Have you had Hill Farmstead's citra IPA? If you liked citra hops, it's for to be one of the top in the world.

Wish we could get Highland down here, they make some damn fine beers.

My long, national nightmare is over. I finally finished the last of the Stone IPAs over the weekend.

Tonight's treat will be Ballast Point Spruce Tip Sculpin IPA.

Made a reservation for a 6-pack of Lagunitas Undercover Shut-down Ale coming to my closest store on Friday

I don't think it's distributed down here. I will look for it when I make a trip to New England this summer.

Used to live about 90 minutes away from AVL so visited Highland many times at the old location. BamaVol Jr #3 got married at Highland last November. It was our first visit to the new facility. Very nice. I drank a lot of beer while there but somehow missed Daycation. I can usually find one or two Highland varieties at the local Publix, which is where this came from.

Aslin's "Volcano Sauce" today, which is a pastry sour heavy on blueberry and vanilla and lactose. It's been in the fridge for a couple of months now and has held up pretty well.

Dos Equis

Before having a special delivery today of some Lagunitas goodies, we last night finished a couple or four of the Lagunitas Super Cluster Mega Ale, a full bodied DIPA very much to my taste. ABV 8.0%

Had a happy hour with the office govvies today (I regularly host one for fellow contractors), and was pleasantly surprised to see how many were serious beer geeks. I had great discussions of not just local breweries but ones around the US and even into Estonia (somewhere I've yet to go) with folks.

I had a couple of Solace (local to NOVA) IPAs, and they were actually pretty nice.

(my bolding)

By coincidence I just got a mail from a friend suggesting we take a tour to a beer event in the Estonian capital:
https://www.visitestonia.com/en/tallinn-craft-beer-weekend

The Tallinn Craft Beer Festival the first weekend of May. It seems to be a yearly event. Having tasted many Craft beers in close neighbour capital Helsinki, it's comforting to see the reasonable prices in Estonia.

Search for Estonian craft beer and be surprised over what this rather small country can offer. There are lot of places in Tallinn to keep any beer-profiled visitor busy on other days than the festival runs. En route to any pub, you might catch glimpses of the very beautiful city, especially the old town center nicely restored.

Jasper Brewing Co. Crisp Pils 6-pack just because it's Sunday night.

Was treated yesterday with Marshall Zhukov's Imperial Porter, from Cigar City Brewing. One of the most powerful tasting stouts I had in years. Lots of Ommph in ABV too, 11.8%

That's one I'm going to need to try, just for the name!