From the elusive Lawson’s Finest Liquids of Vermont, the Chinooker’d IPA is an atomic hop bomb – and that bomb’s name is Chinook.  This is Lawson’s award winning single hop IPA – with that single hop being Chinook for the slower readers out there.  Chinook hops are not for everyone, especially me – but Amy [...]

A British IPA.   Kind of an oxymoron.  While Britan may have their share of scary looking talent,  they are the William Hung of hoppy beers.  Historically I would think that British IPAs would be hoppy – after all the origin of the style itself would lead you to believe that the first IPAs were [...]

I love the name of this beer.  Amy on the other hand just plain loved the beer in general. And no, she didn’t really drink it out of the bottle.  (at least that’s what she told me to say) Hop Stoopid is a big ole west coast beer, which despite what I thought is not [...]

Believe it or not I had never tried Racer 5 before.  I have actually tried a couple of solid clones of this beer thanks to one of the Masholes; but never let him know that I had no idea what he was cloning.   Now that I have tried the original, I see why he is [...]