Sip of sunshine 4pack cost full#
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Price: $12 for a 4-pack of 16 oz tall boy cans.

Freshness/Form: Poured from 16 oz tall boy cans delivered to the store and purchased four days before the tasting in Burlington, VT.

Notes: Bronze medal winner 2014 Great American Beer Festival, only available on tap at bars and growler stores in central Ohio.BeerAdvocate Weighted Rating: 4.48 (Holds the #72 spot on the BA list of the top 250 beers in the world, and the #1 spot on the BA list of the top beers in Ohio).Freshness/Form: Poured from a growler purchased at Weiland’s Market on the day of the tasting.Here is the tale of the tape on the beers that will be squaring off today. Thanks Spencer! Also thanks to Cheryl’s partner Scott Ziegler for pouring the beers so that we could taste them blind.

Sip of sunshine 4pack cost full#

I think we can all agree that the subways of New York are not the most convenient place to be schlepping your luggage, laptop, and a backpack full of the most exquisite hop elixirs in the free world.

The route from Columbus to Burlington includes a stop in New York City that requires a transfer on the metro system. Not the lower middle class luxury of a Greyhound mind you, but a more economical option whose agents are more fluent in Chinese than English. Spencer’s mode of transportation for the journey was the bus. I would be remiss if I didn’t give a big shout out to my friend Spencer Porter who recently returned from Vermont and agreed to ferry back 4-packs of Heady Topper and Sip of Sunshine. Like Heady Topper you have to go to the right store on the right day of the week at the right time of the day to score a 4-pack of Lawson’s (see my post on Hunting Double IPAs in the Wilds of Vermont for details). Just for fun we are going to throw a third white whale of a beer into the mix, another Vermont brewed DIPA that comes in 16 ounce tall boy cans-Sip of Sunshine by Lawson’s Finest Liquids.

Sip of sunshine 4pack cost series#

For this tasting I’m joined by none other than Cheryl Harrison, creator and editor of Drink Up Columbus, and organizer of the Beers and Board Games Club of Columbus, and Nicholas Dekker, who writes about beer and food for various local publications (Columbus Alive, Crave, Dispatch and Columbus Monthly), leads tours for Columbus Brew Adventures, and is the man behind the blog (and the book) Breakfast with Nick.įor the launch of this series what could be better than a showdown between local favorite Bodhi, a Double IPA (I’m sticking to that classification in spite of its bronze medal winning performance in the American IPA category at last year’s GABF) that many consider to be the best Ohio-brewed beer, and Heady Topper, the legendary DIPA from Vermont that is the highest rated beer, bar none, on the BeerAdvocate website. The comparisons will of course be done via blind taste test, and because the results are only as good as the palates of the tasters I’ll be recruiting judges who know their beer inside and out – beer bloggers, writers, tour guides, and brewers. the World, where local favorites square off against beers whose mere mention in a company of beer geeks triggers a Pavlovian urge to form a line and break out a credit card. So starting today I’m rolling out a new series that I call Ohio vs. Do you ever wonder how your favorite local beer stacks up against the most sought after beers in the land? Is Massive Malt Assault by Local Boyz Brewing really as good as Founders Breakfast Stout? It’s hard to know for sure because on the one extreme we can all be guilty of a little nepotism when evaluating our local favorites, while at the other end of the spectrum it’s hard not to take that which is always available for granted.