Hill Country Beer Club

Member's Choice
June 22, 2024

There at that Place
14:00:00

Brewer Beer Vintage Score
Sixpoint Slice Sipper w Mikes Hot Honey 2024 82
Destihl Brewery Dill Pickle Sour Beer 2024 81
Voodoo Brewing Company Schnitzen-giggle 2024 84
Belching Beaver Brewery No Worries IPA 2024 85
Hop Butcher for the World Gapers Delay 2023 89
Gapers Delay Hop Butcher For the World 2023
Outer Range Pillow Stacks 2024 91
Modern Times Cosmic Current 2024 89
Lagunitas Brewing Company The Beast of Both Worlds 2024 90
Evil Twin Brewing Don't Overthink the Name of This DIPA 2024 89
Prison Pals Brewing Company Double Nelson 2024 91
Eddyline Brewery Epic Day 2024 90
Abomination Brewing Co And Hey, Fuck 2023 Too 2023 92
Angry Chair Brewing Imperial Moon Butter 2023 94
Fremont Brewing Company Melange Barrel-Aged Cuvee (2023) 2023 92
Anchorage Brewing Company Personal Space 2024 91
Turningpoint Burt Macklin 2024 92
Timber Ales She Who Walks Among Monsters 2024 93
Great Lakes Brewing Company Barrel-Aged Blackout Stout 2023 93
Burial Beer Company Tragic Echo of the Imperishable 2024 93
Funkwerks Level 13 2023 89

Who Offered: ASIAFEVER, ERIK, MADMIKE, MATT CASTO, PHATMEAT, RONRICO, SANTA, WESTEXANS

Who Drank: ASIAFEVER, ERIK, MADMIKE, MATT CASTO, PHATMEAT, RONRICO, SANTA, WESTEXANS

Summary

82

Sixpoint

Slice Sipper w Mikes Hot Honey

Farmhouse Ale | 5% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ERIK
Club/Brewer Notes:
Say hello to Slice Sipper, our new collaboration beer with Sixpoint Brewery. Slice Sipper, is an easy-drinking, farmhouse ale made with Mike's Hot Honey and hopped with Hallertau Blanc for bright citrus and peppercorn aromas and a touch of mild chili pepper heat with each sip. This collaboration, part of Sixpoint's Beer Is Culture campaign, was born out of a desire to create a beer that pairs perfectly with pizza, a staple of New York food culture. "We set out to create the ultimate beer for sipping with your favorite slice," said Mike's Hot Honey founder, Mike Kurtz. "Coming out of the pandemic, summer 2021 is going to be a special time in NYC and this collaboration was a way for us to bring people together over beer and pizza and celebrate with our community."

Member Notes: 
"Where the pizza" - Erik
81

Destihl Brewery

Dill Pickle Sour Beer

American-Style Sour Ale | 5.2% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: MATT CASTO
Member Notes: 
"Smells bad tastes good" - Erik
"Smells bad tastes good" - Erik
"Smells bad tastes good" - Erik
84

Voodoo Brewing Company

Schnitzen-giggle

American-Style Marzen/Oktoberfest | 5.9% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ERIK
Club/Brewer Notes:
Schnitzengiggle is our traditional Oktoberfest brewed in honor of the classic style of the late 1800s. This reddish-copper lager boasts rich, elegant mal flavors from imported German malts that are balanced by German noble hops that finishes clean and moderately dry from our house lager yeast. Some even claim it to be ze greatest beer in all ze vorld. Prost.

85

Belching Beaver Brewery

No Worries IPA

American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) | 6.2% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: SANTA
Club/Brewer Notes:
No Worries IPA is the epitome of a true West Coast IPA, but with a twist of modern-day hops & aromas. This hop forward West Coast ale pours clear with a nice bubbly head. Aromas of dankness and tropical fruit jump from the glass. The first sip will tingle your taste buds, and as the bitterness mellows the hop flavors take over. Strata, Galaxy, Mosaic, Citra, and Amarillo hops all lend their characteristics to this delightful West Coast IPA. This crisp, balanced ale will grasp at your senses and surely enlighten your day.

89

Hop Butcher for the World

Gapers Delay

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) | 7.5% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
The storyline on the label exclaims, “I stole my parent’s car. It was all whirlwind, heat and flash. Within a week, we were stuck on the Dan Ryan.” Gapers Delay is a double India pale ale brewed with Nelson Sauvin, Mosaic & Galaxy hops. The nose is loaded with citrus and tropical fruit and the taste gives hints of passion fruit, pineapple, guava, grapefruit, lemon-lime, berry, oats, and a bit of wheat. Label artwork by Dan Grzeca.

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Gapers Delay

Hop Butcher For the World

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) | 7.5% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
The storyline on the label exclaims, “I stole my parent’s car. It was all whirlwind, heat and flash. Within a week, we were stuck on the Dan Ryan.” Gapers Delay is a double India pale ale brewed with Nelson Sauvin, Mosaic & Galaxy hops. The nose is loaded with citrus and tropical fruit and the taste gives hints of passion fruit, pineapple, guava, grapefruit, lemon-lime, berry, oats, and a bit of wheat. Label artwork by Dan Grzeca.

91

Outer Range

Pillow Stacks

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) | 7.6% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: RONRICO
Club/Brewer Notes:
DIPA. Hops: Mosaic. Tasting Notes: Dark Berries, Cannabis, Pine

Member Notes: 
"Nice " - Erik
89

Modern Times

Cosmic Current

Hazy Double IPA | 8% ABV | 35 IBU
Offered By: MATT CASTO
90

Lagunitas Brewing Company

The Beast of Both Worlds

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) | 8% ABV | 40 IBU
Offered By: SANTA
Club/Brewer Notes:
What fresh freak of nature is this?! Hazy flavors without the haze? West Coast hopping without mega bitterness? Quite the contrary kaiju towering before you. Double dry-hopped with a fruity blast of Citra & Mosaic yet finishes super smooth. This beast is truly the best of both worlds…Release the hound!

89

Evil Twin Brewing

Don't Overthink the Name of This DIPA

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) | 8.2% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
What a great name for a beer that, in actuality, really has no name. While you’re NOT overthinking the name, enjoy this hazy double India pale ale in its double dry-hopped glory using Motueka and Nelson hops. Evil Twin is the name of the brewery, but rest assured that the paired hops are not evil at all. Don’t overthink it, just drink it!

91

Prison Pals Brewing Company

Double Nelson

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) | 9% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: PHATMEAT
Club/Brewer Notes:
We added a few more hops and bumped the maltiness and ABV to our Nelson, and Double Nelson was born! As the name suggests, this brew is a Double Hazy Ipa, strong and bitter enough to kick you and your friends in the face!

Member Notes: 
"Sweet " - Erik
"Sweet " - Erik
90

Eddyline Brewery

Epic Day

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) | 9% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: RONRICO
Club/Brewer Notes:
Our First Double IPA. This beer was created to be the end of your most EPIC Day or multisport adventure. A huge malt bill is balanced with a boatload of hops

92

Abomination Brewing Co

And Hey, Fuck 2023 Too

IPA - Triple New England / Hazy | 9.7% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
94

Angry Chair Brewing

Imperial Moon Butter

Stout - Imperial / Double Milk | 10% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
Club/Brewer Notes:
Imperial Milk Stout with Cacao, and Peanut Butter.

92

Fremont Brewing Company

Melange Barrel-Aged Cuvee (2023)

Barrel-aged Cuvee | 10% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
This is a unique Fremont project where they use multiple vintages of their Rusty Nail stout blended with a porter. The The Rusty Nail begins life as The First Nail, an oatmeal stout of epic proportions with brewer’s licorice, smoked barley, and pale malt and is then aged on cinnamon bark. She becomes The Rusty Nail after spending 15 months in 12-year old bourbon barrels. Melange gives an opaque pour, black and inky with a large cap of dark mocha-colored head that quickly fizzles away. Pretty strong spice characteristics immediately on the nose, with roast and spirit barrel apparent as well. Notes of cinnamon, chocolate, coffee, brewer licorice, marshmallow and minor impressions of vanilla.

91

Anchorage Brewing Company

Personal Space

IPA Tipple Hazy | 10% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: MADMIKE
Club/Brewer Notes:
Hazy triple ipa with Nelson hops and phantasm powder

92

Turningpoint

Burt Macklin

Triple IPA | 10.8% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: MATT CASTO
93

Timber Ales

She Who Walks Among Monsters

American-Style Imperial Stout | 12% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: PHATMEAT
Club/Brewer Notes:
She Who Walks Among Monsters is a new variant of our Imperial Stout collaboration with our friends from The Seed, conditioned on vanilla beans, coffee and cassia bark.

93

Great Lakes Brewing Company

Barrel-Aged Blackout Stout

Russian Imperial Stout | 12.5% ABV | 50 IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
This gem of a barrel-aged stout is bold and dark as a powerless metropolis. It commemorates the infamous blackout of 2003 that left 55 million people utterly unplugged. This stout is completely blackout opaque in color with a nice tan head of fine bubbles that dissipates quickly, leaving just a skim of foam. The aroma is so deep and complex and hits the nose with rich molasses, roasted coffee, a hint of raisin, and syrupy bourbon. This stout is beautifully thick on the palate with flavors that follow its aroma to a "T", with a sweet bourbon bite.

93

Burial Beer Company

Tragic Echo of the Imperishable

American-Style Imperial Stout | 13% ABV | 27 IBU
Offered By: MADMIKE
Club/Brewer Notes:
Imperial Stout with White Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Hazelnut Praline, Mahleb, Cardamom, and Orange Zest Like relics from a forgotten dream we dance within the twilight of a nameless sky. Reveling of our own immortality. Laughing in the face of the never ending. Bathing in the glory of the unknown. May this be our bell to toll. Late last year we were lucky enough to host our friends from @Sevenislandbrewery out of Greece and we conceptualized a new imperial stout offering based on a Greek dessert we shared called tsoureki. A carefully selected blend of 4 imperial stouts tempered down to 13% were conditioned on mountains of white and dark chocolates, house made hazelnut praline and fresh orange zest before being dusted with green cardamom and a mediterranean spice called mahleb made from ground cherry pits. Lost yourself in this luxurious experience of fresh baked pastry dough, stuffed with warming hazelnut and coated in luxurious chocolate topped with candied orange zest.

89

Funkwerks

Level 13

Belgian-Style Dark Strong Ale | 13.4% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: MADMIKE
Club/Brewer Notes:
This super-duper barrel-aged beer delivers bold fruity flavors with deep caramel notes and warming attributes. We aged this beer in a variety of oak bourbon barrels where the alcohol by volume slowly leveled up. Bright carbonation tickles your palate and leaves you with a crisp sherry-like finish. Notes of candy apple, warm sugar, and light spice. Pairs well with a fist full of quarters.