BREW DOG: Hardcore IPA
June 20th, 2009 | brainjuice
Fucking hell, that’s savage stuff.
That is yes nine fucking percent of someone basically gathering eight tons of hops and punching you repeatedly in the face with them. This beer is just fucking madness in a bottle. There are tones of toffee and chocolate in there, but mostly it’s just successive regiments of evil and vengeful hops detonating landmines inside your head.
Possibly shouldn’t have sunk half a litre on an empty stomach no.
If you like bitter, Hardcore IPA is essentially the uber-bitter. In terms of sheer brutality, it has cut the heads off all other bitters. There can be only one. And it is in my stomach, beating up antibodies, as we speak.
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So it’s basically Old Peculiar under a new name then?…
Damn, i’m dying for an IPA.
Next time you’re in the USA, keep an eye out for Dogfish Head Brewery’s 120 Minute Imperial IPA- it’s 20% ABV and ranks 120 on the IBU scale. Bitter as hell, but also sweet. Drinks like a beer, gets you fucked like bum wine. Definitely worth the ten dollars per pansyass .33L bottles
Old Peculiar is only around 5%. This kicks Old Peculiar all over the shop.
Fuckin’ ‘ell. And here I thought Strong Suffolk was serious business.
Funny Old Pecuilar is usually the one doing the kicking…
See also: Stone Ruination (http://www.stonebrew.com/ruin/) from the makers of Arrogant Bastard.
I second both DFH 120 (or, I SUPPOSE, 90 if you’re not feeling up to it. But really, why fuck around?) and the Stone Ruination.
Brewdog Hardcore DBL IPA on cask at Bukowski Tavern in early July
1281 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
You want it
Ha, speaking of Dogfish 120; a local bar back home got a free case through a promotion and was selling them for $5 a bottle. The owner apparently didn’t get the raw power of the beverage so several frequenters were getting quiiiiite sloshed.
Seconded on the dogfish head 120 minute.
It smells of rancid piss in a rainy bucket and tastes like rosy nectar fermented sourdough.
The local brewer across the street sells it in 8 dollar, 5 oz. increments.
I’ve been draining the russian imperial chocolate stouts lately, though, as inspired czar grog is the “rage”.
DFH is alright for an East Coast IPA, but if you truly want a kick-your-ass IPA you’re due a visit out West. The afore mentioned Stone offering is quite tasty, but Russian River’s Pliny the Elder (8%) and Pliny the Younger (12%) are the reigning champions. Moylan’s also has a fine offering with Hopsickle, which chimes in at a nice 9.2%.
That said, I’d love to see any of these Brew Dog beers out here. They sound quite tasty.
“Half a litre” definitely sounds manlier than “just over one pint”.
“Half a litre” definitely sounds manlier than “just over a single pint”.
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An excellent one for all-out bitterness (but not much else) is Avery Maharaja, an Imperial IPA that somehow despite “only” registering 102 IBUs is the bitterest double IPA I’ve yet tasted.
Nthing the Dogfish Head 120 Minute; 0.33L may seem stingy, but you will be thoroughly wasted after two. DFH 90 minute isn’t lesser in any sense, it’s just a different breed: whereas 90 minute is a double IPA, comparable to Hercules, Hardcore, Maharaja, Stone Double IPA, et al; 120 minute is the result of some kind of mad experiment involving barleywine, IPAs, and a time traveling moonshiner from the 1930s.
If you’re interested in going a different direction but sticking with hoppiness, I recommend Imperial Stouts, a.k.a. Russian Imperial Stouts. These are essentially high-hop stouts; the style is derived from beers commissioned by some Czar or other and produced initially by stout-brewers in the UK. Old Rasputin is a good example of the American take on this, but good old Samuel Smith’s Russian Imperial is by far my favorite.
Try Gulden Draak, Belgian Ale, 10.5%. Good shit.