IPAs and Geography

Good Life Descender IPA and Block 15 Sticky Hands, Hop Valley does some fairly good IPAs, Boneyard RPM, Hop Venom, and Notorious are fairly hard to beat, as are Pallet Jack and Forklift IIPA from Barley Browns. Oakshire Bike Ride and Perfect Storm. I live in the best area HANDS DOWN for IPAs, so it is just too hard to choose. Of course I really enjoy my IPA as well (need to put my keg in the keezer tonight... must have hops...).

Perfect Storm and Sticky Hands are hard to clone since the hops change with each iteration.

 

So did I

 

I'll bite. Avery has some distinct BA beers that I dont feel other breweries are doing. The stouts are big and chewy, boozy, and sometimes pushing 20% abv without seeming overdone. Recently they dropped five monks, a BA "quintuple" that was like no other belgian dark strong I have ever come across. I am not sure how cloneable they are, but anyone doing that brewers retreat could pick Andy Parker's brain about these beers. Also, Casey brewing and blending uses micro organisms harvested locally to brew their beers from what I hear. How much more regional does it get?
edit. Just realized it says ipas and geography. Colorado is pretty weak on ipas. Comrade has superpower, and while tasty, isnt any different than any other dry bitter west coast ipas.

 

Not trying correct you trying to find out if there is another killer brewery in Kern or if you're talking about a different area. I started going up to Kernville last few years to camp and whitewater raft, not much rafting with the recent drought. The brewery I visit is called Kern River Brewing Company that makes awesome IPAs. Their dirty hippie, just outstanding, double citra and shuttle bunny are world class IPAs. Never had or heard of hop nookie so I am not sure if it's the same place.

Their is a fairly new brewery in my area called noble ale works that's makes awesome beers. Their ipas are juicy bitter hop bombs. They do a double ipa showers series were they brew dipas with only one hop. Nelson, Galaxy, mosaic and citra were all legit. They also brewed mosaic and citra triple showers. 11% with no booze and not
Syrupy and sweet.

 

The BrewGentlemen in Braddock PA. I'm friends with the brewers and they are absolutely crushing it with hoppy beers. Very hazy and very aromatic. Juicy. Drinkable. Just outstanding beers. Very NE esque!!!

 

VT, NY, NJ, GA, MA are putting out solid IPAs. if you ever have a chance to have Other Half, Creature Comforts, Carton, Lawsons, Alchemist, Treehouse...Do not hesitate.

 

In Denver, Boulder, Ft Collins... obviously.
In Colorado Springs, not to much - kind of a void to fill here - decent breweries but nothing that I'd tout or distribute frankly. ANYONE who can brew worth a damn will make a killing here once we get some new talent in town. Just sayin' (bait laid).

 

45th Parallel from Trinity was pretty fantastic, though at that price, not an everyday drinker.

 

Red swing was different, but Yester's attitude has left a sour taste in my mouth.

 

Okay, so the one and only way to end the constant debate intimated by the title thread is this, and as a computer scientist I can say this wouldn't be hard but I don't feel like spending hours on a pet project just to say I did it either when I have nasty grad school assignments to stay on top of, so I'm posting the idea here for anyone who cares enough to do it:

1. Scrub BA of all American IPA reviews
2. Group by geographical unit of your choice (county/region of state/state/region of country/etc)
3. Extract all descriptive attributes (citrusy, dank, crisp, hazy, etc.) and compile statistics based on your geographical region
4. Get a map of the USA. Color each state/county/whatever boundary you want based on the percentage of each relevant descriptive element extracted per geographical region
5. End the 'what makes a [insert geographical region] IPA' debate once and for all. Let the data speak.

 

Sweet.

 

Data? Scientific method? Thats unamerican...

 

Arizona Wilderness makes a regular called Refuge IPA as well as their take on a Belgian IPA with Brett called Suit and tIePA. Both great beers from a great little brewery right here in AZ.

 

Maybe this is just me...but delicious > local any day of the week. However, you got both so it's a double win!

 

Bay Area (SF) and NE (Vermont) are the best in my opinion. Vermont/Maine are great because there are so many great breweries in such a small area. The Bay Area is great because of the breweries and weather. Nothing like sitting outside at Lagunitas Brewing.

 

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....definitely San Diego and New England...nothing to see here in the PNW.

 

There's a brewery in Georgia (Southern Brewing Co.) who uses a wild yeast strain harvested from the azaleas next to their front door. Pretty local, I'd say.