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In one of the most requested videos ever, we finally do a blind taste test of the UK's supermarket IPAs are are pleasantly surprised and horrified in equal measure. Enjoy, or endure?
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@barakomamma 11 месяцев назад

Love & Hate has got to be one of the most consistently good supermarket beers I've drank, great work from Vocation :)

@JimbobH 11 месяцев назад

It's weird I had a couple of really oxidised ones in a row which put me off buying it, need to revisit it. Interestingly I'd always go for a life & death 4 pack over anything else though!

@rcollingridge1 11 месяцев назад

I always appreciate your journalistic integrity on these tests - there are some breweries in there that I’m sure you have relationships with and you’re setting yourself up to possibly absolutely rinse them

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

The unveiling is a nervous time for me!!

@CaptainRon1913 11 месяцев назад

You would never know

@ronniebrown 11 месяцев назад

Scroobius Pip approves of your spelling of "Phoenix"

@DudesBrews 11 месяцев назад

Vocation and Northern Monk are solid breweries for knocking out reliable supermarket beers, but I would always prefer to order directly from the brewery for many of the reasons you mentioned but especially to guarantee freshness!

@digestivebiscuit4458 11 месяцев назад

Nice to see Proper Job in the top 10. Spot on blind tasting notes aswell!

@neilbowers6956 11 месяцев назад

It doesn't surprise me that Greene King East Coast IPA was skunked. For some daft reason they put it in clear bottles and supermarkets don't always store them properly. You're a brave man trying that beer.

@agdewey 10 месяцев назад

I always think that clear glass bottles, show a complete lack of care from the brewery; and Greene King are the worst offenders!

@neilbowers6956 10 месяцев назад

@@agdewey Totally agree, this is why I don't drink Badger beers much either as they tend to put most in clear bottles too.

@Birchy 11 месяцев назад

Mate I tell you what, being able to pick up the ale notes from St Austell and Thornbridge is ridiculous, fair play

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Haha thanks. Gonna ask each brewery what the yeast is. I swear can Jaipur is US05, not a British strain so intrigued how it came across so "casky"

@lion9f452 10 месяцев назад

Glad to see Siren having a good showing. Easily my favourite right now. Lovely stuff.

@mrougelot 11 месяцев назад

Respect for your honesty. I think you started the video hoping to conclude that irrespectively of the ethic side, the drinking experience of supermarket beers is subpar but when you noticed it wasn’t you admitted it.

@daconor91 11 месяцев назад

So glad you loved the Vocation Love and Hate because it’s been one of my favourites for years now, ever since Tesco started selling it. I often try the other stuff that comes in but am yet to find a supermarket ipa that surpasses it. It’s so good!

@ethangriffiths7802 11 месяцев назад

This is a really interesting and relevant one for me. I definitely can’t afford to be spending how much I’d like to at my local craft beer shop, so these supermarket options are my go to for most weeks/months, so great to know which to go for and which to avoid. Also I’d stayed away from Vocations’s love and hate after I had a couple of bad vocation beers, might’ve been one of their New England IPA’s but I think I must’ve had a few bad cans? Will pick this one up when I next find it Great video guys, love this sort of ‘best value- what to get and what not to’ sort of video as I’m someone who has still got a long list of beers to try

@charlesjohnson5811 11 месяцев назад

I've generally avoided supermarket brews for the reasons you gave, but my local Morrisons now has a dedicated refrigerated section with a nice selection of crafties (North, Vocation, Siren to name a few). With their reasonable prices and a 4 for 3 offer, I can no longer resist picking up a few cans with the weekly shop and I expect many others will feel the same - including those that are relatively new to the scene. Great vid, great research - keep it up!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Haha a new kind of hop creep

@JimbobH 11 месяцев назад

Salt - IKAT is my favourite "supermarket" beer

@JimbobH 11 месяцев назад

Much better than the Huckaback

@kieranbarry8193 11 месяцев назад

Salt Tram is fantastic!

@Pouchey2 10 месяцев назад

"Look at you, you creamy bad boy" are words I never expected to leave Jonny's mouth 😂

@MrFlyingguy 11 месяцев назад

love this channel since finding it... drinking the new 0.5% collab Mash Gang/ Verdant as watching this... would love to see a good NOLO vid soon, or just table beers.

@Vinnie13 11 месяцев назад

Strawpedo Reef is the best tasting-notes ever. 100% agree!

@liambrown911 11 месяцев назад

Great episode! My local Morrisons (Ipswich) stock Buxton Axe Edge and Thornbridge x Burnt Mill Riffle. Both in my opinion are excellent. I've had both fresh from the brewery also. Tesco also have Sierra Nevada pale ale on special. On my budget these all supplement my homebrew stocks

@distlledbrewedreviewed 10 месяцев назад

You went above and beyond on this video my friend.

@olivertrewavas5465 11 месяцев назад

Mad Squirrel used to be my local - with a bottle shop full of fridges. Never had the off notes before from the fridge 👍

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Favourite supermarket beer? Idea for the next blind taste test? Let us know below..... ALSO! Small edit - I am talking nonsense when I talk about hop creep. Bit drunk - the hops have enzymes that break down malt sugar, that remaining yeast consumes. Not yeast munching hops.

@jimbrennan1181 11 месяцев назад

Anchor Steam? Kidding, that's not a supermarket beer in the U.S., and possibly one of the reasons they're going out of business. (They also shat the bed on moving forward with new beers but whatever.)Many states don't even allow supermarket beers. In states where you can find it there aren't many craft options, but I guess you've got the same problem in the UK.

@mrfister1899 11 месяцев назад

Can't imagine you'd be able to do it for so many reasons, but would be nice to see taste tests of some beers submitted by homebrewers.

@PMason85 11 месяцев назад

Weihenstephaner Weis or Tripel Karmeliet

@ATocke 11 месяцев назад

Wheat Beer would be interesting! Seems quite underrepresented nowadays...

@Vinnie13 11 месяцев назад

Pale Ale next! Northern Monk Faith is a great fridge filler

@jdgonzo1982 10 месяцев назад

Love & Hate (Vocation) and Heathen (Northern Monk) are my go to supermarket ales...they really hit hard and taste amazing...nice to know others like 'em too!!

@steventhompson9319 11 месяцев назад

Interesting vid, as always. I love Vocation Life and Death as well. I had a pint of Road Crew not too long ago (Cameron's = basically Tooth & Claw) which was essentially a pint of Butter Beer.

@_.Ed._ 11 месяцев назад

I try to shop in bottle shops as much as I can, trying to show my support for the little guy. Use it or lose it as they say! Saying that, if I'm strapped for cash at the end of the month I sometimes can't resist a couple of bottles of proper job. It's £1.85 a bottle in the Sainsbury's at the end of the road and it's a really solid beer

@djrobson1060 11 месяцев назад

Very lucky here in New Zealand. A lot of our supermarkets have a dedicated, chilled section just for craft beers from our best breweries. The best ones even have an area for Fresh Hop beers during hop harvest season!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Not even all UK bottleshops have that...

@mattyj444 11 месяцев назад

It’s funny, you mentioned tasting marshmallow and how that shouldn’t be in an IPA. In October 2022 one of the local breweries in Charlotte made a marshmallow IPA. It was good, definitely not drinking two back to back, but fun. Thanks Heist!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Yikes. I'd skip over that on the beer board!

@chrisnewton9788 11 месяцев назад

Am also a fan of Northern Monk but not seen the Vocation beer on the shelves. Will certainly make sure I give it try now

@arp201267 11 месяцев назад

Next taste test do modern craft vs traditional breweries versions of the same beer style.

@dapotatoboy4066 11 месяцев назад

i’m absolutely brewing a marshmallow ipa now. thanks for the idea!

@windymilleruk 11 месяцев назад

Big fan of this channel and often take the recommendations and this hasn't let down either. My local Tesco stocks both Love and Hate and Heathen (fair play to this supermarket, has a really wide selection normally) and neither of these have let down at all! While the Heathen is good, the Love and Hate really is deserving of it's top rating. Cracking beer

@jordanfarrell9011 11 месяцев назад

Faith from Northern monk is probably my favourite supermarket beer

@katashworth41 4 месяца назад

My favourite pub has Great Northern Lager as their house one, one of many reasons that I love them.

@jameshardy2045 11 месяцев назад

Northern and, yorkshire specifically, beers doing the best. Not suprised as we are blessed with good breweries up here! 😊

@growintheglass 11 месяцев назад

We can often find local craft beer at supermarkets her in NC and we're happy to support them. I'd prefer to find them at smaller locations rather than supporting large companies, but it is what it is. We only review craft beer on our channel, so we tend to seek them out directly from the breweries themselves and/or local taprooms that carry only local/regional beer.

@ip3948 11 месяцев назад

Great video, thanks. Would like to see a DIPA version of this, agree the supermarket offerings are toned down so some of the DIPAs have that bitterness and structure that the IPAs lack. Just drinking an 8 week old Salt IKAT from Tesco now and it really is a solid beer and unbeatable at the price.

@PeteWylieRC 11 месяцев назад

Hooray an IPA taste test where I've actually tasted quite a few of them. Yeah Love & Hate and Vocation beers in general are probably the best you can get from Tesco. Oh dear I bought my Dad a tin of The Cat Amongst because I liked the tin 😫 Anyway my conscience is clear about buying beer from the supermarket because I also pick up a 5ltr container from our local brewery (Drop the Anchor) most weekends 😁🍺🍺🍺

@kaveendravasuthevan7838 11 месяцев назад

Great video, as always! I've encountered beers that I've been pretty certain are skunked/oniony but usually just let it slide. Have you encountered situations like this before, and do you just roll with it? Or gently inform the bar tender?

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

We get it pretty often - it's a sign of either poor quality hops or a beer that's VERY fresh. I think it's worth telling the bartender whenever there is a quality issue, even if you're not looking to exchange beer the feedback should be helpful to them

@hardyardsbrewers1225 11 месяцев назад

I love a hot sunny afternoon of drinking 22 IPAs... 🥴🥴🤣 well done Jonny your palate held up all the way. It's a shame with supermarket beer that it's left out on a shelf... they don't understand 'hop forward' beer unfortunately, it's the same here in NZ. Cheers I enjoyed watching this as we cant get alot of these beers in our neck of the woods, cheers Mike in NZ 🍻🍻

@gcouto8774 11 месяцев назад

Nice entertaining video as always! Could I ask... Any plans to resume your home-brewing videos? Missing them greatly!

@Stevesulsh 11 месяцев назад

Big fan of Heathen nice to see it up there, would love to see a blind tasting of Irish supermarket ipas but would need second mortgage with current min alcohol pricing 😅

@dutypaidrock 9 месяцев назад

I'm so glad my taste in IPAs has been vindicated! You picked my favourite two. If I have to get from a supermarket, Northern Monk and Vocation are my go-tos. Consistently good. North Brewing do a couple of decent ones as well - not sure Future Skies is one of them.

@thekentishpilgrim 11 месяцев назад

Never would have considered the Vocation beer. I will now. Heathen a classic, and I really like proper job for a supermarket job.

@Hannes_Lind 11 месяцев назад

I spoke to a brewer who said that most breweries buy their hops on contract to a certain weight each year. That meant that during covid and lockdown they ended up with huge amounts of hops not being used. This is where I imagine all those hops went, supermarket beers.

@michaelporteous3083 10 месяцев назад

ALDI anti establishment is also made by Williams Bros . Love/Hate has been my go to IPA for ages

@korpus_kallosum 11 месяцев назад

A lot of grocery stores in my part of Canada sell craft beers from local breweries and they are usually decently fresh and in a fridge

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

By grocery store are we talking Target/Walmart etc or smaller ones? The question here is about size and approach, not just the fact there's also food and such!

@korpus_kallosum 11 месяцев назад

@@TheCraftBeerChannel They are quite big region chains, equivalent to Sainsbury's basically

@Ed-vi7rp 10 месяцев назад

My pick of supermarket IPAs has to be Buxton Axe Edge from Morrisons but the Vocation Love & Hate is definitely my second favourite. Both are solid 3.8+ beers on Untappd.

@cobolh0pp3r12 11 месяцев назад

I live in a state in the US where they cannot sell supermarket beers. You can get a special "restaurant" type license where can sell beer or wine from outside breweries but I've never seen them sell their "own brands", so this whole concept is interesting and new to me. I'll be visiting UK this month so good to know I should basically avoid these beers. (- ; Hoping I can find some Omnipollo, Five Points, and\or De Dolle though. You've made them sound incredible on past episodes. Cheers!

@MrFlyingguy 11 месяцев назад

oooh beer snob, hello.... when you are here, recommend you visit and look at Kernel, Pressure Drop, Beak, Verdant, Deya, and a few of the regionals such as Arbor in the west

@Carpetto 11 месяцев назад

These for the most part aren't supermarket "own brand" beers, they're beers brewed by (mostly) independent breweries specifically to go into supermarket stores. The only two that you could consider "own brand" were the crap blood orange and anti-establishment ones. You'd be missing out if you dismissed the top 5 breweries here at least.

@cobolh0pp3r12 11 месяцев назад

@@Carpetto thanks for the clarification! Interesting. Will perhaps check out. I will have limited time during my vacation, so honestly plan more to just hit some pubs and get some good cask ale, and\or find a bottle shop but will not rule out the supermarket stuff if ends up "happening" thanks to the CBC videos and comments here. Cheers!

@bonniejamie 10 месяцев назад

Would have loved you to have thrown Northern Monk Transient into the mix - one of the only supermarket beers I ever buy (Morrisons) and nearly always on the money as far as a thicc hazy IPA goes. Great video!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 10 месяцев назад

It wasn't in my Morrissons! Will have to find some.

@stevenchapman5179 11 месяцев назад

I spent over 3 years in England and Northern Monk consistently gets better.

@PMason85 11 месяцев назад

Dead shelf beers should always be known as shelf turds. Also, with you all the way on strawpedo-ing Reef. Was superb.

@laurencetickell3086 11 месяцев назад

Enjoyed the video. My budget allows one or two expensive craft beers each week from a bottle shop or put. Nice to have a four pack of Faith or Jaipur or Life or Death for the same price as a top end can as well to drink after.

@AuthorJgDow 11 месяцев назад

try Cracking Ibiza for a craft beer themed read this summer!

@magnus.nasmark 11 месяцев назад

Fun fact: The state operated liquor stores in Sweden don’t allow refrigeration since it promotes drinking.

@exetercitycubing408 11 месяцев назад

Given up on supermarket 440s and just but lagers and the little cube packs of craft beer. Hazy Jane etc. Get a few nice ones from the bottle shop though.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Don't give up in vocation!!!

@83gt17 11 месяцев назад

My local USA supermarket stocks local, small breweries in the five or six stores within a few hours drive.

@Wargh182 11 месяцев назад

bought a 4 pack of vocation New Musik hazy pale in B&M, dont remember the price but was pretty good value, I do wonder if the beer sold in so-called discount shops is maybe old stock, but these vocation beers were lovely.

@michaelporteous3083 10 месяцев назад

Discount shop beer is a combination of old and new New Musik has been in Asda for a while aswell

@darreno6222 11 месяцев назад

We probably need to discuss actual cost. Main Supermarket’s pricing at £3.75 to £4, verses not much more (sub 6%) direct from breweries.

@andrewsteer8860 11 месяцев назад

That arbor beer is £4 in my local Sainsbury, would much rather spend 50p more and go to my bottle shop!

@jonty50 10 месяцев назад

A lot of these are from Leeds or nearby. Cool to see

@2002chrisking 11 месяцев назад

It's interesting to see how well the Neipa style beers held up, as I always thought they would struggle much more being kept on the shelf compared to Westies.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Me too. Kind of baffled so I think it's more that UK brewers just make better neipa then wcipa

@2002chrisking 11 месяцев назад

My go to Supermarket beer is Sierra Nevada PA. It's a shame Torpido isn't as readily available. Great video once again!

@ronanmcconnellable 11 месяцев назад

Loads of these beers started out great and just declined gradually. Vocation and Northern Monk are old reliables tho. Great video and jeez I'm jealous of your palate man class!

@Its__Good 11 месяцев назад

My Morrisons has the vast majority of its craft beer in fridges now.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Great to hear!

@vaughngriffiths3148 11 месяцев назад

Would love to see an episode with South African beers. We’re a hive of creativity and dedication to craft. Large amount of ales and lagers using South African malts and hops in this side that will blow your minds!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

We'd love to go there! maybe one day!

@bramsanjanssan4908 8 месяцев назад

I bought some of these in my local bottleshop and I must say I "rated" them highly.

@robgreen1042 11 месяцев назад

You should come up to the new Vocation bar in Halifax. It's amazing.

@SlurpyDave254 10 месяцев назад

I watched this in a pub with a pint of Old Peculier...think I defo had the best beer😂

@zachi3731 11 месяцев назад

I could be wrong but In my area in the Midwest of the US we don't really have any supermarket brand beers. We have a popular grocery chain called HyVee that luckily has a great wine and spirits section that sells tons of local beer from our state as well as lots of beer from macro breweries. European breweries like Weihenstephaner and Budvar are even sold there. No store brand beers that I know of though. Is supermarket beer more of a European phenomenon maybe?

@Opm3t 10 месяцев назад

Quick question Jonny, can I ask you what's that flavour (almost spicy) that I can taste in the first part of a sip in almost every Salt/Polly's/North Brew etc etc beers? I reckon it has something to do with their house yeast or so... I just can't replicate at home and I love it xD

@jimmyrushworth928 11 месяцев назад

Great content CBC, usually a bottleshop/Brewser man but I'll dip in to supermarkets during a crisis (No beer left in the house) 😁 A Supermarket Big Beer review would be cool, DIPAs/Impy Stouts are much more available these days and probably tempting to the general punter. For the sake of your liver I'd cut down the 22 haha 👍 ps. . Personal fav DIPA in the supermarkets is probably Aoraki from Vocation 😁

@mrfister1899 11 месяцев назад

Never heard the term "strawpedo", but I think I know what you mean. We called it "shotgunning". I used to "strawpedo" those little bottles of wine you get 😮

@dellzincht 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely no surprise that Vocation & Northern Monk come out on top, their supermarket output is consistently decent. Love & Hate fresh is incredible but it has had constistency issues in the past so glad you got a good one. Also, no self respecting craft beer drinker should touch anything by Beavertown or Fourpure, for obvious reasons.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Fourpure are technically not macro-owned anymore, just FYI!

@dellzincht 11 месяцев назад

@@TheCraftBeerChannel technically not, no. They were for a long time, though. A bit like Magic Rock are now considered craft again (but I disagree with that.)

@haroldharold2836 11 месяцев назад

Urbanaut Toasted Marshmallow IPA is delightful. There is room for marshmallow in an IPA when it’s done right 🍻

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Nope never. Not no how.

@FightingIrishFan91 11 месяцев назад

Now lets see US supermarket avail beers...Sierra Nevada, Bells, New Belgium, Cigar City on down!

@ozziedylan9903 9 месяцев назад

Cold Beer is Amazing

@AndrewB170 11 месяцев назад

Great to see Love & Hate perform so well. It must have been one of my first NEIPAs years ago and I still rank it alongside some of my favourites from Polly's, Verdant, Sureshot, etc.

@ivorscrotumic3556 10 месяцев назад

I can't watch this, coz I stopped drinking alcohol almost 3 yrs ago (25-08-20), but I loved a good IPA & it's the one drink that I still crave for, every now & again (& again). I'm still a fully paid up member of CAMRA tho, coz I maintain the belief that 'proper' beer is a right, not a privilege. ;-) Well, I don't know what supermarkets are featured here but, for those who are interested, Lidl used to do some really nice cans of decent 'real ale' & Aldi had some too.. Happy supping folks.....🍻

@JamesReece271 7 месяцев назад

Found over the last few years i have really gone off craft beer it just gives me really bad headaches the next day, even just one can. I moved back to cask its cheaper,traditional, and doesn't pretend to be a cheesecake or something it's just good, simple heritage beer to be supped by the fire with a muddy dog

@katashworth41 4 месяца назад

IPA isn’t my usual style, but I love Jaipur.

@3rdDegreeTVLLC 11 месяцев назад

My beer buds!! 🎉🎉

@richharper8159 11 месяцев назад

Gonna have to say, not all bottleshops are created equal in their care for expensive hoppy beers. But, most supermarkets aren’t good. If turnover is quick, that helps. People quickly buying all that fresh Life & Death!!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Fair point, though from what I have seen that is changing pretty fast as consumers demand it

@rickyweatherill6021 11 месяцев назад

Got bored a while ago from the supermarket offerings but Vocation is the only brewery I can still rely on for quality

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Well I think there are a few you can add to the list! And a few that should remain firmly off it.

@terryostype9099 11 месяцев назад

Huckaback can definitely vary a hell of a lot, on a good day it's lovely! It would be interesting to do a mini follow up to blind review the top 10 in three months to see how much variance there is.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Interesting idea!

@ianlaker9161 11 месяцев назад

I buy most of my beer (those I don't brew myself) from my local farm shop - Gibson's near Wingham, close to Canterbury here in East Kent. They stock local Kentish beer from Tonbridge (my favourite - consistently excellent), Gadd's, Wantsum and Time and Tide among others. Not only that, they stock excellent local fruit and vegetable produce and superb sausages. My concience is clear! I'll look out for your recommendations when I do venture in to my local Waitrose. Christ, I sound like a middle class cliche.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

But it's a very nice sounding cliche.

@ianlaker9161 11 месяцев назад

@@TheCraftBeerChannel ❤️

@honourisdrumming 11 месяцев назад

Pollys Mosaic maze is not only the best IPA in any supermarket but is also one of the best beers out there period. Shame that wasn’t included. Great vid!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Which supermarket!? Saw a Pollys pale but no IPAs.

@honourisdrumming 11 месяцев назад

@@TheCraftBeerChannel Morrisons!

@loufigouk 11 месяцев назад

Strawpedoing reefs when they were 99p in spoons takes me back! Great video, some really good beer especially for £3 a can, thanks Domo!!

@killerdude-hz2bb 11 месяцев назад

in sweden all beer is sold warm, and needs to sit in the government warehouse 2 months before being sold to check for abv

@PhilipJoyceMusician 11 месяцев назад

Oh wow. I haven't heard anyone referring to strawpedoing reef in years. Just got a little bit sick in my mouth... Good times

@BiscuitGeoff 11 месяцев назад

I love these comparisons. I’ve just discovered that I’m going to have to cut out gluten: it might be too niche but I’d love a review of different gluten free beers, most breweries have one.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Haha niche is what we do! Will see if it is viable from a wide selection perspective.

@mikekeller5202 11 месяцев назад

It’s very hard to determine the amount of gluten in a beer and a lot of people outside of the beer community do not know that including drs. I’m highly skeptical of gluten in most beers having any impact on people labeled gluten intolerant.

@BiscuitGeoff 11 месяцев назад

@@TheCraftBeerChannel my current list to try includes beers from Burnt Mill, Thornbridge, Arbor, Magic Rock, Siren, Five Points, North, Cloudwater, Purity and Bath Ales. I’m happy that you’d consider it.

@Margarinetaylorgrease 11 месяцев назад

@@mikekeller5202intolerant and allergic are not the same. I avoid wheat as it makes me feel odd, my friend avoids gluten as it makes him Poo blood.

@benscraftymusings 11 месяцев назад

when you keep swirling the beer before drinking it, is this just habit? When I have done this, it tends to flatten or de-fizz the beer, and it tastes worse?! but i am a novice

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Nah it's how to get the volatile compounds out of solution and into the glass. A quick swirl won't affect the carbonation. Do it every sip for a pint and it will!

@sneakbeats 11 месяцев назад

West coast IPA? - Big Eagle York brewing in Asda at the moment. Probably one of the best IPAs in the supermarkets currently!

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Didn't see that one sadly. Maybe sold out.

@potterendergaming5335 10 месяцев назад

The first video I've watched was absolutely perfect, if I am not buying my beer from a supermarket where should I buy it from? I've recently been avoiding supermarkets completely in favour of a good pub but obviously, you can't go to the pub all the time.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 10 месяцев назад

From small and independent bottleshops, or indeed online from great beer websites!

@potterendergaming5335 10 месяцев назад

@@TheCraftBeerChannel I'm finding it quite hard to find some good websites would you have any recommendations?

@TheCraftBeerChannel 10 месяцев назад

@potterendergaming5335 beermerchants.com is what we use, plus caps and taps and Hop Burns Black are great bottleshops with websites.

@potterendergaming5335 10 месяцев назад

@@TheCraftBeerChannel Ah I'll check them out! Thanks for your help :)

@jeremypeters6496 11 месяцев назад

Late to the party, but are all the cans you taste the same level of freshness? I find it hit and miss in supermarkets to get very fresh beers, and would you take that into account in your tastings?

@KnobbyWobby 11 месяцев назад

Here I was working out a business plan for Marshmallow IPA's 😞

@dellzincht 11 месяцев назад

Evil Twin did an incredibly good marshmallow TIPA with an unneccesarily complex name a few years ago

@MichaelAndersen_DK 11 месяцев назад

Could have been interesting to see when these badboys were brewed. But yeah, WHO THE HECK PUTS IPA IN A CLEAR BOTTLE? Blasphemy! Another great tasting 🍻

@richarddeeble09 11 месяцев назад

Cold dry hopping with yeast in the package = d bomb in package when stored warm.

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

yes indeed. And even the odd actual bomb.

@Forestgravy90 9 месяцев назад

Most IPAs taste near-identical to me

@adeleredman2325 11 месяцев назад

I’m very surprised at your comments on the Mad Squirrel Aztec beer, I had one last week and gave it 10/10. Perhaps you got an off can. Ian

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Well this is the lottery of shelf stored beer. The can was likely fine at the start. Perhaps been ruined by temperature.

@jameshardy2045 11 месяцев назад

Ive had this a couple of times, not a good beer at all....

@tortue1227 11 месяцев назад

How do you know when spring onion means bad hops and not just Mosaic? Genuine question. Mosaic always tastes like onion to me. Do old hops present more in the aroma than in the palate?

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Do you get onion from mosaic beers that others really enjoy? If so you might just be very sensitive to that particular aroma. Generally you'll get onion/garlic/earth for two reasons . One the beer is too fresh or "green" as the brewers call it. Hops take a while to settle aroma and flavour-wise in beer so breweries will let that round out in tank or can before selling. But bad hops - by which I mean low quality either from the field, the processing or the storage, won't generally lose their onion/garlic/earth aroma. Usually if it's "bad" hops it won't be so green or fresh onion as a too-fresh beer, and more earthy/musty/garlicky. In this case, it was the latter.

@tortue1227 11 месяцев назад

@@TheCraftBeerChannel Thanks!

@echosonicmusic 11 месяцев назад

Brilliant video. Important thing to note for potential supermarket buyers, often you can get these direct from the brewers slightly cheaper (NM Heathen is currently £3.25 per can in a 6-pack versus £3.50 in-store). Everyone's happy (apart from the supermarket and they'll be fine).

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

Good knowledge!

@echosonicmusic 11 месяцев назад

@@TheCraftBeerChannel I like Heathen ;) Not the best supermarket beer, but my favourite single IPA

@tortue1227 11 месяцев назад

*creates a whirlpool three times in the glass* "A bit under carbed."

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

This comment would be fair if I hadn't done it with all the beers in this test and had no issue with them. And indeed all the thousands of beers I try every year.

@tortue1227 11 месяцев назад

@@TheCraftBeerChannel No I know I was just joking sorry! Been watching this channel since the start. I know that you do that to release aroma.

@deanzaZZR 11 месяцев назад

I'm confused by the whole supermarket label. Here in California all supermarkets have a solid selection from Sierra Nevada, Firestone Walker, Stone, Firestone Walker and others. I have a local kinda upscale (I guess) supermarket that has the full range of Russian River selections. I guess it's a British thing?

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

I think so too - not quite sure why it's so keenly felt here, but our argument that we should support small business first still stands!

@deanzaZZR 11 месяцев назад

@@TheCraftBeerChannel The supermarkets I'm talking about also have offerings from Pizza Port, Almanac, Bare Bottle, Off Pattern, etc. which are local and I think would qualify as small. Perhaps the difference is that refrigerated beer shelves extend for 10+ meters in length.

@kieranbarry8193 11 месяцев назад

you missed some good breweries that are easily available in my local Morrisons: Salt, Northern, Pollys are all excellent beers imo

@TheCraftBeerChannel 11 месяцев назад

I had salt and North?! Didn't see a Pollys IPA, only pales in the shop

@SCUMCHRIST888 11 месяцев назад

I don't drink anymore because I don't understand moderation but I do enjoy a NA IPA and while purchasing some at my local I noticed they had OTHER HALF. The fucking grocery store sells OTHER HALF?!?!