Captains Daughter

Hmmmm, not usually. Do you know when it was canned?

 

Sometimes it is

 

It's beer. Drink it.

 

Looks disgusting, worse than Double Dose.
Can't say I've ever experienced that with CD. How's it taste?

 

Floaties can be prevalent in one can and not another in the same batch... It's unfiltered and most likely unpasteurized so this is a common occurrence in these types of beers. Pour out a Focal Banger or a Heady Topper in a glass and you will find quite the amount of particulates... Still should taste fine, but it does disturb some people understandably. It's mostly yeast that has flocculated to form "clumps" and some proteins among some other things that has dropped out of suspension.

 

Haha dude all I'm saying is it sounded like you came here to complain about the appearance of the beer when many IPAs look very similar. Does it smell bad? Does it taste bad? If not just drink it.

Do you homebrew? If so you must know how difficult it is to get every aspect of a beer 100% flawless every single time. There are always flaws.

Considering there's never been another post on the look of this beer, I'd say you found one of those flaws. How in depth did you expect responses to be when you only asked one question?

Does it always look like this? No. There's your ever so important input.

 

And you pretty much answered your own question by knowing that it is always varied. So why the question to start?

 

This beer unfortunately does suffer from occasional floaties, and it's a lot more pronounced in Captain's Daughter than similar unfiltered double IPAs. Anecdotally, I've found that floatie batches don't taste quite as good as the more clean looking batches. I've learned to pour this beer slow and to watch the beer carefully as it leaves the can, you can often catch it before it's too late and avoid filling your glass with sludge by reserving the last half ounce and dumping it.

 

Does anyone know how to find the date on these cans?

 

They put a sticker with the date on the plastic four pack holder. I imagine it's cheaper than buying a machine that stamps the date on the can. It's kind of annoying but not every brewery can afford the machine in their budget.

 

Doesn't look that bad tbh. At least compared to things like Back Berner, Focal Banger, etc.

 

people still pour out the whole can/bottle...?

I figured it was pretty much standard practice (especially with unfiltered hops) to let the container settle for an hour then stop pouring with an ounce or so left inside. I rarely ever find any shit floating in anything by doing this. Just close your eyes and swig the last oz at the bottom. Yum.

 

I've had the beer maybe half a dozen times and every time I get sea monkeys floating around. That's one of the main reasons I don't seek it out as often, the other being that I feel there are other better DIPAs that are easier to come by and more consistent.

 

For anyone who might be interested, the little liquor store next to Lucci's in Wilmington (Eastgate, I think) currently has fresh Captain's daughter for some reason. I passed because I'm wary of the consistency issues I've read here given the price for a 12 oz. 4 pack.

The store isn't the type of place that generally carries hard to find stuff so when they do get something rare it doesn't tend to go very fast (and much of their craft selection in general is often old). They do have the best prices around on Sierra Nevada 12 packs though so it has its place.

 

FYI, that same Eastgate Liquors in Wilmington has another bunch of Captain's Daughter in as of last night.

 

I've had the same experience more often than not. Tastes the same, just looks unpleasant.