Liar’s Dice IPA
Floral, grapefruit, sticky dank pine, & caramel malt; hoppy, bitter, sweet cereal, mineral; drinkable.
Reviews by Style: IPA
Blind Pig IPA
Pine & citrus nose, dank & sweet; bitter, dry, & hoppy; pineapple & toasty malt; mid carbonation; dry fin.
Southern Hemisphere Harvest Fresh Hop IPA
Super-sticky head; lemon & spice; sweet tea & malt sugar; sweet finish.
UpRYEsing IPA
Stone 16th Anniversary Celebration – Sample #9 Pleasant rye/malt nose. Sweet and bitter. This one might just be the perfect closer.
Aooni IPA
Celebrating International Beer Day with Aooni India Pale Ale. Bready nose, tropical citrus notes. Grassy and malty. Bitter cereal.
Deviant Dale’s IPA
It takes about an hour, sometimes more, to drive from Petaluma, where I live, to the Dogpatch district of San Francisco, where the massive warehouse warehousing the Night Shade Books office is located. Depending on traffic, and other motorists’ habits of driving like idiots, this can be a monster of a commute. So I fill my time as best I can, listening to music, catching up on short fiction, or checking out new and engaging podcasts.
Back in Black
Black. The most achromatic of colors. Black is the color of objects that refuse to reflect light in the visual spectrum (or, if you’re a Nina Simone fan, “the color of my true Love’s hair”). The word black comes from the Old English “blæc” (meaning “black, dark”, or “ink”).
Armageddon IPA
I’m having an epic day. Not only did I just realize it’s a three-day weekend, but I got word earlier today that Publishers Weekly have given my anthology The Book of Cthulhu a coveted starred review. In the book biz, that means you’ve done something right. So I’m marking the moment with an Epic Armageddon IPA, which comes “All the way from New Zealand.”
Wreck the Halls
The Holiday season is here, evidenced by the lit-up tree in my living room, the boat parade tooting along the Petaluma River, and Jennifer’s stockpile of toy donations preventing me from accessing my turntable and bookshelves T through Z. Christmas chaos… not to mention carols, shopping, and panic… will soon be unavoidable.
Hopyard Dog
I’ve said it before. Put a dog on the label, and you’ve got my attention. Pale Horse Brewing Company, from Salem, OR, have done just that with their Hopyard Dog IPA, putting a handsome bulldog front and center. I picked this one up at Petaluma Market yesterday evening after a conversation with Jeffrey the Beer Guy about Oregon’s ubiquitous microbreweries (“And I though we had a lot of breweries down here,” confessed Jeffrey, having just visited Portland).
