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Pliny the Younger
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Supplication and Consecration are two incredible sours.enframed said:
PtY is awesome, it really is a good beer. I will be there in a few days, not waiting in line though, I have a friend for that.
How funny is this.....Oakleys_N_Zinka said:
So I had a no wait-in-line Pliny the Younger the other day and think, yeppers, great hop aroma...reminds me of that illegal grow operation I stumbled up back in the day mixed with my first ever hop growing experiment combined with those days where you hadn't eaten anything since last nights dinner and you had been hacking away blackberry brambles from the side of a barn all day long so you could earn money for college books next year and the farmer hands you an ice cold beer (Heidelberg?) at the end of the day with the $40 he said he'd pay in his other hand.
Well anyway, it was good and I was feeling fine with my thoughts.
I come home and the neighboor comes over and says, "Hey, you wanna try some beer...it is much stronger than I thought it was and I don't think I can have another glass and pick up my kids from pactice later.
"Sure," says I.
Lo and behold, it is Simtra, which I've not had because, well, $10 a bottle (24 oz).
Well, I gotta say, aroma wise, it is just super good. If you like the hop scent, you'd like this. Pretty much on par with PTY, maybe even better.
Tastewise, if you like this style of (triple) IPA, you won't be sad you had this. Two thumbs up to a properly chilled bottle of Simtra ( review here) .
However, and it could be just me and the beer I had an hour or so prior to tasting this one, the PTY was less hot on the throat (alcohol) and maybe a tiny bit less bitter.
Definitely choose this over standing in line for a long time.
Oh, eat some food prior to drinking this stuff....:drunk:
I would pound Simtra like Coors Light if I could afford to and it didn't get met me so damn drunk.
Bump. Just had my 3 10 oz glass allotment of the 2020. It took some serious effort to stretch those out over the course of an hour, but it left me with a nice buzz in the end. I’m always in the area for work during the release, and I had the afternoon off, so I figured why the hell not. Went to the Windsor location that looks more like a giant wine tasting room, which is kinda lame. But to their credit, the wainscotting looks fabulous!
I first tried the younger last year and only waited about 20 minutes. It was the first year the Windsor location was open, so it helped to spread the crowd with the Santa Rosa location. Today the wait was just under 3 hours from standing in line to first sip. Kinda like what happens when you add a lane to a major freeway- it helps the traffic for a short while, then the word gets out and it becomes just as bad. Madness.
Definitely tasty and surprisingly smooth for a boozy beer. Would I stand in that line again? Probably not. I did enjoy the camaraderie and bro’ing down about beer while in line and inside. That’s definitely part of the experience. Worth traveling around the world? Yal on crack.
Part of this years’ crowd factor is that they allow you to buy 2 half liter bottles once inside, but I think it’s the Instagram influencer #bucketlist fomo BS that drives the crowds. Oh well. Was a fun time, but probably the last time. In the end, there’s too much good beer out there to deal with that noise.
I first tried the younger last year and only waited about 20 minutes. It was the first year the Windsor location was open, so it helped to spread the crowd with the Santa Rosa location. Today the wait was just under 3 hours from standing in line to first sip. Kinda like what happens when you add a lane to a major freeway- it helps the traffic for a short while, then the word gets out and it becomes just as bad. Madness.
Definitely tasty and surprisingly smooth for a boozy beer. Would I stand in that line again? Probably not. I did enjoy the camaraderie and bro’ing down about beer while in line and inside. That’s definitely part of the experience. Worth traveling around the world? Yal on crack.
Part of this years’ crowd factor is that they allow you to buy 2 half liter bottles once inside, but I think it’s the Instagram influencer #bucketlist fomo BS that drives the crowds. Oh well. Was a fun time, but probably the last time. In the end, there’s too much good beer out there to deal with that noise.
20th annual Double IPA awards held in Hayward CA.
Kern River took #1 in the double IPA's. Been there a bunch of times. A little, dinky place in Kernville.
Great beer...
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Kern River took #1 in the double IPA's. Been there a bunch of times. A little, dinky place in Kernville.
Great beer...
Bistro Double IPA Winners 2020 - Brookston Beer Bulletin
Earlier today, the 20th annual Double IPA Festival was held at the Bistro in Hayward, California. I got there early for judging again this year, and was sequestered in the dark, dank basement out of the view of the beautiful Bay Area sun for most of the morning. We judged over 100 Double and...
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Did I already post that I can’t tell the difference from Sierra Nevada and Pliny? Way overhyped.
Get to monkish for the good stuff
El Segundo brewery is trash. Steve Austin’s beer tastes like soap.
Made the mistake of getting stone from Costco. Trash.
Get to monkish for the good stuff
El Segundo brewery is trash. Steve Austin’s beer tastes like soap.
Made the mistake of getting stone from Costco. Trash.
I don’t disagree on the overhyped comment, but can you seriously not tell the difference between a Sierra Nevada and a Pliny?
I drank them back to back to be fair so not the best comparison. Pliny first. First drink of Sierra I was like yeah that Pliny wasn’t worth the $12 or whatever I paid.
I think the ones to try/look out for is Slice Brewery in Lincoln, CA. Over by Sacto.
They won the peoples choice in both the double and triple IPA catagories. Exactly how Rogue started out with the Plineys...
They won the peoples choice in both the double and triple IPA catagories. Exactly how Rogue started out with the Plineys...
Gotta keep my eye out. Fresh really makes a huge difference. The Pliny I had wasn’t fresh from brewery. So, maybe a different experience at the source.
If you are a talking a Sierra Nevada pale ale versus Pliny the Elder, the Pliny is a better beer, but arguably not worth the premium. Certainly a noticeable % alcohol difference though.
Read the review on the contest about a week ago and it was a really big buzz that an unknown, startup brewery from the Central Val took two first places.