Lucky you. I try to stick to the 6% and lower stuff so I can actually have 2 beers in a day. Any more than that and my heart's PVCs get bad. I miss being able to have a good imperial stout or strong Belgian ale.
Unless you have stumbled to the bathroom in the morning and, for whatever reason, taken a swig from that bottle on top of the toilet tank, only to discover that it contains a cigarette butt, you are not qualified to participate in this discussion. If you didn't spit that shit out, I bow before you. Your opinion outweighs mine.
If it's wet, I'll drink it. Did 14 Stone IPA's yesterday, Costco didn't have Lagunitas Little Sumpin. Que lastima. Miller whateva schtinks.
it was in a locked case. the store had about $50K worth of scotch stolen at one point, which included "a bottle of Tullibardine 1952 with a $28,000 price tag; a bottle of Highland Park 50-year-old worth $22,000" They also have a private almost vault with some high $30k-50k+ bottles of wine and other things.
Ahem. Elephant is not an ale (IP or otherwise). It's basically a Danish hellesbock that comes off more like an old fashioned malt liquor. And...it isn't that bad, after the second one, anyway. It probably had. I have found two year old bottles, and they are quite poor. When fresh, that beer is pretty good and an interesting take on Latin Oscura.
Definitely all IPA's. Here, there are a lot of microbreweries and I think they competing for a trophy for a beer that most tastes like horse piss.
I am a straight-up shitty beer enthusiast; when i was touring in a band I'd just ask the bartender for their worst beer, (the answers to which were pretty revealing about the bartender & the joint in general) but this was the only local beer I ever found inedible. It tasted like they stopped about halfway through the brewing process & went ahead and started bottling it anyway.
Used to only see it when we visited the wife's family, but now she found a source in Chicago and it's around at least once a month. I eat it to be a good guest in Southern Louisiana but I'm not touching it up here. Not sure what it is with the French and their descendants eating pasty meat.
I like a mild IPA but when the manbuns are trying to outdo each other with the hops, it gets pretty foul. But even a major IPA is better than a sour beer. That's a fad that could die in the Allmight Sarlac any old day now.