Breweries/Beers You Miss

Unfortunately I think Garrison discontinued the Imperial IPA in favour of “Juicy IPA”. It’s a shame. They also changed the recipe maybe 5 years ago, it was a Greg Nash (now Unfiltered Brewing) recipe originally. Wasn’t quite the same after the recipe change so I wasn’t buying it anyway, but still miss it. Real bitter IPA are sadly few and far between on NB shelves these days

 

I know all my SoCal playa’s feel me:

I also don’t like the new canned version of Pseudo Sue. Tastes like pure onions to me. It’s the only beer by Toppling Goliath that I don’t like now:

 

Bruery Melange 3. I'm holding on to my last couple of bottles hoping it makes a return so I can drink them!

 

I didn’t realize that. I had the Juicy IPA and wasn’t particularly impressed. The Imperial IPA I recall was a wonderful hop bomb, although this was many years ago. My wife and I went to Unfiltered while in Halifax last summer and thought the beers on tap at the time were quite good. It’s just a hop, skip and a jump from Good Robot Brewing on Robie Street. Wasn’t quite so impressed with their stuff.

 

Sherlock's Home & Pipers Pride mild in Minnetonka MN. Damn, I miss that place & beer!

 

For local to Massachusetts, Pretty Things is the clear answer IMO.

For nationally distributed beers, the old beers/recipes of Stone. Sublimely, IRS, Levitation, OG Ruination...

 

Anderson Valley Brewing's ESB. Used to drink bombers of that beer all the time

 

I miss getting Bear Republic here in Montana. Hop rod rye and racer 5 were my go 2s

 

Budweiser American Ale. I thought it was the perfect "watching baseball" beer. Chilly April, hot and humid July, breezy September, it was great at every point of the season.

 

Old school Stone

I like the current stuff but I loved the shit out of SSR, Smoked Porter, Levitation, etc.

 

If you weren’t drinking beer in Ontario 6 or 7 years ago, this will be meaningless, but Cameron’s RPA was the best beer the brewery made and the best rye pale ale I’ve ever had. I still don’t understand why they retired it. It is still their highest rated beer on this site by .50 points (4.06 vs. 3.66 for the best on their all-time list...)

 

I remember receiving this in a CanBIF and thinking it was spectacular.

Another one I miss was another Greg Nash creation when he was the brewer at Pump House for a time. It was simply called IPA and only on tap at the brewpub. Later, they stopped making their ESB and replaced with a malt forward IPA called, well, IPA. Then the old IPA was replaced with “4 Alarm”, a decent but not spectacular replacement. So I guess I lost the “real” IPA as well as a good ESB (“SOB” was the name) in the shakeup.

 

I miss Coors. That is, I miss the mystique of having to drive halfway across the country to get it. I also miss those push-tab "thumbslicer" cans. Good times...

 

-Ithaca Nut Brown and OG Flower Power
-OG Sucks
-Peak Organic Fall Summit (and hoppy beers brewed Summit hops in general. Love that polarizing oniony, overripe pineapple dankness)
-Most of the Dundee’s line up. Especially the Pale, Kolsch, Porter and Oktoberfest.

 

Boulevard Frequent Flier Session IPA: Proof of a very tasty brew at low abv. So so good.

Sam Adams Honey Porter: It went down cold syrupy and somewhat sweet. Nothing compares.

 

That is also a great one. Ben was making some of the best farmhouse ales. They were so good. I probably still have some bottles kicking around somewhere. He and his wife have a new project opening up in Bellingham, WA. It's called Otherlands Beer: https://www.instagram.com/otherlandsbeer/?hl=en

 

Awesome! Thanks for letting me know!

 

I miss the more original/experimental Sam Adams. I miss their Black Lager, Alpine Spring, Noble Pils...

 

I was just thinking about this the other day, but my answer is Boulevard's Bully Porter. I only just recently learned that it was discontinued in the past few weeks.

Apparently the style (English style porter?) is too obscure for such a mainstream brewery. But I absolutely loved that beer. In fact it might have been my favorite Boulevard offering. It had a great bitter, roasty, and malty character to it. A unique beer in today's landscape for sure.

On the topic - does anyone have any recommendations for something that might be similar? With the caveat that it is widely available. I am in Kansas City metro for reference.

 

I sure miss Great Lakes Brewing Company since I moved to Florida several years ago, as well as Three Floyds Brewing. While some of Victory Brewing products can be found down here, it never includes Prima Pils.