Four Brewers | Craft Beer And Homebrew Podcast

Season 3, Episode 17 – Today, the 2016 California IPA Showdown. It’s been a while since our last showdown, and we’ve wrestled with how we are going to handle IPA for a long time now. Initially, we thought about trying to get the best of the best IPA from around the country and compare them all blind. The challenge there is it’s nearly impossible to get beer from all over the place, at an acceptable level of freshness, in one place at one time. Plus, as fun as it is to read about a magical elixir from a brewery thousands of miles away that drinks of pure unobtainium, what about something a bit easier to come by?  Enter the CA Shelf IPA Showdown!  2016 IPA Showdown Beers These beers are all from California. They’re all IPAs and all widely and readily available. Hell, they’re probably sitting in your local grocer dying a slow painful death. So we set out to determine the king of the hill.  The Method While we knew which beers were in the pool, we had our good friend Dr Zack administer the tasting for us totally