Mendocino Brewing Company is one of those breweries that I didn’t know about until I received one of their beers via a “beer of the month club” package. Out of this package I got two beers, one of them the Black Hawk Stout and the other the White Hawk IPA. Today I’ll be reviewing the White Hawk as it is 60 degrees at the end of January, and an IPA seems fitting and refreshing.
Bell’s Hopslam Ale is one of those beers I look forward to its release each year. After getting word a semi-local distributor received cases, I promptly drove 50 minutes one way to acquire one. Bottled on 1/9/2012, these are extremely fresh and hopefully tasting just like I remember last year: hoppy, bitter, citrusy and sweet.
Maximus and IPA are two words that belong together, their destiny is to be imprinted on a bottle of beer. That’s just what Lagunitas did, they took plenty of hops, malt, and yeast to make the Maximus IPA. Clocking in at 72.41 IBUs there should be some decent bitterness, but not so much that it is difficult to create a well rounded IPA.
Having just reviewed a Sierra Nevada beer it is only fitting that I review another one. The Estate Homegrown Ale is brewed using organic wet hops and barley grown at the Sierra Nevada brewery in Chico, California. The beer is all organic and is one of the few estate-brewed beers in the world.
Browsing around my local beer store recently, for nothing in particular mind you, there was one 4-pack that I gravitated towards almost immediately: Diesel from Sixpoint out of Brooklyn, NY. Diesel is Sixpoint’s latest offering available on tap in many locations around the northeast and in cans in most places where Sixpoint is sold.
