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Best IPAs in America (Parish in the top 5)
Posted on 7/10/18 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 7/10/18 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 7/10/18 at 5:13 pm to Jax-Tiger
Ahead of Treehouse and Trillium.
Yeah. Ok.
Yeah. Ok.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 5:17 pm to AbitaFan08
parish GOAT
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This post was edited on 7/10/18 at 5:18 pm
Posted on 7/10/18 at 5:20 pm to AbitaFan08
I agree, not getting the bump because of lines like treehouse
Posted on 7/10/18 at 5:22 pm to AbitaFan08
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Ahead of Treehouse and Trillium.
Yeah. Ok.
Blind taste test so it's as unbiased as it gets. A lot depends on what beers were submitted by the brewery. You would get an argument on this board that DDH Bloom isn't even the best beer from Parish...
This post was edited on 7/10/18 at 5:23 pm
Posted on 7/10/18 at 5:23 pm to Jax-Tiger
According the the article they had to have so many days, so all the beers were fresh
Posted on 7/10/18 at 5:25 pm to Jax-Tiger
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Parish DDH Bloom in at #5
It was quite lovely.
Edited because of a :cough:, stupid mistake
This post was edited on 7/10/18 at 5:28 pm
Posted on 7/10/18 at 5:25 pm to Jax-Tiger
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A Note on Beer Freshness Obviously, when it comes to tasting IPAs, freshness is a factor that looms large, so allow me to address it directly here. Throughout the many days of preliminary tasting, we attempted to drink daily heats of beer that corresponded roughly to when each beer reached the Paste office. It’s by no means a perfect system, but it’s what we have. Before the finals tasting, we also reached out to all of the breweries in the top 25 to inform them that their beer had made the finals, and offered them an opportunity to send in fresh beer if they chose to do so for the final.
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A Note on Beer Acquisition As in most of our blind tastings at Paste, the vast majority of these IPAs were sent directly to the office by the breweries that choose to participate, with additional beers acquired by us via locally available purchases and the occasional trade. We always do our best to reach out to breweries we’re aware of that make exemplary versions of particular styles, but things always do slip through the cracks. We apologize for a few significant omissions that we couldn’t acquire, either due to seasonality or market shortages. There will never be a “perfect” tasting lineup, much as we continue to try.
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Rules and Procedure
— This is a tasting of IPAs, largely determined by how the breweries chose to label their products. All beers had to be labeled as “IPA” in some capacity. When in doubt, we simply allow a brewery’s marketing to define a beer’s style, and expect them to stick to the designation they’ve chosen.
— There was a strict limit of 8% ABV on submissions. All beers under 8% ABV were accepted. All beers of 8% ABV or above were not. Beers labeled as “DIPA” were accepted if their ABV was still under 8%.
— All types of adjuncts and flavorings were allowed. Fruited IPAs, brettanomyces IPAs, etc.
— There was a limit of only two entries per brewery. The beers were separated into daily blind tastings that approximated a sample size of the entire field.
— Tasters included professional beer writers, brewery owners, brewmasters and beer reps. Awesome, style-appropriate glassware is from Spiegelau.
— Beers were judged completely blind by how enjoyable they were as individual experiences and given scores of 1-100, which were then averaged. Entries were judged by how much we enjoyed them for whatever reason, not by how well they fit any kind of preconceived style guidelines. As such, this is not a BJCP-style tasting.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 5:50 pm to AbitaFan08
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Ahead of Treehouse and Trillium.
Yeah. Ok.
Because that could never happen right?
I have had damn near everything from both of those breweries. DDH Bloom was better than most IMO. Remember it was IPAs only, nothing over 8%
Posted on 7/10/18 at 5:53 pm to RonFNSwanson
I’ve had Bloom. It’s good, but it would just be another beer on Trilliums tap list IMO.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 5:58 pm to AbitaFan08
Seems like this is the mindset of many people, that Treehouse/Trillium produce everything outstanding and anything that is ranked ahead is wrong.
I trade a ton of Ghost and had plenty of people telling me it would just be another beer from Treehouse, easily forgettable. This was a blind taste test with what appears to be set rules on freshness and what not. So a Parish beer coming out ahead means it was better, not that it would "just be another beer."
I trade a ton of Ghost and had plenty of people telling me it would just be another beer from Treehouse, easily forgettable. This was a blind taste test with what appears to be set rules on freshness and what not. So a Parish beer coming out ahead means it was better, not that it would "just be another beer."
Posted on 7/10/18 at 6:07 pm to tduecen
I haven’t been so much a huge fan of Bloom (still like it) as I find it waters down too much on the backend for my preference. The case with many NE IPAs, I supposed.
However, Ghost is up there with every Treehouse beer I’ve tried. I liked it better than Alter Ego and Green. Sap is a tough call.
I get everyone has different tastes, so I’m not going to say someone is wrong if they believe one way or the other, but to simply dismiss a list just because something by Parish is ahead of something by Treehouse is silly. Parish has the hoppy beer game down, even if some of their other stuff is silly.
However, Ghost is up there with every Treehouse beer I’ve tried. I liked it better than Alter Ego and Green. Sap is a tough call.
I get everyone has different tastes, so I’m not going to say someone is wrong if they believe one way or the other, but to simply dismiss a list just because something by Parish is ahead of something by Treehouse is silly. Parish has the hoppy beer game down, even if some of their other stuff is silly.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 6:12 pm to tduecen
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Seems like this is the mindset of many people, that Treehouse/Trillium produce everything outstanding and anything that is ranked ahead is wrong.
Well first off, I never claimed that. There are lots of amazing breweries doing great things across the country. I've also had beers from each that I flat out disliked.
However, I don't think it's a coincidence that in nearly every single brewery ranking, especially those regarding IPAs, that those two are almost always at or near the top. And if you think it's solely due to name recognition, I would strongly disagree with you.
Again, Bloom is a good beer. It's actually very good. But I just disagree that it should be ahead of something like Green.
This post was edited on 7/10/18 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 7/10/18 at 6:18 pm to AbitaFan08
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I’ve had Bloom. It’s good, but it would just be another beer on Trilliums tap list IMO.
If I was a bit snooty I could almost say the same thing about Great Notion (I can't because snooty isn't my thing) but I think Parish has beers that would be more than welcomed on their list.
DDH Bloom definitely being one. I thought it was excellent.
But that's my opinion, just trying to not be biased. As you were.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 6:23 pm to LSUintheNW
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If I was a bit snooty I could almost say the same thing about Great Notion (I can't because snooty isn't my thing)
So you're just going to say it while sitting on a pedestal because you would never say it?
Any argument about beer rankings is inherently biased. And everything I'm stating is absolutely my opinion, not fact.
Isn't one of the purposes of threads like this to discuss differing opinions on beer? Because that's all I'm doing here. Or should we all just come here to circle jerk over a random website's ranking of a local beer?
This post was edited on 7/10/18 at 6:24 pm
Posted on 7/10/18 at 6:28 pm to AbitaFan08
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Well first off, I never claimed that.
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it would just be another beer on Trilliums tap list IMO.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 6:30 pm to tduecen
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that Treehouse/Trillium produce everything outstanding and anything that is ranked ahead is wrong.
THIS is what I never said.
Yes, I think Bloom would be one of many beers on their tap list. I think people would buy it and enjoy it, but it wouldn't exactly have people standing in line on release day.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 6:31 pm to AbitaFan08
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but it wouldn't exactly have people standing in line on release day.
Bloom doesn’t have that either. It’s in grocery stores.
Posted on 7/10/18 at 6:33 pm to TH03
Not the DDH in the blind taste test.
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