Do You Remember Your First IPA?

I got my bottle in a trade as well, 3 month old one in 2007. As I said earlier, I loved it.

 

Looks like there was also a HP Pils that I enjoyed much more. Go figure.

 

I meant 2007...

Btw. I see numerous check ins for it in 2020 on Untappd. Weird!

 

Hah. How good are the reviews?

 

I see from a 2.0 to a 5.0.

 

Gotta wonder if they've found it for sale or been sitting on it this long?

 

Is it the section of his pants in which Ken Grossman keeps his cash?

"A coarse sack for containing hops."

So, one of these:

https://www.facebook.com/brewdynast...-pocket-on-july-4th-special-/470607183508720/

 

Yeah, I looked that up, but is the implication that the beers used 80 kilos of hops in each batch?

 

I took it to mean they used whole flower hops, not pellets. I guess they could have called it "Hop Sack" but people might have confused it with the fabric used for a sports coat or maybe the cook on Bonanza.
The more energetic brother of the WWII era cartoon soldier?

(All I know is, I've got the frozen toaster-oven sandwich commercial song as an ear worm, now...)

 

Tweed?

 

I first went to Great Lakes Brewing Company around 1989/1990. I don’t know when I had it, but Commodore Perry was probably the first IPA I had.
I do distinctly remember the first time I had Stone Ruination, and I was blown away. Ithica’s Flower Power was an early influence as well.
I guess it’s sad that both (Ruination and Flower Power), of those beers are not what they once were.

 

Still is!

 

Damn, your daughter had a “favorite IPA” in high school?

 

My first was Pliny the Elder... and I hated it at first haha. Back when I was still trying to like beer.

 

I'll sadly never know the name of my first. All I know is that it was 2007 in Bellingham, WA in a gastropub that did it's own thang. I had never had an IPA (obv) and this one kicked my ass. I refused to hate it, however, and ordered it two more times within the hour, determined to understand what was happening (as a Midland TX boy who only really had Shiners and Fredericksburg TX brews or the occasional craft Stout I could find). I wound up slightly drunk and 10 minutes late to my tattoo appt which I had been biding my time in the pub waiting for.

honestly, I've just been chasing that high ever since

 

If I had to guess I would say it was Longtrail.

 

Harpoon around 2005, went to a family vacation in Maine.

 

Oh yes I do.
And I do remember that it was a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, that I, green behind the ears thought was a “kind of” an IPA... (still my favorite brew though)

 

I don’t remember my first IPA but I do remember that “Pieces of Eight” from Foley Brothers was the one that started me down this journey of being a Craft Beer Enthusiast (aka alcoholism as a hobby).

 

Yeah. She did.