REVIEW: Stone R&R Coconut IPA

Two wild brand new IPAs from Stone in as many posts? I must be doing something right. Today's beer, much like the last Stone collaboration beer I had (the fabulous and bizarre Dayman Coffee IPA), is borne of homebrewers. A couple of dudes, Robert Masterson and Ryan Reschan, won Stone's recent American Homebrewers Association contest and won the right to have their beer brewed at Stone with a little help from Paul Sangster and Guy Shobe of Rip Current Brewing. That's a pretty rad prize if I do say so myself. So a big west coast IPA brewed with an irresponsible amount of hops and hearty additions of toasted coconut? Sounds awesome. To the beer!

REVIEW: Founders Mango Magnifico Con Calor

I'm pretty excited for this one. Mango Magnifico Con Calor, a 10% ABV beer brewed with mango and habanero, and the newest entry into Founders' much lauded backstage series. This is the first backstage series beer I've been able to get onto the blog. Unfortunately a whole lot of them we can't get here in Ohio because of the asinine law that disallows any beer over 12% ABV. That's probably why the only backstage beers I've had (Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Doom, and Bolt Cutter) I all drank at the Beer Trappe in Lexington. Anyway, all of these beers are brewed in very small quantities and thus, highly sought after. I've been really impressed with all of the backstage beers I've had so I'm very pumped to give this one a try. To the beer!

REVIEW: Moat Mountain Blueberry

So I had a whole other beer set to go for today, Stone's RuinTen. But unfortunately I'm out of town for the weekend and I left my tasting notebook at home. So I'm not entirely sure what I was going to do today. Luckily, my friend Trey came through in the clutch. He and his girlfriend, Kristian, recently returned from a huge northeast roadtrip and he was exceedingly kind enough to bring me back a ton of beer. Truly a prince among men! So, thanks to Trey, today we're taking a look at Moat Mountain's Blueberry Ale. To the beer!

REVIEW: Dogfish Head Aprihop

So I've been pretty stubbornly avoiding the spring seasonals. Part of that is the ridiculous nature of the timing of many of these beers. Many summer beers have been on the shelves for weeks now. That is a topic that's been talked to death though. I think the main reason I haven't been partaking in many spring seasonals is that up until quite recently it hasn't felt anything like spring. But now that the weather has improved and the trees are starting to get green and the Reds are off to a 5 - 3 start it seems like it's finally time to crack open a few spring beers. Enter Aprihop from Dogfish Head, a 7.0% ABV 50 IBO IPA that's brewed with, you guessed it, Apricots! I'm also drinking Aprihop out of Dogfish's new IPA glass. It's supposed to accentuate hop aromas and maintain a good head. Whatever this glass does I think we can all agree it looks pretty rad. To the beer!

REVIEW: Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat

Today's beer is one that I wanted to try back at the Cincinnati Winter Beer Fest. I was in line at the Lost Coast booth and a tangerine wheat sounded intriguing. Unfortunately by the time I got to the front of the line the keg of Tangerine Wheat had been tapped out. I had to go for their Indicia IPA. Which wasn't to bad, if memory serves. I was at Jungle Jim's a while ago and saw this beer sitting there and I finally had my chance to try it. To the beer!