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Orange Blooded [2987]
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What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 1:27 PM
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A few I like are Mountain Candy by Old Sycamore Brewing, Dirty Myrtle by New South Brewing, and Freak of Nature by Wicked Weed. Like trying new things. The hoppier the better. Any favorites or suggestions?
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Orange Blooded [3413]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 1:35 PM
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Can't go wrong with Sierra Nevada, their torpedo extra IPA is really good and it can be found in most grocery stores.
Sweetwater 420 is another that's easy to find but still really good.
Bell's two hearted IPA is hit or miss, some batches are good, some are bleh...
Dale's pale ale, while not labeled an IPA is really good and hoppy, a bit difficult to find in the southeast.
Lots of options these days, and I'm sure there are dozens of local breweries with great stuff
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Heisman Winner [119558]
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Trolling much?***
Oct 6, 2022, 3:34 PM
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 4:35 PM
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Any IPA I've brewed and on tap in the keezer or fridge in basement.
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All-American [582]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 5:06 PM
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where can I get one of them???
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 7, 2022, 10:05 AM
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I built it a few years ago using spray cans and pinstriping tape. Top is scaled at 1" = 10'
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Orange Blooded [2217]
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Orange Blooded [3634]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 1:36 PM
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Not a huge IPA fan, but New Belgium's Voodoo Ranger is one I enjoy.
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All-TigerNet [13888]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 1:39 PM
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Voodoo Ranger
Hazy Lil' Thing
Space Dust
Wicked Weed Pernicious
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Orange Blooded [2928]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 1:53 PM
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I second this list
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 2:37 PM
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I agree and add:
Harpoon IPA
Sweetwater IPA
Dogfish 60 minute IPA
Hopdang diggity IPA
Terrapin Hopsecutioner
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Legend [16213]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 1:40 PM
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I enjoy them all, save for the NEIPA variety - they have a sweet finish I don't enjoy.
I hit up WECO in West Columbia Fridays for a random assortment for the week. IPA, DIPA, TIPA, and West Coast - they all check the boxes.
Bearded Iris stands out, along with Heist and Edmunds Oast. Westbrook, Wicked Weed, and Terrapin are my go-to 6-packs.
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Mascot [18]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 1:45 PM
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Keowee Brewing My Blood Runs Orange & Lake Fog Version 15
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 1:56 PM
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Those are 2 of my favorites as well!!
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 1:43 PM
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-If you ever have a chance to try Burial Brewery in Asheville - it's my absolute favorite brewery - NE style.
-Most of my favorites are local microbrews.
-If you can find Alchemist - Focal Banger and Heady Topper - both excellent.
-Always enjoyed almost all of the Stone Brewing IPA's which can be found pretty much anywhere.
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 2:09 PM
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Also have a new tap room in the Plaza Midwood neighborhood in Charlotte
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CU Guru [1150]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 1:46 PM
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All my in-laws drink are Hazy IPAs which usually are the New England IPAs, and I have grown to like those. Some of those I like are:
Sierra Nevada - Hazy Little Thing
Charlestown Fermentory - Sungazer
Freeborn IPA - 13 Stripes Brewing
Hazy Heights IPA - Highland Brewing
Green Wave - Silos Brewing
2 Claw IPA - West Brooke Brewing
The sweet spots for hazy IPAs is around 6.0 - 6.5% Alc. Anything more than that is too boozy and less than that doesnt have the right flavor.
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Legend [19343]
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Speaking of too high
Oct 7, 2022, 7:23 AM
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Too high of an alcohol content can be a bad thing. Once, while campin in the PNF, I was violated by Bigfoot. Hear me out! It was Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine Ale and about 9.5%abv. Woke up in a fog, never the same…
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All-TigerNet [11065]
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don't like IPA or Bourbon, guess I am wierd
Oct 6, 2022, 1:48 PM
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I do love some tequila (or that's what they tell me, I can't remember)
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110%er [6825]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 1:53 PM
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Bleh
Only Porters and Stouts - all year here. But that is fine ... liking IPA and so, just support independents. Look for this label.
For example, Wicked Weed sold out years ago... so it is an AB InBev aka "Budweiser" brand. So avoid at all cost.
AB InBev does not compete on product, they try and control the distribution channels to keep out the little guys rather than making a better product.
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 2:10 PM
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In Bev has not changed anything about Wicked Weed’s beer. They have just increased their distribution. You can punish yourself by not drinking their beer if you want, but I still drink it. Pernicious and Freak of Nature are great IPA s. They also make some good sours over at the Funkatorium.
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 3:39 PM
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I drink good beer. Want good beer, there is about 20 other BETTER breweries in Asheville. Heck, you mentioned Highland down below so you already have a better option. Sweeten Creek brewing. Zillacoah hi-wie, archetype.
Wicked Weed is a tourist trap. It was fading as a local spot even before the AB Inbev bought them out. Burial was already brewing a better product.
As you said, InBev focuses on "distribution" not product.
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 2:05 PM
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Bells - Hopslam
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 2:08 PM
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I lived down the street from Sycamore when it first opened. Jesus, their beer tasted like absolute DIRT for the longest time. It has an amazing location so people still flocked to it and was raking in the cash.
Within the last 18 - 24 months they got a new head brewer and have become one of the best in the city. Mountain Candy might be the best IPA in Charlotte.
Triple C and Bird Song (both in charlotte) have some great IPA's.
As far as a national brand - a fresh keg of Bell's Two Hearted is probably 2nd to none. Don't get the bottles or cans...IPAs have such a short shelf life and getting it from a gas station or grocery store will likely lead to some off flavors.
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Varsity [243]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 2:17 PM
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1. Sweet water IPA (Atlanta)
2. Intuition I-10 IPA (Jacksonville, FL)
3. Terrapin Hopsecutioner. (Athens)
4. Sierra Nevada Celebration Fresh Hopped IPA
5. Lagunitas IPA (Calif)
6. Huger Street IPA. (Palmetto - Charleston)
In that order. 
Go Tigers!
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Orange Blooded [2120]
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Sweetwater IPA is definitely a go to for me.
Oct 6, 2022, 9:11 PM
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Like you, I look forward to the winter release of Celebration Ale. I would add Sycamore Mountain Candy, Bells Two Hearted Ale, and several of the New Belgium VooDoo Ranger assortment.
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Orange Blooded [2713]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 2:18 PM
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Not an IPA guy but do a Ranger IPA.
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 2:23 PM
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I like a lot of the hazy IPAs. Everything Alex brews at Keowee Brewing is excellent. You have to go to the brewery in Seneca to get it. Some that are more widely distributed that I like are:
New Belgium Juicy Hazy
Highland Daycation
Wicked Weed Pernicious, Freak of Nature and Coastal Love
Steel Hands Juicy Hazy
Low Tide Invincibility Juice Double IPA - only at the brewery on John’s Island and at tap houses like Pint Station and Growler Haus
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Stone Enjoy BY, Dog Fish Head 90, Wooden Robot (any of them)
Oct 6, 2022, 2:35 PM
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I like them right in that 7-9 % range most of the time. Get too high of an ABV they get too sweet and too low they get too lead pipey.
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Head Coach [797]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 2:47 PM
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Not one person has mentioned the best IPA around. If you haven’t tried NODA Brewery out of Charlotte. Hop Drop has been my favorite for years, by a wide margin. Pernicious a distant second.
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Trainer [43]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 2:53 PM
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Double Candy from Sycamore
Depth Perception from Terrapin
420 Strain Trainwreck from SweetWater
Hopslam from Bell’s
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All-In [27363]
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If pale ale was all there was
Oct 6, 2022, 3:02 PM
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To drink I would be one sober dude!!!! I am anyway but I’m really old school when it comes to beers. PBR, Ole Mil,
Coors, Buds, Country Club (when did you last have one of them?) ...
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Re: If pale ale was all there was
Oct 6, 2022, 3:49 PM
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PBR has been my go to beer since I was "old enough" to drink. You can't beat an ice cold PBR in a bottle (hard to find around me) or a miller pony in my opinion.
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Legend [15907]
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I like pale ales, hold the india..
Oct 6, 2022, 4:06 PM
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IBU 30 or under for me
Sierra Nevada is staple in our place
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Letterman [289]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 3:03 PM
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Sweetwater – IPA
Sweetwater – Goin’ Coastal IPA
Bearded Iris – Homestyle
Monday Night Brewing – Blind Pirate
Creature Comforts – Tropicalia
Wicked Weed – Pernicious
Wicked Weed – Coastal Love
Good People – IPA
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All-TigerNet [13035]
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Not an IPA guy myself
Oct 6, 2022, 3:07 PM
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Really hoppy beers taste soapy to me. If you ever start a porters and stouts thread i can contribute quite a bit.
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All-Conference [406]
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Hop Drop Roll from NODA
Oct 6, 2022, 3:14 PM
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in Charlotte
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 3:14 PM
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Deschutes Fresh Haze IPA
Pinthouse Electric Jellyfish IPA
Dogfish IPA (several varieties)
Sierra Nevada IPA (several varieties)
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 3:17 PM
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Ones you can find round the se are, Foothills Jade, Palmetto Huger St, harder ones to find are Avery's Maharaja Russian River plinys
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All-In [32580]
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Here's my favs - in no particular order
Oct 6, 2022, 3:20 PM
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except for this one - my All-Time Fav:
Resin - Sixpoint Brewing - Brooklyn - except it isn't really in Brooklyn - we went there - they weren't there - weirdest thing ever.
Pernicious - WW
Freak of Nature - WW
Ghost in the Machine - Parish Brewing - NOLA
Pliney the Elder - Russian River - found a case of it in San Fran at the National Championship game weekend
King Julius - Treehouse - thanks Beefsteak®
Green - Treehouse
Very Green - Treehouse
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 3:22 PM
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I have several:
-Steel Hands Tropical IPA and Hazy IPA
-Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing
-Elysian Spacedust
-New Belgium Voodoo Ranger or Imperial Ranger (Higher ABV than Voodoo)
-Wicked Weed Pernicious IPA
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Team Captain [468]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 3:24 PM
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I'll also add
-Sweetwater Triple Tail
-Sweetwater Goin Coastal
-Sweet 420 (if you like a more bitter and dry IPA)
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 3:23 PM
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Definitely one of my favorite things to do is trying new IPAs. This needs to be pinned for future references. Some of my favorites are Sierra Nevada (all brands, especially Hazy Lil Thing), Elysian Space Dust, and Hoppyum. Drafts at the bar are preferred over cans or bottles.
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Creature Comforts Tropicalia is my found in most all stores fave.
Oct 6, 2022, 3:52 PM
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It will be on tap in Greenville by end of month at some places. Columbia and Charleston can find cans of it now.
Fancy hard to get stuff faves:
Tree House, Monkish, Fidens, and Trillium are top notch hops. Burial is good as well.
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 3:54 PM
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I may need to try some different ones. I have had no luck in finding anything that I liked.
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Trainer [40]
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 6:30 PM
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Sometimes the best ones are at the little brewery you pass by out in the country. Always relaxing to check them out.
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 4:13 PM
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Founders and voodoo ranger are the easiest pickins at my local grocery store, so those are more common at my house when I’m in an IPA mood.
Otherwise, I’ll shove fresh hops in my Mr. Coffee and make a pot of drip bitterness to mix into my Bud Light and imagine myself drinking a craft brew.
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Call it what you will, but an ice cold PBR can't be beat***
Oct 6, 2022, 4:17 PM
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All-In [32580]
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I'll call it:
Oct 6, 2022, 4:22 PM
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I'd stop drinking.
Seriously.
But all good - you do you - ain't nobody better than you at that ! ! !
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Goose Island***
Oct 6, 2022, 4:49 PM
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Terrapin Hopescutioner
Oct 6, 2022, 4:51 PM
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Yeah, I know, it's brewed in Athens.
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 5:15 PM
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Reef Donkey
Nice blend of flavor and price
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 6:53 PM
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Huger Street IPA.
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IPAs are for gigachards. Drink Weizens***
Oct 6, 2022, 7:13 PM
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going to Indi tomorrow, then up to Saskatchewan,any
Oct 6, 2022, 8:38 PM
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recommendation on a good brewery
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 8:46 PM
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Monkeynaut , Straight to Ale brewery Huntsville Al.
A very hoppy IPA
One of my favorites
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 6, 2022, 9:37 PM
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Sierra Nevada and sweet water are my go to’s
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Bud Light***
Oct 6, 2022, 11:02 PM
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Re: What's your favorite IPA?
Oct 7, 2022, 6:58 AM
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New anthem for IPAs in NC, but since our Tigers are playing in Massachusetts this week, Trillium and Treehouse IPAs. Anyone making the trip up this weekend I highly recommend a stop at one of their locations. Trillium has a location in Four Points not far from the airport which makes it easy to hit up on the way in/out of town
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The one in front of me...***
Oct 7, 2022, 10:32 AM
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