Beers that should have hype and don't...

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  1. horsehockey

    horsehockey Initiate (0) Jul 31, 2014 Illinois

    The best thing about this one is that you can get it anywhere in the St. Louis area. I can pick up a 6 pack at my grocery store.
     
    #21 horsehockey, Jul 17, 2015
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  2. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    It's not the breweries taking advantage, it's us. From the brewery's point of view, more demand is good, because you can raise the price, and increase volume (if capable). There's so many great beers around these days, and that's a good thing, but when people are showing up at releases with hand trucks, and following delivery vehicles around, that's nobody's fault but ours. Hype is short for hyperbole, everybody gets excited about the next new shiny thing, and we create it.
     
    #22 BBThunderbolt, Jul 17, 2015
  3. geodonnokepyo

    geodonnokepyo Initiate (0) Oct 31, 2013 Pennsylvania

    I agree with this. I was visiting Princeton a few weeks ago and was hoping to score some 077X or Kane's IPAs but the place I visited only had Boat on tap. I got a growler fill and boy was I pleasantly surprised. It is a damn good beer.

    I would also like to put my vote in for Elysian's Night Owl. One of my favorite beers in general. Doesn't get great ratings but probably because there's a lot of hate on pumpkin beers for some reason.
     
    #23 geodonnokepyo, Jul 17, 2015
  4. alucard6679

    alucard6679 Savant (1,009) Jul 29, 2012 Arizona

    Black Xantus
    One of the best BBA coffee stouts I've had and it just sits on the shelf because its not KBS (which I don't understand why is as hyped up as it is, but hey, more for them hoarders :wink:)
     
    #24 alucard6679, Jul 17, 2015
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  5. RutgersBeerGuy

    RutgersBeerGuy Savant (1,059) Jan 16, 2007 New Jersey

    I could easily echo the sentiments about Kane and Carton, but I'll reach a littler further...River Horse Oatmeal Milk Stout. It has a respectable rating on this site (88), but I really think that it suffers because the rest of the brewery's offerings are so incredibly mediocre. It really is a diamond in the rough.
     
    #25 RutgersBeerGuy, Jul 17, 2015
  6. lambpasty

    lambpasty Initiate (0) May 3, 2013 New Hampshire

    Everything Stoneface makes.
     
    #26 lambpasty, Jul 17, 2015
  7. Irishace9

    Irishace9 Initiate (0) Sep 7, 2012 Illinois

    Boulevard Imperial Stout Aztec Chocolate and almost everything from 18th Street Brewing!
     
    #27 Irishace9, Jul 17, 2015
  8. Sweatshirt

    Sweatshirt Initiate (0) Jan 27, 2014 New Hampshire

    No beer I like that doesn't have hype should have hype. Hype is useless.
     
    #28 Sweatshirt, Jul 17, 2015
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  9. brother_rebus

    brother_rebus Pooh-Bah (2,512) Jul 28, 2014 Maine
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    Oakshire watershed ipa.
    Happy camper
     
    #29 brother_rebus, Jul 17, 2015
  10. Scott17Taylor

    Scott17Taylor Initiate (0) Oct 28, 2013 Iowa
    Trader

    I think the entire smokestack series deserves hype. I've never had a beer from it that I didn't really like.
     
    #30 Scott17Taylor, Jul 17, 2015
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  11. Shroud0fdoom

    Shroud0fdoom Initiate (0) Oct 31, 2013 Maryland

    Well Said! When you're up this way again, hit me up man!
     
    #31 Shroud0fdoom, Jul 17, 2015
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  12. rae24

    rae24 Initiate (0) Mar 10, 2015 District of Columbia

    SCHLAFLY TASMANIAN IPA!

    -Good People Snake Handler
    -Greenbush Brother Benjamin
    -Epic Big Bad Baptist
    -Terrapin Wake n'Bake
    -De Dolle Boskeun
    -Houblon Chouffe
    -RAR Chopdank/Nanticoke
    -Founders Dark Penance
    -Bell's Quinannan Falls
    -Evolution Lot6
     
    #32 rae24, Jul 17, 2015
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  13. Yargamo

    Yargamo Initiate (0) Jun 9, 2015 New York

    Probably because it doesn't ship out of NJ.
     
    #33 Yargamo, Jul 17, 2015
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  14. Yargamo

    Yargamo Initiate (0) Jun 9, 2015 New York

    Boulevard The Calling IPA. Best IPA available to me in store in 4/6 packs. A masterpiece.
     
    #34 Yargamo, Jul 17, 2015
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  15. Rosinante

    Rosinante Initiate (0) Feb 26, 2014 Massachusetts

    Otter Creek Backseat Berner (IPA)
     
    #35 Rosinante, Jul 18, 2015
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  16. Dan269605

    Dan269605 Initiate (0) Jul 10, 2013 Connecticut

    Ithaca White Gold
     
    #36 Dan269605, Jul 18, 2015
  17. Dan269605

    Dan269605 Initiate (0) Jul 10, 2013 Connecticut

    Captain Lawrence Palate Shifter
    Most beers by Otter Creek
     
    #37 Dan269605, Jul 18, 2015
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  18. ovaltine

    ovaltine Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,787) Apr 6, 2010 Indiana
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    Surly Hell, an excellent Helles lager.

    Three Floyds Yum Yum. In the same league as Zombie Dust. For real.

    Finch's Hardcore Chimera, a phenomenal DIPA.

    I could post more, but I need to yank a Pinedrops from the cooler before I dehydrate.
     
    #38 ovaltine, Jul 18, 2015
  19. ChuckHardslab

    ChuckHardslab Maven (1,251) Jan 25, 2012 Texas

    Ska Modus Hoperandi. A truly excellent IPA and one of my favorites yet I rarely see it mentioned.
     
    #39 ChuckHardslab, Jul 18, 2015
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  20. JrGtr

    JrGtr Pooh-Bah (1,775) Apr 13, 2006 Massachusetts
    Pooh-Bah

    There as a pretty big hype a few years ago about Black Xantus - and it wouldn't stay on shelves. It would go as soon as it came in. Same with Alesmith Speedway, Brooklyn Black Ops, Imperial StoutTrooper, Even New Holland Dragon's Milk.
    I think that the hype train passed these guys by. Also with Black Xantus, it's pretty high priced, even by BBA Coffee Stout standards. I do have a few bottles down in my cellar waiting for a good time to open them.
     
    #40 JrGtr, Jul 18, 2015
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