#BeerSaturday 252! Good occasion for some IPAs.

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I became a beer blogger naturally due to years I have spent brewing for myself, working with breweries on their technology and marketing, and the decades spent imbibing. Hence, the self-decreed title of the #Blockchain #Beerologist and I am cranking up my Beerology game this year.

For week 252, I am merging the shorty & the pint, and enjoying some more numbered IPAs.

Pint/Shorty O' the Week

I bounce between the short can I have in the fridge for the week and a pint enjoyed out on the town. This is a little from each column as it was poured after the pint of the week at the pub, and a growler steps in for shorties as I can pour a smaller beer than a full pint if I wish.

This growler was a special version of https://heritagehopsbrew.com/products/21-haze-east-coast-ipa-growler brewed with Lactose which generally gets them called a milkshake IPA. It was damn good and I actually went back for another to keep in the fridge.

Here is the pint o the week that happened just before the growler with the same thing in my club mug!

5th Coast

I have never been overly glowing in my previous reviews of Side Launch https://www.sidelaunchbrewing.com/ beer in the past. It hasn't been bad and they do have something going on. It is just that their IPAs and sours paled in comparison to the other ones in this region. Still, I have found many breweries like Lake of Bays https://lakeofbaysbrewing.ca/ and even Wellington Brewery https://www.wellingtonbrewery.ca/ that are experimenting and gaining ground with good IPAs of their own. So, a new one from Side Launch is going to find its way into my basket, especially since it is a new IPA.



This one is 5th Coast Hazy IPA https://www.sidelaunchbrewing.com/collections/core-beers/products/fifth-coast-hazy-ipa proclaims as part of the logo that it is hazy, juicy and balanced. I will be the judge of the second 2 but it is nice and hazy with Citra, Mosaic, El Dorado, Idaho 7 hops which are pretty close to my favourite IPA combination. Sets the stage with a nice image of camping on the shores of Georgian Bay / the 5th coast and was as fulfilling an experience!

I will definitely have to give this a try again and stand it up against the others that are brewed year-round like this one! Discovering a new beer is great and even better when it is listed as one of the core line up meaning you can get it anytime!

Hometown Double

I picked this gem off the shelf, 6 hours down the road from where it was brewed. Riverhead Brewing Company https://www.riverheadbrewing.com/ has made a couple good IPAs but I had never tasted a Double IPA from there. When there is a bigfoot being abducted by a space ship, well how many reasons do you need to buy a beer?



Outer Limits Double IPA https://www.riverheadbrewing.com/our-brews2 appears to be in the core line up but there is not much of a description on the website. The label tells you they are interested in sport hopping but trying to keep the taste full but balanced. 51 IBUs is low for any double IPA I have ever tasted and 8.51% abv is a small uptick from many 7% IPAs. Makes for a good reference to Area 51, which closes the loop on the extra terrestrials on the cover.

Not a bad double at all!

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Any good numbered IPAs/beers in your region?!