feats of eats

Some friends of mine took me to Blue Palms while in LA, and they had an awesome beer selection. I did a flight so I could taste a bunch. Left to right, I had: Pliny the Elder (a double IPA described to me as the quintessential California IPA), Blue Palms’ own Hefeweizen, Beachwood BBQ Belgian Black Ale, and He’Brew ReJewvenator (described as a belgian/german hybrid w/ concord grapes).

Pliny the Elder was by far my favorite. I haven’t been a huge fan of IPAs in the past, but this makes no sense to me now that I think about it. I love hops. My friends told me that CA is all about the super hoppy IPAs, and it gets to the point like with coffee, where you just need more and more and you build up a tolerance to it.

I wish I could find some Pliny here, but I doubt that’ll happen. Guess I’ll just need to go back to CA in the near future and hit up some breweries.