Hill Country Beer Club

Member's Choice
September 23, 2022

Steve's House
15:00:00

Brewer Beer Vintage Score
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Summer Break 2022 83
Other Half Brewing Company Forever forever 2022 87
Spindletap Brewery Lei the Day 2022 86
Checkerspot Sip Happens 2022 82
Duclaw Mad Bishop 2022 83
Mortalis Brewery Typhon 2022 91
903 Brewers Mango-Vanilla Ice Cream Flavored Slushy 2022 93
Fair State Brewing Cooperative Doin' Howdies 2022 89
South Lake Brewing Company Fog Nozzle 2022 88
AleSmith Brewing Company Split Aces IPA 2022 90
Oskar Blues Brewery Mutant X 2022 88
La Cumbre Brewing Company Elevated IPA 2022 89
Pipeworks Brewing Company Ninja vs. Unicorn 2022 90
The Brewing Projekt Things of That Nature: Their, They're, There 2022 93
Elysian Brewing Company Full Contact 2022 91
New Belgium Brewing Company Juice Force IPA 2022 93
Surly Brewing Company Fourteen 2020 93
Dogfish Head Brewery 120 Minute IPA 2012 95

Who Offered: ASIAFEVER, FATBOY, PHATMEAT, SANTA, WESTEXANS

Who Drank: ASIAFEVER, FATBOY, PHATMEAT, SANTA, WESTEXANS

Summary

83

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

Summer Break

American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) | 4.6% ABV | 30 IBU
Offered By: FATBOY
Club/Brewer Notes:
Enjoy the summer sunshine, stocked with a Session Hazy IPA brewed for long days of play. This summertime beer is refreshing with hoppy notes of mango and passion fruit, backed by smooth malt flavor.

Member Notes: 
"Good drinking beer, can taste the mango on the backend" - fatboy
87

Other Half Brewing Company

Forever forever

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) | 4.7% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
86

Spindletap Brewery

Lei the Day

pale ale | 5% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
Pale Ale brewed with Passion Fruit, Peaches and Sea Salt by Spindletap in Collab with Maui Brewing Co.

82

Checkerspot

Sip Happens

American-Style Sour Ale | 5.5% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
Kettle Sour brewed with Early Grey Tea and Lemon for a refreshingly sippable experience.

83

Duclaw

Mad Bishop

German-Style Oktoberfest | 5.8% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
Mad Bishop is a German-style Oktoberfest that faithfully delivers a sermon of rich, toasted malt flavor that goes down easy with a crisp, clean finish.

91

Mortalis Brewery

Typhon

American-Style Sour Ale | 6% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
This Sour blends together pineapple, pink guava, peach, and toasted coconut to an explosion of fruit flavors. A thick smoothie fitting for this King of Monsters.

Member Notes: 
"Very fruity, drinks like a smoothie " - fatboy
93

903 Brewers

Mango-Vanilla Ice Cream Flavored Slushy

Berliner-Style Weisse | 6.2% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
This beer is packed with fruit, much more than we've ever put in a beer and must be cared for unlike other beers.

89

Fair State Brewing Cooperative

Doin' Howdies

American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) | 6.5% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
A mashup of our favorite IPA brewing techniques and ingredients, both old school and new.

88

South Lake Brewing Company

Fog Nozzle

New England/Hazy | 6.8% ABV | 35 IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
Club/Brewer Notes:
The Fog Nozzle, with a 6.8% ABV and 35 IBU, is our New England style IPA fermented with an expressive yeast and hopped to the gills with Mosaic, Ekuanot, Simcoe, and Azacca hops. Notes of oatmeal with apricot preserves, pineapple, mango orange juice, and a hint of coniferous forest, make this beer a real treat to quaff.

90

AleSmith Brewing Company

Split Aces IPA

American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) | 6.8% ABV | 65 IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
Club/Brewer Notes:
For this collab, you’ve been dealt two ace breweries split by the distance between San Diego and Reno. We partnered with our friends at Revision Brewing to make a West Coast-style IPA. This beer features notes of tropical fruit, pine, and berries from Idaho 7, Chinook, and Mosaic hops.

88

Oskar Blues Brewery

Mutant X

American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) | 7% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: FATBOY
89

La Cumbre Brewing Company

Elevated IPA

American-Style India Pale Ale (IPA) | 7.2% ABV | 100 IBU
Offered By: PHATMEAT
Club/Brewer Notes:
It’s pretty good. You should try it. Get Elevated

90

Pipeworks Brewing Company

Ninja vs. Unicorn

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) | 8% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
A great double IPA with phenomenal flavor.

93

The Brewing Projekt

Things of That Nature: Their, They're, There

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) | 8.7% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: ASIAFEVER
Club/Brewer Notes:
Double India Pale Ale with Nelson Sauvin, Citra, Mosaic, and El Dorado,

91

Elysian Brewing Company

Full Contact

Imperial Hazy IPA | 8.8% ABV | 60 IBU
Offered By: SANTA
Club/Brewer Notes:
Cloaked in a semi-translucent haze, an imposing presence beckons you to come closer. As you do your nose opens to a tangent of wistful memories-peach season in the orchard, a tangerine tree on a hill, fresh honeydew cold from the fridge, and a vanilla cream soda in your hand. What kind of bittersweet initiation is this?

93

New Belgium Brewing Company

Juice Force IPA

Hazy Imperial IPA | 9.5% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: SANTA
Club/Brewer Notes:
Juice Force IPA is a fruit forward, highly drinkable, 9.5% ABV blast. Buckle up. With this hazy IPA you'll be buzzing the tower in no time.

Member Notes: 
"Very juicy " - fatboy
93

Surly Brewing Company

Fourteen

American-Style Barley Wine Ale | 11% ABV | Unknown IBU
Offered By: WESTEXANS
Club/Brewer Notes:
Presenting Fourteen, our massive barleywine aged in Parker Heritage Wheat Whiskey barrels and Tattersall orphan spirit barrels. Rich malt character defines this beer, offering notes of caramel, toasted bread, and toffee combined with a kiss of hops, all finished by vanilla, oak, cocktail bitters, and burnt sugar flavors from the barrels.

95

Dogfish Head Brewery

120 Minute IPA

Imperial or Double India Pale Ale (IPA) | 18% ABV | 120 IBU
Offered By: PHATMEAT
Club/Brewer Notes:
120 Minute IPA (2012) by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery is a IPA - Imperial / Double

Member Notes: 
"Aged very well" - fatboy