Beers From Here and Beers From There
Beer: Dragon’s Breath Slushy
Style: Fruit
ABV: 4.5%
IBU: –
Hops: ?
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Brewery: @450northbrewing
Brewery IG: 450 North Brewing Company – Columbus, IN
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Rating: 4.75/5
Notes: Some fire here. Love the flavors of passion fruit and the tartness that brings it all together. Awesome fruit beer.
Can art: Standard 450 slushy can but still cool.
Drinkage: No date on can but it’s pretty fresh around 10 days.
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Beer: Mangito
Style: DIPA
ABV: 8.7%
IBU: –
Hops: Amarillo, Huel Melon, and Mosaic
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Brewery: Humble Sea Brewing Company – Santa Cruz, CA and Casa Cervecera Morenos – Mexico City, Mexico
Brewery IG: @humblesea and @morenosbeermx
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Rating: 3.5/5
Notes: That’s a crazy amount of sediment in there. This beer is interesting with the salt in there. The mango flavor is good too but the sediment throws me off. Maybe just a bad or old can? Other pics I see of it look fine so maybe it’s just the one I got.
Can art: Haha that’s funny.
Drinkage: 43 days after date on can.
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Beer: Pillow Hat
Style: IPA
ABV: 4%
IBU: –
Hops: Citra and Motueka
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Brewery: Hudson Valley Brewing – Beacon, NY
Brewery IG: @hudsonvalleybrewery
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Rating: 3.25/5
Notes: Ok. I get trying to make hazys and such but I’m just not digging it too much at all. It’s certainly not terrible but just not anything special… Always looking forward to more from Hudson Valley.
Can art: One of the top breweries for can art and this is no different. Sweeeeet.
Drinkage: No date on can but not long after the release.
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Beer: Mandala
Style: IPA
ABV: 7.2%
IBU: –
Hops: Southern hemisphere hops?
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Brewery: Great Notion – Portland, OR
Brewery IG: @greatnotionpdx
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Rating: 4/5
Notes: Not too shabby at all. I’ll be honest that I wasn’t expecting much as I was a bit mediocre on Mandela but this one turned up pretty legit. Those southern hops stand out well and are very balanced making this one pretty smooth.
Can art: Awesome art work.
Drinkage: Day of release which was 8 days after date on can.
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Beer: Time Bandits
Style: DIPA
ABV: 8%
IBU: –
Hops: Nelson, Wai-iti, and Moteuka
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Brewery: Great Notion – Portland, OR and Brouwerij West – San Pedro, CA
Brewery IG: @greatnotionpdx and @BrouwerijWest
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Rating: 3.25/5
Notes: This poured out with a huge head and tons of carbonation but when it settled and I drank it the beer just fell flat for me. Looking forward to more collabs with Great Notion and Brouwerij West.
Can art: Awesome. Do they do two runs of stickers with the cut out stickers? They are sick and layered on top of each other. When I compared it to another can they exactly the same placement so they aren’t random. Great job. Even the UPC bar code is in there on one of the dinosaurs. Brouwerij West always has those sweet cut sticker labels…
Drinkage: No date but pretty fresh after Great Notion got cans so should be good.
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Beer: 3-Way (Citra 2019)
Style: IPA
ABV: 7.2%
IBU: –
Hops: Citra and ?
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Brewery: Fort George – Astoria, OR, Ruse Brewing- Portland, OR, and Cloudburst Brewing – Seattle, WA
Brewery IG: @fortgeorgebeer, @rusebrewing, @cloudburstbrew
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Rating: 4/5
Notes: Ah yes you know it’s summer when 3-way pops up. This year features a collab with Ruse and Cloudburst. Those are two solid breweries and combined with Fort George, that’s an awesome 3-way. This year they are rotating the dominant dry hop and this version was of Citra hops. It’s nice and bright and easy to drink. Not much hop bitterness and slightly juicy but not very hazy. Good stuff. I’m sure I’ll be drinking the shit out of this beer all summer.
Can Art: Awesome design with the three brewery cats.
Drinkage: 13 days after date on can
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