Looking for bitter, piney, classic west coast IPA's.

Just drink swamis forever then
Swami's IPA is a West Coast style IPA with citrus and pine notes, 6.8% alcohol, and uses Chinook, CTZ, Cascade, Centennial, Citra, and Simcoe hops.

Buy a years worth of Swami , Citraholic and Amalgamator and never come back!

 

My answers will not help you, I just by the tried and true classic ones that are still around here: Yards IPA, Troëgs Perpetual and their new seasonal Leaf Seeker, Victory Hop Devil, and then the occasional finding of good dated Firestone Union Jack.

What about Hopsecutioner? That’s still gotta be around down there; Sweetwater??

 

Then there's the answer to your problem.

You just live in an area that isn't the West Coast where most West Coast IPAs are.

You can always set up a trade or some BA can send you some from out here
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Boundary Bay Cedar Dust (now brewed by Black Raven) is your solution. Gotta come to the Puget Sound area to get it though.

 

That stinks @Donovanj I feel like my recollection, 15 years ago or so, of Hopsecutioner is what you said it no longer is, bummer.

SN Northern Hemisphere Harvest is in six packs again and out in the wild. I smiled the whole time I drank it, couldn’t stop, every sip.

 

Just had a Dogfish Head Covered in Nuggs, it fits the bill, I was pleasantly surprised.

 

Last weekend in the NBW thread I discussed a relatively new brand from Sly Fox: Coastal Quest IPA. They brand this beer via "West Coast-style IPA".

From my post:

"Aroma:

A combination of citrus and pine with a hint of biscuit malt in the background.

Taste:

The flavor follows the nose with a combination citrus/pine hop flavors and just a tiny bit of biscuit malt flavor. There is a medium bitterness."

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/new-beer-weekend-274.681765/#post-8255496

Maybe you would prefer a more elevated level of bitterness?

Also, Sly Fox is likely not available in Georgia?

Cheers!

 

Head Hunter.

 

Dang dude, you just show up with Mr. Peabody in the Wayback Machine? That beer was way ahead of it's time for use of hops and how goddamn bitter it was for being brewed on the East Coast in the 90s.

 

LaCumbre Elevated

 

Instant ‘90s street cred, Tupper’s Hop Pocket! Next he’ll be telling us about his homebrewed Sister Star of the Sun!

 

Had to break open Michael Jackson's "Ultimate Beer" (1998) to re-read what he had to say about it.

(pg 137) "Bob Tupper is a history teach who give lectures on beer at a famous bar, The Brickskeller [another trip down memory lane], in Washington, D.C. He and his wife Ellie, an editor, designed this beer, which is produced by the local Old Dominion brewery. It has a flowery aroma; a crisp, cedary, malt background; and a wood-bark bitterness in its big, lingering finish. A hop "pocket" is the long sack in which pressed hops are packed. It looks like a boxer's punchbag; this beer hops and hits with the best."

This was back when Old Dominion was still located in VA, not entirely sure when they moved to Delaware. I seem to remember that by the late 2000s it was contract brewed at St. George in Hampton, but I may be mistaken.

Anyhow, it was a crazy beer for back then. Separate the men from the boys, put hair on your chest type beer. As bitter but with less caramel malt sweetness than the WCIPAs that were just starting to show up when I first started really getting into craft in the early 2000s. It should be resurrected.

The Hop Pocket Pilsner was also very nice, but I don't have memories of it like I did the ale.

 

But my recommendation is to pick up a sixer of Bigfoot when it's released in the next couple months. Drink it fresh. I don't think you'll be disappointed.