Beer with the wrong label?

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  1. BurgeoningBrewhead

    BurgeoningBrewhead Initiate (0) Jul 18, 2012 Pennsylvania

    I just poured an Otter Creek Black IPA, and it's so off for the style that I would almost believe they put the wrong label on one of their porters.

    Have you ever had a beer so off-style that you thought it was in the wrong bottle?
     
  2. JamesShoemaker

    JamesShoemaker Initiate (0) Sep 21, 2012 Michigan

    Nope, but I did have that beer yesterday and it tasted more like a Porter than an IPA.
     
  3. BurgeoningBrewhead

    BurgeoningBrewhead Initiate (0) Jul 18, 2012 Pennsylvania

    My thoughts exactly. I mean, the "American Black Ale" style that BA lumps Black IPAs under is a bit broad, but something calling itself a Black IPA should have a good bit more hop flavor than this has.
     
  4. fritts211

    fritts211 Initiate (0) Feb 19, 2011 Tennessee

    Date? Could be past it's prime maybe.
     
  5. VictorWisc

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

    I'd avoid LT and OT, with a few very specific exceptions. Was it from a mixed case?
     
  6. BurgeoningBrewhead

    BurgeoningBrewhead Initiate (0) Jul 18, 2012 Pennsylvania

    5/22/13, so could be. IPAs can fade pretty badly, but it still should have had SOME hop flavor.
     
  7. BurgeoningBrewhead

    BurgeoningBrewhead Initiate (0) Jul 18, 2012 Pennsylvania

    Not sure what it was originally part of; got it in a mix-a-six.
     
  8. fritts211

    fritts211 Initiate (0) Feb 19, 2011 Tennessee

    Should still I'd imagine. Never had that particular beer, but I'd wager lightly hopped black ipa+fade as more likely than mislabeled. Just my 2 cents though, could be wrong.
     
  9. BurgeoningBrewhead

    BurgeoningBrewhead Initiate (0) Jul 18, 2012 Pennsylvania


    Probably; I don't really think it was literally mislabeled, as that's very improbable. The "wrong label" thing is mostly exaggeration.
     
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  10. fritts211

    fritts211 Initiate (0) Feb 19, 2011 Tennessee

    Ah, got it. Reading comprehension ftw.

    Had a beer recently in Knoxville from saw works brewery that they swore was a double ipa that tasted like water was passed through a hop filled Randall once, only thing I can think of that comes close to what you were talking about :slight_smile: .

    Edit: And a scotch ale from smokey mountain brewery that tasted like nail polish remover/brown ale hybrid. I hate I'm moving back there dammit. :slight_frown:
     
  11. Ispeakforthetrees

    Ispeakforthetrees Initiate (0) Apr 2, 2012 Colorado

    When I opened this thread I thought this to be different.

    More like.

    "I opened up nice BA ____ (Instert BA stout easily available in your distro) and instead of being jet black, it appeared to look and smell like a Bud Light"
     
  12. dap325

    dap325 Initiate (0) Apr 2, 2009 New York

    I bought an Emelisse Espresso Stout recently that had the description of their Double IPA on the back of the bottle. The beer was good and what I had expected (not mislabeled as far as the beer that was actually in the bottle). It was just a misprint as far as the description on the label goes.
     
  13. Orca

    Orca Grand Pooh-Bah (4,710) Sep 18, 2010 Washington
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    How do you know it wasn't the right label but the wrong beer?
     
  14. GardenWaters

    GardenWaters Initiate (0) Jan 8, 2012 Illinois

    I drank some really fresh Storm King a while back. If I didn't know any better, I would have sworn I was drinking a black IPA because it was so hoppy. I did enjoy it though.
     
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  15. BurgeoningBrewhead

    BurgeoningBrewhead Initiate (0) Jul 18, 2012 Pennsylvania


    I guess we should have switched beers.
     
  16. BurgeoningBrewhead

    BurgeoningBrewhead Initiate (0) Jul 18, 2012 Pennsylvania


    Well, because...wait...
     
  17. Alexmc2

    Alexmc2 Pundit (808) Jul 29, 2006 New Hampshire

    When I worked on a bottling line I once put a stack of labels upside down. The rest of my day consisted of removing them and relabeling. That sucked.
     
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  18. 5thOhio

    5thOhio Pooh-Bah (1,571) May 13, 2007 South Carolina
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    The whole "Black IPA" or whatever you want to call it is silly to me. With maybe one or two exceptions, most that I've had just taste like hopped-up porters.
     
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  19. spicoli00

    spicoli00 Pooh-Bah (2,305) Jul 6, 2005 Indiana
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    I prefer cascadian dark ale
     
  20. paulys55

    paulys55 Initiate (0) Aug 2, 2010 Pennsylvania

    I was once given a sip of hooker vomit that was mistakenly labeled "Bud Chelada".
     
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