an awesome beer is Heavy Seas-- Loose Cannon
     
    #19 BogBoyJD, May 19, 2013
  20. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,157) Mar 12, 2009 New York
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    While this is a joke based on them only distributing two beers, one the top rated on BA, the other a saison brewed for those with Celiac's disease, it is the epitome of irony. I can think of no other brewery that created more different styles of beer that were so uniformly great than did the Alchemist when they were a brewpub, before the flood.
     
    #20 cavedave, May 19, 2013
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