Episode 155 – Chi NEIPAs

Bring your bendy straw, we’re dipping into some juicy, hazy New England-style IPAs made locally. Whether it’s an actual style or not, stores can hardly keep any brewery’s NEIPA in stock – so we evaluate seven of them in a blind tasting. We share everything we know about this trend, say “creamy” a few hundred times, and somewhat fail at recognizing Mosaic. There’s some shoe-eating, retired slogans, Sunny D, and our vow to become brother husbands. Disappear into a glass with us, and let your juice loose. I don’t know what the hell that means.

ABV Chicago Episode 155 – Chi NEIPAs

Beers Tasted Blindly (in order tasted)

#1 Transient Artisan Ales – The Juice is Loose DIPA

#2 Maplewood Brewery – Son of Juice IPA

#3 Forbidden Root – Snoochie Boochies DIPA

#4 Hailstorm Brewing – Stratus DIPA

#5 Marz Community Brewing – NE MDW Chi PA

#6 Hop Butcher for the World – Reply Hazy, Try Again DIPA

#7 The Ram Restaurant & Brewery (Schaumburg) – Morning Fog DIPA