Needless
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658 IBU sounds like you would taste that shit for days afterwards lmao
Godspeed man.
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Godspeed man.
opiate82
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FWIW the human palate can really only taste up to 60 IBUs anyways. Any time you think a beer is more bitter than that what is really happening is that the hop aromas and flavors trick you into thinking there is more bittering compounds in the beer than there really are (or tricking you into thinking you can taste more bitter than the 60 IBU threshold). You take two beers that have the same lab-measured IBUs, but one also has a ton of flavor and aroma hops and the other only used bittering additions, you'll identify the first beer as being more bitter even though they technically have equal amounts of bittering compounds.
Also curious to see how they got 658 IBUs into a beer since my understanding is that it is really tough to get the bittering compounds in hops to isomerize into the wort much above the 100-120 IBU range using traditional brewing methods.
Haast
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I also thought 100ish was the theoretical ceiling, and even that was well past palate comprehension.
Sounds like the "hottest hot sauce" scenario. At some point, all you taste is burning and sadness. Or in this case, an overload of grapefruit and pine.
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hop oil is normally used to concentrate down, other wise you do get bogged down in literal vegetal mass.
opiate82
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Hop extracts still need the alpha acids to be isomerized into the wort and are subject to the same limitations as using actual hops.
ToeMissile
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Khane
Got something right about marriage
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Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
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Well... sad to say. I can tell that it is a great beer and how it works for people. But whew that bitter cherry flavor was way over powering for me. One bottle almost made me nauseous because it was just so strong. Almost every other flavor was great and if that one part was just a little toned down it would have been awesome. Not sure I will finish the other 3.
ToeMissile
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Yeah, Preserve. I think it's still open. Reserve won't open up again until around September.
I ended up getting 1 each of the Chronology, Colonel Kernel, and Les Ronces. Opening up the Colonel tomorrow night.
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Where are you located?
Toppling Goliath doesn't release it for sale outside of the release at their brewery in Iowa, or at least they used to. Kegs are super rare. You might find some at taste of the midwest.
Brahma
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If you can't find Toppling Goliath's Pseudo Sue, there's zero chance you'll ever see KBBS.
You could try to get some stuff to trade for it, but caveat emptor.