02/26/2025
We got mid-week treats in snack-size cans, including our latest staff pick!
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Grape sour ale w/ milk sugar, grape syrup, natural & artificial flavors 5% ABV $13.99/4-pack
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X Peanut Butter Kandy Kake Porter 6.0% ABV $14.99/6-pack
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STAFF PICK: Double FPA dry-hopped farmhouse ale 7% ABV $15.49/4-pack
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Full disclosure, we love Oxbow. It's just a great brewery that - in our experience - has never made a bad beer. The only thing is that what they're absolutely the very best at is weird, wild, funky, farmhouse flavors that you kind of have to already be locked in for the rollercoaster ride to fully appreciate. That's the beauty and challenge of farmhouse yeasts. You're basically trying to create a can full of precisely-controlled chaos, and when it works it sort of stops you in your tracks like finding an unexpected waterfall around a bend in the trail.
Double FPA does all that. (lol)
Before we opened it we had a thorough discussion of what we thought the dry-hopping would do to the body and expected sweetness of the yeast, and we all managed to be totally wrong! Somehow you're getting both the classic hop clarity of a double IPA *and* the funky sweetness of a saison, married to each other right at the midpoint of your palate where pine turns to straw and orange becomes cream. The head foams up like you'd want from a wild ale but the body has an unexpected silkiness to it. The whole thing is very paradoxical; sweet and sharp, smooth and bitter, silky and crisp, and on and on.
In short: it's weird, it's cool, it's very very good.
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