Founders Centennial IPA

	Founders Brewing Company Founders Centennial IPA Grand Rapids, Michigan 9/1/2011, bottle, 7.2 abv
Smell	Hops, caramel, grapefruit & pine.
Appearance	Deep, clear orange with a 1/4" white head.
Taste	Plenty of pine and bitter, citrusy hops, but not over the top. There is some equalizing maltiness that makes it nicely balanced.
Comments	A solid American IPA brought from Michigan by a friend.
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Victory DirtWolf

	Victory Brewing Company Victory DirtWolf Downington, PA 01/01/2014, bottle, 8.7 abv
Comments	DirtWolf is my favorite offering from Victory to date. Pours a hazy gold with a decent head that hangs around for a while. The smell is great, with juicy hops and citrus.. The taste continues with some pine resin joining the hops and citrus and finishes with a little malty sweetness. Carbonation is moderate and the mouthfell is sticky and somewhat prickly. Goes down easy for a double IPA.
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Left Coast Hop Juice Double IPA

	Left Coast Brewing Company Hop Juice Double IPA San Clemente, CA 10/11/2013, on tap at Frisco Tap House, 9.7 abv
Smell	Great aroma of pine and grapefruit.
Appearance	Slightly hazy amber-orange with a small head and moderate carbonation.
Taste	Smooth, creamy mouthfeel with sweet citrus up front and a touch of resiny pine bitterness on the finish. The 9.7 abv is almost undetectable, making this rather dangerous. With a name like Hop Juice, it was much more balanced than I expected, but make no mistake, the hops dominate.
Comments	I enjoyed this DIPA a lot. I don't see many Left Coast offerings here on the right coast, so I was glad I had the opportunity to try this one.
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Yards Cicada Indigineous Ale

	Yards Brewing Company Cicada Indigenous Ale Philadelphia, PA 9/28/2013 on tap at T-Bonz, 8.5% abv
Smell	Aroma is somewhat earthy, sweet caramel. For a Belgian IPA, I did not get the usual Belgian funk.
Appearance	Clear dark copper with a thin head. Not much carbonation.
Taste	Very sweet, caramel taste with a hint of prunes and very little bitter hop finish. It is good, but too sweet for me. I made the mistake of ordering this before my meal. It would have been better after.
Comments	Name a beer after a cool bug and I'm there. I probably would have ordered it if was made with actual cicadas.
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Green Flash Palate Wrecker

	Green Flash Brewing Company Green Flash Palate Wrecker San Diego, California 06/08/2013 on tap at River Hill Sports Grill, 9.5 abv
Smell	Aroma is very resiny and piney with some caramel coming through.
Appearance	Hazy, deep orange with a thick, white head.
Taste	This is definitly a heavy handed hop bomb with bitter pine and citrus flavors, but it has some sweet caramel maltiness to help balance it out. I said "help" balance it out. It is rated at 146 IBUs. The 9.5 abv becomes more noticible as it warms up. It is not quite as destructive as the name implies, but definitely for hop heads only.
Comments	Any beer that threatens to do damage to a body part has my attention. Green Flash has several taste bud dissolving beers that I enjoy, but it is hard to beat their West Coast IPA. They may be trying just a little to hard with Palate Wrecker.
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	Maui Brewing Company Maui CoCoNut PorTer Lahania, Hawaii 06/22/2013, on tap at Frisco Tap House, 6.0 abv
Smell	Smell is a combination of burnt coffee, chocolate and vanilla.
Appearance	Very dark drown with mahogany highlights and a small, beige head.
Taste	I got lots of pleasant flavors, like coffee, chocolate, burnt toast & vanilla. It was very smooth and had a slippery mouthfeel. All good, but no coconut.
Comments	This is a very good porter. If I could have detected ANY toasted coconut, I would have given it 4 mugs. Perhaps it was the restaurant setting, perhaps it wasn't as fresh as it should be, but if you call it CoCoNut Porter, it should taste like coconut. Or perhaps I was just hoping it would taste like one of these from my youth:
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	Wurzburger Hofbrau Julius Echter Hefe-Weissbier Hell Wurzburg, Germany 06/08/2013, on tap at Frisco Tap House, 4.9 abv
Smell	Smell is reminiscent of banana bread.
Appearance	Hazy golden color with losts of bubbles forming a nice head.
Taste	Taste is wheaty, yeasty and the banana bread come through, but it is not overly sweet. Nice carbonation and some slight hop bitterness give it some zing at the end.
Comments	This was a very nice hefeweizen. Not too much funky yeast and wheat made it quite enjoyable to drink.
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