Hill Country Beer Club

Member's Choice
April 18, 2014

Steph's House
15:30:00

Brewer	Beer	Vintage	Score
Flying dog	Atlantic lager		81
Goose Island Beer Company	Endless IPA	2014	86
New Belgium Brewing Company	Spring Blonde	2014	85
Redhook Brewery	Long Hammer		86
Rubicon Brewing Company	IPA	2014	87
DuClaw Brewing Company	Sweet Baby Jesus!	2014	83
Deschutes Brewery	Inversion IPA	2014	88
Anderson Valley Brewing Company	Wild Turkey Bourbon Barrel Stout	2013	88
Brewery Ommegang (Moortgat)	Game Of Thrones	2013	89
Kiuchi Brewery	Hitachino Nest Red Rice	2014	83
Blue Moon Brewing CO	Pine in the Neck	2014	86
Kiuchi Brewery	Hitachino Nest XH	2014	87
Martin House Brewing Company	The Imperial Texan	2014	90
Alaskan Brewing Company	Hop Thermia	2014	91
Coronado Brewing Co	Idiot iPA	2013	90
Founders Brewing Company	Fran gel in Mountain	2012	87
North Coast Brewing Company	Class of '88 Barley Wine	2013	88
Uinta Brewing Company	Crooked Line Labyrinth	2014	89
Firestone Walker Brewing Company	Sucaba	2014	92

Who Offered: BRANDY, CHEETO, DAVO, FATBOY, KAY JAY, LARA, NOSS, PRIMETIME, SANTA, STEPH, WESTEXANS

Who Drank: BRANDY, CHEETO, DAVO, FATBOY, KAY JAY, LARA, NOSS, PRIMETIME, SANTA, STEPH, WESTEXANS

Summary

81	Flying dog Atlantic lager \| 4.7% ABV \| 28 IBU Offered By: BRANDY

86	Goose Island Beer Company Endless IPA American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) \| 5% ABV \| 35 IBU Offered By: FATBOY

Club/Brewer Notes:
Long days and warm nights awaken the city. The list of neighborhood festivals is endless. As is the great music that brings us together in parks and parking lots. We brewed our Session IPA to be easy drinking and endlessly refreshing, so you can enjoy every encore. Bright note of fresh oranges and other citrus fruit with a mild body that is crisp on the palate.

85	New Belgium Brewing Company Spring Blonde Belgian Style Ale \| 6% ABV \| 48 IBU Offered By: CHEETO

Club/Brewer Notes:
Blondes are a favorite style among New Belgium employee-owners who have celebrated their 5-year anniversary with a spring trip to Belgium. These travels inspired our Spring Blonde and brought some old Belgium to New Belgium. Brewed with pale and Munich malts, this golden ale pours bright copper and holds a strong, white head aloft. A nose of lemon peel, pepper, and fresh baked bread entice a sipping. Spring Blonde drinks malty, sweet and wonderful. And the easy Nugget hopping pedals towards a dry, lightly bitter finish. Shed that coat, grab some bikes, and crack some beers.

86	Redhook Brewery Long Hammer Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) \| 6.2% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: BRANDY

Club/Brewer Notes:
The generous addition of hops both during and at the end of the fermentation process (dry-hopping) gives our India Pale Ale its characteristic bitterness and piney citrus aroma and flavor. The medium body, crisp finish, and moderate alcohol and IBU levels makes this one of America's most drinkable and best-selling IPAs.

Member Notes:
"thin on texture" - davo

87	Rubicon Brewing Company IPA American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) \| 6.5% ABV \| 65 IBU Offered By: PRIMETIME

Club/Brewer Notes:
Golden in color with an assertive hop bitterness. This beer won gold medals at The Great American Beer Festival in 1989 and 1990. A true American Classic.

83	DuClaw Brewing Company Sweet Baby Jesus! Porter \| 6.5% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: WESTEXANS

Club/Brewer Notes:
Sweet Baby Jesus Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter is a complex, robust porter. It is jet black in color with a tan, rocky head, full body and creamy, luxurious mouthfeel. Its lightly sweet, malty flavor is accented by strong notes of chocolate, coffee and peanut butter, and balanced by a subtle hop character and moderate 6.5% abv. Sweet Baby Jesus finishes smooth, dry and roasty with notes of chocolate, espresso and peanut butter so tasty, you'll have no choice but to exclaim the name!

Member Notes:
"not much fizz" - davo

88	Deschutes Brewery Inversion IPA American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) \| 6.8% ABV \| 80 IBU Offered By: FATBOY

Club/Brewer Notes:
Paradise is stumbling upon our whole flower hop room and inhaling. Inversion IPA is as close as you can get without knowing somebody. Enter, if you will, all the glorious aromatic complexity of the hop. This big, bold IPA's intense multi-hop kick gets a subtle dose of restraint from select Crystal and Carastan malts. For discriminating hop heads.

88	Anderson Valley Brewing Company Wild Turkey Bourbon Barrel Stout American-Style Stout \| 6.9% ABV \| 14 IBU Offered By: NOSS

Club/Brewer Notes:
Complexity. Aged for three months in Wild Turkey Bourbon barrels, this luxurious stout has a deep ebony hue and a beautiful mahogany head. The woody, vanilla-like notes imparted by the barrels mingle with aromas of fresh baked bread, toffee, and espresso and envelop the rich chocolate and roasted barley flavors with a fine bourbon character. Our exclusive partnership with Wild Turkey gives Anderson Valley a world class, consistent source of barrelage, allowing our brewers to explore new frontiers in barrel-aged craft beer.

89	Brewery Ommegang (Moortgat) Game Of Thrones Sweet Stout \| 7% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

83	Kiuchi Brewery Hitachino Nest Red Rice Red Rice Ale \| 7% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: STEPH

Club/Brewer Notes:
Brewed with red rice.

86	Blue Moon Brewing CO Pine in the Neck Dbl IPA \| 7.5% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: LARA

87	Kiuchi Brewery Hitachino Nest XH Other Belgian-Style Ales \| 8% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: STEPH

Club/Brewer Notes:
Matured in Sake Casks

90	Martin House Brewing Company The Imperial Texan American Strong Ale \| 8% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: SANTA

Member Notes:
"has a hint if rye" - davo

91	Alaskan Brewing Company Hop Thermia Double IPA \| 8.5% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: DAVO

Club/Brewer Notes:
Made with Juneau's glacier fed water, Nugget and Apollo hops add a floral and citrus base while Amarillo, Citrus and Centennial hops add spicy grapefruit and orange notes that compliment the two-row and specialty malt profiles.

Member Notes:
"nice malt finish on the back end" - davo

90	Coronado Brewing Co Idiot iPA Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) \| 8.5% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: WESTEXANS

Club/Brewer Notes:
Brewed with 8 different hops and dry hopped with whole cone Cascades. Its more powerful than our Islander IPA and even the most intelligent have become "idiot" after a few pints of this super hopped up beer!

Member Notes:
"dry hopped hints" - davo

87	Founders Brewing Company Fran gel in Mountain Specialty Beer \| 9% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

88	North Coast Brewing Company Class of '88 Barley Wine American-Style Barley Wine Ale \| 10% ABV \| 75 IBU Offered By: NOSS

Club/Brewer Notes:
1988 was a pivotal year for the emerging craft brewing industry on the west coast, marking the founding of some of America's most influential breweries, North Coast Brewing Co. among them. It was also the year Fred Eckhardt published "The Essentials of Beer Style" book that quickly became an indispensable reference for aspiring brewers and critics. In recognition of the 25th anniversary of this milestone year, North Coast Brewing and two other west coast members of the pioneering "Class of '88," Rogue Ales and Deschutes Brewery, have collaborated on a trio of commemorative beers evolving from Fred's style guidelines. Each of the breweries has created its own distinctive interpretation of a barleywine. Brewers traveled to each other's locations and teamed up to brew all three ales. Their common heritage, joint efforts and inherent camaraderie resulted in a cohesive set that allows beer aficionados to enjoy three examples of the style. These exceptional barleywines are being released in late March of 2013 and are available around the country for a limited time, distinctively packaged in either 22 oz. or 750 ml bottles, or on draft. The breweries are planning Class of '88 celebrations in Bend and Portland, Oregon and San Francisco and Fort Bragg, California.

89	Uinta Brewing Company Crooked Line Labyrinth Imperial/Strong Porter \| 13.2% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: SANTA

Member Notes:
"smooth" - davo

92	Firestone Walker Brewing Company Sucaba Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer \| 13.3% ABV \| Unknown IBU Offered By: KAY JAY

Member Notes:
"b where u r going 2 b" - davo