I did a hazzies beer rollin’ bit across the social medias the other night and it got a big “Meh!” From the fuckin’ Internets.
Eat it, you stupid Internet, THAT is quality content!! 🤣😂🤣🍻
Okay, well, it’s not THAT funny, I suppose.
But it is a real thing, rolling your hazy IPAs. Why? It mixes it. Gets the yeast sentiment moving around and makes for a more even beer. Hazzies require a little work, but worth it to most.
It sure as hell doesn’t feel like Summer on this rainy chilly night in Fresno, but the first Summer beer has arrived: Sierra Nevada Brewing’s “Summer Break IPA”.
Canning date: 3/11/22
ABV: 4.6%
Style: Hazy Session IPA
Value: A nice beer to have in the fridge all season. Good grocery store beer.
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Beer Twitter regularly bashes Untappd for everything, especially the people that don’t like the style of a beer and rate it poorly.
While I agree if you REALLY don’t understand the style you are drinking you should refrain from rating it and just leave some comments to your future self like “Don’t drink this again, ya dummy!”
BUT. Untappd is whatever you (and I will die on this virtual hill), whatever you want to use it for. If I want to rate beers on how it actually tastes to me and not what a Cicerone trained geek thinks of it, then I will. I paid zero cents for the app just like you, I’ll do what I want and that doesn’t make me better or worse than Beer Geek Twitter.
While we are here, where does this want for Untappd ratings to be 100% accurate end?
The beer pictured at the top, Bottle Logic “Machine Learning” was a total label-buy. Love the label. Love IPAs and usually Hazzies. The beer? Not really. I won’t get it again.
This is my rating:
Basically if I rate something under a 3.75, I was not into it. Nobody is going to grill me for the mediocre rating. But maybe I don’t know what the hell a HDIPA featuring Galaxy, Idaho 7 & El Dorado is supposed to taste like.
Should I have NOT rated it? Of course not. So leave Untappd ratings alone, yo. Make it how you want. ✌️?
A foggy night in Fresno calls for a Foggy IPA from Humble Sea Brewing. The night and beer are equally foggy. Only one is tasty though.
