If you’re in the area, you should drop in at Danville Brewing Co. and get a pour or two of Tres Diablos. Tres Diablos is DBC’s excellent SF Beer Week triple IPA release. It clocks in at 10% abv and 130 IBU, and is hopped with Nelson and Mosaic. It is pleasantly bitter, with fruity…
Category: IPA
Big Chicken (2024)
Big Chicken is a double IPA released about this time every year by Hen House Brewing in Santa Rosa (CA) in advent of San Francisco Beer Week. The 2024 version is the ninth annual release of Big Chicken. Each year Hen House distributes kegs of the brew to select accounts in surrounding counties, who then…
Strike Triple Play TIPA
I chose to mark IPA Day with a triple IPA by Strike Brewing, from San Jose (California). Triple Play is part of Strike’s regular line up of beers. Unlike other breweries, who release triple IPA’s only once or twice a year, Strike makes Triple Play available year-round. When poured into the glass, Triple Play offers…
Big Chicken
Unfortunately circumstances are such that I am not able to take part in any of SF Beer Week‘s activities, but I did manage to sneak in a taste of Big Chicken on Friday at Hops & Scotch, in Walnut Creek. Big Chicken is a double IPA released every year to coincide with SF Beer Week…