DIPA Tasting

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  1. iTunesUpdates

    iTunesUpdates Initiate (0) May 7, 2014 Florida

    Thats not FRESH, I drink Jai Alai days after bottling. My point is, it is all relative. Don't give the guy crap for drinking it within 3 months. That is fresh.
     
    #21 iTunesUpdates, Nov 17, 2014
  2. DrStiffington

    DrStiffington Grand Pooh-Bah (3,740) Oct 27, 2010 New Jersey
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    Your sarcasm detector is off. Unless mine is off...
     
    #22 DrStiffington, Nov 17, 2014
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  3. Jugs_McGhee

    Jugs_McGhee Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,140) Aug 15, 2010 Texas
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    Was there meant to be a question in the original post?

    If the takeaway from this is that your tasting group gave Dogfish Head 90 Minute a perfect score, then okay.

    I'm unsurprised you're watching college football.
     
    #23 Jugs_McGhee, Nov 17, 2014
  4. VictorWisc

    VictorWisc Maven (1,379) Jan 2, 2013 Massachusetts

    New York is notorious for out-of-date IPAs. When I was visiting in July, I went to several beer stores in Queens. I was first excited to find CCB beers, but both cans of Jai Alai and Hopped on the High Seas were dated March and first week of April at all stores. The selection was great at two of the stores, but the freshness wasn't. The rest had miserable selection as well.
     
    #24 VictorWisc, Nov 17, 2014
  5. Roguer

    Roguer Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,811) Mar 25, 2013 Connecticut
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    Well, no, it isn't....if you're doing a DIPA tasting.

    3 months old is perfectly fine for grabbing a DIPA from the fridge and enjoying it. It's completely unfair to use in a tasting, though, especially if the other DIPAs are actually pretty fresh.

    There's a big difference between "fresh" and "drinkable." If you went into the FT:ISO forum and offered up "fresh" DIPAs that were three months old, people would rightfully be pretty upset.
     
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  6. BlackNotesIII

    BlackNotesIII Initiate (0) Jun 6, 2014 Alabama

    Hey now, let's not knock college football like that means anything.
     
    #26 BlackNotesIII, Nov 17, 2014
  7. SammyJaxxxx

    SammyJaxxxx Initiate (0) Feb 23, 2012 New Jersey

    I know taste is subjective, but if you guys are rating War Elephant a 3, you need to check your palate. War Elephant is head and shoulders above the other beers in your tasting
     
    #27 SammyJaxxxx, Nov 17, 2014
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  8. FrogOut69

    FrogOut69 Initiate (0) Sep 24, 2013 California
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    Seems like a bad tasting if you somehow gave the best beer a 3. Freshness is not relative and 1-5 as a rating system makes for a lot of ambiguity.
     
    #28 FrogOut69, Nov 17, 2014
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  9. Spiral517

    Spiral517 Zealot (687) Sep 17, 2013 Maryland

    It would seem to me that with 15 tasters and scores for each beer that add up to 15, that the number for each beer is the number of tasters that rated that beer as the winner, not an average rating for each beer.
     
    #29 Spiral517, Nov 17, 2014
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  10. Brando87

    Brando87 Initiate (0) Oct 5, 2013 Illinois

    Really?...
     
    #30 Brando87, Nov 17, 2014
  11. FaradayUncaged

    FaradayUncaged Initiate (0) Oct 24, 2014 Michigan

    Sounds like a fun experiment, OP.

    15 tasters and football sounds like a great crowd. Were the rankings you came up with collective? I'd be interested to know if everyone was in agreement (assuming everyone there was into DIPAs to begin with, otherwise that could flip some people's rating upside down).
     
    #31 FaradayUncaged, Nov 17, 2014
  12. kwakwhore

    kwakwhore Maven (1,413) Nov 1, 2004 North Carolina
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    Me too.
     
    #32 kwakwhore, Nov 17, 2014
  13. SerialTicker

    SerialTicker Pooh-Bah (2,851) Jun 18, 2012 Missouri
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    Brooklyn Blast a 2? Wtf.
     
    #33 SerialTicker, Nov 17, 2014
  14. offthelevel_bytheplumb

    offthelevel_bytheplumb Maven (1,277) Aug 19, 2013 Illinois

    It's pretty obvious that 5 people picked DFH 90 Minute as their favorite of the group, 5 people chose Double Trouble as their favorite, 3 people chose War Elephant as their favorite, and 2 people chose Brooklyn Blast as their favorite.
     
    #34 offthelevel_bytheplumb, Nov 17, 2014
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  15. FaradayUncaged

    FaradayUncaged Initiate (0) Oct 24, 2014 Michigan

    That makes much more sense.
     
    #35 FaradayUncaged, Nov 17, 2014
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  16. offthelevel_bytheplumb

    offthelevel_bytheplumb Maven (1,277) Aug 19, 2013 Illinois

    I do think the OP could've done a better job of wording the results, especially on a website that rates beers on a 1 to 5 scale.
     
    #36 offthelevel_bytheplumb, Nov 17, 2014
  17. Beertsipper

    Beertsipper Pooh-Bah (1,707) Nov 18, 2008 New York
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    Yes, this is what happened. Personally, I just had a Double Trouble that was brewed in May of this year, and it tasted identical to its 8/24 counterpart. I've also had it 2 weeks fresh and the tropical fruit and hop profile was just about the same as the 3 month old DT. War Elephant was VERY good, and I preferred it over DFH 90 min., which is saying a lot. I would love to try an aged bottle of DFH 90. Perhaps cellared for 18 months.
     
    #37 Beertsipper, Nov 17, 2014
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  18. FaradayUncaged

    FaradayUncaged Initiate (0) Oct 24, 2014 Michigan

    FWIW, I've done this (accidentally) and was not a fan. Certainly always worth an experiment though.
     
    #38 FaradayUncaged, Nov 17, 2014
  19. DawgPhan

    DawgPhan Initiate (0) Mar 23, 2012 Georgia

    ugh.....

    The guy was clearly happy that he got to nerd out with some friends and drink beers and watch football. So what if they didnt drink the freshest of the fresh. He seemed happy. He enjoyed his time with friends, football and beer.

    nice work bros.
     
    #39 DawgPhan, Nov 17, 2014
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  20. nkelley77

    nkelley77 Initiate (0) Nov 20, 2013 Massachusetts

    Would love to do a local dipa tasting consisting of:

    Grey Sail Captain's daughter
    Alchemist Heady Topper
    Fisherman's Dead Eye
    Worm Town Be Hoppier
    Trillium Mettle

    Just got Captain's Daughter and Dead eye at my store and was blown away by these two and believe they can stand up to some of the heavy weights of the northeast.
     
    #40 nkelley77, Nov 17, 2014
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