What's in your beer fridge?

Hoptimum
Storm King
Yeti
Zoe
Full Throttle IPA
Stowaway IPA
Palate Wrecker
Stone IRS

 

Despite how my post came across, I am not religious or obsessed, nor refuse to drink IPA's that are only a couple weeks old. I do prefer fresh, as opposed to aged, and I typically don't buy more IPA's than I can drink within a couple days for that reason, which is why I typically have no IPA's on hand.

To answer your question though, the short answer is quite simply that I enjoy the aroma and taste of a fresh IPA. Does that mean that an older IPA can't be enjoyable? Of course not. But if I have a choice between really good and not quite as really good, I'll most likely choose the former. I'm not so picky about DIPAs because I actually appreciate a maltier, highter ABV DIPA as well as a hop forward one.

I have my own opinion and preferences, and while I will state them, I am actually a firm believer that taste is 100% subjective, that my opinion is nothing more than an opinion and that every person is entitled to their own opinion. So, you won't see me on the front lines, getting all hot and bothered that everyone doesn't share my same opinion.

Cheers.

 

I have 2 bottles of Palate Wrecker and a can of Furious, everything else is non-hophead stuff.

 

Just picked up a Palate Wrecker that I'm gonna have a hard time waiting till tomorrow to drink.

 

You sound like my wife!

 

I like her full

Summit IPA x3
Summit Extra Pale ale x2
Three Floyd's Alpha King x2
Sand Creek Wild Ride IPA
Oskar Blues Dales Pale Ale
Alaskan IPA
Dogfish Head 75 Minute IPA

and thats all in a mini fridge.

 

Caldera IPA
Green Flash West Coast IPA
Two Hearted Ale
Smuttynose IPA
Torpedo Extra IPA
DFH 90 minute
DFH Burton Baton
Port Hop 15
Maharaja
Terrapin Hopzilla

 

Right now in the realm of IPAs I have

1x 2nd Shift Brew Cocky
3x Green Flash Palate Wrecker
1x Sierra Nevada Hoptimum
3x Heavy Seas Loose Cannon
2x Bell's Hopslam

I don't really keep too many varieties of IPAs on hand - I tend to buy them in four/six packs as opposed to singles of other types of beer, and I also tend to keep them rotating fairly quickly.

 

flower power
back in black
and pliny next week...
its not in my fridge but double jack on draft most weekend

 

- Smutty IPA
- Little Sumpin' Sumpin'
- Founders Double Trouble

 

Torpedo. Cans. also, flower power when im able to find it extremely fresh since its exponentially better that way

 

Rochefort 6, Rochefort 8, Founder's Breakfast Stout, Firestone-Walker Sucaba, Lagunitas IPA, Arrogant Bastard, New Belgium Sour Brown (2011), Goose Island Pepe Nero, Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Stout, Hoptimum, Weihenstephaner Vitus, Buckner Brewing Amber Ale, John John Ale

Shameless plug; I'll be reviewing them all on my modest beer blog and I'd love your visit. My profile has a link.

 

Torpedo
Centennial
Crooked Tree
Southern Tier 2x
Ranger
Mad Hatter
Hop Stoopid

Going to grab one right now

 

DFH 60 Minute IPA
SN Bigfoot
Olde Burnside Stone of Destiny Ale
Long Trail Double IPA
Assorted Magic Hat offerings (+/-, Demo, #9, and Vinyl)
Assorted SA (Alpine Springs, Longshot Derf's Secret Alt and A Dark Night in Munich)
Rabid Duck
Lagunitas Maximus IPA
Cavalry X-Limited batch #2
BBC Gold Spike Ale
French Broad IPA
People's BBL Aged Porter
Olde Hickory Imperial Stout
Guinness Draught

 

Wookey Jack!

 

Heady Topper
Hoptimum
Flower power
Lawsons triple play ipa
Lawsons big happi
clown shoes hoppy feet
resin
dogfish 75min
firestone double jack
double trouble

 

Torpedo
Sculpin
Little Sumpin Sumpin
Rye-on-Rye
Mayflower Spring Hop
Flower Power

 

Lots in my fridge. But as far as DIPAs, right now:

Jailhouse Hop Riot
Sierra Nevada Hoptimum
Terrapin Hopzilla
Bells Hopslam
Alchemist Heady Topper
Oskar Blues Deviant Dales
Avery Maharaja

 

What timing, just poured the last of a growler of Finest Kind, in the fridge is a six of fresh Flower Power, on deck in cellar are a case and a half of homebrewed Blind Zombie (theoretical IBUS over 1000), still have 3 bombers of Hop Psychotic Batch 5, and some PTE coming in a trade. Guess I am pretty set hopwise also

 

Drinking Outrage IPA from Crossroads Brewery right now. In my fridge I have 4 KBS stashed away and two 22 ounce bottles of DFH Faithful. Oh yeah and I have a couple cans of Rheingold that have been in there for like five years now. I give those out to relatives I don't like.