Haha! I mentioned breweries so I thought it was implied. Julius, Sap, Haze, Alter Ego, Lights Off, DDH Congress St, DDH Fort Point, Artaic, etc.
I hope to get to Treehouse but its unlikely before the swap. I actually hear someone I went to school with is involved. They are building a bigger brewery in Charlton which is a direction I get to a little more than Monson. I will probably go to the Brimfield antique show next month which is the next town over.
Did you go to the original Yankee Spirits in Sturbridge?
Start by cold crashing. If that doesn’t work, try gelatin.
Thought I had…maybe that was another discussion. I’d say Sticky Hands from Block 15 in Corvallis or the AIPA/DIPA (whose names I can’t recall) from Bale Breaker.
I have had Sap, Haze, Alter ego and a couple others from Treehouse, as well as an IPA from Building 8. I have about 5 more NE IPAs to go through before I post my thoughts on the website.
So, how do you crush a beer? I’ve crushed the can before but it’s extremely hard to compress liquid.
I never use crushable in describing a beer…huge pet peeve for me
Loved TKitH as a kid! Certainly not a pet peeve of mine!! Maybe gulpable works better for you? Or we can go Belgian and use ‘digestibility’?
extremely impossible to crush liquid… oh I get it a chem joke! haha
Digestibility is an infinitely more useful term than Crushable.
or English “Quaffable”
Or Bud Light’s “Drinkability” :
Funny that this showed up on the AHA page today.
I suspect collusion.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
Good thing I didn’t stop after “crushable” and actually described what I meant. Otherwise, no one would ever understand!!
Cheers!
Thanks Denny for a couple specific beers. I haven’t had any of those so something to look for. Living in NC, I feel like getting (even super fresh) IPAs shipped from the West Coast, I’m not seeing their true character. I wonder if you’re experiencing something similar have East Coast beers shipped across country. I know you’ll be on the East Coast in June. Maybe someone will arrange to bring you some freshies to try.
One example I can think of is Tropicalia from Creature Comforts in Athens. It’s a clear beer with a huge hop nose on it… but I still don’t think it’s to the level of those hazy NE IPAs. Maybe it’s perception (we taste/smell with our eyes first, right), but that’s been my take on it for the past year+.
Cheers!
I don’t think the freshness is the issue. His point is more that the haze isn’t from the hops and you don’t need haze for it to taste and smell hoppy.
Right. I understand his point, but all the examples we’ve discussed are 3,000 miles away from him.
99% right on, Toby! But I don’t know what the haze is from in these beers. Could be one or more of a number of things. But the flavor is definitely there, and I don’t feel it’s ;lacking or that the beers are not fresh. It’s more like I feel the haze is muting the flavors.
I think a lot of times it’s yeast. I know that Heady Topper is “supposed” to be consumed incredibly fresh, and from the can (constantly stirring up the yeast), and I suspect that’s because the yeast has taken a lot of hop flavor with it when it falls out. IPAs don’t age well in general, but this one seems to go downhill particularly fast.