Regular Heady Consumer Tries Pliny The Elder

your ignorance speaks volumes.

 

I concur, you must enjoy substandard beers mate.

 

I'm not a native New Englander and I find that this site's really been teaching me a lot about Vermonter self-regard.

There's loads of great stuff beyond your verdant ranges, dude, and any good beer shop is stuffed with quality.

 

I would agree with you, sir.

 

I like Ghandi Bot, but just can't agree with this. If you said HF Galaxy then maybe...

 

Wait, has a beer ever been subjectively super enjoyable you? Have you ever then had another beer in the same style category and felt it wasn't as subjectively enjoyable for you?

 

I had heady thought it was underwhelming. Even it's appearance looked cloudy and unappealing. Out of the can it is better but I would rather have Pliny over it. That being said I would rather have any Pipeworks DIPA over either of these beers.

 

Say word

 

both over rated

 

Not self regard so much as a realization that we have some superior breweries here. No big heads/egos here, at least from this kid. Only a humble pride that comes from knowing that we little guys can stand up to some of THE best. Again, I agree with you assessment that there are just as good beer shops anywhere else in the US.

 

Pliny is balanced? My how things have changed.

 

I'm with D on this. Pliny and Abrasive are better beers than Heady- which was underwhelming for me.

For me:

Pliny = awesome DIPA that I'll drink every single day if I could. I'll never get tired of it, full of grapefruit bitterness yet has a solidly sweet enough malt backbone that makes it more than another one-dimensional DIPA.


Abrasive = awesome DIPA that stings the hell out of my palate with all sorts of hop flavours- but I can't drink it every day. Just whenever I feel like blowing my palate away


Heady = very good DIPA that looks nasty when poured into a glass and very good when consumed out of the can.

 

heady/pliny whatever...BOY KING bitches...and Shane's Big DIPA

see everyone has their own "homer" dipa

 

New Englander pisses on Pliny and Californian pissed on Heady. What a surprise.

 

Says the man from NY. Keep defending Unearthly... Cheers!

 

Well sure. The existence of superior VT brews is a prerequisite for this thread's existence, and I have no doubt that they're really that good. I just think the top-shelf is only a shelf away from the next-to-top shelf, which is available all over; I would expect the former to be better than the latter, but not by any magnitude.

 

very true

 

Just bring back Red Wolf and get this whole bullshit discussion over with!

 

Citrus explosion? Even 1 week old Pliny wasn't a citrus explosion. I've had more citrus explosion from a month old Lagunitas Sucks than I have from the freshest Pliny I've drank. Pliny has always been a resinous, piney, dank, easy drinking DIPA.

By that statement, that means that if there's no SNPA, there's no Pliny. Just saying.

 

Abrasive is comprable. But fades even faster than Pliny in freshness. Is a malt bomb after 3 weeks, whereas Pliny is cardboard after 4. Fresh Dreadnaught should be in the runnings ahead of Heady with PtE IMHO